fifteen: hurful truth.

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After some more walking through the creaking and decrepit jedi cruiser, they finally found the door to the med bay. Rex and Contessina peeked under the door to make sure it was the right place before her, Tech, and Rex pushed open the rusted door. Everyone stepped inside the room while Rex and Contessina lingered outside for a moment, Rex removing his helmet when he stepped inside. Yelena glanced around the room and she could just feel the familiarity and remember when she used to work in one of these. "This will do nicely." Rex hummed content when he flashed his light around the room.

"It's practically identical to the one yours was removed in, right?" Contessina asked her partner who gave a small nod, the woman glancing over at Yelena who was still staring around the room. "Good, then we can use it." She smiled pleased and content.

"I would no longer call this medical bay a sterile environment." Tech piped up, the captain and commander exchanging a look at his words before Rex turned to him.

"Do you prefer to use the facility on Kamino?" Rex retorted, Tech stopping and pausing in thought which amused Contessina.

"This will do nicely." He repeated Rex's words and nodded when Rex and Contessina had walked away. Hunter glancing over at Yelena curiously when he saw her looking around.

"Look familiar?" He asked her, the woman humming and nodded with a smile, while he wore a small smile on his face even though she couldn't see it.

"Very. Almost identical to the ones I'd work in." Yelena replies, looking at Hunter while Omega got Wrecker settled on the surgery table and Echo walked up to the controls with his helmet in one arm. "I think mine was a bit bigger, but I didn't work alone and I wasn't always in the med bay, you know." She continued with a small shrug.

"I'm surprised you never treated us at one point or encountered us, we...got a wound here or there." Hunter commented and Yelena couldn't help the small laugh that left her lips.

"I treated other battalions, but I was with Anakin, Rex, and Ahsoka so often that I just ended up being the 501st doctor and 'co-general', I guess." Yelena tells him, making air quotations with her fingers. Hunter quietly nodded, very aware she had spent most of her time with the 501st because of Anakin. The way she talked about him, their familial bond was so strong he didn't think they could be away from each other too long. It must've made her leaving so much harder, he guessed.

"I'll calibrate the surgical pod," Echo announced, putting his helmet down. His voice gaining hers and Hunter's attention, the woman stepping away before Hunter could say anything else to her. Echo plugged in his socket arm below the controls to the pod, the lights and machines in the room turning on. Yelena walked over with a concerned frown to Wrecker, the man gripping his head as he sat on the surgical table. Tech taking off his helmet and putting down his gear as he took out the scanner, Hunter walking over and stepping up to Yelena.

"Time to get scanned, Wrecker." Tech tells him, holding the scanner.

"Let's get this over with." Wrecker groaned in pain, Yelena taking Omega's hand and pulling her back, allowing Hunter to move forward and take Wrecker's backpack.

"It'll be over soon, Wrecker, I promise. You'll feel much better." Yelena offered him comforting words, the man whimpering in pain but he wore a hopeful look on his face when he glanced at the jedi. He really hoped so and he trusted her words. Yelena released Omega's hand and looked over when Hunter grabbed Wrecker's helmet before going over to the side of the room to put it down while Tech placed the scanner on Wrecker's head and began to calibrate it and scan for the chip. Omega stepped up to her brother with concern while Yelena turned and walked over to Hunter nearby, removing her cloak and saber, placing both on the ground next to Wrecker's stuff.

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