@luminanox | ❛ you are not real. you are a dream of a dream. ❜ | cody & rex
oh it feels cruel. time pounds on and on and on and he and rex have aged the same way, bear the same lines. cody thinks time should have separated them somewhere in the middle, but besides rex’s hair, the muscle mass cody’s lost in his rehabilitation - there’s no difference.
and cody’s known. for far longer than rex, who seems to have been told moments ago, from what cody can tell. but how was he meant to approach it? what could cody have said, to rectify all the horrors he’d wrought, all the terrible things he’d done? chip or not, cody remembers the feeling of the blaster in his hands, remembers what it was like to cut down the jedi that had once trusted him, the people he had once protected. he remembers it all.
the rebellion has given him hope again. removed the chip, given him purpose. now he is akroor, called cody only by those who have seen his heart. by obi-wan ; ahsoka. so few of them left. rex’s words cut like a sabre ; break his heart.
❛ rex’ika. ❜ a long forgotten nickname, one he hasn’t used since rex was a shiny. though cody is careful, his actions are sure, as he reaches for rex, hand resting against the curve of his neck to press their foreheads together. a brother’s greeting. ❛ i am real. and i’m sorry, for all i’ve done. for not telling you sooner. call me a hut’uun for it. you have every right, brother. ❜
