you keep dreaming and i'm scheming

[mismanagement]

Who: Maketh Tua, Rey, Henry Percy, Lance Sweets, Nick Valentine.
What: Some needed conversations.
Where: Guard Post
When: Nov 10
Warnings: tbd



It's a normal day, so far as Maketh knows. She's got a mug of good coffee, reports that only need marginal corrections before they can be filed, and no one has killed anyone yet. The day is young but she's hopeful. And in a relatively good mood.

She looks up with a faint smile.

"Oh, hello. I wasn't expecting you."

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[mismanagement]

Once, she would have cowered before the noise, before someone as strong as Rey and the sheer weight of her rage. That was before she was an officer, a soldier, and Maketh refuses to feel like she is small. Not now, not for anyone.

She leans forward, teeth bared. "I am doing what is necessary! If you cannot see that, then get out of my way."

[circumitus]

This is pointless.

Rey takes a deep breath, but it doesn't do much to put her nerves at ease.

"If that's what you truly think, then I'm shutting you down. Your weapon, Hux -- I'll find them and destroy them. That's a promise." Her jaw clenches. "As for you, you have no more authority here to order me like that. If you are with them, you are not a Guardsman."

[mismanagement]

Oh, she'l try. She'll fucking try.

Maketh goes very still. Her eyes are wide and furious, hands shaking. She can't fight back, not like this, but soon. She needs to counter, get back on top. Protect her assets.

"You--traitor. Get your hands off me."

Rey is being foolish. She'll see this soon enough.

[circumitus]

It's over. Rey knows what needs to be done, and Maketh isn't making it any easier. Her silence gives her a moment of clarity. She'll need to have Maketh watched. Her weapon sabotaged. Take away everything she worked for that led her to this.

If she's going to do this, she needs to move fast. Not give Maketh the chance to act and make this worse.

"I loved you," Rey tells her again, her words mist, feeling defeated but not deterred. "I still do. That's why I have to do this."

With that, she slams her head against Maketh's face. The force hard enough to knock her out.