You and Ben sat across from each other at the long table that all of the other students sat at and ate dinner. Having been trained by his mother to use proper manners, Ben carefully cut his food into small pieces and chewed it like his two friends and the other students at the table. You on the other hand...lacked those skills. First you tried to cut your meat with a fork. Ben chuckled and showed you that you were supposed to use the knife instead. Then you cut the pieces too big and had to tear it off of your fork with your mouth in a not-so ladylike fashion. All the other students at the table gave you looks of disgust and turned their nose away from you. That is until Kylo turned to them and gave them a glare and they all went back to their plates. Ben noticed you looked sad and frowned a bit. He snuck a cookie off of his plate and used the Force to send it under the table onto your lap. Your eyes lit up in excitement when you saw it and you smiled at Ben. Then Luke stood to make an announcement at the head of the table.

"If I could have all of your attention for one moment please." Luke requests. "I would like to announce that three students are coming with me on an expedition for a few days." He looks towards his nephew and his two friends. "Ben, Jaden and Regris will be coming with me to collect lightsaber crystals for them. I trust you all to be on your best behavior and continue to train while I'm gone." He says, looking specifically at a few individuals. "I will have my droids monitoring all of you so do not think you will be completely unsupervised in my absence. In lieu of lessons I want you all reading the Jedi texts I have assigned you. That is all. Continue to enjoy your meal." He sits back down and everyone continues to eat.

Ben looked up at you, expecting to see you smiling, proud of the honor he was just given but instead you looked sad. But he had just given you a cookie? Why would you still be upset? You gloomily walked back to your hut after dinner and Ben ran up to you.

"Y/N!" He calls out to you. You stop walking and turn to him. "What's wrong? You look sad. Did something happen?"

"You're leaving." You say sadly.

"Just for a few days." Ben tells you. "I'll be back before you know it."

"I know but I'm going to miss you, Jaden and Regris. You're my only friends." You remind him.

"I know..." Ben says and looks at the ground. "I tried to convince Luke to let you come too but it seems like he wasn't too willing seeing as you're still pretty new. But don't worry! I'm sure you'll be coming with us on adventures soon!" That made you smile a bit. "Hey...I've got an idea." Ben smirks as an idea pops into his head. "Technically, you can think of this as a quest that me, your knight is going on to bring tribute back for his lady."

"Tribute?" You ask and tilt your head. "What's that?"

"A gift that royal families give to each other to honor them. Regris, Jaden and I are going with Luke to bring back crystals for just Jaden and Regris since they're the only two that need them, but since I'm pledged to you I could bring you a crystal that's special. Just for you."

"Really?" Your face lights up. "But will Master Luke allow you to do that? I don't know how he'd feel about me getting special treatment like that just because we're friends. It wouldn't be fair to the other students who don't have a crystal brought for them."

"What Luke doesn't know won't hurt him." Ben says casually.

"So you're going to go behind his back and steal a crystal for me?" You ask.

"Yeah, I guess so." Ben says. "Although it sounds pretty bad if you call it stealing. I think of it more like bringing back a secret present for my best friend."

"What if you get caught?" You ask in a concerned tone.

"Pfft." Ben scoffs. "Do you know who my dad is? He taught me a thing or two about smuggling. It's highly unlikely that I'll get caught. And although this isn't really the most honest thing to do...If it's for you, it'll definitely be worth it."

Your cheeks heat up and you can feel a blush form across your face and your heart rate increased.

"Ben..." You say softly and he smirks and pulls you into a hug.

"Don't worry about a thing. Just do what Luke tells you to do and you'll have your knight returning to you with a gift to look forward to in the meantime." Ben says.

Present Day:

You woke up when you sensed someone's presence in your room. You looked on your bedside table and noticed a cluster of purple crystals, seemingly cut from a geode. The way they sparkled in the sunlight made the most beautiful pattern on the floor. The corners of your lips curled up in a small smile.

"I see you like my gift." Kylo says and you turn and see him standing at the foot of your bed.

"I see you've been watching me sleep." You retort. "Being a bit stalkerish now are we BenBen?" He smirks from the nickname.

"I haven't been watching you for long." Kylo informs you and comes around and sits on the side of your bed. "I sensed through our bond that you were starting to wake up and so I thought I would surprise you with a gift from a planet I was on recently."

"Well I'm relieved and delighted to hear that." You tell him and pick up the gems. "But it's hardly a surprise. After all it is our tradition that you bring me a gift whenever you return to me from an expedition."

"Yes. Ever since the first time when I brought you that crystal back when we were children." Kylo reminds you. "Do you still have it?" He asks.

You nod and place the gems in your lap and open your cardigan to reveal the crystal attached to a chain around your neck, resting comfortably just above your breast. He smiles.

