The Hunter and the Hunted

[conflictedheart]

He wasn't certain what was worse - the cold or the burning. Maybe they were feeding into one another, at this point, he wasn't sure. His face and shoulder burned, his side burned, but the rest of him was cold. The snow, a logical part of his mind reminded him, but it was a far away concept right now. It wasn't just his body broken down from the fight against a traitor and a scavenger, not to mention that damned Wookie's blast to his abdomen, but his pride, and his energy, were stripped to nearly nothing.

The planet rumbled around him, a deep bass sound that echoed around in his skull, but even as the ground quaked in the world's death throes, there was no strength left in him to get up and continue. He had given the last of it to that fight, and now he was paying for pushing his body so hard. He would pay with his life, for he knew the planet wouldn't have long.

As the cold started to seep in further, replacing the burning, his mind replayed over what had happened so shortly before, despite everything in him that didn't want to think on what he had done. He had done what Snoke hadn't believed him ready for; he had destroyed the source of the Light that plagued him deep within. Yet... he could not deny what he had felt in those last moments, at the lone truly affectionate touch he had in so many years, at the hand of the father who he had forsaken. Killed. Even as he succeeded, he had failed.

The tear that fell was nothing against the pain of the burn across his face, eyes closed as he waited for the end to come.

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[conflictedheart]

"I'm surprised it escaped your notice I'm waiting long enough for these," a vague gesture towards the bacta patches, "to finish before I leave and stop terrorizing your frustrating medical staff. Who, if they threaten me with sedatives again, I will hold no responsibility for killing." That was the only warning you were getting, Hux.

Oh yes 'Emperor', completely for the First Order. Hrmp. "Our goals are not the same." A snap in his voice, as if Hux hadn't been there for many of his sessions with the Supreme Leader. Already this conversation was starting to vex him. What was Hux getting on about? The fact that they had both failed was miserable. Lost the traitor and the girl, lost Starkiller Base and a large amount of troops.

The only small victory was in the destruction of his foolish father. He would never admit it kept haunting his sleep.

[notaservant]

The constant whining that came from Kylo. It was so like Kylo to turn everything on to himself. This, Hux did not miss. His concern for the young man was quickly disappearing. He held his hand up in annoyance.

"I expect you out of here by the end of this week. If you don't listen to what they have to say I will personally supervise what's going on. I will be more then happy to sedate you, if necessary, and it won't be pleasant." Hux warned and continued to speak in a brisk manner.

"No more wallowing in self pity. I will have new strategies and plans set up by then and they will involve us working together whether or not the Supreme Leader agrees."

[conflictedheart]

Oh get over yourself. A whole four years older. However, that threat sent a flare of heat that turned his boiling rage into a white-hit fury. It all but shone in his eyes as he turned his gaze hard on the General. "I'd like to see you try." Promises, promises in that tone of voice. Promises of violence. So not in the mood. "I might be hurt but I will have no issue in making sure you crawl the length of this ship in nothing but that stupid hat."

He did, however, raise a brow. "Has losing your impressive little toy made you lose all of your senses? That would explain you coming to threaten me and why you'd let your tongue suggest such a thing as going against /his/ choices."

[notaservant]

He simply waved off the threat not phased at all by it. "I will do what it takes to regain Order," Hux replied.

Loosing his weapon had been a major blow to his ego and he was desperate to try and find control again. He knew that immediately as he uttered those words it would come back to their Leader and he would be reprimanded.

[conflictedheart]

Reprimanded? He fully believed that given the failure of Starkiller, that Hux would never survive the next meeting with Snoke. He had no real idea yet of what had happened to save him from the surface, that Hux had been sent there by Snoke himself, but statements like that definitely lead down a darker path as far as he was concerned. "Of course you will." His statement was as dry as possible, wanting to go back into his meditative state that had been keeping the pain to a minimum. His eyes closed, though all of his senses remained on the General. "You should return to that."