((AN: Sorry for any typos! The other day I came up with an idea for a few scenes that took place after the story and here they are! Hope you all enjoy them!))
Grogu didn't know if he wanted to be back here with Luke and Ben, even if he liked them. He just didn't like them as much as his Dada and well… Dada had all sorts of fun friends. He also had fun toys for Grogu. He even had the Darksaber, which Grogu still wanted to make more beautiful than he had.
But he was back at the place he and Ben were training.
"Grogu!" Ben said, running over to him. He jumped up and down.
Grogu giggled and tried to copy him. Then it got even better and Grogu noticed that he was holding cookies. Cookies! Grogu loved cookies!
He reached for them.
"No, these are mine. C-3P0 made them for me because my mom told him to. You can't have any!"
What? That wasn't fair! Grogu wanted cookies.
"But you can meet my new friend!" Before Grogu could say anything, Ben picked him up. This gave Grogu a chance to try and get the cookies, but he couldn't reach them. Even when he tried to use the Force, he couldn't get them.
Ben was being mean! He should share!
Grogu needed to get the cookies!
Also it wasn't fair that Dada and Grogu's aunts and uncles weren't making him cookies. Axe should make them for him. He was the best cook. After all their soup had been very tasty.
Ben took them to his room, which was messy and full of all sorts of toys. Ben always had new toys, but Grogu's back at Dada's were better. And the ball that he had with him now. They were all better. The room was messy like always, but on a dresser was a container with leaves and rocks and some water in it.
Grogu tilted his head to the side as Ben put him on the floor.
Ben grabbed the container and brought it down so Grogu could see it. Grogu's eyes lit up. Yes, he couldn't believe it. This was so good.
It was a frog!
Grogu loved frogs. They were very tasty.
"This is my pet frog Slippery!"
Grogu didn't listen and kept looking at the frog. He looked tastier than the cookies. But he knew Ben. Ben would try and not share. Grogu would have to be sneaky.
And so he acted like he didn't care about the frog and went to find Luke. There Grogu worked on using the Force. Still he knew what he was going to do later, and he was excited. He couldn't even concentrate well.
But he did good enough.
When night finally fell and he knew that Ben and Luke were sleeping, he slept out. He was good at being quiet when he wanted. Sometimes you had to be, when bad dangerous things happened.
Or when you wanted the best snacks.
It was easy to get to Ben's room and Grogu knew it perfectly. Ben was snoring softly. He muttered something in his sleep that sounded like Chewie. Grogu was going to be able to do this. The frog tank was up high, but Grogu used the Force to lower it to him. He loved that he didn't have to rest as much after using the Force. It made everything so much easier. He would be better at protecting Dada and other good people now.
And getting snacks!
Opening the frog tank was hard. He kept trying to pull on it, but it wouldn't budge. Why wouldn't it open! Grogu needed the frog! He wanted to eat it!
He got the container open, but he pulled it too hard and it went flying across the room, slamming into the wall. Grogu froze.
The light switched on.
"Grogu?" Ben asked, rubbing his eyes.
Grogu was going to lose his chance. He grabbed the frog and ate him. He was just as tasty as Grogu knew he would be.
Ben stared at him and then burst into sobs. Why was he this upset? Yes, he ate the frog, but Ben probably had eaten the other ones. He should learn to be nice and share. Sharing was caring after all.
"Uncle Luke!" Ben screamed and ran out of the room.
"Dank Ferrik," Grogu muttered. He wasn't supposed to get this mad.
And then Grogu saw the cookies by Ben's bed. Hmmm, he might as well eat those too.
-Break-
Bo kept glaring at Din. She had her helmet on, but he could still tell she was doing that. Koska was doing the same thing when she wasn't muttering curses. Axe… well… he hadn't been saying much at all except when he made comments about how upset his wife was going to be and how his baby family members might not even recognize him without hair.
Apparently sometimes babies didn't recognize people when they shaved or got hair-cuts.
"So we're not going to say anything about the… hair situation," Bo said as they got off the ship. They were supposed to meet some of the clan leaders. "We'll do what we planned."
"Don't worry. I'm not going to take my helmet off," Koska said.
"I can't keep my helmet on around my family, Bo-Katan!" Axe complained. "My mom won't let me."
Bo scowled. "We're not going to see your mom today. We're talking to the clans. And aren't you a grown man?"
"Yes, I'm a grown man. What's your point?"
"You shouldn't still be doing whatever your mom wants," Bo said with a sigh.
"I'll always do what my mom wants. She's my mom," Axe said, staring at her. "People are going to ask what happened to my—"
"Say you did it to yourself," Bo said.
"No one's going to believe that," Axe said.
Bo stared at him. Din did too. He thought they probably would. It seemed in character for Axe.
"Okay, maybe they would." Axe scowled. "My nieces are going to think my hair is hilarious."
"Do you have any male family members?" Koska asked, coldly. Really she was probably mad at Din and not Axe. She had been giving Din the cold shoulder since Grogu ruined all their hair.
"No," Axe said. "My family doesn't make boys. We only have girls."
Din decided to end his silence. "But you're male."
