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Bound by Stars

Chapter 7
Part 2

Thick long eyelashes shuddered a little, as the royal heiress started to stir in her sleep. She was having a weird dream, where her beloved prince was calling for her, but she couldn't find him no matter how hard she tried. The girl longed to see him again so much, that she didn't pay attention to the anguish feeling of loneliness. The darkness she was wandering through was scaring and the princess tried to hold back her tears of fear. She wished with all her heart that prince Ben would come and save her from that terrible place, but he never came and it made the poor girl's heart tighten in despair. But when she heard his distant weak voice that was calling her name as if it was the only thing he could utter, Rey took a grip of herself and decided to find her prince no matter what. She kept on blaming herself for being so weak and helpless. She was thinking only about herself and her misery, not realizing that someone was in a condition a way worse than hers. How immature she was! By the tone of prince Ben's voice anyone could tell for sure that he needed her! And she was just sitting and crying about her terrible fate of being left alone in the dark emptiness!

"Please, my prince, wait for me. I'm coming!" the beauty kept on repeating under her breath, running in a total darkness, searching for her other half.

Nobody knew how much time she spent looking for a certain dark-eyed young man, when her feet slipped suddenly, and princess Rey fell on a hard floor. The impact was painful and the girl's tired body couldn't move an inch. But she had to stand up and continue. She had to find her beloved prince! She didn't want to be alone anymore!

Tears of anger started to fall from her hazel eyes as she understood how weak she was at the moment. Her body lay unmoving and the only thing she could do was shouting in the air as hard as her lungs could let her:

"Prince Ben, I love you! Please, forgive me for being so helpless!"

And there she was, lying in pain from losing the only motivation to keep on living.

"Forgive me…" was all her dry lips could whisper. The royal girl closed her tearful eyes. Fatigue overwhelmed her and she was on the edge of falling into a deep and eternal sleep, when suddenly something warm touched her cheek. It brought a nice feeling of calmness and peace. The touch was just like a feather's one. It made her want to open her eyes and look at whatever it could be. Right before the very moment her eyelids raised, she heard the dearest voice she longed to hear the most in the world.

"Wake up, Rey. I need you…"

"Prince Ben!" she exclaimed as her eyes flew open and she took a sharp inhale. It was hard to breathe because she couldn't comprehend where she was and what was going on. She knew that it was her dear prince's voice she had just heard and he said that he needed her. But where could she find him? Where was he?

Rey brought her right hand to her face and placed it on her forehead. Somehow, she could recognize the surroundings. It wasn't as dark as before. The girl turned her head a little and saw a large window. The moonlight was coming from the glass making the objects of the place more identifiable.

"It's my room," her hazel eyes widened a little in realization.

The room was silent and the only source of light was glowing high in the night sky, slightly lighting the content of the place through the window, though it was still hard to see everything clearly.

Rey closed her eyes again and sighed heavily. Was it all just a bad dream? But even if it was, everything seemed so realistic…and it was so torturing to be apart from the one you loved, as if the world stopped to have any meaning.

She lay like that for some minutes, listening to her steady breathing, until that breathing started to sound suspiciously asynchronous. At first she thought that it was just her imagination, but when she held her breath and heard the sound of someone's steady inhaling and exhaling, the girl got scared. There was someone there. She could hear their breathing in the dark.

The princess wanted to jump from the bed and rush to call for some help, but she felt her left hand been pulled. Frustrated and scared, she turned to her left and squealed from unexpectedness. There was a man, lying next to her! It was his breathing she heard. Rey couldn't see his face clearly, as the moonlight didn't fall on it, but her heart was telling her that there was something special about this person. She looked down at her left hand and gasped. It was held tightly yet carefully by the man's one. Something fell in her stomach, as a sharp suspicion crawled to her mind. She knew this hand; how many times did it caress her cheeks with its long fingers? How many times did she receive the warmth of its palm, when it buried itself in her dark-brown hair?

Her eyes looked up at the dear face slowly. Oh, how she wished to see his face, but it was impossible in this darkness of the night. The princess sat next to the sleeping young man in her bed and laid her free hand on his cheek.

