Ren was due an hour ago for a meeting with Hux and has yet to appear. The general is utterly seething. Slamming the holopad down onto the conference table he mutters to himself before getting to his feet and storming from the room and towards the other man's quarters. Ren had destroyed rooms and important control panels but he had never been as rude as to be late. For someone as punctual as Hux it feels like a personal insult.
He is smug when he presses his finger into the scanner. No one else can get into these rooms but their occupier and himself. He is smirking, while seething, as he marches his way in but halts after only a few steps. The place utterly reeks and dimly Hux recognises it smells like blood.
"Ren? Ren! Are you alright?" He barges into the other man's bedroom and recoils slightly to see that there is blood all over the tiled floor and suspicious stains on the black sheets. Light comes from the other man's refresher room so Hux rushes into to find one of the strangest things he has ever seen.
Kylo Ren is huddled around his toilet naked from the waist down as he cradles his protruding stomach. Blood is on every surface. A hand print in blood is dripping from the ceramic toilet bowl. "Ren?"
"Get out." It is the quietest Hux has ever heard the man speak. If anything it is a huff of air with words mixed in.
" I'm getting a healer."
"No. Hux, please. This cannot go on record. It can't!" Ren falls forward onto the hands that had previously been at his stomach and begins to crawl towards Hux. The sight is terrifying.
"You're bleeding everywhere and you clearly have some sort of...some sort of...tumour or something. We need a healer."
"It is not a tumour." And Ren sounds so suddenly calm that it stops Hux in his tracks.
"Then what it is?"
"A baby." Ren sound so sincere that Hux feels his vision swarm. He has heard of things like this. Powerful force users and stories told to show how terrible the Jedi are because while other species can have males carry children humans cannot. Hux has seen Ren's records . He is so very, very, human. And yet it makes sense. The bumps looks like a baby. It explains the blood and the way Ren keeps gritting his teeth and flinching.
Hux stumbles forward and then to his knees and without asking he shoves Ren's tunic up above the bump and presses a gloved hand to the other man's skin. A kick meets his touch.
"There is nothing in the manual about this." Hux states for lack of anything else to say. There are four hundred and ninety-nine protocols in the General Manuel that Hux has memorised and none of them include a pregnant force sensitive boss bleeding out in his own bathroom.
He's going to have to deliver Kylo Ren's baby. Fuck.