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

Hux

Everything and everyone was working against General Armitage Hux, even time itself.

He'd planned it well. He'd kept the circle of involved small, found a scapegoat that he'd meant to get rid off anyway and erased all traces that could lead back to him. He'd even involved a force-sensitive to fully mask it all. But no, the scapegoat had somehow been completely overlooked and instead one of the actual involved had gotten found out.

Now Armitage Hux was one good Major short and had only barely avoided getting killed by the Supreme Leader in a fit of anger, or MD-2442 herself.

He could have just shot her. He'd tried to on Batuu, but Kylo Ren had been too careful and afterwards it'd been basically impossible to get her away from him. A direct assassination would have been too obvious and from how moody the teenager, that called himself leader of the greatest military in the galaxy, had become after she'd disappeared, Hux was almost glad that MD-2442 was back. But only almost. He still despised her, but he despised himself even more because he still didn't understand why he hated her so much.

Sending her to Weih had arguably the best plan that Hux could have come up with to get rid of her. He'd have 'found' her, brought her back and she'd have died from the side effects of the armour. It'd have been a tragic ending to her character arc and he could have been the hero of the story. She would have been half-dead and Hux could have watched Kylo Ren's devastated face when she would die. It'd have been beautiful. He would have had full control over the situation and then, in turn, over Ren.

But the bastard had to find her a few days too early and ruin it all.

A force adept had previously blocked out certain memories of the Major so Kylo wouldn't find out that Hux was the one behind it and Dr Red had given the Major enough drugs to cloud his memory, so normal interrogation methods wouldn't get them anywhere either. Kylo had noticed it soon and left the Major relatively intact. The man was now in the ER, Dr Red with him and MD-2442 on her way to his room.

Hux watched the whole thing unfold over the camera feed of the hospital security room. It was the first time that he'd seen her for a month and he'd expected himself to get annoyed but instead he got excited. But when he saw her gaunt face and the loose hanging clothing over her body, his heart dropped. Hux pinched the bridge of his nose, irritated at what the sight of her made him feel and tried focusing on everything else but her body instead.

The Major and her talked. They were polite and despite the anger in her face, she kept her composure. She was weak physically but not mentally and everything the Major threw at her, she took with a certain grace. Kylo would have already killed or destroyed the room. Even though the Knights sometimes whispered that the two of them were similar, Hux couldn't see it.

She treated Dr Red and the Major with a sense of superiority and while Hux watched her with great enjoyment, he also wanted to go in there and show her that she wasn't as superior as she let on right now. He'd been the one to send her to Weih. He was the reason behind her diminished physical condition and he could do so much worse. He'd only done all of this because she'd been on Kylo's side and right now, all he wanted to do was walk up to her, push her against a wall and tell her that all of this could have been avoided if she'd only chosen the right side.

But he didn't do any of that. Of course, he didn't. He wasn't mad or suicidal. The way he felt about her was nothing but an extension of his hatred towards Kylo Ren with the difference that he had actual power over her. He knew that but he still didn't stop himself from imagining it.

Then Dr Red put her hand on MD-2442's arm and the doctor lost it. Hux watched her eyes glaze over. She turned Dr Red's arm around until it cracked. Dr Red jumped back, accelerated by the force. The nurse screamed and moved into a corner. Red did something, extended her healthy hand but MD-2442 stood in the centre of the room, the look in her eyes now wild and completely unaffected by Dr Red's failure to use the force. MD-2442 used the confusion, moved forward and kicked away the legs from underneath Dr Red, jumping on top of her and slitting her throat cleanly.

"What the fuck," the security officer next to Hux said.

"Quiet," Hux hissed and buried his fingers into the leather of the chair the officer was sitting on.

Dr Red was struggling on the floor, clawing at her own throat and trying to stop the bleeding and the nurse ran out but Hux was only watching MD-2442. She stood over Dr Red for a few seconds, eyes glazed over and empty again, then the life returned and she rushed over to the Major. He'd backed up, begged for her to stop, but she didn't hear him. She pushed his arms down, ignored his punches and the tears in her skin and wrapped her slim and thin fingers around the man's throat. With a surprising amount of strength, she held him down for a good minute until all struggle had left the Major's body. MD-2442 didn't leave it at that and used the same scalpel to make sure the man was actually dead, cutting over the man's bruised throat.

She then moved back and stared up at the ceiling, the look on her face blank again.

Hux loosened his grip on the officer's chair. The nurse had ran inside but before she could say what had happened Hux already said: "We know."

He followed her back to the room and entered alone. MD-2442 was still standing still, hand gripping the scalpel tightly and head turned up.

"MD-2442," Hux said and the doctor showed no reaction, so he repeated: "MD-2442."

She moved, not much but she moved. Hux tensed up, prepared himself to get attacked like the others had, hand already at his blaster. He walked up to her, put a hand on her shoulder, the other one already on the trigger.

"MD-2442!" he repeated.

MD-2442 blinked a few times. The blank stare was gone, she wasn't quite present but no longer a danger to him or anyone else. Hux put his blaster away.

"General Hux," she greeted him, voice as polite as always.

Her hands were full of blood from the Major and Dr Red. The skin on her arms was already bruised from the Major's punches and torn in parts. Underneath the thin medical tunic, he could feel her collar bone and Hux squeezed her shoulder lightly, almost affectionately. She'd gone through unexpected terrors on Weih. He'd read the reports. He knew how many of his well-trained hazmat troopers had left that planet with lasting psychological issues. It was no wonder that it'd affected her to this degree.

"What happened?" he asked, not only referring to the massacre now but also to her deployment, but she couldn't know that.

She looked at the Major, Dr Red and then walked over to the sink, putting the scalpel in its designated container. She washed her hands and Hux walked over, watching her and then looking at what she'd done again. She looked so innocent now, unable to do what she'd done. She was slowly coming to the realization and with every further second passing, she became terrified of herself.

"General, I don't think I remember what happened. I am certain I had not planned or wanted to kill either of them. I am...sorry."

No, of course she hadn't meant to do any of that. She wasn't scared of what she'd done. She'd killed before, but she'd never done it without realizing. That was Hux's doing. He'd finally made her afraid of him, even if she didn't know it. She couldn't know it either. If she, or anyone else, would find out, then the death of Red and the Major would be a pleasant one.

"I am just glad Ren doesn't lose it like you do."

The doors opened again and the nurse looked inside. She, too, was only now realizing the extent of MD-2442's capabilities.

"Get a clean-up crew in here," Hux told her, then turned back to the doctor. "Do you want coffee, MD-2442? Or tea?"

"Coffee, please."

"And also get us two coffees, nurse."

He could see her face slowly turning blank again and he took her with him to his office. If that'd help, he didn't know, but now her mind was focused on something other than blood and maybe that'd be enough.