Extremely Well-Put Together Little Droid

Artoo's Thoughts

This is just a short (sort of) cute little one-shot, for all those Star Wars feels.

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R2-D2 looked out the view port of the Mynock. Looking at the blue streaks of light speed, the astromech let out a electronic sigh and rolled back down the hall.

Artoo had seen a lot in his very, very long life.

One pro to being a droid rather than a organic, he guessed. You lived longer than the organics.

(He wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.)

Cade was already asleep so Artoo had the ship to himself, the little droid took this very much wanted downtime to think about his mechanical life. The wars he'd fought, the disasters he'd got caught up in, all the masters he worked alongside...

(Two young men with matching blonde hair and electric blue eyes come to mind.)

Luke and Anakin, of all his masters, were the ones that had the most impact on the little droid. Though it had been many, many years since both of their ultimate demises, Artoo still mourned them.

He mourned for the Skywalker family as a whole. Because they are his family as well.

Shmi Skywalker. He hardly knew her, but Anakin and Threepio (Oh, Threepio!) had always spoken so highly of her, Anakin used to go on about her for hours during their time in the Clone War together. Plus from the little he had seen and heard from her, she was by far the kindest of Artoo's organic family. Her death had hurt Anakin very deeply, even made him malfunction many times during those trying 3 years of the horrific Clone Wars.

(" He knows nothing of greed."

"But you can't stop the change, any more than you can stop the suns from setting.")

Padme Amidala. His Queen, though not a Skywalker by blood, was his very first mistress, she had treated him with respect and as a living, sentient being. She even cleaned him when she, her handmaidens, Master Qui-Gon and, Obi-Wan were on the run from the Trade Federation. She and him had worked together for 10 years before he was given to Anakin as a wedding present. He missed her very much.

("An Extremely, well-put together little droid."

"There is still good in him..."

"Luke..."

"Leia!"

"It deserves our gratitude.")

Anakin Skywalker. Anakin... his pilot. Artoo remembered him very fondly. They had worked together for 3 years in the Clone Wars, alongside Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, and Rex and the rest of the vod'e (Artoo also remembered how determined his pilot was to save him from Grievous). Artoo looked back and found he missed those days, when Anakin was still Anakin. When Obi-Wan was less tired, when Ahsoka was happy. the silver and blue droid whistled in sadness as he thought of them all, he never even found out what had happened to Rex after the Clone War or any of the other clones, like Cody, Kix, Hardcase, and so many others. Ahsoka... he had only seen her one last time when he was working under Bail Organa, during the earlier days of the Empire.

And then he never saw her again.

Anakin though, he had seen what had become of him, Anakin had malfunctioned and... and had hurt Padme, then had locked lightsabers with Obi-Wan. At the time Artoo had been recording it, because something in his circuits said that it was important to do so. Artoo never could bring himself to show that video to anyone else though, he could never let someone see what had to have been the worst day of his mechanical life.