Hera was in the common room, scouring over the Holonet for any information that Earth had leaked about the Empire or themselves. She was scouring over the Holonet when she came upon a link with the description of a fight that just happened in the city she sent Ezra and Athena to. Her curiosity got the best of her and she clicked on the link. As she did, Kanan came into the room.

"Hey, what did you find so far?" Kanan asked.

"Well, apparently there was just a fight here in the town I sent Athena and Ezra to." Hera said, still staring at the Holonet as the video loaded.

"Oh no." Kanan moaned and sat next to Hera and watched the video.

There was a crowd of people circling 2 people, one was a tall, muscular, human male, the other was a short, human female with a hood to conceal her identity. Hera and Kanan immediately recognized Athena by her armor and the burn on her shoulder, but continued to watch.

The referee counted down and the man began to swing at Athena, and she ducked every single throw. The man then threw a kick, but then Athena grabbed his leg and twisted it, causing him to fall on the man got more infuriated at Athena and jumped up and began to throw failed punches. He tried to kick Athena in the stomach again, but she back up just enough so he missed and he fell on the ground. He then got up and threw more punches that Athena dodged.

"I told her not to get into fights! I can't believe this!" Hera exclaimed.

"Where is Ezra is what I want to know." Kanan said.

The man swung a punch at Athena's head and Athena grabbed onto the man's fist and twisted his arm to the side of him and kicked him in the back of the leg, causing the man to fall onto his knees in pain and then Athena pushed him onto the ground and the referee counted to 10 and Athena walked away and collected the creds from the pot to the side and the man just stayed on the ground with his arm still behind him.

Athena went over to another cloaked figure that Kanan and Hera recognized as Ezra and gave him the creds and took the rest of her cloak out of his hands and the two walked away from the crowd and the video ended.

"I can't believe she disobeyed direct orders!" Hera exclaimed.

"I can't believe that she just beat that guy. He's bigger than me!" Kanan said in disbelief at his little sister's fighting ability.

"They are in such big trouble when they get back." Hera said.


Kanan and Hera were at the ramp of the liftgate and watched the horizon as the suns began to set, and no sign of Ezra or Athena yet.

"Where are they?" Hera asked.

"They're coming soon, I feel their presences are close." Kanan said and continued to watch the horizon.

The two watched the horizon some more, and Hera spotted two figures in the distance carrying crates.

"There!" Hera said and pointed in their direction.

Ezra and Athena walked up to the liftgate where Kanan and Hera where, they were absolutely exhausted and hot. They both sat down their crates down in the cargo bay and Kanan and Hera followed close behind, and did not look happy. Once Ezra and Athena looked up, they saw their angry eyes.

"Um..."Ezra said and searched for the extra creds that he had under his cloak and found them and handed the satchel to Hera "Here's the change."

Hera took the satchel and looked at it and looked inside and looked up "This is more than what I gave you, and it's not even the same satchel."

Ezra and Athena's face went blank with fear.

"Oh,Hoover Dam." Athena said to herself "We can explain?" Athena said nervously.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU 2!" Hera yelled "I SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU NOT TO GET INTO A FIGHT! AND WHAT DO YOU DO?! YOU DISOBEY ME!"

"SYLA DUME! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!" Kanan yelled "THAT MAN WAS MUCH BIGGER THAN ME! HE COULD'VE KILLED YOU!"

"I was fine! I won!" Athena snapped.

"YOU COULD'VE BEEN RECOGNIZED!" Hera yelled "AND YOU ACTUALLY USED THE MONEY I GAVE YOU 2 TO BET ON THAT FIGHT?!"

"We had to get the money back!" Athena explained "We lost the money and this man handed us a couple of creds and we used that for me to enter the fight so we could pay for the supplies!"

"EZRA! I TOLD YOU NOT TO LOSE THE CREDITS! HOW'D YOU LOSE THEM?!" Hera yelled.

"I-" Ezra started.

"I lost them!" Athena lied "I held on to the credits for a minute on my belt and it got snatched!"

" SYLA DUME,GO TO YOUR ROOM!" Kanan yelled.

"MY ROOM IS ON THE MAIN SHIP!" Athena yelled.

"THEN GO TO MY ROOM, YOU ARE GROUNDED!" Kanan yelled.

"YOU'RE NOT MY FATHER!" Athena yelled.

"REALLY? BECAUSE THE LAST TIME I CHECKED, I WAS THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE!" Kanan yelled.

"NO ,YOU'RE NOT! OUR DAD STILL MIGHT BE ALIVE!" Athena shouted.

"KEYWORD; MIGHT! NOW, GO!" Kanan yelled, pointing away.

Athena began to walk away and kicked the wall in frustration and continued to walk away and Hera scolded Kanan and punched his shoulder.

"What the heck?!" Hera yelled at Kanan "I can't believe you!"