Axe shrugged. "I'm the exception. Like the one male born every one hundred years. Besides, I was supposed to be a girl too."
Din blinked. "You only have a male born every one hundred years?" He felt like he was missing something. This was confusing.
"Not really. I mean—"
"You two be quiet," Bo-Katan said because that was when Ursa Wren came over. She had a man in his twenties with her. He had dark hair and looked a bit like Ursa. Probably her son… His name was… Thomas or Tristan. A few other people were with them too.
And for awhile things were normal even when they went inside the Wren Stronghold, but then as if the fates or the Force thing or something could tell what he was thinking it came crashing down.
"Why aren't you all taking off your helmets?" Tristan or Thomas asked. Was he Ursa Wren's heir? For some reason he thought her daughter was older and weren't the oldest usually the heirs here? It was all so confusing and hard to keep track of. Maybe he wasn't the heir.
"We're not taking off our helmets because we're trying to be welcoming to Din Djarin, Tristan," Bo said, glancing at him.
Din wished they had come up with a different reason, but it was his son who had ruined their hair.
"That's…" Ursa made a tsking noise. "Oh come on, Bo-Katan. It's weird if you all are the only ones not taking off helmets."
"I'm sorry I'm being accommodating to the new Darksaber wielder." For a moment Bo sounded like she was choking when she said that.
Din didn't know if it was because he had the Darksaber or if it was because she was worried about them finding out the truth. It could have even been something else.
"Really?" Ursa blinked.
"It's—" Bo started to say but she didn't get the chance to finish.
Axe stood up from the table, knocking his chair on the floor as he did. "His son ruined our hair. He cut it when we were sleeping. Using his Force powers to help sneak up on us probably. Now my little nieces won't recognize me!"
Bo groaned and face palmed. Din looked just about anywhere besides anyone's face.
Wonderful.
-Break-
Just like Axe thought, his little nieces didn't recognize him at first. And then the older ones made fun of him. They teased him and one of them said that she could cut some of her doll's hair off and give it to him. Axe didn't know if she was being mean or not when she said that.
His older sisters just laughed at him.
"Stop laughing!" Axe had told them. He couldn't help that his voice might have sounded a little funny when he said that. If anything that should make them realize they needed to stop laughing at him. It wasn't his fault Grogu had done this. How could Grogu do this when they had made that amazing food together?
And his sisters needed to stop.
But if anything that made it worse. He hated being laughed at.
His wife hadn't liked his hair either, even though she hadn't said. She had laughed at him for a moment too.
So he was glad when he was finally going to go back to Bo-Katan, Koska, and Din, but then when he got back to the ship, he noticed right away that something was off. There were bottles of alcohol around.
And Boba Fett was sleeping on the couch.
Axe stared and took a bite of his cake his mom had given him to take back. Why was Boba Fett here?
That was when Koska came in with sleep in her eyes. She was still wearing her pajamas. She grinned and pulled Axe out of the living area to a hallway.
"Last night was insane," Koska said. Her eyes were huge and full of happiness. "I swear. It was so much fun. At one point I thought Din and Bo-Katan might kiss. Insane."
"What?" Axe asked. This didn't make sense. What had happened last night? He had missed out on a lot of fun while his family was making fun of him? And Bo-Katan and Din had almost kissed? What the kriff?
"I hate to admit it, but you were right," Koska said, grinning. She gave him a side hug.
"What was I right about?" Axe said, surprised she would say something like that. No one ever told him he was right. People didn't appreciate his genius.
"About Strip Sabacc!" Koska said. "We played Sabaac all night at the Wren Stronghold, and even did a round of that."
"Wh-what?" Axe asked. This just couldn't be. He had wanted to be here when they all played that. It had been his idea. It wasn't fair if he would have missed out on it.
"Yes! It was hilarious!" Koska laughed. She never laughed. "We played with a bunch of people too. Fett as you saw, but also Ursa, Tristan, and Alrich Wren as well as some other people related to them. Fennec came here too as well as my grandma, you know the expert on cards. She even brought Lando Calrissian. He cheats just like she said. There were other people there too. It was great. Just what we needed. Some fun!"
"What?" He still didn't understand. They weren't supposed to play that without him. It had been his idea.
"It was great. You're a genius." She punched him in the shoulder gently.
"I… We can play today?"
Koska laughed and shook her head. "No, I think this is a one time thing."
"So no strip Sabaac?" Axe asked in a small voice. This couldn't be happening.
"Nah. It was fun once but now it would be boring."
Axe dropped the cake. It splattered all over the floor.
"Axe!" Koska said.
"But I want to play."
She rolled her eyes and walked off.
This just wasn't fair!
Axe gasped and then he woke up in a cold sweat. His heart was pounding as if he might jump out of his body. But it hadn't been real. He was back at his parents' and his wife was sleeping next to him. What a relief. It had just been a dream. Missing strip Sabaac would have been the worst nightmare ever.
((AN:I hope you enjoyed reading these scenes. Pretty sure this actually will be the last chapter, but Snowed In features a lot of the same characters. Thank you all for reading and I appreciate all comments. Thank you again!))
