As you expected, your mind was not wholly focused on your task at hand. Each time you bent to activate a console's access panel, you imagined the General bending you over it and taking you in full sight of the bridge. The thought had you shivering and grumbling to yourself for a majority of your time. At one point, there was a loud crash causing every eye to lock onto some poor officer being held at arm's length and a foot off the floor by Kylo Ren. The knight was saying something, but you couldn't hear it from the distance you were at. You shook your head pressing back with your right leg to push your rolling plank further into the console. You placed your flashlight in your mouth, using it to light up the circuit you were working with enough to replace a wire and resoder it to the board. You used the inner switch to flick it on, but there was no reaction.
Furrowing your brow, you slid back out to the bridge. The Console was important, so having it shut down to allow you to work on it was costly, and every second that it wasn't functioning was one second you were without a- what was that console for again? Emergency Door Shutdown?- whatever this console was for was dangerous. You sighed, wiping at the sweat gathering on your brow, as your other hand pulled the flashlight out. Standing, you made your way to the controls of the console and flicked the reset switch a few times. When it still didn't come to life, you swore under your breath and made your way back to the cart and sat down.
"Having some trouble?" Commander Ren's voice sounding above you had you swearing again. He tilted his visor at you in what you suspected was his form of a smirk. You nodded, grabbing your datapad to reexamine the schematic for the console as Ren watched. "What seems to be the problem?" He asked, squatting beside you. You looked at him strangely, no one besides technicians and the odd tinkerer really cared about your job. Despite that, you showed him the schematic, pointing to the problem area.
"This fuse isn't firing properly, which means that it is causing a delay in the signal. Since the signal isn't being sent correctly, only a few of the emergency doors will shut. All but the main door. I thought that maybe it was the circuit connecting the fuse to the main control, but that didn't change anything." You glanced back into the depths of the hole you were working in, and a spark caught your eye. Laying back on the cart, you pushed yourself inside and pulled out your multitool. With one drop of metal, the sparking stopped and the console fired into life. You smiled in pride, but soon felt your heart beat too fast in your chest.
The console around you suddenly felt much too small, and you felt like you were burning again. You shut your eyes tightly, trying desperately to get breath into your lungs but no matter how hard you tried you felt like you were suffocating. Kicking out your feet, you caught onto the side of the door and used it to pull you free of your makeshift prison and propel yourself out and into the bridge. Kylo had moved away from the door by that point and you shot up from your cart, the metal clattering on the floor and again causing everyone around you to stare at the second loud bang to resound around the bridge.
Hux was at your side in a second, he didn't touch you but you could tell that he was checking to make sure that you hadn't reopened a wound or burned yourself again. Breath began to fill your lungs, and your heart slowed down enough that your eyes stopped tunneling. You felt yourself being lead by Ren out of the room, the General's booming voice ordering the rest of the room to stop their staring and return to work, before he too followed you out to an officers lounge.
One look from Ren had the entire room empty in seconds, and after Hux entered, the door was locked behind you. Kylo left your side to walk to the refrigerator to retrieve a water after sitting you down on a couch. Hux sat beside you, turning his body to face yours as he grabbed your shaking hands in his own. He didn't press you to talk, instead he just rubbed soothing circles along the back of your hands as you steadied your breathing. Kylo returned to you, handing you the water which you gladly accepted and took a large drink of.
