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rila: i'll go back and do more with the missing togruta, but this struck me - plus i'll delve more into the ilum-fallout, umbara, cut and his family, and obviously post order 66 with fives and echo - but my mind is finicky. at least i've got plenty to work on, you know? thanks to lovelies like you all~ :3 cookies. cookies and cupcakes for you all. you know what i find amusing? if ahsoka had actually told rex and/or anakin about the trip to carlac with lux (which i wish she would have), i'm pretty sure that lux would be fearing for his life. :3

disclaimer: lux needs to take a long trip out a short airlock.

word count: 517

chapter description: he didn't like the boy, plain and simple.

he was staring at her.

ahsoka was still talking, oblivious to the way that the boy was watching her, but rex saw it. he frowned. he knew who it was - lux bonteri, son of mina bonteri - and the boy who, at their last meeting, had stunned ahsoka and

ought her to carlac, where deathwatch had been stationed.

though he usually held judgement until he actually saw for himself, what he had done to ahsoka had immediately dropped any and all sort of opinion rex had on him to a dangerously low level. it was not just because he cared for ahsoka - though he had to admit, that was a major factor -, but the fact that the boy had

ought a jedi anywhere near deathwatch.

granted, he hadn't seemed to know that deathwatch had no kindness for jedi - at least, from what ahsoka had told him - but regardless, rex's opinion of him was not the best. the boy did not look anything like a soldier - his clothes were clean and pressed, and he looked more suited for meetings rather than battle.

rex did, however, have to give him points for trying. but the way he was watching ahsoka bothered him. what didn't help was the way that he turned and began interacting with another girl - steela, as she had introduced herself -, pairing himself off with her to work with the droid poppers.

ahsoka, with a droid popper in hand, had been about to ask him to join her instead - and her face fell as both walked off, her mouth falling to a frown. rex's mouth turned down, and he made to approach her - only to stop as another boy - saw, whom rex, if he were honest, preferred over the bonteri boy - approached. his mouth moved, and ahsoka smiled before following him.

though she was helping saw with the droid poppers, her attention was not soley focused on him - her head turned, gaze sliding to where lux and steela were before she turned away, shoulders slumped.

rex sighed. this mission was not going to be easy for ahsoka if she still felt something towards the bonteri boy. and as for how he felt about the entire thing - well. it just gave him one more reason to dislike the boy.