The war had the side effect of sending Jedi to places they’d rarely
gone, in the last few centuries. Unfortunately, sometimes turning over
rocks meant finding nasty surprises waiting there. Obi-Wan was coming to
hate surprises.
*points up* THIS! This is awesome and fun to read!
Fulcrum shows up at Cody and Ben’s place. Things go not-so-well (nobody dies, but nobody’s very happy, either)
The ‘aggression inhibitor’ chips are nothing of the karking sort, and Cody can’t wait any longer. He needs his out, now.
next day reblog
About that OT3 modern au
What if Obi-Wan and Cody are college-era boyfriends and then life and everything gets in the way, they split friendly but with a couple of regrets each.
Cody goes on to be a firefighter.
Obi-Wan kind of works himself into an exhaustion breakdown.
And then switches majors.
And goes into librarianship.
Cue Rex who is a cop, who goes at his shop and flirts and they start seeing each other.
But then stuff happens with Obi-Wan’s family.
And they are still early enough in the relationship that it’s kind of awkward.
Rex doesn’t want to intrude, Obi-Wan isn’t ready to introduce Rex yet to his family because they are not that level of serious yet.
Like they are into each other, they went on a few dates, the sex is great.
But dealing with the aftermath of Qui-Gon’s death and Obi-Wan adopting Qui-Gon’s ward?
That’s kind of a lot to deal with.
And I am sure Rex is the kind of man who would try but it’s kind of a mess of a situation.
So they peter off and then agree to break up though, again, with a couple of regrets each.
Cody and Rex meet.
They get together.
They date.
They get engaged.
They get married.
Cue sometime later, the two of them going to a new book shop who also doubles as a coffee shop.
And behind the counter, here’s Obi-Wan.
Who’d very happily just go die in the back.
YOU CAN’T JUST STOP THERE!!!!
WHERE’S THE REST OF IT?!!!
I AM AGREEING WHERE IS THE REST OF IT
OH MY GOD YOU CAN’T JUST STOP
That’s as far as a I got in the chat where I
was detailing this, before my attention got derailed :pSo what I was envisioning is that Obi-Wan is
positively dying to disappear because oh hey, look, it’s the two guys he never
fully got over coming in together because, yeah, they’re married now.(Obi-Wan kind of disappeared in time, because
he removed himself from Cody and Rex’s lives, but he kinda also kept tabs on
how they were doing because when he cares, he cares.)(Rex might or might not have Obi-Wan’s name
flagged in the system to alert him if anything happens to Obi-Wan and Cody
still meets Obi-Wan’s mother Tahl at least once every three months for coffee
and while she doesn’t dish on Obi-Wan’s private life she has promised to tell him if anything serious happens, so yeah).Obi-Wan doesn’t know it, but this was all Tahl’s
idea, by the way.She changed her usual meeting place with Cody
to Obi-Wan’s new shop, because Tahl has met Rex (Cody’s husband, of course she met the man) and she recognized
him as the man from the photos on Obi-Wan’s phone that Anakin was so jealous
of.(Anakin was a nine years old adopted kid who
just lost his stepfather and whose stepmother was in the hospital with
life-threatening injuries, so he latched onto his big brother with the force of
a thousand suns and hated Rex on principle, which made the situation between
Obi-Wan and Rex even harder at the time).Tahl, you should know, is a meddler who feels her son should be
happy and who is reasonably sure, knowing Cody and having gotten to know Rex
well enough in the course of the four years he and Cody have been married, that
they are the kind of men who might not mind a third.Though if she’s wrong and Obi-Wan gets involved
and then hurt, she will destroy them
and spend the rest of her life atoning for bringing them back in Obi-Wan’s
life.(Spoiler alert: she’s not wrong, Tahl is a
really good judge of character and she made as sure as she could be, without
actually touching the argument in any way, that Cody and Rex might be open to
the idea).But let’s go back to Obi-Wan, who has grown a
beard since Cody last saw him, and has turned even more unironically hipster since Rex saw him last, and looks like he
could use a good night’s sleep and possibly some comfort food and relaxing
company.Cody is immediately sure Obi-Wan is still
hanging around that hooligan Vos, whom he used to be high school boyfriends
with and had casual hook ups with before Cody came into the picture and who
left a really bad impression on straightlaced, serious Cody.Rex is immediately sure Obi-Wan is still
hanging around that terrible person Ventress, whom Obi-Wan worked with at the
library he was employed at and was somewhere between flirting buddies and
who-the-fuck-knows with and who left a really bad impression on unamused,
possessive Rex.(Obi-Wan is still hanging around both Vos and
Ventress, who get along like a house on fire and might or might have not ended
up set a house on fire at some point, no one is admitting anything, during a
vacation that has many lengthy gaps every time it gets recounted).(Vos and Ventress might or might have not
gotten married in Las Vegas during that trip. Obi-Wan has forgotten about 99,9%
of what happened in Las Vegas on that trip. He doesn’t want to remember what
happened in Las Vegas on that trip. Vos says yes, Ventress says no unless it’s
one of those days when Ventress says yes and Vos says no, because they are
utter assholes who love to frustrate Obi-Wan and who make sure their versions
never align).Cody and Rex are both immediately sure Obi-Wan
is not taking good enough care of himself and what the hell is up with you
Kenobi, you were supposed to be a professor / a librarian why are you now the
owner of a book shop that doubles as a coffee shop?Cody and Rex do. not. approve. of this state of things and start immediately to think about how to tell the other about Obi-Wan and why that idiot might have to end up coming for dinner at their place.
