Across the Stars

Parte 4

Ben's life had been turned upside down by a single call. He had been on the Senate, bored beyond measure when he had received a call from Hux.

Their relationship was a strange and dangerous one, but it was one that Ben cherished above all others, and he had long since come to terms with his feelings towards the General.

He knew the other man felt the same. Their relationship was based on Ben wearing revealing outfits to their meetings that had his parents and friends sighting in defeat and Hux's wearing as many clothes as he could without smothering himself on them, on verbal arguments laced with innuendos and double meanings and sexual frustration on both their parts.

When Hux called, with a warning about total destruction, Ben sprang into action without a moment's thought. In a few hours he had passed the information to his mother, who, in turn, had passed it to the Senate as the work of one of her spies in the Order.

In less than eight hours they had started taking people off planet. Ben had stayed behind to oversee the preparations for a full scale evacuation in case the attack the Resistance was planning failed. Launching an offensive was a difficult feat when one didn't know where or what it was what they're supposed to be attacking.

Ben was getting ready for bed, when the second message came. It gave him hope that they could save the people of the Hosnian system. It broke all hopes of retrieving Hux alive. But the Skywalkers and the Solos were known for making possible the impossible, and Ben threw himself into the preparations of the mass evacuation of Hosnian prime and the rest of the planets of the system. Once the main evacuation plan was set in motion, Ben didn't lose any time before changing into his jedi robes and leaving for D'Qar.

For the rest of the Republic, Ben Solo was in one of the great vessels full of refugees, in disguise, like many other senators. For the Resistance, the powerful jedi knight, Kylo Ren, had arrived from the Jedi Temple on Yavin IV to lead the knights that accompanied him in an attack against the First Order and the fearsome Knights of Ren.

Kylo Ren, who many thought the bastard son of Luke Skywalker himself, or other believed the younger brother of Senator Ben Amidala. They certainly had a likeness, both were tall and had dark hair, but, where the Senator moved with the practised moves of the royalty, Kylo moved like a predator, in long strides, not a single moved wasted. Where Ben Amidala wore white Naboo makeup and expensive jewelled gowns, Kylo wore the simple attire of the Jedi, in beiges and browns. Where Ben Organa had a lovely seductive voice, fit for a politician to entrance and sway his allies, Kylo Ren had a deep, smooth voice, and spoke only when necessary, and was always with a calm expression on his face, unlike the Senator, who, even with his makeup, was able to convey his emotions with a single look.

The squadrons were ready to fly to the Starkiller, the pilots waiting for their leaders to exit the chambers of the war council. Poe had been with Ben since they left Hosnian Prime, trying to convince him not to go to the surface, to no avail.

"Why can't you just blow up the place and be done with it?" asked Poe, for the eighth time in an hour.

"Because I will not abandon Brendol to his death, after what he did for all of us" This time, his parents joined the argument.

"Ben, darling, I know you want to save him, but you don't even know where he is, please, you shouldn't even go in this mission," said Leia "If you are lost to us, how will we explain to the Senate?" Ben's labour with the Senate was his greatest achievement yet. He had the influences and the popularity to push for some necessary reforms within the Republic. He was making changes, big changes; Leia had disagreed with him being on active duty since he was elected Senator.

Han understood him, a little bit, but that didn't meant he was supportive of his idea. "Ben, I understand that you want to save your boyfriend, but you cannot go, we are supposed to plant charges on the oscillator to blew it up. It's too risky for you. One thing is hunting Knights of Ren while people think you are on vacation. Assassination plots are easy to fake. But the whole New Republic thinks you are in one of the ships from Hosnian Prime. It's not the same." Ben rolled his eyes and huffed. His parents didn't like the idea of him getting hurt. In their minds he was still the ten year old boy they sent to train with Luke all those years ago.