Padme turned her head for a moment. She was not expecting a marriage proposal from Hux! But she quickly recovered, gazed into his blue eyes and replied,
"Yes, I will marry you."
"Are you insane?" Ben yelled at her through the Force. If anyone was going to propose to Padme, it was going to be him!
She ignored his thought as Hux rose to his feet. He was delighted. Padme was his! Finally, he could relax. She was no longer a threat, but an ally. A very lovely looking ally.
Hux helped Padme stand to her feet. He gave her a kiss. She held onto his arms as he deepened the kiss. Padme could hear Ben complaining in her mind to stop, but she ignored him.
The general broke the kiss and said,
"I will go get some blankets, so I can sleep on the couch."
"Why are you sleeping on the couch?" Padme asked, confused by his statement.
"I thought you would be more comfortable in my bed. I know you don't want to..."
Padme drew close to Hux, and placed her finger on his lips. He was surprised, to say the least. She draped her arms around his neck.
"I want to," she whispered, as her hand stroked his hair. It took all of Hux's strength to not scoop her up in his arms.
"Even after what Ben did to you?" He was concerned that she wanted this because she felt like she had to.
Padme was not sure if the truth serum was still working, so she leaned and kissed Hux. She deepened the kiss, his arms around her waist.
"What are you doing?" Ben scolded her. He was now underneath Hux's bed.
"You said use the aphrodisiac to my advantage," she responded, as her lips moved to Hux's neck. She kissed him there, just like in the interrogation room. Padme loosened his grey silk robe until it glided off of him.
"Oh Padme!" Hux moaned in pleasure. She must know through the Force he liked her lips on his neck. Padme softly caressed his bare chest. He would have made a fantastic lover if he wasn't so despicable!
She felt Ben's anger at that thought.
"You need to stop being jealous!" she chided him.
"You're making out with our worst enemy!" he snapped back.
Padme stopped kissing Hux. He was not behaving like himself. She expected him to have his hands all over her body. But all he did was hold her.
"Are you not pleased with me?" she asked.
"I'm very pleased with you," Hux responded, trying to hold himself together. He was getting painfully hard, but he was worried she would think he would force himself on her.
"Then why are you not touching me? I know you are not Ben..."
"Padme," Hux whispered in her ear. "I am so ready, but if you are not, I understand."
"Please lay down on the bed," she whispered back. When Hux heard this, he did not hesitate. He scurried to his bed and laid down.
"Are you ready?" Padme said out loud to Hux, and in her mind to Ben.
"Yes," both men responded. Padme walked over to the side of Hux's bed.
"My dear, please close your eyes," Padme said to the general. "I will use the Force to keep them closed until it is time."
"Why do I have to keep them closed?" Hux asked curiously.
"Because the next time you open them, I am going to give you a wonderful surprise."
Hux marveled. She was going to be on top of him, completely naked! He moaned at the thought of it, before closing his eyes.
"I am slowly taking off my panties," Padme purred seductively, as her back faced him. She didn't, but he didn't know that. Having to visualize it in his mind tortured Hux.
"Now I am taking off my top," she cooed. Ben slipped out from underneath the bed, with his red crossguard lightsaber in hand. He was on the other side of the bed.
"Padme, please!" Hux cried out.
"I am going to straddle you now." But it was Ben who got on top of the general.
"Please! I need to see you. I need to be inside of you!"
"Okay, my dear," Padme finished. "You can open your eyes now."
Hux was able to open his open, and saw a very angry Ben over him. The lightsaber went into Hux's chest. The general could not fight Ben off, as he was repeatedly stabbed.
Padme turned around and saw what Ben was doing. She never saw him this angry before. Then she noticed his lightsaber. It glowed an unstable red color.
"Enough!" she screamed at him. Ben turned off his weapon and crawled off the bed.
"It will never be enough!" he growled in anger. Ben wanted revenge, for all that Hux had done to them. He watched in horror as Padme laid down in the bed next to the enemy.
"What are you doing?" he asked her nervously.
"He needs healing..." Padme told Ben, but her gaze was on the general.
"Absolutely not! Padme, you can't..."
"Not physically healing, Ben. He needs emotional healing."
Padme touched Hux's chest, where his heart was. He was breathing heavily. She saw into his mind. The general was repeatedly raped and tortured by his father growing up. No wonder he turned out the way he did! Then she saw a young woman, with black hair and brown eyes. When that woman appeared in her mind, Hux wept uncontrollably.
"A lost love," she gasped to herself. She wiped his tears away, and spoke straight to his mind,
"You may have been like him, but you are not now," Padme told Hux. "You could have taken me, but you didn't." She leaned in and kissed Hux sweetly on the forehead.
"You will never know how I feel about you," Hux thought, not angry at her for what she did.
"I do know. Go, be at peace," Padme said out loud, before Hux took his final breath. She gave one last kiss on the forehead before getting off of the bed.
"He's dead," Padme uttered wistfully.
"Finally!" Ben grunted. She stared at him. How could he be so heartless?
"How can you be so compassionate?" he replied back, knowing her thought.
"Because I could have easily been him," she reminded him. Ben didn't want to argue with her. He went over to the security cameras. He used the Force to manipulate the footage of what happened. Padme used the Force to heal the lightsaber stabs on Hux's body. She touched him, so that it would look like he had a heart attack.
"I will meet you back in my quarters," Ben said, squeezing Padme's hand. A minute later, she screamed over the intercom for help. Stormtroopers rushed to the general's room, and saw his body, along with his "lover" quivering in fear.
It took a while, but Padme was finally escorted back to Ben's quarters. He was relieved to see her, and went to embrace her.
"Not here," she gruffly told him. "We will talk in the bathroom." Ben was confused by the way she spoke to him. He followed her into the bathroom, and closed the door behind them.
"It worked," Padme told him. "They think Hux died of a heart attack after sleeping with me. The official announcement will be made tomorrow."
"Thank the Maker! His reign of terror is over! Now we need to work on leaving this ship," he stated joyfully.
"Not yet. I was told by the head Stormtrooper, Captain Phasma, that our presence is required at the reading of Hux's will."
"His will? Why us?"
"I have no idea. The reading of the will is tomorrow, before the announcement. Now you need work on getting that new identity for Finn."
"Of course. Let me do that right now."
"I need a shower. My skin is still crawling from him touching me."
"I can help you shower," Ben offered in a seductive voice. But Padme raised her hand.
"No, Ben. I need my privacy. It's been a long day."
He pouted but understood. He kissed her cheek, and she had to make herself not pull away from him.
"I will see you when you are done." Ben left to give Padme her privacy. She turned on the shower, and got undressed. Once the water was warm, she stepped in. She closed off Ben from hearing her thoughts, and began to cry.
Padme did not know what to do. She saw Ben's red lightsaber. She knew what red lightsabers were. She also saw the hate in his eyes, as he stabbed Hux repeatedly. Granted, the general did deserve what he received. But she remembered Ben telling her he killed a lot of Stormtroopers the day he was captured. What if he had killed people before then?
She had so many questions for him, but there was one question she needed to answer for herself,
"How did I fall in love with someone who is on the Dark side?"
