I have no real reason as to why this took 4 months. But here is the next chapter and the last one shouldn't take nearly as long This one is less silly than the other chapters have been. Sorry v.v
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Something was up with Hux, Kylo could tell this even without having the Force. The General was an impenetrable wall of calm as of late. Though Hux had never been an emotional man. Ren would have thought the death of his cat would have had some effect on his emotional stability. Despite the creature's death, Hux seemed almost serene. It was especially odd in the face of recent desertions of several of the Finalizer’s crew. They were down several petty officers including Thanisson and Unamo. Two Lieutenants, Rodinon and Mitaka. Several Stormtroopers. Worst of all was still the loss of Captain Phasma.
Kylo didn't understand just how Hux could be so calm with all the chaos that was going on. Especially when he'd blown up so when Phasma disappeared.
Worse still, he hadn't yelled at Kylo once during the last three weeks, even in the wake of Kylo's temper tantrums; or so Hux tended to label them.
Even Hux's daily speeches on restoring order to the Galaxy were suffering. They lacked their usual passion, vigour and megalomaniac qualities.
Kylo just knew that something was up and he was determined to get to the bottom of it. Unfortunately Hux had undergone training by Supreme Leader Snoke to guard against Force suggestion. All Kylo was able to get was the name of a space dating sight and something about a dark pilot. It wasn’t much to go on but Kylo Ren was not a quitter. (Jedi training not included in that statement.)
Discovering which dating program Hux was using was simple. Many of the crew members on the Finalizer seemed to be using it or at least thinking about it often. It was nothing for Kylo to pluck the thoughts from their minds while he was in their vicinity.
Thus Kylo Ren joined Spacr under the username matt_tech. Kylo was excited to be using his Matt the Radar Technician persona once again. It had been some time since he'd used Matt for subterfuge. The first time he had done it things had gone so well.
Establishing an account and creating an online persona took little time. Finding this dark pilot was more difficult. It was only by accident that he stumbled across darkpilot228.
Kylo had been browsing through users when he came across a picture of a familiar cat, a cat that just happened to have apparently died lately. A glance through Hux's friends list led him to darkpilot228. The man, if his user image was anything to go by, was obviously a pilot given that he was wearing a bright orange flight suit in the picture, his face was not visible. If this was the right man his position as a pilot would allow him to travel easily to have met up with the various crew members of the Finalizer prior to their forsaking of the First Order.
Feeling himself grinning beneath his mask, Kylo sent the man a friend request and offer to chat. Soon he would have the man right where he wanted him, with a lightsaber through his chest, and everything would be back to normal.
Unfortunately Kylo didn’t account for the fact that the man was absolutely charming and deceptively easy to talk to. Soon enough Kylo was enjoying his exchanges with darkpilott228 and found himself looking forward to his downtime so that he could spend hours exchanging messages with him.
How was work today?
Kylo fights back a little smile at the message that darkpilot228 sent him before replying. He never gave specific details of what he did, the darkpilot228 know only that Matt was a radar technician on a large ship.
My boss was angry today, I received a bit of a dressing-down
That much was true, Supreme Leader Snoke was not happy about the news of the mass desertions on the Finalizer. Hux had taken the majority of Snoke’s wrath and had done so with a stony face, merely promising to put a stop to it as soon as possible. Somehow Kylo doubted he would, not when he was barely addressing it outside of warnings about what would happen should anyone be caught. He knew Hux wasn’t a traitor but didn’t think the General was as loyal as he used to be either.
Sorry to hear; I hope it wasn’t too bad.
It was worse for my co-worker, he’s the one who was more responsible for the issue.
Good for you but bad for him I guess. Hopefully the problem is resolved soon.
I’m getting to the bottom of it, I think I’ve almost found what caused it.
That much was true, but he wouldn’t let darkpilot228 know that he was the one Kylo suspected.
If anyone can fix it I know it’s you! You’re so smart Matt!
Kylo was not blushing, and even if he was anyone who saw him would have their memories wiped of the image. Why anyone would enter Kylo’s personal quarters in the first place was not considered
Thanks /// and I hope so. I have an early day tomorrow so I will message you later. Goodbye.
Sleep well and pleasant dreams ;)
He was most assuredly not falling for the man’s charms. He was not weak like Hux and the others.
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Two months speaking to darkpilot228 and Kylo was ready to go into for the kill, he had been given an excuse to go planet side for a personal mission and Hux had not batted an eyelash at the request, only told him not to bother him when he was busy.
(There was less spite and fire in that voice than usual. Kylo would never admit it out loud but he missed the verbal spars he used to have with Hux.)