"It still suits you perfectly." He notes and your breath hitches as he leans into you and places a gentle kiss on the crystal, causing your breasts to heave and his lips to gently brush against their swells, causing your cheeks to redden and a small spark ignite in your core.

When he looked up at your flustered appearance he wore a proud smirk.

"It's incredible how the slightest touches from me can get you so flustered, even now after all these years apart." Kylo notes.

"You have always had quite an affect on me." You say and he wraps his arms around your waist and moves his head up so he's face to face with you. "You really know how to charm a girl don't you Solo?"

"You're the only girl who's ever had such an affect on me m'lady." He tells you before capturing your mouth in another breathless kiss.

You two gently made out with each other, savoring the taste of each other's lips before you heard a knock on the door and Kylo pulled back and groaned.

"That's from my end." He informs you and looks at his bedroom door. "I must leave now and when I do my gift will come with me, but I will give it, and any other gifts I collect to you when we meet again in person." He says and kisses you softly one last time before pulling back.

"Meet again in person?" You question but then he disappears before he can answer your question, leaving you confused.

"You may enter." Kylo says in an agitated tone as he sets the gems back down on his table and Hug walks into the room. "What is so urgent that you had to interrupt me during a very important discussion?" He growls at him.

Hux gulped, terrified of Kylo's impending wrath upon him.

"If I may ask, what important discussion were you having just now?" Hux asks then finds himself unable to breath as Kylo holds his hand out to him.

"How dare you ask me about my private affairs?" He barks.

"I only wanted to know if it was diplomatic in nature." Hux states.

"It's none of your business." Kylo tells him and releases him on the ground with a thud. "Now why are you here?"

"Supreme Leader." Hux adresses, standing back up and regaining his confidence. "There are important matters I need to discuss with you regarding the First Order. For example, we need more resources to build more ships-"

"Hence why I was just at one of our mining planets to request that they work a bit harder so that we may acquire more weapons." Kylo reminds him.

"Yes but more importantly many of our allies do not believe that the Resistance has been defeated." Hux informs him.

"Why do they believe something so preposterous?" Kylo asks.

"Many of their citizens have been infused with hope after the Resistance's final stand for some insane reason. And there are rumors going around that there are still some members out there who are recruiting and rebuilding their despicable regime." Hux says. "Do we have any reason to believe such lies?"

"We do. But we cannot let anyone know that." Kylo says and stands in front of Hux. "I want you to send word out to our spies to figure out if we can find out where they're hiding and destroy them before they can grow stronger again."

"Understood Supreme Leader." Hux says and bows and leaves, grumbling to himself about how displeased he was about Kylo's leadership.

Kylo looked back at the gem cluster he got for you and gently stroked it.

"I will find you m'lady." Kylo declares. "I will see you in person again."

Many years ago:

"Your knight has returned m'lady!" Ben proudly declares as you open the door to your hut for him.

"BenBen!" You cry out and run into his arms and he catches you and hugs you tight, laughing at the nickname.

"BenBen?" He asks. "Since when have you started calling me that?"

"Since you left and I got bored and started thinking of nicknames for you, Jaden and Regris." You tell him and he laughs. "Do you like it?"

"You can call me whatever you want." Ben says honestly. You lead him inside and he shuts the door behind him. "Now here's a present for you." Ben says and pulls out a beautiful white crystal.

You gasped and stared at it in awe. It sparkled in the faint light coming through your window and you instantly felt drawn to it, like you were meant to have this crystal.

"Oh Ben...it's beautiful." You tell him and take it, examining it. "I'll use this in the lightsaber I'll craft one day, and treasure it forever." You promise him and he smiles.

"I felt drawn to it when I was in the cave with Jaden and Regris. It's as if it was calling to me. But something in the Force told me that I wasn't meant to have it, and that's when I knew that it was meant for you." Ben explains and closes your hand over the rock.

"Does this mean that the Force has us connected somehow?" You ask and Ben looks at you, his eyes searching yours for an answer.

"Maybe." He says.

"But why would it want to connect us?" You ask.

"Maybe in the future it wants us to..." He trails off and reaches his hand out to gently cup your cheek but then drops it down. "No. That's impossible."

"What is?" You ask.

"Nothing..." He smiles at you. "I was just talking to myself." He says. There's no way the Force would send a wretch like me such a beautiful and pure hearted girl to love me. Jedi aren't supposed to have relationships and besides, I could never be worthy of someone like her. He thinks to himself. "No one bullied you while I was gone right?"

"Not really. I just stayed in here most of the time and studied and meditated." You tell him. "It got pretty boring. But now that you're back we can have fun again!"

"Definitely! Let's go find Regris and Jaden and play in the field with them!" Ben suggests.

