Chapter 7
Thoughts

~No One~

Having no choice but to stay on the planet, we decided to make camp in the cave that was close to the clearing where Hawk had dropped us off. This one was much easier to get to then the last one, which made Rex a little uneasy and worried that it was too easy to get too. After getting to the cave Kix and Rex laid the commander down, Rex took a look at his men to see what the damage was.

Echo had a broken leg and could barely walk, he needed someone to help him. Dogma's left arm had also been broken during the crash, so he was unable to shoot a blaster. Ahsoka had taken the majority of the injuries, and at the moment was passed out. Hawk, Fives, Kix and Rex seemed alright other than some cuts and bruises, but no one was dead so over all Rex saw it as a win.

Rex told his brothers that he would take first watch, he could tell they were all exhausted from the long day. As they laid down to sleep, Rex sat near the cave entrance but wasn't tired for some reason. He tried to figure out why he wasn't as tired as the rest of his brothers, there must be some reason for why he couldn't sleep, right? As his mind wandered trying to figure it out it stopped, on the commander for a long time, thinking about everything that happened to her and then he had his answer. He was worried about her and that's why he couldn't sleep.

~Rex~

I turned to look at the sleeping togruta trying to figure out why I was so worried about her that I couldn't sleep. Maybe the reason I felt so strongly about her was because she was my commander, but that didn't make sense. I never felt this way when the general got hurt, in fact I have never been so worried about someone that I couldn't sleep.

Once I was thinking about it. Ahsoka has never treated us as numbers, flesh droids or expendable. She values the lives of every one of my brothers, even the traitors. Rex thinks back to what Ahsoka told them at the beginning of this trip. "None of you are expendable, you are all important, you matter and if it came to it, I would gladly give my life to save any of yours."

She talks like she values his brothers lives more than she values her own and the general well he doesn't, he would rather go on suicide missions to look like a hero but at the expense of so many brothers. It's true that Skywalker doesn't treat us as numbers or flesh droids but with him we did feel expendable, he cares more about that droid or looking like a big hero then any of us.

Well he would take his victory laps getting all the praise for a job well done, my brothers and I would mourn the loss. He would stop by to say that he was sorry for the loss, then before Ahsoka could speak he kept on walking, ushering her to follow. She did as he asked but she always came back, going back to every clone that was on the mission or she knew was close to the fallen and would spend hours talking to all of them.

Help them laugh and remember the good times, always leaving them with a hug. When she left them you could see the smiles return to their once sad faces, but by the time Ahsoka was done talking to everyone, you could tell she was now holding on to all their sadness as if she took it away from them. Ahsoka started to make some noise as if she could feel my anger and sadness over the loss of my brothers, I pulled myself out of thought and quickly went to her side.

~Ashoka~

I could feel so much anger, sadness, guilt, pain and happiness? It was all too much, I clenched my jaw wanting it to stop. I opened my eyes while winced in pain to see what was going on, wanting so much to scream out in pain but my voice wouldn't allow me too. When I opened my eyes though I saw Rex which made me smile.

~Rex~

"Hey Kid."

"Hey Rexter," her voice barely heard as she half smiled.

I smirked , "How are you feeling?" I asked worriedly, losing my smile.

She laughed a little which made her start coughing as she put a hand on her side. "Oh ouch that hurts, so does my head," she tried moving more but I stopped her.

"You shouldn't be moving around to much, I'll get Kix"

Her reply was a small hmm. I could tell she was still tired and started to close her eyes. I decided to wake Kix anyway, who was glad to hear that Ahsoka was awake as he quickly made his way over to her.

"Commander can you hear me?" Kix asked, seeing her eyes closed.

"hmm-mm yes," she said in a tired voice.

"I'm just here to make sure you're ok, Rex told me you were awake and something hurt?"

"Hurt.. yes my head-" She managed to say before falling asleep again, I was going to try waking her up but Kix protected it saying that she needed the sleep.

~No one~

Kix looked at her head her montral and lekku which were still very bruised, he knew that must be the source for most of the pain. Kix told Rex that there wasn't much of anything he could do that would help but he would make her comfortable. Thanking Kix, Rex also apologized for waking him up, Kix said it was alright better safe than sorry plus it was his shift next anyway so he told me to sleep. Rex knew that Ahsoka would be alright with Kix keeping an eye on her so he went to bed.