All the Way 2.0 (Kylo Ren x Reader) - New and improved

Time

Time is relative.

The more time you spend in space, the slower you age compared to those residing on planets. An extended life-time was one of the benefits of working for the First Order, but somehow you doubted that anyone joined them for that reason.

Even more relative than time itself, is its perception of it.

A normal day in ER went by fast. You ran between different patients, didn't give yourself time to think and soon your shifts had ended before they'd even begun. The only reason you knew that eight or more hours had passed was because you were tired afterwards.

Working on the battlefield was an entirely different ordeal. How fast you got to someone determined their fate and how fast you could duck determined yours. The breaks in between actual fights, however, were slow. Far too slow for your liking but it all switched the moment someone shot a blaster. So, by the end of even a short fight, you were exhausted, not just tired.

After working a day on the officer deck, you were exhausted, too. But not because you found yourself in a lot of life-threatening situations, no, because you had only a very small number of them and the rest was boring work. Incredibly boring, you dared to fall asleep at points. You weren't used to working in such a relaxing environment. Relaxing only because of the little number of dire injuries to yourself or others, not because of the general atmosphere. How the everyone treated each other was very much like a battle field. There were different factions and so far, you were part of neither.

You'd have to lie if you said that most doctors got along well with you. They were salty about the doctor Ushar had killed and some made you indirectly responsible for it, even though you hadn't even interacted with any Knight when it had happened. There were some that were jealous because of your position and others that made bets on how long you were still going to keep your head. The Knights frequently interrupting your work didn't make it any better. You did a lot of surgery rotation and when one of them almost bashed the door in to collect you for training, it didn't exactly make you more popular with the rest of staff.

They stopped after you lost your patience and shouted at Vicrul in front of the entire surgical team to at least have the decency to ask for you the conventional way: by calling, not by breaking through the door. Vicrul hadn't expected your outburst, or that he had done something wrong but from that point onwards the Knights stopped their shenanigans and called ahead.

That incident hade made you somewhat infamous and half of the staff now treated you with a newfound respect and a bit of fear. Some, however, had only resented you more. One of them being Dr Red. She was the sister of Ushar's doctor and couldn't understand why you got a free pass for shouting at a Knight, when all her brother had done was ask a question and died immediately after. You'd try to be nice to her, but she'd only treated you worse after, so you'd given up.

Now if the two of you encountered each other on the hallways, the temperature dropped almost as much as it did when you were around Kylo; in her case obviously only figuratively.

Escyle wasn't much better. Rosie and him had gotten close and she frequently told you not be so arrogant and distant towards him, but how could you? Whenever you were in the same room, he started asking you personal questions and if that didn't fare, he went on to make comments about your life. You'd retorted to replying with a polite smile or 'confidential' at everything he asked you, to the point where you didn't even listen to what he said anymore. That had only worked out semi-well because if he asked you simple questions such as: 'How is Officer Aldridge doing today?' your 'confidential' reply only highlighted that you didn't give two cents about what he was asking and thought of you.