It was night time on the Ghost and most of the crew was asleep, except Ezra. Rae was in Sabine's room and Athena was in her cabin on the main ship, but Ezra, he was on the couch. He was not comfortable, at all.
He kept tossing and turning all night, he tried to sleep in Kanan's room, but he was thrown out because he snored too loud. He didn't even want to ask Hera.
Finally Ezra just sat up and wandered the ship's halls. It had taken him about a week or two to get used to the twists and turns of the ship when he was 14, now he was almost 16 in a few months and an expert at all the twists and turns. He honestly didn't know how Athena could now navigate the ship so well after the short amount of time that she's been with them. It was kinda cool that he know knew a part of Kanan's biologic family, but it also made him a little sad that he never had a sibling. Then that thought made him feel even worse about Athena's childhood. At least he knew his parents for the first 7 years of his life, she never knew anything about her family. She said how she grew up with so many foster brothers and sisters, but she was sure to put 'foster' in front of the title every time, they weren't really her siblings.
Ezra wandered into the kitchen and sat at the table and stared at the ice formation on the wall. He began to doze off until he heard the door open, he looked over to see Athena with her hair down and she was wearing a black tank top with black leggings. Her hair and eyes were now finally back to their normal colors, her eyes a dark green and her hair was back to golden blonde.
Ezra sat right up.
Athena smirked at him "Couldn't sleep?"
"No, you?"
"I didn't feel tired." Athena said as she sat next to Ezra at the table.
"I never seen your hair down, looks nice" Ezra said.
"Thanks."
"I really am regretting taking that bet." Ezra moaned, leaning on the table.
"Yeah, so Zeb teases you about your little crush on me?" Athena smiled.
"Yeah he's been doing that for a while now, gets tiring."
"I can imagine."
"So why aren't you tired?" Ezra yawned.
"Happens when I have nightmares." Athena answered.
"You had a nightmare?" Ezra asked as he picked his head up from the table.
"Yeah."
"What about?" Ezra asked.
"Um...well you wouldn't understand." Athena said.
"Understand what?"
"It's personal." Athe a said.
"I'm a person, you can talk to me." Ezra smiled.
Athena smiled back and it faded away "Well, when it was my 9th birthday and...well...I watched a person I cared deeply about die in a horrible way."
"Your birthday?" Ezra asked.
"Well, yeah. Just-just never mind."
"I know what it's like to lose someone and be reminded of it every time a day that's supposed to be happy. Trust me."
"It's fine, wasn't really my birthday anyways so no harm no foul."
"You wanna talk about it?" Ezra asked.
"No. I'd rather not." Athena answered.
"So...your brother ever tell you that he loves you?" Ezra asked.
"He has in more ways than one." Athena answered "Same with you all."
"Huh?"
"The real way to say that you love a person is to put them before your own personal needs, not by just saying it." Athena told "Words are as much as the air around you, actions are as much as the heart."
"That's very philosophical."
"Yeah, guess so." Athena said.
"So...you think Kanan would kill me or you if he came in here right now?"Ezra joked.
"Um...probably both." Athena smiled.
Ezra chuckled "Yeah,that's probably true."
"I can't believe he can't stand the fact you like me any the idea of me liking you back." Athena smiled.
Ezra's heart sunk a little because she said 'the fact you like me...' and 'the idea of me liking you back.', just a little.
"I bet if I were to ever get a boyfriend now, Kanan'd kill him and me." Athena laughed.
"Jeez,Ezra. You're really winning her over, she's talking about how it's not a fact she likes you and now she's talking about getting another boyfriend. Great..." Ezra thought to himself.
"You know, you look really tired. I'm gonna go back to my room and you go to sleep." Athena said as she got up.
"Oh, no. You're fine." Ezra convinced. "I'd probably not fall asleep anyways."
"Okay." Athena sat back down.
There was an awkward silence.
"Ezra! You're killing yourself! Say something, stupid!" Ezra thought to himself.
"So, Athena, how are you liking your room?" Ezra asked.
"Good, it's a lot better now since I can get up and walk around. I was gonna sleep on the top bunk, but I decided not to." Athena answered "How you liking the couch?"
Ezra let out a small chuckle "Yeah, it's really uncomfortable."
