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<Mandoa Vocabulary>
-kih'vod means younger sibling in Mandoa commonly confused with vod'ika which means my dear sibling
-ori'vod means older sibling which is again occasionally confused with vod'ika
-vod simply means sibling which is typically used if you're asking whether someone is an only child or not
-adiik means child
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How could this have happened? How could he let this happen? Why was he so mad at him? Why did he let him suffer? The way his ori'vods looked at him, that look telling him he wasn't going to make it. How was he supposed to pull the plug on his own Vod? How was he supposed to forget and 'just move on!'?
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<Crosshair's POV>
Suddenly another sharp pain cuts through my gut as I hit the ground. I hear a muffled shriek as I'm fairly confident I have a concussion by now. I look up to see that blasted Mandalorian standing over me, he lifts he wrist I hear a faint click and then...
<Tech's POV>
What is wrong with me?! I just sat there, all I did was watch, why couldn't I move? No one was holding me back, am I really that useless?
I gently place a hand on my ori'vod as I check his vitals for a sign of improvement that I know I will never see. I feel tears in my eyes as I try to shove them down, to ignore them. Why did he have to try and save me? It would have been better if I had gone instead! Why did he have to care? Why did he have to be so protective to the point it had to come to this?
"Tech," I hear a cautious voice test, "Tech the longer you leave him on life support the more he's going to suffer." He says softly but it still feels like he's stabbing his blade through my heart with every word.
"Why do I have to do it? I've already put him through so much" I say as a tear manages to escape.
My vod sighs "first off you were closest to him out of all of us," the memories of us when we were young searing themselves into my brain, "and second, this wasn't your fault Tech, there was nothing you could do." He says gently, though I can still feel the anger boiling, not towards him, but towards myself.
"Yes there was! I could have saved him!" I shouted, "but instead, I just kriffing sat there and watched. I just listened to the sound of his bones shattering and his face melting off his skull." Tears begin to fall freely as the memories of his last moments conscious flooded over me.
Suddenly the world starts to fade, I hear my vod's worried questions but I can't understand them, or maybe I won't. I notice my breathing is getting faster and my head starts to feel fuzzy. As memories hit me I shut my eyes and beg for it all to be some horrible horrible nightmare.
When I open my eyes my body is frozen, I frantically look around and try to figure out where I am. I hear the sound of Crosshair groaning. I realize I'm back at the scene, where it all happened, where I failed. I knew I couldn't change anything since it was all a memory but that didn't change the fact that I still had to relive it.
Crosshair rolling on the ground clenching his side, his face soaked in a combination of blood and sweat. The mandalorian grabs Crosshair's head and drags him back to the miniature pool he's created with Crosshair's blood. I try to look away, run to help him, shout at the mandalorian, call for help, anything, but all I can do it watch it horror as he rams my ori'vod's head repeatedly into a nearby tree, over and over and over.
He throws Crosshair to the ground and for the first time since we were cadets I saw fear plastered over my Ori'vod's face as he tried calling out for me, as he tried to escape, even through his pained groans I could hear him calling out to me. All I could see when I looked at him was the terrified adiik from the first time he received a punishment from my assigned mentors.
It broke my heart to see him seemingly so scared and broken but no matter how hard I tried to move I couldn't get to him, I couldn't help him. The mandalorian yanks my vod off the ground and quickly cuts through another artery on his lower abdomen. I hated watching the mandalorian play with Crosshair like this was a game of cat and mouse. But then the mandalorian seemingly bored of his little game lifts up his arm and fires.
<Crosshair's POV>
I wake up feeling groggy as I drag myself out of my bunk, I assume Tech is likely either piloting the Marauder or is doing repairs from our last fight. I trudge out and Echo looks over at me with shock.
"Crosshair you lazy kriff! You slept for nearly a whole rotation!" Echo shouts at me. To which I promptly roll my eyes in response.
"Yeah, yeah, where's Tech?" I say turning to Hunter. Noting that he is driving instead of Tech.
"We finally forced him to nap a bit ago he was up for nearly two rotations without a break or sleep claiming that sleep would only make things worse." He said seemingly proud of finally forcing our stubborn kih'vod to do something against his will.
I trudge back to the bunks surprised I didn't notice him before only to open the door to the sound of someone quietly crying. I carefully walk in to see, "Tech?" I whisper.
Tech got himself tangled in the blankets which would normally be amusing but right now I can tell he's having another night terror, which tends to happen when he's too stressed and too hot in the hot. I carefully begin by detangling him from the blankets knowing full well he could have a panic attack if he thinks he's trapped waking up from a night terror. Next I sit down on the bunk by him and pull him up into a hug as I attempt to ease him awake.
Sure this might seem excessive but given how paranoid Tech is when he wakes up from a night terror and his lack of ability to determine the difference from reality and dream for a while after waking up from a night terror and his struggle with identifying people after waking up, this method seems to result in me getting punched in the face less and him having less panic attacks.
When Tech finally wakes up and recognizes me he starts frantically apologizing for a reason I can't quite make out amongst his sobs. So I just hug him until he calms down. Eventually after he can breathe again he starts explaining everything.
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<Word Count: 1054>
Hah! Bet you guys didn't guess it was all a dream did you? I was really excited to write this when I came up with the idea because I actually have night terrors in real life. In fact most of the things I listed for Tech actually are the case with me. Like how I'm more prone to having them if I'm too hot at night, I also struggle to determine the difference between reality and dream for about 3-4 after waking up if I'm lucky. Lemme know if you guys have any other ideas for chapters otherwise this is likely the pace your will receive chapters in 😁👍
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