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Accidental Video; Horrible Roommates Being Horrible

[The video turns on haphazardly, staring up as if someone had flung it across the room and accidentally turned it on. Which, incidentally, is exactly what happened. There's a red glare as Kylo's lightsaber comes into view. He slashes at someone just out of view, missing them, and instead taking out part of the couch.]

I've had it with you! I'll make you wish you'd died as a child!

[Then his toe hits the video, sending it spinning and landing in another spot.]

Oh like I'm going to be scared of a pathetic version of Darth Vader. You have no idea how many times I wanted to abandon you on Hoth.

[There is a loud clambering as Hux got out of the way and when the video settles he can be seen with his blaster in his hand, eyes shining with a mad fury.

He raises the blaster and fires a few shots aimed at Kylo, but a few shots hit the walls and destroy the couch.

Kylo blocks the blaster shots with an almost contemptuous ease, his lightsaber twirling in front of him in a back and forth pattern. He stops the last shot in midair, sending it sailing back towards Hux.]

Is that the best you can do? My mother is a better shot, you Tarkin-wannabe.

[Now he was just hitting below the belt.]

You did not-

[Hux barely manages to dodge the reflected blast, which hit the opposite wall, leaving a deep mark. He's back on his feet to fire a few more shots with a growl of fury. He doesn't care where they land, he just wants to make Kylo suffer.]

Oh, please, you just sit and talk to your grandfather's helmet. 'I will finish what you started' - that's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. You're just an embarrassment.

[Kylo goes very still for a moment, the video's skewed perspective making him look about seven feet tall. Everything nearby him begins to rattle with the power of the Force. Then, with a roar of fury, they all lift up, and began hurling themselves at Hux.]

I have more power than you could ever dream of! You think firing off your little superweapon gives you power? You're nothing. Just a bastard who got lucky.

[Hux's expression turns ugly, he's spent his entire life being called a bastard no matter how much he tried to put his past behind him.]

My little superweapon? The superweapon I could use to command the power of the stars when I destroyed the entire Hosnian System? I destroyed the Republic, their Senate, and their entire fleet in a moment while you sulked like a litt-

[He paused suddenly as he noticed the device, walking towards it.] You idiot, you left your phone on.

[Kylo looks over his shoulder at the phone. Great. They'd just broadcast that entire argument to the network. Now everyone knows about the Hosnian System. With a frustrated growl, he picks up a nearby lamp, and throws at Hux's head, not caring if it actually connects or not.]

This is your fault, you smug moron.

[Their physical altercation is done. The bickering is far from over.]

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[He nodded in thanks as he took another drink of wine once Kylo topped his glass off, his cheeks flushed already. ]

All my life the truth of who she was has followed everything I do. Still, I wonder sometimes what she was like.

[He admitted before looking over at Kylo, curious.]

And Snoke gives you a choice and what you wanted?

[It was an honest question, he had always wondered what really had been Kylo's motivations in joining the First Order and what he had to gain from Snoke.]

No matter what, she would have been better than your father. It's a wonder you never killed him.

[Kylo hesitates before answering, just long enough to make it clear he's been having second thoughts.]

...he doesn't hold me back.

[At least, Kylo hadn't thought he was, until he had come here, and seen how woefully incomplete his training was in comparison to other Force users. Now he wasn't so sure.]

You're probably right. [If it were any other night he wouldn't have uttered those words but he didn't think about it as he finished off his third glass of wine, holding it out for Kylo to refill.]

I nearly did but somehow he survived the attempt only for his heart to explode a year later.

[His tone was only bitter, absolutely no regret or deep emotion. He heard the pause in Kylo's answer, raising his eyebrows.]

At all? I find that hard to believe.

[He had always been careful when speaking about Snoke but it was just the two of them here and, despite what he had said about Kylo in the past, he knew the other man wasn't a complete idiot.]

It just seems like something Snoke wouldn't want to do. If he allowed you to do anything you wanted, there is the chance you could gain knowledge and power that he doesn't have. You're Vader's grandson and Vader was able to turn on the Emperor. He has to be planning for that possibility with you.

