That evening, the crew was all gathered in the kitchen as they ate . Ezra and Rae told Zeb with wide eyes about the Waffle House, Zeb didn't believe that it even existed . Onthant and Kanan assured him that it was so. Athena was having an 'interesting' conversation with Chopper. It consisted mostly of him beeping at her and Athena would shove him away. Cyla and Hera's conversation mostly consisted of Hera warning Cyla how much Kanan and Athena get into fights.

Rae, Hera and Cyla all sat on one side of the table while, Onthant, Zeb and Ezra sat on the other side. Kanan stood next to his dad as he ate and talked to the others. Athena sat on the floor next to Chopper, still pushing him away from her food. She didn't talk much, she didn't really need to.

Kanan noticed his little sister all lonely by herself, so he came over to her and sat down next to her on the ground to the right of her.

"Hey, you aren't eating much," Kanan said. "You ok?"

"I'm not too hungry," Athena looked down at her plate that was still untouched. She turned to the astromech as he bumped into her left arm. "Chopper, will you go already? You're like a dog begging for attention."

"Hey, he's just saying that he missed you, kid," Kanan assured and chuckled once the words left his mouth.

"What?" Athena asked as her brother still slightly chuckled to himself.

"Well, I'm not sure if me calling you 'kid' is justified anymore," Kanan shook his head.

"Why?"

"Well, you did just save the universe by single-handedly taking on the most powerful being in the universe and coming back alive. You grew up more than anyone I ever knew," Kanan smiled at his little sister.

Shrugging her shoulders, Athena looked back at her plate and said nothing. She turned her head again once Chopper bumped her shoulder.

"Chopper, can you please stop? That's were she grabbed my shoulder," Athena warned. "Come on, I already lost an eye."

"Big baby," Chopper beeped. "When I lost my vision camera because of you, no one cared."

"Chopper, really, she had a really bad fight. Leave her alone. We're lucky she came back all in one piece...for the most part."

Chopper let out a string of curt comments before he rolled away. Athena looked up to her big brother, "You know I can handle him myself."

"I know, but I think you need a break after everything," Kanan said.

"Hey, where are Mom and Dad going to sleep?" Athena asked.

"Well, I can share a room with Dad and Mom can go to your cabin on the command ship with you."

"I think they should be able to share the same room. They're a married couple where Mom has been dead for fourteen years. Don't you think they should be able to share the same room like a married couple?"

"I guess so, but we don't have an extra cabin."

"They can have my cabin. I can share a cabin with Ahsoka," Athena suggested.

"Alright, if Ahsoka, Dad, and Mom are ok with it," Kanan agreed.

"Ok," Athena agreed and turned back to her plate as she had barely touched her food.

"Do you need to talk? You really don't seem good after the fight with Abeloth."

Athena seemed to tense up in her entire body as soon as the Bringer of Chaos's name was uttered. She growled under her breath, "Can you please not say her name?"

Kanan was taken back by his little sister's anger at Abeloth's name being uttered. He saw the hurt he saw when he found Athena in New York on Christmas resurface in her eye. Her hand seemed to be shaking with anger and fear as she crushed the fork she held in her hand.

Kanan simply nodded and finished his dinner with his sister next to him.

(A.N.)Suggestion: listen to Snow Patrol-Chasing Cars while reading this.

Athena was on the top bunk in Ahsoka's cabin while her Master slept peacefully on the bottom bunk. Athena wasn't as fortunate. She constantly tossed and turned as she kept her right eye closed tight and trembles ran up and down her body. She seemed to be having almost a seizure of her muscles as they tensed and twitched as she gripped her blanket tightly.

"No...no..." Athena's mumbling could be heard from her lips. "I...please….no….NO!"

Athena sat up with a shock as her right eye snapped open and she panted. Her right eye streamed with tears as she panted. She wiped away the snot away from her nose as she gripped her blanket with her other hand. She nearly sobbed as she sat there in the dark.

She hated the dark. It was too familiar to Abeloth and her very presence. Tears streamed down her right cheek as they burned like acid. She didn't want to wake her Master, so she kept as quiet as possible. She decided to go over to the Ghost as it seemed to be the closest place to a home she ever had.

She quietly exited her cabin she shared with her Master and walked quietly down the halls to the Ghost. She walked through the quiet ship as her tears dried up and became brittle on her skin. Her feet hardly made any sound as she walked through the ship, recollecting every memory she had in this ship. When Ezra got his head stuck in the bucket, when she froze the ship's outside,Sabine paintings, the games of Sabacc, when she cleaned the ship, everything.

Nothing really wanted to cross her mind when it came to worrying about the Empire or the Force in general as she just wanted to think of anything else. She just wandered around as she remembered the sweet memories she shared with this family.

She was taken out of her recollection of the memories when a hand was placed on her left shoulder that still had bandages on it. She let out a hiss a pain and jumped away from it.

"Sorry! I forgot!"

Athena looked at the source of her voice and saw Ezra as he wore his pajamas and had wide, apologetic, blue eyes. His long blue hair was slightly messy as he had obviously had just woken up.

"Sorry, did I wake you again?" Athena asked.

"No, I was up on my own," Ezra told in a low voice to not wake the others. "You had a nightmare?"

"Yeah…" Athena looked down at the floor.

"Was it about Abeloth?" Ezra asked.

Athena's right eye seemed to flash a bright red as she looked back at Ezra as anger burned inside her. "Don't...EVER... say her name again."

Ezra gasped a little as the red faded away from her eye and stepped back away from Athena. Athena gasped and seemed so scared and sad.

