AN: This story idea just popped into my head so I had to write it down. Hope you guys like it and it is just as much as a rollercoaster for you guys as it was for me to write!
"Ahsoka. Ahsoka, hey, hey, hey. Look at me."
"Who... who are you?"
"Ahsoka. Cyar'ika, it's me."
"Do… I know you?"
"Ahsoka. It's me. Rex."
"I'm sorry… I don't know you."
"Ahsoka. Ahsoka please. Please cyar'ika."
"Captain please move back. We need to treat her now."
"Come on Rex. Give them space. They need space to work. Come on buddy."
"She didn't know me. Cody, she didn't know me."
"It's just the head wound. She'll be fine. She'll remember."
"She didn't remember me. She didn't know me."
"What do you mean she gave herself up?!" Anakin Skywalker raged
Tup was wilting from exhaustion and pain before the general spoke but now he nearly collapsed in on himself.
"Just that Sir. Commander Tano was covering our escape and ordered us to get on board the escape shuttle. When we realized she wasn't coming with us we tried to get back to her but it was too late." Poor Tup looked like the words were further wounding him as he said them.
"I know you troopers did everything you could. Head to the med bay and get some rest." Anakin sighed and dismissed him and the two other troopers with him.
Opening his com channel, Anakin called his captain. "Captain, please report to the briefing room."
"Copy that, Sir. I'll be there shortly."
General Skywalker spent the wait pacing and running his hands through his hair. It was no secret that some factions of the former Separatists were still active and going to extremes to fruitlessly try and stop the Republic from helping former Separatists planets. That's why most times before aid was delivered to these planets, a scouting team was sent down to make sure the area was safe for the troopers to come in and do their tasks safely. And unfortunately, things had gone sour really quickly this time around and the team barely had time to call in for a retrieval and get everyone out. Almost everyone. Anakin felt the pressure of the invisible clock ticking down that started as soon as Ahsoka was captured. Rex interrupted his general's musings when he stepped through the door and saluted sharply.
"Come in Rex, we've got a complication."
"How do we want to go in? Hard and heavy or small strike team?" Rex asked as they surveyed the map on the holo-projector before them.
"Small strike, we suspect they're keeping an eye on our whereabouts. We're set to meet up with the 212th in 6 standard hours and swap supplies. The best time for a strike team to slip through the cracks is during that time. Get in, get Ahsoka, get out." Anakin responded
"Understood. Who do you want to go?" Rex straightened up
"I'll leave that up to your judgement. Although I would suggest you bring Blitz and Pidge since they were with Ahsoka the first time." Skywalker shut off the holo-projector "Be ready to go in 6 hours."
Rex saluted and went to collect his strike team. He knew for sure he'd pull Coric or Kix in, Pidge and Blitz if the medics had cleared them, and probably Hardcase and Jesse since they had worked the closest with the commander.
Exactly 6 hours later the rescue team had been assembled in the hangar bays and were awaiting for the exchange of supplies to commence so they could sneak the shuttle away.
"We go in quick, boys, get the commander, and get out. Once we exit hyperspace it's com silence to the fleet until we get back in the air. Hawk says he can keep the shuttle out of sight for about two hours so we can't afford for any missteps." Rex stood in front of the five gathered troopers and looked each one of them in the eye. "This is our commander boys, our sister, and my girlfriend. No holding back."
An hour and a half later the captain was signing off with the fleet and everyone was checking their weapons and gear. No words were said between the squad only a few short nods and waited for the ramp to lower onto the planet's surface.
Within twenty minutes the team reached the edge of the compound, disposed of the guards and breached the compound.
"Pidge hack the system and tell us where the commander is." Rex ordered as they stopped by the first access panel they came across.
A few minutes later and Pidge announced the commander was being held in cell B-12.
Rex was predictably the first person who entered the cell followed by Coric. Ahsoka was curled in on herself along the back wall looking pretty beat up; fortunately and unfortunately Rex had seen her in worse condition before.
Coric did a cursory inspection of their commander while Rex knelt beside her and picked her hand up and held it between his own two.
"She's unconscious. She took a pretty good hit to her lek and side of her head. I'm going to put her in a neck brace to make sure her head and neck are stabilized and then I think we can move her." Coric announced, already getting his gear out. "I'll wait until we get back to the shuttle to start an IV and further stabilize her."
