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Homeward Bound (Pt. 1) Female Jedi General x Fives
Word count: 1,173
Warnings: None.
“Now, y/n…I’ve gotta caution you.” Rex quietly began, readying his blaster. “We don’t know that Fives is in there.” You shut your eyes, and exhaled in a rough attempt to calm your shaking nerves. For years, even long after the report came out that Fives was dead, you could not bring yourself to believe it. You had tried to find whatever evidence you could to lead you to him, but that all halted when Order 66 came to pass. Hardly escaping with your life, you fled Coruscant…only to return upon finding Rex. Upon doing such, you realized that maybe Rex shared your speculation. He did, but knew not where to start searching. After Echo joined Rex’s cause, the three of you were able to compile enough information to get a potential location where Fives was being held and experimented on. Now you were here, after years of longing and waiting on Mount Tantiss. Anxiety, fear, and excitement coursed through your veins along with adrenaline from a recent storm trooper encounter. There was a metal door between you, and a massive lab that belonged to Doctor Hemlock, and Echo strained to try and get it open.
“Almost…” he muttered. You unhooked your lightsaber from your side and ignited it, the blade’s familiar blue glow settling your spirit. “Got it!” Echo cried as he leapt up.
The door slid open, and what you saw made your stomach turn. It was as if an Kaminoan facility had been entirely corrupted by all things black, and gruesome. There were Bacta Tanks, all manner of needles and surgical equipment, tubes full of questionable substance, and a dim white light that gave the room a small bit of humanity. Scanning it carefully, a shiver runs down your spine causing goosebumps to prickle your skin.
“Rex…” you breathe as you see a table at the far end of the room. There is a still figure tied down to it, and Rex’s breath hitches. Echo takes a swift step in front of you both, his eyes wild, and alight with raging feelings and memories.
“It’s him…” Echo near sobs. Before you can say another word, Echo dashes as fast as his legs can carry him to the table, with you and Rex on his heels.
“Fives,” Echo mutters, leaning over the table. Your eyes fill with tears. Alive…alive after all these years. The lines in his face had grown ever deeper, and dark circles loomed under his eyes which were shut in a slack expression.
“Fives.” Echo’s voice shakes. He rapidly begins undoing the bonds that have Fives bound to the table. “Fives—I’m here.” He lays his hand on his brother’s shoulder, and gives it a gentle shake. Fives stirs, and your hands fly to your mouth to muffle a sob. Rex squeezes your shoulder comfortingly.
“Go kriff yourself, Hemlock,” Fives’s words are slurred, but deadly. “I know you’re here.”
“No, Fives. Fives, it’s me! It’s Echo.” Echo’s eyes are full of bright tears as he looks down at his long lost brother. Fives sluggishly opens his eyes, and a look of shock contorts his face. He looks like he hasn’t slept in months. He heaves, and grasps Echo’s arm as his whole body started trembling.
“No…no, it’s not true. The chemicals are making me insane.” Fives’s hand digs desperately into Echo’s arm. A heartbroken, sorrowful look of melancholy drowned away that of doubt. “Alive.” Fives heaves. “What—what did they do to you, Echo?” His voice breaks as tears run like rivers down his thin face. Echo leans down, and gathers Fives to himself, elevating his torso off of his metal resting place. Fives’s arms wrap around Echo’s neck, and back, clawing desperately as if he were about to die. “You’re alive….” Fives wept bitterly into Echo’s shoulder. Echo’s entire body shook violently in a sob, and he nodded. Fives was complete unhinged.
Suddenly, Rex’s blaster clatters to the ground. You look up at him through tear blurred eyes, and see his cheeks are wet.
“Fives,” He whispers, and his lower lip trembles. He takes an unsteady step forward, and has to stabilize himself against the side of the table. “C-Captain Rex?” Fives chokes. He reaches out a quivering hand towards the Captain, and Rex receives it in his before encircling both Echo, and Fives in his arms. “You’re safe now, brother.” Rex’s voice is quiet. “We’ve got you.” They stay enclosed in each other’s embrace for a long while before pulling away and looking at each other. “You…came for me…” Fives grins through his tears, looking from Rex to Echo. “Of course we did.” Rex whispers, his voice hoarse. “And we brought someone who we wouldn’t be here without.” Echo gave a wry smile. Fives’s eyes widen. “Do you mean…?” He turns his head, slowly but steadily, to your direction. Your chest heaves, and your shoulders shake with the weight of your weeping when his shocked eyes meet yours. “Help me up.” He demands. Echo, and Rex do not hesitate, but hoist their brother up onto his own two legs. “How long since you’ve walked…” Echo’s voice was stale. Fives gives a bitter chuckle. “Too long.” He nods. He knits his brow and gazes at you. “Far…too long.” Rex and Echo back away leaving you staring at the man you loved, and lost. The man you never lost faith in…and now had found.
“Y/n…” He utters in a voice barely above a whisper. “Fives!” You sob as your voice breaks. Unable to contain yourself any longer, you rush into him, entrapping yourself in his embrace. He runs his fingers through your hair he so often recalled. He feels your gentle hands wiping his tears…a touch he had longed for when the nights were dark and cold. As he grips you tighter, it seems if he let go he would lose you forever. “Fives, I tried to come sooner, I promise I tried—” You choke. You burry your head in his chest, and feel every rise, and fall of his breath. You can hear his pounding heart which overwhelms your senses, a sweet reassurance that he’s flesh and blood; alive before your very eyes. “I know, baby, I know.” He soothes, his voice dripping with relief. “Hemlock told me about…about the Order. I thought you’d been killed.” He whispers, holding you tighter. He plants a kiss on the crown of your head, and you rub the back of his neck with your hand. “How did you find me?” He breathes. You pull away and press your hands to his chest. “We just didn’t stop looking.” You smile up at him. He cups the side of your face, and gently rubs along your cheek-bone with his thumb. “Thank the Maker that you didn’t. I thought I was done for pretty soon here.” He shook his head, still in gleeful disbelief. “You’re coming home, Fives.” You beam, resting in his arms once again. “How does a place called Pabu sound?”
so if Rex is marked as K.I.A in the Imperial Files, and Cody saw that, after he went "AWOL" and was possibly exectuted, doesn't that kinda give a vibe that Cody thought to find Rex again? yk like after death?
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