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Codex Week Day 7: I'll Find You There

Summary: Cody rounds on Rex. One step is all it takes to trap him, Cody in front of him, the fire burning at his back, endless sky above them. “Don’t you fucking dare act like you want this more than I do.” Rex is all he’s ever wanted. Rex is a kinder man than he is, but his temper is icy. It builds slower and grips harder. “Don’t I? You’re the one who keeps leaving.” It’s not fair. He wants to stay. He has to leave. Rating: E Tags: Rebellion Era, Established Relationship, Arguing, Fist Fights, fighting to fucking, Unresolved Emotional Tension, the sexual tension gets quite resolved, Rebel Rex, Cody as Fulcrum, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Inspired by Brokeback Mountain For @codex-week day 7: Farewells and Reunions and alt prompt Still from Brokeback Mountain.

Campfire smoke smells different to blaster smoke. It’s rich and natural while blaster fire smells of plasma and hangs like acid in the air. Cody makes the connection anyway, the part of him that is Purge Commander 2224 straightening up in his saddle, eyes scanning the harsh landscape. They’re exposed out here, the trees too far to provide cover, and the stretching lake offering terribly long clear sight lines.

The Empire would never think to look for them here, but if they did, they’d shoot Cody and Rex before they even knew they’d been tailed.

If PT-2224 chased a Jedi out here he would—

Rex is sitting by the fire, in clothes borrowed from Jalo, the same rebel who had provided Cody’s. Rex wears his far more comfortably. He looks like he could belong here in a way Cody doesn’t think he could.

Rex looks up and if not for Cody’s dalgo being far less affected by Rex than Cody is, they’d have come to a complete halt. It’s easy to forget in the weeks, months, years that pass between these stolen moments how exposed Cody feels when Rex looks at him. Rex’s smile is nervous and tentative before blossoming into something too big for Cody not to return.

Cody swings his leg over his dalgo. His foot catches in his stirrup—he’d take a speeder over this any day—and he’s barely hopped free before Rex collides with him. He’s laughing at Cody, but then he’s kissing him, pinning him back against the dalgo, gripping him tightly, mouth bruising.

Rex kisses what’s left of PT-2224 right out of Cody.

Desperation makes them clumsy, teeth knocking, tongues too wet. Cody stumbles and the dalgo huffs, shaking her head, frills fluttering like she can dismiss them like she would an insect. Cody grabs at fistfuls of Rex’s jacket, holding him tight until he remembers how to be Rex’s Cody again.

He’ll have to pick up the abandoned parts of himself again, pull them all back around him when he drags his armour out from under Jalo’s floorboards, handing back his borrowed dalgo and clothes. He hasn’t got long. The Empire will miss him, and the Rebellion will miss his intel.

For Rex he makes time, though never as much as either of them would like.

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Sometimes you need a little distance to realise just how special what you have really is.

Written for @codex-week 2024 Day 7: Farewells and Reunions.

Yes, Codex Week 2024, which ran in February... I'm not even going to pretend it's still February somewhere anymore, but it is what it is, and I am at least still posting within the extended time-frame, so I'm calling that a win. Huzzah.

And hey, who doesn't love continuing a celebration? :D

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Codex Week Day 6: Sensitive Information

Co-written with @trudemaethien Summary: Rex is pretending that the Imperial Purge Trooper passing him highly sensitive data is Cody because he can. It is entirely coincidental, of course, that the particulars of how this clone fingers Rex remind him of the love of his life. Rating: E Tags: Identity Porn, Rebellion Era, Rebel Rex, Cody as Fulcrum, Undercover, Interrogation, Public Sex, Humiliation, Public Nudity, Anal Fingering, work-related fingering, Object Insertion, Mildly Dubious Consent, Purge Trooper Cody, cavity search misrepresented, Prostitution, Exhibitionism, Pining, Strip Search For @codex-week day 6: Undercover | Mistaken | Secret Identity

Rex fiddles with his lighter, smokestick dangling between his lips, smoke drifting up between the tall buildings and dissipating into the air. A woman walks past him without seeing him, the smokestick and the handful of doors leading to the backs of restaurants giving him an anonymity as foolproof as a shiny’s first deece. He could be any grubby cook or weary waiter taking their break.

It’s his third smoke. His contact is late.

