Captain Rex x Reader

1. Chapter

Rex POV:

I was on my way to general Skywalker and general Kenobi. I was in a bad mood for some reason and I was deep in thoughts so I didn't notice the girl that ran towards we. She ran into me and apologized very quickly. Even though she was looking at the ground instead of me, I noticed that she was crying.

She started running again but I quickly turned around. "For someone who cries, the battlefront isn't the right place." I just realized what I said and directly regretted it. 'My bad mood spoke out of me' I thought. Before I could apologize for what I just said, she turned around, anger filled her eyes.

Before I realized what happened, she was standing right before me and slapped me in the face.'Ouch!' I thought as the pain ran trough my cheek. She turned back around and ran away.

'Now I regret my words even more' I continued my way to the generals, for some reason my mood was a bit better now. It just didn't make any sense for me because someone I don't even know slapped me but I just shrugged it off and tried to get my mind back to the real problems.

After I got slapped, I decided to put on my helmet just in case that our paths would cross again, since she didn't see my helmet she wouldn't recognize me.

I was standing before the generals now. I was informed that they told the Jedi temple about our problems. I saw a young Togruta girl standing next to general Kenobi, her eyes seemed sad and she looked very worried. "Who are you little one?" I asked her. "I am Ashoka Tano, general Kenobi's new padawan. Nice to meet you-" she gave me a questioning look. "I am Captain Rex" I told her. "Nice to meet you Captain" she said.

I looked over at general Skywalker, he looked very worried and sad. "What is the matter general?" I asked him "Ashoka isn't the only new padawan here. A childhood friend of mine was sent here by master Yoda to become my new padawan. I hurt her feelings with saying that I don't want a padawan and since then I haven't seen her." He told me.

I could see his sad expression and I felt sorry for asking this question. I removed my helmet from my head so that he could see that I was sorry. His eyes widened a bit as he saw my face.

I looked at him with a questioning gaze. "Where did you get this bruise from, Rex?" General Skywalker asked me. "I don't know what bruise you mean, general." I answered with a confused tone. General Skywalker pointed at my right cheek and started talking again. "You have a bruise on your right cheek Rex." He said.

I remembered that this was where this girl slapped me and I avoided Skywalker's eyes as I answered. "On my way here a girl ran into me,I said something mean because of my bad mood and she slapped me as an answer." I said as quiet as possible, but Skywalker heard it anyways.

There was a brief silence before Skywalker started to laugh historically "WHAT?!!" Skywalker couldn't stop laughing and I started to feel uncomfortable because it seemed like he was laughing at me. I looked at the ground embarrassed because someone slapped me whom I didn't even know.

Y/N POV:

Soon after I bumped into this man, I realized that I overreacted. I shouldn't feel hurt because of Anakin's words.I know he didn't mean it like that. But I'm not sure about the mysterious man I've slapped, maybe he just had a bad day but than again maybe he is just an a**hole.

I started to go back to where I've last seen Anakin but as soon as I saw him I wanted to become invisible. My face was as red as a tomato out of embarrassment, because there between Anakin and Obi-Wan stood the armored man whom I slapped.

I saw that Anakin is laughing hysterically but I just ignored it as I approached them slowly.

"I-I'm sorry for running away like that. I just didn't imagine our reunion to be like this." I looked at the ground as if it's the most interesting thing in the galaxy. Anakin turned around, as soon as he saw me he stopped laughing and gave me a huge hug. "Please don't do that again I was so worried!" He said, his voice soft but also threatening. "I'm sorry for making you worried, Ani."

From the corner of my eye I saw that the mysterious man was giving us a rather confused look but I just avoided him for the next minutes until Anakin decided to introduce us.

"Y/N, this is Captain Rex. He is the best Captain you'll find in the whole galaxy. He is the Captain of the 501. and a very good friend of mine." I looked up from the ground to look him in the eyes only to be met with his helmet. "Rex, this is Y/N my best friend and as it seems now my padawan."

After a moment of pure silence I started to speak with an annoyed tone "Nice to meet you too" I said rolling my eyes but they just ignored me and started to talk about something. I was angry for a moment that they just ignored me but what Anakin said next, got me to fotget about my anger.

"Y/N, I have to talk about our strategy with Obi-Wan and Ahsoka. You'll stay here since you don't know much about our situation and it would take too long to explain it" I thought for a brief moment before I nodded but Anakin wasn't finished yet. "Rex will show you around in this time." My eyes widened a bit and I could see Ani's expression, he send me a knowing smile. In this moment I realized that Anakin knew what I did to his Captain.

I stood there frozen for a few moments but as I opened my mouth to argue with Anakin I saw that he wasn't there anymore. I sighed a little bit annoyed. I looked at Rex again and saw that he wasn't wearing his helmet anymore. I saw the bruise I made and blushed immediately because of how embarrassed I was that I slapped him without knowing anything about him.

We walked alongside each other but there was an uncomfortable silence between us. I didn't dare to look at him so I just looked at the ground.

After what felt like hours, I decided to break the ice. "I-I'm so sorry!" I looked up at him and saw that he looked at me a bit confused so I spoke again. "I mean that I slapped you." He looked at me with a bit of disbelief and surprise in his eyes. " I didn't think that you were going to apologize but I'm sorry as well, I shouldn't have said this." I was happy that he apologized and smiled a bit. "I think we should forget about it and start from new. I am Y/N Y/L nice to meet you, who are you?" I said giggling a bit. "Nice to meet you too Y/N, I am Rex." We shook each others hand and laughed a bit.

"Don't you have a last name?" I said out of curiosity. "No, we are just clones, only a few of us have names like me, most of them just have numbers." He said, I saw sadness filling his eyes and felt bad for asking this question. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked." " It's fine, we are expendable, it is what it is." He said trying to hide his sadness. I couldn't believe what I heard. " Stop thinking that, not a single one of you is expendable, not for me, not for Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka!!" I saw Rex opening his mouth to say something but I wasn't finished yet. "Y'all are individuals, yeah you are brothers and a family but you aren't the same!" I looked at Rex and he looked at me, shocked but after a brief moment he smiled at me. "Thank you for your words Y/N." He said, I saw that he knew that I meant what I said.

I noticed that his eyes have a golden shimmer and I remembered his laugh from before, 'it is so beautiful...he is beautiful' I thought.

In this moment I knew that I liked him but I thought that I liked him as a friend. But somehow the feelings I have towards him are...different.