Hello all! I've been without a computer for a whole week! (Repairs) Finally got some way of getting to a computer now! Thank-you for all that has reviewed positively, I really do appreciate them! And thanks for answering my previous question! I think I'm going to stick to using at least 1000 words per chapter. Like I've said I may be using my imagination a little too much and made these characters (Which I don't own!) a little OOC.
Enough babbling! Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot of this story!
Kanan got a sudden shock as the sleeping body beside him lurched up and sprinted out of the room. He ignored Hera's warnings in his head and followed him. He saw Ezra kneeling over the toilet. His hands were shaking yet he didn't seem to be cold from the burning temperature and sweat pouring off his hair and face.
"Doing okay Kid?" Kanan asked, stepping into the cramped room. Ezra was startled by the sudden voice and fell into the wall.
"Careful" Kanan warned lightly, moving to sit beside him, copying Ezra's movements by pulling his knees up to his own chest.
"Wh-whats up?" he asked
"Just checking on you since you woke me up" Kanan joked lightly. He expected Ezra to be laughing alongside him or at least chuckling with a retort but instead he received an expression which made his face fall.
Horror marred the boy's face "Oh god I-I'm so sorry I didn't mean-"
"Woah slow down. I was joking" Kanan assured. Ezra nodded but that was a mistake and to his embarrassment found himself leaning back over the bowl.
Kanan sighed hating that his Padawan was going through this. He then realised this was more than the concussion causing this.
Like Sabine had, he held his hair back from Ezra's face and rubbed his back when the spasms as the spasms passed. He fell back into the wall, this time mindful of hitting his head.
"Feel any better?" Kanan asked after a moment.
"Sorry..." his voice was timid and quiet but Kanan heard and rounded on his Padawan, surprise showing on his face.
"What for?"
"For this…keeping you up…" he gestured with his arms weakly. Kanan sighed again and suddenly pulled Ezra's shivering form to him.
"Wh-what are you doing?" he asked.
"Comforting you" he teased. Ezra relaxed and was fully lying on Kanan. Kanan stroked the boy's hair back off his sweat covered face.
Ezra threw his hand over his mouth "Make it stop…"
"You've just got to let it run its course. I'll see if there's something to ease your stomach though" he said, leaving for a brief few moments. Ezra nodded in thanks.
Kanan came back with a glass of water and two tablets. Ezra gratefully took the tablets and winced at the taste. Kanan laughed and placed his hand on Ezra's shoulder as a sign of support.
It was then that Kanan remembered Sabine and Zeb's hushed words of secrecy. It didn't take him long to put two and two together and he found himself blurting out the question on his mind.
"Did you all take care of yourselves while I was" he paused unsure of how to phrase it …away?"
Ezra's head shot up and he looked at his Mentor, already feeling the lie breaking free from his tongue "Yeah, we showered and everything!" he teased attempting to diffuse the next load of questions. It didn't ease Kanan's nerves.
"How about eating? And Sleeping?" he asked again, his eyes daring him to deny the truth.
"Hera did a little, Sabine and Zeb were insistent on it. So how well did you get treated with-" the attempt at a subject change died in his throat at Kanan's glare.
"Nu-uh we're not finished here yet" Kanan shook his head.
"You're telling me you went on a crazy quest to save me and didn't eat or sleep once?"
"Wh-How.."
"Of course I knew it was you who threw this rescue mission together"
"How?"
"Because I know you, my very stubborn and reckless Padawan who I won't deny is very much like I was"
"Was?"
Kanan rolled his eyes and then grew serious "The reason you feel this ill is because you denied your body its needs. Think of it like a temple not just bones and skin. You denied your body its needs and now it's telling you off"
"Nice...can It do it another time" Ezra said dryly.
"You didn't do anything else reckless while I was gone did you?" Kanan asked, rounding on his student as a sudden fear crept in through their Jedi-Padawan bond.
"I can hardly call that reckless" Ezra brushed off, Kanan glared but never said anything. He could feel the guilt and uncertainty coming off him in waves.
"Ezra…" Kanan sighed in a combination of exasperation and warning. Ezra sighed unable to keep in his anxiety any longer. "We should do this when you're feeling better…"
"No we should do it now" Kanan insisted.