"I can tell you are really struggling to stay awake, you sure you don't want me to go?" Athena asked.
"You're fine, just-" Ezra yawned "a little stiff."
"You're lying." Athena said.
"Aw, man." Ezra moaned.
"Yeah, I'm gonna go." Athena said as she began to get up.
There was a swish to the door and the two turned to see Kanan, his hair an absolute mess without a ponytail. Athena and Ezra stifled a laugh. And Athena sat down.
"Hey, Sabine. Hey Ezra." Kanan yawned as he walked over to get some coffee "What you guys up for?"
Ezra and Athena could hardly hold back their laughter.
Kanan poured himself a cup of coffee and sat down next to Athena and drank his coffee.
"Why are you up?" Ezra asked, holding back laughter.
"Couldn't sleep, nightmares." Kanan yawned.
"You too?" Athena asked.
"Yeah" Kanan drank his coffee "You had nightmares, Sabine?"
"Kanan, it's me, Athena." Athena said "Remember? Also has the names of Abigail and Syla?"
"Oh, yeah." Kanan said "Sorry, Syla."
Athena let out an annoyed sigh "Really...Caleb?"
Kanan became a little more awake and realized that she just called Caleb and that Athena and Ezra were near each other.
"Yeah,you're awake now." Athena snickered.
"Wait, what was your nightmare?" Kanan asked. "And why are you near Ezra?" he asked as he looked at the two with a suspicious look.
"I couldn't sleep on the couch." Ezra said "And then she came in here and sat near me."
"Oh, okay." Kanan yawned.
"Oh, by the way, I think I broke your com." Athena added.
"That's alright, Syla." Kanan yawned and leaned his arm on the table and leaned his head on his head and slowly nodded off.
Ezra and Athena could hardly hold back their laughter.
"Oh, Kanan, I am now dating Ezra." Athena said, almost bursting into laughter.
"That-wait, what?" Kanan asked.
Athena grabbed Ezra's hand and slid next to Ezra and wrapped his hand around her shoulder. "Yeah."
All color in Ezra's face disappeared and couldn't blink as Kanan stared in confusion at the two.
"Oh, good for you two." Kanan yawned and drank his coffee. Once his brain finally began to work he almost choked on the coffee and narrowed his eyes at the two. "Wait a minute..."
Athena snuggled closer to Ezra.
"Uh...I-I." Ezra stuttered.
"Ezra..." Kanan said in a warning tone.
"Uh...uh..." was the only thing Ezra could muster.
"Here, I got an idea." Kanan said with a daring tone of voice. He grabbed Athena's hand and pulled her away from Ezra. He picked her up and sat her on the other side of him as if she were a little kid and sat in between her and Ezra. "Well, I guess your relationship just ended."
"Oh, sure. Now you wake up!" Athena exclaimed.
Kanan turned to Athena "Don't." Kanan said and drank his coffee. He then came to realization that she said she broke his com and nearly spat his coffee out once again. "Hold on, you broke my com?"
"No, it's called a joke, Caleb." Athena rolled her eyes "You need a hair tie? Your hair looks like a rat's nest."
"Sure." Kanan said, ignoring the fact she called him Caleb.
Athena took a hair tie off her wrist and gave it to Kanan, who then gathered his hair and put it in a ponytail.
"Better." Athena nodded.
"Thanks." Kanan thanked.
"Hey! I just realized something, I just had my second hug in all my life!" Athena exclaimed in joy.
"That's just plain sad." Ezra added.
"Hey, I'll take it." Athena said and put her bare feet on the table.
Kanan looked at Athena, feeling a sad that he literally just broke up the second hug she's had in her life. Her first hug, he didn't even hug back.
"Group hug!" Ezra exclaimed and hugged Kanan's side. Kanan gave him a side hug.
Athena scooched away, not wanting a hug.
"Aw, why don't you want a hug?" Kanan asked.
"No thanks." Athena said, now sitting at the very edge of the table.
"Come here!" Kanan said and hugged Athena, bringing her into the group hug.
"Hey!" Athena protested as she squirmed to get away, but laughed anyways.
"Aw, come on Athena, you can hug." Kanan said.
"No!" Athena laughed.
"Aw, Athena doesn't want a hug?" Ezra laughed.
