(Summary: Kanan and Ezra have an argument and Hera steps in to solve it.)

"STUNTS LIKE THAT CAN GET US ALL KILLED!"

"I WAS TRYING TO HELP!"

"YOU WERE TRYING TO GET YOURSELF BLOWN UP!"

"I DIDN'T MEAN TO!"

"YOU STILL WENT AGAINST MY DIRCET ORDERS!"

"SO, NOW I'M MEANT TO BOW DOWN AND OBEY YOUR EVERY COMMAND, MASTER?!"

"IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF YOU DID SO EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE!"

"ENOUGH!!!" Hera cut in, preventing the argument from going any further.

Both Kanan and Ezra stopped what they were doing and turned to look at her. Just from the look on her face, they could tell they'd overstepped the line. This should've been warning enough, but Ezra's better judgment was clouded by his anger and frustration.

"Tell that to Kanan!" he snapped. "I was only trying to help on that mission and he can't stop screaming in my ear about it!"

"Yeah? Well, if I hadn't have stepped in at the last moment, you might not have had ears for me to yell into!" the older man retorted.

"I said enough and I mean it!" Hera's voice was at that dangerously low level which meant that both of them were on the edge of taking it way too far. Neither of them wanted to see how Hera would react when they did and they shut up pretty quickly.

"Whatever!" Ezra huffed and stormed off.

"And where are you going?" Hera turned her gaze to Kanan and he sighed, not wanting the conversation that he knew was coming up.

"I was just going to my room. I-"

"We need a talk, love."

He tried to keep himself from groaning out loud as he took a seat next to her in the cockpit of the Ghost. Before the ex-Jedi could get a word in, the Twi'lek spoke.

"I knew the mission didn't go all that well today-"

"'Didn't go all that well'!" Kanan repeated incredulously. "It was a complete disaster!"

He was silenced at a look from Hera.

"I know it didn't go well, but it could've gone a lot worse. And Ezra only wanted to help today - he was just doing what he thought was the right thing. He couldn't have known that it would end up going the way it did. We're lucky he's still with us! He's lucky he's only got a few grazes after what happened! And I know that if something had happened to him today, you would be blaming yourself and not him."

Kanan sighed. She was right, he knew she was. He'd just been angry at the time. The fear that he had felt earlier had translated itself as fury and he hadn't meant to take it out on his apprentice.

"Love." He looked up into her emerald eyes. "We all make mistakes; none of us are perfect. And Ezra's still just a kid! These sort of things are bound to happen, but he'll learn from them and won't do it again. I can tell he feels bad for what he did, but yelling at him and reminding him constantly of what he did won't help! He needs us to forgive him and let him know we don't hold it against him."

"You're right," Kanan agreed with her. "I'm sorry."

She chucked. "Don't tell me!"

He nodded and got up, leaving to find the boy he'd grown so attached to. He found said boy sat on the open ramp of the ship with his knees pulled up into his chest and his chin resting on top of them, staring off into the distance where he could just make out the shape of the communications tower where he used to live. He looked up as his mentor approached him, then turned his gaze back to the open fields of Lothal as the man sat down beside him.

"I'm sorry," they both said at the same time, then stared at each other in surprise.

"No, Kanan, it was my fault! You don't need to apologise! I messed up, I know that!" Ezra said hurriedly before the man he saw as a father could speak. He surely only wanted to yell at him some more or tell him how stupid he had been or tell him what his punishment would be.

"Ezra, it wasn't your fault. I didn't mean to lose my temper like that back there - I was just so worried. Earlier, I thought you were going to die and you have no idea how badly that scared me! I guess those feelings just came out a bit wrong. We all make mistakes and you shouldn't beat yourself up about it!"

"But the others could have all been killed because of me!"

"But they weren't!"

"They could have been!"

"But they weren't, Ezra! And none of them blame you for it. And I don't either! We've all made those mistakes. I've made far worse ones, you know! But it doesn't matter because we learn from our mistakes and we try not to do them again. We are allowed to get things wrong every now and then."

For a moment Ezra was silent and Kanan feared he'd said something wrong, but then the skinny, young boy threw himself into his arms and hugged him fiercely. Kanan returned the hug, smiling into the blue mop of hair as he embraced his son, knowing that everything had been forgotten and they could move on now.

Hera grinned to herself as she watched the two of them embrace from inside her ship. All was well and back to normal.