A/N: I’m back!! Had this finishes yesterday but never got the chance to post it, so happy late halloween everyone! And I’m planning to get some of my requests written since my motivation is back!
“Rex, I’ll be fine.” You assure him once again, hugging the werewolf around the waist and snuggling your head into his stomach. “We still have a month to go, and he’s perfectly healthy.”
“But he’s a werewolf, like me.” Rex says softly, kneeling down and hugging you gently, careful not to squish your large, 8 month baby bump. “What if he hurts you during labour?”
It was a surprise, finding out you were pregnant. You were on the pill and Rex used protecting but… you’re in that one percent. It’s been a tough pregnancy, especially with Rex and his werewolf instincts. But that’s not what’s happening here. You came home from a shopping spree and poor Rex was shivering on the floor, transformed and terrified. He had a nightmare, snd now the thought of the little werewolf you’re growing hurting you is stuck in his head.
“Rex, look at me.” You cup his furry cheek gently, and make sure he’s looking at you. “The baby and I are fine, and the labour will be fine. I know it.” You wince at a hard kick.
Rex frowns, gently rubbing at your belly. “You’re sure?” He asks softly, nuzzling your head. “I just get scared, I’m so excited for the baby to come. Force, you don’t know how excited. I just don’t want to lose you. I can’t, Cyare. I really can’t.”
“And you won’t, because I’m not going anywhere.” You promise, wincing at a kick. “We’re perfectly healthy, all the doctors have says so. Kix has said so, and we both know how much you trust him.”
“I do trust him.” Rex chuckles. “I really do.” He sighs. “And I trust you too, so… I’ll try to relax, it’s just hard.” He says. “So so hard.”
A small smile graces your face. “Then let our son and I help.” You lead Rex over to the little nest he’s made for you, part of his werewolf instincts. A big part of them actually. You nudge him to lay down, and he does.
“Cyare… what are you doing?” Rex asks gently, not sure what you’re planning.
“I want to cuddle with my husband.” You say, laying yourself heavily onto his chest, you have to move around to get comfy with your big belly but once you are, you sigh happily and sink into your husbands fur.
Rex gently wraps his large arms around you, smiling softly. “This is very much helping, my love.” He coos, voice a growl as usual with his werewolf form.
“I love you.”You kiss his chest gently. “I love you too, Rex.” You whisper to him, love present in your voice. You’re tired though, eyes drooping. You’ve gotten in the stage of pregnancy where sleep is hard to come by.
“You sleep, baby.” Rex says gently, licking your head and pulling a blanket over the both of you, cuddling you close and rubbing your belly. He knows what helps you sleep, has it all mentally written down. Rex loves to help whenever and wherever he can.
You yawn and snuggle closer, closing your eyes and letting yourself drift off. You completely relax and a peaceful look falls over your facial features.
Rex sighs. “Oh Cyare, my love.” He rubs your back, willing to lay there as long as it takes for you to get your rest.
Tags: @captainrexisboo @pro-fangirls-unsocial-life
Think about how Echo would react, he "died" and Rex was normal then when they find him he thinks everything is the same until his brother suddenly transforms into a giant Werewolf-wolfer
He’d probably just take it in stride. “I lost three quarters of my limbs, my mind has been probed to hell and back, I’m malnourished so bad I lost my melanin, and now my big brother is a Werewolf... things could be worse.”
All things considered, he seemed pretty chill when he got ripped outta those wires. He’s a dude I’d wanna watch scary movies with. That day was already weird to begin with, why not add a WereRex to it? Echo would probably wanna piggy back.
You were a Jedi before the purge, you were reckless and broke the rules. But you broke a major one, you fell in love and later married a clone. Not just any clone but Anakin Skywalker's clone Captain, Captain Rex.
You and Rex loved eachother more than anything, but you lost him after the purge. It's been fifteen years and you miss him every day, you wish to see him again but you don't think that it's going to happen.
You met up with Ahsoka about ten years after the purge, and you've been helping her with fulcrum business ever since.
She's sent the ghost crew to find someone that can help with finding a new base, but for some reason she won't tell you who they are.
You've asked a few times but all she ever says is that it's a surprise and she gets excited, you don't understand what the surprise would be. Maybe it's an old friend from the clone wars. It's been two days and you have started getting impatient.
"Y/n, the ghost crew are back." You smile and follow Ahsoka to where the ghost attaches to the ship, you can't wait to find out who it is.
The ghost crew walks out, smiling you wonder what they're smiling about when an old man with a white fluffy beard walks out from behind them, freezing when he sees you. You can't believe it, it's Rex.
"Rex?" You walk closer to him when he looks down and pushes past you.
"I'm sorry, I have to talk to Commander Tano." You feel hurt encompass your heart, Rex just completely ignored you. He didn't even care that you both haven't seen eachother in fifteen long years, you stifle a sob as tears come to your eyes and Hera walks over to hug you.
She knows that Rex hurt you, she doesn't know your past but she can tell that you have a broken heart. You hug her and bury your face into her shoulder, you can't hold the tears back any more.
×××
It's been about two months since Rex joined the rebellion and he's been avoiding you the whole time, you should have known that he wouldn't love you anymore. You only dated for two years, he must have fallen out of love with you. You wonder if he maybe found someone else, but it seems that you aren't the only one he's avoiding.
He's hardly talked to Ahsoka as well and she's been feeling very hurt over it as well. You don't understand why he's acting like this, it's really pissing you off. So you and Ahsoka came up with a plan, she's asked Commander Sato to send both you and Captain Rex on a mission together.
Once you're on the planet, you will corner Rex and talk to him about what's happening. You and Ahsoka hope to find out why he's doing this.
You and Rex head out on a mission, heading to lothal to see how things with the empire is going. It's pretty bad when you search but then you lead Rex into a field, finally able to confront him.
"What's wrong with you." You ask him bluntly, and he turns around do fast you fear he might have whiplash.
"What?"
