Surrogate

Prologue

He swore that he would tell her and this was only a temporary measure, but as the days stretched into months, Cody found himself unable to form the words. The words that he knew would break her heart. The words that would make her hate him, although it was for her that he had done all of this. It was his mission to make it right, but he didn't know how to.

"Captain Rex," another trooper called towards him. Toward him as he stood in the armor that he taken from Rex's body on that battlefield. No one would know one clone from another, would they? He had hoped they wouldn't as he slipped out of his own armor. His thoughts centered on Ahsoka and what the loss of Rex would have meant to the girl.

On that battlefield, he had left himself. He had given Cody away as he had placed Rex's helmet onto his head. He had even watched as Cody was mourned by those around him. Keeping quiet as he said goodbye to what he had been and embraced who he was now.

Ahsoka had clutched his waist tightly and sobbed into his belly plate at the sight of Cody's armor being dragged towards the landing area where the dead were being collected. All he could do was put his hand on her back and let her sob, finding himself a little sad at the fact that he was leaving it all behind. If she had only known for who she was sobbing. Who was really wearing that telltale yellow blazed armor. It broke his heart to feel her little body shaking under the thunderous sobs which were escaping her.

Then the lie had started. He was now Rex. He had shaved his head and tried to remember the mannerisms of his friend. Anakin had asked him several times if he was okay, probably noticing how 'Rex' was not the same. Cody had merely brushed it off as fatigue an continued on with his duty.

In fact, he had gotten really good at acting like Rex. They were clones after all and it was easy to pretend when you looked just like the person you were impersonating. Cody's voice was the same although sometimes the intonation was not, but that was easy to smooth over and soon Cody was hard to distinguish from the real Captain Rex. Cody hoped he would never be found out. That his lie would never see the light of a Coruscant day.

The time was coming though, when he would no longer be able to live this lie. It was only a matter of time.