Okey dokey, artichokey! Here we are! Beginning my next chapter! I've also got a contest I'm going to be holding. Go to my profile page for more details. Until then, read your hearts out (this chapter tkes place right after Legacy; so the most recent episode).


Chopper rolled by Sabine, beeping a sarcastic comment as he went.

"Me?" She asked turning. The astromech laughed in his mechanical voice and rolled away, avoiding looking back.

"Well I know some secrets of yours, too. Like that other astromech I saw you with? She's pretty hot, huh?" Sabine smirked. Chopper wheeled around and started attacking her with a flood of comebacks.

"Easy, Chop, I'm just kidding! And FYI, Ezra has the crush, not me!"

"You two knock it off!" Hera yelled from the other room.

"He started it!" Sabine yelled.

Chopper beeped a few more words.

"I am not mood swinging!" The artist shrieked.

He shot back a response, earning a shocked gasp from the young teen. "I do not! You're the one that-"

"Hey! I said knock it off!" Hera yelled again. Sabine could tell her patience was waning, and really didn't want to face her caretaker's fury.

"Fine Chopper, you win… Seriously though, do you like her?"

The orange astromech screeched his fury and waved his mechanical arms around.

"I do not! Shut up!" Sabine retorted.

Hera finally came storming into the room, her hands on her hips, and her stern face. "That's it. Chopper, go run a dialysis on everything. Sabine, go to your room and stay there until I say you can come out."

"What! Are you grounding me?" She asked incredulously.

"Yes."

"But, for how long?"

"Until Kanan and Ezra get back."

"But that could take days!"

"Well then, I guess you'll have to wait."

Sabine stared for a moment before she, without another word, began walking to her room. She was more hurt than angry. She was disappointed in herself, and hurt by Hera's harshness, and confused about the whole thing. Hera never got mad at her like that, and Sabine didn't understand why she was upset with her all of a sudden.

She got to her room and began pacing. What had she done wrong? What was happening? She didn't understand. And that felt awful.

"What's the matter with me? How do I always manage to screw up somehow?" Sabine asked herself aloud. "Always. Every time. I can never do anything right… No, no, no. Believe in yourself." She said, beginning to smile. "Yeah, believe in yourself. You aren't useless, everyone messes up every once in a while. …But then why do I still feel so sad? Oh, right, I remember; because I mess up almost every time!" She yelled in fury. "I don't just sometimes make mistakes, I almost always make mistakes! Why can't I just do one stupid thing right!"

The young mandalorian collapsed on the floor and her head fell onto her knees. She stared for a long time before she heard a familiar voice. It was Kanan! She had never been excited to have him come home before. Something had strengthened their relationship with just that small talk. The man who she before only saw as a leader, she now saw as a father. And she found herself running to greet him.

Sabine was almost to the door where she heard him and Hera talking, when she slowed down, trying to keep her cool. The door was shut, but she could hear them talking.

"-so they were still alive, but now they're gone. They died during the escape. Ezra took it hard."

"Oh no…" Sabine whispered to herself, knowing they were talking about Ezra's parents.

"Is Ezra okay?" She heard Hera ask. "Something like that must be really hard for him. He is just a kid."

"He's okay. He could probably use a few more hugs though… Speaking of kids, where's our artist? I didn't see her greeting us."

"She and Chopper were fighting, so I sent her to her room."

"Just like that?"

"I was busy and frustrated, and didn't feel like dealing with either of them, so I just sent them away."

There was a short pause, and a little bit of whispering that Sabine couldn't make out. A moment later, their voices raised back up again.

"Well, she can be a little mischievous." Kanan commented.

"Indeed. She's a little devil. She's probably getting into trouble right now even."

"Maybe we should go check on her." Kanan suggested.

"Alright, let's go."

Sabine tensed, but didn't have time to run. She pressed herself against the wall by the door, not knowing what else to do. The door opened and Hera and Kanan came out and immediately walked in front of her, smiling in amusement and adoration.

"Hi." She whimpered with a nervous smile.

"You eaves dropping you little monster?" Kanan asked, asked playfully.

"…Maybe?"

Hera shook her head.

"Did you guys know I was here?"

"We knew the whole time belle fille." Kanan smiled as he twirled her. "Hera tells me you've been getting into trouble today."

"That's because I'm a failure." She frowned as Kanan danced with her, twirling and dipping the young girl.

"No you're not."

Sabine sighed. "I know. But it's so hard to convince yourself that."

"Feelings if inferiority are a difficult thing to fight. It's a tough battle to be in. But you've gotta stay happy feelings of importance always come back again."

"But, why do they have to go away in the first place?"

"Well, if everyone always felt happy, happy wouldn't be very, you know, happy." Hera tried to explain.

"So, you're saying, that if you have sad days, it makes the happy days seem even happier?" Sabine asked as Kanan stopped dancing, and simply stood there, still holding her hands.

"Exactly." Hera smiled approvingly. Sabine stared at them both for a minute before shaking her head and saying, "Nope. Still don't get it."

Kanan and Hera laughed. "You'll understand when you're older." The twi'lek smiled.

Sabine sighed and muttered, "I hate it when adults say that."

They both laughed again, before Hera kissed her forehead.

"Family rocks." The mandolorian said to herself, receiving another chorus of laughter from her parents -in the acting. But, substitutes or not, she loved them, and she knew they loved her back.


I know, I know, it sucks. But I'm having a little writers block right now (same with the last chapter I posted) so I'm not doing very well fanfic wise. And in case you were wondering, belle fille is French for pretty girl.

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