This is a one-shot following the events of "The Protectors of Concord Dawn" in which Sabine opens up about her heritage.
"Guess I was just raised right," Sabine smiled down at Hera. She considered her and Kanan as surrogate parents after what had happened after the academy.
Kanan smiled down at the girl with pride. She had come a long way from when he first meets her, an angry Mandalorian out for vengeance. He was intensely relieved that she hadn't killed anyone today even though he knew that she wanted too.
Hera made a move to sit up and Kanan rushed to her side to assist her. Hera clamped the Jedi's hand and turned to Sabine. "Can you go find Fulcr- I mean Commander Tano for me? There are some matters of this new hyperspace route I have to discuss with her."
Sabine nodded and turned to leave knowing that Hera and Kanan would want a moment to themselves. She found a tight smile forming on her lips as she placed her helmet back on, the subtext between the pilot and the Jedi was clear. Zeb might ignore it and Ezra might be oblivious but it was still there.
Once she was gone and her footsteps receded down the hall Heras grip on Kanans hand grew stronger. Kanan looked down at her concerned.
She looked into the Jedi's eyes "Tell me what really happened," Hera said.
"What's there to tell you? We went down, knocked some heads together, blew stuff up and kidnapped a Mandalorian." Kanan asked jokingly.
Hera wasn't really in the mood for his jokes, "Not that. What's going on with Sabine? Somethings bothering her," Her maternal instincts were going off like crazy, Sabine was holding something back from her. "Did something happen when she encountered the other Mandalorians?"
Kanan grimaced, "Oh that. I'm going to need to sit down for this," He did and started telling Hera everything he could on remember.
Elsewhere in the ship, Sabine Wren was thankful that she had a helmet on. She didn't want anybody to see her face right now, which she imagined was trembling and pallid. The encounter with the other Mandalorians had rattled her more than she cared to admit.
"I'm Clan Wren house Vizla!"
" She's Deathwatch, Traitor!"
"My mother was-"
Sabine pushed the moment to the back of her mind. She hadn't thought of her mother for years. The day's events pushed years' worth of buried childhoods back at her at full force and she hadn't been prepared for the emotional fallout. Even running into Ketsu again had been nothing to this.
Why had she admitted that her mother was a traitor? She had been many things but an outright traitor wasn't one of them.
Deep in thought Sabine almost forgot about her task to find Ashoka Tano and almost walked past her and Ezra conversing about why Ashoka's lightsabers were white.
"But why do yours get to be white? Mine is just boring blue!" Ezra whined looking down at the weapon at his hip.
Sabine didn't get a chance to give Ashoka a chance to answer and walked right into the side room where they were talking.
Ezra looked up and a beamed at her, "Hey Sabine! I heard the mission went well and you captured some mandalorian guy, Finn Rey-"
"Fenn Rau" Sabine corrected him rolling her eyes under her helmet at the unmandalorian name.
"Right, well I was close-"
"Not really." Sabine muttered but turned to Ashoka, "Hera would like to speak to you about the new hyperspace route."
The older Jedi's eyebrows raised in surprise, "Oh so soon? I figured that Captain Syndulla would want a few more hours of rest first."
"Well, you know Hera always putting others above herself."
Ashoka nodded in agreement. "All right then led the way,"
Sabine inclined her helmet at Ezra and lead Ashoka down the hall to the medical bay. They walked in silent for about five minutes when Ashoka spoke up, "Well I feel obligated to congratulate you on such a successful mission."
Under the helmet Sabine raised an eyebrow. Ashoka had never made an effort to talk to her before. Hell, they probably never had a real conversation up until this point beside brief exchanges when they passed each other.
Feeling that she was being rude Sabine responded, "Thank you."
Ashoka glanced at the mandalorian, "Really I mean it. Suggesting the route through concord dawn was a stroke of genius and you handled yourself very well down on the base."
Her cheeks were turning red in embarrassment.
Ashoka continued. "If I may ask, what house were you?" She had her suspicions ever sense she meet the explosion expert of the ghost crew that she seemed familiar. But she could never place it or act on her intuitions until now. She watched as the girls shoulders seemed to have gone rigid. She bite her lip, maybe she should have thrown in a few more compliments before she drove home the real reason why she was talking to her.
"I'm clan Wren," Sabine stated. Then after a pause, "Clan Wren, House Visla."
Ashoka couldn't help but gasp out, "House Visla? As in the Death Watch?"
Under the helmet Sabine was starting to loath this conversation. "Yes, as in the Death Watch."
"Your helmet looks familiar, not the paint of course but the general design. Did it belong to someone in your family, someone in Death Watch?" Ashoka didn't care about being subtle anymore. She had a feeling that her suspicions were going to be correct.
Sabine glared at the Jedi, "You're not exactly subtle you realize that correct?"
Ashoka shrugged apologetically, "Sorry, but please just humor me."
"If you must know it belonged to my mother."
"Who was in the Death Watch correct?" Ashoka asked gently.
"Yes," Sabine affirmed.
Ashoka smiled in glee "may I ask what your mother's name was?"
Sabine's eyes were getting cloudy, "You may not." She didn't want to be having this conversation now, especially with someone she considered a stranger. Hell, she hadn't even told the crew of the Ghost the full story yet.
"Was her name Bo-Katan?" Ashoka whispered.
Sabine's head snapped up and she stared mouth open at the Jedi. "How—how did you know that? You didn't Jedi mind trick me or anything did you?"
"No I didn't"
"Then how did you know who my mother was?" Sabine's voice was getting dangerously low.
Ashoka had a faraway look in her eyes, "Because I met her once. I never knew quite what happened to her after the clone wars. I knew that she rebelled when Darth Maul seized Mandalore and helped to rescue a comrade of mine but after that nobody knows. I was asked by a colleague of mine to figure out what happened to her, he wanted to – talk."
Sabine's jaw grew tight, "Well that makes two of us. I haven't seen her since I was in the imperial academy." They arrived at the medical bay. "I can trust you can find your way to captain Syndulla?"
Ashoka knew that their little conversation was done and over. "Yes, thank you. Oh and Sabine," the Mandalorian turned around to face her, "my colleagues name is Obi- Won Kenobi. I just thought you should know that. Your mother saved a dear friend of mine."
Sabine nodded and turned around, "Yes but she couldn't save them all."