Dishes
Prompt: Dishes
Characters: Rex and Ahsoka
“We are officers of the Grand Army of the Republic,” Rex eyed the mess in front of him like he might a particularly troubling mission statement. “We can handle some dishes.”
“Of course,” Ahsoka said with more confidence than she felt. “How hard can it be?”
They both squinted at the pile of dishes currently overflowing from the sink. Their sink. Because this apartment was theirs, which meant that they had to take care of it. Which meant having to do dishes. Fully grown, well adjusted adults do dishes all the time. And they’re at least two of those three things, so it can’t be that hard.
They might have been putting it off for a while now. And maybe she’d been just buying more dishes in an attempt to keep from cleaning them. In her defense, the Order, with its extensive archive and more classes than you could possibly hope to take in one lifetime, hadn’t included ‘daily chores’ in her curriculum. And Rex has had even fewer chances to learn such basic life skills.
But how hard can it be?
One of the mugs that had been balanced precariously on top of the stack finally gives up the fight against gravity. Ahsoka catches it with the Force and Rex huffs at her, amused. Technically, such frivolous use of the Force was frowned upon, but there was no one there to scold her for it, and even if they were, it wouldn’t stop her. She’s no longer part of the Order, which means she can catch as many dirty coffee cups as she wants. Or, at least, that’s what she’s telling that guilty little voice in her head that sounds a lot like Master Kanobi.
“You wash and I’ll dry?” Ahsoka offers after a moment of them just standing there. She’d set the dirty cup gently down on the counter.
Rex tilts his head to look at her with a bemused expression. “What does that even mean?”
She shrugs. “That’s what they always say in the holovids.”
Rex sighs. She shrugs again.
“I’m just going to look it up on the holonet.” He turned to walk back into the living room, presumably to get a datapad. “I’m sure we’re not the only ones that have no idea what we’re doing.”
She thought about calling him a quitter, but decided against it. She honestly wasn’t feeling up to fumbling her way through the dark on this one either. Sometimes pride isn’t worth the trouble.