Betrayal

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Hux's POV

MD-2442 had let Hux the complete decision making when it came to Chirna. She'd suggested some plans, listened to what he'd said about it and in the end was just the person executing them. She'd told him that she didn't know how to overthrow governments, but she knew how to kill people so that's what she'd do and that's what she did.

Hux's officers had found a few corrupt government officials and after some had demonstratively vanished (some forever and some had returned with changed minds), Hux had taken the first steps to convincing Chirna that the First Order was needed. The other corrupt politicians would soon follow suit, afraid of what the Knights could do. The Knights and their fear inducing presence had been wonderfully convincing and they'd also been effective at finding and eliminating smuggling rings.

All in all, the thing that Hux enjoyed most about cleaning up Chirna was that Kylo Ren didn't involve or meddle with his plans. In fact, none of the members of the Supreme Council did and, finally did Hux have full control. He'd yet to figure out what MD-2442 was to Kylo Ren, if his whore or just his apprentice, but effectively having her protection had been fantastic for the General.

However, he still hated her.

Every time he saw that mask of hers, he wanted to rip it off. It did nothing but hide her weakness. It hid her expressions, gave her leeway. Hux wasn't a coward that was hiding his face. No, he showed it, he could talk to people. He had himself under control. Her armour was much the same, black, boots heavy on the linoleum floors yet somehow silent when she wanted to sneak up on him. He wanted her out of it. He wanted to show her that without her weird magic powers that she would be nothing. Nothing at all. She wasn't the one cleaning up Chirna, Hux was. She only did everything at his behest. He sent her out to find the smugglers and he made her kill them. She was a soldier, just like Kylo Ren was, only that the two of them had somehow advanced to management positions.

Now she was fully in his command, in his grasp. He could send her where he wanted and she'd do it without questioning and a 'Yes, General Hux'. That's what he had wanted. He controlled her and through her, he could control Ren. And with Chirna in Hux's control, he could show the Supreme Council just what Hux was actually capable of.

It'd been perfect. Kylo's failure had been obvious, made even worse through MD-2442 barging into a conference and telling everyone that she could have killed the Jedi. There was a split between the Knights, a split between Kylo and his...whatever she was to him.

Hux had made sure that the Supreme Council knew what had been happening on Chirna. 'Do good deeds and talk about them', he called it in his mind. He'd proven his competence, earned himself an approving comment from the Supreme Council and then returned to Chirna to commence with Phase Two of his plans: to destroy what he'd built up.

Well, he wouldn't be the one to destroy it directly. No, it'd be Kylo Ren. Thanks to MD-2442's trust in Hux, he always knew where she was on Chirna and in turn, he'd be able to tell the Resistance. Once MD-2442 was gone, or even just apprehended by the Resistance, Kylo's emotional outburst would be the final nail in his coffin. The Supreme Council would see him for what he was: just an emotional, uncontrollable child in a sandbox.

Doc's POV

A week ago, you'd warned Kylo. You'd told him that if he wanted Rey to live, that he should keep her off Chirna.

Apparently, she hadn't listened to him.

You could feel her. Her presence was like an itch. A bug crawling over your skin, but when you looked nothing was there. Or like a water drop, exact temperature of your body and you could feel it tickling you, without immediately knowing what it was. That's what Rey's signature in the force was like.

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