Saeva awoke with a painful start, her face planted against the bed, her neck screaming to move. Her head pounding, as she tried to open her eyes, blinking wildly as the sun blasted her in the face.

She glanced out her window at the ocean view, shifting out of bed, opening the tall window. A breeze blowing in, filling the room with salt air.

Glancing around the room, she noticed Ren's barriers were up, but Hux's were not.

Just across the fireplace setting was his designated area. Parallel to her bed was his bed.

Saeva could make out his form in bed creating an odd feeling in her stomach. His back was turned away from her, and she could see he was wearing a black sleep t-shirt. His breathing was even as if he were asleep.

Saeva glanced at the time, noticing that it was only 3am. She shook her head, forgetting the time cycle was different in Lianna, a shortened period of darkness until the Festival. An early rising sun, she quickly hit the controls on the room, closing the curtains for the quarters. A darkness creeping over. A small hue light glowed underneath Saeva's bed and Hux's making it eaiser to see. The fireplace still burning between their spaces.

Gripping her head, Saeva snuck to the other side of Hux's bed to the refresher. Her headache pounding at her. Softly closing the door to not wake anyone. Once in the refresher she downed some tablets to ease her headache, but also to down three glasses of water. Her thirst overwhelming her.

As she left the room, she was startled to see Hux standing by the fireplace, a glass of some sort of brandy in his hand. He was leaning over the fireplace, swirling the glass in his hand. He looked so young without his uniform on. A plain black t-shirt and black lounge pants tight to his body. His face looking tired in the fireplace.

Saeva walked softly towards her bed, just adjacent to the fireplace.

He looked up at her with an unreadable face.

"Why are you awake?"

"The sunlight. I forgot about the time cycles, should have closed the curtains last night."

Hux nodded.

"Did I wake you?"

"I am a light sleeper"

He glanced at Ren's room.

"Especially with certain people around."

Saeva rubbed her head. Chuckling at his comment.

"Thank you, by the way, for stopping Ren."

He was being sincere now. He had a look in his eyes, similar to the elevator. When he complimented her hair.

"You know I realized that no one has ever stopped him before or even tried to stop him. He isn't use to that. Snoke would encourage it."

Saeva shifted a bit uncomfortably, and realized she was in her shorts and tank top. Her state of lack of dress pointed out by Ren last night making her nervous in this moment. But Hux made no indication of looking at her like that. His face was serious in his gratefulness.

"Well, Snoke sounds like a fool. Why pit your best two leaders against one another?"

Hux took a swig of his drink.

"Control. Ren and I could have been strong allies."

"Could?"

"Too much has happend, things have spirled. You wouldn't understand."

Saeva nodded.

"You both are so similar and so different. You both could be ruling everything by now if you let go of control and trusted the other."

Hux snapped at Saeva suddenly.

"He tried to kill me, again, last night. Or don't you remember."

"And you asked me to kill him not too long ago? Still want him dead. Do you remember?"

Hux gulped the rest of his drink down.

"We grew up very different, him and I. Don't assume that We both lived a privileged life."

Saeva walked up to Hux in front of the fire.

"Better than the life I had."

Hux stared down at her like a child.

"My father was of privilege, but I was his bastard child. His only child. He had to settle for me and he let me know in his own special ways how unimportant I was. I had nothing for a long time, shipped to some military academy. You think I had some soft care, a soft home. I've had to build everything from what little he gave me. The difference between you and me, is I fought back my opressor. Bested him. Became more then he ever was."

Saeva suddenly saw the damage she had seen in Rey and in Finn. The damage she had. Hurt and rage behind the General's eyes.

"You found your place, a position you chose."

"I built this for myself, and that Brat will easily destroy it. I thought you were going to center him, calm him."

Saeva shook her head.

"He took liberties that I didn't agree with. I told him to leave the planet. What do you expect, I'm not the Scavenger. He doesn't listen."

Hux stared at her face as she admitted to Ren taking liberties, his eyes falling to her lips. He seemed lulled a bit, probably from the drink.

"The Scavenger is certainly not you. What liberties did he take?"

Saeva blushed and stepped back towards her bed.

"None of your concern, Hux."

She turned away from him, but he suddenly grabbed her arm pulling her to him. She tensed underneath his grip.

"That is General Hux, do not make me correct you again."

She held his eye contact with her, his lips almost touching hers. His warm breath hitting her neck, he smelled like the Finalizer. Her hand began to feel numb by the tightness he held her. Her voice shook a little when she finally spoke.

"Genera—"

He kissed her hard on the mouth and she pulled away. Slapping him hard on the face.

He stood still, eyes closed, as he absorbed the hit to the face. He growled for a moment, but seemed to control himself.

Saeva stood sheilding herself.

"You both are the same. Monsters."

She clicked the button on her room's table, creating the barrier to separate them. His face almost ashamed as the barrier went up.

Her chest was heaving from the moment. Her lips tingled like they had earlier with Ren. Her eyes glancing at her doorway.

Sliding into bed, shivering at the situation. Realizing the monsters who wanted to keep her.