The Path of the Grey

Chapter 3

A/N: Thank you to my Beta Readers HMWeasley and. CaptainNinapants. Thanks to all that have read and reviewed those who read and didn't review. I think you are cool too. XD

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35 ABY

The room, once used as a storage for smugglers, had been turned into the Syndicate's lounge. It had a Dejarik console that many had lost money playing on and a stocked bar with two males seated at it. One, a scaled brute of a Trandoshan, was chugging his ale so fast it was now mostly down his front. The one next to him, a black-skinned Kubaz, with their signature long snout, stared indignantly at his compeer as he sipped his wine. A small green android, Bidbot, built to look like a robust woman, walked around cleaning up after them, muttering loudly.

"Guess who wants us back?" Nox asked as she entered.

"Took long enough. " sighed Bazine from a corner. She was a very attractive, tanned and tall, human female. "What exactly did he want?"

"For me to find the Knights of Ren. 100,000 credits per Knight," Nox smirked taking a drink from Bidbot, before sitting next to Bazine. She typed up a few things on the datapad, so the contract would upload for Bazine to read.

Everyone was silent for a few moments, then Gruss, the Trandoshan slowly raised up his scaly hand.

Nox sighed. "Yes, Gruss?"

"Doess that mean we can kill and no one getss mad?" he asked happily.

"No," she sighed. "The contract binds me to find you, not give you up to him. I will take a rather long time finding you and by the time Kylo realizes it, we will have moved to the outer rim or what not."

"Why did you take this deal?" Bazine asked cautiously as she scrolled through the contract nervously.

"I had to accept something. They did just blow up an entire system with the touch of a button."

"You sold us to him!" Bazine snapped throwing the pad at Nox.

"No, I didn't! I just said: the contract is to find you. It doesn't force us to do anything after."

"Did you even read it!?" Bazine screeched, glaring at her friend and boss.

"I wrote the damn thing!"

A sudden moment of fear engulfed her. She couldn't recall actually writing it, but she was convinced she had. Her finger scrolled through the deal and to her horror, it not only obligated her to find them, but once she had, made all members of the Knights under the First Order's control. She hurried back up to the ladder, followed by Bazine and the Kubaz, Galibran.

Nox ignored their questions as she ran to her desk and began to play back her camera feed, scrolling through the holograms of her and Kylo interacting. The timestamp almost made her throw the device across the room. He was with her for three hours.

The hologram showed him walk in and then position himself in a way that the camera only saw his back blocking a view of Nox. Then, he raised a hand and she went limp in his arms. The images continued mostly showing his back. Once in awhile, Nox would shrug off his power and argue with him. Instigating him to make her become unconscious, again.

"That two faced shab!" Nox screamed.

Bazine gripped Nox's hand, demanding her attention. "What did he do?"

"He must have made me write it and agree without knowing. He stole my memories," Nox growled pushing Bazine away. "I taught the little bludfly how to do it!"