Star Wars One Shots

Do You Remember? - Cody

"Where are you now?
Who's holdin' you now?
When your world stands still, do you remember?
Leave were fallin'
We were fallin'
Almost like a dream, do you remember?

Seasons changed
We both changed
Sometimes I go back to when"

Cody stood on the bridge, staring out into hyper space as his head continued to ache, whatever it was coming, it was something he wasn't able to shake. He had enough problems as it was. The pain had reminded of him when Order 66 was executed, it was like a sharp lightning bolt that was piercing right into your brain, it may have only lasted a second but it was pain you couldn't forget. 

He tried to focus on something other than the pain, he listened to the background noise on the cruiser; Troopers walking past, their heavy boots echoing over the metal on the bridge. Small conversations going on between everyone while no superior was around or busy with something else. Kriff, he even tried focusing on the sound of buttons being pressed but it seemed that nothing was going to help right now. The only thing he could do is to go back to his quarters and try to get some sleep. 

It was late now and his shift had ended hours ago, he hadn't been able to sleep then either so who knows if now was going to be any different. 

The corridor felt like it had went on forever but eventually he got back to his quarters, he sighed as his aching limbs hit his mattress and for a moment it seemed like he was going to drift into peaceful slumber. But then the searing pain was back, he clutched his head in again and held on as if it was ready to fall from his shoulders.

"Stop! You gotta stop!" He grunted. 

After a few minutes, the pain eased again but instead of disappearing it was now a dull ache. "Screw this". He rose from his bed and went to his medical cupboard, searching through various bottles and boxes until he found the right now. A bacta pill, newly created to help fight anything internal going on. As he closed the cupboard door he caught sight of his face in the mirror and suddenly he was taken away from his room on the Empire's cruiser and was back into his own memory. 

Where I am now
Is where I should be now
You're so far away, but always with me
And it seems like
Another life
Whenever I go back to when

Memories flashed before him, being in the mess hall surrounded by his brothers, but they weren't wearing the standard Storm Trooper armour. They were dressed in all different armours in various colours. He could see his own with covered in yellow, with different markings on his helmet. They were laughing together, him and his brother covered in blue, he too had his own markings on his helmet. They seemed so familiar, what were they? Why couldn't he remember? 

The faces were familiar, obviously they were since they all wore the same one. But they all seemed to different. 

"Cody! Rex!"

Cody froze, watching as his memory self and his brother beside him, who must be Rex, turned to face where their name was called. Another Clone bounded towards them, and from what he could make out he had a '5' tattoo on the side of his head. Cody felt sick, the memories beginning to blur and merge into one. Brothers. Family. All together. Order 66. The Emperor. Killing innocent people. Killing the Jedi. 

Cody gasped as it seemed he was lurched from his memories, he couldn't remember when he had fallen to the ground in his refresher but the coolness of the floor was providing some relief to his hot skin. He was shaking now, and he could feel warmth on his cheeks, was he crying? He tried to right himself, easing up from the floor against the wall so he had some kind of support, he wasn't risking falling back down again. He walked back to the mirror and stared at his reflection. 

He really looked like crap, Cody could see that the little sleep he had been getting had finally caught up to him, the bags under his eyes had bags. His skin was sallow and sunken. He wasn't himself. It was then he realised that the pain was gone and with that he remembered. He remembered everything. 

Cody remembered shooting down Obi Wan after the Emperor ordered them too, he remembered killing many innocent people in the name of the so called Empire. And he remembered standing side by side with Darth Vader, who he now realised was Anakin Skywalker. He felt the nausea creeping up on him, and in a split second he was over the toilet throwing up all the contents in his stomach. 

Everything was so vivid. What had he done? What had his brothers done? 

His brothers.

Rex. Fives. Echo. Jesse...All of them, where were they? Did they join the Empire? Were they safe? 

After cleaning himself up, Cody took one last look in the mirror. He knew what he had to do now, the chip in his brain was fried (Thank kriff for that, never too late for a miracle to happen). And he could think clearly for the first time in a long time. He was going to get his brothers back, even if it meant him dying or sacrificing himself. He would find them and he would help them. 

They would be a family again, and they would remember together.