Kylo rented an apartment in the Middle City for his time on the planet, and he eagerly told darkpilot228 about it, giving him the address in hopes that they could meet. To keep anyone fro discovering his plan, Kylo took his own ship and once he was well away from the Finalizer donned the disguise of Matt the Radar Technician before he landed on the planet.
Given that he truly does have business on the planet, Kylo sees to this first, assassinating the Supreme Leader’s enemies always gets him in a good mood. He also retrieves several items from a notable collector of Jedi and Sith artefacts. The man’s usefulness means that he gets to live, but Kylo makes sure he doesn’t remember that he was visited by Kylo Ren.
He sends another message to darkpilot228 after his business is concluded and invites him to the apartment.
I can’t wait to see you ;) I’ll be there in two days time!
Kylo tries not to gloat, too much, and he sends back a quick Can’t wait to see you! Everything is going according to plan.
Two days later Kylo waits in anticipation for the knock at the door that will signal his guest has arrived. He’s fully dressed as Matt the Radar Technician, including the large glasses. It’s not until shortly after mid day that there’s a knock at the door and Kylo has to push down the thrill of excitement that runs through him, soon he will get down to the bottom of the First Order defections and Hux’s odd behaviour.
Putting on a carefully nervous smile, he goes to the door and opens it.
“Hi Matt!” Kylo was not expecting he voice of darkpilot228 to be so familiar to him, he’s even more surprised when he looks down into the big brown eyes of Poe Dameron. He isn’t sure whether to be surprised or laugh because of course, if anyone was charismatic enough to sway members of the First Order away from their posts it would be the beloved ace pilot of the Resistance.
Keeping his reactions hidden, Kylo forces a shy smile to his face. “Hi darkpilot, I’m really glad you could make it. . . i-it’s great to finally meet you.” He steps aside to let Poe in, watching the smaller man as he passes by him. Poe is dressed in dark clothes, Kylo’s not sure he’s ever seen him wear black before, it looks really good on him, particularly the tight black sweater that seems to hug him everywhere, accentuating his waist in a way that makes Kylo wonder if he could wrap both his hands around it.
“You can just call me Poe.” Poe seems to have no issues using his real name, it’s unwise of him. Kylo can’t help but wonder if he’s grown so cocky that he knows any First Order members that contact and meet with him will also defect.
Closing the door, Kylo is unsure of what to do for a moment before remembering how his mother always offered tea to her guests. “Would you like a drink?”
Poe shakes his head, reaching out and catching Kylo’s hand in his own. “You look tense Matt. Why don’t we go sit down and I can give you a massage. I mean with how hard you work, you deserve it.” He paused looking up at Kylo. “You might have to sit on the floor, you’re really tall, but we can put pillows down for you to sit on.”
Kylo hesitated; he wasn’t sure if he wanted Poe to touch him, at he same time though a massage would likely feel really good. “Alright. . .”
When Poe smiled brightly up at him, Kylo’s heart most certainly did not skip a beat in the wake of Poe’s smile. “You get comfortable, and I’m gunna go find some oil or cream. I’m not expecting you to take your shirt off or anything, but it does feel nice.”
The way Poe spoke made Kylo feel reassured, nodding he set about making himself a nice little nest of pillows and then made himself comfortable there.
“I found a hairbrush in there, I love having my hair brushed so I figured you might like the same.” Poe is smiling so brightly that it make Kylo almost weak kneed, good thing he was sitting.
He’s glad that he died his hair instead of the wig this time, in truth he really enjoyed having his hair brushed. “Thank you I-I’d like that.”
Poe settles on the bed behind Kylo and it’s not long before Kylo is practically melting into him. “Your hands are like heaven, by the Force.” Why had Poe ever become a pilot! If Kylo had known about the magic of his hands he might never have joined the dark side. “Ooooh right there.” He moans as Poe found a particularly sore spot at the base of his neck.
“You weren’t lying about your job being stressful.” Poe says as he works the spot, until Kylo feels the muscles loosen up there. “Your boss must be a real jerk.”
Kylo hums in agreement. “He’s been really stressed lately, but my uh that feels nice, my I guess supervisor has been better than normal, so that’s been good.”
“That’s good to hear.” After awhile Poe stops the massage, “You’re about as relaxed as you can get, why don’t we move to your hair?”
Kylo only nods and Poe sets about brushing Kylo’s hair and humming as he does. It’s almost enough to lull Kylo to sleep. He relaxes against Poe, enjoying the way the brush moves through his hair. In some ways it reminds him of when he was young and his mother used to do this for him. Surprisingly that doesn’t make him as angry as it normally would have.