"Yay! Let's go!" You say and place your crystal on your desk before running out of your hut with Ben.

Present Day:

"You requested to see us Supreme Leader." One Knight of Ren says as he and another kneel down before Kylo at his throne.

"Yes. I have something I need to discuss with you." Kylo says seriously then looks at his Praetorian Guards. "You are all dismissed." He tells the head one and they all file out of the throne room.

As soon as they're gone, Kylo stands before his two knights and glares at them. Then he smiles and gestures for them to stand and strides forward to greet them as they rise and remove their helmets before him.

"Jaden, Regris." Kylo greets them and places his hands on his best friends shoulders and they do the same to him. "It's so good to see you. How have you been?"

"We've been doing well." Regris informs him. "Much thanks to you now being the Supreme Leader, our missions are now more interesting, unlike the menial tasks Snoke would have us preform."

"Snoke did not see your potential." Kylo tells them. "He only cares about bloodlines. That was one of his many weaknesses."

"But now thanks to you, we're no longer held back." Jaden notes.

"Yes." Kylo agrees. "It's rather remarkable. Back when we were children none of us would have expected we would get to be standing where we are now, the galaxy within our grasp."

"We have all grown since those days." Regris says. "We're all more mature, and much more powerful than we were back then."

"Yes. Much has changed." Jaden agrees. "Is change the reason you summoned us here?"

"Sort of." Kylo says. "Since you two are my most trusted and loyal knights I feel it is safe to inform you that our dear friend Y/N who we thought to be dead is in fact...alive." He says and Jaden and Regris's eyes widen.

"She lives!" Regris exclaims.

"How?" Jaden asks. "We slaughtered everyone in that school together. We left no survivors save for the other knights."

"I don't know how she made it out of there but nevertheless she did. And it turns out Rey, the scavenger girl whom the Force bonded me with is her younger sister. And through that bond I was able to forge a new one with Y/N." Kylo informs them.

"Incredible." Jaden says. "The Force truly works in mysterious ways. And now it has reunited you with Y/N! Will you be bringing her here? Will she join the knights and fight at our side?"

"No. She is still on the Light Side of the Force." Kylo tells them. "And even if she wasn't I would never allow her to join you knights. She is much too precious to me to risk having her harmed in the many dangerous missions you go on. While she can hold her own in battle, she is much stronger in other areas. Areas we are weak in."

"And because of that she is still a major asset to us." Regris says. "And there are other uses you could have for her now that you couldn't back then..." He suggests and smirks at Kylo.

"What are you talking about?" Kylo looks confused.

"You're the Supreme Leader now." Jaden tells Kylo. "Who will take over should something happen to you?Currently, that person is General Hux."

"That incompetent weasel?" Kylo sneers. "He should never be allowed a position of such power. He would make a mess of things."

"Then you need someone else who could inherit the throne." Regris says. "An Empress." He suggests.

"Empress..." Kylo mutters. "You are suggesting I marry someone to rule by my side? No one would want to wed me I'm a monster."

"Some girls are into that." Jaden informs him.

"How many?" Kylo scoffs.

"More than you think." Regris says. "And I think you may have already stumbled across the perfect candidate..."

"Y/N..." Kylo says. "You want me to marry Y/N and leave the throne to her should something happen to me."

"Yes. Until your heirs are old enough to take over." Jaden says with a smile.

"Heirs?" Kylo asks.

"Yes." Regris tells him. "As an Empress it would be her duty to provide you with suitable heirs for the throne."

Kylo suddenly remembered the vision he had when he touched your cheek. You were at his side, storm troopers and other factions of the First Order bowing before the both of you. You laid your hands on his chest and your head under his chin, his hands on your waist as the vision panned forward to three people standing before a group of cowering rebels desperate to defend their planet. Kylo watched in awe as the three people that he now understood to be his progeny ignited their lightsabers and attacked them with unimaginable power that he never thought any one person could possess. Now he was seeing potential in bloodlines as well. He's seen how powerful Rey was, and you possessed her genes. That power combined with his, passed onto a new generation would create the most fearsome warriors in the galaxy. He smiled and looked between his friends.

"My dear friends. Thank you for this advice." He tells them. "I've had a vision about this very thing happening. And now I want that vision to come true. I've seen power beyond our belief, and Y/N is the only one who can provide me with that. Because she is the only woman I love. Our love may be one of the most powerful forces in the galaxy and with her ruling at my side, we'll be unstoppable!" He declares and draws his saber and lights it, Jaden and Regris doing the same and they all touch the tips together, signifying this new quest to reunite you with Kylo so the First Order can take over the galaxy.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed! Please comment if you like it and want more. And if you can help it, please don't just say "please update", tell me specifics like your favorite part or what you like about the story, or what I should expand on more so I know what to focus on in future updates.