Tahl smugly sits at her table, with a perfect view of all three of them.
OH MY GOD!
*dying whale noises*
THIS IS PERFECT I LOVE ALL OF IT! Tahl, you perfect, meddlesome human being you!
WHAT MUST A DO FOR MORE? BEG? I CAN DO THAT!
So Obi-Wan was born Obi-Wan and remained
Obi-Wan through college, until he got into some problems in finding job as ‘Obi-Wan
Jinn’ so he did his paperwork and changed his name to Ewan Kenobi (Tahl’s
maiden name is Kenobi, though she still to this day, goes by Tahl Jinn).These days he’s compromised to changing his
name, again with all the needed paperwork to make it legal, to Obi-Wan Jinn-Kenobi.So Cody and Rex don’t know that Cody’s “Obi-Wan
Jinn” college boyfriend and Rex’s “Ewan Kenobi” brief acquaintance slash
boyfriend are the same person.(They did talk about their exes, among
other things, so they actually do know
about Obi-Wan, they just didn’t realize he was the same person.)(Especially because in college Obi-Wan was very
grunge / artistic as a style, except when he needed to clean up for tests, with
short hair and a long braid and clean shaven. After college Obi-Wan grew a
beard, got himself tattooed and basically emerged from the chrysalis of grunge
into the unironic hipster phase that Rex met him into so even the few photos Cody
has of him / of him-and-Cody-together are of a far different man than the one
Rex met).(Also, the photos Cody took were with 90s
disposable cameras, so the quality is sometimes so-so, and Rex and Obi-Wan were
together before cellphones with cameras were a thing, so there are no photos of
the two of them together).Timeline as far as I’ve figured it out is :
–
Rex&Cody
walk in Obi-Wan’s shop in 2016(Cody is 47, Rex is 46, Obi-Wan is
45)–
Quinlan,
Asajj and Obi-Wan go on the Cross Country Trip Of Doom in 2013 to celebrate
Anakin turning 18 and heading off to college.(All three of them were 42)
–
Rex&Cody
have been married since 2012(Cody was 45, Rex was 42)
–
Rex&Cody
were engaged from 2010 to 2012(Cody was 43, Rex was 40)
–
Rex&Cody
met in 2007(Cody was 40, Rex was 37)
–
Rex&Obi-Wan
split in 2004 after three dates (pre-accident) and four more (post-accident)(Rex was 34, Obi-Wan was 33)
–
Cody&Obi-Wan
were together from 1991 to 1995(Cody was 22, Obi-Wan was 20 when
the relationship started | Cody was 26, Obi-Wan was 24 when the relationship
ended)Obi-Wan was born in 1971 (31 March), Rex was
born in 1970 (26 December), Cody was born in 1969 (26 December too).So Cody and Rex sits down with Tahl, say hello
and then Cody turns to Rex to tell him about how the one behind the counter
(who is edging towards the back) is his ex Obi-Wan at the same time as Rex
turns to tell Cody about how the one behind the counter (who is squirreling
towards the back) is his ex Ewan.There’s a bit of confusion going on because ‘look
I know him and his name is Ewan’ and ‘no you’ve got it wrong, that’s Obi-Wan
and this is his mother right there’, at which point Tahl informs them that the
man behind the counter is indeed her son and that he was raised Obi-Wan,
changed his name at Ewan for work-related reasons and is now going once more by
Obi-Wan.The lightning bulb of “we share a common
ex-boyfriend and we don’t regret ending things with him, because we both had
good reason to, and we both also kind of consider him as ‘the one who got away’”
goes off.By the time they turn to the counter again,
Obi-Wan is gone.Anakin is there, glowering at Rex as he takes
orders and including Cody in the glower for good measure.Tahl might be giggling.
