Life Of War

Chapter 41

Standing in the command Center I had been waiting for a certain clone to join the meeting.

"Where is Captain Rex?" Kenobi grew impatient after ten minutes had passed and the captain was still missing.

"He should be here any second" Anakin tried to convince his former master, knowing he had probably been caught up with something the 501st had done.

"Lyra, will you go find the Captain?" Obi Wan asked and with a nod from me I was on my way towards his last know location on the ship, the 501st barracks.

"You have a crush on the General!" Hardcase and Fives cheered together like children.

"No, I don't" Rex crossed his arms as his brothers teased him.

"So you wouldn't mind if I made a move on her?" Jesse taunted.

"She's a Jedi, she can't form attachments" Rex reminded his men sternly. "And she would never go for an idiot like you" he mumbled, but a few of his brothers heard and simply laughed at his jealously.

"Uh, Captain" I cleared my throat from the doorway to make my presence know as Rex stiffened suddenly.

"Hello, General" he turned to face me while his brothers cheered and roared with laughter.

"What's going on in here?" I pointed the question with interest.

"Uh, nothing, sir" he scrambled to explain himself. "What are you doing here?" He asked as nerves got the best of him.

"Well, I got tired of waiting for the meeting to start and decided to come get you myself" I stated calmly as he instantly remembered the meeting and shot to his feet. Throwing on his helmet he rushed out of the door and right past me.

"Bye, Captain!" The men all called teasingly after him.

"You men stay out of trouble" I pointed with an accusing and joking glare. I calmly walked past the clone as we both entered the command Center.

"Where did you find the Captain?" Kenobi questioned when I stood firmly beside him again.

"He was signing paperwork when I found him, he had lost track of time" I shrugged with my lie, Rex sending me a grateful nod at not exposing him or the 501st.

"Well, now we can continue with the meeting of our very important mission" Kenobi exaggerated to remind Rex of how important these missions were for the war.

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"Great job Anakin, we almost crashed!" I scolded as he flew us through an asteroid field to avoid the vulture droids that had been sent out to follow us after we had planted bombs on the separatist fleet.

"But we didn't" he pointed out. "Did you blow that thing up yet?" He asked next, directing the scolding to me. With a deep sigh I pressed the button, the fleet outside of the asteroid field exploding in bright flames.

"Watch where your flying!" He quickly swerved us out of danger at my shout of panic.

"Will you go relax somewhere where you can't yell at me?" He snapped.

"Fine!" I shouted back with stress. "I don't even know why I was sent on this mission if Anakin had everything under control" I grumbled as I moved to the back where the clones were lounging around.

"Is she alright?" Jesse nervously questioned his brothers as they watched me in my fit of stress and frustration storm into the room.

"Jesse" Rex scolded his brother in a hushed tone.

"Sorry" he raised his hands in defence. I sat in the middle of the floor to begin meditating while the others watched in confusion.

"Don't you have something useful to do?" Rex asked his men. They all nodded and went back to work on whatever they could find to keep themselves busy and out of trouble for the remainder of the flight.