The next morning, Faith gets up early so she can feed Velvet and Kylan before she goes to give Simba, Angel and Jewel their first feeding of hay for the day before she begins working with them and after she feeds Velvet and Kylan she puts on cowgirl boots (yes she had some) before she heads to the large room where she is keeping her Faithers and after she opens the door and turns on the lights she sees Simba bang at the door to his new stall and she says knowing he is trying to tell her he is hungry "Okay, okay, I'm getting it Simba! Chill!" Then she grabs a few sections of hay and gives Simba his before giving Angel and Jewel theirs (Jewel is just about at the age where she eats hay and also still drinks milk) while she is waiting for them to eat a bit so she can start walking them around a bit before she starts training them, she starts getting the training pen ready. When Phasma walks in and says "I see you are up and about already Faith." So Faith says "Yes, I thought I'd better get up so I can get them fed so I can start to train them a little bit and possibly ride one of them today since I have no mission to go on today. Plus it will keep my mind off of Kylo since Sophie doesn't want me trying to call out to him since he still needs to recover and I know if I'd just sit in my room all day that I would do it." Phasma then says "Can I watch you train them Faith? I have nothing going on today either." Faith then answers "Sure, it won't do them any harm to have someone else in here as well since when I go on missions someone will need to feed them." Moments later, Faith walks over and takes off Angel's old halter and puts the new one Sophie made on her and does the same with Jewel before she puts two leads on and takes them out to the riding ring around the training pen (the training pen is in the center) and starts to lead them around a little figuring that if she has Angel and Jewel walk together that if Angle feels calm and relaxed (which she does) with her that Jewel will too. When Sophie comes in to watch as well since Kylo is still asleep and Angel and Jewel hear the door to the room shut when she enters and both stop to look and Faith says after they look at Sophie for a moment "It's okay girls, it's just Sophie, she and Phasma are going to watch for a bit today." Then she clicks to them and once again Angel and Jewel start walking again and Sophie says "They both seem really relaxed with you Sis." To which Faith answers "Yes they do, I figured I'd walk both of them first because I knew that if Angel seemed relaxed and trusted me that Jewel would too." Which cause Sophie to reply "I think that's a great idea Faith, I like how you started nice and slow with them and are just letting them walk around the arena to get used to the smells and stuff first." Faith then answers "Thanks Sis." Then after Faith walks Angel and Jewel around a couple more times, Simba bangs on his stall door again and Faith says "Alright, I'm going to walk you around in a second!" After this, she lets Angle and Jewel go to their stall to finish eating and she unclips the lead ropes from their halters when they are near the stalls and allows Angel to lead Jewel back to their stall and after they go in she shuts the door to their stall before she goes over to Simba's, gets his halter, puts it on and then clips his lead rope on before she leads him towards the ring like she did with Angel and Jewel and she says as they start to walk "Now listen you, you don't need to bang on your stall door like that! It's rude!" And Phasma says "Seems like you found a pet that has Kylo's type of temperament Faith." So she answers as she leads Simba around "I can't deny that one, he defiantly does have Kylo's temper a bit when it comes to waiting." Next, Sophie says "Oh Faith you have no idea, the way Simba was banging on that stall reminds me of how much Kylo just wants to come running to you. I keep on having to tell him that you need him to rest and regain his strength but all he wants to do is be with you, the separation is killing him I think." Faith then answers as she leads Simba on his second lap around "I know just how he feels, I keep on yearning for him at night, especially after the incident a couple nights ago." Sophie then answers "I know it's hard for you not to call out to him at night but you are doing a wonderful job at it, trust me, I keep telling him he can't reach out to you through the force either and I can see how much it pains him too." After this, she answers "I can tell you one thing Soph, I have a very strong feeling that when the day comes that you release him from the medical wing, he will come running to me, wanting to give me all the love he's been prevented from giving me." Sophie then says giggling "Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's going to be all over you."
