A/N: I'll be expanding this section eventually.


Ezra's Forewarning:

D255/4 ABY, Lothal

Two nights later, Ezra startled awake when he felt a not so subtle nudge from the Force. He rose silently from the bed and slipped on a sweater, slacks, and his belt with the lightsabre and blaster on it, then went outside to the balcony, following the call inside his mind. He looked down at the white lothwolf standing far below him in the waving grass.

"Come," rang through his mind in the deep voice of the wolf.

"Alright," Ezra thought back. "One moment," he added as he felt Sabine wake up and come looking for him.

Sabine opened the glass door to the balcony and walked up to Ezra, wrapping her arms around his waist. "Why are you out here in the middle of the night?"

Ezra nodded down at the lothwolf who sat on his haunches, waiting patiently. "I'm supposed to go with him. I don't know how long I'll be gone, so you shouldn't wait up."

Sabine glanced down at the wolf and then snuggled back into Ezra's warmth, shivering a little in the cool night breeze. "Be careful."

Ezra tilted her head up with a finger under her chin and kissed her briefly. "I will be," he promised. "I have a lot to come back home to," he said, pointedly glancing at her stomach.

Sabine smiled softly, placing a hand over the baby Ezra had felt for the first time the night before. That had been quite a memorable moment of celebration, to say the least. "Yes, you do, Ez'ika, so don't you go disappearing for another five years," she only half joked.

Ezra kissed her again, touched foreheads for a few precious seconds, and then jumped over the side of the balcony railing.

Sabine rushed forward in time to see him land easily on the grass in a crouch. He waved up at her with a cheeky grin and then climbed onto the back of the waiting lothwolf. The wolf jumped up into a gallop and then soon disappeared long before they should have under the bright light of the full moon. Sabine sighed and went back inside before she got too chilled and climbed under the warm blankets. She already missed having Ezra in the bed to cuddle with, but the white and orange lothcats that had shown up right after Ezra came home purred from the places they'd taken in Ezra's spot and soothed her back to sleep in no time.


The lothwolf travelled through his own time and space corridor, taking Ezra to where the Force directed him to. Ezra had to close his eyes during the sickening trip, but he managed to maintain consciousness out of sheer determination. When everything settled back down to a standstill, Ezra opened his eyes to darkness.

He closed them again, and sent out his Force senses, 'seeing' the way Kanan had taught him. Ezra sensed he was in a big chamber, probably underground based on how thick the ceiling felt above him. There was no one here but him and the wolf, which was reassuring in a way. Wherever he was, it was very strong in the Force. It actually felt like the Jedi Temple, if he had to compare it to anything.

Ezra slid off the wolf and ignited his lightsabre, using it as a light. On the wall in front of him were two openings into hallways, but none of them called to him, so he turned in a half circle and looked at the wall on the far side of the lothwolf. Ezra had to smile and shake his head. He was right. This was the Jedi Temple. As he'd suspected, it hadn't destroyed itself, but had simply taken itself away from the reach of anyone who wasn't acceptable. Ezra suspected the only way to get into the temple now was by lothwolf transport, and no Darksider in the galaxy would ever be able to convince a lothwolf to give them a ride.

Ezra walked around the wolf and up to the mural of the Father, Son, and Daughter, the Force calling him to it. He reached up and touched the Daughter's hand in the open signal, sending a burst of Force into it. Just like before, the painted wolves ran to the side and created a portal for him. Ezra glanced back at the white lothwolf, seeing him lying on the floor and looking at him with knowing eyes. He would wait for him. Reassured, Ezra stepped through the portal.

Once in the World Between Worlds, Ezra put his lightsabre back on his belt, not needing it in the magically lit endless space. He wondered why he'd been brought here this time. Last time, he'd been shown many pieces of the past, much of them not making any sense at all. He'd also been shown a brief glimpse of the future. It had shocked him, but had given him time to prepare and plan. Ezra had seen the purrgil taking the 7th Fleet away. He'd seen the Dome exploding in the sky. And he'd also seen Sabine and Hera sitting together in his tower, looking wrecked. The last had been really really hard to look at. And then he'd rescued Ahsoka and the rest was history.

Now Ezra was back and staring into another portal. He watched it for the better part of five hours, eventually sitting in a cross legged position for the sake of comfort. What he saw was perhaps the most depressing thing he'd ever seen and brought tears to his eyes on more than one occasion.

When the portal went black, Ezra rose on shaking legs and made his way back into the Temple, closing the portal with a touch to the Son's hand and another burst of the Force.

Ezra walked back to the lothwolf and climbed back on with a durasteel resolve growing in his heart. The Force had shown him a future that would happen if something wasn't done about it. If the Force wanted it to happen, it wouldn't have brought Ezra to see. He was sure he'd been tasked with making sure that it never did. Ezra knew what he had to do.

First, he had to make sure that Luke never tried to re-establish the old Jedi Order. It would drive Mara Jade away and just be a disaster in the long run.

Second, he was going to make sure that Jacen 'found' the girl called Rey on Jakku before she could be sold to Unkar Plutt, and see if he could finagle it that the she be adopted as a Solo or Skywalker. The girl and Ben Solo were destined to be together and it might be the catalyst that kept that family together.

Third, he was going to do everything in his power to find the one called Snoke before he could turn Ben Solo to the Dark Side and establish the First Order.

It was a lot to do, but Ezra had a huge circle of friends and acquaintances who would help. It would all work out.

Ten minutes later, Ezra shooed the lothcats out of his spot and slid into bed beside Sabine, wrapping himself around her. He breathed in her sweet scent as she hummed happily in her sleep, kissed her neck lovingly, and then closed his eyes. Ezra had a long-term mission to fulfill and plenty to keep him occupied on a daily basis. He had the girl of his dreams in his arms and his child humming quietly in the Force from within her.

Ezra was home. Forever.