"Prince Ben…" was all she could whisper as her heart filled with so much love and care towards this sleeping handsome.

She continued stroking his cheek, feeling his face under her delicate fingers in the dark, but he wasn't responding. Usually, when he used to fall asleep at her lap while she was reading to him under the tree in his Royal Garden, she would stroke his cheek and it would wake him up almost immediately. But now…

"Prince Ben, wake up," she whispered in his ear. But he showed no reaction and it made her really worried. "Prince Ben, are you alright?" the girl shook him by the shoulder carefully. But the result was the same.

Rey was getting more and more anxious with every passing second. She couldn't wake him up and he didn't respond to her questions. Something was terribly wrong. Hot tears formed in the corners of her eyes, as she continued her attempts of bringing him back from his dream-land.

"My dear prince, please, wake up! You are scaring me!"

After receiving no answer, her head fell on his chest and she buried her face in his black silky shirt, sobbing uncontrollably and hugging him tightly.

"Come back to me, my love, I beg you, open your eyes!"

And then she realized that there was only one way left to awaken him. Rey lifted her head from his firm chest and bent over his face. Her eyes burnt with determination, as she prayed with all her heart.

"God, please, let us be together again!" and after thinking that last, she covered the royal heir's lips with hers.

OooooO

Wandering through the total darkness was a way more pleasant feeling than drowning in the dark bottomless sea, where there was no escape from. Kylo Ren was losing his last strengths. He couldn't struggle against the dark waves anymore. The only thing that still helped him not to sink was a thought of his dear soul mate. He still hadn't found her and it made him go insane. If only he knew her whereabouts. The main thing was to protect her from this terrible place. But now it was too late. How could he protect her when he was the one who needed help?

His strong wish to see her began fading with the last oxygen his lungs had. He understood that it was his end, and before losing his consciousness, he outstretched his hand as if grabbing an invisible image of his princess. He didn't want to die, but he had no strength left to fight. Please, let her be happy… it was all he wanted. And he would always have her in his heart because she was the only one for him, and even now he…

"I need you, Rey…"

And his dark eyes closed, as he believed, forever, but something strange happened. He felt as if he was lifted out from the bottom of the sea by some magic powers and was laid on a soft sandy shore. His mind was clouded from the lack of oxygen and he had no strength to open his eyes or even inhale.

And then he felt something on his lips that he should had not at that moment. But that saving touch brought him back to life, as his lungs filled with the most wanted vital substance. Ben breathed in as deeply as he could and exhaled slowly. His mind cleared and he tried to open his eyes only to close them again.

It must had been a dream. He thought that he had just caught a glimpse of a beloved face in the dark. And then Kylo realized that his lips were still occupied with someone's saving touch.

You had to be really dense not to recognize this contact that he had experienced so many times before. It was the touch of the sweetest lips in the world, no wonder that it saved him from death, because it was her lips.

Those gentle shy lips of his Rey's. His heart was ready to explode from happiness and relief. She was safe, she was here and she was kissing him. And the only thing he wanted to do now was to kiss her back, to show his gratitude to her for bringing him back to life.

And he kissed her slowly and tenderly, treasuring every second of the contact. He unconsciously wrapped his left arm around her delicate shoulders, tasting her sweet lips in the dark and holding her close to him. Their other hands were still united.

After a moment, princess Rey opened her eyes and broke the kiss carefully.

"Are you really awake?" she asked hoping for a positive answer. It was hard to see if his eyes were opened or not. The darkness of the night hid it from her.

And then she heard his velvet voice.

"So, it's not a dream, it's really you, my princess. I was so afraid that I would never see you again."

"Oh, Ben! You're back!" the girl exclaimed and hugged him closely, burying her face in the crook of his neck. "I was so scared! I thought that you would never wake up!"

He returned the hug. Oh, how he missed her warmth and sweet scent, her melodic voice and just her presence.