   Next, Faith leads Simba back to his stall so he can now finish eating his morning feeding of hay and she then goes to get Angel and Jewel (she is going to tie Jewel off to the side where she can watch while Faith works with Angel) and leads them back into the ring before she ties Jewel up where she can see the pen before she leads Angel inside and closes the door before Sophie says "I better go check on your lover boy and see if he's awake yet, I'll be back in a bit." Then she answers "Alright." After Sophie leaves, Faith unclips Angel and signals for her to trot by using her lead rope and clicking as she says "That way Momma, show your baby how this is done okay my girl?" Then Angle begins to trot and Faith says "Good girl Angel!" Then after a bit she asks Angel to trot in the opposite direction which she immediately does. Then she switches directions again after a bit before she puts her lead rope down and stands still to allow Angel to pair up with her and after she walks up and does so, Faith says "Good girl." Then she gives Angel a nice rub, telling her she was good before Phasma says as she walks up a bit closer so she can watch "That is amazing, you only got her yesterday and already she is responding to you like that, I think she trusts you a lot Faith." As she gently pets Angel on her muzzle since Faith and Angel are standing right there and Faith says "Yes she is, I am very impressed." Moments later, Faith goes back to the center with Angel following her and she does a couple walks around the pen with Angel following behind her before she signals for her to go to the outside again and trot some more, this time starting in the opposite side she started from the first time and she clicks and Angel starts to do a little bit of a canter and Faith says "Good girl, now how about you go the other way." As she points the way she wants Angel to go and she immediately follows and changes direction and after a couple more times in each direction Faith says "Walk Angel!" So Angel starts to walk and Faith turns around to face Phasma again and she says "Is she coming to me Phas?" Then Faith sees Angel slowly coming up to Faith and she says "Yep, she's just taking the scenic route this time." And Faith turns to see Angel slowly coming up and once she does and rests her head on Faith's shoulder she says "Good girl." Before she gives Angel another good pat. Then Faith goes back to working Angel for about ten more minutes (with breaks in between) and afterwards she allows Angel to stop and leads her to where Jewel is before she ties Angel up and takes Jewel in the pen this time. For Jewel she also uses a lunge line since this is likely the first time anyone has properly worked with her in this way and she clicks and moments later, Jewel starts to trot in the direction Faith asks and Faith says "That's a girl Jewel!" "Your doing good!" Then after a while she changes directions and Jewel at once follows her orders and trots the opposite way and then Faith relaxes the lunge line, telling Jewel to pair up with her to which she immediately does and Faith says "Good girl Jewel! Good girl! Just like your mom!" Then after a couple more rounds Faith leads Jewel out and also unties Angel before she leads them towards their stalls again so they can rest a bit and she says as Phasma follows them "Phasma, stand back because I'm going to allow Angel to lead Jewel into their stall since she seems to like that and I don't want you to accidentally get hurt." Once Phasma steps out of the way, Faith unclips the lead ropes and Angel trots towards her stall with Jewel following and again, once they are in, Faith shuts the stall door. This time, both Angle and Jewel drink from their water buckets and as they are doing that, Faith decides she better fill them up anyway since she hasn't done that yet and after she fills up Simba's, Angel's and Jewel's buckets, she gets Simba and works with him for a while before it is time for Faith to feed the three Faithers their feeding of grain and after she puts feed in each of their feeders, she waits with Phasma and gets the riding saddle ready since she plans to ride Angel a bit before she calls it a day for them and Sophie returns as they are waiting and says "Kylo's wounds are looking much better today, I'd say give it another week and he should be fine to see you again Sis, he's up now but is still resting in his bed. I bet you can guess what he asked me about the second I walked back into his medical room." Faith then says as she laughs "Gee, I wonder." Sarcastically and then, Faith rides Angel for a while before she puts their last feed of hay in and she, Phasma and Sophie leave the room. About a week later, Sophie decides to allow Kylo to see Faith and she says to him "Ren, ready to see your girl today? Cause I think your wounds are healed enough." Kylo then answers excitedly "Of course I'm ready, I have been waiting for a few weeks to see her now." Then Sophie answers "I know Ren, every time I come back from talking to her