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Name: Hanabé Reeva

Born in: 54BBY

Planet of Origin: Naboo

Species: Human

Height: 1,65

Hair color: Dark brown/black

Eye color: Purple

Additional physical details: A beauty mark under the right side of her lower lip. Likes to paint her lips maroon red, it’s a hard contrast against her pale skin. ( On her first design she was supposed to have a tattoo over her right eyebrow too but I still haven’t decided on keeping it )

Jedi Master: Plo Koon

Lightsaber: Green during the times of the Republic but after they were destroyed during Order66 she reconstructed her sabers and they became Purple.

Origin summary: Born in Theed to a former Royal Handmaiden during times of peace, Hanabé quickly showed signs of high force sensibility in her early years of life and was taken to the Jedi Temple of Coruscant with the blessing and pride of her parents. Her calm demeanor and eagerness to learn got the attention of the kel’dor Plo Koon who took her under his wing as a padawan and then proceeded to teach her all of his talents, both as an exceptional Jedi and as a genius pilot. Although her master taught her well about mechanics, the young woman’s passion laid on the dueling arts rather than on flying. She was an expert in the fourth form, Ataru.

She became friends with many of her brothers and sisters in the Order like Obi-wan Kenobi and then during the prior years also connected well with his padawan Anakin Skywalker. With a carefree attitude and a love for having fun, Hanabé tended to inspire the younger Jedi in the Temple after she was knighted, becoming an intrepid Master that every youngling wanted to have in their classes. Her reckless but skilled reputation grew even wider after she was named Jedi General during the Clone Wars where she became specialized in covert and stealth solo objectives, still helping and supporting different battalions in many missions along her military career.

At one point during the second year of the conflict, the clone force 99 was assigned to her and she became their official General. That’s where she met Hunter, Wrecker, Crosshair and Tech, this last one being the person she would eventually fall in love with and for whom she would break her bow to the Jedi Order.

Art

Hanabé’s design

Clone kisser

The Batch’s General

Fives

Fics

Flying off towards a new destination once more and ready to stop a relentless army of separatists from spreading their power through the galaxy, the bad batch mentally prepared for the cold weather awaiting for them in their newly assigned mission. Fives had warned the team about all the ice and snow in the planet they were heading to but this wasn’t their first rodeo, the squad was more than used to complications and uneven weather in their missions. Or so they thought.

Once the Marauder entered hyperspace the automatic pilot was enabled and the different team members of the squad got comfortable around the vessel making the last preparations for their armors and their weapons. All except Tech, who chose to sit alone in the cockpit.

With his datapad at hand but not fully paying attention to it, the clone sighed to himself thinking once more about his General. Feeling consumed and so confused about everything. Why did his body react so differently whenever you were involved? Why was there a continuous heaviness in his chest? The night prior had made him feel so many new things he hadn’t even imagined were possible. He had felt so ecstatic when you chose to sleep by his side instead of Crosshair’s, when you embraced him so tightly in your sleep, that he couldn’t contain the small smile forming upon remembering it but it quickly disappeared when he remembered as well how close you had been with the reg behind those crates, hiding some secret from public sight. He needed some clarification, some explanation. Even if you swore over and over again that he was just a friend, Tech needed to really believe it or it was gonna consume his mind like a poison. “ Was this how Crosshair had been feeling the whole time…? ”

“ Tech, do you have a minute? ”

As if summoned by his thoughts, you quietly entered the cockpit and closed the sliding door behind. Hair loose, still undone before battle, it hid the blushing tip of your ears. You were really nervous, or at least that’s what it looked like in Tech’s brown eyes.

“ Of course. What’s the matter, General? ”

“ I… ” You sighed, unable to find the right words to start. There was a turmoil inside your mind but the clone couldn’t even begin to imagine what it actually was about, thinking it involved their new mission and not his own continuous presence in your thoughts.

