Blinking at the
crystal flower with wide eyes, Obi-Wan gave a delighted laugh before
looking up at his mate and opening his arms which had Anakin
instantly swoop down for the offered hug with a trill. “Its
beautiful Anakin! Where did you get it?” Obi-Wan questioned his
mate while ignoring Jango and Dooku who had started to plot together.

Something about
Palpatine and strike team which was why they were up in one of the
observation lounges to watch one of the strongest team of clones work
though they had all been asked if they wanted to show off.

Obi-Wan wasn’t
quite sure though and it wasn’t like they’d be able to pull it
off, getting the troopers to Coruscant and then close to a karking
Sith.

He had more
important things to consider anyhow, his nest was as good as done
with lots of home material and silk that smelled of beautiful home
and warmth.

“I made it, I
gathered rain water and ocean rocks that the kaminos bring up to grow
algae on, they didn’t need all of them though and I could have a
few.” He said cheerfully as he sat down beside Obi-Wan on the same
bench as his mate on the observation deck, paying no attention to
what was happening below.

“So you shaped it
with the Force and inward fire?” Obi-Wan turned the rose slowly,
beaming. “Clever mate.” He cooed and leaned in on the bench,
pressing kiss to a preening Anakin’s cheek as the blond rested his
hands on the others belly, stroking slowly in hope for more kicks
since the babies had steadily been getting more active the bigger
they got.

“Okay so I’ve
been wondering about that.” Fett suddenly said, frowning at them
and disturbing both Anakin and Obi-Wan from their private little
moment.

“What?” Obi-Wan
puzzled, smiling when Boba came scuttling in and crawling into the
Mando’a’s lap for a hug as he gave Obi-Wan a friendly grin.

He had a feeling
the kid came from one of the younger clone sections to play. All kids
needed socialization with others after all and all the clones were
different people even if they looked the same.

Arms around Boba
after ruffling his curling, floofy hair with a hand, Jango shrugged.
“You two have a human form and a bird form right?” He looked
between them, lips curling wryly when both nodded. “And you can
both switch seamlessly between them should you wish?”

Both Starbirds
exchanged looks at that, frowning at each other before Obi-Wan spoke
slowly since he could express himself better. As he answered he
absently played with his crystal rose gift. “In a manner yes, but
the thing is that we’re not small birds. The first starbirds were
born in the hearts of a supernova, the implosion pulls in the Force
and then explodes in a rush of energy and life and… radiation. Fire
so hot in could evaporate planets.” He said thoughtfully under the
wide but interested eyes of both Yan and Jango.

“Fascinating,”
The count murmured under his breath, obviously he didn’t quite know
how the creation of a Starbird happened. “Is how you were created?”
He looked between them.

Anakin gave a nod.
“I didn’t have parents at all, I was created by the Force and a
star. I’m still not quite sure what happened with my mother being
my mother… its kind of impossible.” He looked away, confused and
sad as he loved Shmi and had lost her.

Petting his mates
hand, Obi-Wan smiled wryly to the others. “I’m not sure about me actually. The
Jedi found me all those ages ago when I was still a babe in my first
cycle and there were no one else around. There were reports of
supernova but how I got to Stewjon where I was found is a big
mystery,” He shrugged a bit before humming. “Regardless, yes we
can switch, but we’re large birds, bigger than most humans and we
put of heat since we’re kind of made of fire though we don’t
burn anything unless we want. I can’t switch right now because of
obvious reasons.” Obi-Wan stroked his stomach.

Anakin bounced a
bit on the bench but stopped when Obi-Wan sent him a sharp look since
he bounced his mate around too. “Like Obi-Wan said, we’re big
birds, while we can change there are some restrictions like Obi-Wan
being pregnant stopping him until he gives birth. There’s also the
fact that we’re inside the facility, its too small for us, this room would make us hit our heads.” He
explained.

Jango and Yan
stared at them while Boba just grinned.

He had asked ages
ago how big the birds were.

“Yer shitting me,
you’re absolutely huge than? You’re made of fire does that mean
you can melt like durasteel walls? Could you melt this facility?”
Jango stared at them, forgetting he had his son on his lap as he
cursed.

Obi-Wan and Anakin
grinned. “If we wanted to, we could burn planets, that’s why we
can’t allow Sith to turn us, we’re a natural force of the Force
itself, we’re powerful and nearly unstoppable and the only
creatures that can really kill us is Sith and each others.” Obi-Wan
explained with his smile fading jut a bit.

“…I’m karking
grateful we’re on the same side.” Jango shook his head, obviously
wondering how karked he would have been had he gone up against two
starbirds if they went into their bird forms.

Anakin and Obi-Wan
just laughed before the blond dragged his heavily pregnant mate into
his lap and tickled him to the squeals of the redhead who tried to
escape, laughing in delight and scolding Anakin at the same time as
he tried to push the hands digging into his plush sides and stomach
to tease.

Life was beautiful
in this moment.