#my corries

About them being trained as emotional support animals as well as their actual jobs.

About them being long lived (maybe 30-50 year life span) and choosing their corries as their people to protect.

Sensing when their corries need support and helping them though panic attacks and anxiety issues, helping them sleep and guarding them through the night. Helping with their fears and drawing them out of dark spiralling thoughts and having the best hugs.

Thinking about the Corries also being the massiffs emotional support people who do just as much for them, who love them oh so dearly. Who play games with them and always try to get them treats and protect them with everything they have.

Thinking about the way the Massiffs would calm their corries down, little nudges and heads on laps or sitting on them entirely.

Thinking about how neither the corrie nor the massiff like to be apart.

Thinking about about them whining over the bodies of their corries and refusing to move, nudging them desperate for them to wake up. Having to be pulled away and never being the same after.

Thinking about them sitting by the door to the icebox room and refusing to move until their corrie comes back, then following right next to them as they're helped to a space to lie down and curling up with them so their person can take their body heat and feel warm and safe and letting their corries hug tight.

Thinking about the massiffs sitting outside the med bay and just whining and scratching on the door. About Grizzer refusing to move and sounding distressed after Hound was carried in and about Hound finally waking with Grizzer on his lap.

About everything getting all too much all of a sudden for Pup and Bumble pulling him away to get him somewhere quieter and then putting her head in his lap and licking his face and being a warm solid presence for Pup to focus on and calm down and feel safe.

About massiffs knowing their corries are overworking themselves and trying to make them sleep. Of Grizzer knowing it upsets Hound and that Fox is almost his person too so he steals Fox's datapad and leads him to his bed then sits on him. Fox scratches him behinds the ear with a very soft chuckle and admits he could probably do with a few hours.

Grizzer trying to get the smell of Palpatine off of Fox. All the massiffs trying to get the smells of Senators off their corries and take the horrible smell of distress away.

Thinking about no-Order 66 where the massiffs stay with their corries and help them with their recovery post-war and this spreading through the GAR. They get even more training on how to be support animals and they love getting to help and love their people who love them so dearly back.

Thinking about Order-66, and the massiffs not understanding whats happened to their corries. Why they're not them anymore.

About any blackout mission and their corries aren't behaving like their people and they don't smell of anything, not fear not joy not sadness not anything they can usually sense, they can't read any emotion off their corries and they don't know what to do. Trying to get them to react, trying to bring them out of it or simply waiting for them to come back and being worried until they do.

Fix making Fox come to him after any meeting to check him over just in case because Palpatine will make it so Fox can’t feel a wound, so he isn’t even aware of it, and Fox only had to nearly bleed out once before Fix set the new rule in place.

Fox: Toast’s group are playing jenga

Fox: Loom and Weave are making new blankets for the winter

Fox: Skinsuit is restocking the first aid kit

Fox: Shaps group are playing Uno

Fox: Mac is helping wire some lights

Fox: Artem is painting with Ink

Fox: wait… Shaps playing Uno!

Reef thinks it’s hilarious.

Big thanks to @elenorasweet for inspiring this.

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So, the war is grinding on, and morale is low.

Palpatine needs something to motivate the troops, the Senators once again swaying towards the idea of a peace deal, and public opinion.

The Separatists need to strike.

He had stored some plans for it, including framing his own kidnapping or assassination attempt, or his own kidnapping, both would inspire a boost in morale, votes for more funding, everything, but he needed the plan to work no matter what, without risking his life...

So Fox needs to be kidnapped.

He's a clone, so the clones will be more motivated for their brother, he's the darling of the Republic, so they'll all rally behind Palpys, his approval rates will soar, and if, in the worst case, Fox is killed, well that will hardly hurt his plan.

So late one night, while Fox sleeps in their rooms and Palpatine is working late in his office, intruders get in, past the guards and past all security, and Fox is stolen away.

The response is panic, the response is fury.

Palpatine couldn't be more pleased, not to mention his 'mind-controlled' lover will play his part perfectly, but publicly he's horrified, heartbroken. He's distracted and constantly hoping for updates, a ransom note, something anything.

