"It's not in her best interest to keep her up all night listening to your voice!" Phasma snaps. Rey wants to hug the woman. Will it never cease?
"Snoke's not happy we're not getting results!" she hears Hux hiss.
In the end, Phasma wins. With or without Snoke's approval, Rey doesn't know. As for the Supreme Leader himself, she passes time by counting his appearances, which occur every seven days. He enters and storms through her mind as best he can.
"Twelve hours for videos. Twelve hours for rest," she finally hears him dictate.
Ah. So he does know. Or he does now. She doesn't care.
Rey;s abdomen is starting to swell now, not large enough for anyone besides herself to notice. It makes it seem all the more real.
Where are you, Ben? she thinks desperately as Hux's voice prattles on about the First Order. Surely he's at D'Qar by now. If he went back to the First Order, she'd know.
In all likelihood, Ben was back with his mother, and they just couldn't find her.
Please, Rey thinks. Please find me. Please come back for me.
I love you.
Days continue to tick past. Snoke continues to visit, and Hux tortures her without so much as laying a hand on her. Rey cries for herself, for her son or daughter, as she recites the words to the video she knows so well by now, words she never wants to hear or think again but words her brain insists on repeating.
Captain Phasma enters, carrying Rey's dinner and signifying the end of Hux's videos. Rey sits up, determined not to show that she was crying.
"Bet you're glad to have that off," Phasma comments. Sometimes, she engages Rey in conversation—the only conversations Rey has that aren't about the First Order.
Rey nods. "It's not possible for you to break the wiring, is it?" It's not possible for Rey to. She already tried. Six times.
"It would stop if you'd agree to train with the Supreme Leader."
"No."
"Fine then." Captain Phasma turns to leave as Rey grabs the plate. At least now the nausea's past, so she can enjoy eating again.
Rey gasps as something stirs inside her. Her hand flies to her stomach as she wonders whether she imagined it.
She didn't. Another movement. A kick? A wave? Rey doesn't know.
"Are you all right?"
Phasma. Rey looks up at her, an idea blossoming in her mind. "The baby's moving."
"Truly?" The captain steps closer.
Rey reaches out and takes the Captain's hand, placing it on her stomach. "Well, he—or she—was just moving—oh, there it is!"
She can't see the Captain's face, but she hopes it works. As Phasma removes her armored hand and staggers out of the room, Rey dares to hope.
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"Well then," Snoke says smoothly, rising from his throne. "It seems I will make another journey into the mind of Kylo Ren tonight."
Phasma's heart pounds. She's not used to being so close to the Supreme Leader. "Sir? If I may ask... what are your plans for the girl? After she has the child? If she still won't turn—"
"She will," Hux snarls, sweating profusely. "My methods will work."
"And if they don't?" Phasma counters. She has no pity for the general's fear.
"I will kill her," Snoke says. "And keep the child."
Phasma isn't expecting the pang that hits her, nor the memories of her youngest sister, the girl Phasma's mother died bringing into the world.
Tell me about her, her sister would plead.
But Phasma hadn't been able to tell her anything, because she never wanted to cry again.
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•LEGACY - A Reylo Story•
Fanfiction*WRITTEN PRE-TROS, POST TLJ* When a ship crashes near the Resistance base, Finn and Poe are shocked to discover Kylo Ren. What does he want? And where is Rey? And as for Kylo, he must decide how much he can trust them with what he knows about Snoke...
