Ahsoka's pov

I gripped Echo's tooka doll to my chest. Yes your reading this right, I said Echo's. I sorta invaded his room after my showdown with Captain Betrayer. I got up off his bed and walked over to his wall which was beautifully colored with hundreds of pictures from different occasions. I touched one off to the side so gently a feather wouldn't be bothered by it. It was the day I confessed. I had no idea he ran because of my prank history until yesterday. I sighed and moved to the middle of the wall which had my best memory by far. It had Rex, Fives, Jesse, Hardcase, Kix and me in the middle. Someone finally knocked at the door. I remember Fives talking Echo into taking the picture. I wiped my nose and sniffled before approaching the door.

"Who is it?"

"Yours truly." I chuckled and opened the door to see Fives standing there with a big dopey grin on his face.

"Come on in pranking buddy." His smile faltered when he heard my tone and saw my tear stained face. He put an arm around my shoulders and sat on the bed.

"So. Are you gonna tell me what's up or are you gonna make me tickle the truth out of you again?" Out of instinct I retracted my arms and put them around my waist protectively.

"No no. I'm good. Its just, I thought Rexter would be more understanding. The past two years of my life have been hell. And he expected me to just dedicate the rest of my life to more hell?" I closed my eyes as I started my little rant.

"And another thing. He's waiting til just now to apologize!? I mean what the kriff! Maybe if he was genuinely sorry when he apologized things could have been normal again but noooooo! He had to go off on me! I wouldn't have gotten so defensive with him if he didn't get so offensive with me!" I took a break because I was out of breath. I opened my eyes to see Fives jotting down notes. He looked up with a serious expression which startled me even more.

"Ahsoka you are 100% completely right."

"See? Thank you for-"

"But so is Rex." I shut my mouth and stared at him.

"Excuse me."

"You heard me. Rex is right and so are you. Believe me I know your last years as a padawan were hell, I was there. But your not looking at this situation from his point of view. Rex is a clone. It is literally deep inside Rex's bones, he isn't starting a rebellion because he wants to. He's starting a rebellion because he feels like he has to. I hate to admit it but, it's his programming." Throughout Fives while speech my expression became softer and softer. Fives really knows how to make a girl feel horrible.

"I... never thought of it that way. Fives are you feeling okay?"

"No. Why?"

"Because you actually said something intelligent." He scoffed and reached for his heart.

"Oh Ad'ika. You wound me! Your words cut me deeper than being shot ever did!" He breathed out before dramatically fake dying on Echo's bed. I slapped his arm and he jolted up.

"ABUSE!!!" I rolled my eyes. I sat back on the bed.

"In all seriousness, thank you Fives." He smiled genuinely.

"Your welcome, my Ad'ika."

Rex's pov
I basically stole Ahsoka's room/gunners seat. She took Echo's room, I'm gonna take her room. I was squished in the small hammock. I sighed as I recognized the sweet scent of Ahsoka. When I rested my head on her pillow I recoiled when I heard a crunch so I snapped up immediately. I reached under her pillow and felt around to find two small pieces of paper. I pulled them out and read the top one aloud.

"My family." I knew it was recent because it had the small girl, the bad batch and Ahsoka in the middle of it. Then I switched papers and a small gasp escaped my lips when I saw the second sheet of paper. It said my family but it had all sorts of different colored X's on it. I heard the curtain swish open. I thrashed around to hide the pieces of paper I was snooping through. I visibly relaxed when I saw it was just Echo and the rest of clone force 99.

"Oh it's you. Well if your here to comfort me then don't bother because I'm-" SLAPPPP!!! Somebody just smacked me square in the jaw. When I recovered from shock I saw it was both Echo and Hunter.

"Comfort yo- is he ser-are you serious!? Captain were here to tell you to get your shit together!"

"Wha-"

"You heard him Rex! You better get your stupid shit together before we chuck you out the airlock for hurting our little Soka and yes I am aware I sound like Plo Koon right now!" When I recovered from the shock, anger boiled in.

"Hurt her? I saved her life! Twice! And she just yells at me."

"Can you blame her!? You left her! What if she was pregnant!?" Uh oh. Oh no. My eyes fell on the small child to my left. I shreiked and backed away. Blonde hair!? My skin tone!?!?

"OH MY GOD IS THAT MINE!?" Everybody facepalmed.

"No Rex, jus-just no. She's mine. Get your own." Hunter wrapped his arms around Omega and they both smiled at each other. I smiled too.

"Yeah I would love to get my own but ya see my wife and I aren't on great terms right now."

"And who's fault is that!?" I opened my mouth to object but immediately shut it again. Echo was right. So was Ahsoka. So was I. Then it clicked.

"Oooohhhhh! I think I understand now! So your saying that in letting my will to be right I hindered my relationship with Ahsoka so I should put my pride and will to be right aside and comfort her instead!"

"I was just gonna say go buy her some chocolate... but that's cool too." I looked at Wrecker funny but when his weird comments couldn't brighten my smile. You know how you know when you really love someone? When I, a clone bred for combat and a captain used to being right who is also right is about to admit defeat to her.

"Good for you Rex. Bout time you made me an uncle. Now go! Get busy!" My face was frozen yet on fire at the same time. My cheeks were redder than ole Fox's armour. Omega tapped Hunter's arm and looked up at his with young eyes filled with curiosity. What's she so curious about?

