Hux
Hux touched his toes, then brought one knee to his chest, then the other.
He squatted, rolled his shoulders and ankles, and he took deep breaths.
He looked beside him, at the bench where it happened. Hux wondered what the janitor thought while mopping up the blood on the floor.
"Hux, I didn't expect you here,"
The redhead turned to see his coach standing in the doorway.
"You haven't been here the past few weeks, I didn't think you would be here to perform. Uma had to make up a new routine after losing your part."
"I'm so sorry," Hux smiled with what patience he had. "I was quite sick, but I've prepared a routine and the tech team already has my music cued, and I don't mind going last."
"Are you sure you're ready?" Anderson eyed Hux's wrist. "You could always wait until next season. A rushed routine is usually not a good one."
"It's perfect, I promise."Ren
Kylo and his parents found a spot near the glass to sit and wait for Hux to come onto the ice.
Twitching, Ren sat with his hands in his lap and his hair in his face. Leia brushed his tendrils aside, and he nudged her hand away.
"I'm fine," he mumbled.
"Look at your pants!" Han laughed, gesturing to Kylo's red, plaid pants with the little zippers down the sides.
Kylo ignored him and continued waiting. He glanced around, then spotted Phasma and that short, weird guy with the dark hair..Dolphin or something?
Then he saw Rey, Poe, and Finn laughing it up on the opposite side. They, or at least Poe, was friends with Gum (and what sort of idiot goes by the nickname Gum?), and then finally Ren saw Brendol and Alana.
Nobody sat by them, and they looked very regal amongst the lowly folk of the ice rink.
Suddenly the coach skated out and talked a bit about performances, what the team had been doing, blah blah blah-Hux
Uma finished her routine, and Hux was hiding at the other doors, not wanting them to see he was there.
James came out and started skating to a Madame Butterfly song, and Hux's heart began racing.
He was up next.
It was his turn after.
James had told him he would tell everyone about Hux and Ren.
James had said to never skate again.
Brendol had said to never skate again.
Brendol told Hux to stop hanging out with Ren.Ren
The current performance ended, and then there he was, on the ice, and wearing..a dress? A girl's skating costume.
Ren tried to think of any reason why Hux would have just skated out in a little blue dress, but after looking over at Brendol, who's face was bright red, and then James and his gang, who looked ready to burst, Ren understood. And surely this was just-Hux
-part one of the plan. The reaction of the crowd was what he had wanted. But this was only part one. He took his stance, proud and confident, and the music started to flow from the speakers. It was-
Ren
-that damn song. Why the hell did he choose the Smiths for his final figure skating routine?
How Soon Is Now sounded throughout the rink and the audience seemed confused.
This had to be against the ancient figure skating creators or some shit like that. They only ever danced to weird piano and opera music.
Hux looked so beautiful as he gracefully glided and leaped across the ice. It was obvious to everyone watching (though Kylo couldn't ever peel his eyes away), that Hux was by far the best.
No wonder they-Hux
-wanted him gone. They wanted him gone, and now, now he was back and Hux smirked as he danced and flipped because he was showing them all what he could do and who he was.
'-so you go home, and you cry, and you want to die.'
Hux dropped dramatically to the ice as the song ended abruptly, and everyone-
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How Soon Is Now? [Kylux]
FanfictionKylux, 80's teenage AU. It's 1987. Ben Solo has taken a stand and does not want to be called Ben. Armitage Hux is going to finish training to be a figure skater like he's always wanted (not that anyone from school knows about it). Be- Kylo, loves...