Hux pressed his lips together when he received reports of Ren not only destroying a console, but also being sighted in the gym wrecking the equipment. What in the galaxy had happened in that interrogation room? It had been weeks since Ren had lost his temper like that.
He leaned back in his chair and called him on his holo, but Ren didn't answer. Perhaps he was having an audience with Snoke? Hux exhaled. One could only hope that the interrogation had been fruitful considering the repair costs.
His doorbell started to ring in quick cadences. Well, it seemed he wasn't talking to Snoke. Hux said "enter" and the door slid open.
Ren stormed into the room, already taking his helmet off. He threw it on the couch and crossed the room to get to Hux. The look on his face seemed so desperate that Hux wanted to ask what had happened, but before he could say anything, Ren grabbed him by his lapels and pulled him up for a kiss.
He broke the kiss and started to frantically pull his robes off, and in a matter of moments he was naked. He bolted into the bedroom, leaving a bewildered Hux behind.
He found Ren bent over the drawer with toys. He rummaged through it taking out different dildos and plugs only to throw them back in.
"Ren?"
He turned to Hux, a pleading look on his face. "I need more. It needs to be more intense - please!" He rushed over to Hux and literally pressed him against the wall, cupping his package. "I need to feel it, really feel it! Hit me if you must, hurt me, I don't care. We just have to take it up a notch."
Hux was alarmed. "Ren, what happened?"
"I can't talk right now! I need to calm down! I need more!"
Hux pressed his lips together. He could see a meaty hand holding a belt. "I can't, Ren. I'm not comfortable with it, it crosses the line."
Ren pushed himself away from the wall. "Give me what I need - please! It drives me c-"
In this moment Hux stepped forward and pulled him into a tight hug. All the tension that was keeping Ren upright seemed to tickle away as he melted into the hug, burying his face into Hux's shoulder.
He had no idea why he had done that… it just felt like the only thing that made sense. After a few moments he let go and got his black robe from the dresser. He gave it to Ren, who put it on.
"Cup of tea?" asked Hux.
"Yes, please," said Ren in a soft voice.
They went into the kitchenette, Hux preparing the tea while Ren was leaning against the wall. "You must think that I'm some unstable moron," began Ren. He crossed his arms. "I wasn't always like that. The Force… it makes one feel so much more."
"In what way?" asked Hux as he dunked the tea egg in the hot water.
"Everything is connected in the Force, and when I reach out to it, everything feels so intense. Remember when you were a child and you saw a Lifeday tree for the first time or when you got your favourite food? It makes you so happy that you forget everything around you. You only laugh and it feels like this is the best day in your entire life."
Hux frowned, he couldn't remember that feeling Ren was talking about. But then again he had never celebrated Lifeday nor had he a favourite food - but now that he thought about it, he liked soups. They were easier to swallow than regular food when his father had forced him to eat another helping to 'beef him up'.
"What happened in the first place?" Hux gave Ren his tea and took his own cup. They went over to the couch.
Ren sat down with a huff. "I thought I could coax the location of Skywalker out of the scavenger. I failed. She- she bested me, used the Force to invade my mind and I-" He exhaled. "I got angry and wrecked the gym."
So Ren - the self-announced heir to Darth Vader - has lost some kind of Force-duel to a dirty scavenger girl? That's why he was so desperate? "So she won, go back tomorrow and do something about it."
Ren gaped at him. "Just like that?"
"Listen, there is a reason why I asked about the BB droid. Even the most simple plans can fail, then you have to have a back-up plan. People fail, they make mistakes. Just the other day Lieutenant Mitaka put a wrong meeting room into my calendar. I showed up at the wrong room, it was annoying and humiliating. But what was I supposed to do? There was nothing but to pull through."
"What did you do to this Mitaka?"
"I ordered him to double-check all my meetings for the next six months. I guess he's still at it."
Ren took a gulp of his tea and grimaced. "Don't you have any sweetener?"
"A good tea doesn't need sweeteners."
"I'm a bit surprised that you didn't do more to Mitaka." Ren took another sip, then he put the mug down.
"What's the point? It's done. All I can do is try to make sure it doesn't happen again. I doubt he will make that mistake again. Besides, it's against regulation to punish subordinates excessively."
Ren scoffed. "Tell that to Snoke."
Hux pulled the corners of his mouth down. "Snoke is beyond regulations." He shouldn't talk like that, at least not to Snoke's apprentice. But it was true, wasn't it? The First Order was meant to bring order to the Galaxy, unite all planets under a single rule. For that there had to be procedures - a clear cut way how to behave and what to do. And Snoke- he didn't follow procedures.
"I guess you're right. What else is there? I need to finish what I started," said Ren.