"But-"
"Ezra... do the others know?"
Ezra froze.
"So I could just ask them"
"Is it bad?" He asked gently trying to coax the answer from his Padawan.
"Y-yes…"
"Worse than when you and Zeb stole that TIE" he asked, doing a double take on his own words "which by the way you two are in big trouble for! You told me you crashed it!" Kanan shouted, exasperated.
"Hera gave us the speech…" Ezra mumbled.
"Well I'll be adding to it...later" Kanan promised. Ezra didn't doubt that promise. "We're talking about this now. Does Hera know?"
Ezra froze again.
"So she does. Was she mad?"
"Yes…" Ezra uttered, remembering the look of anger and frustration on Hera's face when he made the deal. The remembered the looks that Zeb and Sabine gave him which cheered him up a little.
"I-in order to find out where you were...cause the communications tower was destroyed and…" Ezra muddled his words. "I kinda went behind Hera's back…" at this Kana's eyebrow rose but he let Ezra continue regardless "…and...made a deal…"
Ezra went quiet. Kanan saw he wasn't going to answer on his own so prompted him, a little worried for the answer. He could have made a million different deals with anyone in the Galaxy but out of the people he'd met (That Kanan knew of) he only knew Lando, Ezmorigon, Market sellers and Viza-
Oh no
"Vizago"
"What?! Why would you-kid-Ezra that was so reckless! You could have gotten yourself killed!" Kanan exclaimed.
"But I didn't!"
"No but you still could of!" Kanan retorted.
"But I-" Ezra sighed not even trying to defend himself anymore. Kanan gave him an odd look.
"What was the deal?"
Ezra winced, unsure of if he should answer. The repetition of his name – not just his name, his surname too!
"Ezra Bridger" he said in a warning tone.
"Okay-okay…I did this for you remember" Ezra started, looking up at his Mentor and biting down the urge to vomit again. Kanan gave him the 'eyebrow'.
"I told him you were a Jedi...he didn't believe it...kinda mocked you which annoyed us..." Kanan couldn't say he wasn't surprised by that fact only the annoyance did have him questioning his Padawan; he resisted the urge to and opted for the word that did confuse him.
"Us?" he asked, already sensing the answer.
"Sabine and Zeb" he winced again, hated ratting out his friends. Kanan was going to have words with all of them.
"What was the deal Ezra?" he asked, rubbing a weary hand over his eyes.
"I-I told him if he helped us then he would have a Jedi owing him a favour"
"You didn't. Tell me you didn't" Kanan's tone spoke anger yet his eyes conveyed the emotion of fear and worry.
"I didn't say you would do it!" Ezra completely misunderstood.
"No you put yourself in the firing line!" Kanan sighed harshly. "What was the favour- in fact no tell me what happened next"
"I went with him to the ship…then we made a deal…he told me what I needed to know and then…he said…today he needed nothing but tomorrow…I'd have to wait and see" Ezra explained.
"Right" Kanan sighed for what must have been the fiftieth time that day. He wasn't sure what to do but he knew one thing.
"I should shout and scream at you for what you pulled but I won't" Ezra looked up at this.
"..Won't yet" he finished. Ezra then felt the fear return but still had one thing to keep his mind at rest. Kanan was scary when mad yeah, but Hera was the worst and also incredibly overprotective.
"Hera too"
Kanan watched in glee as his Padawan's face fell. She was going to murder them all.
"No mercy?" he tried.
"Nope" Kanan shook his head with a smile, emphasising the 'p'.
"I'm gonna die…" Ezra sighed, holding his head in his hands. Kanan knew that he meant Hera killing him but he begged to differ.
"Nah she'll shout and make you clean the Ghost for the rest of your life but she won't kill you" Kanan assured.
"That's supposed to make me feel better?" Ezra looked at his Mentor incredulous. Kanan shrugged.
"We're both in deeper trouble if we don't get back to bed" He told him, Ezra gave him a confused look.
"We will talk more about everything but right now we both need rest. I'm almost certain that Hera will personally come and drag us back to bed if we're not there when she comes back" Kanan joked, this time Ezra laughed along. He took the offered hand and they both walked haphazardly to the medical bay to await Hera's annoyed face.
One more Chapter to go! Thanks R and R!