"Why have you been avoiding Ahsoka and I. Did we do something wrong, I understand if you don't love me anymore but to ignore Ahsoka. Your little sister, that's not right Rex." He stares at you with wide eyes, you stand there waiting for an answer.
"I... I don't hate you." What other reason does he have to avoid you then.
"Then why Rex!" You yell, completely pissed off now. You don't care what the Jedi taught you about controlling your feelings. You're done!
"Why have you been avoiding me! Why did you not even spare me another glance when you got to the rebellion! Why did you break my heart." The last part is whispered, Rex is looking at you with tears in his eyes. You don't understand. You suddenly see a blaster shot fly past your head and turn to see a large group of storm troopers running and shooting at you.
You and Rex start running, only to realize that there's another group of storm troopers running from the opposite direction.
You pull out your lightsaber and start deflecting shots as Rex starts shooting, you're fighting your hardest but it's to no avail as you get shot in the arm with a force inhibitor and pushed to the ground. Loosing your lightsaber, you're staring at the end of a blaster barrel.
You try to think of a solution when you hear a growl, you look up to a grey blur striking the storm troopers, they start running in fear, when the blur slows down you realize that it's a giant bipedal Wolf. You can tell that you would only reach the bottom of its chest when you're standing straight, it's gigantic.
You stare at it in fear, until you see the tattered remains of Rex's pants on it and look over to see Rex's armor on the ground. You put two and two together, realizing that this is Rex, your husband. You watch him run, standing up and following him, leaving your forgotten lightsaber behind.
You follow him into a cave, composing yourself outside for a few minutes before walking in. You see your husband's now large for sitting in the back, you walk over and realize that he still teaches your face while sitting.
You walk close to him, making your steps loud as not to startle him. You place a hand on the back of Rex's shoulder, feeling the grey fur underneath of it. You feel him flinch and he growls.
"Get away from me." He says quietly, his voice is so much different from the man you knew. But it's still Rex's voice, you don't know how you can tell with how deep and growly it's gotten but you somehow know. You try to ignore the feeling of hurt that comes from him growling at you.
"No. I'm not leaving you Rex." He grows again even louder.
"I SAID LEAVE! Please." The last part is whispered, almost a plea. You feel so bad for Rex, you start to softly run your hand up and down his shoulder, wondering how long he's been going through this alone when you suddenly realize.
"Is... Is this why you've been avoiding me? Why you completely ignored me when the ghost crew brought you?" Rex is shaking now and he nods, you feel tears come to your eyes as you realize that the past few months of him actively avoiding you wasn't because he hates you but the opposite. He wanted to protect you, and he was afraid of what you would think of him.
"Oh Rex." You exclaim, you can't believe that he's gone through this alone. You wonder if his brothers even know.
"Do Wolffe and Gregor know?" Rex shakes his head and you sigh, he's been going through something this big all alone. Not even telling his own brothers. You walk around his side slowly and he freezes, you can tell that he's terrified of you seeing him.
You reach the from of him and can finally fully see what's happened, he's changed so much. His head is a wolfs while his body is more human esque, you can see that his body is much more muscular than when he's human.
You look into his eyes and feel your heart clench, they're yellow and filled with fear. A tear falls down and into his fur, so you reach your hand over slowly, stopping when he flinches. You freeze, as soon as he looks at you once again you reach over and softly wipe the tear away.
You move your hand down to his snout, there's white fur where his beard is when he's human. You can see white fur speckled all over him, but theres quite a bit on his stomach. You hear him whimper in fear, so you lean down and kiss his forehead.
"Oh Rex, it's okay sweetheart. I'm not leaving you, I promise."
"You need to leave, cyare. I could hurt you." You sigh and lean your forehead against his, giving him a keldabe kiss. You try to put all your love for him into it.
"You'd never hurt me, Rex. You're still you, fur and all." You kiss his forehead again and he finally breaks, pulling you against him softly until you're sitting in his lap. He lays his chin on your shoulder since he's taller than you and starts crying softly.
He's trying to hide it from you, feeling embarrassed but he can't help it. He loves you more than anything and staying away from you these past few months has killed him.
"I'm so sorry, cyare. I know that I broke your heart, and hurt Ahsoka. I'm so sorry." You shush him, rubbing the back of his head softly.
"Shhh, I forgive you sweetheart. I'm not happy that you ignored and avoided me but I understand why, I still love you more than anything." Rex pulls you closer, you reach up and kiss his shoulder softly. You can't believe that the whole reason he was avoiding you was because he is a werewolf now.
"I love you so much, cyare. I was so scared of losing control and hurting you, or you being afraid of me." You wish that he had told you sooner, but you are going to fix this. You won't let anyone or anything hurt him.
"I'll never be afraid of you. Like I said, you're still Rex. Just fluffier." You run your fingers through his fur for emphasis, getting a little chuckle out of him. You smile but you have to get back to more serious matters.
"You're going to have to tell Ahsoka, and your brother's. When did this even happen, Rexter?" You ask him and he sighs, snuggling into you.
"It was only a month before the ghost crew came and got me, I was bitten by a strange creature. Next thing I know I'm hiding from my brothers who were shooting at me, I told them after I was human again that I was searching in another place for the monster."
"Oh, Rex. You should have never had to go through that, and you won't have to go through this alone anymore. Okay. I promise." Rex nods, he loves you so much. More than he could ever say in words. You kiss him on his shoulder again, you know that you and Rex will work through this. And neither of you will ever part again, no matter what happens. Even if this is permanent, he's still Rex. And that will never change.
This was requested by@ahsokatano-thetogruta, I hope that you like it.
Rex wrings his hands nervously, he's in his room waiting for you to arrive. He checks the time, he still has an hour until the full moon comes up. You're a mechanic so you're working right now. He's so scared to tell you that he's a werewolf, he knows about the myths with werewolf's.
How they are savage beasts that have no control over themselves. The opposite is true actually, he has total control over his werewolf form and even though he's bigger and scarier looking he's still him.
