Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars: Rebels. Obviously.
Story: The beginning, the becoming, and the present of Agent Kallus; the child, the street rat, and the girl that is Ezra Bridger. When Ezra accidentally forms a Force bond with the agent, their lives are suddenly dependent on each other, but as they view each other's memories, it's not that hard to become attached. Bastila Shan and Darth Revan's accident is recreated, and the crew have no choice but to bring along Kallus until they find a fix.
Set after "Shroud of Darkness" (2.16).
Spoilers: Yes.
Warnings: Violence, language, sexual situations, etc.
Pairings: Agent Kallus/fem!Ezra, Wrenga Jixton/fem!Luke

Killing Strangers (Leave Me Alone)
Chapter Fourteen: People Everyday

The low thrum of the energy blades hummed in the air as they faced off, eying each other warily. With no warning, they rushed towards each other and their lightsabers clashed with a loud vrrr! The two quickly jumped back before they were on each other again. He was more precise while her moves were wilder, but the styles seemed suited to them and seemed to be matched evenly against each other.

They swung again and again at each other, but she was straining a bit more now. He was stronger physically, bigger, and had more experience in fighting than her. But she was more experienced in lightsaber duels and the Force, and she took advantage of that.

Using the Force, Ezra used it to fuel her body and swung at Kallus' head. Then she quickly let go with one of her hands, which she used to Force push him onto his back, where she then quickly took the advantage and swiped her blade against his neck and stopped him from moving back up.

"I yield," he said in resignation.

"Don't be so disappointed," Ezra grumbled. "You are ridiculously good at this, and there are times –times that are steadily growing –where I either draw or lose to you."

They heard clapping and saw Jix. "Totally right! He is ridiculously good at this crap. Did I ever tell you how I met him? At the fueling port, he was on the way back to your ship, when a group of guys confronted him, and he beat them all barehanded and without any help!"

Ezra made a noise of interest and came closer, and she listened eagerly while Jix continued excitedly talking about it. Kallus' eye twitched and he made to ignore them, inwardly grumbling to himself and tossing a glare at them as he picked up a towel and wiped the sweat off his face and neck. When he rejoined them inside the house, Obi-Wan was with them.

"How'd it go?" the older Jedi asked Ezra.

"Not bad," she sighed, glancing at Kallus. "He is definitely not going to be an easy opponent with the lightsaber soon enough. I'd almost bet money that he could go up against Kanan and beat him. Kanan's good, but not the best at this either. He's more on the mental and energy side of the Force kind of guy, and his lightsaber skills weren't the best starting out with me. He's gotten way better though, through practice and teaching me, since he's got a reason to use his Jedi skills more and someone to spar and learn with. Kallus, though, is just a freaking monster at fighting," she teased. "He's a natural."

"I see your styles differ also," Obi-Wan noted. "You're more of a Vaapad user," he told Ezra, "which relies a lot more on emotion. He's more of Shii Cho type, which is the basic and most predictable form and one all Jedi are required to learn, and also more logical and less emotion-focused. His mastery of it and ability to use the predictable form and moves of the style in an unpredictable way, matches the natural unpredictability of your style.

"Funny enough, while there have been users of both styles before –though Vaapad is a rarer form and there were not that many practitioners of it because of the use of emotions without losing control and instead being able to control and focus them –and have teamed up plenty of times, there has only been one pair that had been matched up and were actually Master and Padawan for a time. Lucien Draay and Zayne Carrick were quite the pair, though because their styles clashed and were opposites, it made it hard for Master Lucien to teach Zayne."

He laughed. "To be honest, you two are doing a much better job at it than they had." He also smirked then. "I also believe that you two have a tendency to mix in a bit of Soresu into your natural lightsaber styles –Kanan's preferred form, yes?"

