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Fox?”
“What?” He groped blindly for the scoop and dumped coffee grounds into his cup.
“Um, are you okay?”
“I didn’t fuckin’ sleep. Where’s the hot water?”
“I’ll pour that, thanks.” Thire pulled the kettle away from him and poured hot water into his cup. “We’re just going with the ground today huh?”
“If this could be crack cocaine, I’d be eating it like a bag of nuts.”
“Nuts huh?” Thire grinned. “What would your girlfriend say?”
“That she loves them too and will steal half the bag when I’m not looking. Give me caffeine.”
“Caf is in your hand, sir. What do the fuckers want now?”
“They want you to go look at the circuit box.”
“They want a Marshal Commander to look at a circuit box.”
“Yessir.”
“Whatever. Fine. I’ll go look at the stupid circuit box.”
“I’ll come with you. Seems like you need help.”
Together they walked to the Senate circuit box at the very bottom of the building. Fox just stared at it and kicked the box.
“Why did you do that?”
“I don’t know how to fix a goddamn circuit box. Did that work?”
“I don’t know. I make caf, not…do this.”
Fox chugged half the cup and set it on top of the circuit box before opening it. “That’s some wires. What the hell am I even looking at?”
“I have no idea. Hang on I gotta sneeze.” He face scrunched up. “Dang it I gotta sneeze and it’s not coming.”
“I don’t know. Try harder.”
“You’re not helping.”
“I don’t care. I’m so tired. There is not room for bullshit today.”
Thire sneezed hard enough to throw his whole upper body forward. “There it is. Ugh.”
Fox sighed, grabbing for his cup and knocking it over. “Ah fuck.”
They both looked down at the cup and half-brewed caf in the circuit box.
“It’s probably fine.”
“Yeah.”
“Anyway, I’m calling maintenance. This isn’t our problem, and I’m going back to bed.”
“Sounds good to me.”
“CC-1010, what did you do?!”
He blinked at Senator Amidala. “You actually know my number? Also why are you assuming it was my fault?”
“General Monki’li told me.” The lights flickered and went out. “And I know they sent you down to the circuit box this morning.”
“Yeah this is probably my fault. I don’t remember. I just had my caf.”
She sighed. “I get it. I’m sorry I snapped at you. I haven’t finished my caf yet.”
“Understandable. Maintenance is working on it.”
“Good. I’ve been a little worried though. Have you seen the Chancellor this morning?”
“Nope. Hope I don’t have to.”
“If you do, will you let him know that I’ll send over the papers he wanted as soon as the power’s back on?”
“Yes ma’am. Will do. Have a good day.” He yawned and kept walking.
“Cody?”
He shrugged. “The Chancellor was calling me. Something about ‘the time has come’ all dramatically. But the call cut off right after. No idea what that was about.”
“I see. That’s very strange. Have you had any other communication from Coruscant? I’ve been trying to reach the Council all afternoon, but no one is answering.”
“I haven’t, but I could try calling Fox. He’s on Coruscant and might know what’s up.”
“Go ahead. I’m going to call a few other people. It might just be an issue with the power grid again.”
“Yeah, Fox let it get blown up last time. Let me try.” Cody dialed his batchmate and sighed when the call went through. “Hey Foxy, what’s going on over there? Chancellor called me, but he got cut off halfway through.”
“Senate power’s out.”
“Got it. You good man? You look terrible.”
Fox was laying face down on his desk and grunted. “I am tired.”
“Well Grievous is dead, Dooku is dead, Tano’s on her way back with Maul. The war’s kind of over. You can probably get a day off.”
“Whoopee. Oh what now?”
Someone off camera slammed Fox’s office door open and shouted, “Fox! I killed someone and found dead bodies!”
“Cody, hand me your comm.”
“Yessir.” He passed it to Obi-Wan.
“Adaris Monki’li who did you kill and why?”
She stuck her head in the frame, looking very frantic. “The Chancellor because he manipulated Anakin into Falling and killing Master Windu but also Masters Fisto, Tiin, and Kolar are dead too and the Chancellor was a Sith Lord but now he’s dead and I have his lightsabers and all of his Sith plans and it was an accident I swear but he told Anakin to kill me when I walked in his office to let him know maintenance was working on the power and I kicked Anakin once and now he won’t stop crying because he’s worried about Padme who just went into labor because they’re secretly married and also pregnant with twins and Palpatine was trying to take over the Republic and kill all the Jedi and I’m way out of my depth please help me.”
He sighed. “I’m on my way.”
“Thank you! Hey Fox, whoever spilled caf on the circuit box and stopped Palpatine from calling out that genocide order had the right idea. They deserve a raise.”
“Genocide order?”
“I don’t know! I looked through his computer after I killed him, and he had a genocide order for the Jedi pulled up. Someone help me please.”
“We’re on our way, Adaris. Go to the Temple for now and contact Master Windu.”
“Uh. Should I pull him out of the body bag or…?”
“I’ll…be there soon.”
“Thank you! Now seriously, who spilled that caf? I want to give them a raise.”
“Can I ask for a blowjob instead?”
Cody crumpled to the ground laughing.
Obi-Wan forced himself to take a deep breath and ended the call.