Be Your Brothers

Chapter 28 - The Child

Pinching the bridge of her nose, again, Reetha sighed. After the whole krayt dragon debacle, she tried to explain to the troops about her morphing, or as they put it, her shapeshifting. So far, she managed to tell them about how long she can hold her wolf form and what she can do in that form. In which according to her, was basically anything considered wolf habits.

"For-for the third time. I'm not a changeling. I don't do shapeshifting." 

"I beg to differ. You shifted from a human to a wolf, in like what, a blink of an eye?" Boil right now was the centre of the ongoing discussion. He was pretty sold to the idea that her ability was more shapeshift than morphing. "Shapeshifting is kind of wizard when you give it a good thought..." Waxer, who sat beside Reetha gave her a pitied look but somewhat agreed with Boil. 

The padawan shrugged "Whatever pleases you guys. I'm just saying, morphing is more 'scientific'. " 

Boil's and Reetha's conversation, which was a pure source of entertainment to the 212th who were getting to know her, was cut short by Cody. "Sorry to interrupt, but you have two troopers who'd like to see you." He said, offering her a smile. Excitedly, she hopped off her perch and waved goodbye to her newfound friends. 

Cody led her down the hallways to the medbay, then he excused himself to finish his reports before promising the padawan that they'd meet each other at dinner. The medbay doors slid open. White light poured into Reetha's eyes, making her squint to readjust to the brightness. In the room, were four troopers, two of which were the ones rescued from the krayt. 

"Commander, good to see you!" A cheerful Tupac waved at her. Reetha waved back to Tupac and the rest. 

"My ears are burning. I hope you're not talking about me." 

Marty laughed from his seat. "Actually, we were more like fangirling over you, but yeah, we did talk about you." Then he gestured to the two clones in the med beds. "May I present you Jex and Scowl." Just like all clones, Jex and Scowl had their own unique signature in the force. Aside from that Reetha noticed something else that separated them from the others. Jex had a birthmark that was covering his left eye and Scowl had a birthmark on his right eye. 

"Pleased to finally meet you." She offered her hand kindly to which the two gladly accepted. 

"The honour is hours, commander. Without you, we would not be here." Jex held her handshake a little longer as he thanked her. 

"Aww jeez. Don't worry. It was really Obi-wan, Cody and your brothers. And lose the title when we're not working eh. That means as long we're not in battle mode, my names as good as anything. Or, you know what, we can skip the title even during battle, and... Uhm, I'm rambling aren't I.." A pink hue came unto her tan skin. 

Scowl replied with a small, comforting laugh. "No worries, Reetha." 

Before she could continue her conversation, Reetha's comm beeped and she answered. "Reetha, I need you in the bridge." It was Obi-wan. He sounded rather serious. Not wanting to keep her new master waiting she stood up and jogged to the med bay's entrance "Sorry guys. Got a catch-up later." She waved awkwardly and accidentally bumped into the doors. "Uhm.. doors, and stuff.." 

Her earned amused looks from the clones, but not judgemental ones. She finally got a grip on herself and managed to open the doors and skipped out, only to pop her head a little past the door to wish Jex and Scowl a fast recovery. 

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A small smile graced the Jedi's face when the jumpy padawan made her way into the bridge. It didn't go unnoticed how welcoming the clones were, greeting and smiling at the padawan as she jogged to Obi-wan's side. Day two and they already welcome her with open arms.