#hanging Christmas lights

[dangraccoon]

Whatever You’ll Let Me

Week 5 ~ hanging Christmas lights ~ snowball fight ~

Word Count: 937 Content: suggestive at the end so 18+, cold, ambush

@clone-wars-winter-challenge

Omega looked so cold. You could tell she was trying to seem like the frigid temperature wasn’t affecting her—like her brothers were—but her clothes and tiny scraps of armor just didn’t have the same multi-weather protections that the boys did with their old GAR issue under suits and armor. Not that your own was much better.

It had been suggested that the two of you stay on the ship, but you were on a little side mission and no one had expected Omega to stay on the ship alone.

Tech was tasked with keeping Wrecker out of trouble while he fulfilled their meager grocery list and while Hunter and Echo haggled with various dealers and shop owners over parts and other necessities, you had started to sneak around the open-air market to look at other shops.

“Do you want my scarf?” you tried to ask casually, doing your best to hide the sympathy in your tone as Omega failed at suppressing a violent bout of shivers.

She looked up at you. You could practically see the gears turning in her head and hear her teeth chattering. After a moment, almost sheepishly, she nodded. You smiled, unwinding the length of cloth from your neck and crouching down to help wrap it around her.

“Thanks,” she grinned, giggling as you tapped her nose.

“Omega,” you hummed. “Would you like to help me with a… secret mission?”

The girl perked up instantly. “A secret mission?” she said, her lips pulling into a wide smile.

“Yep,” you answered, popping the P. “We’re going to have to sneak away from the others right now without them questioning it. Got any ideas?”

Omega thought for a moment, her hand coming up to her chin. You smiled at how much she reminded you of Tech. “What if we just tell them it’s a secret?”

You chuckled. “Alright, but you have to tell Hunter.”

A wicked grin that reminded you more of Wrecker spread across her face as she grabbed your hand, pulling you toward the former sergeant.

“Hunter!” she shouted, distracting him from the items the shop owner was displaying. “We’re going on a secret mission!”

Hunter’s brow raised in suspicion, though his lips pulled into a smirk.

“Got your comm?” he asked.

Omega held it up in response. “Yep!”

“Then I guess you’re ready to go,” he smiled. He then looked up at you. “Everything… okay?”

Stars, it felt like he wasn’t just looking at you but staring deep into your soul. You could feel your face flushing. “Oh, it’s just—”

“She can’t tell you! It’s a secret!” Omega interjected with an edge of an irritated tone. She grabbed your hand before you could say anything else, pulling you away from Hunter as he chuckled.

When you glanced back, you saw Echo lean in close to whisper something into Hunter’s ear, Hunter’s brief shock, recovered into a sharp elbow to Echo’s side.

“So, what do we need to do?”

—

You were panting hard as you and Omega trekked back to the ship. The snow was getting deeper and you were starting to realize how out of shape you’d gotten since the squad had escaped the Empire.

“C’mon,” Omega encouraged from the front. “I don’t think they’re back yet!”

Your hands felt freezing as you adjusted the strap of the bag of string lights you’d gotten over your shoulder. You hoped the two of you could set it up before the boys got back.

Omega stopped suddenly, clearly picking up on something you couldn’t.

You looked at her uncertainly, your breath coming out in foggy huffs. ”Ome—” you started to call, but were cut off by the thunk of a ball of ice hitting your chest.

You shared a fleeting, wild look with Omega.

“We’re under fire!” she squealed, dodging one of the lobbed snowballs.

“Get to the ship!” You cried as you began to run after her.

But just as she called to warn you of your impending capture, arms circled your waist, hoisting you into the air while small snowballs rained down over Omega.

You burst into laughter, struggling in vain against the strong embrace keeping you from your co-conspirator.

You didn’t need to see who was behind you; you already knew it was Hunter, but the soft chuckles emanating from behind you and that woodsy scent—from the cologne he pretended not to own—had given it away in an instant.

“Let me go!” You laughed, playfully pulling at his arms.

“Not happening,” that rich, smoky voice hummed behind you.

Somewhere further ahead, Wrecker had cptured Omega both laughing and cheering as they teamed up against Echo, while Tech feigned disinterest—despite the lit-up recorder on the side of his goggles—but you could barely notice any of it over the way your heart threatened to beat out of your chest. You knew he could hear it, and you knew he could tell it wasn’t just from the ambush.

“Don’t forget to breathe, cyar’ika,” he hummed. When had his lips gotten so close to your ear? You fought to suppress a shudder. You prayed he dismissed its cause as the cold, but some part of you quietly hoped he wouldn’t.

The world around you seemed to slow as you managed to turn to face him, still held tightly in his embrace.

“So,” you said. It was barely a nervous whisper. He could hear it loud and clear. “Now that I’ve been captured, what are you going to do with me?”

Hunter’s grin grew into a crooked smirk. “Hmm,” he nearly growled, bringing his lips to just barely brush against your ear. “Whatever you’ll let me, gorgeous.”

Mando’a Guide:

cyar’ika - sweetheart

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