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If anyone was trying to hurt his kids, Din would kill them. He wasn’t going to let the Empire or anyone hurt any of his children again. He wouldn’t be merciful. Not this time. Not after all the times Grogu had been taken and how Bo had to have their kids alone because of the Empire. They all could have died.
As soon as Bo got off him, he ran downstairs. The screaming continued. So loud. Panicked. It was Bo’s aunt, but it had to be because something happened to the kids.
Grogu. Satie. Snow. Grogu. Satie. Snow.
He ran into the room the scream came from. The kitchen. He expected to see Imps grabbing the children. He expected to see horrible things. Bo’s aunt was screaming as if someone was getting murdered.
But there were no Imps. There was no danger at all.
Instead Grogu and the twins were on the floor, tossing flour in the air. It rained down on them, reminding Din of how the snow fell on him and Bo on Krownest. Somehow the twins and Grogu were already covered in it as was the floor and well… everything. The three of them were giggling as if the funniest thing in the world was happening.
Axe was sitting in a chair off to the side eating some kind of yellow dessert. Din could smell it’s sweet and tarty flavor from where he was.
“They’re making a mess!” Lady Rook yelled. That was when she turned and saw Din who was half dressed. “What were you doing? Where are your clothes!?”
“Uh…” Din tried to say. He had some clothes on, but he hadn’t enough time to put them all on. He thought his kids were in danger. And he’d fight Imps with or without beskar if he had to.
That was when Bo came in with the Darksaber.
“Is that the Darksaber?!” Lady Rook asked.
Bo turned it off and sighed. “Well it’s not a blaster.” She looked at Din. “I figured it was nothing. That was just her normal scream not her Imp scream. Thought I’d bring this just in case.”
“It’s unseemly to have the Darksaber open in the house.”
Din tilted his head to the side and looked at Bo. He had never heard of something like that.
Bo stared at her great aunt. “What? When did that become a rule? The Darksaber isn’t an umbrella.”
“Always! It’s always been a rule!”
“Whatever, I don’t care.” Bo narrowed her eyes. “And I really don’t think that is a rule.”
Din looked at Axe. “I thought something horrible happened to the kids.” Thankfully they were okay. He didn’t want them to have to go through any more horrible things. Grogu had gone through more than anyone should. He deserved to be happy. He deserved to not have to be afraid like he had to be for so much of his life.
“I’d never let anything happen to the kids,” Axe said while his mouth was filled with some of the yellow dessert. “You two know that.”
“Yeah, yeah we do,” Din said, but it was hard—no—impossible to know it for sure. He would always be worried about Grogu and the twins.
“I could have stopped them,” Axe said gesturing to the kids. He stood up and came over to Din and Bo. “But I heard what she said and she has no right to say that. It’s not your fault what happened, Bo-Katan.”
“I… Thanks. I know. I know now,” Bo said, looking at the kids who were still laughing.
“Now?” Din asked.
“I didn’t when I was a teenager. When it happened. Maybe even for awhile in my twenties,” Bo said. “I’m just hoping they won’t ever have to go through anything like that.”
“They won’t,” Din said and he put his arm around Bo’s shoulders.
“You two were… you two were doing unseemly and improper things. You aren’t married!” Lady Rook said, glaring at the two of them.
“Guilty,” Bo said, shrugging.
Lady Rook opened her mouth to say something else but then Grogu came over to Bo. He was covered in flour and was carrying a toy blaster from probably when Bo-Katan or Korkie were children.
“Bo-Kat!” Grogu said, extending the toy blaster to her. Din was somewhat surprised. Usually he only gave gifts to the twins.
“Aww, he has a present for you,” Axe said.
Bo knelt down and took the toy blaster. “Thank you.”
“Mama,” Grogu said and reached for her. “Mama Bo-Kat.”
Din hadn’t suspected that. She was basically his mother but he had never called her that. He only called Din his parent.
Bo stared at him and then smiled and put her near her heart. “I’m…” She picked him up.
“Are you okay with him calling you that?” Din asked as Bo stood up with Grogu. Grogu smiled at Din. He clapped his hands together causing a cloud of flower.
“Yes, I just… I didn’t expect it. I thought… Cara or Fennec or Koska. That he would call one of them that.”
“He loves you, Bo,” Din said. Grogu loved Cara and Fennec and Koska too but it wasn’t the same.
“Koska’s no baby person.” Axe said. He went over and looked at Grogu. “Say Uncle Axe.”
Grogu just smiled.
Axe sighed.
“He’ll say it eventually,” Din said since he would and he knew it was important to Axe. He was good with Grogu.
Lady Rook was unhappy and went on and on about what had happened. Both the flour mess and how Din and Bo had obviously been doing things she thought they weren’t supposed to. Then she scolded Axe about how he was eating the desserts and why the desserts were even here.
At one point even Koska came in, which she soon seemed to regret when Lady Rook got on her about how it was rude that she didn’t come with them at first. Koska just stared at her without saying anything. She didn’t even blink. That must have made Lady Rook nervous because she hardly looked at her, let alone spoke to her after that.
Instead she mostly complained about Din. Fine with him, even though it was annoying. It was better than her bothering Bo more about her past. But it was annoying hearing her talk about how after seeing the twins and Grogu for a couple hours that she didn’t think he was raising Mandalorian children the right way and that they were sure to become soft or unseemly or worse, both.
