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Your wish is my command, dear!

“Come here,” Hux says, and Ren assumes this is addressed to Millicent. There has never been a more spoiled creature in the entire galaxy than that cat, Ren thinks, maybe a touch jealous. All of Hux’s coldness and irritability melt away in the presence of his favored pet; he is downright tender. The feeling is mutual. Millicent purrs from the moment Hux walks in the door until the moment he leaves, and then she jumps onto his bed or desk chair and goes to sleep. She is reluctant to share, but will allow it because Hux approves. 

“You,” Hux says, beckoning Ren. “Come here.”

He does not sound particularly commanding. He sounds almost pleading, except he’s smiling, he enjoys making the request. He’s sitting on the bed, up against the headboard, waiting. Millicent hurries out in front of Ren, goes to Hux, climbs onto his shoulders but leaves his lap free, and Ren takes the opportunity.

“Thought you meant the cat,” Ren says, muffled against Hux’s stomach.

“Does that mean I’ve started talking to you the way I talk to her?”

“It’d be nice to be spoiled the way she is.”

Hux ruffles Ren’s hair, and, catlike, Ren feels himself press into the touch. “Shall I spoil you, Commander?”

“Yes,” Ren says, shifting so he’s looking up at Hux. “You will. Just like Millicent.”

“You wouldn’t like it, if I did it just the way I do with Millicent. Fattening you up and keeping you trapped in my room? You’d go mad. You’re a very different sort of pet.”

“What sort, then?” Ren wants to know. 

Hux smirks. “A beast. A lovely beast.”

This answer pleases Ren, who proves his beastliness by nipping at Hux’s fingertips when he runs them across Ren’s lips. It is so wonderful to be thought of as a lovely beast by someone like Hux, for someone like Hux to think of him as both dangerous and beautiful. He will later thank Hux by fucking him, primal, thoughtless, all teeth and iron grip and snarled thankful commands, but for now he is content to laze in Hux’s arms, a gentle pet for the moment.