Ren lead you down the halls of the ship back toward the east Hangar and you looked at him in curiosity. "Kylo-" He glared at you over his shoulder and you shut up, biting your lip at the mistake. "Master Ren," He allowed this and continued on his path. "Master Ren, where are we going? Shouldn't we be reconveening with the rest of the Order? Shouldn't we be trying to regroup and attack with full power?" You asked, struggling to keep up with his long purposeful strides.
"We have the resistance on the run, there are less than a hundred of them remaining. We can end this now." He growled out, turning into the hangar and striding toward the command shuttle and then past it to a small pilots lounge. You followed behind him silently, trying to wrap your head around the plan.
"Supreme Leader, all due respect." He turned to you at that, raising an eyebrow. Usually when someone said that, they were about to say something extremely disrespectful, but you braved forward, not wanting your lack of commitment to your sentence betray your unease. "Sir, that is your mother." You said quietly. He tensed, then took a few steps to stalk toward you, backing you against a wall.
"Who told you that." He growled. It wasn't common knowledge who the parents of Kylo Ren were. Many knew that Darth Vader was his grandfather, but that was about all the First Order personnel was privy to. If you knew more, you didn't say so. And you had just said so.
Standing your ground, you glared back at him, anger and rebellion flaring in your eyes. "Your father, Han Solo." You ground out. He raised a hand to strike you and you flinched, confidence draining as your self preservation instincts kicked in.
The blow never came, instead you opened your eyes to see him clenching his eyes closed and clenching his jaw in anger. You slowly lowered your hands to a more submissive defense and cleared your throat. "Kylo, it's okay." You said softly and he cracked, his hand slamming into the wall beside your head. You yelped, covering your head as sparks flew over you.
You then felt a pressure on your neck as he lifted you using the force, his eyes looked like they were glowing red like his saber, crackling and sparking like the uncapped energy he held within him. "You are slowly becoming more trouble than you are worth (Y/n)." You pulled at your throat, tears of strain falling from your eyes as you struggled to breathe.
"You are not the only one who has lost people," You choked out gasping for breath. "We've all lost people we love." You coughed and whimpered as he tightened his hold. You were poking the bear, but some part of you didn't want to stop.
"And how would the general react to losing you, hmm?" Fear ran through you at the threat but you knew that this was most likely a test, for both of you. "Would he finally submit? Would he let himself be ordered around like the dog he is?What would he do without his little plaything?" You bared your teeth at him and kicked out your legs, trying desperately to hit him somewhere it would hurt.
"At least when he chokes me he uses his hands." You snapped and both of you went silent, your chest heaving as you struggled for breath, and Kylo's out of anger. He dropped you then, and you heard his saber ignite, but you just glared up at him, coughing and sputtering as you regained your breath.
The blade came close to your neck but you stared defiantly at his eyes, two could play this game. "That is twice you have disrespected me. Do not let there be a third." He brought the blade close enough to singe the strands of hair that fell into your face before disengaging it and walking from the lounge a cape in hand.
When he left, the door slid shut behind him and you let out a calming breath, coming to terms with what had just happened. Ren was trying to test your obedience, your deference, to his new title. To you, he was still the commander, still your 'Master' of sorts. He knew that you were the only other person in the Order who could possibly understand him, and he knew that you were Loyal to Hux. If Ren was trying to take the ground out from Hux, it wouldn't be with help from you. And if Hux was trying to take the ground out from Ren, it would also not be from you.