He knows that people are scared of werewolf's though, including you. You've told him of the stories on your planet, and he wants to prove you wrong. He's tried to transform in front of you, but his transformation is also controlled by emotion, and he's to scared to transform.
But tonight is a full moon, which means that he's forced to transform. It's the perfect time to show you his other form, he just hopes that you don't leave him. Every other full moon since you got together he was either on a mission or made an excuse.
He's been a werewolf ever since he was a young cadet, they went on a training mission and he was bit. The only reason the kaminoans didn't decomission him was because they knew that werewolf's are strong and that if trained, he would do good in battle.
That meant lots of experiments on him and it was horrible. But he hopes that you are different, like his brothers. And still love him. He checks the time again, realizing that it's ten minutes until the full moon when he hears a knock on the door. You're here. He opens the door, smiling at you lovingly.
"Y/n, I'm glad that you came." You smile, wrapping your arms around his neck and kissing his lips lovingly. He hums in satisfaction, he loves you so much.
"Of course I came, I love you." You tell him and he smiles, you notice how nervous he is and look at him confused.
"Rex, is something wrong? You look nervous, and why are you wearing such old clothes." Rex sighs, looking down at the old t-shirt and already torn pants. He didn't want to ruin his blacks, he knows that he gets big enough for his shirt to rip right off.
"Well... There's something I have to show you." He says, taking your hands in his. You look him in the eyes, he looks so scared and unsure. You cup his face.
"Well whatever it is, I don't care. I love you for you, and that won't change." Rex puts his hand up, grabbing your hand that's cupping his face and pressing it closely. He closes his eyes and sighs, he's do scared. He glances over at the time, he only have five minutes.
"Rex, whatever it is, it's okay." Rex nods when he feels it about to start, he turns to you quickly. You hear Rex groan and your eyes widen
"Are you okay Rex, do you need me to get help!"Rex shakes his head, cupping your cheek.
"Just trust me." he tells you, you nod and he stands back away from you. You're confused until you hear him groan again, it's not from pain, more discomfort. You watch as he starts to grow fur, your eyes go wide as you watch fangs grow in his mouth and his bones rearrange as he grows bigger.
You watch as his mouth elongates, turning into a snout. You breath in sharply when the transformation finishes, your boyfriend looks so different from the man you know.
His head is that of a wolf's, eyes yellow. He has grey fur all over him, the rest of him looks almost human. His body is rippling with muscle in this form and his mouth has sharp fangs. His arms are longer and he has claws at the ends, so do his feet. He stares at you with a nervous, almost timid look.
"What are you thinking about?" he ask's you, and you can hear fear in his voice. His voice is so much deeper and more of a growl, you look at him. You've heard the werewolf legend's but you don't care, you can tell that this isn't just some savage monster. This is Rex, your Rex.
You walk toward's him, reaching your arms up to him and cupping his furry cheek. He leans into it, closing his eyes and humming in satisfaction like he always does. You smile, this is definitely your goofy boyfriend. He kneels down, pulling you against him and you nuzzle into his fur, chuckling.
"I thought werewolf's were bigger." You tell him and he chuckle's, raising an eyebrow and looking down at you with love in his eyes as you pull out of his arms.
"You aren't scared?" He asks you and you just raise an eyebrow.
"Why would I be scared, you're still you. Just bigger and fluffier." He smiles at you, he loves you so much. Hes so glad that you accept this part of him.
"So have you always been like this?" You ask him and he nods.
"Since I was a cadet." You smile, leaning up and kissing his forehead.
"Now, can we maybe go to bed. I'm exhausted, is this the only time you transform?" You flop on the bed, turning to see him shake his head.
"No, I was just to scared and nervous to transform before." You smile comfortingly and nod.
"Okay, then we'll have to make this a regular accurence. Now come lay down." Rex does as you ask, laying down in bed and cuddling you against him. He should have known that you would have accepted him. You both fall asleep like that, and Rex made it a habit of transforming and cuddling you.
Summary: As punishment for his actions, young prince Rex was cursed to become a monster by a witch. The only thing that saved him from his fate was an enchantress, who gave him a condition. He has to find true love in order to redeem himself and he only has until the last petal of the enchanted rose falls. Rex's family helps you by guiding your way into his heart. Rex's fate now lies in your hands."
A/N: Rex's brothers are Fives, Echo, Cody, Bly and Stutter. The rest of the clones are cousins and\or uncles. Credit to @suddenly-clones for Cody’s nickname “Bubby”. A collab fic made with @ahsokatano-thetogruta. We hope you enjoy this chapter.
Warnings: mention of trauma, abuse and mental breakdowns.
After presents everyone gets breakfast, they all head to the main dining hall. Rex is so excited to have his breakfast. Cody already told him that he could have his favorite breakfast, strawberries and waffles, it's always been his favorite. Rex walks into the dining hall, seeing all his cousins. He chuckles at seeing his adopted one year old cousin, Numa eating her pancakes, sitting between his 17 year old cousins Waxer and Boil. The young twi’lek girl is covered from head to toe in syrup, so Waxer does his best to clean up any mess while Boil just chuckles and smiles. Rex runs up to Cody, excited for his breakfast.
“Hey Cody, is my breakfast ready yet?” Rex is smiling until he sees the frown on his brother's face.
“I’m sorry, Vodika. They're all out of strawberries and waffles.” Rex feels disappointment fill him, adding to the building pile of bad things today, he was so excited for his breakfast. Rex forces a smile, he knows that Cody tried his best.
“Its okay, Bubby. I know that you tried, can I have a pancake instead?” Rex uses his nickname for Cody that he's used ever since he was a baby. Cody chuckles, happy that Rex isn’t too upset. He feels bad for being unable to give him his favorite breakfast like promised.
“Of course you can, Rex’ika.” Cody heads into the kitchen, grabbing Rex a pancake.
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After everyone has finished with their breakfast, some of the Knights are armoured up and ready to leave for a patrol around the village not too far away from the castle.
