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The Adventures of a Time Traveling Padawan Chap 5

5.1

Sabine took a deep breath before knocking on the door of Ezra's tower. He did things like this every once in a while, spending a loop hidden away in his tower and only joining them on special occasions.

She waved shyly to one of the (many, excessively so) cameras. In a few minutes he opened the door, opening it wide to let her in.

"Hey Sabine," He said smoothy. "What are you doing here?"

"Remember that loop where we both got burnt really bad by an explosion and you were real delirious?" She blurted out in a rush. He blinked, taking a moment to absorb that and then ducking his head shyly.

"Uh, yeah, I uh… Yeah, about that, I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable or anything, I was so loopy - no pun intended - I don't really remember much about it…" He scratched the back of his head.

"Okay," Sabine breathed out. "Well, basically you told me you liked me. That you had liked me since baseline, but over the loops you'd realized you liked me for being me. And basically that you'd been waiting until I started looping before trying to really get to know me, then liked me more. And… I told you I didn't know how I felt about you anymore. Well, I… I thought about it… and I think I like you too." She took a deep breath to try and calm down the blush on her face.

Ezra stood there with his mouth wide open in shock. He stayed there for a minute before a blush started to work its way onto his cheeks. "I… I didn't imagine that right?"

"Should I feel flattered that you would imagine me saying that?" She couldn't resist joking. He laughed breathily.

"Um, come inside, I think we'd better… sit down or something…" She blinked as she realized she was still standing in the door. Her blush deepened and she hurried past him and sat on his couch.

She fidgeted with her hands as he sat down. "So…"

"I didn't think that would work." He blurted out. "I mean, um. Hold on one second my words don't want to go together the right way." He fidgeted too. "When I was delirious I was trying to find a way to say everything, and I thought that when you never said anything that you thought I was just babbling or something, or maybe the words didn't come out the way I'd wanted them to."

"Don't worry, they did." She chewed the inside of her mouth briefly. "So… we both like each other and we both know about it, so does this mean we're dating?"

"I think one of us needs to ask the other on a date first." Ezra couldn't resist a laugh and a grin.

"Well then, would you like to go on a date?" She smiled when the grin dropped into a gape. She didn't know why but she felt really bold at the moment.

"Uh… doesn't the guy ask that..?" He said dazedly.

"I don't know, if we go by that logic does that mean I'm the guy in this relationship?" She smirked cheekily, loving the way he sputtered. 'Okay, I don't care that I'm acting really snarky and different right now or that I just said we're in a relationship, it's TOTALLY worth it to see the look on his face. He's so cute! Did I just think that?'

She full on laughed as the blush on his face was now covering his neck and ears. "Uh…"

"Relax Ezra, I'm only joking." She grinned at him. "But seriously."

"Yes!" He squeaked, covering his face with his hands when his voice cracked.

She couldn't resist the mischievous smirk on her face as she stood up and walked over to him. He pulled his hands away from his face just in time for her to swoop in and give him a peck on the cheek. He squeaked again with wide eyes as she straightened up again.

"You decide what you want us to do, just pick me up tomorrow at seven." She grinned one last time as she left, trying her very hardest to not run out of the tower in embarrassment.

"Uh, Sabine? Are you okay?" Hera asked her a few hours later.

"No! I can't believe I did that! I'm so embarrassed!" She covered her face to hide the blush.

"Oh dear, what happened?" Hera chuckled and pulled up a chair at the kitchen table where Sabine was slouched.

"I may have told Ezra I liked him. And I do! It's just that, I kinda felt… different and I acted weird." She peeked out from behind her hands. "I asked him out and kissed his cheek."

"You asked him out?" Hera raised an eyebrow, trying to stop her amusement from showing.

"Yeah, and he was so embarrassed and it was so cute because did you know he blushes all the way to his neck and ears?" She flushed and covered her face again. "I'm not helping my case here…"

Hera couldn't help but laugh. "Looks like you've got it bad." She smiled when Sabine glared at her from between her fingers. "Look, it's perfectly normal that you acted weird around him if you like him so much. Though to be honest I didn't realize there was so much chemistry going on between you two," Hera admitted with a shrug. "We all act weird around those we love-"

"Please don't use that word!" Sabine groaned.

"What, love?" Hera laughed.

"Exactly, I don't know if this is love, and even if it is I'm not sure I want it to be…"

"You like him don't you?" Hera asked.

"Yes!"

"Then why does it matter?" Hera smiled at her again. "Just start from there. And you know what? You two have an advantage that most couples don't. You two began as friends, and that's the best way to start. Just keep things going from there and everything will fall go into place."

"Ugh, you sound worse than Kanan with all of his mysterious 'never actually give you an answer' Jedi sayings…" Sabine grumbled.

"Yeah yeah, so you asked him out. Give a girl some details!" Hera grinned encouragingly when Sabine smirked slightly.

"I told him he could choose, just to pick me up at seven tomorrow…"

5.2

'Ezra, stop bothering me through the bond.'

'But I'm booored~'

'You have your projects to work on, don't you?'

'Come on Kanan, technology is so far behind me by now I could build tech lightyears ahead of everything now in my sleep.'

'Then why don't you try advancing modern technology up to your level?'

'Duh, Empire.'

*sigh* 'Just stop bothering me…'

'…'

'What is it you need advice on?'

'Sabine might have asked me out…'

'Wait, she asked you out?'

'I know right! She was acting kind of weird… She came over to talk about some things I said a few loops ago when I was delirious…'

'What did you say?'

