"Leaving so soon?" Cody didn't look up at the voice from above him as he finished looking over the datapad in front of him. The rebels had resupplied his ship for after they had arrived on Utapau. Once pulled onboard the rebel ship, Cody had been detained while his passengers had been taken to another part of the ship. After being questioned and his leg had been taken away to be tested, Cody had been left alone in his cell. He had discovered later that the rebels hadn't been able to do much on his ship. Chipper had seen to that, the clever little astromech. Cody had been released when they had arrived at Utapau. The rebels had decided that although he had once been a high ranking commander for the Empire, he was no longer serving them and had paid quite a price. He hadn't wanted to stay, but if he hadn't, who would have protected the boys?

They'd resupplied his ship and put everything back. He'd just gotten done checking to make sure all of his weapons were back in their proper storage and his legs hadn't been tampered with. He figured Kenobi would stop by. The man had visited Cody a few times while Cody had been locked up and then had tried to see him while Cody waited for his ship to be ready, but Cody was not going to go through this again. Yes, Kenobi had kissed him, but they weren't who they used to be. Kenobi was with the rebels now and Cody was just a free-lance driver. He wasn't going back into space with a ghost of what could be floating over him.

"Not even going to say goodbye?" Kenobi stepped in front of Cody as the clone tried to move to his ship. Cody glared up at the Jedi, refusing to speak. Kenobi sighed, running a hand through his hair, which Cody noticed was greying a bit, "Cody...you don't have to go, you know? You can stay if you wanted. We could use more good men like you."

"Good men like me? I'm not a man, Kenobi! I'm a clone, a thing created to fight your war," Cody snarled, shoving past the Jedi. "I'm not going back. Haven't I given enough for you?"

"You once told me you would die for me. What happened to that man?" Kenobi grabbed his shoulder and spun him back around. "What happened to the man who would never back down from a fight? What happened to never surrender?"

"They're back in space somewhere, burning with what's left of my leg and my squad," Cody snapped. "That man was nothing more than a toy, than a failure. That man was nothing, meant nothing and deserves nothing."

"They really did break you, didn't they?" Kenobi shook his head, eyes sad. "I thought nothing could."

"Well you are wrong, ok? So just leave it be, leave me be and even better? Forget about me," Cody turned and strode for his ship. This time, Obi-wan didn't reach out to stop him.

"You know I forgive you, right?" Kenobi's voice was calm, level, reaching out on its own and stopping Cody dead in his tracks. "For trying to kill me, here on this planet? I forgave you years ago. I knew, Cody, that if you really had wanted to kill me, you would have been the one to do it. You would have stayed here until you found my body. But you left and I knew that the man I knew was still out there. I looked for you; I hoped you would come back to me because…. Because, goddamnit, Cody, I care for you, I have cared for you. What more do you want from me? Do you want me to be angry with you, to try to kill you? Because I can't do either of those."

"You shouldn't forgive me," Cody forced out. "I'm nothing but a monster and monsters don't deserve forgiveness. They deserve pain and death and a million other things, but not forgiveness."

"I don't care about what you've done or who you became! Don't you get it? Or do I have to keep pounding it into your head? You were always a man of action, so I thought the kiss was enough, but I guess not. I love you, Cody!" Obi-wan snarled, spinning Cody back around, pressing another searing kiss across Cody's lips. Cody couldn't decide if he wanted to grip Obi-wan like the lifeline he was or push him away and save Cody from more heartache. He went with the latter, shoving Obi-wan away and turning away just a bit.

"Don't. Just don't. Don't make this harder than it already is. You deserve better than a broken, pathetic clone. You deserve a real person, not me. Anyone but me," Cody said softly, eyes down cast.

"Why do you get to say who I get to be with and who I don't get to be with?" Obi-wan frowned. "You really think that little of yourself. Before, I know, but this…this is something completely different. You are not worthless and even if I have to spend the rest of my life proving it, I will."

"You have the rebels, Kenobi. You have all this. I'll ruin whatever you've got going here, so just go," Cody took a step away. "Go."

"See now, there are a few things I can clear up for you. I'm not with the rebels. I'm more of a consulting Jedi, really. I just pop in as I please," Obi-wan took a step forward. "And only I get to say where I go. I get to judge the people around me as I see fit and I don't see you ruining anything for me unless you leave me, again."

"Again?" Cody finally looked up.

"You left me the day you shot me. You want me to be angry, I'll be angry about that. I figured you come looking for me, but you never did. I'm not letting you do that again," Obi-wan crossed his arms, challenging Cody to counter it.

"You always were stubborn," Cody sighed.

"I already have my stuff on board," Obi-wan smiled brightly, stepping forward so he and Cody were only inches apart again. "So, where are we going?"