10. Someone, somehow
Since Ben learned how to use uncle Luke's old pod, every free minute he had, he spent on flying over fields. Usually he was with Rey and Poe. Finn didn't like this kind of sport so he often left their company.
Yet that day madam Holdo kept Ren at home. Poe also couldn't come and Finn didn't want to come, as always. So Ben decided to go alone. He stealthily manoeuvred the wobbly pod out of barn, started engine and flied away. If he was lucky, uncle Luke wouldn't even notice.
He chose direction of Star Pound. It was very large reservoir stretching for miles. When you stood on the edge, you didn't see its end, only the horizon. In winter it was perfect for flying above, whole surface covered by solid ice. Ben settled the racer near the coastline, front toward the lake. He customised all parameters and checked new drive he set yesterday. The pod was lifted by stabilisation engines first and then it blasted off.
The outtake slammed Ben's back in the seat. He screamed with joy flying across the open area. Ice below him was moving very fast. A herd of vulptexes tried chasing him, but he left it all behind. He noticed silver pod from afar, it was nearing with incredible speed.
Suddenly Ben felt something was wrong. The racer chugged along more than usual and control lights were turning on one by one.
The pods passed each other, but Ben didn't have a chance to signalise his troubles, it was too fast. He couldn't do anything, because whole steering gear was stuck. He just flied knowing he had couple of options. One – he will reach the cliff on the other side, crash and die. Two – the pod will crash on ice and he die. Three – the pod will break the ice and he will die under the cold water. Four – he will jump and probably die. He didn't count on fuel running out, because the tank was full. He doubted he will gain the control back. He decided to jump. He unfastened seatbelt and crawled from cockpit to the side. He couldn't just slide over the back, because the flame from engine would burn him to the dust. He had to push away and land as far as possible. He heard strange rustle. The other pod he passed by earlier evened the speed with his racer.
"KYLO, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!" Hux blared.
He leaned out and caught force user's belt. Ben was pulled into the silver pod straight onto Hux's lap.
"YOU LOST YOUR MIND?!" Hux shouted at him again. "Take up the reins!" A command was given. Ben, still in shock, did what he was told. The redhead slipped himself from under Ben's butt and climbed on pod's edge.
"Move closer!"
"Hux, this is crazy!" Ben found out what he was trying to do.
"Do it!" Hux commanded again and Ben finally did.
The older man jumped into Ben's pod. He dove under the rudder and yanked some cables. He knew exactly, what he was doing, cutting the red one. He quickly came back to his own racer. He did it right in time, because Ben's pod started to lowering and slow down. Finally it scratched the icy surface and skidded over. They watched it strangled from safe distance.
After a while they landed next to the inactive machine. Hux, still angry at Ben, disembarked and went to broken racer. Force user overbalanced himself while descending and fell hard on ice.
"Serves you right." Hux glared at him laying. "Kylo?" He moved toward him. "Kylo?!" The ginger leaned over the large body and took off Kylo's helmet.
"I hit my head slightly..." Ben whispered shyly, his breath changing into clouds of steam. "What a fancy goggles you have, Hux." He smiled weakly. The world was spinning and the redhead's eyes were as blue as sky above Star Lake.
Ben woke up in silver racer shortly before they reached Skywalkers' estate. Ben's pod was hauled all the way, thanks to Hux. Nobody noticed, when they put broken racer back and closed barn's door.
"You're sure you're ok?" Hux watched him when they were walking through the alley to the other pod.
"Yeah..." Ben stopped. "Thank you..." He said hoarsely folding his coat. "...for all." He cleared his throat. "For saving my life." He dropped his eyes on his shoes. "And for my uncle's pod... You really do know a lot about flying machines, don't you...? Rey told me, you are going to be engineer and build space ships..." Ben babbled trying to extend the conversation. "I wonder, if you're going to join the army too... Ah, and the gloves from you are..."
"Kylo." Hux stopped him and looked into his eyes. "Please, be more careful. It's all I'm asking for."
"Well at least I never make the same mistake twice..." Ben darted his head away.
"Tomorrow I'm going to look at your racer. I'll ask Poe for help, he likes repairing broken stuff too. I gotta go."
"Yeah... thanks again. I owe you a lot..." Ben's voice was really sad.
"See you." Hux raised his hand in goodbye and walked away. He didn't even make ten steps, when...
"Hux!"
He turned around and Ben almost ran into him. Ben's heart was beating fast. Hux elevated his brows. Ben hesitated for a moment.
"Why did you kiss me...?" He asked directly.
"What?!"
"Why did you kiss me? When I was laying on ice." Ben repeated.
"I didn't kiss you." Hux laughed nervously. "You hit your head."
"Don't lie."
"I do not." Hux was stubborn.
"So, kiss me now?" Ben blurted out.
"What?" The redhead hoped that he misheard.
"If you didn't do it yet, do it now. Kiss me."
"You had a concussion." Suddenly Hux was aware of how close Ben was. And he noticed with horror, that the force user was very little, yet taller than him.
"I'm very conscious now." Ben assured him desperately.
"You are incredible, you know?" He looked at force user.
Ben didn't have his hat, so his jet black hair waved on wind freely. One of his big ears was clearly visible because of that. Hux remembered already every single beauty spot on his face. Especially the large one near his prominent nose. Damn, every part of his body was big. His moist lips. His eyes, darker than usual. Hux closed the distance between them. As he predicted, it was Ben's wide pupils creating this impression. And now he didn't have a choice.
Hux was holding Ben's face while kissing him deeply.
"Armitage..." murmured Ben when they separated.
Then they kissed again.
11. Daisy, daisy
Spring bloomed with all its might. Nevertheless for Ben it was an agony. Hux went on a tour with his father and Ben didn't see him in two months. The passion overflow from him, especially late at night, when he touched himself thinking about his crush. They only kissed a few times and for Ben it was never enough. This state of abstinence was terrible, he suffered real pain from undisclosed desires. His dreams were hot and full of variety visions of him making out with Armitage. Every morning Ben woke up in messy sheets, in empty bed. It gave him powerful heart aches.
Days were passing. Skywalkers worked hard preparing fields to sow corn. Ben was somehow grateful, that he had something to distract his mind. In the afternoon he used to sit on the warm stones and watch banthas eating grass. Sometimes Rey joined him with Poe and Finn. They enjoyed bonfire. In times like that Ben missed Hux even more.
One day Rey was sitting on Skywalkers' farm's fence and watched Ben and uncle Luke working with irrigation system again. Phasma came along and they both sunned themselves.
"What are ya going to do, when school ends?" Rey asked idly.
"Well, I don't know yet. Maybe I'll fly to Dantooine... or stay here. It's my last free summer after all." Phas stretched.
"Yeah... Hux is saying goodbye to school this June, right?"
"Yes, he is. He's starting the service. I heard he already signed the papers."
"Poor Ben..." Rey sighed.
"I'm sure, they will be fine. He can join the army too."
"Hm, he has predispositions... Did ya know, he trains martial arts and jedi-stuff?"
"Obi-Wan told me, he is really something. A strong force. Whatever it means..."
"Probably he will become a warrior, like Luke."
"Perhaps."
"Did you notice, he changed a little bit? His acne disappeared and also his body is more proportional."
"Yup. Our ugly duckling became... a really big raven?" Phas laughed.
"Haah! Totally a raven, yeah! But his odd facial expressions last times are funny. Did you see him daydreaming? Gosh, he's sighing like maiden."
"Love is in the air, my dear." Phas beamed.
"...what?"
"Oh, come on, he's starving for our ginger general, they've been dancing around each other since long time ago..."
"No kidding?! They're for real...?! I thought... OMG!" Rey stayed with mouth open.
"You should see Hux, when he told me they kissed..."
"Whaaaat?!"
"...his whole face was red like his hair."
"Ben, that bitch, he didn't tell me anything!" Rey gasped. "BEN! YOU...!" She shouted toward men at field.
"Shut it! No wonder, he didn't want you to know, you loud blabber. He is shy."
"Oh, fuck you, BEN! ...They did it...?"
"Rey!" Phas laughed. "Straight to the point!"
"Well, did they?"
"I don't know! But I think not yet..."
"Phas."
"What? Oh, no, Rey, what are you up to?"
"Nothing." She gave her innocent look. "I just hope Hux will come back quickly and deflower him thoroughly, because I sense a lot of tension radiating from certain force user."
"Rey!" Phas scolded her.
"That all makes sense now! Thank ya for expanding my horizons!"
"Rey, will you ever change?"
"Nope. Hey, just imagine all Hux's furloughs! They will be shagging senseless!"
"REY! I shouldn't tell you anything!"
"That's totally awesome!" Rey threw her arms into air.