you end up talking non stop about her." So Kylo answers "Well usually I check up on her and call her when I'm gone!" And Sophie says "I know that Ren, but I've told you a million times now I didn't want either of you using your force bond since you were both on this ship because I knew you would get a bit too excited and open your wounds back up and I didn't want that and neither did she. Plus she has been pretty busy lately." (A couple days ago she rescued a Force Leopard cub (the Leopard cub is sensitive to the force) she named Snowy because she was an orphan because a farmer killed her mother on a mission Faith went to for Kylo was about to kill Snowy too but Faith saved her life and took her in) So Kylo says with interest "Busy? What do you mean?" And Sophie replies "Well, a couple weeks ago she rescued a few Faithers from an abusive life style when she went on one of your missions and just a few days ago she saved an orphaned Force Leopard cub. She has been training her Faithers quite a bit when she hasn't gone on missions for you." Kylo then says shocked "You have got to be kidding me." But Sophie shakes her head and says "Nope, I'm not, in fact if I were to put money on it I would say that she is already in the room where she is keeping the Faithers and is probably working with them again." Kylo then says "Oh I have got to see this." To which Sophie replies knowing Kylo is just dying to see Faith to begin with "Alright come on, I'll show you where she is keeping them and I have to tell you, she is doing a really good job with them so far from what I have seen." Meanwhile, Faith has already worked with Jewel and is now working with Angel and she is already having her trot around the training pen a few times in each direction and she says "Walk Angel!" And Angel walks up to pair up with her and after she does so, Faith gives her a pat and says "Good girl!" Before she leads Angel around the pen a little and Phasma laughs as she watches them and Faith starts to laugh too as Phasma says "Faith you look like such an idiot right now!" To which Faith answers "I know but she has to get used to me leading her without the lead sometime." Then she says "Come on Angel! Trot with me my girl!" As she starts to jog a little and not long after, Angel trots alongside Faith and she says "Good girl! Now I'm going to go back to the center and I want you to keep going." Then Faith goes to the center and Angel goes back to trotting on the outside of edge of the training pen and while this is going on, Kylo and Sophie have reached the room and are watching from outside and Sophie says "We have to wait until Faith has her come to her so that Angel can see us cause sometimes she gets nervous when she hears the door open and I want to make sure Faith has her first. Faith already knows you were expected to come today so that won't be a problem." Kylo then answers "I can't believe how good that Faither is with her Sophie." To which Sophie replies "I know, Faith told me that when she rescued them she asked if they wanted to come with her and all three of her Faithers came up to her and nuzzled her as to say yes, our mother used to have one when we were about three and used to give both of us rides on it all the time." Then Kylo chuckles a little as he says "Well, she does have a very strong bond with any animal she finds so the fact that she rescued them like this doesn't actually surprise me." A few minutes later (Faith has sensed Kylo and Sophie), Faith says "Walk Angel!" Before she turns around to face Phasma again and not long after, Angel pairs up with Faith and Faith pats her again and says "Good girl!" Then Sophie comes in and says "Hey sis, you have a visitor." Faith then says as she laughs a little "Hmm, I wonder who that could be?" In a sarcastic tone before Kylo comes in and Faith says with delight as her eyes light up "Kylo Ky!" And he answers back as he smiles and walks over "Sweetheart!" Before he embraces her in a hug between the bars of the pen. Then he turns to Angel and he says as he allows her to sniff him a little "And who is this beautiful Faither?" So Faith answers "This is Angel, she's the mother to the filly that is currently tied up over there, her name is Jewel." After she says this Simba bangs on his stall door before Faith says "And that would be Angel's mate and Jewel's father, Simba." She then yells "Simba! Knock it off or I will make a tie up spot for you in your stall!" Which causes Simba to immediately stop and Faith says "That's what I thought! I'll get you your grain and fill your water up in a minute my boy!" Then she puts the lead rope back on Angel, unties Jewel and then starts to lead them towards the stalls and she says to Kylo (who is currently walking next to her) "Kylo stand back with Phasma for a minute because I usually allow Angel to lead Jewel to their stall by herself and I really don't need you to get hurt again." After he stands back next to Phasma, Faith unclips the lead ropes before Angel and Jewel walk until they