A Gayiyla Halloween
Edge of Everywhere AU, but it’s Modern Day Halloween where Rex and Reader are just as obsessed with Star Wars as one would think. Priya, Garran, and Gelisa are a few years older here than when we last saw them. You get one guess what their family Halloween costume theme is :')
rated T - one tiny smidge of innuendo. pregnant reader. otherwise it's all family fluff as they get ready to go trick-or-treating. about 1.4k words.
“You almost ready, Rex?” you shout from the living room, adjusting the robes of your costume in the entryway mirror, running a hand down your pregnant belly. If your husband replies, you’re unable to hear it from where he is at the other side of the house, especially not over the sounds of the children playing in the living room, practicing getting into each of the characters they’re dressed up as.
As Garran is swinging around his plastic green lightsaber in the air while making the whooshing sounds to go with it, Gelisa is skipping around in circles, no doubt feeling even more like a little princess in her white gown. The moment her focus is captured by her twin’s toy is evident, her eyes widening. It isn’t long before she’s asking her older sister to borrow her lightsaber, smiling mischievously when Priya hands it to her, soon lurching after her twin with the accessory.
“Careful, you two. Lissy, it took me an hour to do your hair, please try not to mess it up!”
“Okay, Mama!” The twins call in unison.
Priya sits on the couch and dons the mask to her costume, extending her arm towards her younger siblings and curling her fingers inwards. “Luke! I am your fatherrrrr!”
Clipping your own lightsaber to its loop that’s sewn into your Jedi robes, you shake your head with a smile, passing right through the middle of the action on the way to the bedroom, where your husband has yet to come out.
Knocking on the door gently, you speak to him from the outside. “You need my help with any of the fastenings, Rex?”
“Mama! I see kids out there!” comes Garran’s voice, his face and hands pressed against the window behind the curtain.
“You hear that, my love? We should get going.”
“Eh,” he calls from behind the closed door of the bedroom. “I’m not sure how I feel about it.”
You chuckle. “Well it’s a little late to change the theme, hon. Come out, let’s see it.”
“Let’s go, Daddy!” Priya is now at your side, once again extending her arm and opening her hand, trying to open the door by use of the Force. In her deepest voice, followed by the signature Vader breathing sound effect, she says: “Come out, trooper, or face my wrath!”
“Maybe if we both use the Force, Daddy will come out,” you tell her loud enough so that Rex can hear.
Priya darts back towards her siblings as the door opens, and there stands your husband, covered from head to toe in the stormtrooper costume you ordered for him about a month ago upon deciding on the theme as a family, after introducing the children to the Star Wars movies. Rex and you have always enjoyed Star Wars, and watching all the movies together as your family of five was a very special weekend, one that you won’t soon forget. It did surprise you just how much the story and characters captured the kids’ attention, them being the ones to suggest the Halloween costumes before Halloween was even a thought in your own mind.
He crosses his arms against his armored chest.
“Hey there, trooper,” you tease.
“This,” he gestures with gloved hands to his entire costume, “Is not practical. If this ‘armor’ is what the stormtroopers really wore, it’s no wonder they were so easily disarmed.” He scoffs, wiggling his rear. “Not to mention how uncomfortable it is.”
Rex takes off the helmet, shaking his head as you cover your mouth with your hand, suppressing a giggle. “Well, I think you look good, Rex.”
“Hm. Yeah?” He smirks and raises his brows, stepping closer to you and wrapping his arm around your lower back, pulling you into him. “How good?”
“Easy there, trooper,” you tease, placing your hand on your belly, his eyes following and lips curling into a wider grin. “That is not the Jedi way. Remember what happened the last time.”
Before he can follow up with some quick-witted sultry remark of his, Garran runs over, his Yoda backpack accessory partially unclasped and dangling off one shoulder.
“Whoa! Daddy, you look so cool!”
Rex laughs, winking at him. “Thanks, buddy.” He shuffles out of the room, shooting you a little look when you snort at the sound of his clunky costume knocking together, handing you his helmet then reaching down to scoop up ‘Luke’ in his arms.
“He’s gonna lose his lightsaber,” you tell Rex, retrieving the accessory from the floor and handing it to him rather than to Garran, who has forgotten about it for the hundredth time this evening so far. “We should just leave it at home.”
Rex gasps playfully, squeezing his son’s sides and eliciting giggles from the toddler. “But he’s Luke Skywalker, love.” He points to your robes. “You of all people know that a Jedi needs their lightsaber.”
You smile, running your thumb across your son’s cheek, soothing a tiny, week-old cut he’d earned from playing a little too rough with his sister. “I suppose you’re right.”
“Luke.” Rex sets him down, adjusting the straps to the backpack and ruffling his hair. He kneels to his level and opens his hands, presenting the lightsaber to Garran. “A lightsaber is sacred to the Jedi. This weapon is your life, and you must protect it.” Garran carefully takes the toy, holding it close to his chest, listening intently. “Can you do that, young Skywalker?”
“Yes, Daddy!”
Rex kisses the top of his head and stands. “Where are the rest of my kids, hm? Come show me what you all look like in a Galaxy Far, Far Away.”
“I’m here!” Gelisa skips over, one of her buns slightly askew now. You sigh, but knew full well that a hairstyle such as Princess Leia’s double buns was not going to stay perfect on Lissy’s head.
“Look at you, little Leia!” Rex beams, chuckling as he notices the one bun.
“Princess Leia,” Gelisa corrects, running her hands down her gown.
“Apologies, Princess.” Rex bows then places a kiss on her head between the buns. Standing upright now, he peers around, searching for his eldest child.
“She’s hiding,” you whisper to him, nodding towards the hallway that leads to the kids’ bedrooms.
Rex takes his stormtrooper helmet back from you and slides it on, getting into character. “TK-7567 reporting for duty, sir,” he calls from under the helmet, his voice slightly modulated. He walks around the living room, peering behind the furniture and pretending to scan the area with the built-in accessories.
Priya pokes her masked head out from the hallway, Rex acting as if he hasn’t yet spotted her.
“I’m looking for Darth Vader,” he sing-songs. “Has anybody seen her around here? The ship will be leaving to go trick-or-treating soon, but we can’t leave without her!”
As Rex searches the house for Priya, you get the twins’ shoes on, then your own. They grab their candy bags and you smile as Garran makes sure his lightsaber is held tightly in his other hand.
“Oh, look at you, my little love!”
You hear Rex’s giddy voice exclaim from the kids’ hallway, followed soon after by Priya’s laughter and loud, in-character breathing paired with lightsaber sound effects.
“Ah!” he calls out. “You got me!”
“I think Darth Vader has been found,” you whisper to the twins. “Are you ready, Luke and Leia?”
“Yes, Mama!”
They start pulling you towards the door, and out from behind the corner comes stormtrooper Rex with Darth Vader’s little hand in his, her shoes already on, red lightsaber and candy bag clutched in her other hand. Letting go of her daddy, her black cape flaps wildly as she makes a beeline to join you and her siblings at the door.
Garran tucks his candy bag and lightsaber under one arm, reaching for his dad with the other. Priya and Gelisa join hands, and with your hand resting on your belly, you beam at your family of five – soon to be your family of six.
“Ready when you are, Master Jedi,” Rex says from under the helmet, undoubtedly sporting a smile just as elated as yours.
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