Athena could only laugh and had only little effect in loosening the grip of the hug on her. "Gah! I'm not a big hugger!"
"Ah, you can't give your big brother a hug?" Kanan laughed.
"Already did that in Mexico!" Athena laughed and started to stop trying to escape the group hug.
"Yay! Now we have a group hug!" Ezra said.
"How old are you two?" Athena chuckled.
"Older than you." Kanan said and messed up Athena's loose hair.
"Hey!" Athena complained as she swatted Kanan's hand away from her hair.
"What? Little sis don't like her hair messed up?" Kanan joked.
"Exactly!" Athena laughed, smoothing down her hair.
After a minute or two of the group hug, they began to nod off. Ezra first fell asleep on Kanan, snoring and drooling a little. Then Athena fell asleep on Kanan's shoulder, being perfectly still and not making any more noise than her soft breathing. Then Kanan finally fell asleep, his head leaned up on Ezra's shoulder.
"Hey, Sabine." Rae yawned and got up from her bed and began to tap Sabine's shoulder. "Wake up."
"Why?" Sabine moaned.
"It's morning."Rae said.
"I don't care, go back to sleep." Sabine moaned and hugged her blanket closer to herself.
"Come on!"Rae said as she grabbed Sabine's hand and dragged her out of her bunk.
"Fine." Sabine finally said and sat up. She hopped down from her bunk and got her comb and began to brush her hair.
Rae got her hairbrush out from her bookbag in the corner of the room and did the same as Sabine, then she put her brown/black hair in a ponytail.
"Why'd you wake me up?" Sabine asked as she set down her comb.
"Because, I hate being up alone." Rae answered as she put her hairbrush back in her bookbag and grabbing her phone and putting it in her pocket of the jeans she wore to bed.
"Why? We're all here, and Kanan and Hera always wake up ubber early." Sabine said.
"I felt in the Force Hera and Kanan are still asleep." Rae added.
"Then why couldn't you tell I wanted to sleep?" Sabine asked.
"Doesn't work like that," Rae answered "Plus, I want to see how well Ezra handled the couch."
"Probably not well." Sabine said and walked out of her cabin, followed by Rae.
The two walked into the kitchen where they saw Kanan, Ezra and Athena all asleep at the table. They both looked at each other with an 'aw' look and looked back at the three.
"Let me take a photo." Rae said and took a photo with her phone.
Sabine couldn't help but smile. "Wanna wake them up?"
Rae turned back with a smile "Okay on 3, we yell 'Wake up'."
"Okay, 1...2...3!" Sabine counted.
"Wake up!" The two yelled in unison.
Athena was the only one to budge, sitting up and looking at the two. "Why?"
"Wh- Why didn't they wake up?" Rae asked, looking at the asleep Ezra and Kanan.
"None of us could sleep last night." Athena stretched and yawned.
"I could see why Ezra couldn't, why couldn't Kanan?" Sabine asked.
"He apparently had a nightmare, same as me." Athena answered.
"How we gonna wake 'em up?" Rae asked.
Athena's face lit up.
"Oh, no. I know that look, you're gonna do something crazy again." Sabine said.
"Maybe..." Athena said as she got up and stood next to the other two teenage girls and faced Kanan and Ezra.
"What are you doing?" Rae asked.
Athena held her hand out with her palm up and a blue light began to swirl around her hand in a sphere shape and became less transparent every second, soon forming a snowball in her hand.
"Wha-" Rae was cut off.
"Ahsoka taught me to channel my powers with the Force yesterday, it works with my nature powers too." Athena said.
Athena lifted her arm up and threw the snowball at the Ezra and Kanan, sending snow all over them and the table. The two shot awake in confusion at the icy blast and looked at the three teenage girls starting to chuckle at the event.
"Wha- did you just throw a snowball at us?" Kanan asked in confusion as he looked at the splattered snow around him and Ezra.
"That's just rude!" Ezra shivered as he shook the snow out of his hair.
"Now, how would I get a snowball all the way out here where there is no snow?" Athena asked, now trying to hold a serious face.
"Wha-wh-I'm not gonna ask." Kanan said and got up to refill his coffee mug.
"That was a little rude, guys!" Ezra complained.
