Hey, just realized this is a chapter I never posted here. Please understand that I will not be finishing this story, but i feel you deserve to see all I wrote for it.

There are a couple more complete chapters, then I will post Chapter Starters that may work their way into Guilded Chains, or you can adopt them for any fandom or pairing! (Just pm me so i can read them)

"My dear, I'm amazed you can still fit in those vents, and it's not because you're a tiny, half starved 14 year old still. No, you contort yourself at angles that would hurt any other young man. How? It's because you're still pretty flexible for a 17 year old boy, normally such elasticity is lost to strength after puberty. But not you, Because despite your shame of your body, you use its assets every notice things before Kanan senses them and your master is convinced is force related. It's simply girl power". He swiftly turned away, only to hear Ezra sniffle a little. He immediately commanded Kuma to unchain his overstressed and exhausted prisoner. "Kuma Lisa didn't catch you running away did she, but coming back in. You were almost free, why did you turn around?"

"Someone… I… It doesn't matter, not like you will actually do anything."

"Ezra. What happened? You were blocks away by the time Kuma arrived, halfway to the spaceport with more than enough credits to get yourself onto a ship."

"I'm ok now, it doesn't matter."

"Ezzy, that means that whatever happened scared you more than Kuma's or my wrath, or even what she did to poor Kevin. Please, I will not further punish you."

"I thought he was you…"

"And that scared you? Seeing some other blue skinned man? A Pantoran perhaps?"

"Let me finish, no." (story about another chiss cornering him, and calling him 'Princess'. Was hiding from him when found by Kuma.) "I thought he was you, not just because he has blue skin but because he was showing people a holo of me, but when some bystander pointed me out to him and we met eyes… They weren't angry, or annoyed like yours would have been in that situation… they had this terrifying glint yours never do." Ezra began shaking instinctively despite his efforts to remain even headed, "even when you're mad at me," it took a moment for Ezra to recompose himself, before he raced deeper into the story like he wanted to get it done and over with, "I don't know why but I was frozen, even when he looked away to thank the guy who pointed me out… Forget it," Ezra's arms are wrapped protectively around his own torso.

"Another Chiss? And he seemed to know who you were?" Thrawn asked, wanting to bring Ezra into a hug in hopes of comforting his stolen mate.

"Y-yeah. But his skin was a wrong, sickly lilac-blue, and his eyes seemed bloody. Especially when he got closer." the boy tried to squirm out but was too drained.

"If he dared touch you, Ezra, tell me so I can make him pay for hurting MY little rebel." Thrawn cooed, holding the holo image of Ezra tight to his chest, wishing he could stop the exhausted trembling that seemed to wrack through Ezra's entire being.

Flashback

"Where are you Princess?" The strange Chiss called out, "I'm far from done with you."

Ezra cowered further into his hiding spot behind the street stand of a sympathetic seller,

"Miss, by any chance have you seen this sweet girl?

"Even without the force I could feel his intentions for me… I tried to run but he whisked me into an alleyway… I got away before he got all of what he wanted from me."

"But not before he got some, or told you something."

"He knew exactly who, and what I was. And I'm apparently his key back to the ascendancy too, but he was a lot more aggressive about it. At least you're trying to woo me first, he… he ripped my shirt… if he wasn't having problems with my pants he would have…" Ezra's voice cut off, skipping a word "and taken me away with him. I got away before we reached the shipping yard."