What a missed opportunity. If I was going to kill my father, I'd just do it. No second thoughts about it.

[Those words will come back to haunt him later when he leaves this place and returns. For now, it's all just drunken talk.

He scowls at the mention of Snoke. Why does everyone assume he's being manipulated? They all keep trying to plant seeds of doubt into his mind. With so many people saying the same thing, he's starting to believe. But it's hard to break the hold his master has had on him since childhood.]

No. He wouldn't do that. Not to me.

I didn't hesitate, he just survived being poisoned. I didn't have a chance to try again until he died.

[He looked at Kylo, surprised.] You would really kill Han Solo, no second thoughts?

[He didn't press the issue about Snoke, either Kylo would eventually figure it out or not. Hux knew it was something he didn't want to be in the middle of.]

You have a lot of trust in him.

What a shame. I bet you were pissed off at the wasted opportunity.

[Poison would be Hux's method. Kylo preferred to be up, close, and personal when it came to killing. When his father gets mentioned again, he looks disturbed.]

Yes...no...I don't know. [He takes another drink, trying to soothe his indecisive nerves. The thought of his parents always puts him on edge. Snoke is an easier topic to talk about.]

Of course I do. He's been guiding me since I was a child.

It really was. I wanted to be there and watch him die. The bastard cheated me out of that but I suppose that was typical of him.

[He had carefully planned everything and had been looking forward to watching his father die in pain, suffering as he had made his son suffer for so long.]

You should figure that out. [He said but his tone was neutral. He didn't understand how Kylo could be torn. For Hux, the decision was always made without second guessing.]

But you're not a child anymore.

You make it sound like he died just to spite you.

[Which, given how Kylo knew his son, didn't seem out of place for that particular family. He scowls, thinking of his father.]

I'm working on it. It's hard to know what I would do when I haven't seen him in years. [Part of him would always want to return to Han and Leia, knowing that they would forgive him even now for all he'd done. He was just afraid that part might win out over the part that was clinging desperately to the Dark Side.

The scowl deepens as he thinks of Snoke and all that he's learned since his connection with his master was so abruptly severed when he ended up in Hadriel.]

Sometimes it doesn't feel that way.

[He knew Hux would find that amusing, but Kylo meant it seriously. His master had seemed determine to stunt his apprentice both emotionally and in his connection with the Force. Only now, away from the cloying presence that was in his mind, was Kylo finally thinking for himself for the first time since he was a teenager.]

He most likely did.

[Being a spiteful asshole ran in the family. He finished off his glass of wine and set it aside on the counter before turning to face Kylo.]

Alright, start with figuring out why you want to kill him. Picture it in your mind, visualize how you would do it. The reality won't be the same but it helps to go over each step to be prepared. Perhaps that will help you figure it out. [He would know, he had spent a long time of pondering how to kill Brendol in just the right way.]

It must be strange not having Snoke here for you then.

[There was no mocking, though. If he thought about it, it was sad that Snoke had such absolute control over him from a young age. At least nanabot had been a soothing companion when he was a child.]

I already know why I want to kill him. They're both holding me back and turning me towards the Light. If I kill him, it'll extinguish that for good. [That's the plan of it, which just goes to show how delusional Kylo Ren has become from Snoke's claws stuck deep in his psyche.]

It's like there was a cloud of darkness in my mind. Without him there, the pull to the Light is much stronger.

You don't have to convince me, you just have to convince yourself. [Hux pointed out as he leaned over to grab the bottle of wine. He looked around for his glass for a moment, forgetting where it was before just deciding to drink from the bottle.]

Oh don't tell me you're going to turn to the Light. I think you would do better as a Sith Lord.

[Just his expert opinion here.]

[Kylo contemplated that. He'd told himself he was going to do it so many times, but part of himself still held back. Love wasn't a thing so easily cast aside. This thought process was interrupted by seeing Hux drink out of the bottle.]

Hey, don't get your germs in there! [He yanked it away, pouring a little into his own glass. Ew, now it had Hux cooties. Oh well, he was too drunk to care.]

