notes: the long-awaited vox fic for @meerlichtz :) this has been in my drafts for so long that i think it put me on (semi-unintentional) hiatus. yes, this fic is quite possibly the reason why i've written .2 fics for the last 32 years. regardless despite all the horrors i had a ton of fun writing this and hope u enjoy meer :)
summary: one Jedi Shadow Quinlan Vos gets stuck in the Coruscant Guard's medbay recovering from a mission gone meiloorun-shaped. This goes about as well as expected.
“You are not allowed to die on me,” Fox snarled, reining in the urge to shake the Jedi by the fronts of his tabards. For General Gallia to leave Fox to babysit this asshat and then have this asshat die on him was unconscionable. Fox had never failed a mission objective in his life, and he wasn’t about to let some muscle-headed Jedi change that.
“Me?” Vos grinned. His teeth were stained pink with claret; Fox could see it foaming at the corners of his mouth, lips and tongue a ruddy crimson with it. “Why would I die when I have so many better things to be doing on you?”
Mission parameters could be flexible. Surely General Gallia wouldn’t mind that much if Vos disappeared—quietly—discreetly—
“Whoops. Now that’s a scary face.” Vos mimed zipping his lips shut. The effect was only partially ruined by the tremor in his hands, now getting worse.
“Shut up.” Fox leaned even more of his weight into the hands keeping pressure on Vos’ abdomen and ribs, ignoring Vos when he wheezed something about his ribs. A few cracked ribs wouldn’t kill the Jedi, but the hole in his chest would, even if the blaster shot had only just missed his lungs. “Medevac, ETA?”
“Closing in on your location now,” Thire reported. “Hold your position.”
“It’s worse than it looks,” Vos said airily.
“Commander Thire can be the judge of that.” Fox felt his lips draw back in a near-unconscious snarl but he kept his hands and voice steady. There was no telling how fragile a natborn could be, even one with Jedi capabilities and training.
“Commander Thire is calling bullshit on that, unless the blood loss is starting to affect the good General’s vision.” Thire arrived with two full squads of backup: he and another Corrie medic dropped to their knees beside Vos, ushering Fox out of the way as Fox started to direct cleanup efforts.
This Jedi had an uncanny ability for making situations devolve before Fox’s very HUD. General Gallia had left on a relief mission to the Outer Rim yesterday, at which point Fox had met her temporary replacement—one Knight Vos, Jedi Shadow and relentless flirt. From what limited intelligence Fox had managed to gather, Vos was conducting covert ops on Coruscant, which made it convenient for him to be stationed at the CGHQ with the Guard. He’d gone out at some point last night for what he’d cited to be “super top-secret party business,” missed his early morning check-in, and turned up two klicks from HQ mid-afternoon sans four pints of blood. Fox recalled the squads he’d sent out in search of Vos after he’d missed check-in, sent another to scour the area for traces of Vos’ attackers, and ignored the increasingly amused conversation Thire was having with the Jedi behind him.
ETA: Petalblue15 found it, it's Double-Edged Sparrow by kakashikrazy256 and it is an amazing fic, also on the second read, so you should all go check it out.
I should have bookmarked it, but I haven’t, and it’s been too long for me to find it in my history.
It’s Star Wars. Vox, but slow build. Fox is on an escort mission that goes wrong (as Fox knew it would) and is thought to be dead. Vos is on an (unrelated?) undercover mission to the same planet, and finds Fox’s stolen armor by chance and also assumes Fox is dead. Meanwhile, Fox has been found barely alive and sold to a brothel-thing, where the guy Vos is after is going to hold a… meeting? Whatever it is.
Fox decides to do what he can to free the other slaves - ‘what he can’ being killing that same guy Vos is after, because he runs the town (and the brothel-thing?). He doesn’t know Vos is also there, or that Vos has actually already knocked out the guy and hidden him in a closet so Vos himself could take his place for that meeting-thing. Fox knocks out the slave sent to the boss’ bedroom and hides him in the adjacent closet, to take his place, so he can kill the boss guy.
