(Shout out to LumosInTheDarkside for helping me with my inspiration for this chapter ♥️)

(y/n)'s POV
"What's the job?" I questioned. I was a little taken back by his serious demeanor. It was a complete one-eighty from how he was with me only moments ago.

"An abandoned rebels shipwreck on Kashyyyk has been found. It's too big to bring here but the emperor has requested we get it working to see if there are any rebel secrets on board. Such as names and locations of their hidden bases," He informed me, "We leave in the morning, so tell your boyfriend you'll be missing breakfast." He rolled his eyes and turned around to leave but I gripped his wrist to stop him and he did but he didn't turn around to face me.

"Please don't leave." I begged, he was going back to how he always is. Cold and distant. But I wasn't going to let him this time. What happened in that room meant something to me and I know it meant something to him, he just wants to keep denying it.

"Let me go." He demanded but his tone wasn't as angry as it usually is.

I sighed, "Don't make me tell you 'no' again." I squeezed his wrist harder and I even tried pulling on him to turn him around him. It of course didn't work, he's such a stubborn ass.

"I'm stubborn?" He turned around quickly, pulling himself out of my grip, and cupping my face with his hands. He stared intently into me eyes. "You're the most stubborn person I have ever met," He growled as he leaned closer to me, "I told you I'm a murderer, that I've killed thousands of people, and yet you still won't give up."

I brought my hands up and held onto his wrists gently, "You haven't told me anything I didn't already know when I met you."

"You're unbelievable." He sighed as he shook his head. "I'm a monster (y/n), you don't want this."

"Yes I do and I know you do too." I stood on my tippy toes and placed a soft kiss on his lips that he returned. He was just as gentle with me as I was to him.

To me, he wasn't a monster.

He pulled away from me and gazed softly into my eyes, "Why?" He brushed my hair behind my ear, "Why can't you leave me alone?" He closed his eyes and placed his forehead gently on mine as his thumb stroked my cheek.

"Because no one has ever made me feel the way you do and I don't think anyone ever will." I admitted nervously. Never in a million years did I ever think I would be one to fall for Darth Vader, but here we are.

He sighed and pushed me away from him, "If the Emperor finds out about you, he'll kill you." He backed away from me towards the door, causing my heart to ache knowing he was about to leave me, "Wether this is something I want or not, it can't happen. I'm trying to protect you (y/n), from me and from him." He turned around to leave but he stopped for a moment when he reached the door, "It did mean something to me, but it'll never happen again." He spoke in a low tone that I almost didn't hear him, "Ill see you in the morning." And with the wave of his hand, the door opened and he left.

I sighed sadly as I sat on my bed and placed my head in my hands, I tried to stop them, but tears formed in my eyes and I began crying softly.

I had fallen so hard for him. I didn't even realize it was happening till it was too late. Usually when I begin to have feelings for someone I run the other way, so I didn't have to feel this way when it turns out to be nothing but a disappointment.

Fuck this sucks.

I leaned back on my bed and stared up at the ceiling as the tears fell down my cheeks.

I didn't even give a shit about the emperor, let him kill me. Life already sucks, I have no one left, if anything, he'd be doing me a favor by ending my miserable lif-

Suddenly I felt myself being pulled up quickly and I felt a hand on my throat, "Don't you ever think that again." Vader seethed angrily, bringing his face dangerously close to mine. What the fuck, I didn't even hear him come back in. "Do you understand me? Never." He spoke slow and threatening.

I looked at him surprised for a moment, before finally speaking,"I understand, I'm sorry." I nodded never breaking eye contact with him. He leaned forward like he was about to kiss me but he sighed and pressed two fingers to my forehead.

"Go to sleep." Was the last thing I heard before everything went dark.

I heard the sound of my comlink and I jolted up out of my bed looking around to see if he was here, sadly he wasn't. The events of last night played in my head and I remember him pressing his fingers to my head and telling me to sleep, did he use his freaking force juju on me?

I looked down to see myself under the covers, in my pajamas. And did he change my clothes?