"I-I'm sorry…" Athena apologized. "I didn't mean to-"

Athena faltered on words when Ezra gave a condoning smile as he could see Athena was so scared. Athena looked as if she were about to cry from her right eye as she realized what an impact Abeloth had inflicted on her.

Ezra stepped forward towards her and held out his arms for a welcoming hug. Athena accepted the hug and Ezra wrapped his arms around Athena's waist, being sure not to touch any scars. She flinched when his hand slightly brushed over the back of her left shoulder.

Ezra released the hug and turned Athena so her left shoulder could be seen by him as she still wore her outfit she got at Lola Sayu. He saw her Imperial symbol had a thick scar through it, a bright pink line right through it. Right through her heart. No one had really seen it much since last night, she somehow managed to keep it slightly hidden with either her book bag or an object in her reach. They all noticed the rip of a thin line through her top, but no one really said much.

Shaking his hands away, Athena assured, "It's nothing, I healed it."

"You were stabbed right through the heart…"

"I healed it," Athena told. "I'm fine. I'm still alive."

"How's your eye?" Ezra asked as he slowly reached for her eye.

Stopping his hand with her left hand, Athena said, "I don't know what it looks like. I don't want you to see something disgusting."

Retracting his hand, Ezra assured, "I'll be fine. I share a room with Zeb, it's a good chance it can't be too much to scare me."

"Alright," Athena said before she reached for the knot of the green fabric that wrapped around her left side of her face she began to slowly untie it. She carefully took away the piece of fabric and then the gauze that covered where her left eye had put a bandage over her blaster wound on her forehead. Ezra didn't gasp in horror when she took off the gauze...that was a good-ish sign…

"Is it bad?"

Shaking his head, Ezra said in a solemn voice, "No...it's just a little different. It's pale…"

Ezra wasn't wrong. Her eye was a pale green as it seemed to be focused on nothing. A deep,pink and red scar reached over her left eye in an angle, almost in the shape of a deformed hand with the thumb right over her eye and up to her eyebrow. The scar tissue around her eye was stiff and looked brittle as it was obviously just recently healed. There was a bandage just above her left eye that Ezra wasn't too sure what it was for. He just figured it was to help with the healing.

"I can't see out of it...but it's the best I could heal it," Athena told. "It really looks ok?"

Ezra smirked,"It looks perfect."

"It's different having only one eye…" Athena admitted. "I'll get used to it, though."

"I know you will," Ezra said.

"Shouldn't you two be asleep?" a voice asked.

The heads of the two teens turned to the source of the voice. It was followed to see Kanan stand in the doorway of the common room as Ezra and Athena stood not too far from the Sabacc table. He leaned on the side of the door and smirked at the two.

"Sorry," Athena apologized.

"Why are you guys up?" Kanan asked as he walked up to the two. "Nightmares again?"

"Yeah…" Athena told.

"No. I just got up to use the 'fresher," Ezra told. "I was heading back anyways."

Looking at his little sister, he saw her left eye and the scar over it as the iris was a pale green and as well as the pupil as it was only slightly darker. "You healed it."

"I can't see through it, though," Athena told.

"Does it feel ok?" Kanan asked.

"Yeah...just a little stiff around it," Athena told.

"You two should go back to bed, we don't know what tomorrow will bring," Kanan told.

"Ok, Kanan," Ezra nodded and headed off to his cabin he shared with Zeb.

Athena looked up at Kanan just before he walked back to his own cabin. "Wait."

Kanan turned back to his little sister, "What?"

"I-I'm scared to go to sleep…" Athena admitted. "She's always there...I see her every time I close my eyes. A little when I blink."

Kanan looked down at his sister and let out a sigh as he saw the fear begin to radiate back in her eyes as she spoke of Abeloth. "Kid, you have to sleep."

"I can't," Athena told. "I can't go back to sleep. She's waiting for me there. It's like she's still in my mind."

"You wanna talk until you fall asleep?" Kanan asked.

Athena nodded her head.

"Come on, we can talk in my room, sis," Kanan offered.

Athena then followed her brother to his cabin where he sat down on his meditation seat and she sat right next to him, him being on her right. She sat very close to her brother as she seemed to be almost scared of something that wasn't there.

"How about we meditate. That might help you fall asleep," Kanan suggested.

Shaking her head, Athena told, "No, I don't want to close my eyes. I'll see her again."

"Alright," Kanan acknowledged. "What do you think might help you fall asleep then?"

"Nothing will get her out of my mind…"Athena solemnly spoke. "When I pulled the trigger, I didn't really kill her. I just sent her to another layer of the universe. But, she can now only hurt me now in the layer she's in.I just have to fall asleep and fight her again...again...again...and again...until I wake up. Every memory that I deem as bad...every moment I regretted something...she will fill my mind with it. She'll do it for the revenge until the day I new year of 2016 is going to be rough for me."

"Hey, doesn't that mean that today's your birthday? If today is the first day of the year on Earth?" Kanan asked.

Nodding, Athena agreed, "Yeah, but I don't want to celebrate it."

"Alright, we won't," Kanan softly assured as he looked down to look into Athena's eyes.

Her left eye was so new to Kanan. He was slightly taken aback by the blinded eye as its pale iris focused on nothing. Her right eye seemed so much richer in green as it looked back at him.

A small smile crept across his lips as he looked at his sister and he lightly wrapped her in a hug. She wriggled so she was under her brother's arm as she felt safer with him.

She slowly let her eyes droop shut. For now, she did not worry about what problems she would have to face tomorrow. She did not worry about the Empire or anything else but that moment. She would have to fight off the Empire later, for now she would fight her own demons and worry about her family.