The Storms of Kamino: Crosshair

Epilogue

The sunbeams warmed my skin as I sat on a chair under the overhang of my porch and sipped on a cup of cassius tea imported from Mandalore. It was nice to just rest and relax after a long day's work at my clinic. A girl and her mother had come in and told me she had been feeling sick for a few days. The mom looked so worried about her child, her eyes filled with anxiety as I took her back to give her a physical exam and run some tests. It was just a routine infection, nothing a few antibiotics couldn't fix, but still. The way her mother looked at her, with such warmth and caring... with such love.

I stood up and stretched, my old body not as spry as it used to be, watching the sky of Chandrila paint itself with brilliant colors of orange and yellow. After the war, I came here to start a new life for myself, somewhere tranquil and out of the way, somewhere I could rest and be happy. Well, as happy as I could be after everything.

"Y/N?" Omega asked as she wandered out the back door. "May I join you?" She had grown so much over the years and at times I forgot that. I still saw the little girl from Kamino, wide eyed and naive to the world around her. Even now, her eyes occasionally got a little twinkle in them, but it would fade as fast as it had come. She'd seen too much, lost too much. We both had.

I patted the seat next to me. "Of course you can join me." She sat down and we gazed at the landscape as a group of birds flew above us.

"Do you ever think about them?" she uttered, soft enough that I barely heard it.

I sighed. Clone Force 99 were long gone due to their accelerated aging and Omega was the only one who remained. I thought back on our time together, smiling at the memories.

"Of course I do. I think about them every day. When I go, I hope to see them again. Perhaps they'll greet me like old friends. Because, that's what they were. They were my friends."

A single tear fell down Omega's cheek and I clasped her hand and squeezed. We were watching the sunset together, when I realized something. I had found what I had hoped to give the clones all those years ago. I had found peace.

The End