Of course not. There's too much blood on my hands to turn back to the Light now. [Though he wouldn't mind ending up in a nice grey middle area. It seemed to have worked out well for Ahsoka.]

You put your helmet on ashes, since when are you concerned about germs? [He said with a smirk before grabbing the bottle back to finish it off with a long drink.

Thankfully they had two other bottles and he opened the second, taking another drink before passing it to Kylo. It had been a long time since he had let himself get drunk and actually let himself go a little]

Oh good. I would be disappointed otherwise.

Only when it comes to you. There's a disease that makes you the way you are, I'm sure of it.

[Staying on the counter was now a feat unto itself. He didn't trust his hands to be steady enough to pour him a glass, so he drank right out of the bottle too.]

Why? Afraid Snoke would saddle you with a Knight even worse than me?

Well, you're doomed then, no doubt infected by now.

[He leaned over to take the bottle once more, nearly falling off the counter in the process. It seemed high now that he was so unsteady and he wasn't sure how he would manage to get off.]

I know how to handle you. I don't want to have to train another Knight.

Soon I'll be too pretentious for my own good and seeking to piss off everyone around me by being scornful.

[Kylo was leaning up against Hux now without any regard for his personal space. It was better than falling on the floor.]

You know I'm the best out of all of them. Your blood pressure would rise up and your heart would give out before the year was out.

Aren't you already like that? Perhaps you're already infected.

[Normally his first instinct was to go stiff at any kind of personal contact but they had been sharing a bed long enough now that he had gotten used to it.]

Perhaps. I know you would hate to be stuck with another general or admiral, as well. What would you do without me?

I'm doomed.

[He has Hux-itis. How terrible.]

I'd probably kill whoever I was stuck with. It took five years to get used to you. I don't have the patience to do it again.

It was inevitable, I suppose.

[Hux gave a short laugh as he passed the bottle to Kylo once more. The world was definitely swaying and he finally leaned against Kylo in return so he didn't fall.]

You would get your way more often but you would be bored with anyone else. No one else dares even to look at you directly.

Just you and Snoke. It's lonely being at the top.

[It made him think of his family. Not just the ones by blood, his parents and Luke, but Chewie and Lando, his honorary uncles, and even the droids. Only now, well and truly drunk, could he honestly ask himself why he had thrown them away. And what for? Power? Power didn't replace love.]

I miss them. [He said quietly.]

It is, I know. [The words slipped out and he took another drink of wine before setting the bottle aside.

Hux didn't ask who Kylo was referring to, looking at him thoughtfully. There was a small part of him that envied Kylo having a family he actually missed. The closest thing Hux could feel was missing his nanny droid who had told him stories at the end of the day.

He wasn't sure what to say to that, he had never had to comfort anyone, he didn't know where to start. So he just stayed quiet, remaining where he was leaning against Kylo's shoulder.]

But it's too late now.

[Far too late to do anything but sit here with a general of the First Order by his side and get drunk reminiscing about the past. He'll finish up the second bottle of wine before he makes his retreat towards the bedroom. He's going to be hungover in the worst way tomorrow.]

[Hux couldn't argue that and he had no reassurances for Kylo, he felt emotionally drained from the night as it was. Somehow he managed to get down from the counter, moving slowly so he didn't fall as he followed Kylo.

If Kylo wanted to steal the blankets, Hux wasn't in the position to argue. He stumbled towards the bedroom, just tossing off his shirt before falling onto the bed. He didn't want to move to change, only shifting to look up at Kylo.]

[Kylo pulled his robe and outer shirt off, leaving him in a gray undershirt and pants. The room spins and he closes his eyes for a moment, gathering himself so that he can collapse into bed. When he opens them up, he can see Hux looking at him.]

What?

[He looked thoughtful for a moment but his train of thought was gone as soon as it had come. He closed his eyes, pulling the blankets up as he decided he was too drunk to figure it out, settling for instead just putting his cold feet against Kylo's. ]

Good night, Kylo Ren.

[Tomororw would be suffering but for now he would be able to sleep soundly.]

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