are away from her (they are very good about making sure they don't run her over) before Angel starts to trot back to her stall and is immediately followed by Jewel and the two trot all the way into their stall before Faith shuts the stall door and says "Your good now Ky, they are in. Phas, would you mind putting grain in their feeders, I'm going to check their water." Phasma then answers "Sure Faith." Then Faith cleans Simba's, Angel's and Jewel's water buckets and puts fresh water in while Phasma puts feed in and Faith puts the buckets back in while her Faithers are eating and then she says to Kylo "You never thought your girl could handle a Faither did you Kylo Ky?" Kylo then answers "Oh no, I figured you could I just wasn't expecting you to actually do it." While her Faithers are still eating their grain, Faith and Phasma clean out the stalls (Faith does it once in the morning before she starts training and once in the afternoon or evening) and Kylo says curiously as he watches "Isn't doing that while they are in the stalls a bit dangerous my love?" But Faith says "No Ky, these Faithers are actually all good about letting me do this, their stalls aren't usually bad anyway." Then a few hours later, Faith and Phasma throw in the last feeding of hay for Simba, Angel and Jewel for the day before she, Kylo and Phasma leave the room and afterwards Faith says "There is someone else you have to meet Kylo." As she leads him to their room where little Snowy is sitting on the bed and Faith says as Snowy literally jumps into her arms "This is Snowy, she was orphaned on a system I came back from a couple days ago, a farmer killed her mother but I ended up rescuing her." Kylo then gently pets Snowy before he says "Faith, I want to know what happened that night a couple weeks ago after I returned and went to the medical wing, I felt you scared and felt you in pain and Sophie didn't exactly tell me what was going on." So Faith answers "Do you promise you won't get angry if I tell you Kylo Ky? Because what happened was not at all pretty." And he answers "I promise you I won't I just want to know what happened my love." So Faith says "Well, have you ever heard of a hybrid monster the Resistance created to kill targeted force sensitives?" But he shakes his head so she continues "Well, that night, Poe sent this hybrid monster that was a hybrid between a Varactyl and a Vulptex and also had the ability to use a special venom that would kill a force sensitive within a matter of hours, the venom first burns a little bit, then it causes hallucinations and finally it goes to the bite victim's heart and stops it which obviously kills the victim. Anyway, he sent the horrible monster after me and that night I immediately sensed that something was wrong and that I was in danger which I'm assuming you started to sense as well (he nods at this). When you felt me become really scared it was because the hybrid monster eventually found it's way here and after it came into the room it started to reach one of it's front legs with long, Varactyl claws towards me which really terrified me. Oh how I wished you were here that night to protect me but since you weren't I decided to have Velvet and Kylan help me, which they did and after that I called Hux and told him to send backup and not long after, Phasma and a few squads of troopers came and together we managed to make the monster sleep, it is in containment now. Number one so it doesn't get back into the hands of the Resistance and number two so it doesn't try and get at me again cause the first time was terrifying." However, she doesn't tell Kylo about the fact that the monster actually bit her at first since she wanted to see how Kylo (who is looking rather horrified) reacts. Not long after, Kylo senses that Faith hasn't told him quite everything and he says "Faith, I know you left something out because at some point that night both Sophie and I felt you in pain." Then Faith shows him the scar from her bite wound and Kylo says knowing what she is trying to tell him by simply showing that "No! Baby girl don't tell me that thing bit you!" But she answers "It did Kylo and if it wasn't for the fact that Sophie came I would be dead right now. You owe her my life Kylo because she came just in time and before you ask I did have a hallucination and it was about you but I knew it was a hallucination cause you weren't really here. She did check on the unborn quadruplets as well so she wasn't completely lying to you." Then Faith shows him a recording from the hallway and her room security footage which makes Kylo feel scared for Faith since he had no idea what to expect with it. Then they both lay down and Snowy comes up and Faith says "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you Kylo Ky, little Snowy here is quite the little cuddle bug." Moments later, both she and Kylo fall asleep, Kylo with his arm around her and Snowy gently snuggling in between them.

End of chapter!
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