A Word from the Author: Hello everyone, it's jediclonecowgirl, with the fourteenth chapter of "Anakin's little sister". This chapter will mainly focus on Padmé and Rex onto the prison ship. Next time it will focus more onto the meeting between Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Kota and Starkiller. Let's get started shall we?
Padmé didn't know, what else she was supposed to say to the clone. He had shot at her husband four years ago, but why was he in a prison cell of the Empire now? He looked, like he had been messed up pretty bad and he also looked like he couldn't even walk properly anymore. It was confirmed to her, as Rex tried to get on his feet, but then ended up crawling over to her and then sitting against the wall, Padmé was also sitting at. They didn't say anything for a while. Luke and Leia had slipped back in a corner of the cell. There was also no word coming from the two children.
"I know...that I am probably the last person you want to share a prison cell with after...you know, but I gotta say...no one of the surviving clones is really pround on, what we did. It was like...being in some kind of dark trance...we didn't have any control of our bodies. I think the Emperor...somehow figured out, that we would bond with the jedi sooner or later and if he gave out the order, without putting us into this dark trance, we would've commited mutiny.", Rex mumbled.
Padmé didn't awnser the clone for a quite big ammount of time. She did not find the right words for, what Rex had said to her.
"In case you wanna know Senator...I am sitting on this ship for high treason...", Rex mumbled.
"High treason?", Padmé repeated quite flabbergasted.
"High treason. Took my brothers and me quite a long time to figure out how we could escape. Things went south onto some Imperial World and Cody and I got ourselves captured.", Rex mumbled and glanced over to Luke and Leia.
"My children.", Padmé whispered.
"Such a thing is horrible, even for the Empire. Hold innocent children cpative.", Rex snarled.
"To the Empire they aren't innocent. They might only be four years old, but the Empire thinks, that they will catch up with the Ressistance fighters, as soon as they have grown older.", Padmé sighed.
"That's just...", Rex said, but then stopped, since he couldn't find a proper word for it.
"Come out children. This man is trustworthy.", Padmé said then.
Reluctantly the twins left their corner and came closer to Rex. A small smile grew onto the beaten clone's face, as he saw the two kids.
"These two are Luke and Leia.", Padmé introduced her kids to Rex.
"I'm Rex. Nice to meet you both.", Rex said.
"No last name?", Luke asked.
"He's a clone dear. Clones have no last names.", Padmé whispered to Luke.
"You better don't explain it to them.", Rex whispered.
"They've already experienced far more of the war, than any four-year-old should have.", Padmé replied.
"Still...", Rex mumbled.
"So...Captain...what are we supposed to now?", Padmé asked.
Rex did not say anything. He didn't even move one bit. Maybe he was too weakened to move around. Would've been no big secret, since Padmé had experinced the torture devices of the Empire already. Maybe Rex had gotten it even worse, because of his charge. Rex certainly wasn't toying with her. Otherwise he wouldn't be as messed up as she was. From the distance, Padmé heared screams coming from a man. Rex placed his hands over his face and let out a long sigh.
"Cody...", he sighed.
"How do you know Captain?", Padmé asked.
"I don't. Everyone, who is brought in those halls of torture could be him.", Rex sighed.
Padmé suffered with the clone. They certainly did not talk about their personal stuff with Senators, but Anakin, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan had gotten stuff from battles and Anakin and Ahsoka had told her, as they had gone to see her the next time. So she knew how close Cody and Rex were, even though the clone never would've spoken that out in front of her. Rex had found out eventually, that Padmé knew about his bonding with Cody. They were about as close as Ahsoka and Anakin were, or Anakin and Obi-Wan. Anakin and Ahsoka. What were they doing now? Were they looking for them in that old spiece freighter, that Anakin had been flying, ever since the beginning of the Clone Wars? Were they on Alderaan with the resistance? If both was not true, then what was happeing to them? Padmé instantly hoped, that they had not gotten themselves captured as well, but sadly you didn't get holo-net news in the prison cells of the Empire. The stormtroopers also weren't really chatty in front of the prisoners. Sometimes Padmé had taken up some shreds of a talk, when Stormtroopers, which currently were off-duty, were passing by on the hallways, but on-duty, which was, where Padmé saw them the most (mostly when she was taken in for interrogations), they weren't really chatty persons. She hadn't found out anything about her husband either, just, that some fugitive jedi were still running loose. There hadn't been any certain names. They had only talked about fugitives. Maybe outta discretion, maybe, because they thought, that they were too good to speak out the names of persons, which were hated by almost every person into the galaxy. Padmé was disgusted at the behavior of the stormtroopers. They had the most horrible behavior in the galaxy, as she knew from Rebel gossip. When they were sober, they acted like snobs and when they were drunk like street kids.
"Any plan on escaping that hidey hole?", Rex asked.
"I know ships, like this one Captain, but that's about it! No matter to hide the fact, that the Empire has stocked up un security and tech.", Padmé replied.
"This isn't gonna be easy...", Rex growled out.
Ending Word: Typical me...and school. I can tell ya one thing about my school: Several times my teachers think they give us an acceptable ammount of schoolwork, what makes me want to rub their noses into the fact, that we still have a private life. I hope you still like the chapter and i hope, that you leave some reviews behind. Now all I have left to say is bye, bye and may the force be with you.