So, this is going to go through the POV of each of the Ghost crew, minus Chopper, in the scene at the end of Twilight of the Apprentice when Ezra and Kanan come back and what happens right afterwards. This is the first one and in Hera's POV. I hope you like it. So, read, review, and enjoy.
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Hera's POV
"Where are they?" I worried as I bustled around the base doing random things to distract myself from the fact that Ahsoka, Kanan, and Ezra were still off on their special mission. I was really starting to regret letting any of them go. I mean I probably couldn't have stopped them, but I could have tried. I didn't try and now I'm scared that something happened because it probably did.
I was walking from the medbay, where I was helping stock the newly acquired supplies, towards the hangar where the Ghost was while thinking these worrying thoughts, when all of the sudden I heard the unmistakeable sound of a ship in the skies above the base. Instinctively I looked up and recognized The Phantom. "They're back!" I almost shrieked. Luckily Sabine and Zeb were already out there doing god knows what, so I didn't have to tell them.
"They're back," I whispered. As the shuttle landed I realized something was wrong, but I couldn't place my finger on what it was. That was until the hatch opened.
Then I saw Ezra and Kanan standing there at the ramp, but Ahsoka wasn't there with them or in the Phantom at all. This took a moment to sink in then and I realized that something must have happened. Then, I looked at the other two. Ezra first and he seemed fine except for this look of loss and guilt on his face. Finally, I looked at Kanan. He had a bandage wrapped around his face over his eyes. No! I yelled in my head. He can't be hurt at all let alone blind. I felt tears coming to my eyes, but blinked them back as best as I could for everyone's sake. I was always the one who you never saw cry even when it got really bad, except to Kanan for he knows me better than anyone and the only one who ever saw me cry except now he can't. No one needed to see me react this way after all Ezra had seen it all happen and the others didn't need to be any more worried.
After a moment of everyone just standing there staring at each other Ezra started to help Kanan forward. Kanan could walk just fine, but he couldn't see where he was going, of course, so Ezra was directing him towards me. Once they had moved a couple of strides I surged forward to met them. When I got to them I gingerly placed my hands on either side of Kanan's head and studied his face. The thing I wanted most of all at that point was to see his beautiful bright aquamarine eyes, but just by looking at the stark white bandage across his face I just knew that I would never see those eyes again. At that realization I dropped my hands and lowered my head to his shoulder as he wrapped his arms around me, pulling me into a hug. A picture of Kanan's eyes popped into my mind and stuck there until I thought about the last time I saw those eyes, when he had come to comfort me before the mission. His exact words while trying to comfort me were, "We'll see each other again. I promise." When I remembered his words there I thought, Oh the irony. He said we'll see each other again, but he won't. I was so close to crying at this thought, but had to keep up my show of toughness.
So, after a moment hugging I pulled out of Kanan's arms and went to his side, the opposite of Ezra who still had his hand on Kanan's shoulder, and took his arm and said, "Come on. We should get you to medbay. And with that Ezra and I guided Kanan to the medbay moving past a silent Sabine still just standing there looking out at nothing and Zeb trying to comfort a clearly devastated Rex.
When we got to the medbay a nurse immediately rushed over and took Kanan to a bed and sat him down to inspect and treat his injuries. I then went to turn to Ezra to make sure that their were no injuries on him, at least physically, only to find he was rushing out the door. I started to head after him when from behind me I heard Kanan say my name a little desperately. So, I went over to the bed Kanan was sitting on and grabbed his hand saying, "I'm right here."
The nurse then started to remove the bandage from around his head. I couldn't help but let out a small sob when I saw Kanan's eyes or what used to be his eyes. Now there was just a deep, 3 inch wide, catalyzed cut horizontally across his eyes and the skin all around it was a deep red. The fact that it was catalyzed made it clear, as if I didn't already know, that it was a lightsaber that blinded him.
I silently sat there the rest of the time Kanan was being treated. After they were done I led Kanan back to the Ghost and his own room.
When we got to his room I led him to his bunk and sat him down sitting next to him. We were silent until I couldn't hold it back anymore. I let the tears fall and I buried my face into his shoulder. I felt him turn towards me so my face was buried in his chest.
We stayed that way until I calmed down enough to stop sobbing, then I said, "I'm sorry,"
He replied, "Why? It's fine," and he wrapped me in his arms again as the tears continued to stream down my face. We sat there for I don't know how long until we both fell asleep like that.