Rex was just debriefing after an attack. He and some other clone had gotten separated from the General and Ahsoka and had to fight it out themselves. Rex's group had minimal casualties which was an excellent result. It had been a challenging mission, heaps of droids and very few men. He had just finished up and was about to head for the showers when Coric came up to him with a grim face. Rex knew he wouldn't like what he was about to be told.

"Captain, I just thought you should know… Commander Tano has been severely injured and is in the infirmary if you wanted to see her," Coric informed him. He clearly knew how important this was to him.

Rex struggled to keep a straight face. Ahsoka was hurt? A wave of emotion hit him; anger at the droids, guilt for not protecting her and fear she might die. "Thank you Coric," Rex rushed past him toward the infirmary as his emotions started choking him. It took all he had to keep a soldiers straight face. He moved very fast, knocking past other clones.

Rex reached the infirmary and moved past a few beds that had wounded in them and made his way to the end. Ahsoka was lying in the bed being assisted by a medical droid. She had a bandage around her chest and abdomen and had a pale face. Her montrals were drained of colour and had an almost greyish tinged to them. Rex stood there staring at her for a few moments until her eyes flickered open and focused on him. She smiled weakly.

"Hey Rex," She whispered. It sounded like she was in pain just talking.

He walked to her side trying to keep a straight face. She didn't need him to be distressed, it could only hurt her more.

"Hey kid," He said quietly. "How in the world did you do this?"

"Couple of clankers caught me off guard," She smiled weakly. "I feel a little embarrassed. Taken down by some stupid droids."

"You're not indestructible," Rex told her. Looking at her in this moment it hit him how true that was. He always had the perspective that Jedi couldn't be defeated. He was wrong.

"Rex," she moaned closing her eyes tightly. "It hurts"

"What does?" He wondered what he could do to help her. He stood to go get the droid to give her pain medication.

"My lips," She had a faint smile. "Can you kiss them better?"

Rex was frozen for a moment. He glanced around. No one was looking his way and the medical droid had moved on. He looked at her. She was beautiful, even all messed up. He felt rather awkward as he had never kissed a girl before.

He leant in, worried he wouldn't do it right. Their lips connected and he could've have sworn sparks flew. He was so caught up enjoying himself he forgot that people could see him. She tasted sweet, like some exotic fruit. He finally ran out of breath and had to stop. He was breathing heavily and checked if anyone was looking. No one was. He looked at Ahsoka who was grinning ear to ear.

"That's much better thank you," She sighed weakly. "And a bonus is I bet Cody I could get you to kiss me. He owes me big time."

"Did you purposely injure yourself so I would do that," Rex asked in disbelief. He was feeling a little irritated with her but he knew it wouldn't last.

"No. I was planning on ambushing you in the mess one night but this just happened to work in my favour," Ahsoka chuckled but winced and frowned as the muscles ached.

"I hope that hurt kid," Rex laughed. He gave her another kiss on her forehead. "See you round."