kylocanyounot

☎- drunk, questionable voicemail message

| techiehux

kylocanyounot:

Kylo pressed a small button on his helmet, brows furrowed at the message. He knew who, just not wide. It played quietly to him inside the helmet, and thank the stars he was wearing it. He’s was three shades of red and fairly concerned.

He stalked down to the levels of the ship where he likely lived and using the information he could conjure up in the ship’s data bank found his room.

“What was that?!” He balked, still more embarrassed than anything, but at least hidden.

Techie was hyped up on three kinds of energy drinks laced with a few shots of vodka. He’d been awake for nearing 54 hours without rest and was, needless to say, far from reality.

As a tech he had access to the comms of quite a few higher ups, and as a Hux he had access to quite a few *more*, so it wasn’t so hard for him to call up Kylo Ren himself and leave a message.

And when Kylo Ren marched up to him and said… something (Techie wasn’t aware enough to know WHAT), all Techie did was giggle and stumble towards him.

A flash of red caught his eye. There weren’t that many red-heads around after all. “Hux! We need to discuss–” his vocoder voice cut off mid sentence as he finally got a decent look at the man. It wasn’t the General, but… “How…? Who are you?” he demanded. -kylocanyounot

| techiehux

techiehux:

@kylocanyounot

Techie froze and felt ice run through his veins. Why is Kylo Ren, of all people, talking to him?! The blood is pulsing so hard in his ears that he doesn’t even know what the man is saying, and can only stare blankly at him.

“Um, ah,” he says, very intelligently.

And then bolts for the nearest exit.

He clutches onto Ren’s sleeve like his life depends on it. “Mostly I g-get called Techie, and I’m used to it so y-you can call me that…” His eyes focus and refocus on Ren’s face, trying to settle them down.

“You’ve been k-kind to me, at least.” He sways a little on his feet until he finds his balance and tentatively lets go of Ren. With a small smile, he takes a few steps and says, “R-Really! You’re one of th-the few people that have treated me w-well. Ever!”

Techie figures he’s already said it, so he may as well stand behind his words.

A flash of red caught his eye. There weren’t that many red-heads around after all. “Hux! We need to discuss–” his vocoder voice cut off mid sentence as he finally got a decent look at the man. It wasn’t the General, but… “How…? Who are you?” he demanded. -kylocanyounot

| techiehux

techiehux:

@kylocanyounot

Techie froze and felt ice run through his veins. Why is Kylo Ren, of all people, talking to him?! The blood is pulsing so hard in his ears that he doesn’t even know what the man is saying, and can only stare blankly at him.

“Um, ah,” he says, very intelligently.

And then bolts for the nearest exit.

“You h-haven’t disappointed me,” Techie says softly as he blinks and moves his eyes around, trying to get them to settle comfortably in their sockets.

“And I know it d-doesn’t count for much coming from me but… *I’m* happy to see y-you. I thought you w-were scary, and yet, th-the more we speak I feel l-like you’re… kind, too.”

Techie goes pale as he realizes that may have been the wrong thing to say. Didn’t Kylo Ren want to be powerful and intimidating, NOT “kind”? He gets down from the cot on shakey legs.

A flash of red caught his eye. There weren’t that many red-heads around after all. “Hux! We need to discuss–” his vocoder voice cut off mid sentence as he finally got a decent look at the man. It wasn’t the General, but… “How…? Who are you?” he demanded. -kylocanyounot

| techiehux

techiehux:

@kylocanyounot

Techie froze and felt ice run through his veins. Why is Kylo Ren, of all people, talking to him?! The blood is pulsing so hard in his ears that he doesn’t even know what the man is saying, and can only stare blankly at him.

“Um, ah,” he says, very intelligently.

And then bolts for the nearest exit.

“Oh. Oh, no, I d-don’t think you are. You’re th-the co-com-mmander of a huge ship and have r-really cool powers. How could an-anyone think you’re a disappointment?”

The doctor cleans Techie’s eyeballs and leans in to put them back in. He swallows hard when the doctor gets too close.

With a hint of humor, Techie added, “And some people *l-like* assholes.”

A flash of red caught his eye. There weren’t that many red-heads around after all. “Hux! We need to discuss–” his vocoder voice cut off mid sentence as he finally got a decent look at the man. It wasn’t the General, but… “How…? Who are you?” he demanded. -kylocanyounot

| techiehux

techiehux:

@kylocanyounot

Techie froze and felt ice run through his veins. Why is Kylo Ren, of all people, talking to him?! The blood is pulsing so hard in his ears that he doesn’t even know what the man is saying, and can only stare blankly at him.

“Um, ah,” he says, very intelligently.

And then bolts for the nearest exit.

“A w-witch!” Techie lets out a loud guffaw and promptly turns bright pink. He hadn’t meant to laugh. “You’re m-more of a cool wi-wiz-zard,” he says earnestly while the doctor takes his bionic eyeballs and examines them closely.

