Where Every Scroll is a New Adventure
I finally worked up the courage to post my fics on Tumblr for Rexsoka week. I’ll be posting every day for each prompt. These will all be SFW, but I’ll let you know if there’s anything I think might be a problem.
Today’s is just a drabble. Some will be longer, but I don’t think any are shorter than this.
Here we go!
Day 1: Boredom
Rex had imagined the end of the war countless times. He had imagined cheering and shouts of joy. He'd imagined new lives for his brothers and change. He'd imagined rest.
It hadn't been any of that. Instead of cheering, his brothers had been silenced. Instead of new lives, the clones were worked until their usefulness ran out. Instead of rest, they had been given pain.
Rex tried not to dwell on any of that. He tried to focus on his life with the few brothers he had left on Seelos.
Unfortunately, that left him with another unexpected result of the end of the war: boredom.
"What's the matter, Rex?" Gregor asked cheerfully.
Rex looked up from his work on upgrading the cooling system; Seelos could get hot.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"You keep sighing over there." Wolffe said.
"I guess I'm a bit bored." Rex confessed.
"Bored?" Gregor asked. "How're you bored? You've been busy all day!"
"You manage to find the most to do out of the three of us." Wolffe said. "Just today you've recalibrated the steering, checked the legs, and now this."
Rex shrugged and refocused on his work. He was bored, there was no other way to describe it.
He had never been bored in the GAR, especially with Commander Tano around. She had made writing and reading reports enjoyable.
No, that was a lie. He had been bored, when she wasn't there. The time after she had left the Order had been wrought with boredom, but not at the level Rex felt now.
He wished being bored wasn't so painful. It was a gnawing at his heart, making him lie awake at night. He tried to relieve the symptoms by thinking of the Commander, but it always seemed to make it worse. Probably because he knew if she were here, things wouldn't be so dull.
If the Galaxy were free and he didn't have his brothers to look after, Rex would take a ship and just go. He'd probably go wherever Commander Tano was. Yes, that felt right.
But as it were, he had to learn to live with his boredom. That aching, tormenting boredom that felt like a piece of his heart was missing.
Yes, that was the word.
Boredom.
Check it out and my other on going Rexsoka fics on my A03!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/34125910/chapters/84903028
https://archiveofourown.org/users/ExecutiveCucumber/works