'Hey! Don't use an accusatory tone on me! She came over to say she liked me back! And then it somehow evolved into her asking me out and kissing me on the cheek…'

'… Wow, she was acting pretty weird if that image was anything to go by. Was she really smirking like that?'

'I know right! She was acting so WEIRD!'

'So why do you need advice again?'

'She said for me to decide what we'd do, just gave me a time…'

'Dangit Ezra, that's today! What do you expect me to do?'

'Give me some advice! What else?!'

*sigh* 'Look, just think about what it is you both like. You two started out as friends, which makes this whole thing easier. What would you do if you were taking her out as just a friend?'

'…Well, the times we make smokebombs are probably the closest I ever get to her. Both literally and metaphorically.'

'So science and inventing things. What could you guys do along those lines?'

'Weeeell… My company has a lot of connections… but I don't think she wants to go on a date to a lab. Wait… I have the perfect idea!'

'Nice one, she'll love that. Though how you got that from 'science and inventing things' is beyond me.'

'Thanks for your help Kanan.'

'It was all you, my padawan.'

'Stop being such a-'

'Ezra,'

'Yeah yeah, okay. I have some stuff to get ready. Thanks again.'

'No problem kiddo.'

5.3

Ezra grumbled to himself as he hopped across a chasm. It was weird enough when he replaced Kanan, but no~ the loops had to screw with him and make him replace Zeb.

He was going to have a word with the Moderator of his loop if he ever met them.

5.4

Ezra lifted his head curiously when he realized something. Everyone felt differently with the Force, that was something he'd learned in baseline. But Kanan and Sabine felt even more different. Their life forces felt older, more experienced then they should have.

With an eager grin he nudged Kanan through the bond and sent the information over, sitting patiently in his tower as his master absorbed the information.

'…Zeb's Awake.'

"YES!"

"So now Hera is the only one of the crew who aren't looping." Kanan summarized, all the loopers gathered in Ezra's tower. Since Hera currently didn't know Ezra she was on the Ghost under the impression that they were shopping for supplies.

"Time is broken." Zeb blinked, still processing that fact.

"Yep, keep up Zeb. I hope Hera starts looping soon, then we won't have to keep things hidden as much…"

"Time is freaking broken!" Zeb exclaimed with a strange face.

Sabine reached over to pat him on the back. "Don't worry, I hear Kanan reacted really bad."

"Hey I Awoke alone with no idea what had happened!" Kanan defended himself.

"And I freaked out worse than he did my first few loops." Ezra nodded.

"Why is time broken?!" Zeb was still stuck on this one fact.

"Nobody really knows." Sabine shrugged.

"Why do you guys not care?!"

"Oh we care, it's just old news to us by this time." Ezra shrugged.

Zeb resisted the powerful urge to slam his head into a wall.

"You get used to it." Sabine and Kanan said in unison.

5.5

"Oh my gosh this is so freakin' awesome!" Ezra whooped as he rushed down a hill on a sled.

"Make it stop! Make it all stop!" Kanan shrieked in terror as his sled bounced off every single obstacle in the entire course.

"Out of my way!" Zeb rushed by them all using a power up, of course bumping into Kanan's sled on the way down.

"Snowball spamming, suckers!" Sabine swept by them as well, throwing snowballs at them as she passed. Ezra dodged his perfectly but Kanan got hit directly in the face.

"I hate my life!" He wailed as he crashed into a tree stump.

"Sorry!" Sabine called over her shoulder.

"Sorry Kanan, I don't think I can stop this thing!" Ezra yelled as he passed by, covering him in snow.

"It hurts…"

"Good news! The lodge has hot chocolate!" Sabine said cheerfully with a sip as Kanan shivered.

"Bad news, you have to have at least been in the top five to get some." Ezra said with a snicker from his own cup.

Zeb rolled his eyes and handed Kanan his cup.

"Th-thanks… I f-feel like I'm f-frozen s-solid…"

The next loop…

Kanan took one look at the frozen planet they were about to land on.

"NOPE."

He spent the rest of the week huddled in his room with the door locked.

5.6

"Ezra? Are you okay?" Hera knocked on his door carefully.

"NO."

"Do you need someone to talk to?"

"NOPE." There was a pause. "Sorry Hera, it's just… Freddy's. Oh my god, I'm never looking at pizza the same again…"

Hera stepped away from the door nervously. "Kanan? I'm worried about Ezra…"

5.1

*Again my Ezra/Sabine shipping takes up a lot of the chapter...

*No worries people once my original burst of inspiration for them as a couple ended after a while so the rest of the story isn't going to pay that much attention to it outside of random mentions here and there.

5.2

*At first the bond wasn't that strong and they at the very least had to be in the same city to use it this clearly. But now they can pretty much communicate anywhere. Even planets away.

5.3

*Supposedly Lasan is more of a desert planet then anything, with lasat being adapted to those situations. Jumping a lot seems to be right.

5.4

*Came into my thoughts that people's souls are older if they're looping, so those using the Force should technically be able to tell if someone's looping or not. Coincidence's sake meant that Zeb had to start looping at the same time this realization was made.

*Lucky for him or he'd very likely snapped before the loop was over. They tend to get pretty wacky if they've been getting bored enough. (Bored enough for Ezra to meditate without it being his normal schedule or at Kanan's insistance means they're getting bored enough.)

5.5

*Not quite sure what spawned this but this is what's called a 'game loop'. Poor Kanan. He's apparently the brunt of most of my jokes.

*Also, this ends up turning into something in later chapters...

5.6

*Five Nights at Freddy's is a very much hated and despised loop.

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