“ About last night… ”

“ Yes? ”

“ When I accidentally got inside your mind, inside your dreams. I saw—or well, felt something from within you… ” You buried your face into both hands and exhaled hard, unable to control your feelings once again. “ Why is this so complicated, Maker… ”

“ What’s the matter, General? Are you feeling unwell? ”

“ It’s— I feel so nauseous. Tech, you… ”

The clone stood up from the seat and walked towards you who stood frozen in place, burning red before him. He was becoming even more puzzled now, unable to understand why you looked so different to your usual composed self. Why were you trembling? Why were your eyes shining with tears?

Guided by an instinct he didn’t even know he had, Tech’s hand made contact with your arm and slipped down until reaching your hand. The link was immediate and before his eyes a whole galaxy of lights imploded, the force opened your heart and you unknowingly let him in.

Closing both eyes you indulged in the overwhelming storm of sensations the force was bringing upon while connected to Tech. “ Your heart, I felt it calling for me. I heard it so loudly. ”

This time it was him who couldn’t find the words. Taken aback by the new and strange feeling all around every pore of his body.

“ Earlier on, when you saw me with Fives I felt something different come out of you… I need to hear from your own mouth what it was. ”

“ I wish I could give a thorough explanation of it, General. But even I don’t fully understand what has been happening to my body for a long time now. ”

“ At least try? For me. ”

Tech inhaled, then exhaled. His eyes never leaving your face and the way you looked utterly beautiful this up close, more so than usual with the loose hair adorning your features. “ Being this close to you makes my chest behave so much differently now than when we first met. I get an intense ache in it when you call me by your endearing words, when you touch me, and I couldn’t figure out why. ” He took a second then when you blinked your shiny eyes at him.

“ Which is why seeing you earlier hugging that reg bothered me so much, I suppose. It's all so new for me and not being able to understand it frustrates me. ”

“ Tech… You truly don’t know what you’re describing? ”

The clone negated with his head but his eyes never left your own.

“ It’s— ” Your words were interrupted when the door behind parted open and Crosshair appeared under its shadows. Once his eyes registered what was happening inside the cockpit his expression quickly shifted into a darker one. “ What is going on here? ” He asked almost in a whisper from how furious his voice sounded.

“ Well, isn’t it obvious? We’re talking. ”

Tech’s answer was not the one Crosshair wanted to hear at the moment and you felt it through the force. All the rage, all the jealousy, duplicating by the second. You delicately removed Tech’s hand holding yours and turned around to face the sniper, to look into his brown eyes. He actually looked hurt, betrayed. Assuming the two people in front of him had just confessed to each other and he had lost the chance to your heart, forever.

“ No, you’re mistaken. ” You softly replied referring to those thoughts, stepping closer towards him.

“ What are you talking about? Don’t touch me—” He snapped at you but that didn’t stop your hand from reaching out and touching the plate above his chest.

Thump-thump, thump-thump.

His heart was beating so hard and loud that you couldn’t help the warm smile at hearing it again, it was calling out for someone to hold it. For you to embrace it. The melody of it was entrancing and so was Tech’s. You should’ve paid more attention from the start, the signs were all there and you had been too blind by your responsibilities and teachings to notice anything. It was ridiculous that all it took for all three of you to realize was Fives showing up and altering your comfortable peace but you couldn’t be more grateful now.

Reaching for Crosshair, you hugged him tight with both arms wrapped around his neck, breathing into the warmth of his burning skin, and that opened a connection through the Force just like it had happened with Tech moments ago. You felt everything going through Crosshair’s heart while he did the same with yours. His thoughts were so loud yet his mouth was unable to reproduce any kind of sound, so shocked by it all. His only response came just seconds later in the way of his arms also wrapping around your waist, enjoying the comfort.

“ Why do you have to make everything so complicated… ? ” He asked into the air with a whisper, melting into your presence.

Both clones were infatuated with you. There was no denying to that fact, not with Crosshair’s heart beating the way it was now that you had expelled all that anger away. Not with Tech’s own thoughts being so loud just behind your back. The problem was laying somewhere else… It was your own heart impatiently awaiting to return their call. You were now beginning to realize that your attachment to them brought something much deeper with it. Something as beautiful as love.

