If you ignore your past, you jeopardize your future. - Jedi Proverb

(Kanan)

I was walking back to my room, pushing through the crowd. I still had to remind myself that a little less than half were civilians, seeking shelter from the wrath of the Empire. The destruction of the rebel base on Hoth lingered in the back of my mind. I had not yet talked to Luke Skywalker, but just the name caused me to feel the strength of the force in the kid. I stopped for some reason, I had a feeling, a bad feeling. No. The force. Something about this. I just started walking again, when I saw it. I noticed him out of the corner of my eye, and stopped once more. The little boy's fur was the golden brown of the Nalroni's.

Now why was a kid of his kind and age be wandering alone? I asked myself.

If there was one Nalroni here there had to be another, but even that wasn't as possible. I walked over to him, kneeling down to his height. I could see that tears were threatening, but he fought them, as he turned an ear to me.

"Hey there kid." I said calmly. "Where are your parents?"

"I don't know." He sounded much older than he looked. He was so slim. Then, someone bumped into me, almost causing me to fall on the boy, but I stopped myself.

"My name is Kanan, what's yours?"

"Keever." He responded softly.

"Well Keever, why don't we find somewhere where there aren't so many people. Maybe we, or your parents can find you faster?" Keever slowly nodded his head. I stood, keeping a hand on his shoulder as we turned down into a vacant hallway, but stayed close to the entrance of it. He seemed to have cheered up a little having someone else nearby, and waiting for his parents. I looked back down at him, and saw that Keever was looking at the two cylinders that hung from my belt. His ears faced forward, as I assumed he was trying to figure something out. Keever smiled a little, and raised his tail some.

"You're a jedi." He stated happily. I for one, was confused. He looked up at me, then noticed my expression. Keever stood up straighter, and seemed to mature a little more in a matter of seconds. "My brother is a padawan, trained by my mom."

A padawan? That means his mother is a jedi too. That makes three nalroni.

Keever seemed almost able to read what I thought, or knew what I was assuming. "But the six of us aren't blood related. But we're still a family." He twitched his ears back a little. "And my mom has a friend that's good with blasters."

I nodded. "Hmm. Well, Keever. My crew seeme to double as my family as well." I then remembered hearing that the new commander happened to be a jedi as well. Ezra, Zeb and I had been farther back in the crowd when it happened, but still felt a small push from the jedi as the pushed the crowd back. Yet why did I still get this feeling? What else did the force have to tell me? There was something about his Jedi I just couldn't figure out. I saw Hera making her way down the hallway, but she was at the far end. Keever's ears twitched, picking up on a sound that I had yet to hear. Then I did.

"Keeves!" A deep voice called out.

"Keever!" Another fallowed. They were in the distance, or more drowned out by the sound of the crowd. But the second voice seemed to get closer. When I saw the men, I waved them over, along with Keever.

"Niko! Aiden!" Keever called out, running to them as they got to the beginning of the hallway. The smaller of the two kneeled down.

"You know, you gave your mom quite the scare." He messed with Keever's hair. The large man with black combed hair looked over at me.

"Thank you." I just nodded. A bad feeling making my stomach turn. Something about one of these two made me uneasy. Almost about as much as I had felt the day we lost Ara and Haken. I just couldn't pin why or who. I just couldn't shake the fact that I felt that way. The same man looked down at Keever, putting a hand on his shoulder. "C'mon Keeves, she's waiting to see you."

"Okay Aiden." Keever replied, walking away with the two men. But right before they disappeared into the crowd, Keever looked back at me, waving. "Bye Kanan!"

I smiled, waving back as Hera stood at my side. "Bye Keever." Hera smiled at me. "What? I can't help a lost kid?"

"That's perfectly fine. But I don't think it's going to be the last time you you're going to be helping a lost kid." I gave Hera a look from the corner of my eye, even though what she said, was probably the truth. I sighed, looking at her.

"He told me about his mother, that she's a Jedi, and that his 'brother' is her padawan."

Hera put a handing my arm, making me face her. "That's good right? You can meet another master and padawan." She paused, one thought on her mind. "Maybe... Maybe it might just get Ezra's mind off of someone for a little while." I nodded, hoping that could work out. Then, from a part of the crowd, I saw the two men take Keever over to more people. One had long blond hair, and took the boy in her arms. Finally reunited. I looked away, reminded of Ara and Haken. If only we knew where they were.

(Ara/Rane)

I held Keever tightly in my arms, my team astounding me. I looked up in the direction he came from, as the crowd parted a little. I spotted a man and woman. Human and Twi'lek, who stood there for a little while longer. I hardly was able to make out his beard, before they turned and walked away.

Could it have been? No, it couldn't have. I denied. It couldn't have.

