[Poe]
Poe had never been so glad to see a First Order ship as he was when the busted shuttle came into view around the wing section they were pushing.
Everyone left came out to see them: Rey, Kylo, Kaydel, Hux, the first sergeant, and the staff sergeant. The five members of the FN fire team had met them earlier, with two of them taking turns helping Finn, one pushing the repulsor-lift to give Rose a break, and the other two augmenting as guards and spotters.
Poe would have hugged Rey (and he fully intended to, but Finn got there first, swallowing her up in his arms, looking like she was half holding him up). Chewbacca embraced Kaydel with one hairy arm. Rose looked tiny where she hugged Kylo, who looked less than enthused about it, but tolerant.
Poe was left out. He looked at Hux and spread his arms in obvious invitation, tilted his head, and raised his brows in half-serious question. Hux looked uncertain. He looked at the others. He raised his hands somewhat and while it wasn't an invitation in return, it definitely wasn't refusal.
Poe decided that was good enough. He took one long, expertly calibrated step – not too fast, not too slow – and brought their bodies together. He wrapped his arms around the thin man and held him loosely, gently, and waited to see what would happen now that they were hugging in public, as it were.
Hux was stiff at first, but slowly brought his hands around to the middle of Poe's back. Poe gradually firmed his grip until he was holding them snugly together. He could feel Hux relaxing into it – at least a little. It wasn't a lot, but Poe could feel it and what was definitely happening was that Hux wasn't cutting it short or pushing him away.
Poe's head was sideways on Hux's chest. He looked over his shoulder with the intention of smirking at his friends at how he was getting a hug from General Hugs, but what he saw distracted him. Finn had finished his hug with Rey and was moving over to Kaydel and Chewie. One of the DL stormtroopers came over to Rey and lined up for a hug in turn, as though this was what they were all supposed to be doing. Game for it, Rey hugged her back.
Which event prompted the other DL stormtrooper to approach Kylo, who looked over at Rey, his face asking for help. Rey reached out with a foot and kicked at his leg. He scowled at her, then turned and mimed acceptance or readiness, then shared an awkward embrace with a stormtrooper.
Finn nudged Kaydel and whispered to her. She walked over bouncily and presented herself to H-482, him of the dirtied armor. He stared at her for a moment, then shrugged. He, too, got a hug.
Poe finally parted from Hux, thoroughly overjoyed at what had just happened. Even if he knew the stormtroopers had probably misinterpreted their actions as some kind of mandatory ritual, they'd joined in! They'd been trained and brainwashed relentlessly by the First Order to be conformists. Was it any wonder that sticking them in the middle of a bunch of Resistance members was going to make them start conforming … with the Resistance?