"Sweetheart, I don't know what happened to me, but somehow, I felt like dying. I realized one simple thing, that I'm in so much pain when you're away, Rey."

"But how did you end up in my room?" she asked, not lifting her head from his shoulder.

"Huh?" Kylo Ren's eyes widened in surprise. "Is it not my Kingdom?"

"No, it's definitely my room."

"But…the last thing I remember is being in the crown room in our castle…and then we were told that king Obi-Wan was going to attack us. And then… " he frowned, trying to remember what happened next, but it was useless. "I don't remember anything after that episode…"

Rey sat up abruptly, so did he. The moonlight threw its dim light on their faces.

"The last thing I remember is grandfather telling me about attacking your Kingdom, but then everything's blank…" she said thoughtfully, trying to catch a good glimpse of his face.

"What happened to us? Why do we remember the same part and nothing after that? And how did I appear in your room, when I know that I was in my Kingdom?"

They sat in silence, trying to figure out what was going on, but of course they had no answer to that question.

"You know," the maiden spoke, "right before waking up, I had a terrible dream that I got lost and couldn't find you no matter how hard I tried. I was so scared that I would never see you again, that it was almost killing me."

"Hmm…it seems that we share not only the same memories, but the same dreams as well," he tried to laugh lightly, but it sounded like a bitter chuckle. "I don't know the reason of what happened to us, but the only thing I know for sure is that I don't want to experience that nightmare again. Never in my life. Being apart from you is the cruelest punishment in the world, dear princess."

The girl lowered her head to hide the blush on her cheeks; he couldn't see it anyway because of the darkness in the room though.

"I'm very glad that we're together again, Ben, because I love you so much."

He smiled sincerely. Everything concerning this girl made him feel and do everything sincerely. It was all he needed; she was there next to him, telling him that she loved him. What a man could desire more?

The prince embraced his beloved and fell backwards on the bed, making her being pressed to his chest.

"I love you too, Rey," and he left a chaste kiss on her forehead. "I don't regret about anything. The reason I live is because of you."

She was very flattered by his words. There were many mysterious about him that she couldn't understand, but now it wasn't that important. They were together and she prayed for never be separated again.

Two love birds talked sweetly, holding each other in their arms, till the very dawn. They enjoyed each other's company so much that they didn't even notice the first rays of the sun. The realization came to them only when Rey said shyly:

"Are you hungry?"

Ben smiled with the corner of his lips.

"I think I can eat an elephant. Can't understand why I feel so exhausted though."

She giggled lightly.

"Me too. Let's go and tell the servants to make a breakfast for us. And if my grandfather tries to harm you, I will protect you! Though, he took my light saber away."

The Skywalkers' heir rolled his eyes. It would be a very interesting scene: a prince is protected by a harmless princess. But he didn't complain. After all she did save him from that nightmare. And she wasn't that harmless to that.

They got up and before leaving the room Rey stood on her toes and kissed her prince gently on the lips, catching him by surprise.

"How does it happen that you are always the first one to kiss me?" He asked in amazement, watching the girl grinning broadly.

"Maybe because you are too adorable, when I kiss you?" she laughed sonorously, and her voice sounded like a bell.

Ben's face blushed in response to her words. The next moment he grabbed her in a tight embrace, receiving a gasp of surprise from her, and bent his head down to capture her mouth in a long and sensual kiss.

It was a good thing that the prince was holding her right now, because Rey was sure she was going to faint from such powerful dominance and fabulous kiss she was gifted with.

After a moment that felt like hours, they broke apart, breathing heavily and looking into each other's eyes.

"You may be the first to kiss me, but I'm the only one who will make you dizzy when I kiss you. Any complains?" he uttered all too seriously.

Rey gulped uneasily, shifting her gaze to his mouth.

"I… I…have no complains," she answered finally.

"Good," it was all he said with that sly smirk of his before taking her hand and heading towards the exit.

The moment they opened the door, they were met by hundreds of gloomy faces, king Obi-Wan and king Anakin were among them. Everyone stared at the couple with round eyes and after a moment of a silent stupor, the fearsome Darth Vader cried in joy, taking the older ruler into a bear hug.

