Author's Note: Hi everyone! Here is Chapter 7! (Yay!) Disclaimer: I do not own the song Pumpkin Soup, that rightfully belongs to Kate Nash (if you haven't heard it, you should check it out! I absolutely love it).

Ariel Wild and Gillyflower: My lips are sealed as to who she's ending up with :X! Haha but I have to say I do love a good love triangle (cue dramatic music)! I just can't help myself! XD

Chapter 7: Pumpkin Soup

The last few weeks had carried on the same: one day training with Dzhessika and reporting to Hux, the next training with Kylo. Day in, day out this was all I did. Nothing exciting had happened since that first day I trained with Dzhess. I can at least say that it looks like Dzhess and I are sort of becoming friends... honestly it's hard to tell with that woman. With a sigh I went back to working on Bebe. I've become rather fond of this little droid. I was able to fix part of the droid's scanner and optic lens. The poor thing still runs in to objects occasionally, but not nearly as often, so that's a plus! I was running diagnostics on Bebe to see if there were any program errors causing the spatial awareness issues.

"Bebe, can you access music archives?" I looked up from my datapad at the droid, causing my glasses to slid down my nose a bit. The droid let out an unsure beep, and said it could try but never had been asked to perform the task. "Yay! Hmmm, can you pull up a song from my planet? Ugh having no stimulation here is driving me nuts!" With an excited beep, the droid started searching for a song to play. When satisfied with it's choice, it started playing the song:

"...You're chatting to me, like we connect

But I don't even know if we're still friends

It's so confusing,

Understanding you is making me not want to do

And think things like: 'I know I should do'

But I trip up and then I lose

I hate looking like a fool

I just want your kiss boy, kiss boy, kiss boy

I just want your kiss

I just want your kiss boy, kiss boy, kiss boy

I just want your kiss..."

"Pumpkin Soup? Man, I haven't heard this in forever!" I bounced up and down. Bebe chirped happily playing the music until the poor droid glitched again, making the volume raise to the point it could be heard outside in the hallway. "Bebe! Turn it off!" I yelled covering my ears. The droid let out stressed beeps trying to stop the music. Right before Bebe was able to shut off the song, General Hux angrily slid my bedroom door open, "WHAT THE BLOODLY HELL IS GOING ON IN HERE?!"

"Bebe glitched while I was working on it..." Bebe finally turned the song off and I lowered my hands from my ears. It took me a second to realize I was standing in front of the General in just my underwear and quickly tried to cover myself. "I thought that by having the droid you would be staying out of trouble girl!" The General was in my face. "Sir... Hux... it was an accident..." The General's chest was pressed up against mine, causing me to blush at our contact, especially since I was hardly dressed! The General trailed his eyes over the disheveled bun atop my head, glasses almost on the tip of my nose, then down to my underwear clad body. The glint that was in his eyes the first day in his office was there again, but far more intense this time. I couldn't move from under his gaze, the General started to walk forward causing me to step backward until my back hit the wall. "Hux... what... what are you?..." my hands were on his chest and I turned my head trying to hide some of my embarrassment.

My heart was racing and I could feel the General's matching mine under my fingertips through his shirt. "Alyss... what are you? How do you constantly do this to me? If it were anyone else, I would have had them executed by now. But you... you girl are such an enigma..." Hux brushed my hair behind my ear, lowering his head closer to my cheek, his breath ghosting over my skin. "Hu...Hux..." I let out shakily. The General gently turned my face so I was looking at him, "It's Armitage." His green eyes were burning in to my blue ones, "Armitage..." saying his name felt so intimate, it was rare that he ever allowed anyone to do such a thing.

A slight tingling sensation began to form in my head, it was a rather familiar feeling. Kylo was attempting to contact me through the Force, like we had practiced many times during training. Ignoring the sensation, I put up a mental barrier blocking him from my thoughts. This wasn't any of his business. I never got in to his personal life and he has no right to mine.

Focusing back on Hux, I let my gaze wander over his features. For the first time since I'd met the man he wasn't scowling, while still fierce, there was a softness there that I had never see before. The General looked both vulnerable and dark at the same time. He had opened up to me, even if only a little, but that desire was still burning in his eyes. I had started to reach my hand up towards Hux's cheek when my datapad started to buzz furiously.

