One and a half months later:
Sabine's sickness only got worse and the crew are extremely worried that she might not make it.
Kanan ran back and forth around the ship getting things for Sabine, no one knew what she had but since the day it began it got worse and worse. Zeb was starting to get the suspicion that Hera was getting whatever Sabine has but she reassured him she was fine. Kanan had put himself in the place of taking care of Sabine so no one would get sick. Ezra insisted on helping every now and then and Kanan would let him. Sabine could barely open her eyes for more than a minute, not like having them open allowed her to see anything due to them being so clouded. The other's wanted to help Sabine but Kanan kept shooing them away, especially Chopper. His way of helping was shocking her everytime she fell asleep.
Kanan brought Sabine some soup, the poor girl was so pale that she looked like a vampire. Kanan added another pillow to help prop her up so she could eat the soup. Kanan fed her spoonfuls but Sabine had a bad tendency to spit it back out. By the time he was done he wasn't sure how much actually ended up in her mouth rather than on her shirt. Kanan pulled out a cold, wet towel and placed it carefully on her head. He began wiping up all the spit out soup with another towel he had. Sabine groaned a few times but eventually fell asleep.
Kanan left quietly and went to the bathroom to wash his hands, afterwards he planned on finding Hera to ask her about the baby. Hera 'supposedly' had a test to determine the gender of the baby, Kanan knew it was most likely a girl but he wanted confirmation on it's gender anyway. Hera was sitting quietly on the ship's cargo door, staring out on the distant stars. Kanan sat next to her and put his arm around her, Hera rested her head on his shoulder.
"Is Sabine going to be okay?" Hera said, her voice tainted with fear.
Kanan looked down, "I hope so, I'm going to have Chopper test her tomorrow."
"Why did this have to happen?"
Kanan squeezed Hera tighter, "So, what gender is the baby?"
"That's not important right now."
Kanan nodded understandingly, "Sorry."
"I'm worried about Sabine, I don't know what'd I do if she were to…" Hera began crying a little.
Kanan looked at Hera and brushed his hand down one of her lekku, "She won't, I'll make sure of it."
Hera nodded a little, "I wish we could do more for her…"
Kanan put his head on hers, "We will once we figure out what's wrong with her, Ahsoka said she'd be done giving Chopper the… disease finding out thing by tomorrow."
"I hope it's not too late…"
Kanan shook his head, "One thing I've learned since meeting you is that it's never too late. Anyway, we should probably head to bed."
Kanan stood up and left Hera in silence. He didn't necessarily want to leave like that but he wasn't sure what else to say. He changed into more comfortable clothes and lied down. Thoughts of the future clouded his mind, making it hard to sleep. He worried about Sabine, about being a father, if he's teaching Ezra right, and many other things. He decided to try counting backwards from 100, once he was at 83 he fell asleep. Sadly it didn't last long, he awoke with the nightmare of Sabine dying and Ezra turning to the dark side because of it.
He jolted up and looked at the clock, it read 1:23AM. "Only one!" Kanan groaned loudly. He felt thirsty and decided getting a drink would be a good idea, plus he could check on Sabine before he went back to bed. With this, Kanan got up and made his way towards the kitchen, surprised to see Zeb and Chopper arguing about something when he got there. He decided to ignore them and began to make a glass of water. The fighting got louder until the point Kanan decided to step in.
"I can't even understand you!" Zeb yelled
Kanan shook his head and put the cup down, "What are you two fighting about?"
Chopper beeped a few times.
"Chopper it is THEIR room." Kanan pointed out
Chopper chirped grumpily and left the kitchen.
"What was he even doing in your room?" Kanan asked Zeb.
"I dunno, he just came in I guess." Zeb answered. "Why are you even awake?"
"Bad dream, you?"
"Chopper, obviously."
"Right…"
Zeb looked around to be sure no one else was listening, "Have you noticed how odd Hera's been acting lately?"
"Pardon?"
"Hera, she's been acting weird."
Kanan remained calm, he didn't want to lie but there wasn't much other choice, "What do you mean?"
Zeb thought for a moment, "She's been throwing up a lot and always seems like she's somewhere else."
"What do you mean by that?"
"The throwing up thing or being somewhere else?"
"Somewhere else." Kanan said nodding.
"Something happened to Hera, she's in her room a lot, it's… odd of her."
Kanan tried to think of a believable excuse, "It's probably just stress, you know with Sabine being sick and the empire getting closer to capturing us."
"Makes sense," Zeb yawned, "I'm going to go back to bed, you should too."
Kanan nodded, "I'm just going to check on Sabine first, okay?"
Zeb didn't say anything but nodded to show he heard him. Kanan finished his drink and began walking towards Sabine's room. He opened the door and looked in, as he guessed she was still sound asleep. Kanan looked a little closer to make sure she was still breathing and she was. He sighed in relief, closed the door, and went back to his room. He lied down and stared at the roof, and after a few minutes he fell asleep.
Kanan awoke, this time to his alarm going off rather than a nightmare. He rubbed his eyes and got up to change. Once he finished changing he went out to find Ahsoka to ask her if Chopper could test Sabine now. He found Ahsoka in the cargo bay finishing up with Chopper. Kanan walked over to her and sat on a nearby crate.
"Is he ready?" Kanan asked.
"Almost… got it, yep." Ahsoka said happily. "Is she ready?"
Kanan thought for a minute, "Let's go check…" he said, standing up and becoming Ahsoka to follow him.
"Okay."
Ahsoka stood up and followed Kanan over to Sabine's room. Kanan opened the door and found Sabine awake, and coughing. Chopper rolled in and poked Sabine with a needle looking thing and took some blood, pulled away, and began testing it. Sabine's only response to it was a small Ow. Kanan waited in the doorway and Ahsoka sat on the front edge of Sabine's bed. She brushed Sabine's hair behind her ear and smiled at her.
Chopper beeped a few times and Ahsoka shook her head, "Never heard of it, Kanan?"
"What?" He said waking up from zoning out.
"Have you ever heard of… what was it again?"
Chopper beeped something.
"Oh right, have you ever heard of… Nal...em..tupolia? Did I say that right?"
Kanan nodded, "Yes, and yes. Ezra mentioned it once, I'll go ask him."
Ahsoka looked back at Sabine, "Okay, bring back something for her to eat please."
Kanan nodded and went over to the kitchen, where he found Ezra eating something Kanan wasn't sure of. He poured water into a pan and began to boil it, adding in a few vegetables every once and a while. Ezra finished eating and threw the rest of whatever he was eating away. Ezra walked over to a counter near Kanan and sat on it.
"So do we know what's wrong with Sabine yet?" He said swinging his legs.
Kanan nodded, "She has Nalemtapolia, you said you've had it before right? Do you know how to cure it?"
Ezra nodded, "Okay, we need to head back to Lothal, get a Loth-cat, throw it into a bush and what ever leaves are on it's fur when it comes out you take off and turn into a paste and feed it too her."
"Why can't you just pick a few leaves and turn it into a paste to feed to her?"
"Because… okay so I don't know the reasoning behind the Loth-cat thing but that's the right way to do it, and as you always say; 'Do it right or don't do it at all'. Plus throwing Loth-cats into bushes is fun."