*I’m* giggling! This is great! Can I ask what his tattoo is? (Since you’ve got me on a tattoo jag.)
Made post about the tattoos that you can find here.
Grandfather Dooku doesn’t approve of his
nephews tattoos.Grandfather Dooku didn’t approve of Cody either.
Great-grandfather Yoda (also known as “the-one-who-might-just-outlive-us-all”)
thought it was all (Obi-Wan dating a Maori, Obi-Wan having no intention of
having not-adopted children, Obi-Wan tattooing the hell out of himself, Dooku
blowing a gasket over his son and grandson’s life choices) very hilarious.Dooku is scottish nobility, so Obi-Wan has Scottish
blood from his father’s side.Great-grandfather Yoda is actually from Tahl’s
side of the family and I think he came from Hong Kong when he was very young
and ended up surviving all of his children.He was one of Dooku’s teachers in college and
that’s because of that connection that Qui-Gon and Tahl met at all, when they
were teenagers and at faculty gatherings (Yoda took custody of Tahl when her
parents decided to go back to Hong Kong and she wanted to stay in the States),
the kind where you bring your family along to suffer.(Dooku is a professor with tenure at college,
Yoda should have retired eons ago but no one dares to oust the old troll and he’s
actually famous enough that the college kinda wants to keep him on as much as
it’s possible).(Tahl and Qui-Gon were high school sweethearts
turned couple turned married couple by the time they were twenty-five.)But back to the story!
Obi-Wan hides in the back with Anakin’s
apprentice baker Ahsoka.(Anakin went to college to study mechanics,
fell hopelessly in love with older law student Padme, decided to keep doing
mechanics but with a minor in law, only to be screwed over and used in some
faculty scheme by Head of Law Department Palpatine, an old acquaintance of
Anakin’s great-grandfather Dooku. Following that he completely dropped out of
college and just went through a depressive self-destructive phase that scared
the living hell out of Obi-Wan).(Between Tahl and Obi-Wan and Padme, they got
Anakin back on his feet and pushed him to turn his habit of stress baking into
something more productive and Anakin is like 90% of the reason why Obi-Wan’s
book shop doubles as a coffee shop).(Anakin is tattooed and pierced as fuck
nowadays, dresses in leather or plaid pants with cotton t-shirts and wears
eyeliner which makes him a complete contrast to Padme’s flawless professional
or high end style. They are engaged and very happy together).Anyway, Obi-Wan hides in the back with Anakin’s
apprentice baker Ahsoka.He knows it wasn’t the smoothest move on his
part but he couldn’t think of anything else and Anakin basically seized his arm
and told him to stay there while he
took care of the front.(One of the very few things Anakin and
great-grandfather Dooku agree on is that Obi-Wan has shitty taste in boyfriends).Ahsoka is kinda confused as to what’s going on,
but she gets a glass of milk for Obi-Wan and puts a package of cookies in front
of him because he looks like he needs both.Obi-Wan is really not sure of what he should
do, because he hadn’t planned on being face to face with Cody and Rex anytime
soon (or ever), especially not since they got married. They have their own
lives, it’s not for Obi-Wan to interfere.Obi-Wan might or not might make a half-dive for
the pantry when he hears Cody’s unmistakable low growl of a voice very politely
ask Anakin if he can tell Obi-Wan that there are couple of friends outside waiting
for him. If he did, well. Ahsoka had her back at him and couldn’t see.Anakin sounds especially snippy and
uncooperative when he says that Obi-Wan is busy and that if Cody is a friend,
he’s not a friend Anakin has ever heard of.Obi-Wan realizes he has to go back outside,
before this snowballs further and Anakin moves from that to outright hostile
and protective.Oh hell.
AHHHHHH!!!!!
THIS IS SO GOOD!!!
Oh i needed this this morning. *snuggles into fic*
Some more headcanon stuff and then a little piece of writing by me and the always wonderful @the-last-hair-bender .
Qui-Gon was a social service worker with a hell of a green thumb. He actually graduated college as a lawyer (not Academia, which is what his father Dooku wanted but still good enough) only to throw it all to the wind when he decided social services were his life calling.
There was a huge fight between Quentin (as Qui-Gon was called then) and Dooku, who threatened to disown his son if he kept this farce going (he was already unhappy because he wasn’t exactly enthused by Qui-Gon’s marriage to librarian Tahl).