“They’re going to be soft,” Lady Rook said, glaring at Din.
“Really, you think my children are going to be soft?” Bo asked. “And it’s not like Din is soft.”
“You’re Sati—”
“Satine wasn’t soft,” Bo said. “She was just… different than most Mandalorians.”
Bo’s aunt had a lot to say about that, but since Bo ignored it for the most part, Din followed her example. Eventually the twins fell asleep and Axe and Koska volunteered to watch them. In the ship. They didn’t want to stay at Bo-Katan’s since her great-great aunt was there. Bo and Din would probably go back to the ship soon too.
But right now they had taken Grogu to Bo’s old swing.
“I can’t believe this is still here,” Bo said as Din put Grogu on the swing. Grogu grabbed one of the ropes since he was so little. “I would have thought… I would have thought something would have happened to it.”
“I’m glad nothing did,” Din said gently pushing Grogu who let out cries of joy as the swing moved. “You deserve to have something left from your childhood.”
“I wish that you had things left from yours,” Bo said.
Din nodded. He did too, but everything was gone.
“Dada up!” Grogu ordered.
Din pushed him a bit harder when he said that, but probably not as hard as Grogu wanted. He was worried that somehow Grogu would fall or he would get sick like he had that one time on the ship.
“You know maybe my family has some extra beskar in our place,” Bo said. “I thought mine was the last but maybe it’s not.”
“That’d be good because then the twins could have it one day.”
“Or Grogu,” Bo said.
“Besk,” Grogu said, nodding his head. Then he looked at Din. “Up! ‘igh!”
Din didn’t listen to him since he was going high enough, but he did keep pushing him. “Grogu might still want to go back to Skywalker one day.”
“No, Dada!” Grogu said.
“Or maybe he’ll want to stay and be a Mandalorian,” Bo said. “Mandalorians are a lot better than Jedi, aren’t they, Grogu?”
“Mando!” Grogu said.
“Or maybe he’ll be both one day,” Bo said. “There was once a Mandalorian Jedi.”
“Really?” Din asked.
“Yes, a long time ago,” Bo said “And it was only that one time.”
If anyone could do it again, it would be Grogu. The kid was so special.
“So what do you think of us living here?” Bo asked after awhile. “At least for awhile while Sundari is rebuilt.” Bo’s place wasn’t far from Sundari. Somehow it hadn’t been destroyed though.
Din raised his eyebrows. “I’m not living with your aunt.”
Bo made a face. “You think I would live with her? Stars, I think I’ve been tortured enough by the Empire.” Bo walked over to Din and Grogu. “She could go stay with some of her other relatives. The Rooks.”
“You… do you think that’s a good idea?”
She shrugged. “They won’t be my biggest fan, but I’m not living with her.”
Before Grogu, Din would never have imagined living in one place. He was a bounty hunter with the guild. The closest he had to a home had been the Razor Crest. But now things had changed. Grogu and the twins would like growing up in one place. And even if you ignored the whole ruling Mandalore thing, Bo loved Mandalore and would want to be there.
Din found he was okay with staying in one place now too. Now that he no longer was alone. He had Bo, Grogu, Satie, and Snow. And he had friends when before he only had acquaintances.
Things were better than Din ever thought they would be. And he was lucky in a way. So lucky.
***
“Your twins are adorable,” Ahsoka said a couple months later as she sat in the living area with the twins next to her. Bo had been surprised and happy when she showed up. She had always been her favorite Jedi. Okay, so maybe she wasn’t technically a Jedi, but she was close enough.
She had brought Grogu a practice lightsaber that wouldn’t take his eyes out and brought the girls toys as well. The girls seemed more interested in watching her lift the toys up with the Force than playing with them themselves. Grogu would do this for the girls pretty often, but apparently it was different to see someone else do it.
“I know,” Bo said as she watched the girls.
Din was playing with Grogu, who liked to try and hit Din with the practice lightsaber and would laugh when he succeeded.
“Satie looks like you,” Ahsoka said as the girls tried to get the ball. Snow giggled.
“What? You really think so?” Bo asked. She didn’t. Satie might look a little bit more like her than Snow, but not by much. “They both look like they can be girl Din clones.”
“They don’t look that much like me,” Din said.
Bo gave him a look.
“Okay, maybe Snow looks a lot like me, but she has your smile, and Satie does look like you.”
No, she didn’t. Din had to see that.
“Satie’s going to be like you,” Ahsoka said. “I can just tell, and both the girls and Grogu have good futures. I just know it.”
Bo was about to say something but then Grogu came over and sat on her lap. She would have thought this was sweet and not thought much about it but then he touched her stomach and muttered to it like he had… when she had been pregnant.
There was a long silence. Bo couldn’t believe this was happening. The last time she had been pregnant, he had seemed to know before she did too.
But Bo couldn’t be pregnant. Not again.
“Damn you, Din. He better not be right about this,” Bo said, even though Ahsoka would be confused. This just couldn’t be happening.
“It’s probably nothing. He’s just a kid,” Din said, putting his hands in front of him. “He’s probably just being… silly?”
Bo certainly hoped so and yet…
~The End~