Wow such positive support. It is wonderful and I am really glad and it motivates me. Yes a few grammar errors but unless a beta is somewhere out there I am all on my own. I have made the mistake of saying Captain instead of General when writing about Hera by her rank. Sorry it will General from now on.


Ezra and Hera crawled down from the wolves as the slowed down outside the city which the wolves refused to enter. Hera helped Pryce down and removed the blindfold and started showing her towards the dome.

"What are we going back to the empire?" Pryce asked surprised.

"Well they have the resources to handle your problem much better than we can" Hera said.

"But why?" Pryce snapped.

"Tell me did you even pay attention? Thrawn ordered us to surrender so we do. We don't have the resources to handle your problem and neither you or us like to be be in each others present. This is the easiest solution for everyone and beside you kind of already are a criminal like us. After all you passed a law saying association or help to the rebels was a punishable offence and with you being a regular citizen you are no longer immune to it" Hera said coldly.

Pryce lost all color in her face when Hera made that point and then glared at them.

"I will not do that" Pryce said.

"Suit yourself. Have fun in a city filled with people which hate you" Ezra said as the two continued without her.

Reluctantly Pryce followed suit and soon all three of them reached the dome. Hera turned to Ezra.

"Ezra please reconsider, Thrawn will most likely torture both me and you. I don't want you to suffer through that" Hera said.

"I know Hera but we are doing this for Kanan. I won't stand back and watch while Thrawn shoot him" Ezra said.

Hera sighted before she knocked on the door. The door swung upon and they careful stepped inside. Several troopers was in the midst of running towards them with their blasters pointed at them and Hera and Ezra patiently waited as the troopers took their blasters and cuffed them. Ezra had left his lightsaber back at the camp not willing to hand it over to Thrawn and the same went to Hera's kalikori.

"What about her?" a trooper asked and pointed at Pryce.

"She wish to ask for your protection, she is hunted in the city by its population" Hera said coldly not looking at Pryce.

Pryce glared at her but nodded at her explanation and was escorted out of view as the two was roughly escorted to Thrawn. Being back in the dome was hard for Hera, it reminded her so much of the last time she had been forced through these halls. They even passed Pryce's former office and she could almost hear her own scream in her mind and she shuttered. Ezra could not help her but he could tell how she was uncomfortable being back here.

After some walking they went through the door and into Thrawn's office which was littered with art. Hera noticed an empty space and she guessed it was where her kalikori had once stood, her heart ached when she remembered how Kanan had taken time to find it for her as he came to free her. Now she would gladly have traded it in exchange for him but Thrawn was after something else now. Hera could not help but fear that they were now the great price for Thrawn.

"General Syndulla and Commander Bridger it was a wise decision to surrender" a smooth voice said.

Thrawn sat behind his desk looking at them. Hera recalled how Thrawn had mocked her during the interregation and she narrowed her eyes staring at the alien.

"You did not give us a choice Thrawn" Hera said coldly.

"You could have chosen to let your jedi die but instead you chose to be rebels. Predictable, you always come rushing to save one another" Thrawn said.

"Yes well at least we care. Do you think any from the empire would come for you, if we had you?" Ezra growled.

"I am high ranking enough that they probably would" Thrawn said.

"Does it not bother you that they only care about your rank and not you?" Hera asked.

"It is what is expected in this situation" Thrawn said calmly.

"It must be a lonely existence only to care about power and have no friends" Ezra muttered.

"It is my choice Commander Bridger but enough of that. I want you to tell me where the rebels are hiding" Thrawn said.

"No we won't" Hera said but tensed, she knew what it would cost her saying those words.

"No you were quit stubborn about not saying this, the last time you were here" Thrawn replied.

Ezra felt angry that Thrawn so casually talked about how Hera was tortured. Thrawn turned to one of his paintings and Hera and Ezra noticed that it was a painting Sabine had made.

"I must admit the young mandalorien rebel is very skilled or rather was. I managed to preserve a few of her pieces" Thrawn said.

"You think you can take what want. Things you didn't make, didn't earn. Things you don't even understand. You don't deserve to have this art or Lothal" Ezra said as he stepped closer.

"Who deserve what is irrelevant. What matters is. Who … Has … POWER" Thrawn said calmly yet forcefully as he neared Ezra.

"You came here because you feared the power I had over your leader and now I will take you to him and give you time to think about how I can execute my power over him if you continue to deny me" Thrawn said.

Thrawn walked over to them and guided them, along with troopers in front and back, through the dome. After having walked for some time and passed through several security points where stormtroopers standing guards did Thrawn stop at a door and let the scanner read him before the lock clicked and the door swung open. Inside on the floor layed …. Kanan. Kanan was laying unmoving on the floor. Kanan had a very short chain around his ankle and wrists which was attached to the wall, leaving him with a very restricted room for moving. Around his neck was fastened a collar and his face was littered with cuts and several places was his shirt ripped which Hera recognized as courtesy from a torture droid which made her anger boil and her heart ache.

Kanan had his hands clenched around his stomach like he was in pain. Before any of them could say and do anything a rumble was heard and Hera and Ezra realised that Kanan was hungry. Ezra's anger rose and he remembered how he had felt when he had been on the streets alone and starving. Ezra knew that you had to be really hungry, more hungry than just skipping a day with food, meaning that Thrawn had starved him even before he contacted them. Ezra turned to Thrawn.

"Thrawn how long have you been starving him?" Ezra snapped angrily.

"Since he came to me after the fuel tank exploded" Thrawn said.

"You are nuts that is five days without food" Hera snapped angrily.

"I could not risk him being able to run" Thrawn said.

"So you starved, chained and tortured him to prevent it?" Hera said white with furry.

"The torture you can hold Pryce responsible for" Thrawn said.

