One day, Cody and Obi-Wan need to know something regarding Coruscant, and Obi-Wan suggests that they ask Fox about it.
"I can send him a message", Cody says. "He can answer it when he wakes up."
"Oh, right", Obi-Wan says. "It is night on Coruscant, isn't it?"
"Yes", Cody says. "It's currently 3.27 there, I have the planet's current time on my comlink, so I can say good-night to Fox and make sure he goes to sleep."
Obi-Wan smiles a bit. "That's very sweet", he says.
"I have to do it", Cody says. "Fox is not sleeping enough, it is affecting his health, so I need to remind him to go to sleep-"
Cody's comlink beeps. Fox has sent him a message back with an answer.
Obi-Wan can sense how the room they are in cools.
"I'm sure he just has a lot of work to do today", he says, trying to calm Cody down. "Guarding the Chancellor is a lot of work, you know?"
Cody turns to look out of the ship's window, and he stares very intently to somewhere into space.
"Yes", he mutters. "I know."
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Fox is very tired and both of his hands are cramping.
He ignores both of those things and continues on, because the Chancellor wants to work done before the morning shift.
His comlink beeps, a message requesting some information. Fox looks up the right files and sends them over, before picking his stylus back up.
He gets through three more forms when his mind catches up with his body. He pauses, and then, slowly, opens his messages.
Oh. It was Cody asking.
Fox looks at the time. 3.36 AM.
He closes the messages, and picks the stylus back up.
Cody is in the Outer Rim right now. Fox can do nothing but wait to meet his fate.
In the meanwhile, he still, unfortunately, has work to do.
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(Just a few miles from Fox's office, Palpatine wakes up.
There is a distant twist in the Force. Something like a warning.
He regards it for a moment, and then turns on his other side and continues sleeping. Whatever it was, it was so distant that it is not going to do anything tonight, and he has only gotten 6 out of his nine hours of sleep so far.)
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Echo during his time with the 501st: doing body shots, dancing on tables, blowing things up in the barracks with Fives, creating chaos with Fives, doing keg stands, complaining about them leaving the club “too early” even though it’s four in the morning, being the reason that new rules were added to the reg manuals, generally being an absolute terror
Echo during most of his time with the Bad Batch: tucking kids in, telling bedtime stories, always carrying healthy snacks, in bed by nine, putting people in time-out, telling “kids” to behave, tending to sick “kids”, being the only one to put their foot down and shut down any shenanigans, generally being a mom and an absolute angel (of course this is when he isn’t being the absolute badass that he is and always had been since let’s not forget that he’s an ARC Trooper)
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Azerbaijan GP '24 // P2 Finish
"On the hard tyres, the car didn't feel as good. We were sliding a lot and we had no rear grip... I knew it was a long stint, but I didn't know what I could do more to make it better... I saw (Oscar) on my inside and I was not too stressed - I didn't want to defend like crazy because I still had cold tyres. So I didn't let him pass, but I probably made his life a little bit too easy thinking that it would then be possible with DRS to overtake him again. But they were actually very fast in the straights, and I never really had the opportunity again to overtake, so that was a bad decision from my side."
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