Yoda is the oldest Knight and has had nearly nine hundred years of experience. His second in command, Mace Windu, is thirty seven years old, but he too has had experience in battle being a knight. Twenty seven year olds Luminara Unduli and Depa Billaba were knighted only a few weeks ago, so they are both hoping to get some action soon. Twelve year old Aayla Secura, thirteen year old Kit Fisto and seventeen year old Quinlan Vos are knights in training, so going out with the older knights will give them a taste of what their duties are as knights.
"All ready to leave now, are you?" Yoda asks. The knights in front of him, wearing shiny silver armour, nod attentively as they all begin to march towards the main entrance of the castle. Yoda sees Rex walking out of the main dining hall. "Back soon, we will be, Prince Rex."
"Of course. Everything will be ready for when you arrive back." Rex smiles as he watches the knights walk out of the entrance, closing the doors behind them as they set out to go to the village.
Rex turns away from the entrance just in time to see Anakin run into the room, followed by Artoo, he runs over to Rex.
“Come on, Rex. Let's go find Obi Wan and Cody, I don't know where they went.” Anakin doesn't wait for an answer and starts pulling Rex with him, who rolls his eyes and follows.
“Okay Ani, lets go.” He pulls his arm out of Anakin's grip, and they both head out to find their brothers. Artoo yips as he follows behind them, he nips at their feet a few times, wanting them to play.
They both walk into another room, freezing when they see the sight of
Obi Wan and Cody kissing.
They had their arms wrapped around each other's bodies, Obi Wan cupping the left side of Cody's face, lightly tracing the scar with his thumb. It was love at first sight for the two of them. They met each other a few years ago, when Obi Wan arrived at the castle to be trained to become a knight. Now both at seventeen years old, they plan to get married at some point in the near future. Cody stroked Obi Wan’s cheek, feeling the stubble of a beard that had started growing there.
Anakin and Rex just stood there, feeling a little grossed out and embarrassed that they walked in on them kissing like this. Being kids, they don't really understand love yet and what people do in a relationship, but they think that love is a bit gross being only thirteen and twelve years old.
Cody and Obi Wan pulled away from each other to see the two of them just stood in the doorway, feeling their cheeks heat up a little. "Hello there you two." Obi Wan chuckles. Both the kids look grossed out, making both Obi Wan and Cody chuckle at them.
“Don’t look like that Anakin, once you’re older you’ll find someone you will want to kiss.” Obi Wan rolls his eyes when Anakin makes a fake gagging noise.
“EW!!! I’ll never want to kiss anyone, that's so gross!” Both Cody and Obi Wan laugh.
“You say that now, but you’ll change your mind once you’re older.” Anakin just shakes his head, not believing a word Obi Wan had said. Rex is standing there, laughing quietly. Cody turns to him.
“What are you laughing at Rex’ika, you’ll want to kiss too when you’re older.” Rex stops laughing and glares at Cody.
“That will never happen! Kissing is so gross.” Both Cody and Obi Wan can't stop laughing at the two young boys.
“Sure! You come to me in four years and tell me that.” Rex rolls his eyes at his brother, knowing that he’ll never want to kiss anyone. Ever.
"Yeah right, it's never gonna happen." Rex can't hold back a smirk any longer.
"Okay. I'll hold you to that one, Rex'ika." Cody teases Rex. He then feels Obi Wan's hand take his and holds it gently, making the both of them smile lovingly at each other.
"Quick Rex, let's go! They're gonna kiss again!" Anakin pulls Rex by his arm again and they both dart out of the room with Artoo following just behind them.
Obi Wan and Cody can't help but laugh out loud uncontrollably as the pair run out of the room. After regaining their breath, they look at one another again and lean in for a more intimate kiss, just wanting to stay here forever with each other.
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Anakin and Rex ran for a while, both laughing and racing around the castle with each other down different halls. They stop when they see a fourteen year old girl looking out of a big window, enjoying the sight of the frozen lake as the snow gently falls past the window. Padmé turns to look at the two boys who just caught their breath after running around the castle. "Hello Prince Rex. Hello Anakin."
Anakin's heart skips a beat when she says his name. Rex can see that his cheeks have turned a little red, so he decides to give the both of them some alone time. Rex is very aware of their feelings for each other "I've just remembered, I promised to go and help Fives and Echo with something. I'll see you two later." He waves at the both of them, making Anakin glare at him as if to say don't leave me alone.
Anakin hears Rex chuckles subtly behind him as he turns to look at Padmé who smiles at him kindly, so he returns the smile back to her.
Rex walks down the hall, heading to a room close by, he smirks when he finds mistletoe inside of a drawer, ready to put his plan into action. He plans to set up the mistletoe, then call Anakin and Padme into the room right under it.
Rex walks over to the doorway, grabbing a chair to stand on, he hangs up the plant. It's in the perfect place for Anakin and Padme to get stuck under it. He hops down, setting the chair back and walking out. The two aren't very far away so he calls them.
“Hey, do you mind helping us you two. We need more than three people!!” Both Anakin and Padme glance at each other, wondering what the three could be doing that could need five people. But they shrug and head out to help their friend and his younger brothers, they walk into the room, looking around to find it empty except for Rex.
“What did you need Prince Rex? And where are the twins?” Padmé asks, confused.
“Yeah Rex, where's Fives and Echo?” Rex smirks a mischievous smirk, pointing up. The two look up to see the mistletoe, blushing as they realize what this means.
“You both know what mistletoe means.” He tells them as they glance at each other, Anakin is a deep shade of red.
“Umm, you… you don't have to kiss me if-!!!” Padme presses a kiss to his lips mid sentence, it's a quick one, but sweet all the same. She pulls away, leaving a flustered Anakin looking an even darker shade of red. Padmé giggles.
“You okay, Ani?” Anakin nods, not knowing what to say. Rex holds back laughter at his friend's reaction, Padme turns to Rex.
