bakerstreet | You can't be falling in love with the boss's girl!

One Wrong Attraction

From the moment you first set eyes on them, you've been drawn - but this is no meet-cute. They are completely unavailable to you: they're sworn to a duty, already spoken for (by someone powerful or evil, no doubt), precious cargo, a caged bird kept away from prying eyes, a possession of a wicked creature. Whatever the case, they are off-limits. The problem is...they are struck by you, too.

Will you fight your feelings, or will you free them so they can be with you? Either way, there's a high probability of it all going up in flames.

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WHO

Caged: You're the victim here, kept locked away.
Taken: You're in a relationship - consensual or otherwise - so you should only have eyes for one. That's not exactly the case...
Passerby: Here you are, minding your own business, when - who's that? Why are they there?
Rescuer: Whether you're a knight in shining armor type or someone simply paid or commanded to do this job, you never thought you'd fall for the one you had to rescue.
Conflict of Interest: You're a guard, but you can't very well do your duty if you want the person you're guarding let go.
Unknowing Villain: You had no idea your allies were keeping someone and you don't agree with their methods.
Enemies: They did wrong by you in the past; even they don't deserve this, though.
Should Be Reviled: Your people and theirs have never gotten along. You should hate them, yet you don't. You want to save them.
Who's the Monster?: They're being locked away because they're a monster. No one could be further from a beast in your eyes, however.
Never Felt Before: Usually, you're stone cold, but their plight has gotten under your skin.
In this Together: Both of you are prisoners, so you can't easily save them, can you?
Not All Bad: They're been told that they're being protected. You want to show them the outside world isn't so bad.
The Better Devil: To be honest, you're not much better than their captor. Still, you're something new.

HOW

Plot and Plan: You know busting them out won't be easy, so you'll put your mind to it.
Sneak: It's an old-fashion escape with all the subtleties and espionage to get out undetected.
Fight Anyone: Maybe you're more brawn than brains, or maybe you're just in a tight spot.
Bargain: Their freedom for yours. Seems like a fair trade.
Guilt: You can't really free them, can you? This fact tears you up inside.
Give You Hope: You might not be able to get them out of here now, but you'll keep them looking towards the future.
Keep You Happy: You'd do anything to see them smile again.
Be Healthy: They're being mistreated or ill-fed. You can at least try to remedy that.
Saved Themselves: They only needed an extra push. At the end, they pulled themself out of the pit.
Selfish: No denying it, you freed them for selfish reasons.
Selfless: What you want doesn't matter. Their safety and peace are paramount.
Sacrifice: If need be, you'll put your life on the line.
Used You: They didn't really love you. But they did know you'd be useful.
Failure: Your attempt failed and now both of you are looking death in the eyes.
I'll Steal You: They didn't want to leave their "home." You stole them away.
Indebted Friends: So they weren't romantically attracted to you. They, however, did platonically bond with you.
Finally "Together": You've wanted to touch them, hold them, kiss them, and be with them in every way possible, even if it's only for a moment. The smut option.
Happy Endings: You're both safe, far from danger, and together.

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(No smut, please. Also, Kenric isn't evil, so no options where he's evil or somehow worse than the captors. Willing to take either role. Open to cross canon and AU with a little set up. You start.)

_{[More likely to be the one captured in those kinds of scenarios out of pure shortsightedness or distraction.]}

( probably the one taken/spoken for/captured. )

[ooc: Definitely not evil. Options up for discussion.]

[Something along the lines of 7-1?]

[ooc: Sure! As the Rolling Stones song goes - Start Me Up, and then I'll throw right right in the thick of things.]

It wasn't that he wanted a connection with anyone, let alone some scavenger girl who idolized his father. He wanted to believe it was the Force. The Force meant he didn't have to admit feeling anything. Not that Kylo Ren would admit feeling anything but anger to Snoke or his knights let alone the scavenger. He could barely admit to himself that, even more than the Force, it was what he'd seen in her mind. He'd seen her loneliness, her late nights wishing for her family to come back. Force, she'd been even younger than he'd been when his parents sent him to Luke.

His fist clenched around his lightsaber. He couldn't let him think about this now. It was just a distraction at the best of times. Going into a fight with that on his mind could easily be a death sentence.

What Rey knows of the Force is bits and pieces that she's picked up listening to people, snippets of conversation, putting the pieces together herself. She wants to believe that it's the Force that's created this sort of ... bond thing when all she wants to do is hate the way he'd been able to enter her mind so easily, to see the things that were meant for only her. But hate leads to the Dark, and - maybe she wants to feel nothing, then.

Nothing at all. Not pity, not anger, not anything.

Especially not this ... pull, whatever it means.

Again and again she tries to bite it back, to no avail. There are better, more important things to focus on, and yet, there it is, in every thought, in every breath, in every movement she makes.

He manages to avoid her completely until they're both separated from their allies. This is a fight better faced with no witnesses, especially after last time.

"They're going to leave you. It's what they do, Rey."

If only she'd stop fighting him. He'd leave all of this if she would. He's pretty sure he buried it deep enough Snoke can't see. As much as he depends on the Supreme Leader, his father's words had struck home. He can't admit it, even to himself, but he sees it in everything now.

It's a low blow, and he knows it. Why else would he immediately target her worst fear? Again, she tries to shake it off, but the words hurt more than she'd like to admit, even to herself.

Hoisting her lightsaber higher, she steels herself against more verbal attacks, waiting and on edge for the physical one she knows is to come.

"They won't. They wouldn't. They came back for me - ! What, you'd stay? Turn me into a monster like you?"

Yes, he knows it. But it's an effective one. It worked on him.

"Monster? Perhaps Hux is a monster. Starkiller was his design. But you... You're better than that."

He's caught her off-guard, and Rey struggles to contain her emotions - her confusion, the panic that she's trying to swallow down. None of that would do her very well in this situation.

But still ...

"... What do you mean?"

He frowns at her confusion. Did she truly think he thought annihilating whole systems was a good thing? The Supreme Leader is wise and must have had a good reason to condone it but the Starkiller was at best a necessary evil to Kylo Ren.

"You would find other ways to do what must be done. There is war and there is the price of treason. They should not be the same."

Honestly - she doesn't know. After all, he'd thought nothing of invading her mind in order to search for the information that he was seeking. Why wouldn't he have any qualms about destroying an entire system and all of it's inhabitants?

"There's - there's always another choice."

Of course, he had thought nothing of it. And he thinks no less of her for having turned his invasion of her mind back on him. Certainly it had been unexpected and, frankly, frightening. But it's what he would have done had their positions been reversed. Invading someone's mind is far preferable to the torture the Empire preferred, that some of the First Order still prefers.

"In war, there is. After all, what good is it to bring order to the galaxy if there is no galaxy left in the end?"

It had been unexpected to the both of them - she couldn't have known that she had the power to push back, nor the fact that when she did, it would work. Still, it was an experience that she has no interest is revisiting ever again.

... She never thought that she'd be agreeing with him.

"What is your game?", she demands, "What are you playing at?"

Because that's what this is, isn't it? The sort of game he'd been playing on Takodana, chasing her.

"Game?" Even the mask can't hide his shock, his confusion. "What about any of this seems like a game?"

"All of it, honestly. Make me agree with you, let my guard down, then attack? Just tell me - what do you want from me?"

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