12. Made in heaven
Ben thought he'll get a laugh attack and explode from happiness at the same time, when he saw Hux entering his room... through the window. It was late, so he had to choose that way in order not to attract attention.
"When did you come back?!" Ben jumped from his bed, desperately wanting to find himself closer to the ginger visitor.
"Half hour ago maybe..." Hux smiled. "I pretended to be very tired of the journey, took a bath and went straight to the bedroom..."
"...just not to yours." Raven-haired man's eyes were full of joy.
"...Looks like someone was missing me..." Hux managed to say in between a rain of kisses coming from Ben's hungry lips.
"Not at all." Force user bit his earlobe.
"You sure? Because you're definitely feeling me up right now..." Hux received hard butt-squeeze in response.
"You imagine things." Ben was working on leaving mark on ginger's neck, while his hands roamed over slim hips.
"How happened, you are so needy?" Hux's fingers glitzy played with dark locks.
"You happened." Ben licked his ear shell again. Hux already knew, the whole date won't end only with kissing.
"Were you touching yourself, while thinking of me...?" The redhead pushed forward his abdomen. Ben yelled and bit his lip. Hux captured his mouth and slid his tongue into hot insides. He felt little frustrated, Ben was already about two inches taller than him and strong as hell. Time to regained the control, he thought.
Raven-haired man landed on his bed Hux straddling him. The ginger sat right on Ben's hard-on and it felt lovely. Hux unbuttoned force user's shirt revealing well-defined chest and perking nipples begging for a bite. He took one of them in his mouth, playing with the other with his fingers. Ben was panting, his head rolled to the side. Hux quickly tore his own shirt and went back to nibbling white collarbones. Ben felt cold metal on his skin – the dog tags Armitage was wearing. Good thing, Leia wasn't home and Luke was quite deaf, because Hux had indefinable feeling, that Ben was a screamer. The warrior made sweet noises, which accumulated straight into Hux's groins.
"Armitage!" Ben exhaled and trembled.
"Kylo?" Hux stopped for a while. "You already...?" His hand rushed south to confirm his revelation, when Ben declined meeting his eyes. He slid his palm into the force user pants meeting warm, sticky mess. He groaned.
"You are my wet dreams come true, I hope you know that...!" They kissed passionately and Ben twitched ready again. Hux deprived him of pants and got up to did the same with his own. Completely naked, he went between Ben's strong legs. He collected a dose of white seed and smeared it around warrior's entrance. Hux's long fingers plunged slowly stretching the hole wide open. Ben moaned, his fists full of sheets. The redhead couldn't hold on. He took his leaking member and injected the inviting ass.
Ben cried at the beginning, but five minutes later he impaled himself on Hux loving both pain and pleasure he got. Hux held Ben's legs and admired all flushed body beneath him.
"Don't clamp, because I won't... hold it...!" Hux warned. Ben tightened even more and the redhead came with short "OH!", his head tilted. Ben followed him immediately, spurted in spasm.
Hux pulled out carefully and laid next to his raven-haired lover. Ben had his head in a crook of ginger's neck and inhaled, nuzzling sensitive skin with his prominent nose. Armitage was petting with adoration warrior's broad back.
"I wonder... why do you keep calling me Kylo instead of Ben?" Force user whispered.
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."*
"Oh, Lord. Future First Order's Grand Marshall, naked in my bed after divine sex, reciting Shakespeare. It's mind-blowing fabulous!"
"Fuck off. Everyone has their dark moments sometimes."
"Please, have your every moment with me..." Ben kissed his ribs. "But I asked seriously... Why are you still using Kylo?"
"Many reasons." Hux said, his mouth close to his lover's dark hair. "You let me. You like it. Nobody else is calling you like that, so I am the only one. That makes me special... Besides, in extinct language of Arkanis, Kylo means a person, who is moody or expressive and somehow referring to the sky. It suits you... And its pronunciation is really nice."
"..."
"Kylo?"
"...I didn't expected such deep analyse of it... Thank you... for thinking about me."
"So... what it means to you then?"
"Well... don't laugh... When I was a kid, I had problem with learning how to read and write. The letters from Kylo Ren I just remembered first..." he confessed little embarrassed.
Obviously, Hux laughed, but it sounded warm and wonderful. Ben felt... loved.
They were cuddling till the early morning. It was short before sunrise, when Hux descended through the window letting Ben miss him again.