“ Oh Maker… ” You groaned when the nausea came back in waves, dizzy by feeling so warm and enclosed by their bodies being this close. “ I… ”

Parting away from the hug you looked into Crosshair’s honey eyes and were at a loss for words, tempted once more to reach for his lips just like the night before. Your body wanted to act on it, to finally move and take a chance but with the room starting to spin all around he was your only centering point, his eyes were the only thing keeping you on your feet. The sniper noticed your slight change of expression and quickly asked what was wrong.

You needed out. Now.

“ It’s just— ” His hands holding your arms felt like a touch of fire. “ I need time to think— Please let me pass. ” With a hand to your head, you hurriedly left the cockpit towards the end of the ship, feeling like a coward for running away from them like that but if you had stayed your heart would’ve bursted out of its place.

The boys were left staring at each other in confusion, in curiosity for your health and for the meaning of your actions. Tech wanted to know more than ever what you were gonna say before his brother interrupted but something inside told him it was better to not bother you, to let you breathe. The rest of the flight transcurred without another exchange of words between the three of you and that only raised questions among the rest of the batch. You had locked yourself by the tail gun to meditate in silence and that? They could understand since it wasn’t the first time, what Echo, Wrecker and Hunter found strange was how Crosshair sat silent in a corner during the whole flight staring transfixed towards your direction. Lost in thought and with a slight blush across his features, the sniper wouldn’t pay attention to anything the others asked or talked about, his responses just being some grunting sounds, and on the other side of the Marauder all three of them were fascinated with Tech being so silent for the first time in his life, distracted enough by something to the point that he wouldn’t expand on his explanations.

“ Alright, what’s going on in here? ” Asked Wrecker when the situation didn’t seem to change by the hour.

“ I’m just as confused as you. ” Echo sighed and crossed his arms, wondering what exactly had happened this time. “ The General wasn’t looking too good on the face when she headed for the back. ”

“ Whatever it is, let’s hope this doesn’t stall our mission. ” Sighed Hunter as well, feeling the sudden vibration around the ship that indicated they finally jumped out of hyperspace.

——

Making way through freezing layers of accumulated snow up the mountain, the mission was actually the least of your concerns by the time you all had arrived at the coordinates Rex sent. You were… distracted and the feeling of both Crosshair and Tech’s eyes on the nape of your head while walking was not helping. They deserved an answer, it wasn’t fair for either of the clones to keep ignoring them ever since unboarding the Marauder, giving them the silent treatment. The look on the sniper’s face when you hadn’t taken his hand to exit the ship as you had done dozens of times before still haunted your whole body but how could you tell him that he hadn’t done anything wrong, you just fell paralyzed everytime your gazes met. You could’ve just developed a little crush on one of your men and left it at that without ever acting on it but no… you had to go and fall in love with not one but two clones. Why couldn’t there be a holobook with the answers to such a dilemma nearby?

Lost in thought to the point of your body almost working on autopilot, you opened a path for the boys to follow through hundreds of droids with some energetic swings of your lightsaber and a couple twirls in the air. It wasn’t until Wrecker complained about you taking all the fun that your ears finally registered Hunter was telling you something right after.

“ I’m sorry, what? ”

Turning around you saw the Sergeant kneeling by the ground, sensing something with the palm of his hand over it. “ We’re gonna have to take a small detour towards the rendezvous point. I feel tremors inside the mountain, General. ”

That could only mean one thing. Avalanche.

“ How much time do you think we have? ”

“ Not much. ” Replied Tech instead, checking through his datapad while standing way too close to you. “ My scanners are picking up something approaching at fast speed from— ”

A big tremor shook the ground before Tech could even finish the sentence and this time all of you felt it, like the roaring of a krayt dragon from deep inside the belly of the mountain. Something had made an explosive impact and in the distance, rushing from the highest point, tonnes of snow were sliding down towards you and your team taking with it everything that was found in its way.

Quickly scanning for any escape, you and the men turned around, checking any possible paths. The Marauder was too far away to reach in time before the snow swept the area and so were the tallest trees to possibly climb, your brain couldn’t come up with something fast enough in that instant.

