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The group soon found themselves in the backseats of the minivan the Novella's drove. Mr. and Mrs. Novella sat in the front with Mrs. Novella driving. Rae sat between Kanan and Onthant in the row right behind the driver's seats and Athena sat between Martin and Ezra in the very back row.

Athena noticed Ezra glancing at Martin every once and awhile. He seemed to be...jealous? Then again, one probably wouldn't blame Ezra. Martin was fairly good looking and seemed very nice. And...plus the fact he was in a relationship with her probably added salt to the wound.

Athena made sure to keep a good distance between Kanan and Martin as she feared Kanan would go way overboard on being her protective brother. She could tell he didn't really like him. Onthant on the other hand had his small suspicions, but knew nothing much.

The church brought them to was quite beautiful and ornate on the inside and out. Martin took off his hoodie to show that he was wearing a nice polo shirt of the color red underneath. The group insisted to sit in the back of the church in a lonely pew, despite the urging of the Reverend and Janet. Martin soon went off for the church choir and Mrs. Novella went up to the front of the church to sit.

"So, this is a church?" Ezra looked around in wonder.

"Yeah, I've been coming to this church since I was eleven as many Sundays as I could manage. It's a nice place to get away for one morning of the week," Athena told as she looked around the church as people started to file in.

"You've been going here for a while then," inferred Onthant.

"Uh huh. I really liked it here."

"So, how long does this usually last?" Kanan asked.

"About one to two hours," answered Athena. "If you guys don't feel comfortable about all the Christianity stuff, it's ok for us to leave and sit in the parking lot. Say one of us didn't feel well."

"We've been teaching you about the Jedi religion back with the rebellion," Kanan spoke softly. "I think it's good that we can understand your religion more."

"Thanks," Athena said.

Athena soon turned her head when a hand tapped her shoulder. She saw Martin with a slightly concerned look on his face.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Athena asked.

"You can play the piano, right? Kyle got sick from the leftover eggnog," Martin asked.

"Are you joking right now? I thought he was lactose-intolerant!" Athena had an annoyed look on her face.

"Exactly!"

Letting out an exaggerated sigh, Athena stood up, "I swear...Yes. I can," Athena turned to the others. "Is it ok if I-"

"Go on. It's alright," Onthant assured.

"Thanks," Athena turned to Martin and the two went off in another direction.

Turning to the others, Ezra asked, "What's a piano?"

"It's an instrument," Rae told. "I honestly didn't know she played."

"I didn't either," commented Kanan.

"What else don't you guys know about the kid?" Onthant questioned.

"She's not too much into talking about her past. I guess some pretty bad stuff happened while she was on Earth," Ezra told.

Having a questioning look on his face, Onthant asked, "Like what?"

"Nothing," Kanan quickly stated. Avoiding hurting his father's feelings.

Kanan knew that Onthant must've felt horrible about leaving his daughter on her own in the streets. He didn't want to make it worse by telling him of the things he knew about Athena's past as Abigail Foster the foster kid.

Turning to his Padawan, Kanan hissed, "Right?"

Now Ezra had a questioning face, he asked, "What's wrong with telling your dad about your little sister's life on Earth?"

"Ezra, he doesn't need to feel bad about Athena's life she had. It's rude," Rae stated.

"What happened?" Onthant asked, having suspicion in his voice.

"Let's stop talking about it. If she wants, she'll tell him," Kanan told.

"Caleb. What happened to Syla that you won't say anything? And one more thing: why did Reverend Novella and that boy call her Abigail?"

"Her name she was given on Earth is Abigail Foster, Dad. The government gave it to her when she was a baby."

"Why doesn't she go by that name anymore?" Onthant asked.

"She doesn't like it. She wanted to have the same last name as her brother so she goes with the name of Athena Jarrus," Rae explained. "I guess she just made the name Athena up."

"Alright, then-" Onthant was cut short of his sentence when the reverend began to speak. The group quieted down as the service began.

Reverend Novella spoke of how blessed everyone was for having such a good day and so on. Ezra was quite curious about this religion as Reverend Novella spoke more and more of it. Kanan, Onthant and Rae were interested too since they had little to no information about Athena's religion. This was a bit of a learning experience for the group as Athena rarely spoke of this aspect of her past life on Earth.

