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Kanan had been afraid to face her at first.
He didn't know how Hera would react to his new blindness, he was afraid she would leave him.
They'd been married for years now, but he still felt like at the smallest slip up, she would leave him. With him not being able to see and a liability to their team, he worried he'd made a drastic mistake trusting Maul.
But the moment they neared the base and felt her presence for the first time, he knew they would face this together.
The only emotion coming off of her when they'd landed and Ezra helped him out of the ship was concern. There was so much tenderness in her touch when her hands had landed on his face to inspect the damage. When she'd hugged him, he'd only felt reassurance.
Yes, they would face this together.
The days that followed dragged on. He was constantly in and out of medical. For the most part, he was just tired and in pain. The pain stopped bothering him after a die or so, but annoyance set in soon after.
Annoyance that he'd never get to see Hera again, that he could barely walk two feet in the ghost without bumping into something, that everyone was tiptoeing around him. It all led to a argument between him and Hera.
It all started when Sabine got him a plate of food. The young rebel mostly kept to her room, but since he became blind, her presence was always nearby.
They were about to sit down for dinner and he was fumbling around when Sabine insisted she get him a plate of food.
He didn't remember what he said, but she suddenly disappeared, Ezra following suit a moment later.
"Was that really necessary?" Hera demanded.
He sighed and sat down on the nearest thing he could sense, he was relieved when it was a chair instead of something sharp. "I'm trying my best here, Hera, but you're all treating me like I'm going to break!"
He heard her sign and felt her begin to pace. "We just want to help you get on your feet, this is only temporary. You just have to learn how to do things differently."
"I have to do everything differently!" He snapped and she stopped pacing abruptly. He felt bad, but he kept talking. "Walking around the Ghost is different! Going to the bathroom, getting ready for bed, talking to people, eating. They're all different! You have no idea how frustrating this is!"
He heard her leave then and he truly believed he'd ruined everything, but then she returned. She sat down beside him and took his hand in her own. She lifted it up to her face and he flinched.
She'd wrapped a bandana around her own eyes. She'd made herself temporarily blind.
"Hera, you don't—"
"I want nothing more than to be able to take all of this pain off of your shoulders and carry it myself, but I can't," she interrupted gently. "What I can do is understand what you're going through. So, for the next rotation, I'll be blind"
After that, every single crew member under went the same thing Hera did. They were all more able to understand what he was going through and he was able to learn how to see without seeing.
He used the Force.
He could walk almost anywhere without bumping into something. Things that took more motor skills or fine detail were harder, but, for the most part, he managed.
Things almost were back to the way they were.
Except his sense were heightened. He couldn't just see what was nearby, he could sense most of what was going on with his crew and around the base.
Hera's presence was the strongest.
Kanan could sense Hera no matter where she was on this ship and, for the most part, on the base as well. He could almost tell what she was doing without having any visual clues.
Chopper would always be easy, he could be heard from a mile away. Kanan didn't need to use the force.
Zeb was easy to sense, he was the biggest thing around. Kanan could always sense the big guy.
Sabine was also easy to track, mostly because she never strayed from the four places she visited. She kept to a specific routine and rarely ever strayed from that.
Ezra was the one Kanan had the most trouble with. Seeing how close they were, Kanan thought the younger boy would be second easiest after Hera to sense with the Force. He was so wrong.
It was rare that Kanan could tell where Ezra was, let alone what he was doing. Before, Ezra would constantly be with someone. Now, he mostly kept to himself. There was something different about him, something Kanan couldn't place.
When he approached him about it, the younger boy had practically run form him.
He mentioned it to Hera while they sat in bed one night.
"Ezra went through a traumatic experience," she reasoned. "He probably blames himself for what happened to you."
"I don't blame him," he pointed out.
"I doubt he feels like that," she argued. "Just keep talking to him, okay? Make sure he's doing okay. We're not just a team, we're a family. This is rough on all of us, we need to face this together. No more solo acts."
He reached around and brought her into a hug. She rested her head in his chest, relaxing into his embrace. "I miss your eyes."
"I miss your everything," he informed her. He kissed the top of her head gently. "I love you."
She leaned up to peck him on the lips before settling into a more comfortable position to sleep in. "I love you too."
And then, everything changed.
Everything was fine a peaceful with the Force one minute and then, like someone flipped a switch, there was a disturbance. He couldn't place it, but his gut told him that nothing good would come from this.