Hello, everyone! How's life? I just want to say that I have been majorly busy lately. Learning about the digestive system and the heart has been a bit taxing. Although, I am now able to identify the chambers, vessels, and valves of the heart. I'm planning on getting a fish for doing well on that until. I might want to name him, Chordae Tendineae Bridger... Just so everyone knows, I give my fish fun names to get it out of my system. Anyway, enough about my life. Onto the story! Enjoy!

Ahsoka never doubted that the job of teaching was difficult. After looking back on her training with Anakin and the stories Obi-wan told of his time training Anakin, she figured it would be hard. Given the circumstances, it would be even more difficult.

That meant there had to be as few distractions as possible, which could possibly lead to more difficulties. Part of it was that she would have to leave the rebellion for the beginning of Ezra's training. The other part was that Ezra would have to go without seeing the Ghost crew for awhile. More likely than not, it would be hard on him.

The boy was still in the corner, not bothering to look up at where the ship was going. That was for the best. Ahsoka was aware of how much Hera had told her crew of the rebellion. Next to nothing. And even when he was with Ahsoka, a leader in the rebellion, he'd be kept in the dark. The fact of it did not unsettle Ahsoka, it was for his own good. The more he knew the more of a target he'd be, if being a Jedi wasn't known already.

He finally looked around when the ship attached to a larger station. "Where are we?" he asked.

"Secret location," Ahsoka responded quickly, shutting off the ship's computer. Ezra's eyes were still as full of questions as ever, but he was still keeping his conversation with Ahsoka at a minimum. "Ezra, I'm going to need you to stay here. There's something I need to do." The look on his face gave no indication that he would obey. "I won't be long," she promised. "Just wait here for a bit."

She walked out the door, leaving Ezra in the ship. It was absolutely imperative that she keep him a secret. Even from the rebellion, for now at least. She trusted certain people, Commander Sato and Senator Organa, but having a growing rebellion had its share of drawbacks. Traitors and spies were her main concern.

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Ezra rubbed his eyes. There were filled with a mixture of sleep and tears. He hadn't gotten a good night's sleep since before Kanan was captured. He released a long breath.

In all honesty, he didn't know how he felt about Ahsoka. She was supposed to train him in Kanan's permanent absence, so that instantly made Ezra feel hostility towards her. On the other hand, she was a Jedi, or had been. He couldn't help but feel respect for her with that fact. On top of that, Hera trusted her, so that gave him reason to put faith in her.

He shrugged to himself. He could ponder this later, but really whether he trusted her or not didn't matter. For now, he was stuck with her. Unless, he took her ship and flew off….

He decided against that. He may have hated this situation, but it wasn't as though he'd be able to make it back to the Ghost with ease, and he wasn't willing to go back to life on the streets on Lothal. He sighed. That left him to stay there.

Ezra stretched his arms above his head. Staying in one place for hours at a time didn't appeal to him. Time to explore. What was this "secret location"? It sounded interesting enough.

Some small voice within him seemed to tell him not to run off. For now Ahsoka was his master, and it was probably best to do what she said. Ezra bit his lip as he thought about it, then shook his head. It's not like this will get me killed. Besides, when I met the everyone on the Ghost, I was trying to steal the holocron and see how that turned out.

He suddenly swallowed hard as he remembered that on the the members of the Ghost was dead, and the rest were far away from him. In any case, he thought, trying to clear those thoughts from his head. I'd prefer not to think about all of this right now. Exploring wherever he was acted as distraction enough.

So, without a second thought, he opened the door and ran out.

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"I'm taking an extended leave of absence," Ahsoka said, her fingers tightly laced on her lap. The few people within the rebellion who knew of her existence exchanged glances among themselves. Whispers spread around. The former Jedi stiffened. "It's for personal reasons." She said it as though she had much of a life outside of the rebellion. Well, she did now...

A restlessness that she hadn't known since she was just a teenager in the war suddenly set over her. This meeting seemed to be taking forever. She needed to get back to her ship and get Ezra away from here. The faster they could leave, the better. The chances of the boy getting discovered rose by the minute.