The reverend had spoken and preached for a good twenty minutes before he introduced the junior choir. Athena was seen at the large instrument off to the side of the group of kids as she sat in front of the piano. The kids each wore a red shirt like Martin had and ranged from age five to probably fifteen or so. Some of the kids were basically bouncing as they stood in front of the church group while the older ones kept still. Each of them had a smile on their face...well...almost everyone. Athena still had her straight face as she seemed to still have her mind set on a mission even while she was playing the piano and the kids sang some Christmas carols and other Christian songs.

She played quite well, but there was something missing...something that cannot be taught. She didn't have passion. Her eyes didn't gleam with the same light as the others, or even like the times before Empire day she had in her eyes. Kanan kinda wished that their dad could've been there when her eyes still had a little bit of joy left in them. Before the Empire destroyed the light in her heart that was shown through her eyes. He deserved to see his daughter to be happy once, especially after over fourteen years of separation. Athena didn't even have the slightest smile. She had almost a somber look as her fingers still trailed on the piano keys. Her spirit was broken. The Empire made a soldier out of her alright.

Athena didn't sing along to the first three songs the group played. Athena looked over to the group for a second, just a glance. She saw in her brother's eyes that he knew that her spirit wasn't there. That she had no passion. Then she saw her father. He had never seen her have any positive emotions. Athena felt he didn't deserve that. She looked back down at the sheet music and saw that the next song was a song that she knew she could sing.

Athena began to play the instrument in front of her her eyes following every motion of her own fingers as she began to play the song 'Man in the Mirror' by Michael Jackson.

I'm Gonna Make A Change,

For Once In My Life

It's Gonna Feel Real Good,

Gonna Make A Difference

Gonna Make It Right . . .

As I, Turn Up The Collar On My

Favourite Winter Coat

This Wind Is Blowin' My Mind

I See The Kids In The Street,

With Not Enough To Eat

Who Am I, To Be Blind?

Pretending Not To See

Their Needs

A Summer's Disregard,

A Broken Bottle Top

And A One Man's Soul

They Follow Each Other On

The Wind Ya' Know

'Cause They Got Nowhere

To Go

That's Why I Want You To

Know

I'm Starting With The Man In

The Mirror

I'm Asking Him To Change

His Ways

And No Message Could Have

Been Any Clearer

If You Wanna Make The World

A Better Place

(If You Wanna Make The

World A Better Place)

Take A Look At Yourself, And

Then Make A Change

(Take A Look At Yourself, And

Then Make A Change)

(Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,

Na Nah)

I've Been A Victim Of A Selfish

Kind Of Love

It's Time That I Realize

That There Are Some With No

Home, Not A Nickel To Loan

Could It Be Really Me,

Pretending That They're Not

Alone?

A Widow Deeply Scarred,

Somebody's Broken Heart

And A Washed-Out Dream

(Washed-Out Dream)

They Follow The Pattern Of

The Wind, Ya' See

Cause They Got No Place

To Be

That's Why I'm Starting With

Me

(Starting With Me!)

...

Athena played the song through and the choir of the kids soon left with her behind them when she finished. The other kids could be seen saying how good of a job they did to each other. Most noticeable to the group was Martin talking to Athena. After a few minutes, Athena came back to the group and listened to the service until it ended and the church let out a stream of people.

Once Athena came back, Onthant commented, "I didn't know you could play piano."

"Yeah," Athena simply replied.

"You were good," Onthant said.

Athena simply nodded and said nothing.

The others slightly cringed at the failed attempts for Onthant to build a father-daughter relationship with his daughter. Athena was obviously set on something other than family.

The group waited for the Novella's and they once again found themselves in the minivan and to the house that their car was still parked in front of, the oil staining the cement. The group soon got out of the car and Reverend Novella turned to Onthant.

"I'll help you push the car into the garage. We have a car jack if you need one," told the man.

"Thank you, Reverend," Onthant replied with gratitude.

"You can call me Richard. Service is over," the reverend smiled.

They soon followed the Novella's into their domicile. It was nice inside the home. The Christmas decorations were still up as well as the Christmas tree decorated with lights and ornaments. Ezra,Kanan and Rae were quite wondrous at these decorations.

Onthant looked at the group he had been traveling with, he asked, "Alright, do any of you know anything about a car and how to fix it?"

Kanan, Ezra and Rae shook their heads. Athena slightly shrugged.

