Legend
Fandom: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Rated: G
Category: Double Drabble. Gen.
Time Frame: Pre-TFA and During TFA.
Spoilers: Minor for movie canon only – all movies.
Summary: I'd heard the stories, of course. But he was too good to be true. He was only a legend. Right?
Disclaimer: Anyone other than Lucas owning the holy trilogy is a good thing, but alas, it ain't me.
I'd heard the stories, of course.
Every functioning astromech had.
He was legend.
R2-D2, the droid who'd won two wars and destroyed two Death Stars; who kept two generations of Jedi safe; and who never had a memory dump, that dream of all droids.
He was too good to be true.
So since I'd never seen him, I filed his story as folklore and moved on.
But then, that fateful day on the flight line, I saw him.
It was just a glimpse, through the slats of a crate, but that flash of blue and silver was unmistakable.
Still, I told myself it was nothing.
Many astromechs looked similar, after all.
But when we arrived at our next base; when the dust had settled on yet another planet, I kept thinking about what I saw.
Poe told me to forget it, but I'm a droid. I don't forget much.
So I found him.
It took me three standard days, but I found him.
And he wouldn't budge. Nothing.
The protocol droid kept telling me something about a low power setting, but I wouldn't have it.
I kept trying to wake him.
And finally, one day, it worked.
The legend lives.
A/N: My personal headcanon is that BB-8 discovered Artoo sometime before TFA and has been trying constantly to wake him up since.