Chapter Two: Meeting the Gang

When Ezra woke up in a strong, gentle embrace he was almost convinced that the past eight years had been some sort of weird dream. But he remembered all the pain he had experienced and he knew that it couldn't have been a dream.

Ezra didn't want this to end, he snuggled deeper into the hold. He felt the chest his face was pressed into vibrate as the person who was holding him gave a chuckle.

"Are you up Sleeping Beauty?" Kanan asked.

"No," Ezra responded, not wanting this experience to end. He couldn't believe he was embarrassed to get into the bed last night, he liked being in Kanan's strong, comforting arms.

"I'm sure you don't want to spend one of our last full days together in bed all day." Kanan stated.

"Wha?t" Ezra asked. Was Kanan going to give him up? After all they'd been through. 'Is this all because of last night?'

"I go back to work Monday, it's Saturday now." Kanan said.

Ezra sighed with relief and pressed his face back into his guardian's chest.

"Speaking of which, I need to figure out what to do with you." Kanan said.

"Wacca mean?" Ezra asked.

"Well, I can't leave you home alone for nearly twelve hours. And I sure Janus wouldn't be too happy about having to watch you every day." Kanan explained.

"I could maybe go to the station." Ezra suggested.

"You would want to just sit around the station with two other officers for hours on end?" Kanan asked.

"If it makes it easier on you." Ezra said looking up into Kanan's eyes.

Kanan sighed, "Are you sure?"

"As long as they aren't bitter about what I did." Ezra said.

"Oh, I'll make sure of that." Kanan said protectively.

"Well, what should we do today?" Ezra asked.

"I'll leave that up to you." Kanan decided. "But first, how about some breakfast."

Ezra didn't want to get up. He felt so safe, and honestly loved right now. He didn't want it to end, but he didn't want to seem clingy, that might make Kanan upset. "Alright."

Ezra crawled out of the bed and Kanan did likewise after him.

"So what do you want for breakfast?" Kanan asked.

"Maybe we could make another attempt at pancakes?" Ezra suggested.

"As long as you use baking powder and not baking soda." Kanan said.

Ezra flinched slightly, "Can't we forget about that?"

Kanan smirked, "I don't think so."

"I thought so." Ezra sighed.

"Come on," Kanan smiled, and headed towards the kitchen.

Kanan and Ezra made pancakes luckily without any issues.

"Okay, now, off to figuring out what to do today." Kanan said after they finished their breakfast.

"I don't know what do you want to do?" Ezra asked.

"I don't know what do you want to do?" Kanan inquired.

"I don't know what do you want to do?" Ezra asked.

"I don't know what do you want to do?" Kanan responded.

"I don't know what do you want to do?" Ezra inquired.

"I don't know what do—"Kanan started before stopping, "Do we want to spend the whole day doing this?"

"I don't know." Ezra smirked, "What,"

"If you say 'what do you want to do?' I swear kid I will lock inside the bedroom for the entire day." Kanan threatened, not attending to follow through.

"Maybe we can visit the station, so I can get acquainted with the other officers, in a non hostile environment." Ezra suggested.

"Yeah, that would probably a good thing." Kanan agreed. "Get changed, I highly doubt you want to meet the rest of the squad in your pajamas."

"Yeah, probably a good idea." Ezra said. He went over to where he kept his clothes and pulled out an outfit before heading to the bathroom to change. Kanan met him back in the living room after they were both changed.

"Ready?" Kanan asked.

"Probably as ready as I'll ever be." Ezra replied.

The two started heading towards the station. About a block away from their destination, Ezra stopped in his tracks.

"What's wrong?" Kanan asked.

"Do you think the other officers will be mad at me?" Ezra asked. "For causing so much trouble over the years."

Kanan gave a sigh, pulling his foster son into a comforting hug, that his charge melted into. "It's going to be alright Ezra. I'll explain everything."

"I'm just so nervous." Ezra confessed, which was a new thing for him. He never admitted stuff like this.

"It will be okay," Kana comforted, running his hand through Ezra's loose hair.

"You really think so?" Ezra asked.

"I know so." Kanan said, before releasing the boy. "Shall we continue?"

"Yeah," Ezra said.

Ezra and Kanan continued towards the police station and walked in.

Kanan took quick account on who was on call. It seemed to be Sabine and Zeb.

"Kanan, is that Phantom?" Zeb asked.

"His name is Ezra, but yes." Kanan replied.

Ezra locked eyes with Sabine and refused to disconnect.

"What are you looking at kid?" Sabine asked.

"An angle," Ezra said. She had beautiful orange and purple dyed hair and wonderful deep brown eyes.

"What did you just say?" Kanan asked in shock.

"Kid's quite the charmer 'eh?" Zeb commented,

"Anyways, what's Ezra doing here?" Sabine asked, not paying any attention to the flirting child, she was twenty after all.

"Well, I've taken him in as my foster child." Kanan explained.

"Why?" Sabine asked.

"He needed someone." Kanan said. "The reason he was steal so often was because he lived on the streets."

"Oh," Zeb and Sabine said at the same time.

"So, what made you bring him down here?" Sabine asked.

