Damn you, Fry's dog!

So I wrote this a while ago while listening to that horrible song at the end of the FRY'S DOG episode of Futurama.

It is not Captain Rex's job, nor his place, to question his General. It is also not his job, nor his place, to notice when Skywalker stands apart from the camp, arms wrapped around himself, staring off into the distance. Although Rex is not supposed to notice, he still does, though it isn't for some time that he realizes just what the expression on Skywalker's face is. Expectation. Skywalker is waiting for his apprentice to come jogging over the horizon line towards them. He stands like this on every planet, waiting for Ahsoka to return, though he would never admit it to anyone, and probably not to himself either.

Rex knows that Skywalker realizes the futility. Ahsoka is no longer his apprentice, will no longer be allowed to come to their rescue time and again. When she'd gotten the reassignment, Skywalker had knelt, put his hands on her trembling shoulders, and told her that she could not stop change any more than she could stop the suns from setting, had told her not to look back, had assured her that, as long as Rex had his back, he'd be fine. Told her to take care of herself, and remember what she'd learned in the short time she had been the 501st's little Commander.

Rex figures Skywalker consoles himself with the fact Ahsoka is still a Jedi, is still alive and out there somewhere, and with the possibility that she will, someday, look back and return to them. Until then, Rex will watch Skywalker stand vigil towards the horizon, waiting.