It was not a threat Dooku meant to carry out, but Quentin took off and told Tahl all about it. Tahl told her grandfather (Yoda), who told Quentin that if that happened, Quentin was welcome to take Yoda’s surname (Kenobi is Tahl’s father surname, Yoda’s daughter was Tahl’s blood connection to her grandfather).
Quentin thought it was a swell idea and filed for a full change of name (Obi-Wan got the idea he could change name somewhere, of course) and became Qui-Gon Jinn.
He died as a consequence of the same car accident that left his wife paralyzed, a few days after the accident from consequences from it. He left behind his wife and adopted son, Anakin.
Obi-Wan, who was thirty-three at the time, took Anakin in and restructured his whole life around Tahl and Anakin’s needs, helping his mother raise his little brother by lightening her load while she first recovered and then learned how to work her wheelchair.
Tahl likes to go out on Halloween and Carnival dressed as Barbara Gordon with Anakin in a Jason Todd costume. They change Obi-Wan’s costume every year.
Snippet under the cut, picking up from where the outline left off, with a little change.
About that OT3 modern au
What if Obi-Wan and Cody are college-era boyfriends and then life and everything gets in the way, they split friendly but with a couple of regrets each.
Cody goes on to be a firefighter.
Obi-Wan kind of works himself into an exhaustion breakdown.
And then switches majors.
And goes into librarianship.
Cue Rex who is a cop, who goes at his shop and flirts and they start seeing each other.
But then stuff happens with Obi-Wan’s family.
And they are still early enough in the relationship that it’s kind of awkward.
Rex doesn’t want to intrude, Obi-Wan isn’t ready to introduce Rex yet to his family because they are not that level of serious yet.
Like they are into each other, they went on a few dates, the sex is great.
But dealing with the aftermath of Qui-Gon’s death and Obi-Wan adopting Qui-Gon’s ward?
That’s kind of a lot to deal with.
And I am sure Rex is the kind of man who would try but it’s kind of a mess of a situation.
So they peter off and then agree to break up though, again, with a couple of regrets each.
Cody and Rex meet.
They get together.
They date.
They get engaged.
They get married.
Cue sometime later, the two of them going to a new book shop who also doubles as a coffee shop.
And behind the counter, here’s Obi-Wan.
Who’d very happily just go die in the back.
YOU CAN’T JUST STOP THERE!!!!
WHERE’S THE REST OF IT?!!!
I AM AGREEING WHERE IS THE REST OF IT
OH MY GOD YOU CAN’T JUST STOP
That’s as far as a I got in the chat where I
was detailing this, before my attention got derailed :pSo what I was envisioning is that Obi-Wan is
positively dying to disappear because oh hey, look, it’s the two guys he never
fully got over coming in together because, yeah, they’re married now.(Obi-Wan kind of disappeared in time, because
he removed himself from Cody and Rex’s lives, but he kinda also kept tabs on
how they were doing because when he cares, he cares.)(Rex might or might not have Obi-Wan’s name
flagged in the system to alert him if anything happens to Obi-Wan and Cody
still meets Obi-Wan’s mother Tahl at least once every three months for coffee
and while she doesn’t dish on Obi-Wan’s private life she has promised to tell him if anything serious happens, so yeah).Obi-Wan doesn’t know it, but this was all Tahl’s
idea, by the way.She changed her usual meeting place with Cody
to Obi-Wan’s new shop, because Tahl has met Rex (Cody’s husband, of course she met the man) and she recognized
him as the man from the photos on Obi-Wan’s phone that Anakin was so jealous
of.(Anakin was a nine years old adopted kid who
just lost his stepfather and whose stepmother was in the hospital with
life-threatening injuries, so he latched onto his big brother with the force of
a thousand suns and hated Rex on principle, which made the situation between
Obi-Wan and Rex even harder at the time).Tahl, you should know, is a meddler who feels her son should be
happy and who is reasonably sure, knowing Cody and having gotten to know Rex
well enough in the course of the four years he and Cody have been married, that
they are the kind of men who might not mind a third.Though if she’s wrong and Obi-Wan gets involved
and then hurt, she will destroy them
and spend the rest of her life atoning for bringing them back in Obi-Wan’s
life.(Spoiler alert: she’s not wrong, Tahl is a
really good judge of character and she made as sure as she could be, without
actually touching the argument in any way, that Cody and Rex might be open to
the idea).But let’s go back to Obi-Wan, who has grown a
beard since Cody last saw him, and has turned even more unironically hipster since Rex saw him last, and looks like he
could use a good night’s sleep and possibly some comfort food and relaxing
company.Cody is immediately sure Obi-Wan is still
hanging around that hooligan Vos, whom he used to be high school boyfriends
with and had casual hook ups with before Cody came into the picture and who