“ General, This way! ” Your boots were already moving the second you saw Tech point towards something with his pad. Whatever couldn’t be seen by the naked eye, his scanner could pick up, and just like always he had been right. Mere meters away from where you had slain the last group of battle droids there was an opening in the snow, almost hidden by the smoke from the blaster shots you had parried.

“ TECH— WHAT’S IN THERE? ” Asked Wrecker while running by your side, practically repeating your thoughts out loud.

“ An abandoned mining post. Its caverns under the ice will aid as cover! ”

“ Caverns?! ” Echo, who had been running in front of you, almost stopped in his tracks when he registered what was said and too late to react you stumbled upon him, taking the man down with you in the fall with a silent thud against the snow.

« GENERAL! »

All of their voices turned towards you and upon rising your face from the cold ground there was a hand being offered for help. It was Crosshair’s.

“ Hurry up—! ” He hissed before yanking you back up. Another tremor shook the earth once more and followed by the sound of another explosion making impact the floor shattered under your boots, sending every person still standing underground upon a cold slide made of ice.

The fall hadn’t been too hard, the snow below pillowing part of the impact had helped against any severe injuries or possible broken bones, what made the situation actually difficult was when the pieces of hard ice that had shattered started raining all over you and your squad. Frozen panels the size of the Marauder’s wings impaled the ground before falling and clashing against each other, raising a light cloud of dust and pulverized ice all around.

“ Boys! ” Protecting both eyes with an arm when the cloud raised enough, you called into the freezing air after what seemed like the last piece fell and shook the ground. “ Sound up! ”

“ Right here. ” Hunter replied first, somewhere over your left side although his voice sounded muffled by something.

“ Everyone alright?! ” Then Echo to your right, also muffled. Once the ice dust settled down and you were able to open both eyes, you finally saw why your men’s voices sounded so distant. There were ice walls separating all of you.

“ What was that? Why did the floor break?! ” The question came from Wrecker’s loud voice but you couldn’t pinpoint exactly from which direction it was coming from, his tall silhouette wasn’t showing behind the nearest glassy walls.

“ Those sounded like tank charges. The clankers must have spotted us from the top of the mountain. ” The next clone to show signs of having survived spoke near and you looked to your side, lighting up in joy when he pushed a rock out of the way to finally reach you.

“ Tech! ” Rushing towards him, his big brown eyes blinked in surprise at being met with a big hug. You just didn’t give him enough time to return the gesture before breaking the contact with a slight blush. “ Oh, I— sorry. ” Your eyes then avoided his, pretending to check for any injuries. “ Are you alright? Are you hurt? ”

“ I’m fine, General… just a slight concussion. ”

“ What?! ” Concerned and starting to shiver from the cold, you ordered the clone to remove his helmet to make sure he wasn’t hiding anything serious down there. There wasn’t any blood at least but his pupils looked too dilated, which worried you again.

“ Tech… ” You whispered with a hand holding the side of his face “ Take a seat please. I’ll go check on the others. ”

“ Roger that ” He murmured with a weak groan, his legs almost giving up. You quickly offered a shoulder for him to lean on, helping him towards the back of the freezing room while feeling even more restless. The Force was trying to tell you something and that’s when your eyes fell upon an unconscious body sitting on the floor.

“ Crosshair! ” Loudly gasping upon feeling your heart almost take a leap out of its cavity, you rushed to accommodate Tech down before kneeling by the sniper, checking everywhere for blood in a panic. He had been the last one you had seen before the fall and somehow in the back of your mind a glimpse of a memory showed he held you in the middle of it all to soften the hard hit against the ground. “ Don’t you dare die on me— ” Why were your men always so eager to rush into danger, now that was the question of the millennium. “ That’s an order! ”

With an ear to his chest plate you could hear a faint heartbeat, your new favourite sound in the world now, and that brought a relieved smile. He was stable, you sighed while carefully removing his helmet just in time for him to start waking up.

There they were, those honey brown eyes, blinking awake just to immediately get fixated on your own.

