The Bad Batch - Mini Stories

His Other Son

Graham Fortual was a man from a high class background, one of power and wealth, although he never enforced his rules on his children. It seemed over time they just bidded by his rules, all eight of his children. Well that was telling a lie, his youngest never followed a single rule and he was actually starting to get sick of the amount of times he heard of his youngests behaviour, especially the naughtiness. Which he hoped his baby would grow out of but when the teenage years came around, it got worse to the point his youngest was sent away for his rebellious behaviour to live with his grandfather. 

At first it was meant to be only for six months but that soon turned into a year which turned into four and now Graham barely even remembered his youngest as he never returned home after joining the military, his youngest vanished into the world of work, he never returned home not even when the first grandchild was born into the family followed by another and then a granddaughter was born. Nope Graham never saw his youngest and he knew one thing, he was at fault because his own father had seen a potential in his son and now Graham was more than likely never to see his baby again well up until this moment. 

His second youngest was married to the woman of his dreams and now they were enjoying the party. His son never went by his birth name, instead he went by his nickname which Graham didn't blame him since he was known as 99, a nickname of the past.

“How do you feel that you are a married man now champ?” 

Graham turned from his table to see his eldest son, known as Rex. His sons enjoyed their nicknames more than their actual names. Of course his eldest was speaking to his youngest as of today since his actual youngest had vanished from existence. 

“Good” 

“Come on Tech, you have to have a better word than that” another son whined. Graham smiled at his son's who crowded his youngest. From age order it went Rex, Jesse, Fives, Echo, Hunter, Wrecker and Tech. All of them loving life. 

“Pleasant” Tech corrected. 

“That's better, now get up there and dance with your wife!” Fives patted his back, Tech could only smile at his older brother who had blue hair as per usual. He walked over to the woman of his dreams, yes he was twenty-seven but he knew he would be with this woman for the rest of his life. Her name was Phee and she was a treasure hunter. She had definitely caught his heart. The two danced across the ballroom floor surrounded by family and friends. 

Cheers of happiness echoed around the room, as a proud father and mother watched their son dance. 

“I am so proud of him” Graham looked up to see the woman he was married to, Saraki Ti, a woman with the beautifulest smile and blond hair. 

“As am I” Graham added, he could only wrap an arm around her. She smiled back at him as they watched their children dance the night way and grandchildren. They had four. Their oldest was thirteen, he was called Drayton and he was Rex's son. A set of boys who were eleven year old twins belonged to Fives, Cole and Jay their father was in fact a rebel, he had raised them himself after their mother took off when they were babies. The youngest grandchild was the daughter of Hunter who hadn't planned to have a daughter but ended up keeping her. He and his girlfriend almost lost her, his now wife was taking pictures of her daughter and husband dancing across the dancefloor, her name was Megan and she was six years old. 

“We did brilliant with them all” Graham whispered. Saraki nodded in agreement, both of them were immensely proud of their children. 

Rex smirked watching Hunter stumble over his own feet while he stood beside his husband, the mother to his child. Yes, his husband was able to get pregnant but that was due to being born different. Rex never looked at the man differently and his family accepted him without any hate. Yes Rex was married to Cody, a man who had grown up with Rex and was the son of Obi-wan Kenobi. A famous family. Obi-wan was very protective over his son and within good reason.