left a really bad impression on straightlaced, serious Cody.Rex is immediately sure Obi-Wan is still
hanging around that terrible person Ventress, whom Obi-Wan worked with at the
library he was employed at and was somewhere between flirting buddies and
who-the-fuck-knows with and who left a really bad impression on unamused,
possessive Rex.(Obi-Wan is still hanging around both Vos and
Ventress, who get along like a house on fire and might or might have not ended
up set a house on fire at some point, no one is admitting anything, during a
vacation that has many lengthy gaps every time it gets recounted).(Vos and Ventress might or might have not
gotten married in Las Vegas during that trip. Obi-Wan has forgotten about 99,9%
of what happened in Las Vegas on that trip. He doesn’t want to remember what
happened in Las Vegas on that trip. Vos says yes, Ventress says no unless it’s
one of those days when Ventress says yes and Vos says no, because they are
utter assholes who love to frustrate Obi-Wan and who make sure their versions
never align).Cody and Rex are both immediately sure Obi-Wan
is not taking good enough care of himself and what the hell is up with you
Kenobi, you were supposed to be a professor / a librarian why are you now the
owner of a book shop that doubles as a coffee shop?Cody and Rex do. not. approve. of this state of things and start immediately to think about how to tell the other about Obi-Wan and why that idiot might have to end up coming for dinner at their place.
Tahl smugly sits at her table, with a perfect view of all three of them.
OH MY GOD!
*dying whale noises*
THIS IS PERFECT I LOVE ALL OF IT! Tahl, you perfect, meddlesome human being you!
WHAT MUST A DO FOR MORE? BEG? I CAN DO THAT!
So Obi-Wan was born Obi-Wan and remained
Obi-Wan through college, until he got into some problems in finding job as ‘Obi-Wan
Jinn’ so he did his paperwork and changed his name to Ewan Kenobi (Tahl’s
maiden name is Kenobi, though she still to this day, goes by Tahl Jinn).These days he’s compromised to changing his
name, again with all the needed paperwork to make it legal, to Obi-Wan Jinn-Kenobi.So Cody and Rex don’t know that Cody’s “Obi-Wan
Jinn” college boyfriend and Rex’s “Ewan Kenobi” brief acquaintance slash
boyfriend are the same person.(They did talk about their exes, among
other things, so they actually do know
about Obi-Wan, they just didn’t realize he was the same person.)(Especially because in college Obi-Wan was very
grunge / artistic as a style, except when he needed to clean up for tests, with
short hair and a long braid and clean shaven. After college Obi-Wan grew a
beard, got himself tattooed and basically emerged from the chrysalis of grunge
into the unironic hipster phase that Rex met him into so even the few photos Cody
has of him / of him-and-Cody-together are of a far different man than the one
Rex met).(Also, the photos Cody took were with 90s
disposable cameras, so the quality is sometimes so-so, and Rex and Obi-Wan were
together before cellphones with cameras were a thing, so there are no photos of
the two of them together).Timeline as far as I’ve figured it out is :
–
Rex&Cody
walk in Obi-Wan’s shop in 2016(Cody is 47, Rex is 46, Obi-Wan is
45)–
Quinlan,
Asajj and Obi-Wan go on the Cross Country Trip Of Doom in 2013 to celebrate
Anakin turning 18 and heading off to college.(All three of them were 42)
–
Rex&Cody
have been married since 2012(Cody was 45, Rex was 42)
–
Rex&Cody
were engaged from 2010 to 2012(Cody was 43, Rex was 40)
–
Rex&Cody
met in 2007(Cody was 40, Rex was 37)
–
Rex&Obi-Wan
split in 2004 after three dates (pre-accident) and four more (post-accident)(Rex was 34, Obi-Wan was 33)
–
Cody&Obi-Wan
were together from 1991 to 1995(Cody was 22, Obi-Wan was 20 when
the relationship started | Cody was 26, Obi-Wan was 24 when the relationship
ended)Obi-Wan was born in 1971 (31 March), Rex was
born in 1970 (26 December), Cody was born in 1969 (26 December too).So Cody and Rex sits down with Tahl, say hello
and then Cody turns to Rex to tell him about how the one behind the counter
(who is edging towards the back) is his ex Obi-Wan at the same time as Rex
turns to tell Cody about how the one behind the counter (who is squirreling
towards the back) is his ex Ewan.There’s a bit of confusion going on because ‘look
I know him and his name is Ewan’ and ‘no you’ve got it wrong, that’s Obi-Wan
and this is his mother right there’, at which point Tahl informs them that the
man behind the counter is indeed her son and that he was raised Obi-Wan,
changed his name at Ewan for work-related reasons and is now going once more by
Obi-Wan.The lightning bulb of “we share a common
ex-boyfriend and we don’t regret ending things with him, because we both had
good reason to, and we both also kind of consider him as ‘the one who got away’”
goes off.By the time they turn to the counter again,
Obi-Wan is gone.Anakin is there, glowering at Rex as he takes
orders and including Cody in the glower for good measure.Tahl might be giggling.