“Do you think that he's going to be okay?” She asks,and Rex nods.
“Yeah, i'm sure that he’s going to be fine.” Rex reassures her, walking out of the room and down the hall towards the ballroom. Rex is happy that he finally got the two of them to kiss. He's known about their secret feelings for a long time, so he found this to be the best time to get them to confess their feelings to each other.
“HEY, REX!!!!!” Rex jumps with a scream at his two younger brothers jumping out from behind one of the doors to the ballroom to scare him, Fives has Echo on his shoulders, making them
look bigger. Rex falls to the floor, feeling anger rise up in him.
Echo climbs off of Fives' shoulders as they both laugh at Rex, who is now sitting up on the floor and he does not look happy in the slightest.
"AHAHA, Rex! You should have seen your face!" Fives wipes some tears of laughter from the corner of his eye. He is enjoying it all too much and so is his twin Echo.
Rex clearly looks annoyed as he finally reaches his breaking point. He stares down towards the floor, trying so hard to hide his frustration from everyone else in the room but he thinks now that he has finally lost it.
Fives walks closer to him and holds his hand out to help Rex up. "Sorry, Vod. Here I'll help you-" Rex swats his hand away, causing Fives to flinch and making his smile disappear. Echo's smiling soon turns into worry too.
"You think this is funny?" He scowls a little as he gets up slowly by himself. "Y'know...I really don't need this stupid behavior right now!" Rex finally snaps at the both of them, making them feel hurt because it was only meant to be a funny joke.
Everyone in the room goes silent as they watch Rex's anger rise with every passing moment as he continues to get angry at Fives and Echo.
A few moments later, Obi Wan and Cody are holding hands as they walk past Cody's cousins Heavy, Droidbait and Cutup, then into the ballroom to see Rex yelling at the Twins.
Cody gives Obi Wan's hand a slight squeeze, letting him know that he needs to go and sort out whatever is going on.
"Rex, what's going on?" Concern washes over Cody's face when he sees Fives' and Echo's hurt expressions.
"Mind your own business, Cody." Rex snaps at his Ori'Vod. Cody doesn't take his tone lightly.
"What's up with you? Is something bothering you?"
"Just leave us alone…" Rex warns Cody, still keeping piercing, direct eye contact with the twins.
"Oh I don't think so. I'm sure that whatever they did wasn't harmful enough to-"
"Shut up!!" Rex isn't having any of what Cody has to say.
Anakin and Padmé then walk into the ballroom, seeing what was going on, the tension rising with each passing moment.
"Rex, you need to chill out, now." Cody tells him sternly.
"NO!" Rex's yell echoes around the room and Cody gets fed up with his Vod's behavior.
"That's it!" Cody tackles Rex against a wall as they both start to fight.
Rex ducks down and around Cody to pull him into a headlock from behind. Cody grabs onto the arm around his neck and throws Rex over his shoulder and onto the floor. The air is knocked out of his lungs as he sees Cody go to punch him. Rex uses a block technique to protect himself. He tries his best to counter attack with punches to Cody's side. They yell over each other, so it's difficult to tell what they are saying, but Rex curses a few times towards his brother.
Everyone watches and gasps at the sight. Anakin looks around the room to see Stutter standing not too far away with a frightened look on his face as he struggles to keep his tears back. Anakin runs over to him to comfort him, holding him close and making him look away from the fight.
He is only four years old and arrived at the castle a year ago. He was abused by his Father and older brothers for three years. They were all ten years old, so they always looked bigger and scarier in Stutters eyes as they yelled nasty and hurtful things at him.
Anakin feels Stutter start to shake with fear and anxiety as he starts to remember the trauma from his past. Anakin can't stand this anymore, someone has to do something to stop Rex and Cody from fighting. "Obi Wan!"
Obi Wan hears Anakin call out his name, knowing too that this has to be stopped. He runs over to try his best to break up the fight by pulling his boyfriend off of Rex. Cody struggles in Obi Wan's grasp that he has around him. Obi Wan decides to get in the middle of the two fighting brothers "Enough!! Both of you, just stop! You're scaring Stutter."
Rex and Cody pause and then look towards Anakin who is still holding onto the trembling four year old. Rex feels so bad now for things getting so out of hand. "I…" Rex decides to walk over to Stutter who doesn't seem to be calming down. Anakin uses his eyes to gesture down at Stutter, who is pressing his little body into him, and then back up to Rex, making Rex crouch down in front of them both. "I'm so, so sorry, Stutter." He says quietly so as not to scare him any more than he already has.
Stutter sniffles some, still pressing himself into Anakin. Rex rubs the back of his neck in guilt over what he has done.
Anakin decides to try and calm Stutter down. "Hey, it's alright. You're safe here. No one is going to hurt you. We're all here for you, including Rex." There was no movement for a moment until Stutter pulled away to look up at Anakin who smiles reassuringly down at him.
Stutter sniffles in response and turns around to see Rex with a nervous smile, hoping that Stutter understands that he is in a safe environment now and that Rex hadn’t meant to scare him. Stutter walks towards Rex and gives him a hug. Rex wraps his arms around his little brother. "I'm sorry, Vod'ika."
"I-It's okay, O-O-Ori'Vod." He can't help but cry a little bit more into Rex, creating a little damp patch on his shirt, but he doesn't mind it one bit. All that matters is that Stutter is safe now. Rex still feels so bad for scaring his Vod’ika, especially knowing about his past. Rex and his family absolutely hate Stutter's “Family”, they promised that they won't let them hurt him anymore, and that's a promise they intend to keep.
"Shh, it's okay now. It's okay…" Rex whispers as he places a kiss on top of Stutter's head, holding him close to him. Rex swears that he will never hurt Stutter like this ever again, he can’t stand to hurt his Vod’ika.
Obi Wan has calmed Cody down now too, giving him a quick, loving kiss on the lips before they walk over towards the crowd.
