The Storm, Part 3 - Vanished

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"Nooo!" Finn yells. He's holding someone in his arms, dressed in a pilot's uniform, like many of the others I've just killed with the red sword. This pilot's hair is like Poe's, but his face is covered in blood so I can't see what he looks like.

"Poe?" I say.

It is silent all around me. I blink. There are dead bodies lying everywhere and no one is left, except for Finn, and Kylo who is standing in the shadows. And Snoke.

  Snoke's voice enters my mind. I turn to him.

Snoke smiles.

I freeze. No, that's not possible. I look at Kylo.

It's true. I sense it, from both of them. If I kill Snoke then Kylo will die...

I look through him. I can't look at him. We would have never killed Snoke together, even if Kylo had been free from Snoke's influence and we fought side by side, like we first planned.

I close my eyes, not wanting to see the hunched over figure of Finn on the floor, with Poe at his knees. Poe's words come back to me suddenly  

What have I become?

I retract the light saber, then turn the handle towards my chest.

"You still won't win," I say to Snoke.

"Rey!" ... It's Kylo

Snoke's voice hisses in my mind.

Too many voices in my head. I grip the light saber with both hands.

I've killed Poe. BB-8 is gone. And I'm no longer Rey from Jakku, but a slave of the Dark Side and of my anger.

My hand shakes.  I call out in one last plea, before I end this.

Then I close my eyes and the voice that speaks in my heart is gentle but strong.

, the words come to me..

I'm back in the hallway. I see Kylo's face in the shadows, no longer expressionless, but the essence of worry and pain. There will be no goodbyes.

"You will not remember how I left, nor follow me"

Then, I am gone.