Entirely Different

Chapter Twenty Nine : Commander

He took this opportunity to sneak out of the hangar, with every intention to follow you undoubtedly to the cafeteria. Out in the hall, however, he was thwarted by General Hux. The slight ginger General blocked his path, rather annoyingly narrowing his eyes up at Kylo who sighed audibly in Hux's face. He raised his brows as if to say: 'What do you want?'

"Ren." Hux folded his hands behind his back. "It's so rare to see you out of that ridiculous helmet. What are you doing in the hangar bay..." Hux glanced at his casual clothing with a quirked brow. "In civilian attire?"

Kylo shrugged, eyeing a nosey passerby, not sure how to answer anyway.

Hux huffed, placing his hands on his hips.

"You've ignored my transmissions, as has Snoke." Hux said pointedly.

Kylo nearly rolled his eyes before reminding himself that he didn't have the privacy of his helmet to do so.

"It was at the request of the Supreme Leader." Kylo shrugged again, desperately wishing he could disappear into thin air.

"Yes, I suppose it makes perfect sense then." He said sarcastically before pointing a finger in Kylo's face.

"You stole her away... she has no 'power,' you've lied to Snoke to steal her away from me. I demand to know why."

Kylo sneered at his ignorance.

"I did no such thing. She has power, Hux. Snoke wants her trained – it just so happens that my knights are the only group of Force-sensitive warriors in the galaxy who could train her." Kylo spoke slowly, as if he were explaining this to a youngling.

Hux grimaced, leaning in closer.

"Bullshit." He hissed.

Kylo quirked a brow, surprised. He chewed the inside of his lip, knuckles itching to make contact with Hux's face.

"The Supreme Leader requests your presence... I recommend you go hide inside your helmet before you face him." Hux nearly growled.

Kylo flexed his fingers eagerly before balling them back into a prepared fist. A small clearing of someone's throat broke the two out of their tense standoff, and Hux turned to see the woman approaching. Kylo recognized her as the sister, the girl you couldn't stand, he watched as Hux smiled sweetly at her. He looked at her fondly, like a father should look at his daughter, though Kylo had never seen him look at you that way. He supposed that likely had something to do with your disdain for her.

"Sorry to interrupt, General." She said quietly.

Kylo noticed her voice was high pitched and falsely sugar coated to sound sweet and innocent. Her voice sounded phony and Kylo couldn't help but dislike her immediately.

"Ah, Bethza. How did training go, my dear?" Hux placed a hand on her shoulder. Kylo felt strangely uncomfortable and turned to leave.

"So well! I'm cleared to take control as pilot immediately." She grinned, eyes fixed solely on the General.

Kylo had completely turned and successfully taken one step down the hall when Hux called back to him.

"We'll continue this conversation later, Commander." Hux called.

Kylo looked back over his shoulder in acknowledgement, glancing at the girl in doing so, her eyes were wide and fixed on him now. Once she'd caught his eye, she narrowed her snake-like eyes and grinned at him. Kylo couldn't place why, but he didn't like the way she looked at him. As he went along his way down the hall, he was vaguely aware of the General escorting the girl in the opposite direction. A quick glance at his data pad confirmed that he was indeed being summoned to meet with Snoke within the hour.