Alternative ending: Happy and hole Delta squad live's happy ever after in a comfy home where Scorch likes baking (with full armor to protect his eyebrows).
He is suprisingly good at it and likes doing cookies in shape of nerfs, fish, explosives and sargent Vau.
Everyone eats and likes them, especially the omegas and his pod brothers.
Weāre all running out of time, some of us faster than others. Timeās the one thing you canāt buy, bribe or steal when you need more.Ā - True Colors
I would like to request a Sev fic please. I haven't read any Star Wars books, but I like the Delta boys. Something soft, possibly? Fluffy. Hmmm... after the war, possibly (what is order 66?) (I think I might have a soft spot for snipers with a tough exterior but are actually soft...) Sorry for the lack of content ideas... this is what I could come up with atm...
This is soft but I dunno if Iāād call it fluffy. I was glad to have an excuse to write a scene like this though. Thanks for the suggestion!
Oddly enough, Sev hoped they wouldnāt be back for him.Ā
For one thing, he didnāt want his brothers risking their own lives because he had gotten distracted. He let his anger at the bugs take over for only for a second, but that was all he needed to lose track and get separated from the others. It was his own fault, he knew better than that. Heād been trained better than that.Ā
Sev didnāt even want to think about the look on his old sergeant's face when they told him how bad Sev had messed up. It was probably better not to know. He didnāt think he could handle that. Seeing Vau in front of him now instantly had his body tensed.Ā
He smelled him long before anything else. Well, not so much Vau but that pet of his. Lord Mirdalan trotted through the undergrowth of Kashyyyk as at ease here as anywhere else when on a hunt, it probably enjoyed gliding through the trees, tracking his scent. The animal seemed oddly pleased with itself and pleased to see him as well.Ā
He should have heard them too, the Wookie was not exactly small but Enacca seemed to make no noise at all as she followed the strill.Ā
Vau had always been early and deadly silent.Ā
Sevās first thought was that he would see his brothers again after all. His second thought was that Vau was going to kill him before he ever left the planet.Ā
More of a shock than seeing his Mandalorian trainer again was the manās reaction. Sev couldnāt see it under the helmet but something in Vau softened, something about the way he held himself. And while he didnāt embrace Sev as Kal would have done, he patted him on the shoulder, the relief evident in the manās voice..Ā
āGood to see you again, Sevāika. We were starting to think weād never find you out here.ā
Sev hadnāt known what to say.Ā
He still didnāt honestly. Vau wasnāt much of a talker and Sev still didnāt understand Enacca well enough to carry on a lively conversation. He understood enough, that the war was winding down, that there was a lot he had to catch up on and that his brothers were still waiting for him. He felt unbearably guilty at the thought.Ā
He was still waiting for the other shoe to drop, for Vau to really let him have it, even as they approached their new home with the wookie at the controls of the freighter. They were bound for Mandalore, for some kind of homestead mostly populated by clones and their families. What an odd thought that was.Ā
āIām proud of you, Sev.ā
The trooperās head jerked up as Vau sat down beside him on the bench in the hold. Mird curled up around the old manās feet and rested itās massive head on his knee, looking at Sev with intelligent golden eyes.Ā
Sev tried not to be the one to look away first.Ā
āI messed up. It was my fault. I did exactly what you told me not to. I knew better than that. I let you down. I let them all down. What if they got killed because I wasn't focused on the mission?ā
Vau said nothing, slowly reaching up to remove his helmet and settling it in his lap. āI did teach you to focus on the mission above all else,ā he agreed. āI also taught you that it takes a big man to admit that heās wrong. Perhaps I was too hard on you. Itās easy to forget that you and the rest of Delta are still human. You canāt be perfect all the time. But youāre damn near close enough.ā
Sev was stunned, staring at his sergeant in disbelief. The thought occurred to him that maybe heād died back on Kashyyyk after all.Ā
Vau seemed to find amusement in the commandoās expression.Ā
āIām proud of having lost so few men. I trained you to be the best, for your own sake and for mine. I didnāt want to have to go through that again.ā
āWhat again?ā Sev blurted out. He saw the manās gloved hand grip tighter at the helmet and Mird whined, sensing his masterās distress.Ā
āDoesnāt matter,ā Vau shook his head. āYou and Scorch were always two sides of the same coin. A bit...sensitive maybe. He hid it by pretending to be an open book. You hid it by closing yourself off. But I could tell. There was always something about you, Sev. I worried about you more than the others. Geonisis was a tragedy but you took it the hardest. You couldn't let it go. I should have known then.ā
Sev looked down at his hands, feeling exposed. He knew there was something off about him. He took everything so personally. He shouldnāt have, his brothers were able to let things go when they needed to. Like a soldier should. It made him feel inadequate, reckless, feeding a need to prove himself. Look where that got him.Ā
āI am proud of you, Sevāika,ā Vau said again, quieter this time. He placed a hand on his sonās shoulder and left it there. Sev was grateful the old man didnāt try to hug him. He didnāt care for that kind of thing much but the hand, that felt nice. āYou did good, kid. You can leave the war behind now. Weāre going home and youāve got people waiting on you.ā
my favourite part of republic commando was when delta squad goes back for sev and he gets to wrap himself up in a blanket with a hot drink while scorch tells him about what a heroic rescue it was