2: Commander Caff

To say that they don't see any action at all in the 222nd is a gross lie.

It's war and the front lines tend to move around a lot. A planet held by the Seppies one day might be held by the Republic the next or vice-versa. Control of cities and sectors can shift in an instant, sometimes before it can even get up the com chain to warn them.

Kon hates getting sucked into the fighting, but he's a good soldier, and he's got a job to do. Good brothers are relying on him and the 222nd getting through and he knows that. Hells, sometimes he swears that he can almost feel them waiting for them.

The only thing he hates more than getting pulled into the fighting is when their Jedi Commander, Tim, is being a careless sack of osik.

And, if he is honest, Tim is often careless with himself. He is a standard human, not built for extremes like they are, and, while he can cheat a little with Jedi tricks and truly obscene amounts of caff, that's really no replacement for actual R&R. Sure, he's a brilliant slicer and quick on the spot with that double-bladed lightstaff of his, but he tends to get lost in his work base-side and forgets to take care of himself.

The General often leaves him to it and it's a mystery as to why. Surely, as the senior ranking Jedi, he should intervene, but he does not. Instead, it falls to them to mind their Commander's well-being.

"He needs to sleep," Kon tells Match, their medic and his batchmate. "I've seen vibroknives that jitter less than him with all that caff and we've got a drop in less than 24 hours."

Match snorts, but doesn't disagree.

Catching a Jedi off guard is tricky, but this is not the first time they've had to do this. They get lucky and Tim is too distracted by his work to see Match sneaking up on him. The only downside is that when Tim wakes up, Kon has to deal with a cranky little Jedi shooting him looks of utter betrayal.

Not yet, no, that comes later.

Kon blinks at the stray thought, but forgets it in the wake of a blistering headache.

When he wakes, he notes that, luckily, it's gone.

AN:

Match will make you take a nap, or so help him.

please ignore my chapter titles they will be awful cause I just brainstreamed writing this wholesale and wasn't even considering breaking it up at first