Also there’s a festival thing, and Vos buys Fox a fox-lantern?
Please, if anyone knows the fic/can find something they think fits this description, please please please let me know/send me the link? I will love you forever.
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I'm finishing uni and between writing a thesis and studying for the exams I have very little time and energy.
I also wanted to say thank you to everyone who leaves notes in the tags for me to find, I see them and they give me little boosts of happiness every time <3
Obi-Wan: -and then I think we should...hold on a minute, Cody, Quinlan is calling me...what is it, Quin?
Quinlan: Hi, Obes! And Commander Cody! Just the man I wanted to see! I want to make a complaint about your brother
Cody: ...which one of them?
Quinlan: Oh you know exactly which one of them I'm talking about!
Cody: *sigh* what did Fox do this time?
Quinlan: He fined me! Because I gave my boyfriend a hickey!
Cody: ...what?
Quinlan: Yes! Thorn and I were making out and I gave him a hickey and it was a bit too high because apparently your brother could see it underneath his blacks, so he fined me for "Defacing Republic Property"!
Cody: .......and what do you want me to do about it?
Quinlan: I don't know, you're the Marshal Commander here!
Cody: Yes, and I have enough to do with being the Marshal Commander of the 7th Sky Corps, the Capital is not my area of responsibility. You need to take this up with the Commanding Officer of Coruscant
Quinlan: ......but that's your brother.
Cody: Exactly! Goodbye *cuts the call for Obi-Wan* Now where were we?
me, explaining to them how a jedi who has like 20 minutes of screentime and was mentioned once in the live action and a clone who showed up for 2 scenes in the clone wars and all we canonically know about him is his name are dating:
Cody: Let's change the subject. Fox can't participate in the conversation because he doesn't have a Jedi.
Fox: What do you mean? I have a Jedi.
Rex: My Jedi isn't yours just because he spends too much time around the Senate.
Fox: I'm not talking about your crazy Jedi.
Wolffe: So you're serious? You have a Jedi?
Bly: Since when does the Coruscant Guard have a Jedi?
Fox: Since I arrested him.
Cody: Wait...Fox, no.
Rex: Huh?
Fox: He hasn't left since.
Wolffe: You arrested a Jedi? Wouldn't that be a Sith?
Fox: No, he's a Jedi. He's an idiot Jedi, but he's a Jedi.
Bly: So, wait, let me get this straight...You arrested a Jedi, that Jedi won't leave you alone now...so you're keeping him like a stray tooka?
Fox: Yes.
Cody: Fox, please.
Rex: Who is this Jedi?
Fox: Quinlan Vos.
Cody: I'm leaving Coruscant.
Hey! I thought Quinfox had not enough AUs + I wanted a fic which combines Jangobi and Quinfox, so I started writing one.
Check it out on AO3! (Link)
It had started with reports about a person using a red lightsaber (obvious Shadow business) on Mandalore's moon Concordia. Obi-Wan had been pulled in on the earlier stages of planning, mostly because of hir knowledge of the context. The Mandalorian Ministry of Inner Affairs had contacted the Order about rumours, mostly, they hadn’t managed to acquire even one holo; Concordia, where the Mandalorians who disagreed with the pacifistic policies were exiled to with the change of government, was barely controlled by anyone at the moment. Quinlan, Obi-Wan and the Masters all agreed in suspecting the figure spotted was just someone unlucky enough to have stumbled upon an ancient Sith lightsaber and lucky enough to have not chopped off any of their limbs yet. Maybe a Force-user. Maybe a little bit corrupted by the Dark Side; but definitely not a trained Acolyte.
Includes non-binary Obi-Wan, Fox and Quin, trans Jango, neopronouns, non-linear narrative, mind control (and then its aftermath and recovery). Check out the tags and author's note for warnings 🧡
(Of 8 chapters, there are some fully written and some not yet, so of course I am posting this to gain motivation to finish the fic. Comments, kudos, reblogs welcome 🌈)