At Ezra's blush and Kallus' confused look, Obi-Wan elaborated. "It's only natural to take on some of the characteristics of your Master from training with him. He, like his Master before him, learned and favored and also were naturally inclined towards Form III, to which he then taught you. Though you were more inclined towards another style, because he focused and taught you mostly through Soresu, it's been ingrained in you, and so you have then passed it on to Kallus."

The two of them looked at each other before looking away.

"So I think that's enough training for the both of you," Obi-Wan then said. "You need to rest too, you know."

"Do we really have the time for it?" Ezra asked skeptically, well aware of the situation and growing more worried as the days passed by.

"Rest is just as important," Obi-Wan advised. "If your body and mind are not rested, you will not be as effective and able to carry on to the best of your abilities."

Ezra grumbled, but conceded the point. Kallus, too, wasn't ready to just quit and wanted to continue on, but he had a feeling the older man was going to be very unhappy with them and willing to show them some Force tricks to show how unhappy he was…

"Well, I guess I have to go to the market," Ezra said thoughtfully. "I need some new underwear," which made all the males there look uncomfortable. "It would be nice to see if they have meiloorun fruits in stock, and maybe pick up a few tools. I was thinking of fixing up your old radio transmitter so we can at least listen to the news."

"Oh, that sounds like a wonderful idea!" Obi-Wan clapped his hands. "You are very welcome to it. Here, I'll lend you some more money."

"We need to find jobs," Kallus muttered.

"That's for later," Obi-Wan waved him off. "For now, you all must just continue to settle on this planet."

"Coriolan, want to come with me?" she asked and Kallus looked at her in surprise. He nodded and she gave him a bright smile. "Great! Let's go."

He followed after her and together they made their way into town on foot, braving the hot air and the sandy ground.

"I wish we could get a speeder," Ezra huffed.

Kallus actually let out a sigh. "That would make these trips infinitely faster and better."

She turned to him. "Okay, so you know me and I know you."

He blinked, not sure what was going on. Well, she was right, but he had no idea why she was bringing it up.

"You like to train, I sort of do, and most of all, we both realize that we really need to be in tip top shape and soon," Ezra said matter of fact. "I also know and get that Master Obi-Wan is going to kill us if we don't follow his direction. You saw it, right? He was advising us, but he had that 'General Obi-Wan' stare on his face."

Kallus winced and admitted that yeah…she was right.

"So I have an idea," Ezra threw out there. "We can't do any really heavy training, but I know you need to connect with the Force more and learn to trust and feel it. What I was thinking of was that while we're in town, I'm going to teach you to use the Force to sense others."

Kallus raised his eyebrows, but that did sound rather appealing and something he knew he really would like to learn to do.

"Okay, I'm willing," Kallus agreed and they moved even faster to do their best to reach the town already. Once there, Ezra led him to a quiet and high enough building where they could see over many areas of the town and overlooking the market specifically.

She sat cross-legged and he copied her.

"Close your eyes," she instructed him. "Start to enter a meditation state. Once there, try to look for the Force. I know you have trouble after finding it and going on to manipulate it, but this should be a more easier task since you won't be using the Force in a way that will require you to move things or something. You'll just be sensing."

"So once I connect with it, what do I do then? If I'm not attempting to manipulate it into doing something?" Kallus struggled to even his breaths and put his focus on it.

"Try to just merge into it. Let yourself fall into the Force and just…swim in it. Don't try to move it or push it, just go with the flow. Think of it like a current."

Kallus was skeptical, but he decided it was worth a try. So he did as she suggested and found himself connecting to the Force. Instead of being forceful with it like he usually was, and which never worked out, he instead just touched it gently and slowly moved into it. His essence (or whatever) at least.

All of a sudden, he could feel there were people all around him, more along the lines of down there to where he knew was where people were congregated at the market. He gasped and just silently and peacefully basked in the sense of everyone, along with the Force, and felt where they all were.

"Cor, you okay?" he heard Ezra's soft voice.

"Yes," he dazedly said.

"You're successful then?"

