"Adventure'
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He seemed to hesitate a moment, caught up in the strength of her conviction.
“Well?” she goaded him when he kept silent, his lips pressed tight despite the tempest in his gaze. “Go on.” Though barely any space between them already,
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she drew closer. “What do /I/ want, Hux?”
The challenge in her voice seemed to stir him.
“You, Miss Tico, want what men and women have always wanted, since the dawn of the galaxy: freedom.”
That was not an answer she’d been expecting.
Swallowing hard, she gathered her wits.
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“What the kriff are you talking about, Hux? The Outer Rim /is/ free. For the first time in /centuries/ it’s free!”
He tilted his chin down a fraction.
“Not the Outer Rim, Rose. You.”
She opened her mouth to retort, trying to draw away, but Hux’s grip encircled her wrist,
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pinning her to him.
“Oh, you’ve created for yourself quite the legacy: upstart rebel turned talented Commander, I’ll give you that,” he went on. “You’ve bested the Senate enough times at their own political games that no one would doubt your aptitude for the job.”
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“I’ve bested you, too,” she pointed out.
He smirked.
“You have. And yet you despise the political games, the pomp & circumstance, the endless negotiations. You play the part,” he whispered, his words striking something so vulnerable within her that it left her breathless,
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“but you can’t stand it.”
Speechless, Rose searched his grim expression and found her own truth staring back at her.
“You— it’s the same for you, isn’t it?” Her voice trembled with sudden realization. “You can’t stand it, either. You’re kriffing... /bored/ of it all,
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aren’t you?”
Hux grimaced, releasing his hold on her, but she didn’t pull away.
“I’ve found peace doesn’t suit me,” he admitted with a sniff.
Rose pursed her lips. “How convenient for you.”
But he was right. She’d never felt the same rush, the same sense of purpose...
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sitting behind a big, important desk compared to when she was stuffing herself under the engine compartment of an X-Wing before a battle, perched precariously on the edge of life and death.
“So, what are you proposing? We start a war just to satisfy that itch, huh?”
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“Of course not,” he scoffed. “No, I’m preparing an expedition. An adventure of sorts.”
“An adventure?”
Giddy mischief lifted his features in an undeniably charming way.
“Yes," he said. "Charting new territory in the Unknown Regions. And I want you to accompany me.”
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Rose gaped at him.
“But— but the Outer Rim!”
“Will be fine without us.” He waved his hand dismissively. “Or have you wrapped the Allied Rim around yourself so tightly that they’ll be helpless in your absence?”
“They’d be fine,” Rose said, “but why /me/?”
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Hux used the pad of his finger to lift her chin upwards. Before she could react, he tilted his head down and caught her lips in a soft, tantalizing kiss.
Rose felt her entire body heat like molten durasteel, her head dizzy as he pulled away.
“On that, it should be obvious,”
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he whispered against her lips. “Or do you need another demonstration?”
She blinked slowly, trying to clear her head.
“Maybe one or two more,” she said before she could stop herself.
His breath caught. “Is that mean yes?”
A dangerous mission into uncharted space with...
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one of the most dangerous men in the galaxy?
Rose felt a long-forgotten sensation, one that would always grip her before joining Poe and Finn on another one of their dangerous, exciting escapades.
Learning, exploring, forging her own path... and no more politics.
“Maybe,”
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she said in lieu of answering outright, fixing Hux with a sly smile. “Maybe I /do/ need a bit more convincing.”
His mouth quirked.
“That can be arranged.”
“Then by all means,“ Rose fisted her hand in the front of his uniform, hauling him in once again, “convince me.”
~🧡🌹
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Yay! It's finished! Thanks to everyone who followed along, and my apologies for the final installment coming a bit later than I'd planned. Kisses to all!