He knows he has the coordinates correct, and he’s far too seasoned to give himself away by double checking. They’ll either come or they won’t.

They had better come. The Rebellion needs this intel. Rex isn’t privy to what it is, only that it’s too sensitive for the normal channels. Dodonna himself had impressed upon Rex the importance of not letting the datachip out of his sight for even a moment. They’d tapped Rex for this because he’s one of the few clone operatives they have left, experienced soldiers with a reputation for dependability.

Rex will burn one more smokestick and then he needs to get himself far away from here. If the spy has been caught, they’ll no doubt search for local accomplices next.

He inhales deeply, breathing fragrant smoke out through his nose.

Military boots hitting hard permacrete in rhythm is an unmistakable sound. Rex tenses up and then forces himself to relax. The marching inevitably heralds a squad. It’s not a large contingent, but unfortunately they’re all in black armor rather than white, their commander decorated with red kama and pauldron. Damned purge troopers.

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Day 7: Farewells and Reunions

[ART] Day 7: FAREWELLS AND REUNIONS by @nooneherebutusghosts

[G] Farewells and Reunions (AO3) by @gun-roswell

[G] Sunrise (AO3) by @lbibliophile-sw

[M] All the Things No One Said (AO3) by @spiritofthenortheners

Alt Prompts:

[ART] two person holding hands near orange background by @wolviecat

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Undefined

Also on AO3 (200w) @codex-week - day 2: hands and heart

It is hard for Cody to describe what he and Rex are to each other.

They are more than friends. It may have started that way, but that is far too casual a term for the depth of their relationship now.

They are more than brothers. After all, nearly everyone who Cody interacts with is; brothers-in-arms or brothers-in-blood, the lines are blurred when the whole GAR shares the same.

They are more than superior and subordinate. They remain professional while on duty of course, respecting the chain of command protects their men under them, but in private Rex is one of the few with whom he can let down those walls.

They are more than lovers. They have shared physical intimacy in the past, and will again, but that is almost incidental next to all else they have shared: thoughts and emotions, fears and dreams, whispered plans for After.

They are…partners, perhaps. Equal, supportive, a pair. ‘One when together and one when apart’, for all that the latter is unfortunately the more common state of affairs.

In the end, Cody doesn’t really care what people call it. He just knows that he is Rex’s and Rex is his. In every way they can be.

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Sunrise

Also on AO3 (220w) @codex-week - day 7: farewells and reunions

For all that they are supposed to be identical, Rex finds that his brothers are very different as people.

Cody, for example, is absolutely not a morning person. He refuses to get out of bed before being summoned by his alarm or comm, and is half-zombie until he’s had a hit of either caf or adrenaline.

Rex, on the other hand, likes the early morning. He likes the quiet of just being, free from the responsibilities that consume the rest of his day. On clear days when they are on-planet he will find a vantage point where he can watch the sunrise; breathing in the stillness as streaks of soft pink and rich gold reach across the sky, fading to brilliant blue. On the best mornings, Rex stays in bed, watching the growing light play across the familiar features beside him, smiling as Cody grumbles and buries his face in Rex’s shoulder.

Rex treasures these mornings, knowing that such opportunities never last. All too soon, the 501st or 212th is called away to the next mission. All too soon, he is standing in a hanger or landing field, watching instead the painted sunrise on Cody’s chest as they say farewell.

Gold-armoured hand clasps blue, then they separate, and Rex leaves to face the new day.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/CT-7567 | Rex Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, CT-7567 | Rex, CC-3636 | Wolffe, CT-21-0408 | CT-1409 | Echo, CC-5576-39 | Gregor, Ahsoka Tano Additional Tags: Codex - Freeform, codexweek, codexweek2024, codex week, codes week 2024, Star Wars event, fan event, Series, Ficlets, Cloneshipping | Clone Trooper/Clone Trooper Relationships (Star Wars), Bonus Fic, Taking the Plunge, getting hitched, vows and such, Fun and Fluff, always and forever Series: Part 8 of Codex Week 2024, Part 15 of Cody/Rex Summary:

A bonus fic for my contribution for Codex Week. The vows taken, finally.

