The Rising

dead man walking

Kix had, for what seemed to be the hundredth time, scanned Lil as discreetly as he could already sensing the growing annoyance from his fiance. 

"quit it" Lil growled under her breath as she continued to eat her rations. He was sitting next to her in the gally, insisting that he 

Kix froze before he laughed nervously and gently wrapped an arm around her waist from where he sat. 

Lil gave him a slight glance before returning to her meal, the scanner was momentarily forgotten as she ate. 

Kix on the other hand was glancing from his fiance's form to the scanner, his mind not quite wanting to believe what it was telling him. 

It stated that she was in perfect health, but she seemed to be unable to work beyond that. for instance, it told him her heart was in perfect condition while refusing to register her bones or her kidneys. 

"Kix if you don't put that thing away I swear I'm gonna-" Lil started not turning away from her meal. 

Kix finally lamented at the threat and hastily tossed it onto one of the bunks nearest them. "Ok. it's gone......Do you want more food?"

It was an innocent question, but after he had asked this and others for at least the thousandth time this too was getting on her nerves. 

Lil put down her fork and simply glared at Kix, her eyes almost stabbing him as he shifted uncomfortably in his seat. 

"ok ok ok," Kix grumbled before he kissed her cheek and leaned back against the cool metal of the hull. 

He could almost hear snickering from somewhere to his right, he was positive it was Wreaker but he chose to not only ignore it but he quickly rose from his seat and made his way to the cockpit. 

thinking he could at least radio the council or her parents, he winced before he realized what Obi-wan would probably say or do to him when they finally returned. 

His mind was so caught up in his thoughts he didn't bother knocking on the closed cockpit door, choosing instead to throw it open absentmindedly. 

he wasn't a step into the cockpit when he almost shouted in shock and embarrassment as he realized he had interrupted something. 

Hunter who had not a second ago been wrapped around Damali hastily tried to shield her from view as Hunter glanced at them highly confused and embarrassed. 

"Sorry, I didn't mean to um.....interrupt" Kix grumbled trying to look anywhere but at them as he realized that Hunter's shirt which he knew he had been wearing earlier had disappeared. 

"What do you need?" Hunter asked his voice slightly gruffer than usual as he crossed his arms and moved into a more protective stance. 

Kix automatically decided against calling anyone at this instance, choosing instead to turn around and practically run out of the cockpit. which slammed shut the moment he left and he could have sworn he heard something similar to a click of a lock from the other side of the door.

Lil who could see the ever-increasing blush on Kix's face almost burst into a fit of laughter. 

"You ok dear?" she asked her voice calm as she could muster but her face broke into an almost permanent grin. 

Kix glowered at her for a second before he found himself walking over to her and, with a small triumphant smile, grab her plate of food from her. 

the result was almost instant. 

"HEY!!!" Lil yelled in shock as Kix smiled even bigger and proceeded to take a large portion of the grey substance and hold it in his hand grinning like a fool. 

Lil recognized the grin and glared at him "Don't you even-"

Splat. 

It had landed squarely on her face. 

"Oh...Your dead" she hissed as she wiped a portion of the mess that had covered her left eye off. 

Kix laughed and shook his head unbelieving that she could take him in a fight before he felt a cold wet putty-like substance hit him on the side of the head and slowly trickle down the clone's neck and stain his shirt. 

He froze before he straightened and looked at the now smiling Lil. 

"Oh..... it's on" Kix grumbled before he picked up the remainder of the food from Lil's plate and started towards her. 

Lil, being the clever Jedi she was, ran. 

she quickly found herself trapped however between Kix and the bunks. 

Kix just grinned at her as he edged closer. 

then he dove for her, fully expecting to be able to get her pined so he could get his revenge, though at the moment he did he soon found himself hovering in mid-air at least four feet off the ground. 

"not fair" Kix hissed as he tried, in vain, to reach the ground. 

Lil giggled before moving forward and placing a kiss on his cheek, "That's what you get for challenging a Jedi" she whispered. 

Kix sighed before he kissed her nose and then her lips gently, "your right...." his hand using her shoulder to still himself in the air as he did. 

Then she felt a slight splat and felt something cold on her neck. 

Kix had used his free hand holding the food to finally land a blow. 

Lil glared at him while Kix just shrugged "there was an opening....." 

Wreaker chose at this moment to finally make himself known, "will you two get a room already".

Kix chuckled before he noticed Lil's blush that seemed to overtake her whole face. 

He turned to Wreaker who by the looks of it was trying to watch some kind of video on a datapad in his bunk which made him look almost comical since he was about the size of three clones. 

"We had one thanks" Kix stated boldly completely forgetting that he was still in the air. that was of course before he fell crashing into the ground. 

Lil was at his side helping him back to his feet in an instant. 

"are you ok?" she whispered slightly worried she had broken the medic. 

Kix only smiled and gently kissed her as he wrapped his arms around her waist rubbing a small part of her stomach gently with his thumb. Something he had learned to calm her down after a long day, and truth be told he enjoyed both the look on her face when he did this and the feel of her stomach muscles slowly relaxing.

Though as he rubbed he realized her stomach had grown both larger and more dense, it was almost as if she had gained extra muscle but only in her stomach.

He froze as he looked down at her.

His heart soaring and filtering with realization before it sank to the very pit of his stomach.

She was pregnant......

And he was a dead man walking........

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Ok guys, newest chapter. And since today is my birthday I will try and write another chapter tonight as a gift to you guys for sticking with me through the long absences which I know are both hell and frustrating. And as always props to my readers and fellow writers ❤️.