"Hunter, what did Echo mean by 'making him an uncle' and 'get busy'?" My flustered face turned into a smirk as Hunter just stumbled around words for a solid 5 minutes.

"Hunter! Just stop! Both of you are too young for this shit!" We all turned our heads to see Fives standing there. Well at least I know it was Fives.

"Ahsoka's okay. She used me as a punching bag there at the end but now I think she's really okay. I have the dent in my... everywhere to prove it." Fives tried to give me a thumbs up but it looked like he was threatening me cause he couldn't lift his god damn thumb. Echo was the only one laughing but it quickly came to a halt.

"Hey who are you anyway? What's your name?" My smirk transformed into a grin.

"My name? Oh um you wouldn't believe me if I told ya." Echo didn't seem amused.

"Why what's your name. Let me guess, Jesse that you under there?" He teasingly asked but when Fives removed his hood all the teasing was gone.

"Not far off old friend."

"F-Fives!? B-but your dead. You died after I did! Well kinda. H-how are you, is it actually you?" Fives confirmed with a firm and confident nod. However Echo still looked suspicious.

"Okay. If your really my brother then you'll know the arc twin move we made up when we were cadets." Fives smiled and Echo did too a little. They both inhaled deeply before spinning around each others backs and unholstering their blasters.

"Arc twin turbo attack!" They locked arms back to back and shot from a very uncomfortable position. For me it was like rewatching a 3 year old movie that used to annoy me when your fighting for your life in the battlefield and I look over to see my best trooprs twirling but now it only brings me joy. And a little regret about not telling Echo sooner. But what's done is done.

"Fives!"

"Echo!" They both enclosed each other in a big brotherly hug even though their the same age they both think they're older than the other. It's a thing.

"Wish me luck fellas. And if you hear screaming-"

"No one is gonna be screaming Captain."

"Okay... but if there is-"

"If there is screaming then I'm sure you deserve it." I glared at the Sargeant as I left. When I pulled the curtain shut behind me I looked to Fives and Echo one last time who were in tears at this point. I smiled and stepped down the small hall toward Echo's room. I lifted my hand up to knock but froze. What am I gonna say to her? Do I apoligize first? Or should I just- oh my force this was a bad idea! I started to sprint the other direction but I heard the door open and I froze in place. I saw Ahsoka standing there with a small smile. But her expression didn't hide the puffy eyes and tear stained cheeks.

"H-hi." Oh kill me now. So smooth Rexter. I sighed.

"Could you sense me outside the door?"

"Yes."

"So I'll assume tou also read my thoughts?"

"Of course."

"I'm here to apoligize. You were right, I did leave you. I felt like I had to fight for something but now I understand the the thing I should have been fighting for all along, was you. From now on if you'll take me back then I promise to never leave your side ever again."

"Correct."

"Can you ever forgive me?"

"I'll think about it." I rolled my eyes but quickly stopped myself. She was teasing me I know it. She shut the door for 2 seconds then opened it again.

"Please come inside Rexter." She used a nickname. That's a good sign right? She giggled in front of me.

"Hey stop reading my thoughts!" Which made her giggle even more.

"Have a seat." Her gentleness is scaring me. But regardless I sat on the bed where she patted. She took a seat next to me but kind of far away.

"When the war ended, what did you think would happen? What did you want to happen?" She asked incredibly bluntly. I scratched my chin like General Kenobi always did and truly thought about it. I didn't want to just tell her anything. I didn't want to lie but what was I gonna say?

"Well if I'm being completely honest I remember I had this dream one night after you left the order. I dreamed that once the war was over you'd come back to the Republic. Then you would become a knight and General, I could be your Captain and we wouldn't have to spend a day apart. I dreamed that once the heat died down Fives could return too and be an arc trooper again under our command. One thing I specifically remember seeing was General Skywalker and Senator Amidala wrapping you in a ginormous hug and when they let go they were each holding one baby. Wo were you. So yeah that's what I wanted to happen." I'm aware I was rambling but she asked for the truth.

"That was beautiful Rex. Thank you for being honest with me. But you do realize there's one major flaw with that dream right?" I looked at her funny.

"If by some miricle I did come back to the jedi, then I wouldn't also be a General if the war was over. The war would be over! Half the clones would be decommissioned and I would die if you were one of them." I sighed and looked at my feet dangling off the bed.

"I don't understand. What was the point of this cyare?" She chuckled dryly and scooted a little closer.

"The point was to show you that even your perfect reality wasn't that perfect atefterall. Just like real life things will never be perfect. But things are looking up. I mean after order 66 we both lost everything, including each other. But now were back together, so are Fives and Echo. I'm training a young talented girl the ways of the force. Things are looking up Rexy." I chuckled. There's my nickname. I took Ahsoka's hands in mine.

"You know I meant every word I said right? My apology and my promise?" She closed her eyes and leaned on my shoulder.

"Yeah I know. That's why I'm doing this." She gently grabbed the sides of my head in her soft hands and pressed a soft yet firm kiss on my lips. I happily kissed back deeply and passionately. When we parted we were both smiling messes.

"I've waited 4 fucking months for this and that's all you've got to give?" She teased. A smirk was plastered on her face.

"Oh I have a little more to give, if you'll allow it?" She nodded yes.

"No I need to hear you say it." She chuckled but grinned.

"Yes Rex. I'm ready."

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