During Jedi training the next few days in Kanan's room, Kanan noticed the sleep exhaustion in his padawan. The boy reacted slowly and yawned more than usual. So finally deciding nothing would be learned in his drowsy stupor, Kanan paused training for later.

"Ezra, come here."

Said boy ambled over questioningly.

Looking down at the boy with a frown Kanan asked, "Why are you so sleepy?..I mean, more than usual. And don't give me the excuse that you get up too early, because you always get up at the same time."

Dropping his head, Ezra muttered, "I've been staying up late, talking with Chopper."

Kanan listened closely to the quiet reply, and after hearing Ezra's statement, he thought he'd understood wrong.

"Wait. You said you've been talking to Chopper. Chopper?" A nod was his reply.

Trying hard to recall anything that might've hinted this was possible, Kanan concluded this was only recently.

Then connecting the dots, Kanan spoke aloud, "So you've been learning droid code late at night, and that's why you're so tired."

Another nod.

"And you didn't tell me?"

Ezra shuffled in his spot, "I...uh...yeah."

Rubbing a hand on his forehead in exasperation, Kanan sighed. "Who inspired you to take up the language? Hera? Sabine?"

"Sabine...said it'd be useful."

Looking his padawan in the eye he spoke seriously, "Learning the code is great, but I'm worried about what you'd hear."

Ezra raised a brow and waited for Kanan to continue. "Ehhh...Chopper isn't the happiest or droids. So we avoid letting you all know what things he says...when he's having a bad mood."

At that Ezra laughed. "He's always seems to be in a bad mood, but he's not that bad. Besides, he said Hera already told him to watch his language now... And if I didn't grow up on the streets and hear the way Chopper expresses himself before, I wouldn't have already know Chopper tends to use...colorful words."

Kanan stared at his boy in slight shock and shame, "You..Haven't been learning those...have you?"

Ezra froze, "What?! Nooo, of course not!" He stares up at Kanan and continued, "And Sabine told me to only look up words we'd normally use in our daily lives."

Then Chopper rolled up and bumped into Kanan's leg, patting him with his arm. "That's right, Kanan. Hera and Sabine were very clear as to what was being learned and spoken. You can trust meeeee~" Chopper droned, defending his new chat buddy.

Kanan thought for a moment before giving one final sigh. "Okay, okay. Just don't stay up late anymore. You still have Jedi skills to learn. And unless your knowledge of droid code can defend you against the Empire, you will be readily focused in your next lesson. Understood?"

Ezra smiled, "Yes, Master."

"Now get some rest, Hera has a mission for us tomorrow."

Later that evening, Ezra and Chopper were in the common room playing a game of Holo chess.

Zeb sat in to watch and gave the unnessesary commentary whenever either of them won a game.

"Ohh! The droid gives a killer uppercut to the little tooka! Mwwaa and the tooka goes doooown! T'was a glorious victory!"

Ezra sighed and Chopper gave a cheerful whistle. "Hahah! A deals a deal Ezra!" The droid laughed some more and chirped mischievously.

The boy groaned and whined, "WHat?! No fair! You cheater!" But the droid remained resilient to his pleas, and Chopper spluttered his laughter, "Or should I say, Tooka?"

Ezra groaned "This is ridiculous! I am NOT acting like a lothcat because you say so!"

Chopper droned, "C'mon sore loser, it's only for an hour. And Zeb was witness to our deal!"

Ezra frowned, "He doesn't even understand it all!"

"Shhhh...Tooka don't speak~"

Hera was enjoying a jelly sandwich at the pilot seat when she heard the door open to reveal Ezra and Chopper.

She smiled at the two and continued eating.

Chopper rolled up and parked himself between the front seats where Hera and Kanan sat, and laughed to himself.

Behind him Ezra groaned and hesitantly reached down. Slowly he got down and sat on the floor.

Kanan watched silently and with each passing moment, questioned his apprentice's behavior.

"Uhhhh...Ezra? Why are you sitting on the floor? The other seats are open you know..."

Chopper chirped and Ezra climbed into Zeb's chair. There, he continued to remain silent.

When Ezra didn't answer, Hera turned to watch curiously.

"Ezra, what's going on?"

The next moment, Ezra meowed, surprising the two adults. "What?"

Again Ezra meowed. Then Hera sighed, "Oh great..." then looking at the laughing droid Hera concluded the reason. "It was a bet, wasn't it, Chopper?"

A gleeful whistle was her reply, and Kanan gave another sigh.

"If it's not Zeb, it's Chopper." Turning to Hera, he continued, "Are you sure letting Sabine teach Ezra droid was a good idea?"

Hera shook her head bemusedly, "I'm beginning to have my doubts."

Well there's another chapter~

I just wanted to have them pass the time until I hopefully get the story going with some action in the next chapter.

So stay tuned, and I hope you enjoyed~

hehehheh RxR please~