He looks strange sitting on a medbay cot; sockets empty, smiling faintly, cheeks red.

Techie’s expression turns somber as he recalls Peach Trees. “T-torture, I guess…” He takes a deep breath and adds, “MaMa just *did* th-things, and I wouldn’t know why. It was f-fun for her, probably, to m-make me scream.”

A flash of red caught his eye. There weren’t that many red-heads around after all. “Hux! We need to discuss–” his vocoder voice cut off mid sentence as he finally got a decent look at the man. It wasn’t the General, but… “How…? Who are you?” he demanded. -kylocanyounot

| techiehux

techiehux:

@kylocanyounot

Techie froze and felt ice run through his veins. Why is Kylo Ren, of all people, talking to him?! The blood is pulsing so hard in his ears that he doesn’t even know what the man is saying, and can only stare blankly at him.

“Um, ah,” he says, very intelligently.

And then bolts for the nearest exit.

Techie digs his fingernails into the nasal edges of his eyes and pulls them out slightly, wiggling his fingers to press at a spot behind the eyeball. They release from their place and dangle out of the socket, connected only to the ocular nerve. The extra-ocular muscles twitch and bleed from the sudden separation.

Techie’s tension spikes despite the wave of calm, but he answers Ren as coherently as he can manage, “Hux th-thinks I’m a f-freak. Wh-which I am, s-so I don’t really h-hold it against him.”

A flash of red caught his eye. There weren’t that many red-heads around after all. “Hux! We need to discuss–” his vocoder voice cut off mid sentence as he finally got a decent look at the man. It wasn’t the General, but… “How…? Who are you?” he demanded. -kylocanyounot

| techiehux

techiehux:

@kylocanyounot

Techie froze and felt ice run through his veins. Why is Kylo Ren, of all people, talking to him?! The blood is pulsing so hard in his ears that he doesn’t even know what the man is saying, and can only stare blankly at him.

“Um, ah,” he says, very intelligently.

And then bolts for the nearest exit.

“I have to get th-them checked all the time. Once a month at l-least, or they might g-get infected.” Techie pauses and curls in on himself, shoulders hunched. “It’s not pretty,” he confesses, grimacing. “You don’t h-have to look if you don’t w-want to.”

The doctor comes in and get uncomfortably close to Techie’s face, probably spits on him a few times on accident, rattles off a list of questions that he dutifully answers, then asks him to remove his eyes.

“R-really, it’s gross… I don’t m-mind if you look aw-away.”

A flash of red caught his eye. There weren’t that many red-heads around after all. “Hux! We need to discuss–” his vocoder voice cut off mid sentence as he finally got a decent look at the man. It wasn’t the General, but… “How…? Who are you?” he demanded. -kylocanyounot

| techiehux

techiehux:

@kylocanyounot

Techie froze and felt ice run through his veins. Why is Kylo Ren, of all people, talking to him?! The blood is pulsing so hard in his ears that he doesn’t even know what the man is saying, and can only stare blankly at him.

“Um, ah,” he says, very intelligently.

And then bolts for the nearest exit.

“Stay,” Techie blurts out, much too fast. He hates all the stuff they do to his eyes when he gets them checked. Maybe having Kylo Ren around to talk to while the tests go on would help keep him distracted.

“You think I’m t-tolerable?” That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever said to him. Even Armitage, at best, occasionally calls him “other Hux” instead of “reject”. “Sibling” in the rare event that he had a good lay and is in a better mood.

A different droid comes in and does a quick but obnoxiously loud outer scan of his sclera, cornea, and iris. The worst part is yet to come.

A flash of red caught his eye. There weren’t that many red-heads around after all. “Hux! We need to discuss–” his vocoder voice cut off mid sentence as he finally got a decent look at the man. It wasn’t the General, but… “How…? Who are you?” he demanded. -kylocanyounot

| techiehux

techiehux:

@kylocanyounot

Techie froze and felt ice run through his veins. Why is Kylo Ren, of all people, talking to him?! The blood is pulsing so hard in his ears that he doesn’t even know what the man is saying, and can only stare blankly at him.

“Um, ah,” he says, very intelligently.

And then bolts for the nearest exit.

Techie, meanwhile, was blushing like a newlywed at being picked up in Ren’s arms. He wasn’t used to being touched at all, much less so kindly (or by someone so scary).

All he could do was cling to Ren like a child and hope this wasn’t an elaborate trick or a new, strange form of abuse. He wasn’t sure he could survive something like that. Still, Ren kept feeding him the calm and as they went to the medbay Techie began to melt into Ren.

This is very… nice, actually.

The ride was over much too soon, and Ren deposited him onto the cot. Techie looked up at Ren in wonder. “Th-thank you,” he said, “You didn’t h-have to help m-me, so I… I r-really appreciate it.”