"So starving and chaining him is not torture?" Hera said full of anger.

"Kanan Jarrus tried to run off yesterday. I had to keep him under control. Now step inside, I must go as I am sure your friends is getting ready to rush forward to save you. I am going to send you a meal for Jarrus" Thrawn ordered and the stormtroopers shoved them inside roughly. Without being able to use their hand they both felt inside.

Once inside Hera and Ezra rushed over to Kana who not had stirred even once during the conversation.

"Love" Hera whispered to Kanan in a low and gentle tone and stroking his cheeks.

"Kanan" Ezra said trying to carefully shake Kanan awake which was not easy with cuff on, but none of it seemed to help. After giving up getting Kanan to wake up Hera after two times managed to carefully laid his head in her lap. Silently they sat waiting for Kanan to finally wake up, it felt like hours.

Suddenly the door opened and a trooper came in with a tray a food before he hastily backed out and locked the door. Ezra hurried over to fetch the tray with his restrained hands making him pull on the cuffs and he flinched at the pain before he got the tray and placed it next to Kanan. The smell of food seemed to do the trick as Kanan started to moan and turn around before he slowly opened his eyes. Hera and Ezra froze as Kanan blinked and slowly focused on them.

"Kanan" Hera said relieved and unable to hug him she tossed herself into his chest, before he could do or say anything.

"Hera" Kanan gasped sounding rather breathless.

Hera carefully leaned away from Kanan and he took some painted breathes before he focused once more on them.

"No … no, no, no it can't be, it mustn't be. You can't be here" Kanan said panicked.

"Kanan, Kanan easy, slow down what is up with you?" Hera smoothed.

"No you don't understand … you can't be here, you can't please if you can leave somehow do so" Kanan said in panic.

"Kanan what is wrong?" Ezra asked.

Kanan looked at them like he was in pain.

"You can't stay here, Thrawn can't get you please go" Kanan begged to them.

"Kanan stop you are making no sense" Hera demanded.

Kanan looked painfully at her.

"You are here, you surrendered didn't you?" Kanan asked.

Both Hera and Ezra nodded.

"Now Thrawn has what he wants most. Thrawn has been ordered to take me and Ezra to Coruscant and Hera, Zeb and Sabine was to be interrogated and then send to the salt mines of Kessel if you survived. The execution was a set up. The emperor has given the order to get us and now Thrawn has almost all of us" Kanan said with a voice full of pain.

Hera and Ezra stiffened when they heard what was install for them.

Suddenly Kanan's stomach rumbled again and Kanan looked at the try of food with hunger written in his face.

"Eat Kanan but try to take it slow. You have been starved for five days so your stomach is not used to food after so long" Hera said and pushed the plate over to Kanan.

As Kanan started to eat and drink the food and water Ezra observed him and could see how hungry he was. It made his heart ached as he recalled how things was on the street. After some time Kanan finished and sighed in relief.

"Kanan" Ezra said softly.

Kanan looked at Ezra like he first really noticed him know.

"Ezra" Kanan said.

Kanan crawled towards him but the chains was pretty short and Kanan could not reach Ezra. So Ezra moved in and tried to hug Kanan with his hand cuffed made difficutl. Kanan leaned in and gave him a gentle hug all though his chains was in the way, a painful reminder that all 3 of them was prisoners.

"Oh force Ezra I never thought I would do this again. I was sure I would die from that explosion" Kanan said while holding on to him.

Ezra fiercely leaned into the hug enjoying the familie sent of Kanan once again.

"Kanan" Ezra said out close to sobbing as he was hugged by the man which was the closest thing he had to a father.

"Ezra" Kanan said sounding just as close to tears.

After some time the two men slowly let go of each other. As Ezra let go Hera moved in and leaned into Kanan again careful not to hurt him as she buried her head in his arms and sobbed over seeing and being with the man she loved again. After a long moment Hera too let Kanan go and looked at him.

"Kanan do you know how you survived?" Hera asked gently.

Kanan shook his head as he replied "I woke up in a cell on Trawn's Star Destroyer"

Hera and Ezra shared a look with each other a look Kanan recognized as one Ezra would use when he was in trouble which made him worry.

"I … I" Ezra began in a tone Kanan recognized as one meaning his padawan had done something he would not like.

Before Ezra could say anything further Kanan held his hand up and stopped him.

"Whatever you will say don't. I am pretty sure they have camera here somewhere even though we can't see it so don't say anything they can use against us" Kanan said.

Hera and Ezra nodded.

"Fine let us get out of here" Hera said.

Kanan sighted.

"I can't get these off me and the collar will activate if I get to far away from the remote which Thrawn has" Kanan said.

Ezra looked at the collar and his eyes narrowed.

"It's a force collar isn't it?" Ezra said angrily.

Kanan sighted and nodded.

"Force collar?" Hera asked.

"Use the force and it will electrocute you" Ezra said angrily.

"This one also have a data chip telling Thrawn where I am. Get to far away from the remote and it will activate" Kanan said.

Hera and Ezra was angry over how Thrawn had treated Kanan.

"Listen if you can get out of here without me do it. Thrawn won't kill me, he needs me to blackmail you, so please leave and then you can come for me if the opportunity present itself" Kanan said.

"No that is not an option Kanan" Hera said.

"Yes we will all be leaving together. Zeb and Sabine will …" but whatever Ezra would say was interrupted by the door opening and Zeb and Sabine was pushed in cuffed like Hera and Ezra.

Kanan stomach tightened, no it could not be, his vision was to close to come truth. Thrawn had all of them now.


A/N Oh I did it again, cliffhanger. I had have people being frustrated over that I have this skill at stopping just at the most exciting place or give small parts which hyped them and irritated them with not getting everything. I apologise to you, I am a person who tend to like teasing people every once in a while.