"I'm pretty sure," he took a deep breath.

"Good. Now feel for me."

"What?" He was tempted to open his eyes and break out of his trance.

"Since you seem to have gotten the hang of it, I want you to try to differentiate. Starting with me. You can try to use our Force bond to guide you and get you started, but after that, I want you to recognize me and see if you can tell the difference if you can remember how my presence feels and differs from others."

He wasn't sure if he'd be able to, but maybe he could since it was Ezra and it should be easier since the two of them did share a bond.

"I'm starting," he said unnecessarily, trying to prep himself. Then he remembered where she physically was and used that and felt for their bond, and began to reach out to her. He tried to memorize her "imprint", and was pleased to be able to feel her…warmth? She was tired, but bright and cheery and happy and…something else that was fleeting and hard for him to grasp…

He could even smell her better, but he wasn't sure if it was because she was close or if this was just amplifying it, but he was uncomfortably aware of that fact.

But…she moved?

He could tell she had, without hearing her or seeing her. He just felt it through the Force.

"You're two feet to my left."

She clapped. "Nicely done! Okay, let's make this a little harder. How about trying random strangers?" She came closer to him. "Open your eyes."

When he did, he had to blink and steady himself.

"Come here," she had him crouch next to her. She pointed down at a blond man across from them. "Try to get a feel of that guy and then close your eyes once you have. He's on the move, so try to track him."

After a while of that, which was a lot harder than it had been for her (especially given they were all absolute strangers to him), she proposed another idea. He was much warier with it though, given the mischievous smile on her face as she eyed him, which had immediately put him on guard.

"We're going to be playing tag," she announced, which made him stare blankly at her. She smirked. "To be more precise, we're going to be playing cat and mouse. I'm going to be the Loth-cat first –you'll be the little mouse."

Parts exasperation and amusement ran through him as he thought that his Master (that was going to take some time to get used to) was having way too much fun at his expense.

"Run."

He set off and didn't look back.

They're absolutely exhausted by the end of it, and probably had expended much more energy than they were allowed to. In an effort to stave off a lecture and probably a punishment for not resting like they should, the two of them collapsed into a diner and rested, relaxing into a booth.

Kallus hadn't expected the game to turn out to be so…fruitful. It had, despite being framed as a game, been a real exercise and training simulation, and surprisingly Kallus more often than not lost. If he wasn't losing by being unable to successfully get away from her, then he was losing by repeatedly being unable to catch her, which was all too reminiscent of the times where she was just some rebel he was unable to catch and never seemed able to.

She used every trick in the Jedi and streetrat book to get him or evade him. She was used to running around the streets, and though this wasn't Lothal, she was used to being able to use her surroundings, the people (especially crowds), and the buildings to get away from him, or to easily catch up to him and finds shortcuts to cut him off. And having been used to and more knowledgeable of the Force, she was able to use it as well, easily fueling her jumps and her speed with it, as well as yanking him back or tripping him using the Force. It was almost unbearable and humiliating.

And compared to his measly and rather pathetic in comparison handling of the Force compared to her, he was at least glad to be able to try to use them in the game, and he just counted it as practice.

"I'm starving," Ezra declared, looking over the menu. "Ohh, we still have to find a junkyard or some place to buy some tools! And underwear. There may not be meiloorun fruit here, by I'm pretty sure this planet's got some place that sells tools and underwear."

"Hi, sorry to eavesdrop!" A blonde head appeared over the back of Ezra's booth seat and a young woman waved at them. "But I heard something about tools? I think I can help you guys out!"

Wary of strangers, even if they were young pretty girls like this one, Kallus was about to refute when Ezra smiled brightly and held out her hand.

"Hello! I'm Ezra!"

Kallus mentally smacked his palm against his forehead.

"I'm Luke Skywalker! Nice to meet you!"

Luke? What kind of name was Luke for a girl?

Started 1/15/17 – Completed 1/16/17

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