“ You won’t get rid of me that easily… ” He murmured with a weak smile, trying to play it suave as usual while his entire body was in pain from the fall.

“ Maker—! ” The thought of cursing him out for risking himself like that and being so reckless crossed your mind but at that moment your body moved first, launching to hug his neck tightly. “ Don’t do that ever again! ”

“ Agh!— No promises… ” He hissed with a pained gasp at the gesture but damn if he didn’t enjoy the warmth of your body so close to him again, just like back in Kamino. You then leaned back slightly to also wrap an arm around Tech’s shoulder and pulled him into the hug too, feeling your heart beat so painfully fast at even the mere thought of either of them getting hurt.

“ I really don’t know what I would do if anything happened to you both. ”

The words came out of your mouth before your brain could even register it.

“ …General? ”

“ I’m so embarrassed that it has taken me this long to realize— to accept it actually, that you’re so important to me ” You leaned back once more, face a blushing mess, and saw both sets of eyes staring at you wildly open. No more running away or hiding, no more pretending there wasn’t anything there. “ I don’t know when exactly it started but somehow— deep down— I knew a strong attachment was taking part and I didn’t want to stop it. And it’s really selfish towards the Jedi, towards my responsibility with the Republic but… ” Your eyes then looked down towards your knees, feeling tears starting to gather in the corners “ I love you both too much to even bare the thought of losing you… ”

The silence in the frozen cavern was absolute. Intimidating. It felt as if time itself had stopped but something heavy had finally been lifted off your chest, making you breathe anew although now terrified to look back up towards their eyes. Whatever happened next at least you had let it all out.

“ This may have been the worst moment possible to say that, I’m so sorry ” You sniffled, staring towards the ground once more. “ Please forget it, my head is… a mess right now. We can talk about it some other time after finally making it out of here. ”

A gloved hand slowly reached towards you and rested over one knee getting your attention. It was Tech, who’s big brown eyes observed you with the biggest wonder in the world at that moment. Transfixed, enamored.

You had really said the unspoken part out loud.

“ General… ” He said almost in a whisper, moving closer from his seat “ Could you say that again? Please? ”

“ Tech, we— We should get moving ” Your brain begged for both legs to respond to its orders, to rise up from the frozen cold ground but they refused, anchoring you to the snow melting underneath. Fixing you right in that spot before the clones.

Crosshair shook his head with a chuckle, unable to believe what his own ears had registered while their tips burned red. How dare you do that to him, to them both. How dare you actually make his delusions a possibility… How was he supposed to live now with this knowledge?

The sniper painfully recomposed himself and sat up to grab your shaking hand.

“ No, I agree— could you repeat that again? ” He asked through slow breaths.

“ Crosshair… Tech… ” The sound of their hearts was so loud, so maddening that you couldn’t move. Not with the way their eyes looked at you with such spark in them, caused by those special words.

“ I— I love you. ”

Your own heart melted upon seeing their expressions, the gleefulness behind their eyes as Crosshair shook his head again in disbelief with a blinding smile, as Tech fixed his fogging goggles in place.

Suddenly the room wasn’t so cold anymore.

“ I now understand it… ” Said Tech first while feeling his face warm up “ What you were trying to explain back in the Marauder— the word you were trying to find. ”

“ …You do? ”

“ Yes, and I think it’s exactly how I feel towards you too, General. ” He murmured in the shyest tone you had ever heard on the clone. “ I believe— I do love you too. ”

His big brown eyes shined under the tinted lenses of his goggles and you cupped his cheek with a hand, surprised to feel it burning so high. Your eyes then turned towards his brother.

“ Do I even have to say it…? ” He asked with blushing cheeks, grinning wide when you started to mirror his expression while cupping his cheek as well. No, he didn’t really need to say what you already knew. His heart was so honest it sometimes betrayed his façade.

“ I would move mountains for you. Entire planets and systems, just for you. ”

Your eyes began to water again when an overwhelming wave shook all your senses. War be damned, if only time could freeze right then and there, if only you could stay inside that place with them forever, hugging them so hard while tears of a happiness you had never felt before ran down the plates of their armor. Whatever this confession could bring you with the Council you didn’t want to think of the repercussions for now, not when their presences burned so warm all around.

