I'm gonna share a summary of a Fives fic that I don't think I'll ever have time to write, so just wanted to chat about it because it warms my damn heart. Okay, so: a reporter is assigned to the 501st because they wanted to humanize clones to make society more invested in the war effort and the soldiers fighting for them. No one but the reporter themselves is excited. Rex dumps her with, you guessed it, Echo and Fives to chaperone around (is it because they pissed him off? Yes).
Queue introductions: Fives responds to Rex's order by mimicking a damn droid a la "order not understood; no applicable data available" resulting in a long, shocked pause by the reporter before Echo slaps his brother and apologizes for his "humor".
More shenanigans follow, gradually evolving from taunting to teasing to playing to a moment of dangerous self-sacrifice revealing suppressed *feelings*. The actual reporting ends up really helping the war effort, but, eventually, the romance gets found out, the reporter gets transferred to a different unit, and there is much angst.
Finally, the reporter actually gets kidnapped, and Fives goes a little awol (Rex covers for him, of course) to rescue them. And then Palpatine trips on a banana peel and everything's wonderful.
I'm sharing this with full permission for someone else to take it on and play with the premise, because it's so fucking cute, but I just don't have time to write it... that's all


