Rex nodded and picked Ahsoka up as gently as he could and Coric pack up his gear and the two hustled out of the room into the hall where the others were on guard.
Thirty-five minutes later, everyone was back on the shuttle and ready for take off; just as the alarms from the compound started blaring.
Coric started the commander on IV fluids and medications and bandaged her wounds as best he could during the flight home, Rex never leaving her side. It wasn't until they docked in the bay of the Resolute that she started to regain consciousness.
Rex instantly noticed."Ahsoka. Ahsoka, hey, hey, hey. Look at me."
Her blue eyes fluttered open, bleary and unfocused. "Who... who are you?" She slurred
"Ahsoka. Cyar'ika, it's me." Rex's brow furrowed, and he gripped her hand tighter
"Do… I know you?" This time her brow furrowed and she was barely focusing.
Rex felt panic start to rise up in his chest "Ahsoka. It's me. Rex."
"I'm sorry… I don't know you." Rex thought his heart would break.
Kix and another medic started to move the commander to a stretcher "Ahsoka. Ahsoka please. Please cyar'ika." Rex begged, not releasing her hand.
"Captain please move back. We need to treat her now." Kix was sympathetic but he needed to treat his patient.
Suddenly Cody was at Rex's shoulder trying to pull him up and away. "Come on Rex. Give them space. They need space to work. Come on buddy."
"She didn't know me. Cody, she didn't know me." Rex allowed himself to be lead off the shuttle and towards his quarters, Cody fielding away other troopers away.
Cody opened the door to his friend's quarters and lead him in. "It's just the head wound. She'll be fine. She'll remember." He consoled
"She didn't remember me. She didn't know me." Rex dropped into his chair and put his helmetless head in his hands.
Cody said nothing, only placing his hands on his friend's shoulders in silent support.
16 hours later, after Ahsoka had been removed from a session in bacta, wounds cleaned and stitched in some cases, and moved to a bio bed, Kix went in search for his captain. He saw how poorly he had reacted when Ahsoka's amnesia had come out and wanted to make sure the captain knew that there should be no long term effects and that the amnesia should be reversed. He knew the captain was pretty shaken by this, knew how much he loved his girl, and how devastating it would be if she forgot him and their shared love. Luckily with bacta treatments and careful monitoring, Kix was hopeful the commander would regain her memories…. At some point. As soon as he found and informed the captain, and Commander Cody, who was there with him, the captain practically bolted to the med bay and the private room where the female commander lay.
Three days passed before the commander regained consciousness, and the amnesia still remained. Ahsoka could just barely remember the Generals Skywalker and Kenobi, and knew who clone were but couldn't identify any particular one. This time, almost everyone could see how badly this affected Rex; the fact that he couldn't go into her room and talk or comfort her without her freaking out because he was a stranger to her.
Two weeks after the incident and no change had occurred. In fact it seemed to most that Ahsoka had withdrawn into herself, scared, skittish, doubtful; but almost every day that the 501st was on Coruscant, Rex was coming to see her.
Another two weeks passed, the 501st was shipping off for another relief mission, this time Ahsoka accompanied them with the hopes that being around her men would spark her memories to return; the captain was almost haggard with grief.
Rex laid awake in his bunk, staring into nothing, trying to fall asleep; he turned over and had just closed his eyes when he heard a timid knock at the door and paused. The knock came again and he sat up. "Come in." he announced.
The door slid open and Ahsoka stood there, arms wrapped around herself, blue eyes swimming in unshed tears.
"Ahsoka." he breathed launching himself off the bunk and towards her
"Rex… I…" She shuttered and Rex stepped forward and opened his arms and without hesitation she fell into them with a sob. "I had a nightmare…. I remember everything…. I'm sorry…. Rex I'm so sorry."
"Udesii Cyar'ika. I'm here, it's over, you're safe."
"I'm so sorry I forgot you. I don't want to forget you." Ahsoka clutched at her boyfriend
"It wasn't your fault. It was the head wound, it wasn't you." He soothed, gently stroking her back lek.
The next morning when Anakin couldn't find her captain or commander he sent Kix to find them, who did in the captain's quarters. Rex was asleep, leaning against his bunk, Ahsoka with her head on his legs, also asleep and covered with the blanket from the captain's bunk. Kix smiled; the commander had found her captain again and both of them were finally back at ease.
AN: Hope you guys like the longer chapter! Please review!
Udesii- Easy/Calm down
Cyar'ika- Sweetheart
