Fingers were carefully twirling through his hair and he felt like he was laying against a soft warm pillow that provided all the comfort he'd ever need.
It felt nice.
It felt safe really and Ezra just burrowed against the heat, letting out a quiet sigh of relief and pleasure.
However the fingers in his hair stilled to his discomfort and a careful hand tried to tilt his head up. "Ezra? You back with us?"
The young padawan just grumbled and kept his eyes shut tightly. "No...sleep." He mumbled.
"You've been sleeping for quite some time now. I think you should open your eyes." The tone was amused and the pillow rumbled under him.
Wait, pillows don't move like that...
Ezra slowly forced his eyes open to stare at the green fabric in front of him before slowly looking up at his amused looking Master, Kanan Jarrus. "...What's going on?" He blinked a bit, not pushing away from Kanan. He felt to heavy to even attempt it.
"You, acting like a Loth-cat!"
Ezra almost groaned, raising his hands to cover his ears at Zeb's yell before he realized what the other said. "I what? What are you talking about?" He let his hands drop down on Kanan's chest, staring at the big grinning Lasat.
"You, acting like a fuzzy cute cat who just wanted petting's. Kanan feed you and Hera and Sabine petted you!" He laughed, not admitting that he too had petted the kid.
"...You're yanking my saber." Ezra scowled at him, pushing himself up carefully, feeling groggy and heavy.
"Nope. You even tried to purr, or well you did something similar to purring when we petted you." Sabine grinned at him.
"I don't believe either of you." The blue eyed human crossed his arms over his chest, glaring at both of them.
"Well you might not want to but Chopper has recordings of you." Kanan chuckled quietly. "We told you to keep the breathing mask on at the gas plant Ezra. There was a reason we weren't suppose to breath in the air there."
"I...my mask slipped. It wasn't tight enough." Ezra mumbled. "I had to fix it while there and I only took a few breaths?" He winched a bit, rubbing his own head. "...Did I REALLY act like a cat?" He looked at them in bemusement.
"Chopper if you please?" Sabine squirmed in glee as Chopper projected a holo of Ezra, crawling on all fours to Zeb. Zeb seemed to look around before gently rubbing Ezra's head, grinning a bit when the feline acting teen started to purr.
"Oi! You said you didn't get that!" Zeb almost dropped his bo-rifle in surprise as Chopper warbled in amusement. "Why you rustbucket!"
"Aww look at you, you do care about him." Sabine teased though blinked when holo Zeb actually carefully picked holo Ezra up and settled in his chair, holding him close and gently running his fingers through the others hair, teasing soft strands that were so black they looked blue in the light. Zeb just grumbled and looked away, his ears twitching in his embarrassment.
Chopper warbled again and changed out the holo to Sabine using a stick with string tied to it, teasing Ezra, holo Sabine sniggered then yelped as holo Ezra pounced on her, rubbing his cheek against her shoulder while purring and mewling happily. Ezra covered his face with his hands, peeking through his fingers with wide horrified eyes, his face the deepest shade of red.
"You're sadistic Chopper." He choked out. "Couldn't you have erased this!?" He squeaked as he actually rubbed himself up against Sabine's chest!
"I was this close to hitting you right there." Sabine smirked at Ezra as a holo Hera appeared and gently drew holo Ezra of the other teen, kneeling to gently feed him something out of a bowl. And then holo Ezra promptly stuck his head in the bowl. Holo Hera looked a mix of amusement and exasperated before she left the holo only to return moments after with a cloth in her hands.
Ezra moaned in dismay as she cleaned his face, talking to softly to holo Ezra for Chopper to catch it.
"I wish you did! That would be better!" He squeaked loudly. "At least I'd be passed out until the fumes left my systems! Oh by the first light, what am I doing!" He asked no one in particular.
Kanan moved into the holo and told the girls he could watch Ezra for a while, settling down beside the teenager and smiling a bit. "...Weird you quiet you are." Holo Kanan said while stroking the teens head, letting holo Ezra settle his upper body in his lap.
"I don't think I quite like it. Think I prefer you talking." He chuckled when holo Ezra mewed at him. "Okay, that might count as talking but not in the way I want..." It went quiet a bit as Kanan continued slowly carding his fingers through soft hair.
Ezra almost thought his embarrassment would be over when Kanan spoke up again. "If this is how you acted as a kid, you must have been one hell of a cute one heh, especially with those big eyes." Holo Ezra seemed to agree as he meowed loudly at him as holo Kanan rubbed along his spine.
"...Oh just kill me now." Ezra buried his face in his knees, groaning loudly as Kanan patted him on the back, the Jedi chuckling a bit in embarrassment from Chopper having caught that. But not as embarrassed as the teenager he was patting.
"Well." Hera grinned at them, crossing her arms over her chest as her lekku's swung behind her. "I did get you a gift though Ezra."
Looking up suspiciously, Ezra zeroed in on what Hera was holding in her hand and promptly yelped, throwing a empty bottle at the Twi'lek as both Sabine and Zeb roared in amusement with Chopper joining them with his own warbles.
It was a blue cat collar.
Author note: Someone requested a sequel and I, ever the humble author, aim to please ahahaha, have a good one!