Are Those Real Stars Or Are They Manmade?
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Pause For A Second, Love. For A Second, Love by WorkingChemistry
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
05 Oct 2023
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Alpha meets the youngest of his cadet batch by seeming happenstance. The CC, only two standard, is already trawling through the files of the terminal he sliced into when Alpha slips in. Before Alpha has a chance to assess the situation, the cadet has already scanned him with a guarded expression before clearly dismissing him.
Thrown by the ad’s gall, and a little impressed, Alpha crosses his arms over his chest and does his best impression of Prime threatening a whipping. “What do you think you’re doing?”
“Same as you, I expect.”
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When the World is Over and We Go Under by WorkingChemistry
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
14 Aug 2023
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Their youngest batcher blinks away the mixture of tears and water that drips down his nose to mix with runny snot. Fox is still gathering himself and he’s doing it too slowly. If he doesn’t—
“Thank you, sir.” Fox’s voice is hoarse and barely there but still loud enough to be heard. His hand trembles too much for his salute to be precisely regulation but it has to be enough. It has to be enough because Cody isn’t sure that Fox will survive another session intact.
The trainer seems to agree because, despite his annoyed sigh, he flicks his hand in dismissal. “Report to the mess hall and then retire early to the barracks. We’ll resume tomorrow.”
“Yessir. Thank you sir.”
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Yeah, I Know That It’s A Long Shot by WorkingChemistry
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
09 Sep 2023
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Despite all sense to the contrary, there is a CC sitting across from 7567 and it is smiling. It’s not a kind smile, like 7567 sometimes sees shared between his batchmates. It’s a sharp slash that shows off a threatening number of teeth and a promise of blood.
“You’ve been requisitioned, verd’ika.”
A cold pit opens at the base of 7567’s abdomen and he feels himself collapsing in on it like a black hole. He doesn’t know what that means but he does know that it’s new. New things happening to him is never good. He licks his bottom lip and swallows hard. “Sir?”
“New orders.” The CC, 1010 the tattoo just below the hinge of its jaw denotes, leans in with a fierce expression. “Every CC batch is getting an ad. Do what you’re told and you won’t be decommed. Tayli’bac?”
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Numbers Told You Not To by WorkingChemistry
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
01 Dec 2023
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Alpha had known that something was going to break long before it did. He’d felt the band stretching taut over the past few weeks.
Fox has been disappearing for longer and longer each time. Sometimes he returns with a flippant laugh and contraband treats, sometimes with a bitter smirk and hard earned favors. He always returns with bruises that couldn’t have been earned in training. Lately, it’s been more than just bruises on hips and sensitive skin. Fox is returning with deliberate injuries and splotchy burns that run down the inside of his thighs and the hollow of his hip. Rings of teeth shaped bruises line the meat of his arms and neck. Razor thin cuts swirl across his back in artistic designs before healing without scarring but they all know it’s a matter of time before they get deeper.
So no. Alpha isn’t shocked when the rubber finally snaps.
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And I Hope That You Will Find Your Peace by WorkingChemistry
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types
18 Dec 2023
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It’s strange how much comfort the sight of Fox can give. If things hadn’t been what they were, Rex is pretty sure he would have hated Fox for being such a shabla perfectionist. Things being what they are, Rex knows that Fox was often all that stood between him and a decom. For whatever reason, despite having the worst personality known to vode and a mutual dislike of Rex, Fox has gone through unnameable horrors to keep Rex safe—some before Rex even knew his ori’vod.
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Have My Foreign Ear Made Whole Again by WorkingChemistry
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
26 Sep 2023
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The ship touches down and the Duchess descends in a display of gaudy ornamentation. Fresh flowers, carefully frozen in stasis, decorate her hair. Large earrings dangle past her jaw and her headdress is elaborate enough it probably costs close to the price of a standard CT brother. The many layers of her dress are at least practical enough to split for movement but that’s all Fox can say for her appearance.
The smile that graces her delicate features as she carefully descends fades the second she catches sight of Fox and their entourage. “What is this?”
“Your security detail while you’re in the Republic.” Amidala soothes, taking Kryze’s arm and petting it.
Fox is far from impressed with this example of undiluted Mandalorian culture. It would appear that she is equally displeased by his presence.
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Just Hold Me To The Ground by WorkingChemistry
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
28 Aug 2023
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“And Senator Amidala?”
Real amusement and affection color Fox’s voice now when he answers, though his expression stays blank beyond his soft-neutral mask. Despite his feelings on natborns, Fox approves of Kenobi’s concern for the woman. “General Skywalker’s wife is well, despite her best efforts, and the records show that the ade are healthy.”
“When did he find time to get her pregnant?” Cody asks with exasperation at the same time his General chokes out, “My Padawan’s what?”
Fox full body recoils and for the first time in their twelve point five short years of life, Cody sees what Fox looks like when surprised.
It’s not pleasant.
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If You Said Walk I’d Run by WorkingChemistry
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
20 Aug 2023
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“What’s going on, vod’ika?”
“I’m the sithsdamned oldest.” Annoyance bleeds across Fox’s expression but it’s not real. Beneath the exaggerated show of emotion, Bly can see the fear hiding beneath. Fox’s lip, already pulled up in a permanent snarl, tugs up higher. “I went in the tubes first, that makes me the oldest.”
“Decanted last though.” Bly sing songs as he drops to his knees next to Fox. “Two days gap makes you the batch baby.”
“Two extra days of bliss.“
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Bitin’ On The Bullet ‘Til We Come Up To Breathe by WorkingChemistry
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
05 Sep 2023
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Seventeen comes to a stop in front of them, arms crossed and expression dark with judgment. He doesn’t shout but he comes very nearly close to it. “Marshal Commander CC1010, what the fuck do you think you’re doing?”
The Generals all startle forward, ready to come to Fox’s defense. It warms something in Wolffe’s chest to see that there are others who care about his batch ik’aad but they don’t need to bother.
Fox’s chin tips up further into defiance as a grin, wide and manic, splits across his face and breaks open his busted lip. The blood stains his teeth red and that’s fitting too. It’s been too long since Wolffe has seen more than one of Fox’s masks—been an eternity since he’s seen Fox.
“Sir.” Fox salutes and stamps his foot down against the walkway and sends the metal ringing. “My very best, Sir.”
Seventeen stares down at Fox with a deliberately unimpressed expression before he grabs Fox by his hair and pulls him in for a bone rattling keldabe. “I’m gonna fucking murder you, kid.”
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Former Heroes That Quit Too Late by WorkingChemistry
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
16 Sep 2023
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Most of the time Obi Wan can forget that his men are younger than a padawan. Their force presences are so strong and solid, more akin to a young knight than an initiate or Padawan, and it lets him ignore the truth while he sends them to their deaths.
It is times like these, when Cody lingers in the doorway, when he cannot see them as anything but younglings.
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