The corries are shocked. They know Fox is faking, they've been helping, and while they were against the plan from the start, while they've been worried the whole time, this was a nightmare scenario. That Palpatine had decided Fox had outlived his use as arm-candy, as a humanising romantic partner, as a magnet for public support, and that he'd decided Fox suited his plans better dead, that there would be more public support now from his death than his life.

They weren't sure they'd get their big brother back.

Fox's batch don't know he's faking. They're pretty sure somethings wrong, because this isn't like him at all, dropping his guard, letting someone use pet names (especially pet), the lovey eyes, but none of that crosses their minds when the news breaks. All they can think about is that Fox had been kidnapped, that he's been taken.

Fox is fairly practical about the whole thing. He's a soldier, he knows he's worked himself into a good position, but at the end of the day everyone but Palpatine is expendable, so he starts working on an escape immediately, he manages to get a comm out, but he gets pretty roughed up in the process. The media will herald it as a fantastic story, about how the Chancellor's beloved practically rescued himself, braved it all and never gave them any information, refused to let them use him to hold the Republic to ransom. Holofilm studios are trying to get the rights within a day of Fox getting home.

Palpatine wasn't expecting the Sith side of him to be so possessive, itching for his pet to be back by his side before the planed time, nor so angry at the sight of his injuries, so furious that someone had done this, despite it being on his own orders, albeit worse than he'd planned them to be. For someone who has everything planned and practiced and rehearsed to look natural, it throws him off a little, not that he lets it show to anyone but a few corries.

Still, Fox gets back and Palpatine splits his time between Fox's bedside and his work, always claiming that though he wanted nothing more than to be by his beloved's side, he knows Fox wouldn't want him to abandon the Republic and his siblings for him, that they understood his duty, even when it pained him so to be apart from his beloved little Fox. The press, Senate and public eat it up.

Fox's batch are a little more worried, they all manage to get to see him before he's allowed to leave the med bay, they're all worried about him, they all want to know he's ok, want to know about what was happening with Palpatine and whether he was ok, whether it was what he wanted, whether he was happy. Tactfully asked of course, he'd been kidnapped after all. They watch and worry as Palpatine and Fox interact, nothing wrong with their interactions, and yet everything wrong with them. Although Rex's Jedi seemed to think it's all fine, romantic dreamer that he was, he ate it up as the public did, but Rex was still uncomfortable with it.

The corries are very concerned, they warn Fox of how dangerous Palpatine is becoming, how angry and unsettled he was at Fox's injuries, but Fox was in too deep and they all knew it, besides, there was nothing that they said that showed him Palpatine wasn't playing into his plans. That this wasn't how he needed it to go, that Palpatine wasn't playing his part.

Fox knows he's playing with fire, hell, with an inferno, but he's willing to get burned for his vode, willing to burn if it stops Palpatine.

Fox heals slowly, leans on Palpatine, his Sheevie-pie, and he amps up the lovey stuff, acting more clingy and attached after such an ordeal, makes sure it's convincing to the press and his fiancé, makes sure Palpatine keeps thinking he's needed for the plan, better to keep around than tactically dispose of, keep him thinking he's totally infatuated and loyal. He plays Palpatine, he plays the media, and he plots.

The kidnapping inspires more fighting, more funding, more everything Palpatine wanted.

But it did far more for Fox than Palpatine could ever have thought.

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Thanks for inspiring this. It's not a fic but it's a scribbly plot. This AU is so much fun to play with, too much fun, lmao.

:-)

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Boba Fett & CC-1010 | Fox, Plo Koon & CC-3636 | Wolffe Characters: Plo Koon, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Mace Windu, Padmé Amidala, CC-1010 | Fox, Boba Fett, Coruscant Guard (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Character Death, I'm saying it again, Hurt No Comfort, Emotional Hurt, Pain, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious Being an Asshole, Palpatine dies, Boba Fett Needs A Hug, Young Boba Fett, CC-3636 | Wolffe Needs A Hug, Plo Koon Needs A Hug, Everyone Needs A Hug, Protective Siblings, Grief/Mourning, One Shot Series: Part 41 of Tales from the Coruscant Guard Summary: