Thinking about kylux as friends again

Coworkers to friends to lovers to enemies to hate!sex to friends to lovers

If it started out okay between them—if they‘re wary of each other but they’re both young and untested and trying to prove themselves and eventually fall into a rapport. It turns out they work well together. And well, they’re both so damn lonely that the camaraderie becomes more.

But Snoke can’t allow Kylo to form any real bonds, least of all with Hux who’s an obvious snake in the grass, so he starts driving a wedge between them. And they’re both insecure messes and bad communicators and don’t know what they’re doing so they get in their own way, too.

So by the time Starkiller is complete, they’re at each other’s throats and plotting against one another. It’s worse than a normal rivalry because they know each other SO WELL, both of them know exactly which bruises to press—and do.

Plus they can’t really stay away, can they?

Then Jakku happens and everything really goes to shit. Kylo kills Snoke, which should be the end of it—after all, Snoke divided them—but he doesn’t know how to get back to what they were. Hux snaps at him and he lashes out back and they go around like that for a while.

But maybe—and we’re obviously diverging here but whatever—maybe after one late night working on strategy, Kylo wants Hux to stay for a drink. And Hux treats it like an order, which upsets Kylo, and they finally get into it, wading through the debris of everything they were.

It’s much more tentative than they ever were, and they’re very much on eggshells around each other and there’s still Crait to get past.

(The secondary result is that the Order functions so much better when the two of them are getting along but no one’s brave enough to say that.)