"Hey, Ahsoka."

"huh! Oh, hi Rex!" Ahsoka jumped up from her seat on the floor and tried her best to act normal, her hands going behind her back to hide something. "What are you doing here?" Rex rose an eyebrow before pointedly looking around the room before saying.

"You're in my quarters? What are you doing here anyway?" Ahsoka blushed at that and started to make an excuse, but stiffened up as tiny beads started to fall from her hidden hands. A horrified look appeared on her face as she turned around to try and catch the beads.

"Wait nooo," Ahsoka's cry turned into a groan as she stared at the strand of copper that had lost all of her hard work. Rex came up from behind her and looked at the mess that she had accidentally made, she ran a hand down her face as she did so.

"So…I'm going to assume that whatever you had was something important?" Ahsoka nodded glumly, bending down to pick up the dark blue and black beads that were littering the floor.

"Yeah, you know how Anakin adopted us?"

"Yeah," Rex bent down and started to pick up the beads, noticing that the beads were high-quality quartz beads that were made to last. Ahsoka sighed and gratefully accepted the beads from Rex.

"Well I wanted to return the favor, but I wasn't sure what to get him so I just decided to make him this lanyard-like thing. But I have no idea how to do it. This is the third time it has fallen apart." Rex looked at the beads that were in her hands along with the copper thread and chuckled when he realized what was the problem.

"Well, I think I know the problem," Rex gingerly plucked the copper from her hands and held it up to her eyes.

"Well, if you are making what I think you're making, you're supposed to bend the wire around the beads so they stay in place." Ahsoka just stared at Rex before smacking her forehead as she mumbled her frustrations.

"Well, I wish I knew this earlier…any chance you know how to make it?" Rex chuckled at her hopeful expression before messing up her padawan beads, which made her scowl and smack his hand away.

"I've learned a few things over the years, but only if you do something for me." Ahsoka rose an eyebrow at that but nodded for Rex to continue.

"I want you to make one for Anakin in my behalf, but," Rex paused as he leaned forward, a grin on his face," it has to be in hot pink."

Ahsoka mirrored his grin.

"Consider it done."

Anakin walked down the hallway, his eyes focused on the datapad that was right in front of him. Behind them, Ahsoka and Rex were looking behind the corner.

"So how are we going to do this?"

"We could always to him like a normal person would."

"I'm a Jedi in training that can use the force with Anakin as my master and you think I can be normal?"

"Well no, but I like to think that I am normal." Ahsoka nodded her head.

"Yeah that's a good point, come on let's go." Ahsoka left her post from the corner and ran up behind her master, Rex right behind her.

"Hey, master?!" knowing that her master was distracted, she purposely tried to scare him and grinned widely when she saw the micro-jump her master did before turning to her with a smile.

"oh, hey Ahsoka, Rex," he looked at their oddly bright expressions and tilted his head and raised his eyebrow," is there something going on?" Ahsoka's smile brightened before she told him to do something that he probably hasn't done since he was a child and was hanging out with Kitster and the other children.

"Close your eyes." Anakin rose an eyebrow, trying to decide if he wanted to listen to his padawan and close his eyes like she wanted him to. Ahsoka noticed his apprehension and rolled her eyes while groaning.

"just do it, it's not anything bad!" Anakin flickered his eyes towards Rex, who gave him an affirmative nod of this head, sighing, Anakin decided to humor her and closed his eyes.

"Hold out your hand." Anakin huffed before holding out his hand, silently raising an eyebrow as he felt two short items being placed into his palm.

"There open your eyes." Anakin opened his eyes and a smile spread across his face when he saw what was there.

There were two delicate bead strings in his hand, one of them being a mix of dark blue and black quartz beads, the other one being hot and light pink with the same type of beads. They were both made out of copper thread, and although they were a little bit out of shape, he could tell that they were made with great care.

"These are great snips," he tucked the datapad under his arm so he could pick one of them up."

"Yep!" Ahsoka beamed at his words before quickly saying.

"So, does this mean that I adopted you?"

He blinked in surprise, once, and then twice before looking up at Ahsoka and Rex, the both of them having a wide smile on their faces.

"What?"

"You know! You said that you used to adopt each other back on Tatooine by gifting each other. And since this gift is from the both of us, this means that we adopted you right?" Anakin stared for a little bit longer but it didn't take long for Anakin to start smiling.

To be honest, he had adopted everyone as a sibling, but he adopted Obi-wan as a parent figure, and he had adopted Ahsoka as a daughter. But he was the only one who knew that, and he was going to keep it to himself.

"Yeah pretty much." The two of them beamed at that but Rex was the one who had the best reaction because he had a huge shit-eating grin on his face.

"Now that I adopted you and since I'm physically older, this means that I have a new younger brother to boss around. "the reaction is immediate.

"wait what?!"

"Thank FORCE! I can't be the only one who keeps him from doing stupid stuff!"

"I know right? I can finally pull the older brother card and keep him from doing something stupid."

"I'm pretty sure I have an opinion in this." Anakin just stared at his adopted family as they kept on talking like he wasn't there, Rex only took a minute to answer Anakin.

"Shush, the big kids are talking youngling. "Anakin just stared at Rex and Ahsoka was they walked away from Anakin.

"This is not how it works!" Rex backtracked just long enough to reach up and ruffle Anakin's hair, ignoring his amazed face.

"Aww, they grow up so fast." Anakin trailed them with his eyes as they walked down the hall, his mouth hanging open.

"I do not agree with this!" Rex turned around with a shrug.

"Mmm sucks."