“I like your hair, it’s nice.” Poe says his humming coming to a stop as he speaks. “You look good as a blond Ben.”
Seconds after the words are out of Poe’s mouth, Kylo is moving; he quickly has Poe on the bed, pressing him into the mattress with a hand around his throat. “How did you know?”
Poe doesn’t seem at all worried about their current position. “We grew up together Ben; of course I would recognize you. I even knew who you were when we first again back on Jakku. You know when you had me tortured and ripped the maps location from my mind.”
“I had thought you would be more broken up after what I did, I was not gentle.” Kylo’s grip on Poe’s neck loosens slightly.
Poe looks up at Kylo from where he’s being pinned to the bed, he doesn’t seem at all afraid. "Does that disappoint you?"
". . .not as much as it should." Kylo admits, pulling away to let Poe up. “So I was right about you luring the members of the First Order away. How did you do it? Even General Hux. . .”
There’s a fond smile on Poe’s face at the mention of Hux, “Ari is great, we talked about Millie and we’re still talking almost every night. I send him updates about her.”
Kylo huffs at that, “I knew his story about her having died was false, even Hux could not be so nonchalant about the death of his beloved pet.”
“Yeah, she’s been sleeping in my room back on base. She and BB-8 get along swimmingly.” Kylo chuckles at the though.
Things are quiet between them after that, the two men study each other searching for what Kylo doesn’t know. It’s Poe who breaks the silence though. “Come home with me Ben, you can do so much good working with us. The First Order is failing and even then it wasn’t going to bring balance to the Galaxy like they claimed.”
In truth Kylo never cared much for the First Order, what was important to him had always been being more like his grandfather and becoming stronger. Snoke had promised both these things and not delivered. The death of his father at his own hands had made him feel weaker. Besides if Snoke was considered one of the strongest Force Users in the Galaxy, then Kylo would be stronger for beating him (and hadn’t his grandfather thrown off the Emperor’s shackles to find redemption?)
“Alight, I’ll go back with you. . . maybe these Jedi and Sith artefacts I have with me will soften the blow of my punishment.”
Poe shakes his head, reaching over and giving Kylo a hug. “Your mom is just going to be happy to have you back. Everyone else will get used to you; they did for all the other strays I brought home.”
Kylo laughs weakly and returns Poe’s hug. “Alright, let’s go home them.”
[Fill] Everyone Needs a Little Spacr [4/5]
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Something was up with Hux, Kylo could tell this even without having the Force. The General was an impenetrable wall of calm as of late. Though Hux had never been an emotional man. Ren would have thought the death of his cat would have had some effect on his emotional stability. Despite the creature's death, Hux seemed almost serene. It was especially odd in the face of recent desertions of several of the Finalizer’s crew. They were down several petty officers including Thanisson and Unamo. Two Lieutenants, Rodinon and Mitaka. Several Stormtroopers. Worst of all was still the loss of Captain Phasma.
Kylo didn't understand just how Hux could be so calm with all the chaos that was going on. Especially when he'd blown up so when Phasma disappeared.
Worse still, he hadn't yelled at Kylo once during the last three weeks, even in the wake of Kylo's temper tantrums; or so Hux tended to label them.
Even Hux's daily speeches on restoring order to the Galaxy were suffering. They lacked their usual passion, vigour and megalomaniac qualities.
Kylo just knew that something was up and he was determined to get to the bottom of it.
Unfortunately Hux had undergone training by Supreme Leader Snoke to guard against Force suggestion. All Kylo was able to get was the name of a space dating sight and something about a dark pilot. It wasn’t much to go on but Kylo Ren was not a quitter. (Jedi training not included in that statement.)
Discovering which dating program Hux was using was simple. Many of the crew members on the Finalizer seemed to be using it or at least thinking about it often. It was nothing for Kylo to pluck the thoughts from their minds while he was in their vicinity.
Thus Kylo Ren joined Spacr under the username matt_tech. Kylo was excited to be using his Matt the Radar Technician persona once again. It had been some time since he'd used Matt for subterfuge. The first time he had done it things had gone so well.
Establishing an account and creating an online persona took little time. Finding this dark pilot was more difficult. It was only by accident that he stumbled across darkpilot228.
Kylo had been browsing through users when he came across a picture of a familiar cat, a cat that just happened to have apparently died lately. A glance through Hux's friends list led him to darkpilot228. The man, if his user image was anything to go by, was obviously a pilot given that he was wearing a bright orange flight suit in the picture, his face was not visible. If this was the right man his position as a pilot would allow him to travel easily to have met up with the various crew members of the Finalizer prior to their forsaking of the First Order.