"She lost the creds, she disobeyed direct orders and she nearly got herself killed!" Kanan snapped.

"Ezra, go to your cabin." Hera said.

Ezra took off quickly to his cabin.

Hera turned to Kanan, furious "I can't believe that you just talked about your guys's father to Athena like that!"

"She needs to learn discipline! She has absolutely none!"

"You shouldn't say stuff like that to her! A girl's father is a very sensitive subject!" Hera shouted.

"She needs to listen to us! She can't get out of listening by saying I'm not her father, when, he isn't even here!" Kanan snapped "He might not even be alive! And Force only knows about our mom!"

"You know what?! You are so...arrogant!" Hera shouted in frustration "How can you say something like that?! That is your parents you're talking about! And her's too!"

"She needs to listen!"

"No, YOU need to listen! You can't just say something like that and not expect her to hate you for the rest of her life!" Hera yelled "That is your sister!"

"You and I both know that she could've gotten seriously hurt!" Kanan shouted "And I don't want my only biological relative that I've met to die for something as stupid as fighting for credits!"

"She was fine! I don't like the fact anymore than you that she disobeyed us, but she did it so she we could get the supplies we need!"

"No, she was doing because she didn't want to face the consequences of losing the credits!"

"Kanan! Tatooine is a very infamous place for people getting their money taken all the time. Athena isn't used to having any money so it'd be amazing if she didn't get it stolen! Let's just be happy that she and Ezra are perfectly fine! The only person that got hurt during this entire thing was her opponent!"

"But she could've gotten hurt!"

"Keyword; could've." Hera crossed her arms "She has more ability to fight than most kids her age."

"Hera...you know I don't like her living that kind of life." Kanan said "You know that for those many years I hadn't known you after the Clone Wars I had always gotten into fights. I didn't want her life to escalate to what I lived, drinking in bars,fights,horrible living conditions, everything. I just don't want that to happen to her."

"Kanan, that won't happen." Hera assured "She's with us, and it was only one fight."

"It always starts with one fight." Kanan said "Then it's another and another and it never ends."

"Kanan, she's fine, Ezra's fine. Everything is fine." Hera assured "We'll punish her accordingly and we will move on."


Athena had snuck onto the roof of the Ghost and was watching the suns set in the distance of the desert planet. Thankfully, almost all of the ice was now gone. She had taken off her cloak and she let her now copper hair down.

She was so furious at Kanan, she couldn't believe how he said 'Keyword;maybe'. That irritated her sooo bad.

It irritated her that Kanan had said that, he didn't even know how she grew up. He grew up in the Jedi Temple, with all those Jedi that actually cared about their younglings.

How did she grow up? With a bunch of families that couldn't care less about her. Sure, there was a few good families that she had lived with. But each gave her up because of her unruly behavior when it comes to wanting to be free.

It teed her off that Kanan could even say something like that. When she grew up, she always had a sliver of hope that her parents were still alive. That they might take her back, that they still might be there for her.

That, and the movie 'Annie' (The original) influenced her a lot. But, she wished she was Annie instead of what life she was given on Earth. Annie didn't nearly have as a 'hard-knock life' as Athena when she grew up.

At least Annie wasn't thrown from a bridge, twice. She wasn't nearly drowned in a river because of a broken vase, she never had to watch someone take their own life and then be framed with murder. She never had to watch a family die in a house fire, she didn't have to go out and fight for money, nothing. The orphanage Annie was in was an average day for Athena when she grew up.

When she was a little girl, she always dreamed of her mom and dad taking her back, that or at least be adopted by a nice family.

Then the song 'It's a hard-knock life' got stuck in Athena's head and she began to hum it.

"Oh, great. Now I got that stuck in my head for the next hour." Athena said to herself "Hoover Dam it all to hello." she fake swore.

She continued to watch the suns set. and continued to hum the a minute or two, she felt a small disturbance in the Force and she looked back to see Rae.

"Hey, Rae." Athena greeted "Wanna watch the suns set?"

Rae shrugged and sat on the edge of the Ghost with Athena "Yeah. You know Kanan's looking for you, right?"

Athena rolled her eyes "This is why I'm glad I can hide my Force signature well."

"What's up with you guys? You have a fight?" Rae asked.

"Yeah, he found out I got into a fight in town to win back the creds Ezra and I lost. He and I said some words, and now I'm grounded." Athena summed up.

"You got into a fight?" Rae asked.

"Yeah, I won though." Athena said "Ezra says I broke the guy's arm, but I don't think I did."

"Hm...so how'd Kanan find out? About the fight?" Rae asked.

"I don't know, Hera and him just started yelling at us as soon as we came back." Athena said "I am probably never going to be allowed to go on a mission for a long time."

"Maybe they found a video on the Holonet." Rae suggested "But you still need to come inside, it's dangerous out here."

Athena shrugged "That's life. Hey, I heard from the others that you were a little down today, still upset about the stuff you and I talked about earlier today?"

