#gingerflower

a #gingerrose story for #GRW24

Breaking Hux out of New Alliance custody on the eve of his execution marks Rose as a wanted criminal. Together, the pair travel the galaxy, avoiding detection from searching authorities and navigating their odd life- and tangled feelings- as an unlikely, but effective, team.

But they can't run forever.

Rated: M

Ch 1: Tatooine

it's been a long, hot day on this forest planet, and Rose is about to go jump in the pond. and Hux? he might just have to follow... strictly for cleanliness...

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Rose floats on her back, kicking her legs gently, the canopy of trees backlit by the late-afternoon sun. Her basics are just a suggestion at this point, plastered to her skin, but at least now they're saturated with cool water instead of sweat.

"Tico--"

Her progress is halted when she collides with him, a gentle, accidental bump of her head into his warm bare chest. "Oh," Rose says quietly, righting herself in the water.

Rose has a strict policy with Hux, one of Not Apologizing. She figures, after everything, it's just. But when she finds herself treading water so close to him that her skin brushes his, she's unable to think of anything else to say. "Sorry," she breathes, her voice a whisper.

He's looking into the space between them, where one end of Rose's breast band has begun to unravel; and Rose takes advantage of his distraction to study up close the lines of his face and shoulders. She's heard about the First Order hazing, the things his own father said about him. She catalogs the patterns in the ink that creeps up his arms and across his shoulders. Camouflage, she thinks. Something to hide behind.

When she looks him full in the face, he's giving her one of those looks--the kind they've spent weeks or months pretending not to see. Something warm brushes against her side, and again--his fingers, a delicate, tentative touch. Rose crowds in closer, one leg making gentle contact with his in the water. Hux lets her, his hand splaying against her back, and Rose finally closes the distance between their lips. She's not apologizing for this, either.

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When canon gets fucked up, fanfiction is our only salvation, isn't it?.. 😁

Rose Tico is floundering after the war - no home, no family, no purpose. When she is offered the opportunity to be part of a covert group tasked with identifying and neutralizing potential threats to the New Republic, she jumps at the chance.

It's only after their first mission that Rose learns her teammates' identities: an assassin, a spicerunner, a former stormtrooper, and the man who once ordered her execution.

But is he more than that?

Or is he the same cunning, self-serving tactician with his own hidden agenda?

As they train, plan, and execute missions, Rose begins to wonder if she has finally found her purpose. Maybe even a family - with women who fight and love as fiercely as sisters, a boy who needs her as much as she needs him, an overbearing droid, and even a cat.

Is Hux a part of that purpose? That family? Or will his secrets and their consequences destroy it all?

Chapters: 26/26 (Teen And Up Audiences) Relationships: Armitage Hux/Rose Tico, Armitage Hux & Millicent the Cat, Armitage Hux & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Rey & Rose Tico, Poe Dameron/Finn, Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Kylo Ren/Rey, Rey/Ben Solo, Armitage Hux & Knights of Ren, Armitage Hux & Knights of Ren & Kylo Ren, Leia Organa & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Rose Tico & Millicent the Cat, Knights of Ren & Rey

Characters: Armitage Hux, Rose Tico, Millicent the Cat (Star Wars), Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Supreme Council, Rey (Star Wars), Leia Organa, Knights of Ren, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s)

Additional Tags: Gingerrose - Freeform, Gingerflower, Enemies to Lovers, spy hux, Resistence contact Rose, Falling In Love, secret meeting, confession of love, First Kiss, Biting, Light Smut, post-TJL, Pre TROS, Huxrose, Fluff and Angst, POV Rose Tico, POV Armitage Hux, Angst, Enemies to Allies, Force Choking, minor stormpilot, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Force Bond (Star Wars), glimpses of Reylo, Minor Reylo, allies bonding, Canon-Typical Violence, Assassination Attempt(s), Minor Character Death, BAMF Rey, The KoR are in love with Rey, GingerRose Babies - Freeform, Reylo babies, Complete

Summary: Rose is the person Leia has placed in charge of staying in touch and receiving the intel provided by the spy in the First Order. Over time, they end up becoming friends and, when they decide to meet in person, she ends up meeting the person she least expected.

Modern Greek Mythology Gingerrose AU, inspired by this post by @imeggsywafflex

Rose is the goddess of Hearth, Home, and Hospitality, known to the Ancient Greeks as Hestia, while Armitage is the god of Strife and Discord, known to the Ancient Greeks as Eris, and mistaken for a woman during those times due to his delicate beauty.

Armitage is not the most welcome of gods on Mount Olympus, due to most finding his ever-present aura of conflict unpleasant, but strangely, there’s always one place open to him—the home and hearth of Rose, goddess of everything that contradicts his sphere of influence.

About the Moodboard

Two of Hestia’s symbols are depicted here, with the hearth fire being one of her most well-known symbols, the second being the datura flower shown here, and it is a double symbol of Hestia, as its lavender color is also associated with the goddess.

(It’s a little more purple than “lavender” but anyway—)

The golden apple is one of Eris’ most well-known symbols, the apple being the famed one which basically started the Trojan War, and she was commonly depicted with a xiphos, the sword featured in this moodboard.