"Aw...little Ezra can't take snow in his hair?" Athena teased.
Ezra looked at Athena and smiled "Okay, I guess this is payback."
"Yes, yes it was." Athena said and crossed her arms.
"What happened last night?" Rae asked, confused.
"I came out here when I couldn't sleep and then Athena came in here too." Ezra started.
"Then Kanan came in and he thought I was Sabine for a while." Athena continued.
"Wait, I called you Sabine?" Kanan asked as he picked up his coffee.
"Twice." Athena glared at Kanan.
"Then he sat in between Athena and I and I started a group hug-" Ezra was cut off by Athena.
"That I didn't want to be in, but they put me in the group hug anyways."
"Aw, so you had the second hug in your life." Sabine inferred.
"Third, I hugged Ezra just to tee Kanan off." Athena corrected.
"Aw...Ezra and Athena sitting in a tree-" Athena placed her hand over Rae's mouth.
"Don't you dare."
Rae continued to sing the song, but it was muffled by Athena's hand. Then Rae just licked her hand to get her hand away.
"Ew!" Athena exclaimed then wiped her hand off on Rae's arm.
"Haha! Sucka'!" Rae laughed.
"That's just plain wrong!"
"You would've done it too." Rae pointed out.
"No, I would have bit your hand like a normal person."
"Normal people bite each other's hands on Earth?" Sabine asked.
"Yeah, kids and teens." Athena answered as she continued to wipe her hand on her black tank top.
"Glad I spent most of my time on Earth in a car." Kanan said and drank his coffee.
"Hey!" Athena complained.
"Lord Vader," Count Sidious said.
Lord Vader bowed at the hologram "Yes, Master."
"I want more information about this new apprentice the Inquisitors encountered."
"The child, she seems to be from Earth. And shares similarities with the Padawan of Depa Billaba. She may also be a child of Cyla Dume." Vader said.
"I thought you killed Cyla Dume before she had another child!" Count Sidious hissed.
"She may have had the child on Earth before I had killed her." Vader said.
"This is very dangerous. If the child is from Earth, she holds many secrets of the Empire. She could be more powerful than any other Force wielder in the universe with the ability to control nature. I want you to personally hunt this child down and kill her!"
"What about the other apprentice?"
"The former apprentice of Jalo Hikra, bring her and the other Dume here and make sure they watch their friend die. I will personally make sure she and Dume stay loyal to the Dark side or perish like the girl."
"Yes, Master." Vader confirmed.
"And if you are to ever encounter Hikra again, I want you to make him suffer the consequences for his failure."
"Yes, Master."
"Rae! Turn it off!" Athena yelled.
"I'm trying!" Rae shouted back.
Open up the champagne, pop!
It's my house, come on, turn it up
"Rae!" Kanan shouted.
"I'm trying!"
Rae continued to fiddle with the phone as the others yelled at her as she sat in the cockpit, trying to make Athena's phone disconnect form the com system.
"I told you this was a bad idea!" Hera shouted.
Hear a knock on the door and the night begins
Cause we done this before so you come on in
Make yourself at my home, tell me where you been
Pour yourself something cold, baby, cheers to this
"You actually didn't." Sabine added.
"Well don't just stand there and yell at me! Help!" Rae shouted.
"I don't understand this song." Ezra added.
Sometimes you gotta stay in
And you know where I live
Yeah, you know what we is
Sometimes you gotta stay in, in
"All you asked was if you could see my phone! Not freaking add it on the com system!" Athena shouted over the loud music playing over the Ghost's intercom.
"Well, now you know not to let me look at your phone!" Rae shouted back.
"Turn this music off already!" Zeb yelled.
Welcome to my house
Baby, take control now
We can't even slow down
We don't have to go out
Welcome to my house
Play that music too loud
Show me what you do now
We don't have to go out
Welcome to my house
Welcome to my house
"What is this song about?" Ezra asked.
"I'm not explaining!" Athena said as she began to help Rae with her phone. "How the hello did you even manage to do this?!"
"Hello?" Sabine asked.
"Hello, nice to meet you!" Athena sarcastically said.
Morning comes and you know that you wanna stay
Close the blinds, let's pretend that the time has changed
Keep our clothes on the floor, open up champagne
Let's continue tonight, come on, celebrate
Kanan covered Ezra's ears and Hera did the same to Sabine.