"They made it, geezer! After three days of a torturing waiting, they are alive!"

"Let go of me, you rascal! I can see it myself!"

"W-what's going on?" the dark-haired prince asked, looking at both rulers as if they had completely lost their minds. No, really, how often could you see your grandfather hugging his enemy?

"Children, you're getting married today!" king Anakin exclaimed powerfully, dragging his grandson away from his soul mate, "so you have to prepare for the ceremony."

"E-em…" the royal heiress uttered, "grandfather, could you explain, what's going on? Why were you waiting for us by the door? And what does king Anakin mean?"

"Rey, my child," the older king came to his granddaughter and hugged her dearly, "will you ever forgive me for my egoism? I have nearly lost you, my dear. I was so blinded with wrath towards the Skywalkers that I have totally forgotten about your happiness. Please, Rey, forgive me for making you so miserable, for forbidding you to love the heir of that irresponsible king Anakin's. We had no guarantee that you two would make it after everything I had done in the past. But thanks to Lady Fairy, everything is alright now."

"Grandfather, please, don't cry," the girl hugged her relative tightly. "I'm so happy that you give me your blessing for the marriage."

"Hey, geezer, why don't you tell them that it was all your fault they were on the edge of dying?" Darth Vader cried from the other side of the corridor, where he was explaining his grandson everything about the man's responsibility during the first wedding night. Well, the result of the conversation could be clearly seen on the royal heir's deep scarlet cheeks.

"Shut up, you heartless tyrant! Better prepare everything for the ceremony! We can't waste a minute!" was the loud answer from the other side of the corridor.

And everyone proceeded to their work. Well, the groom and the bride were happy that they were getting married so fast, after all it was prince Ben's wish to get married to his soul mate instantly, when he had been seeing his princess off to deliver her message of peace.

But there was the only problem that darkened the whole celebration for the two.

"Could anyone, please, give us something to eat?"

OooooO

And now after saying those meaningful promises in front of the altar, they were declared a husband and a wife. Hundreds of applause filled the church as king Ben took the white veil away from his beloved's face and looked into her big hazel eyes that were shining with happiness. A sincere smile touched his handsome face, as he bent closer to his queen and laid a sensuous kiss on her cherry lips.

"Be my lifeline for this lifetime, my Rey…" he whispered quietly so that only she could hear those important words.

Their love was something every person could wish for. King Ben became the ruler of the United Kingdom of two powerful Kingdoms—Coruscant and Naboo. He left many good deeds in the history and showed himself as a wise, honest and brave monarch with a strong sense of justice. But he knew that he would have never become the man he was, if he hadn't had his soul mate by his side. Her love and care were the most important and the most hidden reasons that brought their Kingdom to its glorious times.

And we can't not to mention, that wise king Ben decided to overcome the conflict that happened between young king Hux and him in the past. Princess Phasma took the role of a peacemaker who brought the peace between two Kingdoms. After all, it was her dream to marry a very handsome and intelligent king Hux that she secretly adored so much. But in reality she just blackmailed him in return, threatening him to show the content of his sweet love letters to the public. The only way to avoid humiliation for king Hux was marrying the sly princess of Coruscant Kingdom. And the union wasn't that bad, as the history tells.

Queen Rey gave birth to two wonderful children—a very talented and brave boy and a gorgeous and kind-hearted girl. Their father was happy to have such a family. It was the source his strength and pride.

Oh, we forgot to mention, that princess Leia and her husband Han Solo were at their son's wedding too. They had finally returned from their chase after adventures, and decided to come back home, bringing another member of the royal family with them– their little three-years-old daughter and king Ben's younger sister.

And so, we told you a story of two royal heirs that were destined to be together, but aside from that, they managed to make their love the finest art in the world.

A fairytale is a lie, but there is always a hint of truth in every fairytale and it holds a good lesson for people (c) (A Russian proverb).

The End

A/N thanks for reading. It was a pleasure to write this story.

28.05.2018.