Forced Away

by C. L. Carson

Poe gets to reunite with his sister- only to have her snatched away from him once again. Rated T for mild language and violence. A/N: There are some pronoun issues that I cannot fix without deleting the story due to how old the issue is and how late the issue came to my attention. Please try to disregard the errors, and thank you for reading!

17. Chapter 17

General Hux…

It was so pitiful they way she had looked at him. So full of regret and sorrow. Like she wanted to mean all the good things she said about the First Order but she didn't. Who's sake was it for? Why did she bother liking the First Order if all she wanted to do was leave, why was she so faithful and kind to him? General Hux pondered these thoughts as he sat in a board meeting for security. He was only halfway listening as one of the officials droned on about security passwords.

Kylo Ren was right next to Hux, and Hux could feel the anger radiating from his boss. As soon as the Damerons and FN-2187 left, Kylo Ren had called for a security meeting.

"General Hux, what are your thoughts?" The security officer asked, staring at him expectantly. He paused to look over the skematics and replied, "I think that we should set up more patrols over here at the hangar," he said. "And we should arm and train them to take down fighter jets."

"And maybe we can put armed orbitals for better patrol…"

Later on, Kylo Ren pulled Hux aside after the meeting. "Listen," he demanded in his

cold, demanding voice. "Ellie Dameron is no longer in our lives. She has gone back to her home. She lied about favoring the First Order, she lied about being on our side, and she lied about you. She never loved you, and she never will. She'll only regret every decision she made of her own will, including the affair she had with you! You will bring your focus back to the First Order, otherwise you will be dismissed. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes sir," Hux replied, reluctantly accepting his fate.

"Go back to the command center and await my orders. Tell your troops to begin construction of the orbitals and move the base to where Alderaan used to be."

"Yes sir."

As he went to the command center, Hux couldn't get his mind off of Ellie. She had been so nice to him, so caring. Stop it, Hux inwardly chided. Your mind needs to be on the First Order.

The rest of the day he thought of her. When she ate lunch with him, when she was so kind to him, when she kissed him. Was his master right? Did she love him? Or was she playing him the entire time? He was just about to fall asleep when a transmission came in for him. He set down the projector and turned it on. What he watched was his questions being answered.

"Hey, Hux. It's me, Ellie."