I finally remembered why I had woken up in the first place and I quickly grabbed my comlink and answered it, "Where are you?" Vader's voice came through.

"I just woke up." I admitted, force what time is it, was I late?

"Seriously?" He growled, "You have five minutes to get here."

I jumped out of bed and quickly brushed my teeth, brushed my hair, put it up in a ponytail, and changed into new clothes. Not the ugly Imp clothes I refused to wear, but something more comfortable.

I rushed to the Hangar to see Vader standing with his arms crossed, "Look at that, with ten seconds to spare. Any later and I would have had to find a new mechanic." He rolled his eyes and turned to walk into the small ship behind him.

I sighed sadly at his attitude. He was going treat me like yesterday never even happened and if I'm being honest, it hurt my feelings.

This was going to be a difficult couple of hours, especially since I couldn't get the image of him on top of me out of my head.

I walked to my tool station and grabbed my to-go bag that I always had packed in case I was called for anything like this. I swung it over my shoulder and walked to the ship he had just entered.

Maybe he was right. Maybe we should keep our distance, the thought saddened me so much but how could I ever be with Darth Vader? Something like that shouldn't be taken lightly yet here I am trying to dive head first into it without really thinking of what could happen.

I stepped onto the ramp and he was already in the pilot seat pressing a few buttons. I dropped my bag to the floor and sat next to it and leaned against the wall.

"There's a seat right there for you." He pointed to the chair next to him without turning around before going back to whatever he was doing.

"I'm good here." I laid my head back against the cold metal of the ship. I didn't want to sit next to him, being around him was already hard enough. All I wanted to do to him was.. everything, everything we did last night and more. I groaned, why can't I just not feel this way?

"Whatever." He mumbled as I felt the ship lift up and we were off the station. I turned to look at him and he was leaning back in the chair with his feet up, watching the blue hyperspace lights that surrounded us.

He kept his hood up but I could still see the side of his face and the curls that popped out. He was so handsome, how can someone so dangerous look like him.

My mother liked to call men like him, the devil in disguise.

I saw him look at me from the corner of his eye and I quickly looked away from him like I was admiring the view out of the window. Which is stupid of course since I'm sure he's been listening to everything I've been thinking.

Which is a huge invasion of privacy, get out of my head!

I looked back to him and he was no longer looking at me but he was smirking, proving to me that he really was listening to everything. I closed my eyes, I'll try napping so I don't end up thinking about something I wouldn't want him to hear.

"Smart choice." He commented.

"Stay out of my head." I snapped at him without opening my eyes.

"No."

I deserved that.

I woke up to the feeling of someone hitting my arm, I opened my eyes to see Vader inches from my face, "We're here." He stood up and grabbed my bag for me before walking towards the exit of the ship. I pushed myself off of the floor and followed him to see one of the most beautiful views I'd ever seen. I've never been to another planet other than my home Naboo and that place was beautiful but this... this was pure nature and it was exquisite.

"Wow." I whispered as I spun in circles to look all around me at the green trees covered in different colors that shined thanks to the bright sun.

The sun,  I haven't felt the warmth of a sun in a long time. It felt nice to see something other than the view of the dark gaping hole that is space. Yeah you see stars but it's always the same ones everyday, nothing special and nothing even remotely beautiful. "Come on." Vader pulled me out of my thoughts and I ran after him who was a already a far away distance in front of me.

I followed him for a few more minutes before the ship finally came to view. It was torn apart, scraps everywhere, moss and vines growing around it. How the hell am I gonna fix this thing?

"It doesn't need to be flown or anything, we just need enough power long enough to look for information." He dropped my tool bag to the floor and began to open it.

"What are you doing ?"  I questioned as he began pulling out my stuff  and eyeing them.

"Helping." He responded like it was the most obvious thing in the galaxy.

I narrowed my eyes at him, "You know how to fix ships?"

"There's a lot of things you don't know about me (y/n)." My heart jumped at the way he said mine name and I had to calm my annoying nerves. His eyes were set on a certain tool in his hand and he walked away with it to the ship.

