--Building a New life --Tech x Reader Bad Batch

Chapter 29 --The big break | Quality sleep and Quality Time --

You open your eyes and discover yourself inside the Jedi temple. --Another nightmare-- you think to yourself as you begin to wander like usual. The darkness grew more intense with each night that you returned here and you felt that you were wading through sludge on some floors ... at least you hoped it was sludge.

As with each night you wander for what feels like hours traveling through each of the rooms of your old home and towards the end of your nightmare which now became more and more terrifying each time was the raspy old voice of your pursuer.

He grew ever closer and his presence became more and more recognizable to you. He always greeted you like an elder greeting a child although he never used your name. Sometimes you would be walking around a corner and would see his shadow in the distance or would hear something and see his dark cloaked frame floating towards you.

It was unnerving and you would run and hide wherever you could find until you woke up. Usually you would suddenly be awake with fear gripping your system. You would look around the room wildly, somehow still feeling he was near. You would cuddle back down or retreat to the bathroom before calming yourself and centering your mind on where you were. The last few nights had been frightening but once you woke up Rex would pop in and sit on the floor near the head of the bed resting his back against its frame and looking up at you. The others didn't comment on it, no doubt because Rex was a superior officer, but they did notice and kept tabs on you two through the door.

He wasn't there when you initially woke up, but he would usually appear soon after. His presence brought you some comfort and he even listened while you mentioned what happened.

One night Omega stayed up late playing a game with Tech on his holopad. It was really training for a gun turret, but Tech made it more interesting by holding her in his lap and moving the chair around. There had been plenty of laughter and you had gone to bed assuming she would join you. Instead she had come over and gotten ready only to pop back into the guys room and find Tech sleep in his chair. Seizing an opportunity to cuddle with one of her less touchy brothers she had grabbed his blanket, climbed back into his lap, carefully slid off his goggles and fallen asleep on his chest. You only knew this had happened because Hunter saw it before he went to bed and stealthily took a picture of it with Techs holopad camera. It was just too adorable.

However, since Omega was not in your room and had left the door open, Rex woke up in the middle of the night and came over into your room. You seemed to be sleeping peacefully so he settled down on the floor as usual and got comfortable leaning against the bed frame. In the silence of the quiet room he could just hear your breathing and he closed his eyes and started to drift off again. You had thought Rex was joking about sleeping on the floor but apparently the clones are capable of sleeping just about anywhere in any position, a remnant of their military training.

Rex personally did not want to cause any issues within the team by being in your room, hence why he kept the door open and did not join you in bed. Hunter had filled him in on the current drama that Tech was both complaining about and causing and it had almost made Rex's eyes roll which was not an expression he pulled often. Hunter had also told him that you were interested in Tech, which was understandable. He was just as intelligent and handsome as he was insufferably correct. That nerd could become quite the romantic if he wanted to, but emotions not being his strong suit had now resulted in this fiasco, although Hunter said that Tech was coming back around. --probably cause he is actually thinking it over-- Rex had thought to himself.

Rex was decently comfortable on your floor when you had sat upwards and woken up. In the nightmare, which was shorter than usual, the dark figure had gotten much closer to you than before. The feeling had been so intense you had almost screamed in your sleep and when you shocked yourself awake you quickly covered your mouth assuming that Omega was beside you.