Everyone is glad that everything has calmed down now. Rex lets go of Stutter, looking around to see everyone staring at him. He feels so bad and embarrassed that he runs out of the room, heading up the stairs and into his room. He jumps on his bed and presses his face into his pillow, hot tears of embarrassment and regret wetting it.
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It's been an hour since the fight and Cody is sitting in a chair, quietly thinking. He doesn’t know what to do, he tried talking to his older cousins, Fox and Thorn, both two years older than him. They told him that the way he had handled the situation was wrong and so did his uncle 99, his uncle said that he should go talk to Rex, but Cody doesn’t know if Rex would want to talk to him.
“Cody?” He turns to see Obi Wan and Knight Plo, Wolffe, Sinker, Boost and Comet’s adopted father, walk in.
“Obi Wan, Knight Plo. do you two need something?” They both look at eachother.
“You do know that you have to talk to him at some point, right Cody?” Cody sighs in frustration.
“I know, but what do I even say. I don’t know what to do this time Obi Wan, I’ve really messed things up. My dad would have handled the situation so much better than me.” Plo places a hand on Cody’s shoulder, who looks up at him.
“I know that it's hard Cody, you’re only a young man yourself. But Rex needs you right now, I can feel it in the force. Take it from me, even grown adults make mistakes.” Cody nods, and Obi Wan walks over. He grabs Cody’s hand, pressing his lips to his fingers, then to Cody’s forehead.
“He needs you, he’s hurting and he needs his big brother.”
Cody sighs nodding again, he stands up out of his chair. “You’re right, thanks sweetheart. Knight Plo.” Plo nods, Cody thinks he’s smiling, but can’t be sure because of the mask.
“You can just call me Plo, we’re family after all.” Cody nods, heading to try to make amends with his Vod’ika.
When he reaches Rex's room, he's about to knock on the door when he hears a few sniffles from the other side. "Rex?" It suddenly goes quiet on the other side and there's no response. "Rex'ika, it's me...can I please come in?"
He's about to walk away, but he finally gets a response. "Come in." Rex's voice was slightly muffled, but it was clear enough for Cody to understand and enters his little Brother's room.
Cody sees Rex laying down on his back on his bed, his right arm draped over his eyes, not wanting to even spare a glance at Cody. "I've come to apologise for my actions earlier. I shouldn't have started that fight. I'm sorry." He apologises, sitting down on the bed. Nothing. "Please, Rex. Just look at me."
Reluctantly, Rex removes his arm from his face and sits up, swinging his legs over the edge of the bed. He looks a mess. His eyes are red and his nose is a little runny from crying regretful tears into his pillow. Cody goes to fetch Rex a tissue and brings it back, handing it to him. "Thank you." He wipes his nose, still a bit sniffly. "I'm sorry too, it was my fault. My day just got worse and worse, then it was all too much to handle anymore and now I've ruined Christmas. And I made Stutter cry. After all he went through before we took him in, I brought back all of those traumatic memories and-" he chokes back a sob. "And I don't think I'll ever forgive myself for being so selfish." He puts his head in his hands, huffing a deep breath out trying to stop the tears from coming back.
"Oh Rex'ika. It's alright, you haven't ruined Christmas. We all have bad days, so I understand now that you were probably just stressed, right?" Rex nods in response, not wanting to look up. "C'mere."
Rex gets pulled into a hug, feeling Cody trap him in a comforting embrace. He relaxes into his Ori'vod's arms, still having regretful thoughts racing throughout his mind. "I'm so sorry, Bubby."
"It's alright. I love you, Rex'ika. No matter what, I'll always be here for you."
"Thank you. I love you too." Rex smiles as he sits up a little, giving Cody a Keldabe kiss.
"Are you ready to go back down now?" Cody doesn't want to force Rex to do something he doesn't want to, but he also knows that staying in his room for the rest of the night isn't going to do him any good.
Rex sits quietly for a few moments, thinking quietly to himself. "Yeah. Could you go down with me?"
"Of course." Cody smiles at his Vod'ika.
"Thank you, Bubby." Rex smiles in return.
"You're welcome. That's what brothers are for." He gives Rex a little nudge and a playful wink as they both stand up and head out of his room into the corridor, walking towards the ballroom to meet again with everyone else.
Rex stares at the youngling cowering behind Obi Wan, he can't believe that he scared the poor Lil'un. The kids almost crying and Rex feels so bad, he should have never left his room while he was like this. He turns and leaves, heading back to his room to hide.
"Rex! Come back!" You call, you feel so bad for him. You turn back to Obi Wan, who's comforting the little girl. He looks at you guiltily.
"I'm sorry, y/n. I didn't think that Rex would be in his wolf form, I should have commed you." You look at Obi Wan comfortingly.
"It's not your fault, Waxer told us you'd probably be bringing your new Padawan around. But we forgot." Obi Wan nods, he feels so bad for both Rex and his Padawan.
"I still should have explained Rex's predicament to her." He says as he runs his hand along the youngling's headtail and you walk closer to her. She quickly hides behind Obi Wan.
"Can you introduce us?" You ask him and he looks up and smiles.
"Ah, right. This is Gida, she's 10 years old and as you know, my knew Padawan." You smile and walk closer to Gida, holding out your hand to her.
"Well, it's very nice to meet you Gida." She peeks out from where she's hiding, and slowly grabs your hand.
"It's nice to meet you too." She says quietly, it brings a smile to your face how cute she is.
"What was that?" She asks you and you frown, it's kind of hard to explain what your boyfriend is to a youngling.
"Well, He's a friend of mine. I promise that he's really nice." You try to be convincing since it's true, but little Gida does not look convinced at all.
"But he's scary." You sigh, and Obi Wan looks at his Padawan. Eyebrow raised.
"Just because hes scary doesn't mean he's not nice, besides he doesn't always look like that." Gida looks at Obi Wan confused.
"What do you mean?" You kneel down close to her.
