"Do you think I can do it?" Ezra sheepishly asked after explaining his plan. "I'm not as smart as you but do you think you can help me get smart enough so we can stay in the same grade?"

"I will make you smart!" Hiro declared.

"What are you two doing in here?" Uncle Zeb asked.

"I'm going to make Ezra even smarter so we can stay in the same grade!" Hiro exclaimed.

"Uh kid it doe-ow what was that for?" Uncle Zeb grumbled, glaring at Hera as she walked into the kitchen.

"That sounds like a wonderful idea," Hera said, ignoring Uncle Zeb. "Now behave you two."

"Yes mom!" Ezra said.

"Okay!" Hiro agreed. Hera kissed Ezra's cheek and added, "Zeb no giving Hiro any food you made."

"Hey! That's not fair!" Uncle Zeb shouted. "It was just one time!"

"Out of how many times you've given him food?" Kanan playfully asked, strolling into the kitchen.

"I didn't know he'd react like that!" Uncle Zeb shouted.

"We're teasing," Hera assured.

"Now I'm not making anything!" Uncle Zeb huffed.

"Fine order pizza or something," Hera said.

"Cool pizza!" Ezra exclaimed. "Can we get stuffed crust?"

"This did not go how I expected," Uncle Zeb grumbled as Hera and Kanan started laughing.

"I don't care what you do as long as the house is fully intact when we get back," Hera said.

"Well that takes away all the fun," Uncle Zeb wined.

"Hey it's our job to be killjoys," Kanan informed him.

"No kidding," Uncle Zeb grumbled.

"Be good," Kanan said before turning to Hera holding his arm out, "Shall we?"

"Yes," Hera said, linking his arm with his.

"It's been too long since we've done this love," Hera said as they waited for their table to be ready.

"I agree," Kanan said. "I mean I love the kids but it is nice just having time for the two of us."

"Do you think they'll be alright?" Hera asked.

"Zeb's with them," Kanan said.

"That's what I'm worried about," Hera informed him. Kanan chuckled and heard his phone start to ring. Frustrated, Kanan pulled it out and saw that it was Nick, a fellow police officer.

"Nope, tonight is my night off," Kanan said, setting his phone to vibrate and stuffing it in his pocket.

"Love if you need to get that-" Hera said but Kanan said,

"No I was guaranteed the night off so I am going to enjoy it." Kanan frowned when he felt his phone start to vibrate again in his pocket.

"It might be important," Hera said.

"What could be so important that they need me instead of the many other officers on call tonight?" Kanan asked. As soon as his phone stopped vibrating, it went off a third time.

"Love I promise it's okay," Hera assured. Kanan growled and whipped out his phone saying,

"What is so damn impo-"

"Kanan you need to come home now!" Nick shouted. In the background Kanan heard sirens and shouting.

"Why? Where are you?" Kanan asked, confused.

"At your house!" Nick exclaimed. "There was a break in! Get over here!"

"What!" Kanan shouted, horrified.

"Kanan what's wrong?" Hera asked, looking concerned.

"I'm heading over," Kanan said and hung up the phone. "The house was broken into; we need to leave, now." Hera nodded and their pair stood and raced out of the restaurant. Kanan knew he probably shouldn't be speeding, but he really couldn't bring himself to care. His kids where potentially seriously hurt or worse. Hera for once wasn't complaining and he knew even if he got pulled over no officer would give him a ticket. They arrived home in record time to find several police cars and an ambulance. To his horror he saw Zeb and Sabine both unconscious being loaded into an ambulance.

"Go with them I'll stay here and figure out what happened to the boys," Kanan informed Hera who nodded and ran over to one of the ambulances. Kanan spotted Nick and ran over saying,

"Nick what's going on?"

"Good you're here. I need descriptions of your two younger sons."

"Two? No I only have one Ezra, Hiro's just a friend, why do you ne-" Kanan began, freezing when the implications of what he was saying set in.

"We're trying to get an AMBER alert out-"

"How do you know they were kidnapped?" Kanan demanded.

"The person who called in reported seeing two young boys being forced into a car," Nick said, looking nervous. "We need descriptions of those kids so we can send an alert out." Wordlessly Kanan whipped out his phone and called Hera who thankfully picked up.

"Have you heard about the boys?"

"I need you to call Tadashi and tell him to come to our house. The boys were taken," Kanan informed her, forcing himself to remain calm. He knew he came across harshly, but there wasn't time to comfort right now. Every second they waited was another second the boys were missing and the longer they were missing…Kanan forced himself not to think about that. He could not let emotions cloud his judgement. He'd handled dozens of child abduction cases before this one with no problem. He could do this.