"What kind of music do you people listen to?!" Hera yelled.
"Oh, this could be a lot worse. It could have played so much worse of a song." Athena assured.
"I wish it could have played Irresistible by Fall out Boy and Demi Lovato though." Rae said.
"Playing; Irresistible by Fall out Boy, ft. Demi Lovato." the phone said.
"No! Rae!" Athena yelled over the music.
Coming in unannounced, drag my nails on the tile
I just follow your scent, you can just follow my smile
All of your flaws are aligned with this mood of mine
Cutting me to the bone, nothing left to leave behind
You ought to keep me concealed just like I was a weapon
I didn't come for a fight but I will fight til the ending
This will not be a battle, might not turn out okay
You know you look so Seattle but you feel so LA
"Rae!" Athena and Kanan yelled.
"I'm tring!"
"Try harder!" Hera said as she and Kanan removed their hands from Ezra and Sabine's ears.
And I love the way you hurt me
It's irresistible, yeah
I love the way, I love the way
I love the way you hurt me, baby
I love the way, I love the way
I love the way you hurt me, baby
The door swished open behind them all, showing a confused Ahsoka. "What is going on?" she asked calmly.
"I'm sorry! I didn't know your phone would play music over the com!" Rae yelled.
Apparently no one heard Ahsoka.
I'm gonna get you to burst just like you were a bubble
Frame me up on your wall just to keep me out of trouble
Like a moth getting trapped in the light by fixation
Truly free, love it baby, I'm talking no inflation
Too many war wounds and not enough wars
Too few rounds in the ring and not enough settled scores
Too many sharks, not enough blood in the waves
You know I give my love a f-f-four letter name
"Hello?! What's going on?!" Ahsoka shouted.
"Rae was messing with my phone and this happened!" Athena yelled.
And I love the way you hurt me
It's irresistible, yeah
I love the way, I love the way
I love the way you hurt me, baby
I love the way, I love the way
I love the way you hurt me, baby
Ahsoka came over to the two and started to see what she could do, but she couldn't read the phone because it was in Earth writing.
"Yeah, they all tried that before." Rae said.
"Why is it playing music?!" Ahsoka shouted over the music.
You're second hand smoke, second hand smoke
I breathe you in, but honey I don't know what you're doing to me
Mon chéri but the truth catches up with us eventually
Try to say live, live and let live
But I'm no good, good at lip service
Except when they're yours, mi amor
I'm coming for you and I'm making war
"What?!" Athena and Rae yelled in unison.
"Why is it playing music?!"
"We don't know!" Rae yelled.
And I still love the way I hurt you
It's irresistible, yeah
I love the way, I love the way
I love the way you hurt me, baby
I love the way, I love the way
I love the way you hurt me, baby
"Oh, thank God." Athena sighed once the song ended and snatched her phone from Rae's hands."Yeah, next time just tell me what you're doin', 'kay?"
"Playing; Shake it Off by Taylor Swift." the phone said.
"No!" Rae and Athena yelled in unison.
I stay out too late
Got nothing in my brain
That's what people say, mmm-mmm
That's what people say, mmm-mmm
"Rae!" They all shouted.
"I'm sorry!" Rae yelled back.
I go on too many dates [chuckle]
But I can't make them stay
At least that's what people say, mmm-mmm
That's what people say, mmm-mmm
"I know I love this song, but, turn it off!" Athena yelled.
"It could be a lot worse!" Rae pointed out.
"I know, just turn it off!"
"Alright!"
But I keep cruising
Can't stop, won't stop moving
It's like I got this music
In my mind
Saying, "It's gonna be alright."
'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off
Heartbreakers gonna break, break, break, break, break
And the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off
I never miss a beat
I'm lightning on my feet
And that's what they don't see, mmm-mmm
That's what they don't see, mmm-mmm
"Rae!" Kanan yelled. "How can you not turn it off?!"
"I don't know where the power button is!" Rae shouted.
"Seriously?!" Athena yelled and grabbed the phone back out of Rae's hand and turned the phone off. "There."
"How did I not know that?" Rae asked.
"Don't ask me." Athena said.