This scene from “Landscape With A Blur of Conquerors” (chapter 56) by @kylorenvevo got me so hard I had to draw it
Here’s the excerpt:
“I’m your family,” Kylo said before he could think better of it. Rey blinked up at him with red-rimmed hazel eyes; he closed his, embarrassed by his own boldness, and he pressed their foreheads together as his next words emerged in a gruff murmur alongside her wet cheek. “We’re married. I can be your family.” We can start over. We won’t make the same mistakes.
Rey began crying even harder, and it was with a sinking sensation in the pit of his stomach that Kylo realized he had somehow made things worse. Is that so much of a surprise? inquired his bitter inner voice. You are a paltry substitute for all that she has lost.
But there was nothing he could do except hold her for as long as she let him. And she did, until all of her tears were spent.
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“The domrai,” the Empress stated, as though she were about to conduct a lesson on the florae and faunae of the galaxy at large. “An interesting fruit, to be sure. Being raised on a sand-savaged planet such as Jakku, with little in the way of proper sustenance, you’ll forgive me if I’m unaware of the habits and customs of others when it comes to the appropriate way of consuming certain things.”
The Supreme Leader, catching the play, had to hide his burgeoning grin behind his hand. By the Maker, did she impress him.
“If you would be so kind, I would appreciate the enlightenment,” she continued, nodding towards the fruit, “as to how one would enjoy such a delicacy.”
Hux swallowed hard, all semblance of bravado disintegrating by the second. “Er, you—my—my lady, Supreme Empress, I—I—I’m not sure I—”
“You heard her,” the Supreme Leader rumbled, impatient with delays and interested in seeing the culmination of the performance playing out in front of him. “Show her how to eat it, General.”
Hux looked like he was going to be sick. He glanced down at the fruit in his trembling hand. “My—my lady, I—”
“Eat it.” Her voice rang out, clear and distinct, echoing throughout the chamber. “Eat it, as you would have had me eat it last night, when it was offered to me on a platter by one of your lackeys. Eat it, as I would have, sharing a piece with my husband as well, if another had not warned me of your deceit just in time.”
She leaned forward in her seat, fingers clenched in the arms of her throne, her posture and bearing still befitting of a monarch — back straight, diadem resting perfectly at the top of her head, firegems and Naboo night pearls adorning it, glinting red and black in the dim light, with indigo-dark velvet robes pooling at her feet. Her eyes glinted darkly as well, capturing only a modicum of the light in the room around her. She met his gaze with her own, pinning him to the spot without even conjuring the Force. When she spoke again, her voice was low and vehement.
Part I Dark Reign After narrowly defeating Rey on Starkiller, Kylo Ren sets out to seduce her to the Dark Side and conquer the galaxy
Part II Dark Reign: Dark DecadenceAfter the events of Dark Reign, General Phasma travels to the Fortress Ren on Mustafar to answer the summons of Empress Kira Ren (WIP)
