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If General Hux seemed upset that Kylo had been speaking with Annika he would have absolutely lost it if he knew they were sharing a meal in the room Kylo used. Kylo didn't care for eating with the other crew members, but he was interested in seeing Annika again. There was something about her he couldn't shake, and he couldn't quite place why whatever it was was so interesting to him. When he had first seen her on the ship he hadn't thought anything about her at all. After all what interest could this young woman possibly be to him? Then during their first meeting he saw exactly how useful she could be. There was a spark behind her eyes, some passion that just sort of flickered inside her that with the right prompting could easily become a flame. Kylo knew that his guidance could make that flame very useful to the First Order. There was the possibility she was lying about who she was, and all though Kylo could easily find out the truth he didn't see that it mattered. Who she was and where she came from was of little importance next to the great potential he saw in her. The next time he saw her she was wandering the halls. You could figure fairly quickly that she was lost since the ship was large and the time she had spent there was brief, but regardless he followed her. She found her way to the stormtrooper corridor and stood at the window watching for quite some time. She was utterly captivated. He stood watching her for a moment. She stood in stark contrast to the room full of soldiers. A serene and delicate woman with long waves of dark hair and passion in her eyes staring into a sea of heavy white stormtroopers.

Today as he turned a corner he came upon Annika again and decided that he would have to talk to her again. He had more questions and wanted to continue exploring that spark he saw. So he invited her to join him in his room as they ate. She was following closely behind him through the halls, matching his long strides with her quickness of pace. When the two arrived Kylo pulled out a chair at a small table and gestured for Annika to sit before pushing it in under her. The table was really only meant for one, but it would be able to fit two just fine.

Kylo crossed to room to his dressing table and lowered his hood. His hands moved instinctively to his mask to remove it, but as they reached the edge he hesitated a moment. He shook off the strange and inexplicable feeling that had momentarily brushed over him and removed the mask, setting it down carefully down before joining Annika at the table. He sat quietly eating for a moment watching Annika as she studied his face.

"Is there something wrong?" He asked her.

"No. You're just different than I expected," She said, finally turning to the food in front of her. "I've been finding that seems to be the case."

"Is that a problem?"

"No, I just find it interesting."

"Hm," Kylo pondered this for a moment before meeting Annika's quizzical gaze. "It seems you and I may have a mutual interest in each other."

"Is that so?"

"Yes, I believe it is. You see, There's something in you, I can see it. I believe the best thing you could've done was come to us."

"It's a good thing I did then," Annika said. She was confused and vaguely nervous about Kylo Ren saying that to her. Almost nothing here was going as they had expected, and while nothing bad had happened Annika couldn't help but feel a bit weary. She seemed to have the full approval of Kylo Ren, which was more than they had expected, and she had been accepted onto the ship as the Marquess, which is what they had wanted, but she had yet to be asked into any planning meetings or any sort of discussions, which is what they needed to happen. She had sent a transmission to the Resistance saying she was aboard the ship safely, but since then she had nothing to say at all aside from the large number of stormtroopers they already knew about from Finn. Now Kylo Ren seemed to have some sort of plan for her.

"I'll say," He said, "I think you have great potential."

"Do I?" Annika asked genuinely. She wasn't used to hearing things like that. She was more used to things along the lines of 'We'll find something you can do eventually.'

"Does this surprise you?" Kylo glanced up at her with curiosity.

"Yes, actually. I've never seemed to be of much use where I'm from. I was never anything special at the jobs they tried me in."

"Well then perhaps they were giving you the wrong jobs. Perhaps they should've been looking at what you have and what you can do then creating space for you based on that. You've got passion, and I would like to see what it's for. It could be something of great use to all of us."

Annika turned his words over in her mind for a while. "Yes, I suppose it could."

They ate in comfortable silence for a while before Kylo spoke again.

"I went through the stormtrooper's corridor a while ago. I thought you might be there, but you weren't You seemed so captivated, I though you would return."

"You must have just missed me. I've been trying to find my way back through the areas General Hux showed me the other day, but I always seem to wind up back there. General Hux spotted me there this morning and said I wasn't permitted to be there."

"Well, He's not incorrect in saying that."

Now Annika was even more confused then when she'd been told to leave. "If I'm not allowed there why didn't you stop me when you followed me there or tell me not to return when we left?"

"So you were aware I was following you?"

"Yes," Annika smiled, "But that still doesn't answer my question.

"Well," He began, "For one thing I've never much cared for many of Hux's rules and I don't see why you shouldn't be allowed to watch our stormtroopers. The general is convinced you might be a spy." At this Kylo met Annika's eyes with such an intensity that her breath caught silently in her throat.

She concentrated on keeping her voice and face steady as she responded. "And what do you think about that?" She asked him, not breaking eye contact.

"I believe that if you were you would either get yourself captured eventually or see things from our point of view."

"Well it's a good thing I'm not a spy then," Annika said, hoping her face wasn't flushing, "That way sounds easiest for everyone."

"I'm glad you agree, Annika," He said, still not looking away. As Annika looked back into his dark eyes it registered that that was the first time anyone here had used her name.