"Rex is usually human, like Obi Wan and I. But he got turned into a werewolf, so he looks like that sometimes." Little Gida looks very surprised, she probably wasn't expecting Rex to be a human.
"Would you like to come meet him with me? I promise he won't hurt you." Gida still looks afraid, but she nods. You smile and pick her up.
"We'll be back Obi Wan, hopefully with Rex." Obi Wan nods and you head to your room, where you're sure that Rex is hiding. Gida is snuggled up to you a little, she's nervous to see Rex again.
You come to the door of your room, punching in the code and walking into the room. You see Rex as soon as you walk in, and his eyes widen as soon as he sees Gida in your arms.
"What are you doing y/n!" You look at Rex seriously.
"I'm bringing Obi Wan's Padawan to meet you." You look down to see Gida cowering a little, but shes not crying like she did before. Your little talk might have helped.
"Y/n, she's scared of me. Take her out." You ignore Rex, bringing Gida closer and smiling. She's got her face pressed into your neck, only one eye peeking out.
"I'm going to prove how nice Rex is Gida, mind kneeling down for me Rex, Please?" You ask him, he huff's a little but obliges. You walk closer.
"Watch this." You tell her and you start running your fingers through the fur on the top of his head, running them along and over to the side. Gida pulls her head up a little more, the wolf doesn't look as scary when y/n is petting him.
You look down and smirk at Gida's curious expression, you decide to change tactics. Kneeling down a little and scratching Rex's belly, as soon as you start Rex flops down on his back. His one leg is kicking and you hear Gida giggle, his tail is wagging and thumping against the floor. You stop and Rex whines as you stand up straight, looking at little Gida.
"So, do you still think he's scary." You ask her as Rex sits up, he's waiting to hear what she says. He hopes that she's not scared of him, he hates that he scared her.
She looks up at you and motions for you to bring her over to Rex, you do and Rex freezes. Once you're close enough Gida reaches her hand up and pets Rex, he leans into it.
"No, he's not scary. He's really silly though" You smile, but it's not as wide as Rex's. He's so relieved that she's not scared anymore, he still feels bad for scaring her, but not as bad as before.
"Now, would you like to leave the room again Rex. Gida is supposed to be meeting us today, we should have some fun with her." Rex still feels a little uneasy about leaving the room, and you can tell.
"Please Mr. Rex. I'm sorry for being scared of you and screaming." Gida says and Rex pats her head, smiling. He knows that he can't refuse either you or her.
"Sure, and you don't have to be sorry. I am scary looking while I'm like this." You smile when Rex starts shrinking and his fur goes away, he turns completely human. You almost start laughing at the surprised look on his and Gida's faces, Rex notices that he feels much more comfortable naturally transforming than it does when he forces himself to turn human
"You really need to learn how to control it Rex." You tell him and his surprise turns into a glare.
"You think! This is getting ridiculous." Rex huff's, and Gida giggles at both of you. It may feel more comfortable transforming naturally but he'd still like to be able to control it.
"Okay, we'll meet you at Obi Wan. You just get dressed, okay." Rex nods and you carry Gida out, once you're out the door she motions for you to put her down. You do and she grabs your hand.
"I like Rex, he's funny." You chuckle at her, she's so cute.
"I like him too, I'm sure that he likes you as well." Gida smiles a big smile at that, and you both make it back to Obi Wan. He smiles at the two of you.
"I hope everything went well" he says and you nod.
"Everything went great, I showed Gida that Rex isn't scary. Then he ended up transforming into a human." You tell him and Gida giggles.
"Yeah Master, Mr. Rex was a giant wolf, then he started shrinking and transformed into a human." Obi Wan smile's at Gida's enthusiasm.
"Really, that's interesting. So are you friends now?" You laugh at how cute Gida is being when she nods seriously.
"Yeah, I think so. I'll ask him when he comes back, are you my friend y/n." You smile at her and nod.
"Of course we're friends, Gida." She smiles and walks up, hugging you. She's such a sweetheart.
"I'm so glad, I don't have too many friends at the temple. They say I'm too energetic, and huggy. I don't understand how people can be to huggy." Obi Wan's smiling at his new Padawan, you find her very sweet. You wonder how the 212th is taking to her.
"Mr. Rex!" She calls and you see Rex walk up, in full armor, she runs over to him. Grabbing his hand and pulling him towards you and Obi Wan.
"Mr. Rex, are you my friend now." Rex looks surprised at the moment but a smile overtakes his face and he nods his head.
"Of course I'm your friend. Now you said that you wanted to play." Gida squeal's, pulling Rex with her.
"Yay, can I go play with Rex and y/n, Master, please?" She asks and Obi Wan nods his head once again, smiling.
"Of course, just be careful." You smile at him as you follow Rex and Gida out of the hall and towards the messhall it seems. You wonder what she wants to do there?
Kix walks into your room after a few minutes and Rex gets out of bed. You sit up straighter so that you can talk to him better.
"Kix, do you think that I can leave now?" Kix smile's at you, he's happy to see that you're excited. That's a good sign.
"Yes, you seem to be healing well. Just no strenuous activity, okay." You nod excitedly, you're so tired of being in bed. You just woke up yesterday but you did a lot of healing in the last two weeks.
"Do you think baking would be strenuous?" You ask Kix, hoping that he'll allow you to bake. You can't wait. Kix sighs, he knew that you would want to be up doing something. At least it's not too strenuous.
"You should be fine to bake, BUT only if Rex supervises and you have a chair near you to sit in if you get even a little tired. Also you shouldn't walk long distances so I grabbed you a wheelchair." You nod, annoyed that you have to use a wheelchair to get around. But you aren't going to fight Kix and risk being put back on bed rest.
You sit down in the wheelchair, and Rex pushes you towards your shared room so that you can get changed into your own clothes. Once you get there you see your helmet sitting on the bedside table, only a few black skorch marks to show what happened.
"Rex, what happened to the rest of my armor?" You ask and Rex smile's.
