A/N: I'll probably add a lemon to this someday when I feel inclined to do so. :P
Ahsoka's Revelations:
D228/4 ABY, Still flying around somewhere.
Ahsoka had waited very patiently (for the most part) for her fertility cycle to circle back around. This morning she'd woken up to the familiar mating urge that had once been annoying when she was single, and a downright nightmare when she was a Jedi teenager and was nowhere near Lux while fighting a needless war. Now that she had Lux back, the mating urge just made things more fun for a couple days.
They'd spent the whole day going at it like bunnies, like usual during this time. Now Lux was passed out on the bed, looking adorable in his sleep. Ahsoka was using his chest as a pillow and all the real pillows were under her rear end, keeping her hips tilted upwards so Lux's precious essence would stay where she needed it, deep inside. Ahsoka's eyes were closed, and to the casual observer, she looked just as asleep as Lux, but in reality, she was inside herself with the Force, taking her healing skills to a whole new level as she convinced one of her eggs to accept the foreign sperm. Before the egg would even consider it, Ahsoka had to change the DNA within to something that more closely resembled Lux's human DNA. It only required a tiny tweak or two, but it was a very exacting process. She didn't want her baby to turn out to be all human if she could help it. She still had an image of a little girl with her montrals and lekku and Lux's eyes and skin in her mind that she'd kind of set her heart on.
She was grateful for the hours she'd spent over the last month studying human and togrutan DNA on the computer. They'd flown back to known space to download the data she'd needed and had also visited Lothal long enough to find out that Jacen was a Force Finder and that he'd confirmed they were searching in the right direction, making both Ahsoka and Lux very happy they hadn't been wasting their time going the wrong way. Hera hadn't exactly been excited to find out that her son would have the ability to find more Force sensitives when he got stronger, but Ahsoka, Kanan, and Ezra thought it was great. Finders used to travel the galaxy for the Jedi Council, seeking out new Force sensitive infants and adding them to the list of Jedi candidates.
Jacen loved the idea of flying around the galaxy very much and begged his mother to please please please let them do so. Ahsoka had smirked ever so slightly as Hera had come around to the idea when the wheels started turning in her mind. After only two days of being 'retired' Hera was already getting restless. She'd quickly came up with the idea of running freight as a cover, since she did own a freighter. The idea had taken off and SynSon Shipping was born.
Ahsoka got her mind back on topic and nudged a frantically swimming around sperm in the direction of her modified egg and mentally grinned in triumph when the egg accepted the little swimmer. She stayed in her meditative state, carefully watching the egg for a couple of hours in amazement as instant changes could be seen on the molecular level.
Reassured that everything seemed to be working the way it should, Ahsoka finally moved. She turned over and pressed a soft kiss to Lux's mouth, making him smile in his sleep, before she got up and made for the refresher, excitement bubbling through her.
Lux rolled over in his sleep, arm reaching for Ahsoka's warm body, wanting to pull her close, but came up empty. Squinting his eyes open, he peered around the bed and found no gorgeous togruta in sight. Groaning slightly in disappointment, he heaved himself off the bed and made for the refresher, hearing the shower running. Lux grinned a little to himself and entered the refresher. He made use of the facilities and then opened the shower door and joined his wife.
Ahsoka turned around when she felt Lux enter the shower and more or less jumped on him with a happy squeal. "It worked, Luxi! It worked!" she said, plastering her wet body to his temporarily dry one and wrapping her arms around his neck.
Lux blinked at Ahsoka for a couple seconds before her words registered. Lux whooped and wrapped his arms around her tightly before fusing their mouths together in a long passionate kiss.
Pulling back a fraction, they stared into each other's eyes in amazed wonder. Something they never thought would happen was actually a reality now. They were going to be parents.
The next morning Ahsoka was meditating on the floor of the bridge while Lux was piloting the shuttle. Her eyes opened in surprise and she stared down at her stomach in shock at the suddenly distinct new life Force she felt coming from within her. A little gasp escaped her and she put a hand on her stomach in amazement. She'd been sure yesterday but now... Now she was just in awe.
"Lux," she said softly to the man who'd already turned around curiously at her gasp. "I can feel her, Lux."
Lux evacuated his chair in an instant and knelt beside her on the mat, placing his hand over hers. Ahsoka looked into his misty grey eyes and they pressed their foreheads together, the silence speaking everything that didn't really need to be said.
Ahsoka closed her eyes as they held the back of each other's heads with trembling hands, her eyes stinging at the beautiful wonder of it. And then her mind started thinking a hundred lightyears a second. First of all, she was ecstatically happy. There was just one tiny problem: If she didn't find Ezra within the next ten or so months, she was going to have to give up. Ahsoka refused to raise her baby on a small shuttle searching endlessly for Ezra. It was time for a new approach to the finding Ezra problem and she was determined to think it through logically until the answer finally came to her.
She thought about asking Anakin or Obi-Wan for help, but decided against it, thinking that if they could have helped her, surely they would have by now? She thought about borrowing Kanan, since he had a connection to Ezra, but she just couldn't do that to Hera. She cringed as she thought about hijacking Jacen. With his Finder talent, he could get them to Ezra in the fastest time possible, but again, couldn't do that to Hera. He was too young for that kind of responsibility anyway. Who else could possibly find Ezra faster than what she was doing right now?
Ahsoka mentally face palmed when the answer came to her. She cursed herself upside and down for not thinking of this years ago; everyone would have been so much happier if she had.
Heaving a sigh, Ahsoka opened her eyes. Lux's eyes popped open as well and he looked at her scrunched up face in consternation. "What's wrong?" he asked.
Ahsoka leaned back a little. "I'm such an idiot. Turn this shuttle around, babe. We're going to get Sabine to find Ezra."
Lux raised his brows in surprise. "And this change of plan occurred because...?"
Ahsoka smiled slightly and kissed him. "Because we are going to be parents and I want off this ship."
Lux laughed and kissed her again. "You won't get any argument from me on that one, my love."
The moment their ship was within comm range, Ahsoka called Sabine and told her to be ready for a pickup. Sabine was understandably confused until Ahsoka outlined her plan and then Sabine did her own face palm for not thinking of this herself. She just knew that Ezra was going to be the worst of them as soon he realized how simple this could have been. So many years wasted. Oh well, there was nothing they could do now but move on.