Generally, the rebellion was secure in terms of what kind of people were involved, but she couldn't shake the idea of some imperial spy giving away coordinates or sending inquisitors after them. Her encounter with the Sixth Brother had been bad enough.

Ahsoka darted out of the room the second the meeting was adjourned. Time to run. She kept her eyes focused dead ahead as she strode through the halls, not slowing down to give anyone a chance to chat with her.

"Okay, Ezra," she said as she entered her ship. "That's taken ca-" She stopped speaking mid sentence. The padawan wasn't there. It wasn't a large ship, around the size of Hera's Phantom, so it had limited hiding places. Spots that she doubted Ezra would hide in. She'd lost him.

Force! She thought in panic as the knot in her stomach seemed to tighten and grow at the same time. I haven't even had him for twelve hours and I already lost him?! How would I explain this to Hera if she calls? I've got to find him!

Ahsoka shut the door to her ship and prepared to search. How the Force do I lose a teenager?! She huffed, this was ridiculous. She didn't like the situation anymore than Ezra did, but it was something that they both had to get through. Hiding from it definitely didn't help matters. She closed her eyes for a second, focusing on finding Ezra's Force signature.

Come on. Come on… She thought as she sifted through the other signatures on the ship, sorting through them slowly.

There! A strong Force signature laced with pain, hurt, and a small percentage of excitement was only a few rooms down. That had to be him. Ahsoka locked onto the signature, masking her own as she did so. Ezra must not of learned the element of stealth yet or he didn't care if she sensed him. In any case, it was time to bring him back.

Really? Ahsoka thought to herself. Going through the air ducts? She shrugged to herself. If that was Ezra's prefered way of travel, far be it for her to judge him. She leaned against the wall, waiting Ezra to get a bit closer.

"Ezra!"Ahsoka called as she banged on the banged on the wall, which was right next to the air duct that Ezra was crawling through. He must have jumped back in surprise because she could hear the sound of his body hitting the wall then a slight grunt of pain. She contorted her face in an empathetic grimace. "Ezra, come on. We've got to get going."

She heard a heavy sigh and sensed that he didn't want to go anywhere with her. He got the feeling that if he took another ride in Ahsoka's ship, it would take him even farther from the Ghost. That was accurate. He would be taken far from them in order to minimize distractions.

If he hadn't been struggling with loss, Ahsoka would have chided him. She'd have to be as gentle as she could, despite how difficult it was. Ahsoka slid into a sitting position. "Yeah, I know. It's rough." She could hear him shifting behind the wall. If she really wanted to, she could cut a hole in the wall and drag him out, but that would work against the connection she was trying to form.

She glanced around, no one stood in the hallway. Her sitting against a wall like that would look strange. Nothing in the Force felt off, except for Ezra's emotional state. "I was about your age when I became a padawan." She didn't know why she said it, but the words slipped out of her mouth. "That was before the empire."

Ezra could hear a strange sense of longing in her voice. "Everything changed after the war." A quiet sense of calm washed over Ezra. "Everything changed… except for the Force." Kanan had said something like that. "Regardless of how many Jedi or Sith there are, the Force will always be the same." She didn't have to say that there were only a few Jedi left, or that there was one less Jedi as of a few days ago.

"My master once told me that before I started training with him, his master said that teaching is a privilege. It's a Jedi's responsibility to pass on their knowledge to the next generation." Ezra sensed a deep sadness lodged within Ahsoka's Force signature as she spoke. He silently released an almost irritated breath. She was getting to him. As much as he hated the idea of being trained by someone other than Kanan, he owed it to his deceased master.

Ezra sighed audibly this time. Kanan had taken him in, he taught him how to use the Force. Now he was dead, and the only way that Ezra could think to honor his memory was to become the Jedi that Kanan had seen in him. "I'll meet you back at the ship," Ezra said quietly as he turned around and backtracked to his starting point.

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