(Just because I really had to add some good old fashioned fluff at the end)

Part of Codex Week 2024 /Cody/Rex series

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/CT-7567 | Rex Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, CT-7567 | Rex Additional Tags: Codex - Freeform, codexweek, codexweek2024, codex week, Codex Week 2024, Star Wars events, Fan Events, Ficlets, Series, Cloneshipping | Clone Trooper/Clone Trooper Relationships (Star Wars), Empire/Rebel Era, Reunions, Redemption, finding the one you’ve lost, Angst, Fluff, Snippets in time Series: Part 7 of Codex Week 2024, Part 14 of Cody/Rex Summary:

They never really got to say goodbye, not really. And so the ‘hello again’ is so much sweeter, despite everything between having happened.

Part of Codex Week 2024 /Cody/Rex series

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/CT-7567 | Rex Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, CT-7567 | Rex, Twi'lek Characters (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Codex - Freeform, codexweek, Codex Week 2024, Star Wars event, fan event, Cloneshipping | Clone Trooper/Clone Trooper Relationships (Star Wars), codex week, Ficlets, Series, Snippets in time, Mission Fic, Cloak and Dagger stuff, Mistaken Identity, Are you…???, Empire/Rebel Era Series: Part 6 of Codex Week 2024, Part 13 of Cody/Rex Summary:

The mission. Get in, get the much needed intel at all costs. Only the contact isn’t exactly whom they were expected to be.

Part of Codex Week 2024 /Cody/Rex series

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All the Things No One Said

Chapter 7 for Day 7: Farewells and reunions | @codex-week 🧡🧡🧡

Chapter 7 on Ao3

Rated: M

Tags: Captain Rex; Commander Cody: Commander Neyo; Stass Allie; Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader; disillusionment; slow burn; dehumanisation; explicit sexual content; 212th Rex; Order 66; Imperial Rex; RebelCody; Canon typical violence; implied abuse; implied rape/non-con; emotional constipation; angst with a happy ending, hopeful ending

Summary:

It’s not love at first sight. CT-7567 being cursed with being different, and CC-2224 a prototype of clone soldier perfection. But from the first crush to later bad decisions, from a war fought together to the manhunt ordered by the Empire, Cody and Rex keep orbiting around each other.

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Codex week 7

There were two sets of memories in his head.

One of Earth, school, growing up, falling in love.

One of Kamino, war, death, Jedi... falling in love.

Neither of them seemed any more or less real than the other.

Last day of @codex-week

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@codex-week Day 7: FAREWELLS AND REUNIONS

"Stay." Cody whines, his voice raspy with sleep, as he clings to the back of Rex's blacks. The blond smiles fondly and leans forward, his gloved fingers carding through his lover's dark curls.

"I can't." His lips rest on the corner of his mouth; chaste. An unspoken apology. "Headin' to Mandalore at Oh-Eight-Hundred. Would stay here if I could."

Cody gives a contemplative hum. "After, then. When you return."

Rex chuckles at that and kisses him. "Sure. When all is said and done, I'll stay. For as long as you want me, I'll stay."

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Day 6: Undercover, Mistaken or Secret Identity

[ART] Secret Vtuber identity by @grackle-draws

[G] Undercover of the night (AO3) by @gun-roswell

[M] All the Things No One Said (AO3) by @spiritofthenortheners

[E] Who We've Been Dying To Become (AO3) by @trudemaethien, @elthadriel

Alt Prompts:

[ART] The Lament of Icarus by @wolviecat

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Day 5: Rebels and Imperials

[ART] Rebels and Imperials and The Lament for Icarus by @nooneherebutusghosts

[G] Rebels and Imperials (AO3) by @gun-roswell

[T] bleed (AO3) by @cabezadeperro

[M] All the Things No One Said (AO3) by @spiritofthenortheners

Alt Prompts:

[ART] The Sculptor by @wolviecat

[T] Who We've Been Dying to Become (AO3) by @elthadriel

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Day 6: Secret Vtuber identity @codex-week

Rex thought his cool Mandalorian Vtuber would help keep his identity a secret.

Three years later, Cody is still in the dark. But his mod team is not. And they’re gunning for a face reveal at the end of his charity stream.

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codex day 6

The lights burned through them both, bright and inescapable.

Maybe it hurt, but it felt like a pain in a dream. And somehow, he knew it will be soon over, and they both will be free.

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