Rae shrugged "Kind of, still hard to wrap my mind around it."

"Want to talk about it?" Athena asked.

"Jeez," Rae chuckled "Now you're sounding like Kanan."

"I am not."

"You are," Rae smiled "he asked the exact same thing when you and Ezra were gone."

Athena smirked "Great...first I look like him, now I sound like him?"

Rae chuckled a little "Hey, are you and Ezra ever going to date? You two are too perfect not to be together."

Athena narrowed her eyes at Rae "Shut it."

"Aw! Come on, just tell me."

Athena thought for a moment.

Rae gasped in excitment "You like him back! Don't you?"

"Shut it." Athena warned "I will push you off this ship."

"No you wouldn't." Rae smiled "You ever going to tell Ezra you like him back?"

"Do you want to live to see tomorrow, girl?" Athena warned.

"Come on! You have to say you like him back!" Rae said.

"Rae, I will push you off this ship." Athena warned.

"Athena. tell me, if I ask Ezra right now if you showed any signs of liking him back, what would he say?"

Athena turned back to the suns "I guess he might say I offered him a kiss, but that's it. That, and I haven't murdered him."

"Aw, you offered him a kiss?"

"I am about ready to push you off this ship. And it's a long drop." Athena warned.

Rae let out a small chuckle "You gotta give him more signs of you liking him back."

Athena looked at Rae "Don't test me, girl." and stood up and walked back into the ship.

Once inside she saw and angry Kanan by the bottom of the ladder. She just pretended like she didn't see him and didn't acknowledge him.

"Why were you on the roof? " Kanan asked "Do you realize how disobedient you are being lately?..."

Kanan continued to drag on, as Athena walked to the common room with him walking behind her and talking, Athena just ignored her.

Once they reached the common room, they saw Zeb, Sabine and Ezra all sitting on the couch.

"And another thing..." Kanan continued.

"Oh my gosh! Can you just give it a rest?!" Athena exclaimed and plopped on the couch next to Sabine.

"Athena, you are grounded. Do you even understand what that means?" Kanan asked.

"Does it mean you are totally overreacting?" Athena sarcastically asked.

"Woah, what happened with you two?" Sabine asked.

"She got into a fight in town for credits." Kanan said "After we told her not to get into any fights."

"I was fine!" Athena snapped.

"You might have gotten killed!" Kanan snapped.

"Keyword; might!" Athena snapped.

"Is this about me saying that our dad might not be alive?! Because you and I both know that he may not!"

Athena stood up and looked Kanan in the eyes "At least I have some hope."

"Yeah, and let's see how that works when you're all alone." Kanan said.

The others were getting uncomfortable at the two's argument, it was an awkward position to be in. No one really argued with Kanan like Athena did, and Kanan never snapped at anyone like he did when arguing with Athena.

"Ok, let's just cool off..." Sabine tried to stop their argument from escalating.

"Actually, that hope did me a lot of good back on Earth." Athena said "It actually gave me something to live for."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you just lived to fight." Kanan sarcastically remarked.

That seriously ticked Athena off "Are you kidding me, Caleb? Do you-"

"Don't call me Caleb." Kanan warned.

"Why? You've called me Syla plenty of times." Athena said "It's your name anyways. What's wrong with me, your sister by birth, calling you the name you were given at birth?"

"I'm older than you." Kanan pointed out.

"Not my fault."Athena remarked "And why can you call me Syla?"

"Because I'm the adult and you're still a child." Kanan answered.

"Last time I checked you were still acting like a child, Caleb." Athena said.

"Oh..." Sabine said and stood up to break up the fight along with Zeb and Ezra "Let's not say anything we might regret."

"Yeah, let's just all cool off. We're all good." Ezra said.

"I can't believe you Abigail-" Kanan started.

"Don't call me Abigail! It's not even my name!" Athena snapped.

"Why?That was the name you were given."

"By people that couldn't care less about me, you atleast got your name from our parents that actually care about you."

"If they actually cared about me, why didn't they look for me after the Clone Wars ended? And if our father is alive on Earth, why didn't he take you out of the foster system?" Kanan asked "Huh?"

"Guy's just drop it." Ezra said "You shouldn't fight."

"You know what, I'm out." Athena said and began to walk away.


Hi everyone! So, I just want to share some facts about this fanfic that I've forgotten to share before;

*'...' is called an ellipse

*America actually has been involved in or been in war for 92% of it's existence

*I based Athena's looks and personality almostly completely on my own

*I was actually born with brown hair like Athena, and mine also fell out when I was a baby (I don't know why though)

*I made Cleveland Athena's hometown because I'm a Cleveland Indians fan.I also try to root for the Cleveland Browns, *sigh* I try.

*The 'son of a waffle eating rat' phrase comes from my algebra teacher ,don't ask -_-

Don't forget to review, bye! Thanks!

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