*I’m* giggling! This is great! Can I ask what his tattoo is? (Since you’ve got me on a tattoo jag.)
Made post about the tattoos that you can find here.
Grandfather Dooku doesn’t approve of his
nephews tattoos.Grandfather Dooku didn’t approve of Cody either.
Great-grandfather Yoda (also known as “the-one-who-might-just-outlive-us-all”)
thought it was all (Obi-Wan dating a Maori, Obi-Wan having no intention of
having not-adopted children, Obi-Wan tattooing the hell out of himself, Dooku
blowing a gasket over his son and grandson’s life choices) very hilarious.Dooku is scottish nobility, so Obi-Wan has Scottish
blood from his father’s side.Great-grandfather Yoda is actually from Tahl’s
side of the family and I think he came from Hong Kong when he was very young
and ended up surviving all of his children.He was one of Dooku’s teachers in college and
that’s because of that connection that Qui-Gon and Tahl met at all, when they
were teenagers and at faculty gatherings (Yoda took custody of Tahl when her
parents decided to go back to Hong Kong and she wanted to stay in the States),
the kind where you bring your family along to suffer.(Dooku is a professor with tenure at college,
Yoda should have retired eons ago but no one dares to oust the old troll and he’s
actually famous enough that the college kinda wants to keep him on as much as
it’s possible).(Tahl and Qui-Gon were high school sweethearts
turned couple turned married couple by the time they were twenty-five.)But back to the story!
Obi-Wan hides in the back with Anakin’s
apprentice baker Ahsoka.(Anakin went to college to study mechanics,
fell hopelessly in love with older law student Padme, decided to keep doing
mechanics but with a minor in law, only to be screwed over and used in some
faculty scheme by Head of Law Department Palpatine, an old acquaintance of
Anakin’s great-grandfather Dooku. Following that he completely dropped out of
college and just went through a depressive self-destructive phase that scared
the living hell out of Obi-Wan).(Between Tahl and Obi-Wan and Padme, they got
Anakin back on his feet and pushed him to turn his habit of stress baking into
something more productive and Anakin is like 90% of the reason why Obi-Wan’s
book shop doubles as a coffee shop).(Anakin is tattooed and pierced as fuck
nowadays, dresses in leather or plaid pants with cotton t-shirts and wears
eyeliner which makes him a complete contrast to Padme’s flawless professional
or high end style. They are engaged and very happy together).Anyway, Obi-Wan hides in the back with Anakin’s
apprentice baker Ahsoka.He knows it wasn’t the smoothest move on his
part but he couldn’t think of anything else and Anakin basically seized his arm
and told him to stay there while he
took care of the front.(One of the very few things Anakin and
great-grandfather Dooku agree on is that Obi-Wan has shitty taste in boyfriends).Ahsoka is kinda confused as to what’s going on,
but she gets a glass of milk for Obi-Wan and puts a package of cookies in front
of him because he looks like he needs both.Obi-Wan is really not sure of what he should
do, because he hadn’t planned on being face to face with Cody and Rex anytime
soon (or ever), especially not since they got married. They have their own
lives, it’s not for Obi-Wan to interfere.Obi-Wan might or not might make a half-dive for
the pantry when he hears Cody’s unmistakable low growl of a voice very politely
ask Anakin if he can tell Obi-Wan that there are couple of friends outside waiting
for him. If he did, well. Ahsoka had her back at him and couldn’t see.Anakin sounds especially snippy and
uncooperative when he says that Obi-Wan is busy and that if Cody is a friend,
he’s not a friend Anakin has ever heard of.Obi-Wan realizes he has to go back outside,
before this snowballs further and Anakin moves from that to outright hostile
and protective.Oh hell.
The battle on Utapau ends, then things go sideways. Cody is determined
to try and put things right, even if he has to travel to the ends of the
galaxy to catch up to Obi-Wan.
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Come pick me up, please.
“Come pick me up, please,” Ben asked his husband over the com.
