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Last Line Challenge

Thanks for the uno reverse tag @aerjnn, I loved reading your last line!

And Kix should feel embarrassed, in between two natborns in their bed, the shadows of his nightmares left by the bedside - but he just feels safe.

Can you tell I've fallen deep into this Kix/Finn/Poe hole? Which plot bunny left that one in my garden? 😂

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[ruposa]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Poe Dameron/Finn/CT-6116 | Kix Characters: Finn (Star Wars), Poe Dameron, CT-6116 | Kix Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, First Meetings, Future Poe/Finn/Kix, Post-Cryo-Cycle Stasis CT-6116 | Kix, Good Medic CT-6116 | Kix, Touch-Starved Clone Troopers (Star Wars), POV Finn (Star Wars) Summary:

There's a new medic on the base.

It's not something that Finn would have noticed - had it not been for Poe getting injured on his latest sortie.

[enkisstories]

Rey: "So now I know. I'm sorry, Finn."

Poe: "Know what?"

Rey: "How it feels to be left out. Rose and Armitage are all fire for the geysir, the rest of us... not so much."

Poe: "What's that to do with you being sorry for my man?"

Finn: "If you HAVE to know... You, Ben, Rey and BB-8 fly everything you see, and Rey, Rose, Armitage and BB-8 tinker on everything they see. I'm the only one not interested in techie stuff."

Finn: "I don't really fit in..."

Poe: "Ah, NOW we're all together again! Me, my friends, my fiance and my fiance's anxities!" *tickles*

Finn: *giggles*

Poe: "You, Rey and Ben whack everything that moves with a stick and sometimes those sticks glow. You, me, dad and Armitage are former military, the others not. Everyone is out of the loop in some way."

[ruposa]

Last line challenge

Thank you for the tags @cacodaemonia, I have also been tagged by @hastalavistabyebye @aerjnn @greenharrow @lyouwish Thank you all!

Always enjoy seeing what everyone is creating!

Hope no-one minds, but as I've been a bit backlogged, I'm just going to straight up be naughty and share a few snippets of the last things I wrote for several recent wips.

Kix, Finn, and Poe:

"People are scared of things they don't understand," Finn says softly to CT-6116. "Scared of people that were made to fight. To survive. They don't know what it's like to have to hide every single scrap of yourself, in case it's taken away."

Cody and Fox:

"Oh," he says after a long moment as realisation dawns across his features. "You're Kix’s batchmate, aren't you?" Arik's reply is highly amused, despite the flattening of the vocoder. "Oh yes. Got it in one, sir." "You're the same flavour of bastard," Cody mutters. Stone cackles from behind Arik, vambrace forgotten for a moment. "Perfectly engineered to be complete bastards, sir," Arik agrees cheerfully, sticking a hypo in Fox’s neck.

Kix, Arla, and Jango:

Confusion and pain and terror war for dominance as the girl stands tall with her brother, shielding him with their young bodies. It's wrong. It's all wrong and Kix is powerless to stop it. She ignores his plea, her chin tilted up in defiance just like Kix’s brothers and her little brother looks up at her before mimicking the position.

Boil watching the below unfold with delight:

Just as Cody is about to murder the Captain of the 501st, Commander Fox of the Coruscant Guard slams into the 212th Commander sending both of them crashing back into the water. "Bets on who survives?" Sergeant Hound asks. "I'm not taking that bet," Echo states, and takes another sip of his pink drink.

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[enkisstories]

Meanwhile Finn and Ben approach the wooden boardwalk that leads to their destination. As per the group's agreement, whoever's front wheel touches the board first wins the race.

Ben has gained a little ground, being close enough now for Finn to hear his breathing. It tells the former soldier that Ben is unable to accelerate enough to challenge him. The foresight their force sensitivity grants Ben and to a lesser extend also Finn, that makes them both so formidable in battle, just isn't appliccable in this moment.

Finn raises his velocipede...

Ben: "Not won yet!"

...and then the rubber wheel slams down onto the wood.

Ben: "Okay, okay. Congrats."

Finn: "I half and half expected you to levitate my velocipede to prevent me from winning."

Ben: "Yes, me, too!*

Finn: *chuckles*

Ben: "I tried. I really tried to win! Please believe me!"

Finn: "Beeeeen... Just because I'm able to be happy for my friends when they win doesn't mean I'd have a problem with winning myself."

Ben: "But having me in your back almost all the race... Wasn't that... uncomfortable?"

Finn: "I was afraid of you ever since you joined the First Order. But that changed the night Slip died. From that moment on the fear was still there, but even more was I appalled."

Ben gulps. Rey's friends have adopted the for the longest time unrepentent General Hux into their group, but he, who has disavowed the dark side, regularly manages to rub them the wrong way. What is there that the former Lord Ren still doesn't understand?

[enkisstories]

Yavin IV, a moon of the same named gas giant, is covered in jungles. Only here and there ancient structures, many (but not all) of which got repurposed as hangars and command bunkers during the Galactic Civil War, peek out of the green carpet.

That war was followed by a second one, but by now peace has returned to this sector. And while the settlers don't always have it easy, at the moment one particular family is tremendously enjoying themselves riding their new "velocipedes".

*tread, tread*

Powered by muscle and subject to every bump of the road, velocipedes aren't utility vehicles to bring people from A to B. They are sports equipment for all ages and backgrounds.

After Kes Dameron had introduced the first few to the colony, now almost every settler either already owns a velocipede, is saving up for one or in the process of building their own.

Ben: "Just you wait, I'll murder you still! In the race, I mean! In a friendly manner! Okay?"

The rider in the lead chuckles at the realisation that his own insecurities have found their master in Ben Solo's. His long hair flowing behind him like a black flag, Ben is the only one to still have a chance to catch up with Finn. The tricky passages are behind the group, with only a single turn ahead. Now only strength of legs counts.

Finn: "Wouldn't it be nice if all the hot air you're making would speed you up?"

Poe, too, has realized this. With his reflexes the former combat pilot had managed to get ahead of the field, but he has no hope to overtake the two in the lead. Not on a straight stretch like this.

Why keep fighting? Finn and Ben have earned their victory. The sensible thing would be to wait for the others and then follow at a leisurely pace to eventually cheer the winners.

That stands to reason. It's part of what the Damerons believe in. And yet, after a decade of subterfuge and fighting, "giving up" requires deliberate effort. Poe's fingers tear into the handlebar...

THUD.

Poe's foot hits the soil of his home planet and the velocipede comes to a halt. It is the perhaps hardest won victory of his so far.

They may have peace, they may even be able to remain relaxed with former enemies like Solo in their backs, but they'd have to lie to themselves if they claimed to also have left the war behind them.

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Note: I finally found functional speeder bikes here, but I'll die on the hill that my characters would be excited about wheeled veicles, either to ride or tinker on them.

[nocturnalgremlingiant]

Finn is so attractive? And a total sweetheart? Why does nobody talk about this?

[ohmystars-blog]

I really wish Disney had the guts for Finnpoe

They could’ve been everything