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"Please." His voice fractured around the word, the cracks reaching all the way to Rey's heart.
He had begged. He had actually begged, even though his lips had trembled to speak the word, disgusted as he was desperate. He had begged her to stay. She took a deep breath, willing the roiling waves in her stomach to cease. She reached for the Balance, falteringly but with purpose. It steadied her.
"No." The word fell trembling from her lips.
His face crumpled. And for the briefest second, Rey was sure that peeking out from beneath the scarred face and the tousled hair matted with sweat and blood, and the heap of black clothing was the shattered husk of Ben Solo… betrayed, and confused, and denied yet again. The cracks that had rent through her heart when he'd begged threatened to open into fissures of grief and guilt, but she held her ground.
"No." she repeated, more gently and assuredly this time as she took a tiny step towards him. "No. No, this time you join me."