#demi rex coming back like dude wth youve known him for like 5 days

[dangraccoon]

A Hunch

Week 2 ~ "at ease" ~ midnight snack ~

Word Count: 960 Content: insomnia/sleepless, SUGGESTIVE so 18+, kenobi is a shameless flirt and a tease, cody is a disaster gay and a hopeless romantic (me fr tho) and rex is about to be so done with cody's bullshit

@clone-wars-winter-challenge

Despite the extended time he’d actually have, despite the relative comfort his bunk provided, despite the quiet of the ship, and despite the pure exhaustion that came after the adrenaline of battle wore off, Cody couldn’t sleep.

He’d tried almost everything he could think of. He adjusted the temperature of his quarters. He went for a walk around the ship. He took another shower. He tried cyclical breathing. He set his datapad to play white noise. He read a few chapters of a holo-novel Bly had recommended. He thought about going to the medbay to ask the late-shift medic for a sedative but decided against it.

Sighing, Cody flipped the scratchy GAR-issue blanket off of him and swung his feet over the side of the bed. He stretched a little, put his armor back on, then picked up his datapad and headed for the door.

The ship was quiet as most of the troopers would be getting some well-deserved rest as they traveled to their next destination. The few he did see would stand up straight until he waved them off, barely looking up from the reports he was reading.

He eventually found his way to the officers’ mess. He keyed in his access code to the attached kitchenette to use the self-serve caf machine. As it began to brew, he perched himself on the arm of one of the chairs to continue through the seemingly endless reports that flooded his inbox.

He knew he was a capable man, a good leader, and an exemplary soldier–he had the medals and the scars to prove it–but sometimes he couldn’t help but wonder if he’d truly earned his rank. Had any of them earned their ranks if they were designed to be copies?

An access code being entered on the other side of the door startled him out of his introspection. The door slid open revealing–

“Oh!” General Kenobi jumped a little, nearly dropping his datapad. “Apologies, Commander, I wasn’t expecting to find the room–” he looked up to see Commander Cody at full attention, his work abandoned on the chair.

The general’s eyes shifted from surprise to confusion, and then something akin to curiosity.

“Commander, please be at ease, or as you were,” he hummed, an air of amusement surrounding him as he watched the commander barely shift his posture. “It’s the middle of the– well, I suppose it would be the middle of the night if we were still on Coruscant.” He chuckled a little, a sound Cody found to be echoing in his mind. “Don’t tell me you’re planning on staying up through the night cycle doing data work.”

“Oh, uh, no,” Cody muttered, cursing the uncertainty in his voice. “Not exactly, sir–”

“Commander,” he said as he unceremoniously dumped the data pad on the counter. “May I simply call you ‘Cody’ instead of your full rank?”

“Yes, sir,” Cody nodded.

“I appreciate that,” General Kenobi grinned. He turned away from Cody, beginning to look through the various cabinets. 

He watched the general as he seemed to search for… something, unable to stop his curiosity.

“What are you looking for, sir?”

“Oh, please just call me Obi-Wan,” he huffed, almost exasperated. “At least if it’s just us.”

Cody looked away, scowling slightly.

Kenobi sighed, looking back towards him. “That’s going to be an uphill battle, isn’t it?”

“Yes, sir,” Cody replied, unable to stifle a smirk.

Kenobi rolled his eyes, turning back to the cabinet. “To answer your question, I am looking for a… midnight snack of sorts. A pre-deployment habit I haven’t been able to break.”

“I wouldn’t count on finding much beyond ration bars in stock, sir,” Cody shrugged.

Kenobi seemed to deflate slightly. “I was afraid you might say that,” he grumbled, and again, Cody struggled to suppress his amusement. “We’ll simply need to rectify this glaring oversight, then won’t we.”

“Yes, sir.”

Kenobi grabbed his datapad and turned back to look at Cody. “Something tells me that you, Cody, actually know which form I’m supposed to use to requisition some treats for us all.”

Cody’s brow hitched. “What makes you say that?” he smirked.

“Call it a hunch,” Kenobi chuckled as he stepped into Cody’s space. “I just get a certain… vibe from you.”

Cody’s heart pounded in his ears. He wasn’t sure of the cause, or perhaps it was a combination of the proximity, the soft yet strong tone of his voice, the smell of GAR-issue soap mixing with a subtle hint of some kind of tea, or the downright dangerous look in his eyes. 

“A ‘vibe’, is it?” he grinned. “What else can you glean from this so-called ‘hunch’?”

“Hm, are you sure you want to go down that road?” Kenobi practically purred, slowly dragging his eyes up and down Cody’s body. “You might find it to be a little too close to that line you so love to toe, my dear marshal commander.”

Cody scoffed if only to cover the way he had to force himself to actually continue breathing. “26-D9-926 for unit usage, 56-T3-926 for… personal use.”

“I knew it,” Kenobi snickered, pulling away from Cody–who found himself almost drawn to follow him and the heat he’d generated between them but resisted. “Have a good evening, Commander.”

“G-good evening,” he breathed, unsure if any of this was even real.

Kenobi paused, turning back to him. “Oh, and Cody?”

“Yes?”

“You forgot to say, ‘sir’.” And just like that, he swept out of the room.

Cody wasn’t sure how long he sat there, but once he found himself able to move again, he picked up his datapad, opening a comm line to Rex.

This is going to be a problem, he typed out and sent as he found himself adjusting his codpiece. 

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