Last Line Challenge
I got tagged by @meebles 💜 I’m sorry for posting and replying so irregularly, adulthood really isn’t good for my time management.
LOUD.
“Next stop: Cam Mer Plaza.”
Obi-Wan grunts in protest when Depa accidentally jostles him. Needs must in some cases, and in this case the message she’s sending to Grey warrants the slight disturbance in her opinion. “I am proud of you and your ability to be not as… troublesome as some of your siblings.”
Gentle hands, black bloody gloves hidden away behind a chest plate, adjust Obi-Wan’s body against her side until his hair tickles her cheek and he’s safely tucked in once more. Depa stops counting the times Obi-Wan’s breathing is checked and looks at Commander Cody not meeting her eyes while he consciously stops his fussing.
Grey’s name pops up on her comm a second later.
“That’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me and I now have it on record,” he says, dry as a desert planet, as soon as she accepts the call.
“Hello, Grey,” she smiles, feeling the warmth of connection to her commander and her troops fill her chest.
“Hello, Depa,” he replies, equally as warm and the exhaustion is starting to unravel from her muscles.
“I still don’t understand what this has to do with sparkling wine,” Commander Cody states.
“Compound butter,” Quinlan and Commander Fox groan back in different levels of exasperation.
“You gotta understand,” Grey starts again and Depa’s attention snaps away from what she has thought were ancient methods on ice cream churning, “the first command batches are, genetically speaking, not that far off from the template. So they regrettably really are like this if left to their own devices.”
Depa had met Jango Fett face to face exactly once. With the Galaxy unraveling by the second, their fight had boiled down to a lot of rain and the heart stopping, heart breaking introduction of the clones, but she can very well remember the armor peaking out like neon colored evidence as Jango had explained his humble life in a state of the art cloning facility on a planet that did not exist.
“It explains a lot,” she allows.
The last line was the shine in her eyes while we explore Coruscant’s public transport 🥰