Chapter 3: Space Siblings

POV: Hera

I held Ezra while he slept, trying to keep him comfortable and asleep, knowing the instant he woke up he would probably be crying again due to hunger.

I vaguely wondered where Sabine and Zeb were. I highly doubted they knew about the youngest crew-member's predicament.

Kanan finally came back. "Okay, I have formula, bottles, diapers and some clothes, and I ordered a crib."

"Well don't just stand there, make his formula so he can eat. He's been needing to eat for the past hour and a half." I said.

"Right," Kanan said. Kanan got Ezra's bottle ready. "Okay, here." He tried to hand me the bottle.

"No, you are feeding him." I said handing over Ezra.

"Why me?" Kanan asked.

"Because I've been holding him for the past hour and a half." I said and left.

I heard Kanan sigh.

POV: Ezra

I felt someone touch my foot and voice say, "Come one baby, time to wake up."

I opened my eyes to see Kanan.

"I bet your starving." Kanan said and put a bottle near my mouth.

I eagerly opened my mouth and Kanan placed the bottle in my mouth and started sucking on it. Formula entered my mouth which I happily swallowed. It tasted a bit weird, but I knew this was probably the only thing my new baby body could eat.

"I don't know what I'm going to do Ezra." Kanan admitted to me. He still must think I have no idea really what he was saying, but I did. I looked at him while I ate, silently wishing him to continue.

"I don't know how to raise a child." Kanan said. "They don't exactly teach it at the Temple. I just know some basic that basically come from logic." He sighed. "I really wished I picked up a datadisk on child care."

I wished I could tell him that he would do fine. Between him and Hera they should know enough, and I wasn't exactly a total baby, yeah I still needed to be cared for, but they hardly needed to child proof anything, I knew not to go sticking my fingers in sockets or anything like that, not that they knew that.

Kanan smiled, "I guess this is something I'll figure out as I go along. I just hope I don't mess anything up."

I took only a little longer to finish my bottle. Kanan took the empty bottle from my mouth and set it aside. I knew you had to burp smaller babies after they ate, but did Kanan know that? He wasn't moving to do so, so I took that as I no.

I started to feel vaguely uncomfortable, and it only got worse. Kanan needed to burp me, but he wasn't, I guess I needed to remind him. I started to fuss, not crying per say, just letting him know something was wrong, which he immediately picked up on.

"What's wrong?" Kanan asked. "Force I don't know!"

"Kanan, is something wrong?" a voice asked, I recognized that it was Sabine's voice.

A moment later she must have come in because Kanan acknowledged her with his problem. "I don't know what's wrong."

"Did you just feed this baby?" Sabine asked.

"Yes," Kanan answered.

"Did you burp it?" Sabine asked.

"Did I what?" Kanan asked.

"I'll take that as a no." Sabine sighed. "Give it here."

I was a little degraded being called an 'it' but I put it off because: a.) Sabine didn't know it was me, b.) since she didn't know it was me, she didn't necessarily know whether the mysterious baby was a boy or girl, and c.) I was to uncomfortable with the need to be burped to care much.

I was passed over to Sabine, who positioned me properly and proceeded to pat my back.

'At least one crew member knows something about infant care.' I thought.

It only took me about a half a minute to burp.

POV: Sabine

"Okay, question time." I said. "Who is this baby? And why do you have a baby if you obviously don't know how to care for it?" I positioned said baby so I was cradling it. It was rather cute. It had big bright blue eyes and thin blue hair.

"The baby is Ezra," Kanan said. At the look of shock and confusion on my face he added, "Yes, our Ezra Bridger. As to why he is a baby, Ahsoka thought he needed another childhood since he didn't get much of one the first time, so she used some weird magic to de-age him into a five month old baby. And I didn't ask to care for him, but I have to."

"You need parenting lessons." I said.

"How do you know how to care for a baby?" Kanan asked.

"I had a baby cousin I use to take care of when I was about thirteen." I explained. "You said he was five months?"

"Yeah," Kanan confirmed.

I changed my hold on Ezra so I had an arm under his bottom and his back against my chest and other arm across his chest so he didn't fall forward. "So you don't have to cradle him all the time. He has basic head support. And he can sit in your lap, pretty much okay."

"You don't seem to shocked that Ezra is now a baby." Kanan said.

"Naw, I agree with Ahsoka that he needed another chance at childhood." I admitted. "Just a little warning would have been nice. I suppose you have very little baby supplies considering he is only wearing a rag for a diaper, which by the way, may need to be changed soon."

"I just got formula, bottles, diapers and some clothes from the store a few minutes ago." Kanan said.

Ezra was leaning forward as far as my arm allowed and reaching his arms out towards Kanan.

"It looks like he wants his daddy." I smiled.

"I'm not a father." Kanan said softly, taking Ezra when I handed him over. Kanan sat Ezra on his lap so he was leaning against his chest and he put his arms protectively around him.

"You're doing fine given the situation." I comforted.

I noticed Ezra was shivering slightly and leaning into Kanan quite a bit.

"He's probably cold." I said. "Go put a real diaper on him and some clothes."

"Right," Kanan said, leaving the kitchen to head to his room.

POV: Kanan

I carried Ezra towards my room the way Sabine had held him in the kitchen, which due to his size, was much easier than the way I thought I had to hold him.

I laid Ezra down on my bunk once I reached my cabin and searched though the bags to find the diapers and an outfit for him.

I peeled the towel diaper off him and quickly put on the actual diaper, before putting the clothes on.

"There, that's better, right?" I asked. He wasn't crying so I figured that was good.

"Kanan?" there was a knock on my door.

"Come in." I said, and in walked Zeb.

"Hera and Sabine said something about the kid was now a baby." Zeb explained. "Is this true?"

"See for yourself." I said pointing at Ezra on the bed. Zeb walked over to the bed and looked at Ezra, and stared back up at the Lasat.

Zeb smirked. "Tiny thing, isn't he. No bigger than my hand."

"Oh Zeb, don't tease the baby." I said.

"I'm not teasing him." Zeb said. "Merely pointing out that he is small." He leaned down and picked up Ezra, who surprisingly didn't fuss. I thought babies fussed when being passed to people they didn't know, but I guess I was wrong.

"How are we going to do missions with the kid like this?" Zeb asked.

"We did missions before we picked him up." I pointed out. "But, Ahsoka is a Jedi too. We'll just have to deal with no one in the vents."

"Who will watch him?" Zeb asked.

"Hera usually stays on this ship anyways." I said. "You know, for a quick getaway."

"So, I was the last one to find out about Ezra being a baby, when he shares my room?" Zeb asked.

"He's obviously not going to share your room now." I pointed out. "He will most likely sleep in a crib in here."

"What about Hera's room?" Zeb asked.

"Chopper," I said. "I don't want to know what he's going to do to him."

"Good point there," Zeb admitted. "Where is his crib anyways?"

"It's still at the store." I said, "Could you go picked it up for me so I could watch Ezra?"

Zeb sighed, but agreed, passing Ezra back over and left the room.

I smile, "That was you big brother Zebby."

"I heard that," the offended Lasat called.

I ignored him, "You've already meet your big sister Sabine, but I don't think we told you her name, so let's go see if we can find her. We'll also see if we can find mommy." I could tell having a baby was going change me, it already was.