"Alright, I'll call you if I need any help. 'Kay, kiddo?" Onthant offered and turned to . "Thank you again."

"No problem. Let's go get the car," and the two men went out of the doorway and towards the garage.

Martin turned to Abigail, he asked, "So you guys enjoy Christmas?"

"I spent it in the cemetery where my dead foster mother is buried, I was attacked by a shadow, had a pizza with a man that tried to kill me, a building collapsed in flames around me and I had to deal with New York traffic," Athena had a cold stare at Martin.

Janet and Martin shared a worried look at each other and then back at Abigail.

"My, you have quite an imagination…" Janet let out a chuckle, a little scared for the fact that Athena probably wasn't lying.

"I wish that was the case."

"Hey, you guys enjoy football?" Martin tried to change the subject. "The Cleveland Browns should be on soon."

"Let's do that," offered Kanan and turned to his little sister. "You watch that stuff, don't you?"

"Yeah-"

"Great," Kanan stopped Athena from saying anything more and turned to Janet. "Thank you."

Janet gestured the group into the living room. At the door they came in from, the living room was in front of them with the kitchen a little to the right. The group all took a seat either on the couch or on the floor. Janet sat next to her son on the couch with Ezra next to Martin and Rae sat on the end next to Ezra. Athena sat on the floor while Kanan leaned on the couch as he felt more comfortable standing.

They soon put on the football game of the Browns versus the Kansas City Chiefs. Kanan and Ezra were fairly confused how humans were playing instead of the droid football they were used to. Ezra constantly asked questions, most answered by Martin.

Athena was absolutely shaking her head as the Chiefs scored ten points in the first quarter while the Browns didn't get any until second quarter. Richard had come in to enjoy the game and cheered with his wife and son for the Browns as he also stood next to Kanan. Rae, Ezra and Kanan even found themselves cheering for the the Cleveland Browns. Athena kept quiet and watched the game with a plain face.

When the game finished, with the Browns as the losers, Ezra, Kanan and Rae were quite disappointed. The Novella's and Athena assured them that this was a normal feeling for a Cleveland Brown's fan.

"It takes a loyal person to make a Brown's fan," Martin told. "Cleveland Browns fans are some of the most loyal people in America."

"Amen to that," Athena agreed.

"You didn't cheer much, dear. What's wrong, Abigail?" Janet asked.

"I'm alright," Athena assured. "You guys still have puppy chow as a tradition?"

"Why yes we do," Richard said. "You're all welcome to have some."

"What's puppy chow?" Rae asked.

"Oh man, you haven't lived until you had puppy chow," Martin shook his head and looked at Rae. "You're not from the midwest, are you?"

Ezra, Rae and Kanan shook their heads.

"Yeah, we never asked. Where y'all from?" Janet asked.

"They're from Toronto,Canada. Our dad is from New York City," Athena quickly said as she stood.

"Wow," Richard said. "You are a long ways from home then."

"Yeah," Kanan agreed.

The Novellas were quite gracious as they introduced the group to puppy chow, the peanut buttery, chocolatey good midwestern snack. Having never eaten it before, Ezra, Rae and Kanan loved the snack as they ate it. Athena was conservative and hardly ate, even though she was obviously starved.

Martin was onto Athena's strange behaviour. He could tell that this wasn't the Abigail he knew. She wasn't anyone anyone knew. She was very quiet. Serious. Tense. And...distant. As she sat a far from the others in the kitchen, Martin came over and leaned against the wall she stood by.

"Hey, what's wrong, Abigail? You seem...different since the last time I saw you," Martin asked.

"A lot of things happened."

"Ever since you left...I thought you were gone forever. Now you're back. I just want to know what happened in the months you were gone," Martin asked.

"Martin, do you know why I had to leave everyone?" Athena asked.

"Not really. After you did that magic trick in the cafeteria of the school you moved to, you just...disappeared."

"Magic trick?"

"Yeah. It was on the news. It said you did this surprise magic trick in the cafeteria. I guess the kids there didn't think that it was just a trick," Martin explained.

Sighing, Athena looked to the ground, "That's what they said, huh?"

"Yeah...it was just a magic trick, right? You went away to further your magician act or something? Right?" Martin asked.

Athena looked back to Martin, "Let 's go with that. It was just a magic trick. We're trying to get to St. Louis for a performance there for New Years Eve. Can't be late."