I pulled back from Keever. "Hey, Aiden's gonna take you to Zan. We have a little mission to go on." Keever nodded his head in understanding. Aiden walked over to me.

"Are you gonna be alright?" He asked, a little concern marked his voice.

"Yes Aiden. How many of these have I went on? I'll be fine. We're just doing a little scouting. That's all."

Aiden set a hand on my shoulder. "Just, be careful, alright?" He rubbed his thumb over my cheek. Then, before I could do anything, his lips pressed against mine. It was several seconds before he pulled away.

"Aiden." I started calmly, ignoring what just happened. "You should take Keeves back now."

"Alright." He agreed, not saying anything more before walking away. I sighed, shaking my head. I had already changed into normal clothes, to avoid suspicion, along with the rest of the team.

"Alright boys, let's get going."

I took a deep breath, as I stepped closer to the market that we were just going around, seeing how bad the security was. In my opinion, it wasn't that bad, but there were several throughout the small area. We all walked around, but made sure to keep each other in sight. We each talked to merchants, Nex, Cole, Fitz, and I each bought something, trying to blend into the crowd. Each of us at least met up with another.

Then, it was almost as if ice flowed in my blood. My muscles tightened, and tensed. Something bad was going to happen. I could scenes the hatred. Instantly I blocked my emotions, blocking out everything I could, hoping that I won't be discovered. I usually kept that wall up, but not like this. I could feel the force moving closer. The hate, but most of all, the fear. Something made this guy terrified, made him feel alone. But I could tell he would be intimidating. Yet, there was something familiar to it. Nex was starting to walk toward me, knowing something is wrong. I was just about to give the signal to leave, when several shots rang out. Bolts fired into the sky, the sound causing everyone to storm into a panicked rush. But a loud voice cracked through, causing everyone to freeze.

"Hold it!" The voice, I knew. I stood behind several people, watching as none other than on of my 'masters' walked over to Niko. The one person, out of my team. He had to walk to Niko, who couldn't fully hide his terror. I tried to get through the the people, but they wouldn't budge. Others got out of their way, as Mistan shoved Niko against the wall of a building.

"What's your business here?" Mistan growled. I tried once more. Nothing.

Niko pressed against the wall, unable to go back any further. "J-just... Getting... S-some things... F-from the market." I could see from where I was Niko was hiding that he was shaking. I pushed harder. Still no luck. I looked to the others, they were all locked in as well, a few of them right next to storm troopers. Mistan stepped closer, grabbing Niko by the collar of his shirt.

"And would you say you're against the Empire?" He tilted his head a little. "Or know any Jedi?" Niko shrunk down even more. Mistan's eyes narrowed. "C'mon, tell us!" I couldn't take it anymore. I rammed into people, almost knocking several over, but I was past sorry. Mistan turned as I approached, and stepped between the two.

"He isn't against the Empire. Or know any Jedi." I looked back at Niko and lowered my voice, as I looked back at Mistan. "I don't even know there were Jedi anymore." I paused, narrowing my eyes. "But that still doesn't give you the excuse to push someone as defenseless as my brother." Mistan looked back and forth between Niko and I, but matched my stare. Here I was, face to face with one of my old 'masters'. Face to face with Mistan. A sith. A few emotions traced their way into my mind, but I pushed it away. Now was not the time. I had to cover several of my scars, especially the one that went over my right eye, in attempt that I wouldn't be recognized. It seemed to be working so far. Mistan started moving, maybe reaching out to grab me. But Nex stepped between him and I, but I could still see Mistan over his shoulder.

"She has more than one brother. And that means you, won't bully her." Nex stated.

"Oh really?" Mistan asked mockingly. He raised his hand, but before he could hit Nex, Fitz grabbed his wrist. Mistan's deadly look flipped onto him. Storm troopers started to react, but Cole and Sarith stopped them on either side.

"And we're not gonna let it happen either." Sarith growled. Then, to the surprise I didn't show, Mistan broke out laughing. He threw his head back, letting out the disturbing sound. When he stopped, he turned serious once more. He didn't say anything. Mistan just looked at me, then walked off. The troopers shouldered past Cole and Sarith, and the crowd slowly went back to normal. The team looked at me.

"C'mon boys. Let's go home." We all walked the opposite way we needed to go in our little group. The other way was where we were expected to go. But we'd take the long way, before turning to get back to the base. I looked left, right, and behind me. My boys were alright. We hand just barely gotten away with that. But they all smiled at me. Next and Cole put a hand on my shoulder as our little group left the town.

That had been a close call...

Too close of a call...

I actually had something else planned for this chapter, but I changed it, to keep certain events to happen till later :3

So, the boys stood by Ara or shall I say Rane, like brothers would. And what about that kiss from Aiden? What was that?