There were times that Sabine almost hated Ezra.

It just wasn't fair of him to vanish like that, not right after they had already lost Kanan. Sabine hadn't had any time to really process that grief, since there was still so much left to accomplish. She had been mad and hurt and lost, and none of that really mattered, not when Lothal was still under Imperial occupation. Kanan had died, not only to save them, but to give Lothal a fighting chance. So when Ezra said he had an idea, Sabine was just as willing as everyone else to hear him out.

By the time she figured out that he hadn't shared all the details of his plan with everyone else, she only had a moment to react and make a decision. Did she call him out, or did she distract the others and let him slip away? In the end, there really wasn't any question of how she would act. The last few years had let her see how often Ezra fucked up, but she had also seen how much he had grown and learned. None of them were the same people they had been, and they had all saved the day at one point or another. As far as Sabine knew at the time, Ezra Bridger was the last of the Jedi, and she just had to have faith that he knew what he was doing.

In the years that followed, she kept waiting to hear something, anything, about Ezra. She also tried to search for any mention of Thrawn, since wherever he ended up would be the same place Ezra would have ended up. She never really thought that the Rebellion would win and the war would be over before she would see him again. There were so many moments that she kept expecting him to just show up out of nowhere. She expected him when the Death Star blew up. She expected him when word spread of a new Jedi, Luke Skywalker, who still needed training. She expected him in the Battle of Endor, which some of their family fought in.

Sabine had expected him before any of that, really. She had thought he would be there when little Jacen Syndulla was born. It was so wrong that this child of Kanan and Hera came into the world, and Ezra was not there to greet him. She knew that Ezra would want to be there to guide him, just as Kanan had guided him. This moment, more than anything, was Sabine's first spark of realization that Ezra would need help coming home.

When Ahsoka Tano found her, Sabine knew that the time had come to find her friend.

"I promised Ezra that I would find him," said Ahsoka as she strode forward to stand beside Sabine.

"You won't be going alone," Sabine informed the Togruta woman.

She stared at Ahsoka as Ahsoka stared at the painting that Sabine had made. She had created a lot of art over the years, but this piece would forever be special. This was her family, before death and disappearances. Sabine had many loyalties throughout her young life, from Mandalore to the Empire to the Rebellion. She would always be a Mandalorian and a Wren, and she could never erase the mistakes she had made at the Imperial Academy. But the people who had saved her and given her a new purpose and reason to fight were the crew of the Ghost. Kanan, who had tried to run from his past just like Sabine, but who had faced his shame and embraced his legacy. Hera, who had left her planet and family to fight for a new cause, but learned to forgive and mend old hurts. Zeb, who's people had been hunted to near extinction, but who found a way to help the survivors come together. Chopper, who everyone dismissed as an unimportant droid, but who had more personality and wit than many flesh-and-blood people.

And then Ezra, the last member of the crew, who had nearly driven them all mad countless times at the beginning. He had been selfish and reckless and arrogant, and he tried way too hard to impress Sabine. But she had watched him learn how to use the Force, and she had seen him create not one, but two lightsabers. She saw him be tempted by Maul and the dark time and again, but he continued to choose the light. She saw him make mistake after mistake, but he just kept learning and fighting and never giving up. And when they lost Kanan and nearly lost their hope, Ezra stepped up and showed them the way forward.

So, yeah, if Ahsoka was going to go looking for Ezra, there was no way that Sabine wouldn't be right there with her.

"I figured as much," Ahsoka agreed, turning away from Sabine's painting and smiling at her. "It won't be easy. It's been years since he and Thrawn disappeared."

"When has any of this ever been easy?" Sabine pointed out, a shadow of her old youthful smirk crossing her face.

Nothing good in life ever came easy. Sabine had learned that time and time again, and she was past the point of feeling bitter over it now. It was going to be nothing less than a pain in the ass to find Ezra, but that wasn't going to make her hesitate. He was her rival, her best friend, her family. He was a part of her soul, and she loved him, and she would never give up on him. She might not have the Force, but somehow she just knew that he was still alive out there.

Sabine touched the painting of Ezra for a moment as she made a silent vow to him. I'm coming, Ezra. Wherever you are, I'll find you. Then she let her hand fall away, and she gave Ahsoka her full attention.

"Let's go find Ezra, and bring him home."


Noiz: So I finally decided to watch Star Wars Rebels, and I spent the last couple weeks doing that. I didn't expect to get as emotionally invested as I did, honestly. I finally finished the show last night, and I just have so many feelings about it. So I wrote this on my phone at like 1am because I'm mentally unwell.

Also, I know that the final scene didn't show Ahsoka and Sabine talking in front of the painting, but I just really liked the idea of that happening. Maybe this could have happened before the scene of them walking to a ship and flying away!

I might write some more stuff for this show once I have more time to process all of it. There's just so many fun dynamics that I'd love to explore!