Sadly, you couldn’t stay there all day it seemed, according to the rest of the Batch. Among all the ice and the sunken walls of the caverns the rest of the team was heard trying to find an exit, trying and failing also to get the ice panels separating all of you out of the way. A big tremor after Wrecker punched some ice quickly warned everybody that it was best to not break anything or the rest of the cavern would collapse.

“ Hunter! ” You called after separating from your boys, unable to look anywhere that wasn’t their eyes. “ W-what’s the plan? ”

“ General, I’m sure these caverns connect somewhere in the middle ” Replied Echo instead. You could see his blurry silhouette on the other side upon looking back, observing the frozen wall up and down, knocking on it with his scomp to check how fragile it actually was. “ Tech’s scanner could guide us through them. ”

You turned to look towards the clone in goggles again and he nodded, unclipping the datapad from his belt. There was going to be a way out after all, even if you at that moment wished for nothing more than to stay inside that small cave for a bit longer with them both. Holding their hands, holding them tightly against your beating heart.

“ I don’t know what’s gonna happen after we reach the surface but… ” You whispered low enough so just the two of them could hear it before leaning towards their faces. Your soft lips first left a small kiss over Crosshair’s closed mouth before switching over to Tech’s shocked own, nothing deep but just as a reminder that you wanted to continue where this left off once you were all safely back home. Until then, this was now your good luck gift for them.

“ Stop risking yourselves so recklessly, please. Otherwise who’s gonna return those to me when we finish our mission? ” You teased with a sly whisper, feeling nothing but raw excitement when a new fire lit up in their brown irises.

Tiniest tiny epilogue:

The Havoc Marauder took off towards darkening skies leaving behind a frozen tundra that neither of its inhabitants would ever wish to return to. The mission had taken one more day than expected but as you all now readied to return back home, to Kamino, alive and well, it could be considered successfully completed.

Finally taking a seat to rest after so much, you let out a breath you didn’t even know was being held inside and closed both eyes, thanking everything in the world that all of your men had survived the campaign without anything to worry about, happy and relieved to hear their banter around the ship. Three of them were nearby, chatting with each other about battle strategies and a probable petition to request even more ammunition for the next time, but through the Force you were trying to find the other two. The ones you had promised to talk to after everything was said and done. The ones who had given their everything to protect you from even the slightest scratch during your stay on that cold planet.

Your ears caught the sound of the door to the cockpit sliding opening then.

“ Hey, General. ” Called the raspy voice of your favorite sniper “ A word? ”

Unable to control a big smile taking place, you nodded and headed towards the cabin feeling giddy all of a sudden. His hand took yours in that instant and he pulled you inside before the other three clones even realized. As fast as the door closed behind your back, you were surprised with a pair of lips on your own, swallowing away a surprised gasp that had no business transforming into a quiet moan. He hadn’t forgotten about it and neither had you for that matter, fueled through battle after another by the sole memory of his lips. Of their lips actually, as you also remembered the special softness in Tech’s very own.

“ Crosshair, you should let her breathe. ”

As if summoned by the memories, that very same clone appeared on your periphery when the sniper broke apart from the kiss, leaving you breathless while your face burned hot.

“ You don’t know how much I’ve been wanting to do that. ” Murmured Crosshair by your side, his eyes unable to look away as he appeared entranced by yourself, his hand finding a place to rest under your waist. “ After we left those caves… it was the only thing I could see every time I closed my eyes. ”

“ I guess the feeling was mutual. ” Replied Tech before reaching for your hand, slowly pulling you towards him before licking his lips. “ Was your situation any similar, General? ”

“ You cannot even begin to imagine. ” Wrapping both arms around his shoulders, you hungrily took Tech’s mouth on yours and slowly melted in the warmth of being held so close between their bodies. Feeling so guarded and protected as if nothing in the world mattered any more while being with them. As if the galaxy and the world stopped moving as long as you could feel their hands over your body.