Captain Rex x Reader

11. Chapter

Rex POV:

I watched as y/n fell to the floor, the others rushed towards her to catch her or see if they could help her somehow. I turned my back on them and jogged towards the medical station to get help for her. It didn't take me very long to get there and I immediately spotted a droid called cc-4821. I quickly explained the situation and as soon as I was done 4821 picked up everything he needed and started flying towards the cafeteria, whereas I went to the bridge to inform the other generals. 

A few minutes later I found myself standing before a holoprojector, waiting for the generals to appear in front of me. General Kenobi and General Skywalker appeared in form of a hologram, patiently waiting for me to explain my actions. 

„Generals, I'm here to report to you what's happening here. We-" I was interrupted by Anakin who didn't seem to be as patient as before. "Rex, you were supposed to report your situation in a few hours, is something wrong?" I opened my mouth to say something but again they didn't let me speak, this time it was General Kenobi who interrupted me though. "Anakin, Rex was just about to tell us just that. Where were you during our patience lesson?" Skywalker looked ashamed and Kenobi signaled me to continue.

„We got paid a visit from pirates, their leader, his name was Hondo I believe, wanted something from you General and told us to tell you about his visit." Kenobi rolled his eyes and sighed in frustration. „Thank you Rex, I'll contact him as soon as we're back with you, which should be in about two days. Is there anything else you'd like to say, I feel your fear in the force."I heard blasters being shot in their background, Skywalker turned around and ended his hologram, leaving me alone with General Kenobi, who seemed to be at another place. „Yes General there is more to that, Hondo brought about 100 battle droids with him. They were programmed to only attack when they would be attacked first, Commander l/n and I didn't know that though so we started fighting them. One of them was self destructive and the explosion hit the Commander mid-air. She collapsed right after the pirates left the ship. I'm not informed about her current state given that I immediately went to get help from a medical droid and right after came here to report back to you."

For a moment it was utterly quiet but then Kenobi seemed to have gathered his thoughts and started talking again. „I see, thank you for informing us, I'll tell Anakin about that and I'm sure that we'll be able to get there in 1 and a half days when we hurry up. Please call us when you know anything about her state." With that he ended his hologram as well, leaving me alone. After a minute or two I finally made my way back to my dorm, not being able to go check on y/n because the medics say that she's being operated right now. 

I sat there on my bed, thinking about my feelings, I've not known her for long but I already have these feelings for her. I'm forbidden to be in a relationship and I think that's the same for her, it would harm us more than it would do us good and apart from that, I don't think she feels the same and even if she would feel the same way, they're just feelings, they'll fade away soon enough and I don't want to risk so much just for this to end after a month. 

It's a relieve to have finally cleared my head and I realized that I sat there for three hours just staring into nothingness. I leave my room, going to the medical station to see jf the Commander is already awake again or if the operation is even over yet. The first droid to cross my way was cc-4821, I grabbed his arm and pulled him aside. „Do you now anything new about the Commander?" He looked to the side for a moment but turned his attention to me again after a second. „Yes I do, Commander l/n is stable and is laying in room 106, she should wake up any moment now." 

I was relieved to hear that and noticed that room 106 is the one right next to me, the room 4821 looked at before his answer. I went inside and sat down on a stool next to her bed, she was laying there with closed eyes, I could see her chest move up and down steadily with every breath she took. She started to move around, before she could open her eyes to see me I snuck out of the room. I was determined to tell her what I had decided, to finally get this out of my life but I couldn't do that first thing after she wakes up, that would be too much, she probably wouldn't even think that it's real and instead believe she was dreaming. I quickly got a medic to go check on her and for her to not be completely alone when she wakes up and left the station without looking back.

I didn't feel like I had enough energy to face the Generals now, that's why I told the first trooper I saw to report them that the Commander is stable and is just about to wake up again. I wanted to be alone for some time, that's when an idea hit me. When they would want something from me they'd come looking in my room but the one place they would never search me in is...

Next think I knew, I was sitting in an escape pod, looking at the galaxy and just letting the time pass.

Y/N POV:

There was pressure on my chest and with every breath I took came a little wave of pain that washed over me like I'm some rock standing in the sea. That's the first thing I noticed when I slowly started to wake up. I tried to open my eyes but something stopped me from it, my next attempt was to sit up but I felt that my arms were too weak to push me up and left it at that. There was a ringing in my ears but that didn't stop me from hearing footsteps that seemed to fade away more and more with every second. I heard the sound of a door opening and closing and then nothing.

Panic rose in me, had I been kidnapped? I wasn't able to grasp and hold onto a thought for longer than a few seconds before realizing that none of them made any sense. Except the one always returning fear that I had been kidnapped by someone but even that turned out to be false which I realized as my memory of the explosion flashed before my eyes.

The door seemed to be opened again but this time there weren't any footsteps to be heard, I became curious and slowly opened my eyes without even thinking about it. I didn't see anything except for a flashing light for the first seconds and had to blink a lot before my eyes got used to it.

A droid called cc-4821 was in the room with me and seemed to write something down on a board before he turned to me and pointed at my eyes with a flashlight moving it from right to left and back.

„A pleasure to have you back Commander, Captain Rex informed me that you're waking up." That means I didn't imagine the footsteps but there really was someone with me and it was Rex. This comforted me a bit for some reason. 4821 proceeded to tell me what happened before I blacked out and what happened during the operation. He gave me a few painkillers, after asking how I felt and if I'm in pain, told me that I had to stay in the medical station for the next couple of days and left the room again.

I finally managed to sit up properly and stretched my limbs a bit being careful not to cause myself too much pain. I looked around the room, seeing my lightsaber laying on the nightstand to my right and there being a comfortable looking chair to my left. 

My eyelids became heavy again, I was still drained from the operation. I laid down again and closed my eyes before dozing off into a restful dreamless sleep.

A/N:

I'm planning to update this story more regularly, but I can't make any promises. 

And by the way, this chapter is me trying to take things a bit slower cause I realized that it was going way too fast.😅