i don’t wanna be an island, i just wanna feel alive (and get to see your face again)
Yeah….this one hurt to write. Written for @painkiller80‘s Fives Week 2020. Enjoy?
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Day 2- Family
All his life, Fives had never been alone.
Really, this was true for every clone. They were all brought up in tight quarters, sharing everything with millions of other brothers on Kamino. They died on the battlefield surrounded by their brothers. Loneliness was not a concept clones normally experienced or understood.
And it was especially true for Fives. He’d had someone by his side from the very beginning. Even before he was decanted, he’d had the steady presence of Echo. He may not remember his earliest moments and years, but for as far back as he could remember, it had been one of those unshakable truths: the Jedi are a strange lot of people, the Separatists and Republic are at war, and Fives will always be with Echo.
Every step of the way, they’d been together. Decanted from the same tube, a rare case of clone twins. Side-by-side through their cadet cycles, training on Kamino, their first assignments after graduating. Every step of the way, he’d had Echo, his longest and truest friend. They’d survived losing the rest of their batchmates together. Survived the assault on Kamino and 99’s death. Gone through the hell that was ARC training together. It had felt like he’d always have him by his side, like whatever hell the war threw at them, they’d get through it if they did it together.
He should have known it was a foolish thought.
"The last Domino standing" 😭😭😭
Catch me ugly crying first thing in the morning. Thank you, i love this.