~*~•~*~

"It should work now." He spoke without looking at me as I sat on the floor of the disgusting ship, wondering why the hell I even came since he hardly let me touch anything. Anytime I tried he's like "no" and he took the tool from me.

But I have to admit he really knew what he was doing and I didn't mind watching him break a sweat. Of course he shot me an annoyed glare everytime my mind went a little too far and I had to stop and control my womanly hormones before he threw a wrench at me again. He missed me of course, no doubt on purpose, I'm sure it was just a warning.

I jumped up and walked over to him. He pressed a button and the power to the ship came on, not entirely on, but just enough for the lights and dashboard. He smiled at his own work and began shifting through the databases.

"What are you gonna do if you find what you're looking for?" I questioned.

His smile dropped as he continued looking, "You already know so don't ask." I nodded and backed away from him so I could look around the room I was in. The side of it was almost shredded and I could see outside. I saw a brown creature run from one end of the forest to the other. Is that a wookie? I knew they resided here but I heard there weren't very many left.

"I'm going to get some air." I told Vader and he just hm'd in response, probably not even hearing what I said. He was so focused on the panel in front of him.

I stepped outside in the now cold air, the sun was setting and the wind was blowing. I looked to where I saw the wookie go and even though I shouldn't have, I walked over there. The curiosity was getting to me.

"Hello?" I spoke into the forest and I could see eyes peering at me, "Uh I come in peace." I rolled my eyes at myself for the clique line. I know I shouldn't be here near this creature, but I had never seen a wookie before and they were always my favorite species to study back when I was in school. So for me right now, this was amazing.

He poked his head out more and I smiled when I saw his brown fur, he was a small thing, I mean small for a wookie. I learned they could be over six feet tall, some even reaching seven, but this one looked to be four and a half feet. So he had to have been just a child.

He opened his mouth and a loud gurgled roar sound came out and I brought my finger to my mouth to tell him to shhh.

He stopped and I looked back over to the ship and to my relief, I don't think Vader heard. I stepped into the forest towards him and he backed away, "I'm not gonna hurt you," I put my hands up innocently to show I wasn't a threat, "Are you alone?"

It shook its head and just then I heard a gurgled roar that sounded exactly like his but much more louder. Behind the small one was a much bigger one. I backed away slowly with my hands up but it stepped angrily towards me.

I was afraid but I didn't blame it, it was probably protecting its child and it didn't know me so of course it was going to be defensive. "I wasn't going to hurt him I'm sor-" It lunged forward and pushed me away roughly. I flew backwards and rolled around on the floor away from them. Yeah so I shouldn't have let my curiosity get to me.

I groaned in pain form the impact but thankfully nothing felt broken, I probably just a few scratches. I looked up to the them and saw them running away.

"What the hell happened to you?" I felt Vader grab onto me and pull me up to my feet. He scanned my face and body to look for any injuries when his eyes landed on my neck. He lifted his finger and brushed against the visible hickeys, before quickly dropping his hand down like he had just snapped himself out of a spell. "Well?" He gazed into my eyes waiting for an answer.

"I fell." I lied with a smile.

He narrowed his eyes and turned around to stare into the forest, "What direction did the Wookiee's go in?" He questioned before bringing his eyes back to me.

Nope not gonna think it, not gonna say it either. You're going to hurt them.

"(y/n)." He growled threateningly.

I shook my head, "I forgot."

Still not gonna think it. Maybe I should recite the alphabet or count to one hundred.

Yeah that'll work.

He brought his hand up to my jaw and tightened his grip, "Tell me now."

"No." One, two, three, four...

He pressed his hand to my hand, "I guess I'll just have to force it out."

"No." I slapped his hand away and he looked at me in shock and anger. But before he could say anything we were pulled out of our confrontation by the sound of an explosion.

He gripped my hand and pulled me so I could follow him to where the sound came from. Sadly it was exactly what we both were expecting it to be.

I gestured to our ship that was now on fire, "I don't think I can fix that."

(a/n This was so fun to write! I hope you liked it♥️)