“Be there in ten,” Cody promised. He’d probably gotten off work – manual labour at the docks – only a few minutes ago, but his voice was brisk and clear as ever.
Ben thanked him and disconnected. The patrons of the bordello chatted up the other employees, but Ben was done for the night, and only sipped his fruit juice as he waited for Cody. He’d changed out of the revealing outfit he wore for work, and taken the bits and bobs out of his hair, tying it back in a simple tail.
On the face of it, Ben shouldn’t be very good at his job. He wasn’t a physical beauty, and he’s not either enthusiastic about sex or an expert at it. There’s just something about him, though. All his clients – male, female, and otherwise – agreed that Ben made them feel special, that they had a better time with him than with Oleana or Makandir or any of the other prostitutes.
Maybe it was related to how Ben could tell if a client was going to be trouble the second they stepped through the doorway. After the fourth incident where Ben’s prediction had been accurate, Madam An-aranay, an old and wily Twi’lek lady, had given the bouncers orders to take Ben’s word on clients, and act accordingly.
Ben wondered at his own ability, but by now he knew not to ponder too deeply – he’s had more than enough incapacitating migraines to show for it, and never retrieved even a moment of his old life, before he’d woken up on this out of the way planet with his near-panicking husband, Cody.
“Speak of the devil,” Ben purred as strong arms wrap around him.
“Mm, thinking of me, were you?” Cody asked, amused and happy.
Oleana had professed their bafflement about how Ben’s husband could be so accepting of Ben sharing his ‘affections’ with clients, and Ben had only shrugged. There were several things Ben didn’t know about Cody. The man was a clone, that much was obvious. Wondering about how or when the man had abandoned the Imperial Military would bring on the migraines though, so Ben had learned not to think about that, either.
Strange. One would think that Cody would be the one with the migraines, given the scar on his head. It was hidden under hair, now, but it had still been angry and red on Cody’s shaven head when Ben had first awoken.
“Yess,” Ben said, tilting his head back and letting Cody nip at his clean-shaven jawline. Warmth and heat simmered in Ben, and he curled a hand around the back of Cody’s neck, keeping his husband close. Ben felt warmth and affection for his clients and his co-workers, but Cody was the only person he loved, and that state of affairs was just fine by Ben.
@wwhirlybird
said:
June 6th 2016, 11:23:00 am · 10 hours agoCody/Rex just being Gay while in a battle, like Bantering and Flirting while their troops look on in ’??? Why.???’
Ugh, how do you flirt? Dialogue is hard, flirting is hard, why did you do this to me?
(Oh my god, yeah, this is totally not what you asked for, but I had to ask myself: how exactly does one flirt during a battle? Wanton destruction, of course!)
Prompt 1 – Prompt 2– Prompt 3 – Prompt 4
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When Captain Rex took an unnecessarily showy shot at a droid commando, managing to knock it backwards into the engine of a tank which then spun out of control and took out another tank and an entire platoon worth of Rollies, Torrent Company rolled their eyes and groaned. It wasn’t the sheer amount of mass chaos and destruction their Captain was capable of that inspired it.
It was the kiss he threw Commander Cody across half their line as the dust was settling.
Oh. It was gonna be one of *those* battles.
When Cody commandeered one of the turret-canons and with one blast shot down an entire transport ship at the exact right moment for it to crash land on top of another, and destroy both of them in a fireball that engulfed half the enemy lines in chaos, Obi-Wan shot his Commander a tolerantly amused look. As Cody stepped back off the canon, cool as could be, and bowed in the direction of Torrent Company, Obi-Wan leaned in to shout in his ear over the roar of the battle.
“A little mild, don’t you think?” His General’s tone was provoking, and if he hadn’t been a Jedi Cody would have called it gleeful. Only the Council and, somehow, General Skywalker, seemed to have retained the impression that Obi-Wan was any less fond of mass chaos and explosions than any demolitions expert.
“Jealous, sir?” Cody asked, knowing he would read the wicked smile under his bucket. Obi-Wan laughed and clapped Cody on the shoulder.
“Leave a few for the rest of us, will you Commander?” Kenobi said, waving the right flank to move in and take advantage of the wanton destruction two of his best had already wreaked on the battle.
“No promises, sir.” Cody said absently, eyeing the droid lines. “Whoever takes out the most droids with one shot gets to top tonight.”
He kept most of his laughter internal as his General choked on a laugh of his own beside him.
“Things I never needed to know about your and Rex’s relationship, Cody.” Kenobi scolded mildly, sounding too amused to mean it.
