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Separation and Second Chances

It all started with a small argument between Hera and Kanan. The whole crew was already highly stressed with being overloaded with assignments. To add onto the leaning tower of sanity, their current location worsened their moods due to the constant storms. It was trying the Ghost crew's patience and no one was acting like their normal selves.

Kanan wanted to stop with the military protocols and go back to how things were before the rest of the rebellion showed up; when it was just their small crew and small missions they accepted from an mysterious party. He hated change even though he had been taught and he knew that change was needed for life to continue.

The Jedi had enough orders and military protocol during his younger years, and with the war he had been unlucky to be part of. Having to deal with the Empire only fueled his severe dislike of military organizations. Besides that, he didn't like taking orders from strangers or people he didn't trust.

Hera thought otherwise. She felt that they would be more organized and have more success with raising rebellion awareness and destroy the Empire's power quicker. Her skills as a pilot would thrive under the orders of a larger group. She wanted to help more people and stop being the "little guy". She didn't stop and consider why Kanan was being so stubborn. The pale green Twi'lek was too upset with him.

Ezra, Sabine and Zeb were getting frustrated fast. The Lasat and the Mandalorian had been able to avoid most of the fighting. They would just find an excuse to leave, heading to town to get food, or shop around. Zeb enjoyed gambling but made sure not to make any further mistakes of betting droids and ships.

Ezra however was the middle man of most of the arguments and crossfire because of his unconscious need for both Hera and Kanan to be close to him, and not wanting to loose one or the other because of some stupid argument. He had already lost his parents, he didn't want to lose them either. He had tried as hard as he could to stay out of the arguments, which he found pretty childish and a waste of time. They were both adults and yet he was acting more mature. He couldn't understand why they were fighting like a married couple going through a divorce. Anytime he would try and walk away from a fight starting to happen, he would quickly be dragged back in.

"Ezra, tell that Jedi rogue that I need him to finish doing the chores on his list because he is a crew member and is expected to help keep my ship in perfect order if he wants to use it for his missions." The pilot barked angrily as she poured herself a cup of coffee. Kanan had been skipping out on his chores and there were a lot of things piling up on his 'to-do' list; usually he would pawn them off on his student, but Ezra was fairly overwhelmed.

"Hera, he's in the room. Why don't you-" The youth started in, calmly putting his hands up in a peaceful calm trying to diffuse the situation.

"Ezra, tell Hera that I will do my chores when I have time and that I have more important things to deal with." Ezra sighed exasperatedly as his master added to his growing frustration of the two. He thought for a moment about giving in to their antics and playing messenger between the two when Hera chimed in.

"Why because my 'to-do' list is too military for you? Does it have too many protocols? It's not my fault that I want my ship functional and clean. That's how a ship should be and that's how we stay safe." She turned and glared at him, daring him to speak back to her and continue the argument. Kanan didn't care and took the "bait".

"Excuse me for having to train my student. He's getting stronger and if he doesn't learn how to focus himself it's going to end in disaster. Do you want him or any of us hurt? He's been keeping up with all the chores. So what if one or two get forgotten for a few days. It's not going to make a huge difference" He wasn't wrong, he had been working Ezra hard since all the fighting had started. Part of it as a vent of his frustration towards the Twi'lek pilot, the other part because he was concerned.

"It's not going to make a huge difference?!" The Twi'lek's eyes flashed with fire. What the older man said had lit a fuse with the pilot and the argument continued in a yelling volume. Neither of them noticed when the boy slipped out of the common room and left the Ghost to head into town to get away from the yelling and fighting.

After a week of fighting, hurtful things were said in anger and the argument rippled and turned into a tidal wave threatening to destroy the crew's bonds forever. Kanan left the Ghost with Ezra because he "wasn't going to take orders from someone if they were barking military orders all the time and because he couldn't take being around someone that didn't care about the importance of Jedi training".

In all actuality, Kanan didn't mind taking orders from Hera, or "Fulcrum"/Ahsoka, he liked both of them. It was everyone else he had trust issues with. It had taken him several years to come close to another warm body, now he was being flooded, being forced to trust people he had never met before. He was upset that Hera didn't understand him when they had been fighting side by side for so long.

The two remaining crew members of the Ghost had to make choices on who they would follow orders from. Chopper didn't get a choice since Hera owned him. Not that he minded. He was getting angry with all the fighting and tended to lash out and shock anyone he passed.

If Zeb or Sabine tried to help out one or the other they would only succeed in receiving an earful from the other. In the end, the two remaining pretty much stayed with Hera, remaining on speaking terms with Kanan when he allowed it; not because they were more loyal to Hera, but because they had no other place to stay. Kanan was staying in a hotel with Ezra and the room was already tiny enough with the two male humans sharing it.

Ezra had stayed with Kanan because the Jedi was his master and he wasn't really given any other choice. He was determined to try and get them back together while helping out both of them the best he could.