"So, I know Caleb's your brother. On-the-ant is your father. How is that boy related to you?And that girl? Rae? Cousins?"

"Rae is a good friend of mine. Ezra is her cousin," Athena partially lied. Rae was her friend anyways, so it wasn't a total lie. "Why? You jealous of Ezra?"

"No…" Martin slightly blushed.

Athena looked over to the door near the other end of the kitchen that lead to the garage. Her father soon came through and shut the door behind him. His face had some oil smeared on him and was trapped in his brownish-grey beard. His artic blue eyes looked over to his daughter.

"Hey,kiddo, you don't have duct tape, do ya?" Onthant asked.

"I got some, Onthant," Rae told. "In the trunk and in my bookbag. It's the one with the archery equipment attached to it."

"So, how's it going, Dad?" Kanan asked as he turned to his dad.

"Not too good. The steering is shot and you absolutely crushed the fuel tank. I'm going to have to spend a bit more time that I originally thought on this. It's going to take me atleast 'till tomorrow to fix it," Onthant said.

"We should be able to make it to St. Louis even with that. But we'll have to run into as little accidents as possible," Rae told.

"You can stay with us if you need to," Janet offered. "You are welcome to sleep in the living room."

"Thank you. That is very kind of you," Kanan thanked.

"What are we going to do until tomorrow?" Ezra asked.

"I'm going to fix the car. You four can just hang around until I need some help from this one," Onthant gestured to Athena.

"Alright, sounds ok," commented Rae.

For the day, the group didn't do too much. Though the Novellas had tried to get them to see the rest of Cleveland, they declined. Ezra was kind of wary of Martin as he seemed to take any chance he could get to get close to Abigail. Athena would always pick up on this and move away from him. She seemed to have a little bit too much experience in this criteria. Now Ezra knew how Kanan felt.

Kanan wasn't too much of a talker as well as Athena. Rae kinda opened up the best she could to the Novellas, striking up some small talks with Janet, Richard or Martin. The group often helped the family with small chores around the house to pass the time until the evening.

Janet went off to the kitchen to grade some papers as she was a teacher and had to get her work done. Richard too went off to the kitchen to help his wife with the immense amounts of papers she had to grade. Feeling the awkwardness, Kanan offered for himself to go out and help his dad.

"Well, I'll go see what I can do to help Dad," Kanan stood and headed to the garage.

"I'll go too," Athena offered.

"Nah, you guys stay here. Hang out or something," Kanan offered.

Athena sighed and sat back on the couch between Ezra and Martin with Rae on the other side of Ezra. Athena watched her big brother leave to the garage and sighed and went back to watching the T.V.

Athena soon noticed Martin's arm draped nonchalantly behind her and on her shoulder. She then could tell within the Force that Ezra noticed too. Ezra soon tried his best to casually put his arm around Athena's waist, he was a hopeless cause. Having an idea, Athena slightly shifted forward so Ezra could casually put his arm around Athena's waist.

This was obvious to both boys and they each noticed their acts of affection for the same girl. The two shared a quick glance and went back to watching the TV. Martin moved closer to Athena and leaned towards her. Ezra did the same and Athena still acted like nothing was out of place, though she still had a plan.

Ezra noticed that Martin obviously was trying to show his affection for Abigail to show that he was still technically her boyfriend. Ezra then leaned his head on Athena's shoulder and tightened his arm around Athena's waist to bring her closer. Martin did the same.

The two boys did this so much that their arms nearly came in contact with each other. Rae saw this and looked at Athena with a confused look. Athena looked back with a look that explained everything. Rae nodded and took out her phone and began to point the camera at the three and recorded.

Athena sat up quickly and the two boys fell into each other, each surprised by the sudden move. They struggled to sit up as they both had leaned so much in the direction of the same girl.

"Well, I'm going to use the restroom. Tell me if anything happens," Athena said, looking at the two struggled to sit up.

"Al-alright," Ezra stuttered as he sat up.

"Ok," said Martin as he also sat up.

Athena winked and left the room, having no intentional receiver of the wink. The two boys let out a nervous smile as they had a stupid look on each of their faces with blush to complement it. Rae quickly shut off her phone and put it back in her pocket before either of them could see their embarrassment was captured on camera.

The two boys looked at each other.

Martin asked, "Hey, you two aren't a thing, are you?"

Shrugging, Ezra said, "You can say so."