Cody just smiled, waiting for Rex’s rebuttal shot, and eyeing the cluster of five transport ships that had just landed. And the unstable cliff they were on, that he could see from his position and Rex couldn’t.
He was gonna win this. He had plans for his lover tonight.
*SHREIKS in glee*
YOU GO CODY!
Cody is *determined to win*.
…a large part of me that is in constant need of more threesomes wants to write a follow-up where Obi-Wan casually waves his hand and collapses that cliff Cody was eyeing and sends both of them a half-tentative, half-challenging look, like: “does that mean *I* get to top tonight?”
The answer of course being an enthusiastic yes.
Of course, in the next battle, they team up in order to top Obi-Wan’s kill count, because damn if he gets to be in charge again. They succeed, but Obi-Wan retaliates spectacularly in the battle after that.
And the entire Separatist army eventually crumbles in the face of competition for the purposes of bedroom games, and Sideous is hilariously confused.HOLY FUCKING SHIT YES!
The last bit. I AM DYING!
And yep, this is what happened.
Obi-Wan sweeps his hand and the entire bank crumbles, taking down all five transport ships at once. There’s explosions and metallic screams and everything goes silent. The clones just stand there, a little shocked that the battle is over even before it started, and then they let out a deafening cheer.
Obi Wan turns to Cody, smirking, his eyes wickedly amused.
“So. Does that mean I get to top?”
“It does.” Cody agrees, mouth dry. “I didn’t think you’d be interested.”
“I didn’t think you two were involved.” Obi Wan drawls and hauls Cody forward to knock his forehead against Cody’s bucket. “You’re mine tonight.”
“Yes sir.” Cody says breathlessly.
Who did that? Rex’s tinny voice comes through the comm.
“That was me, captain.” Obi Wan says, amused. “Cody told me about your little bet, and I decided to claim the prize.”
“Force fucking – really?” Rex goes from swearing at Cody using his Jedi to chest to shocked into silence.
“Really.” Obi Wan agrees. “I’ll see you later.”
“You got it, sir. Rex out.”
@werkthatasdfl You asked for this too!
Cody has
no idea how in the hell they managed to make it all the way to the hotel room,
but somehow they do. The moment the door swings shut behind them, he’s got Rex
in his arms, pulling him close and pushing him back all at once, until they
fall back onto the bed (A really, honest-to-the-Old-Gods bed with a proper
mattress and pillows and everything), laughing and cursing.Cody
spends a solid five minutes just pressing random kisses to the tanned skin of
Rex’s face; his nose, his eyelids, his chin, his lips. Rex croons something
soft and melodic, leaning in to the touch and reaching up to run his fingers
through Cody’s hair.“Gods, I’ve
missed you,” Cody finally says, soft like a prayer against the hollow of the
other man’s throat. “I’ve missed you so fucking much.”“Missed
you too,” Rex murmurs, nuzzling his face against Cody’s hair and drawing in a
long inhale, like he’s familiarizing himself with the scent. “Fuck, how it is
we went three months without working a single op together?”“Fucking
stars and Powers-That-Be hate us,” Cody grumbles, and Rex laughs. Then he
rolls, and Cody suddenly finds himself pinned under the younger clone, who is straddling
his hips and smirking down at him, his face a brilliant mix of joy and
mischief.“Fucking
look at you,” Rex breathes, and the tips of his fingers brush against Cody’s
cheeks, light as a breeze. It makes Cody shiver, his skin tingling where Rex
touches. “Gods, I love you so much, you know that right?”Cody
blinks, and feels his throat tighten despite himself. “Yeah. I love you too,
Rex.”Rex’s
smile is just as wide as it was, but it softens, shifting from mischief to love
and awe, and he leans down for a gentle kiss that sweeps Cody up and tosses him
headlong into the galaxy of stars and life because fuck, that’s what Rex does to him.Cody cups
Rex’s face, holds him close, and Rex’s fingers re-establish themselves in Cody’s
hair. They tangle their legs together, and the Cody shifts until they are both
lying on their sides, close enough for their breaths to mingle. Rex is smiling
in that way of his that always makes Cody’s chest feel fit to burst, and
everything is just. Perfect.Cody
reaches out, lets his fingers trail across Rex’s lips, and his partner kisses
them, his smile never faltering. It’s peaceful, in a way their stolen moments
between battles and ops, on one star cruiser or another, never are. There’s not
lack of time here, no fears of interruptions. Just quiet, and comfort, and the
warmth of Rex’s hands and lips.Everything
is perfect.“I love
you,” Cody says again, and Rex’s smile grows larger, and fuck but doesn’t that
make everything in Cody’s life worth it, just to have him end up here.
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