Truth be told, she's not sure when things started to change. Chase had come to work for the GAR a little over a year after she became Skyguy's apprentice, as a hacker. He was insufferably arrogant sometimes, leading Ahsoka to dub him "Genius" after only a week aboard the Resolute. But he mostly kept to himself, and had a look of weariness, as though whatever he'd lived in his eighteen years of life had been too much.
She supposes, in the beginning, that they hung out purely because they were the youngest members assigned to the 501st, even being two years apart. It didn't take long to become close friends, as Chase was the only person aside from her master that saw her as Ahsoka Tano first, Jedi padawan second. She could talk to him about her doubts and struggles in being a commander at sixteen, and it felt like through the Force, that he understood.
And they were there for each other, as friends and comrades, and somehow unintentionally she found herself longing for more.
