S.R.F. Ch. 9
"Sabine, we need to talk. Alone."
"No problem Kanan. I'll come back in a bit Rex." Sabine said, walking out of the room to join Kanan out in the hall way. Kanan looked her in the eyes once she left and began walking off without saying a word, Sabine followed warily. After leading her to the nearest empty room, Kanan walked in and turned around so she'd be facing him when the Mandalorion girl got there.
"It's about Ezra. It's… complicated."
"What's wrong with Ezra Kanan? I know he's a bit worried about Hera but she's already recovering fine."
"It's just… you don't…. get it. The bo- Ezra, you don't… appreciate him." Kanan said, a bit flustered, having found the situation even more awkward than he imagined.
"What do you mean?! I treat him like family just like the rest of you!"
"That's just it. Family. You know very well how he feels about you. Or at least, what boys his age tend to think they feel."
"Kanan. You can't be serious. You have no business bringing this up, and since when has this been a thing? There's no way that's gonna happen."
"You don't know half the things he does for you!" Kanan shouted, losing his cool all of a sudden, slightly scaring Sabine. Before she can get a chance to collect her wits, Kanan storms out of the room. Sabine hears the ensuing "oof."
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Sabine hobbled to the door after a full minute of taking look out outside the corridor Kanan and Ezra took . Before she had a chance to open the door, the entire world seems to shake. Without thinking she opens the door as soon as the rocking stops and hops inside before being roughly shoved aside and having a blaster pointing at her face.
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Ezra slowly looks up to see Hera opening her cell. She quickly rushes to him and after the quickest examination Ezra ever saw had quickly pulled him onto his feet. She proceeds to check on Kanan, surprisingly more tender than she had been with Ezra. Ezra shrugs it off and turns to see the source of the explosion. Gore surrounds the area as limbs and a good chunk of one of the Trooper's chests are splattered around. A moan shocks him out of his stupor. The Street Urchin looks up to see THAT Man again, pushed up against the wall by his cell door. Before he gets the chance to even think about what happened, he hears Sabine cry out in pain followed by the sound of feet marching towards them. The padawan in training quickly turns to see a huge group of Troopers running towards him, with Sabine on the floor and a blaster being shoved in her face. Rage fills Ezra when he sees a trooper stomp on her in their mad dash at him. Hera finally pulls up Kanan to see an enraged Ezra slam ten troopers into a wall, leaving a crater and brutally killing all of them. A second blur rushed in and Ezra already had his hand up again when a strong grip pulled it down and Ezra realized Hera just stopped him from possibly killing Zeb. He watched as Chopper soon also rolled in followed by a Zeb carrying Sabine.
"That was brutal Kanan! Remind me not to make fun of the old religion any time soon." Zeb said, assuming Kanan was limping due to the rumbling they had heard less than a minute ago.
"Wha-?" Kanan said before he slumped into Hera's arms.
"Yeah, it really took it out of him though. We should get moving." Hera said, attempting to make eye contact with the Street Rat who suddenly found a piece of rubble extremely mysterious.
"What about him?" Sabine said from Zeb's back, being the only one facing the still unconscious Rex.
"No time. We gotta go." Said a distressed Hera, trying to lug Kanan over her like Zeb.
Right. Let's go. Thought Ezra.
"We have to! He's- He's- the only reason we managed to get you out!"
Not true! We totally had this under control. It might even be harder to get away now!
Hera stared down Sabine who was gracefully turned towards her once she started talking.
"Fair enough. Let's get going already!" Hera gave Kanan to Ezra, and had Zeb pull the bars off of the still unconscious Rex, only to hand him off to Zeb, much to his displeasure. She gave Zeb and Chopper a look that told them to run ahead of them before giving a fleeting glance to Ezra, showing her conflicting emotions. It was ungodly clear to Ezra though.
She knows.
AN: Hope you guys don't realize that this chapter is about a hundred words shorter than others. Sorry guys, but I just felt it was a great part to leave it off. Just to clarify, the first scene takes place in the not to near, slightly distant future. I actually had about half this chap. done right after I posted the last one, but I must've rewritten it three times! I'm still not completely satisfied with it. Tell me what you guys thought about the chapter, I'm still review hungry, after all. Um, this is the part where most people rant. No lemons, dunno what a lime is. Um, I won't clarify on where the relationships are going here, don't wanna spoil the fun. Will say though that the main hero of the story will eventually turn to Chopper and he'll get a whole harem, ranging from toasters to the ship itself!