S.R.F. Ch. 10

Hey guys! It's been awhile, I know. The only reason I'm writing today is because I'm sick and didn't go to school today. Didn't get a wink of sleep last night and having slept all day, I know I won't tonight either. Oh, I finally watched the season finale of this season. HOLY SHIT! I saw it when haphazardly flipping through channels at my Aunt's house in Mex, and had to roughly translate the episode from Spanish, but Ashoka is Fulcrum! I saw so many videos on Youtube and I wonder how awesome it must be for those smug bastards who called it like 6 months ago. And it's official, Kanan and Hera are together.

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Kanan opened his eyes slowly. He had no idea what was going on. He stared at the grey paneling for a minute before he sensed the other person in the room.

"Hey, you're finally awake! How're you feeling?" Hera asked from a chair across the room. She gets up to stroke Kanan's cheek by the end of her question.

"I'm fine. Where's Ezra? What happened by the way?" The Jedi said with a short grunt following as he tried to get out of the bed.

"Everyone's fine. As for what happened, well, what I told everyone was what they saw, some guy Ezra says he and Sabine had run into that day. He tossed a kind of bomb in the hall and it knocked you out. Kanan, Ezra… he…"

"I know. I wasn't completely out of it." He said with a dark look.

Knowing that Kanan had his jedi ways, that were probably going to be thrown out the window ten seconds into the conversation, she grabbed his arm before he could walk away. "Kanan, we brought him with us."

"Of course you brought him with us, there's nothing Ezra could do that would make us leave him behind."

"I'm not talking about him, Kanan. I really didn't put too much thought into it when Sabine all but demanded we take him with us, I was too busy worrying about you… guys!" She blurted out at the end.

"Who's him?" Kanan said as he finally managed to sit up on the bed.

"That'd be me sir." A man said as he walked in startling both Kanan and Hera.

"My name is Rex." He pronounced timidly, followed by an awkward silence.

"And just who are you?" Kanan asked, more annoyed at his feebly body not being able to support his weight so he could stand up defensively like his instincts were screaming at him.

"That's…. a tough question to answer." Hera said, choosing to enter the conversation.

"My name is Rex. As for who I am, we can talk about that later…" Rex said, slowly edging towards the door, giving the two other occupants of the room a knowing look, "When there aren't ears in the walls." Rex said as the door slid open, causing an orange and purple blur to tumble in.

"Kanan! You're alright!" Ezra said, picking himself up off the floor and running up to him, stopping a bit awkwardly and resuming, "I was already getting ready to replace you. Oh, I would've waited the week it'd take for everyone to get over you, I assure you." The street rat couldn't help but chuckle after Hera smacked him in the back of the head in a very Zeb-like manner.

Giving a quick glance to Rex, and a slightly less hidden glare at Zeb and Ezra, he faced Hera and asked "How long was I out?"

"Only a day. S's still recovering."

Raising an eyebrow at the odd choice of words, and realizing S was Sabine, he asked, "Recovering from what?" Kanan asked, a little flustered no one seemed to remember he went through a pretty big blast. He was certain his heroic mind had subconsciously made him scoot behind Ezra before the blast went off, shielding the boy no doubt.

"She hurt her leg when things went wrong on her mission with Ez. Hell, a lot of things went wrong. Your recovery being one."

"What do you mean?" Kanan asked, reeling in the spike of fear and speaking a monotone voice.

Not being able to resist butting in anymore, Ezra blurted out, "I shoved you to the ground and toke more of the blast," Ezra glanced at Rex who had the humbleness to look down and mutter something, "so we have no idea why you were so hurt when I even managed to get up right away."

So much for heroic. "I think you shoved me into the bars while the blast outright tried to make us one being. Enough of this. I want everyone minus you and Rex out now. And don't think for a second that I'll be so forgiving if I find anyone trying to listen in this time!" Kanan said pointing to Hera and also hoping no one would pick up on the fact that his lack of bruises would indicate otherwise. Seeing that everyone left, Kanan once more turned to Rex.

"You, why are you still here?" Kanan said, deciding he was in enough pain to be justified in being brash.

"I don't downright know. Not that I'm not thankful for the help, but when I came to, Missy right here wouldn't allow me to leave. It's not safe for me to be here, if we're going to be upright. While I'd be grateful for some supplies, I'd be willing to be blindfolded and dropped off anywhere you'd feel comfortable letting me go." Rex said, giving Kanan the odd feeling as if he were negotiating over a prisoner at the moment.

"That won't be necessary; we're not exactly safe company. Why would you be a risk though?" Kanan asked, narrowing his eyes at Rex. Hera gave him a look that served to tell him his question also perked her attention, before moving to a corner very much like their strange companion had done.

"Well, the Empire's after me for some reason." Rex said squeamishly, showing emotion for the first time in front of Kanan.

"They don't just go after civies for no reason. Senators and politicians maybe, but not civies." The Jedi said, subconsciously reaching for his light saber, realizing it wasn't there.

"Well, as far as I can remember, I haven't done anything to warrant their attention. Problem is, I can't remember anything beyond two weeks."

A gasp was audibly heard, and Kanan used the force to open the doors, before cringing at the memory of what Ezra had done and deciding he needed to talk to him sooner rather than later.

"Sabine! How good to see you already on your feet." Hera said, trying to deflate the tension in the air.