I started writing this is a two part but then chapter one took a life of its own so they came separately but will be released back to back.


Sabine and Ezra walked back to the Ghost from a shopping trip as they neared the last part of the city before the grassy fields where the Ghost was hidden.

"Oh Ezra I forgot a part of the things we need to buy. I can just buy it and then you can wait out here" Sabine said, she did not wish a repeat of the last shop.

Ezra just nodded and walked over to the hose on the other side and leaned up against it waiting for Sabine to finish.

As Sabine walked out of the shop with the last few items bought she came over to the wall and found Ezra where he had waited for her. Only he was eagerly eating a small piece of fruit - an yougern she noticed.

"Hey Ezra where did you get this?" Sabine asked.

Ezra's sighted and would not meet her eyes as he just started to eat the food faster.

"I found it" was all Ezra would say.

Suddenly Sabine became worried - had Ezra stole the fruit? Ezra had admitted that he primarily feed himself by stealing when he was on the street, but surely that had not happened now?

"Let us get back the rest of the crew must be waiting" Ezra said and started walking.

"Oh no, not before you tell me where you got this" Sabine demanded.

"Sabine it is nothing, just a piece of fruit" Ezra said frustrated.

"Then tell me where you got it. I just want to know that you did not steal it that is all" Sabine growled.

The look of hurt and betray flashed over her face and Sabine felt a little guilty, but she wanted to be sure.

"I did not steal it okay, I found it" Ezra growled at her.

"Then were?" Sabine demanded.

Ezra rolled his eyes and pointed. What he pointed at turned out to be a trash can near one of buildings.

"EZRA" Sabine shouted.

"What?" Ezra asked confused.

"THAT is disgusting. I don't want you to do that, it is disgusting to do such a thing" Sabine snapped.

"Sabine please it is just a piece of fruit" Ezra said, frustrating coloring his voice, but hurt was also in it.

Ezra was starting to eat the fruit with great speed.

"Throw it out" Sabine demanded.

"No" Ezra growled as he swallowed the last part of the fruit and slurped the juice inside him.

"Ezra no" Sabine scolded him fiercely "It is disgusting".

Ezra just looked at her hurt and turned around and walked towards the Ghost.

"Don't you turn your back to me" Sabine called angrily.

Ezra only speeded up as they went back.

"Ezra gets back here immediately" Sabine called really angry that he tried to get away from her.

Ezra flat out ran the last part rushing into the Ghost with Sabine behind him yelling at him.

"Ezra, Sabine what in the world is going on" Hera called angrily.

Sabine now in a fine temper walked into the cockpit where Ezra was already looking to the floor.

"Now what is all this about?" Hera demanded.

"Nothing Hera" Ezra said.

"Ezra took a piece of fruit from the trash can and ate it, and when I tried to get him to throw it away, he just stuck with it, ate all of it and then ran away from me" Sabine growled

"What Ezra … why would you do that? It is unhygienic and disgusting" Hera said looking at Ezra.

Ezra looked almost pained when Kanan and Zeb walked in

"What is going on?" Kanan asked.

Hera told him and he looked with sympathy at Ezra, but also Zeb shoot him a sympathetic look.

"Zeb could you and Ezra goes and make some lunch? I need a word with Hera and Sabine" Kanan said.

"WHAT Kanan?" the woman shouted.

Ezra rushed out of the room, with Zeb following after him having a strange expression on his face.

SWR

Ezra looked down as he walked to the kitchen, he did not want to hear anymore about that stupid fruit. For crying out loud it had not been rotten or wormy and it was laying on the top of the trash can.

"It is not your fault kid" Zeb said gently.

Ezra turned around and looked at Zeb for a for long time. It was abnormal for Zeb to be so gently around him, but then he took a good look at him and saw the half pained expression on Zeb's face.

"You too Zeb?" Ezra asked gently.

"Yes kid all though probably not as much as you. When Lasan felt, I had nothing left, so I had to go off world and …. well the empire wasn't fond of letting people hire me or just get near them" Zeb said and paused followed.

"I am sorry Zeb" Ezra said gently.

"It's okay kid, not your fault and don't let Sabine's reaction get to you. She has never tried such things, so to her it seems disgusting but that doesn't mean she finds you disgusting" Zeb said.

Ezra looked a little doubting but Zeb tried to pull a smile and Ezra smiled back a little.

"Now let us make some lunch" Zeb said and Ezra nodded.

SWR

"Kanan what?" Hera asked.

"Yes he has to …" Sabine started but Kanan held a hand to stop them.

"Hera, Sabine tell me has any of you ever tried to be hungry? I mean not just skip a meal kind of hungry, but hungry to the point where all you think about is how hungry you are. The point where all food … any type of food, regardless of if it is vormy or rotten, looks so good to you and the pain in your stomach grow every minute demanding some form of food? The point where ypu can barely lift your hand or arm to try and snatch somethig?" Kanan asked them.

Both Hera and Sabine looked confused and sadly at each other before both of them shook their heads.

"I am glad you never have experienced that. But for those of us that have snatching fruits from garbage cans has been our only way to survive, to prevent yourself from dying of starvation and people look down on you for it. They themselves has never been so low that rotten food from a garbage can was the only way not to die. They don't understand why you just don't get a job and get something to eat. I … I have experience so myself. Sometimes there was people taking pity of me and gave up what they have to save me from dying of starvation. To be honest they had nothing themselves and yet they offered what little they had found in the dumpster to me so I could survive. Live through something like that and you will never say taking a piece a fruit out of garbage can is disgusting, it might be the only thing that have kept you alive" Kanan said having a pained expression on his face.

"I am so sorry Kanan" both Sabine and Hera said.

"Not to me, to Ezra, it was him you hurt, after all he lived 8 years on the streat. The rational part of his brain knows he no longer has to, but old habits die hard. Sometime I am still scruffeling my food down, afraid someone will snatch it from me even though my mind tells me you won't. This happens to me and I was on the street far shorter than he was" Kanan said.

Hera and Sabine looked down in shame. Sabine was having tears in her eyes clearly upset about her former actions.

"I am sorry Kanan, I am so, so sorry" Sabine said.

"You don't have to … at least for me. I learned the lesson you are leaning now because of that and it made me a better person due to that. Before that I was looking down at people who ate out of dumpster. First when I tried it myself I found out how little these people have and they do it out of need or desperation" Kanan told them quietly.

"I have to find Ezra. I have to apologize, he must be really sad after this and the evil man" Sabine said nearly crying.

"What evil man Sabine?" Kanan asked.

"A shop owner threw Ezra out because he thought he would steal from him even though he had showed him his money" Sabine explained.

"No one trust a street rat" Kanan mumbled under his breath.

Sabine and Hera looked at him sadly before he sighted, tried to send them a smile and lift the mood.

"I am going to find Ezra" Sabine said.

"Me too" Hera said.

Both woman went out the door Kanan followed feeling a small glimmer of happiness. Being on the street was not easy but he had learned a lot of things and he was glad that he had helped Sabine and Hera understand this a little better.


A/N There, my two parter finished. I only have a few more ideas so give me ideas if you have something you want to see. All of the stories will be short like this one and focus will be on the character interaction and not big action scenes. It will rarely be set a specific place in the series.