Hello! Sorry that this is so short, just is. Sorry me posting the wrong doc thing keeps happening, I think that there must be a glitch with my computer or something. I know that I hit the right doc, but it updatess wrong. Anyways, I'm trying to figure it out, so bare with me please. Enjoy!

Chapter Nine

Ezra

When Ezra woke, he was immediately confused. Instead of the cold metal ground of the main room of his territories, he felt a soft, warm mattress underneath him. Where am I? Then he remembered. Kanan coming, their fighting, his passing out. No, no, no, NO! Kanan must have caught him! He sat bolt upright, calling for his friends. Where were Nina and Tarka? Even Kelly Jones, or one of the other prisoners would be okay. Just SOMEBODY! That's when he saw Kanan standing in the doorway. He scrambled away, attempting to jump off of the bed which ended with him crashing to the ground. He tried to get up, but found himself unable to stand. Suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder, gently pulling him to his feet, keeping him steady. He stared up into the concerned face of his master. He tried to get away, but couldn't move in his weakened state. He heard Kanan talking to him, whispered reassurance. He wanted more than anything to believe him, but knew that it was a lie. "I don't believe you!" he whimpered. He had seen Kanan killing the crew. He knew it was true!

"Ezra, Nina and Tarka aren't real." Kanan whispered. Ezra listened as he explained about the Empire. He was stunned and stared at Kanan in bewilderment, looking for any proof the man was lying. Suddenly he remembered first coming to the ship, first meeting the crew, training with Kanan, and doing jobs. Kanan had always been there. For all of them. He wouldn't have just randomly killed the crew, and he wouldn't lay a finger on Ezra. He wrapped his arms around Kanan, burying his face in the other man's chest. Ezra felt Kanan wrap his arms around him, and heard him whispering words of comfort.

"I believe you," he whispered. He felt himself being guided back towards the bed in the medbay and laying down on the mattress. Kanan then sat down in the chair next the the bed and pushed Ezra's hair out of his face.

"I'm staying right here. Everything's going to be okay. Nina and Tarka can't hurt you here, and neither can the Empire," he murmured, still stroking the boy's hair. "You'll be okay," was the last thing Ezra heard before drifting off into oblivion.

Kanan

Kanan sat vigilantly by Ezra's bedside. Whenever he so much as twitched from a nightmare, he was there sending calming waves through the force. He finally fell asleep at around 3:20, only to be woken a couple of hours later by someone shaking his shoulder. "Wha?" he said groggily, slowly blinking away sleep and looking around. He was met by a very angry looking Hera.

"I told you to get rest, and to stay OUT of the med bay!" she said crossing her arms.

"But he woke up, Hera," Kanan started,

"He what!" Hera said in astonishment. She rushed over to the sleeping boy and checked his temperature and vitals. "Ezra?" She whispered quietly, putting a gentle hand on his shoulder. He shifted slightly under her hand and murmured in his sleep. "Ezra, can you wake up?" she asked tentatively. His eyelids fluttered open, and he stared at her for a moment. "You're not dead?" He sounded confused. Hera looked at him for a moment before it clicked. He thought Kanan had killed the crew.

"No Ezra, we're all fine. None of that stuff was real," she said gently. "You're going to need to take a lot medicine, okay?" Ezra nodded his consent, and she prepared some pills. "This is only for pain and the fever. You're also malnourished, and dehydrated." Kanan listened as Hera listed all of the different medications and their purposes. . All of the different injuries that Ezra had sustained were worrying Kanan. He knew that they would need to talk about this, but he really did not want to. If he brought the topic up, Ezra would just make a mad dash for the vents and refuse to come out. , If he didn't, then Ezra's mental state would stay continuously strained. He was brought back to reality by the sound of Hera trying to get Ezra to stay still so she could give him some shots, and Ezra trying to yank the cover off of the vents. Kanan was so glad that he had remembered to seal those.

"Ezra, just stay still, will only hurt for a couple of minutes!" Hera yelled. Ezra finally realized that there was no point in trying to get into the vents through the med bay, so he made a mad dash for the door. Kanan tried to catch him, but was too slow. Before he could say, 'Ezra get back here!' the boy had yanked the cover off of an unsealed vent and was inside. "Karabast!" yelled Kanan. Sabine and Zeb soon appeared outside the medbay wanting to know what all of the shouting was about. Hera filled the two other crew members in while Kanan tied to figure out how to extract Ezra.

"Well how do we get him out?" asked Zeb.

"Yah, we can't just let him wander through the vents forever!" Zeb added.

"I might have an idea," Hera said thoughtfully. The others all turned to look at her.

"What is it?" Sabine asked quickly.

"Well none of us can get to him, so we need him to come to us! We need to somehow lure him out of the vents, and seal them so he can't get back in," she explained as the others thought it through.

"We probably shouldn't all be there when he gets out," Zeb said. "Might freak him out."

"Good plan," Kanan agreed. "Lets try and get him into my cabin. There's a vent in there, and I need to talk to him about what happened."

"We can probably do that," Hera said. "Now, how do we get him out of there?"

"I have a few miracles that could do the trick!" Sabine said grinning as she removed four smoke bombs from her pocket. "We set these off, and he'll think that there's a leak in the vents. Then we make it so the direction that looks safe is towards Kanan's cabin."

"Great idea Sabine!" Hera exclaimed. "We can set them off here, here, here, and here," Hera said pointing to four locations on a holo map of the Ghost. That will make him avoid all of these vents, leaving only Kanan's cabin seemingly safe," she added.

"Alright Kanan, go hide your force signature, and wait in your cabin. Everyone else, take a smoke bomb and wait for my signal!" Sabine ordered excitedly.

There you have it!