Hux regained his composure, once again becoming the stoic cold General of The First Order. "Alyssandra," I winced at the use of my full name, preferring to when he had called me by my nickname, "I expect that you will repair your droid so that another incident such as this does not occur. If you are unable to do so, I will have the droid sent to be scrapped for parts. This is a military operation not a cantina. Do I make myself clear?" "Yes sir, it won't happen again." "See to it that it doesn't." Without another word the General exited the room. Completely shocked with my heart still racing, I slid down the wall to floor. My datapad was once again going off, but I was too preoccupied trying to figure out what had just happened to retrieve it. Then the tingling sensation came back far stronger than before, it was again Kylo and this time he was enraged. I closed my eyes allowing his thoughts to become mine, Why have you not been responding to me?! What happened?! I felt a disturbance around you! Answer me now! I took a deep breath feeling my own rage start to bubble up, I'm fine, I was merely startled by my droid while I was working on it. I knew better than to tell him about what had happened with Hux. You expect me to believe that your droid is what caused you to have such a strong reaction?! Do you believe me to be a fool?! I could hear the venom in his thoughts. Why do you even care Commander?! It's not like you trust me! What am I to you?! I don't even know what you look like! And yet you get mad at me every time I interact with Hux! You wonder why I turn to him?! This is a perfect example! My thoughts were screaming in rage at Kylo. How dare he?! You are mine! You are my pupil not his, do you understand?! You belong to me! My body was trembling with rage, I'm not some damn toy for you to own! Get out of my head! I hate you!

Before he could respond, my eyes flew open and I broke the connection between us. Tears were threatening to fall from my eyes. I don't understand that man at all! He doesn't trust me enough to let me see his face, yet he wishes to claim me as his?! I'm not some toy he can throw around! I wiped my eyes with the back of my hand. Bebe rolled up to me and nudged my thigh letting out a few soft beeps. "I'm ok little one... I'm just... I'm just so confused. I feel so out of control with my own life. I just don't know what to do. I wish I had never been in the bar that night!" I buried my face in my hands quelling the sobs that threatened to escape my chest.

When I was finally able to regain some of my composure, I pushed myself up off the floor and headed to my closet to grab some training clothes. I threw on the black sports bra and a pair of leggings. As I was about to leave, I patted Bebe on the head, "You stay here little one, ok? Just in case I run in to Kylo. I don't want him destroying you because he's mad at me." Bebe let out a dejected beep but did as instructed and stayed behind.

I made it to the training room and was grateful to find it empty. I set up a few training droids and grabbed a long sword viproblade to practice my deflection. Hours had gone by and I was finally nearing exhaustion and had subsequently broken a few of the training droids. I was just finishing up when Kylo entered the room. I tensed up at his arrival, "I was just leaving." I picked up the droids and the pieces of the broken ones scattered about, putting them back in their proper places. Kylo approached me blocking me from being able to escape. "Why do you so badly wish to see my face?" The modulated voice resonated in the training room. "Because... I want to know..." before I could finish my sentence Kylo cut me off, "What? To see the monster under the mask?" "That's just it. I want to make sure you aren't a monster... I truly do wish to make you proud... but... I can't trust someone who's eyes I can't see. I've seen the eyes of monsters, I lived through their torture for years. I want to see that you are not the same..." I couldn't contain the fear and sadness in my voice at finally admitting why I was so adamant to see the man under the mask. I wanted reassurance that he wasn't like Royoi, the look in that man's eyes still haunts me to this day. "And what if you see the eyes of a monster?" Kylo finally responded quietly. "I'll be the judge of that." I said in almost a whisper.

To my surprise, Kylo raised his hands to either side of his helmet unlocking the mechanisms that held it in place. So afraid that I'd see eyes that matched those like the ones who tortured me, I looked down as he took off his helmet. "Look at me..." an unfamiliar deep voice commanded. Slowly, I trailed my gaze up his chest to his face finally settling on his eyes. He had large brown eyes that held anger, fear, and sadness but nothing that resembled the monsters in my past. He was handsome, with dark locks, a broad nose, and sharp chin. I couldn't stop staring at him. He was nothing like I had imagined. After a few more moments of silence his deep voice cut the air, "Am I a monster?" There was a hint of sadness and uncertainty in his voice. "No. I've seen many monsters, and you are not one." I had subconsciously started to reach out with my right hand to touch his face, quickly retracting thinking it better if I didn't.

"I should really get going..." I side stepped around Kylo and headed to the door. Before I placed my hand on the keypad his voice stopped me, "Do you truly hate me?" His back was still turned to me, no emotion giving way in his voice. I looked over my shoulder, "No Kylo, I don't... I don't hate you..." The familiar tingling sensation came back in my head, That's the first time you haven't called me Commander. A small smile graced my lips, I know, Sir. With that, I headed out of the training room down the hall in the direction of my room to retire for the evening.