Ok, here we go again. I do not own anything in Clone Wars, except Melody. There is a special guest in this chapter, you'll know when you read it.
Bed Time
After Melody was placed in a fresh diaper some of the other maintenance clones had to fumigate the area for everyone else's sake. But now Mark had a nickname for her 'Little Stinker', if you read the last chapter you would know why.
"Ok you little stinker, time for bed." Mark said taking her back to the crib she was in when she woke up. Melody fussed when she was set on the soft crib, she wasn't tired and wanted to stay up. "Oh now Melody don't be like that. We all need our sleep, including you." Mark left and soon the lights were out in the nursery. Melody was restless and wanted out of her crib. She was able to somehow climb over the railing and down to the floor. One of the hatchlings was still up and watched Melody climb out of her crib and onto the floor. Melody saw him watching and smiles up at him, like she was asking him to come with her. But the clone hatchling just watched her from his crib. Melody crawls around the room exploring every inch of it. Soon she got to the door, it opened and she crawled through.
She squeals when the door closed behind her, she clapped her hands and starts crawling back and forth in front of the door watching it open and close. All the while she giggles her heart out, she thought it was the greatest thing in the world.
After about an hour she grew tired of the magical door and starts crawling in a random direction. She had no idea where she was going, but she found everything new and interesting. She crawled into the target room.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S GONE?" A trooper shouted.
"I went to check on the hatchlings and found one of the cribs empty. It was the one with the female youngling in it." A droid said.
"Find her!" The trooper pushed the droid a side as he rushed off to gather some men to help with the search. Blasted baby she's more trouble than I thought, the trooper thought. "You two!" Two troopers in the break room playing cards look up. "Come with me. We need to find our sister."
"What do mean? Isn't she in her crib?" One of the troopers asked.
"No! She got out some how."
"Easy Rave, we'll find her." Cory said. They search the base for the little baby. So far no sign of her. "Melody is pretty good at hiding."
"Yeah, but she is small Tech." His brother, Chip said.
"Yep, find anything over there?"
"No. Not even a whiff of her."
Melody is messing around with the little amoe packets, but she drops them when she sees a stray clone helmet on the ground. She crawls over to the helmet and picks up the helmet in her tiny hands, then puts it on. The helmet wobbles as she crawls around, she looks like a moving bobble head. She notices a reflection of herself and crawls over. She thought it's another baby and starts talking to her reflection like a person. She gabs on and on and on until Chip heard her and opens the door.
"Found her!" Chip shouts to his brother. "And I think she made an imaginary friend."
Cory stares at Melody with the helmet on and talking to the mirror. "Great, just what we need. A baby with a made up friend."
"Come here Melody." Chip picks Melody up. "Wave bye bye to your friend. You both need your sleep." Chip takes off the helmet Melody is wearing. Melody just yawns and snuggles into Chips arms. Sleep weighs heavy on her eye lids and soon she falls asleep.
Chip carries Melody back to her crib and gently lays her down pulling the covers over her. He kisses the top of her head.
"Good night Melody." Chip whispers before walking back to his bunk.
Three weeks later, Melody is wide awake and drinking down a bottle of milk. The droid feeding her notices she is gaining weight, which is good considering how thin she is.
"Excuse me head mistress." the droid says to head mistress who is checking on the newest hatchlings.
"Yes?" Head mistress asks.
"I believe this female is gaining body mass."
"Good, she's getting better."
"One other thing ma'am." Head mistress gives the droid her full attention. "I notice she's wearing clothing for males."
"Yes. It's all we have for now."
"I notice that, but she's a female. She'll need clothing suited for her own gender eventually."
"I see what you mean. I'll have someone go get her some clothes shortly." Head mistress takes Melody from the droid, she has grown a motherly attachment to the baby girl and enjoys her laughter. Melody spends most of her time with her brothers, but head mistress tries to be there as much as possible. Head mistress finds a group of clone troopers talking in one of the break rooms. "Men." The troopers stood at attention. "I need someone to go gather some clothes for Melody."
"What's wrong with what she already has?" One trooper asks.
The trooper behind him whacks him upside his head. "You di'kut. Melody is a girl wearing boy clothes, she can't wear them for the rest of her life."
"Right."
"I'll take her." An older cadet stands up.
"Thank you ninety nine." Head mistress hands ninety nine some money for the clothes then Melody. "Take care, both of you."
"Yes mistress, we'll be back soon."
Ninety nine is grateful to be away from his brothers for a short time. With the exams and people pressuring them, it took a lot out of him and gave him a headache.
Melody cranes her neck to take in the new surroundings, wanting to go exploring again like she has done for past few days. Everyone had to keep a close eye on her and even have to lock the nursery door when it's time for bed.
Ninety nine finds a clothes store and walks to the baby section.
"Alright, lets find you some clothes." Ninety nine looks at the rack of clothes. He finds a denim dress with an orange flower printed on the front. "This would look nice on you." He got a few more clothes for Melody. He sees a bin of small stuffed animals, he looks through the bin and finally chose a white fluffy lamb. Ninety nine picks it up and waits in the check out line.
"Ooooohh what an adorable baby. Is she yours?" A twi'lek woman asks.
"No, she's my sister." Ninety nine says.
"Sister?"
"Adopted ma'am."
"Oh, does she have a name?"
"Melody."
"It's very nice to meet you Melody." The woman lets Melody take one of her fingers and shook it lightly. The woman then left after making her purchases in the line next to them.
Soon Ninety nine is in the clone nursery putting Melody in one of her new outfits. Today it's a green dress with a pearl white ribbon around the waist.
"There we go. I got something for you." Ninety nine starts rummaging through the bag of clothes. Melody watches her brother with much curiosity, Ninety nine finally finds the little toy at the bottom of the bag. "Here it is." Melody laughs at seeing the lamb and pulls it into a tight hug.
"Bah bah!" Melody cries happily.
"Is that the name of it? Bah Bah?"
"Bah Bah."
"Alright. Bah Bah it is." Ninety nine picks up Melody. "Now lets go show the boys your pretty dress and new friend."
Ninety nine walks into the halls with Melody in his arms and Melody clutching her Bah Bah.
That's right, number Ninety Nine is the special guest in this story. Mind you, this is before Ninety Nine became a maintenance clone. Review please ^-^.