Feeling himself grinning beneath his mask, Kylo sent the man a friend request and offer to chat. Soon he would have the man right where he wanted him, with a lightsaber through his chest, and everything would be back to normal.
Unfortunately Kylo didn’t account for the fact that the man was absolutely charming and deceptively easy to talk to. Soon enough Kylo was enjoying his exchanges with darkpilott228 and found himself looking forward to his downtime so that he could spend hours exchanging messages with him.
How was work today?
Kylo fights back a little smile at the message that darkpilot228 sent him before replying. He never gave specific details of what he did, the darkpilot228 know only that Matt was a radar technician on a large ship.
My boss was angry today, I received a bit of a dressing-down
That much was true, Supreme Leader Snoke was not happy about the news of the mass desertions on the Finalizer. Hux had taken the majority of Snoke’s wrath and had done so with a stony face, merely promising to put a stop to it as soon as possible. Somehow Kylo doubted he would, not when he was barely addressing it outside of warnings about what would happen should anyone be caught. He knew Hux wasn’t a traitor but didn’t think the General was as loyal as he used to be either.
Sorry to hear; I hope it wasn’t too bad.
It was worse for my co-worker, he’s the one who was more responsible for the issue.
Good for you but bad for him I guess. Hopefully the problem is resolved soon.
I’m getting to the bottom of it, I think I’ve almost found what caused it.
That much was true, but he wouldn’t let darkpilot228 know that he was the one Kylo suspected.
If anyone can fix it I know it’s you! You’re so smart Matt!
Kylo was not blushing, and even if he was anyone who saw him would have their memories wiped of the image. Why anyone would enter Kylo’s personal quarters in the first place was not considered
Thanks /// and I hope so. I have an early day tomorrow so I will message you later. Goodbye.
Sleep well and pleasant dreams ;)
He was most assuredly not falling for the man’s charms. He was not weak like Hux and the others.
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Two months speaking to darkpilot228 and Kylo was ready to go into for the kill, he had been given an excuse to go planet side for a personal mission and Hux had not batted an eyelash at the request, only told him not to bother him when he was busy.
(There was less spite and fire in that voice than usual. Kylo would never admit it out loud but he missed the verbal spars he used to have with Hux.)
Kylo rented an apartment in the Middle City for his time on the planet, and he eagerly told darkpilot228 about it, giving him the address in hopes that they could meet. To keep anyone fro discovering his plan, Kylo took his own ship and once he was well away from the Finalizer donned the disguise of Matt the Radar Technician before he landed on the planet.
Given that he truly does have business on the planet, Kylo sees to this first, assassinating the Supreme Leader’s enemies always gets him in a good mood. He also retrieves several items from a notable collector of Jedi and Sith artefacts. The man’s usefulness means that he gets to live, but Kylo makes sure he doesn’t remember that he was visited by Kylo Ren.
He sends another message to darkpilot228 after his business is concluded and invites him to the apartment.
I can’t wait to see you ;) I’ll be there in two days time!
Kylo tries not to gloat, too much, and he sends back a quick Can’t wait to see you! Everything is going according to plan.
Two days later Kylo waits in anticipation for the knock at the door that will signal his guest has arrived. He’s fully dressed as Matt the Radar Technician, including the large glasses. It’s not until shortly after mid day that there’s a knock at the door and Kylo has to push down the thrill of excitement that runs through him, soon he will get down to the bottom of the First Order defections and Hux’s odd behaviour.
Putting on a carefully nervous smile, he goes to the door and opens it.
“Hi Matt!” Kylo was not expecting he voice of darkpilot228 to be so familiar to him, he’s even more surprised when he looks down into the big brown eyes of Poe Dameron. He isn’t sure whether to be surprised or laugh because of course, if anyone was charismatic enough to sway members of the First Order away from their posts it would be the beloved ace pilot of the Resistance.
Keeping his reactions hidden, Kylo forces a shy smile to his face. “Hi darkpilot, I’m really glad you could make it. . . i-it’s great to finally meet you.” He steps aside to let Poe in, watching the smaller man as he passes by him. Poe is dressed in dark clothes, Kylo’s not sure he’s ever seen him wear black before, it looks really good on him, particularly the tight black sweater that seems to hug him everywhere, accentuating his waist in a way that makes Kylo wonder if he could wrap both his hands around it.
“You can just call me Poe.” Poe seems to have no issues using his real name, it’s unwise of him. Kylo can’t help but wonder if he’s grown so cocky that he knows any First Order members that contact and meet with him will also defect.