"Well he's going to have to hang here while I'm on patrol. He obviously can't stay in the apartment for twelve hours." Kanan explained.

"What about school?" Zeb asked.

Ezra's eyes widened. He didn't want to go back to school yet, he would look like a total idiot for not know the things he should.

"Oh, I plan on sending him in January when the new semester starts." Kanan said. "Before then I'm going to try to get him a tutor to get him caught back up."

"Well, Ezra," Zeb said. "The name is Zeb, you'll probably see a lot of me, seeing as I'm usually in here while Kanan's on patrol."

"And, I'm Sabine," Sabine introduced. "I'm only in here about half the time. Sometimes it's Chopper."

"Yeah, a warning about Chopper." Zeb said. "Don't make him upset. He is hard to deal with if he's pissed."

"Noted." Ezra replied. "Wait! Is he the short ginger?"

"Yeah," Sabine said.

"That little bugger tazed me!" Ezra yelled.

"He did what now?" Kanan asked.

"It was a few years back," Ezra explained. "I was twelve it was about dusk, and I was running after I stole some fruit and he tazed me. The only reason why he didn't catch me was because when I fell I rolled into a ditch that he wouldn't be able to carry me up. So he just left me there."

"What happened after that?" Kanan asked, wanting to know how bad he was going to hurt the midget.

"What do you think?" Ezra asked. "That much electricity going through my puny twelve year old body, most of my muscles locked up. I couldn't move anything until nightfall the following night, and it took until about noon of the next day to get moving well enough to climb out of the ditch."

"You spent two nights in a ditch?" Sabine asked.

"Yeah, and one of those nights I couldn't sleep at all because it was raining." Ezra responded.

"Is it even legal to taze a minor?" Sabine asked.

"I don't think so, but honestly since when has Chopper cared about the rules?" Zeb responded.

"Touché." Sabine said. "Well kid, welcome to the station."

"Thanks I guess." Ezra replied.

"How old are you anyways?" Zeb asked.

"I'll be fifteen on the 6th." Ezra said.

"That's coming up soon." Sabine said, she checked the calendar, "On Thursday."

Ezra smiled, thinking that this birthday might not be so bad. He'd be safe at least, and who knows, Kanan might even do something to celebrate, but he wasn't going to count his chickens before they hatch. "I guess," he shrugged.

Kanan smiled and ruffled Ezra hair.

"Hey stop that!" Ezra said, pushing the offending hand away.

"Well kid," Kanan said. "Do you want to stay here a bit longer, or go find something to do?"

Ezra thought about it. "Let's find something to do."

"Do you two have any recommendations?" Kanan asked.

"There's a place on the north side of town. It has bowling and mini golf." Sabine said. "Good place to kill time."

"Sound good to you, Ezra?" Kanan asked.

"Sure." Ezra agreed.

Kanan and Ezra bid farewell to Zeb and Sabine before making their way back to the apartment so they could get the car.

"Have you ever been mini golfing or bowling before?" Kanan asked.

"A few times while my parents were still around." Ezra responded.

"Well, I haven't been since I was about seventeen." Kanan said.

"How long ago was that?" Ezra asked.

Kanan gave Ezra a look before responding, "About twelve years ago."

"So wait, you're like, twenty nine?" Ezra asked.

"I'll be twenty-nine in November." Kanan clarified.

"So you're only like fourteen years older than me?" Ezra asked.

"So?" Kanan asked. "That doesn't mean I still can't take care of you."

"Okay," Ezra said, before turning to look out the window.

Kanan ended up killing Ezra in mini golf. Kanan made a 3 under par, while Ezra was 15 over. But Ezra, was strangely amazing at bowling though. Kanan had gotten a 145, while Ezra got a 213.

"Wow, kid, who knew bowling was your thing?" Kanan said, as they walked back towards the car.

"I was pretty good back when I was a kid too." Ezra smiled. "I guess I'm a natural."

"Now what are you thinking?" Kanan said. "Do you maybe want to go see a movie at the theater?"

"Is there any good ones out?" Ezra asked.

"Well, we'll see." Kanan smiled and drove towards the theater.

Kanan and Ezra arrived at the theater and Kanan ordered tickets for a movie that looked pretty good.

Unfortunately Kanan didn't know that the main character's brother died about half an hour in. He glanced over at Ezra who was looking down. Kanan reached over and grabbed Ezra's hand to offer him some sort of comfort. Then it was even worse at the end when the robot sacrificed himself at the end. Ezra had tears streaming down her face.

Kanan grabbed Ezra's hand and rubbed soothing circles on the back.

After it was over Kanan pulled Ezra into a hug after they stood up.

"I'm sorry." Kanan said.

"It's fine, you didn't know what would happen." Ezra said, burying his face into Kanan's chest.

"Okay, how about we just go back home." Kanan said.

"Yeah, that sounds good." Ezra agreed and they headed back home where they read together, breaking for supper before continuing until it was time for bed.

Okay guys, listen up, this story is not going on Hiatus. But updating is going to be hard, because I am a working college student. But don't worry, I'll try to update as often as I can. I have a lot of reading homework, so it is hard to write while reading text books.