"Only the chestplate was really broken, we already fixed it." You nod, feeling bad that your armor broke pretty much the first time you used it. Rex notices your small frown.
"Hey. Don't look like that, I'd rather the armor broken than losing you." He kneels down and hugs you in the wheelchair, brushing his fingers through your hair.
"We can always replace armor, but we can't replace you." You nod, kissing Rex's cheek. He helps you get up and you walk slowly over to your clothes, you're a little wobbly at first but that's from not using your legs in a while. Rex stands close, making sure that he can catch you if you fall.
You get dressed, Rex helping you. Once you're dressed and Rex has gotten you back into the wheelchair(much to your displeasure) he wheels you down to the mess hall and helps you grab all the ingredients for baking. The two of you are going to make chocolate muffins.
"Rex, hand me the muffin mix please, and the 1 cup measuring cup." Rex does, handing the two of them too you. You measure out two cups of powder while Rex gets started making the sugar icing. He puts in icing sugar and milk, mixing them together until they are the perfect texture.
"Can you hand me the white milk please, sweetheart." He picks up the milk, handing it to you carefully. He's keeping an eye on you, making sure that you aren't tiring yourself out yet. The wheelchair is neareby so that if you do get tired you can sit.
Rex puts down the icing bowl, looking towards you with a mischievous smirk. He quickly sticks his fingers in the batter that you're currently stiring, eating licking it off.
"Really Rex!" You glare at him, you can't believe it. Scratch that, you definitely can believe it since he does it every time you cook anything. Rex leans in to grab more and you slap his hand away.
"No!" Rex does it again, and you miss his hand as he shoves it in his mouth.
"Rex!" Rex looks at you and smirks after eating the batter of his hand. He feigns innocence.
"Cyare, I'm just taste testing."
"Fine, but no more." You huff, after a few minutes of peace and you adding the rest of the ingredients, Rex swipes his hand into the bowl. You glare but decide that this is his last chance. It's when he does it again that really pisses you off.
"Really!" He feigns innocence once again.
"What! I'm just taste testing." You give him the best glare you can.
"Rex. This is the fifth time you've "tested the batter" I'm positive that you know what it tastes like by now." Rex smiles, pulling you against him and kissing you.
He's gentle near your chest since you're still injured, you hum in satisfaction, tasting the sweet chocolate batter on his lips. He pulls away and smiles at you, quickly scooping his fingers back into the batter and shoving them in his mouth.
"Rex! Seriously!" He chuckle's, finding you adorable when you're mad.
"I'm sorry cyare but I can't help it, your baking is amazing." You sigh again, you just can't stay angry at him.
"Thanks but please stop eating it, besides I've had your sweets when you bake by yourself and they taste great."
"Yeah, but not as good as yours." Rex say's, pulling you in for another kiss.
"How's the icing going?" Rex looks back towards the icing, which is now blue.
"It's good, I dyed it blue." You chuckle at him, of course he did.
"Oh really, I wonder why you did that." You say sarcastically, prompting a laugh from Rex.
"Yeah, are the muffin's ready to go in the oven." you nod. You feel a pain in your chest and wince, Rex notices it and look's at you worried.
"You okay, cyare? Why don't you sit down and rest, I'll get these in the oven." You nod and sit in the wheelchair, you hate that you can't help anymore. Hopefully it won't take long for you to be back in tip top shape.
Rex walks over to you after putting the muffin's in the oven, kissing your cheek as he kneels down.
"What do you want to do while we wait?" You think about it for a few minutes, trying to figure out what you want to do.
"Why don't we go see Fives and the boys?" Rex smiles at you.
"Your wish is my command, cyare. Just let me set a timer and then we'll go." Rex sets a timer for about 5 minutes before the muffin's should be done, he sits the timer in a pocket on the wheelchair.
Then he wheels you out of the kitchen in the mess hall. He's taking you to the barracks to see the boys, the ones that are off duty and in the barracks right now are Fives, Dogma and Stutter. Rex wheels you in and they all jump up.
"Y/n! You're out of bed!" Fives yells out excitedly, you chuckle as he walks up and hugs you gently. When Fives pulls away Stutter looks at you shyly, wringing his hands
"I-It's nice to s-s-see you y/n. Are y-you feeling b-better" You smile at Stutter, he's such a sweetheart.
"Yeah, I'm definitely feeling better. How are you doing?" Stutter smiles at you, he likes how kind you are to him and his brothers.
"I-I'm good, I'm g-glad that you're a-awake." You smile at him, he's such a nice trooper.
"Thanks Stutter, oh and thanks for helping with the cooking supplies Dogma." Dogma gives you a small shy smile.
"Uh, your welcome miss y/n. You don't have to thank me." Dogma rubs the back of his neck and you smile kindly at him, you think that you and him will be good friends.
"Of course I need to thank you, you did go back to the planet. I can't wait to look at the souvenirs you guys got me too." They all nod and Stutter steps up, you turn towards him.
"I g-got you a g-get well pres-s-sent, y/n" you look at him surprised, he didn't have to get you anything.
"Oh, Stutter. You didn't need to get me anything." Stutter smiles at you, he hopes that you like your present.
"O-of course I d-did, you d-d-deserve it." He hands you a little box and you smile, Rex smiles too, he clearly knows what Stutter got you. You open the box to see a little beaded bracelet, it has blue, green, and white beads. You look up to Stutter wringing his hands nervously.
"Umm, you said that you liked bracelets so I bought one on Coruscant, if you don't like it, it's okay." You smile, grabbing Stutter's arm.
"No, I love it Stutter, it's pretty. Thank you so much." Stutter smiles, he's so glad you liked it. He was nervous that you wouldn't, even when his Ori'vod's, Rex and Fives, told him that you would.
"I'm glad you do, you deserve it." You smile and put it on, you love it. You hear the alarm for your muffins start going off.
"Oh, sorry Vods. We have to go, we'll talk later okay." They all nod and Rex wheels you away as you wave bye to them. They are going to love the muffin's you baked