Closing the door, Kylo is unsure of what to do for a moment before remembering how his mother always offered tea to her guests. “Would you like a drink?”
Poe shakes his head, reaching out and catching Kylo’s hand in his own. “You look tense Matt. Why don’t we go sit down and I can give you a massage. I mean with how hard you work, you deserve it.” He paused looking up at Kylo. “You might have to sit on the floor, you’re really tall, but we can put pillows down for you to sit on.”
Kylo hesitated; he wasn’t sure if he wanted Poe to touch him, at he same time though a massage would likely feel really good. “Alright. . .”
When Poe smiled brightly up at him, Kylo’s heart most certainly did not skip a beat in the wake of Poe’s smile. “You get comfortable, and I’m gunna go find some oil or cream. I’m not expecting you to take your shirt off or anything, but it does feel nice.”
The way Poe spoke made Kylo feel reassured, nodding he set about making himself a nice little nest of pillows and then made himself comfortable there.
“I found a hairbrush in there, I love having my hair brushed so I figured you might like the same.” Poe is smiling so brightly that it make Kylo almost weak kneed, good thing he was sitting.
He’s glad that he died his hair instead of the wig this time, in truth he really enjoyed having his hair brushed. “Thank you I-I’d like that.”
Poe settles on the bed behind Kylo and it’s not long before Kylo is practically melting into him. “Your hands are like heaven, by the Force.” Why had Poe ever become a pilot! If Kylo had known about the magic of his hands he might never have joined the dark side. “Ooooh right there.” He moans as Poe found a particularly sore spot at the base of his neck.
“You weren’t lying about your job being stressful.” Poe says as he works the spot, until Kylo feels the muscles loosen up there. “Your boss must be a real jerk.”
Kylo hums in agreement. “He’s been really stressed lately, but my uh that feels nice, my I guess supervisor has been better than normal, so that’s been good.”
“That’s good to hear.” After awhile Poe stops the massage, “You’re about as relaxed as you can get, why don’t we move to your hair?”
Kylo only nods and Poe sets about brushing Kylo’s hair and humming as he does. It’s almost enough to lull Kylo to sleep. He relaxes against Poe, enjoying the way the brush moves through his hair. In some ways it reminds him of when he was young and his mother used to do this for him. Surprisingly that doesn’t make him as angry as it normally would have.
“I like your hair, it’s nice.” Poe says his humming coming to a stop as he speaks. “You look good as a blond Ben.”
Seconds after the words are out of Poe’s mouth, Kylo is moving; he quickly has Poe on the bed, pressing him into the mattress with a hand around his throat. “How did you know?”
Poe doesn’t seem at all worried about their current position. “We grew up together Ben; of course I would recognize you. I even knew who you were when we first again back on Jakku. You know when you had me tortured and ripped the maps location from my mind.”
“I had thought you would be more broken up after what I did, I was not gentle.” Kylo’s grip on Poe’s neck loosens slightly.
Poe looks up at Kylo from where he’s being pinned to the bed, he doesn’t seem at all afraid. "Does that disappoint you?"
". . .not as much as it should." Kylo admits, pulling away to let Poe up. “So I was right about you luring the members of the First Order away. How did you do it? Even General Hux. . .”
There’s a fond smile on Poe’s face at the mention of Hux, “Ari is great, we talked about Millie and we’re still talking almost every night. I send him updates about her.”
Kylo huffs at that, “I knew his story about her having died was false, even Hux could not be so nonchalant about the death of his beloved pet.”
“Yeah, she’s been sleeping in my room back on base. She and BB-8 get along swimmingly.” Kylo chuckles at the though.
Things are quiet between them after that, the two men study each other searching for what Kylo doesn’t know. It’s Poe who breaks the silence though. “Come home with me Ben, you can do so much good working with us. The First Order is failing and even then it wasn’t going to bring balance to the Galaxy like they claimed.”
In truth Kylo never cared much for the First Order, what was important to him had always been being more like his grandfather and becoming stronger. Snoke had promised both these things and not delivered. The death of his father at his own hands had made him feel weaker. Besides if Snoke was considered one of the strongest Force Users in the Galaxy, then Kylo would be stronger for beating him (and hadn’t his grandfather thrown off the Emperor’s shackles to find redemption?)
“Alight, I’ll go back with you. . . maybe these Jedi and Sith artefacts I have with me will soften the blow of my punishment.”
Poe shakes his head, reaching over and giving Kylo a hug. “Your mom is just going to be happy to have you back. Everyone else will get used to you; they did for all the other strays I brought home.”
Kylo laughs weakly and returns Poe’s hug. “Alright, let’s go home them.”