"Taken?" Hera gasped.

"Just do it, we don't have time to wait," Kanan snapped before hanging up. He felt bad for acting harshly but he wouldn't be able to focus on saving them if he thought about the fact that this was his child missing. He had to treat this like any other missing child case, distance himself emotionally from what was happening. If he didn't he would crack.

It took three hours for them to get an AMBER alert sent out for both the boys, but it felt like so much longer to Kanan. He knew that was remarkably quick, three hours was the quickest these alerts could get out. If he'd been talking to a parents he'd tell them how good it is how quickly it got out. Being the anxious parent though completely changed his perspective on that. He wanted to scream in frustration at how slowly it was but restrained himself, barely.

Tadashi though was an entirely different story. When he arrived he stormed over to Kanan and demanded to know what happened before dissolving into half shouting at him and other officers in Japanese while Fred frantically tried to calm him down. He wasn't sure he wanted to know what Tadashi was saying, but he imagined it was him blaming Kanan for what happened and Kanan felt like he entirely deserved it.

Once Fred managed to calm him down he quickly was able to give the officers the rest of the information and Kanan managed to dig out one of the many photos of Ezra and Hiro together. Once they had all the information they needed from him, Tadashi collapsed onto the sofa and completely broke down. Kanan wished he could do the same. Shortly after the alert was sent out Hera finally got into contact with him.

"They're both stable…" She whispered her voice cracking. Kanan knew she'd probably been crying in the hospital all by herself uncertain as to the fate of any of her kids. He desperately wished he could teleport to her side and comfort her like a good husband should, but he also felt like he needed to be here helping search for Ezra. He felt painfully torn between the two and was helpless in trying to figure out where to go.

If this where any other case, he'd be immensely pleased with the progress made, they had an eye witness already and where questioning them, they were able to get enough information for an AMBER alert and where working on missing children fliers. Better yet, they were even working on potential leads. He should be pleased, this was good progress. But he wasn't, he was infuriated with how slow everyone was being. He wanted his son back now. He needed to know Ezra was safe and alright. The worst part of being an officer was knowing the odds. He would watch the time tick by and know exactly the chances of finding his son alive and it was agonizing.

"Kanan?" Tadashi asked, startling Kanan out of his thoughts. He knew he should feel guilty, he'd hardly been thinking about Hiro this entire time, but it was hard to bring himself to. "I wanted to….no need to apologize. I-I know you probably have no idea what I was saying half the time but…it was wrong. You're doing everything you can to help find my brother and I should appreciate that….especially since your son is out there too…"

Kanan slowly looked over Tadashi, he looked…shattered. His eyes where bloodshot and his voice cracked as he spoke and his hair was a mess, as if someone had been constantly running their hands through it. He looked like Hiro had been missing for days instead of hours. To both of them it probably felt like days already.

"If I got the gist of what you were saying, you're right. It's my fault the boys got taken…" Kanan said.

"You weren't even here though," Tadashi argued.

"But I should have been," Kanan said.

"You couldn't have known something like this would happen," Tadashi argued.

"I'm an officer," Kanan said.

"So? You can't live your life waiting for something bad to happen," Tadashi said.

"I should have done more," Kanan growled. He shouldn't have ignored Nick's calls for so long. Should have ensured his family was better taken care of, should have-

"After the crash, I thought the same thing," Tadashi admitted. "I was sure it was my fault they died. They were driving to my showcase after all. I kept telling myself if I had been at home with them they wouldn't have left late and driven so recklessly or not even have told them about it so they wouldn't have been on the road. I guess what I'm trying to say is agonizing over all the what ifs doesn't change anything. And just because you did something that might have contributed to this happening doesn't make you guilty. You did nothing wrong. It was someone else who did this and you're working to find them."

Kanan couldn't help but wonder if this kid was only twenty like he swore he was. He was too wise for his age. Then the morbid realization hit him that this kid has probably dealt with things adults haven't had to.

"I need to head home," Tadashi informed him. "But I wanted to tell you that before I left." And before Kanan could formulate a response he was gone and Nick was telling him,

"Listen Kanan, we've got this. Right now you need to be with your wife." Kanan wanted to tell him no he couldn't leave he was needed here. But on the other he knew he might lose his mind if he didn't at least go and see how she was holding up in person. She needed him too, and right now no one was there for her.

"You're right…" Kanan finally sighed. "Let me know the second you get any information."

"Will do," Nick assured. Kanan knew Nick would keep his promise. With that thought firmly in mind, Kanan left to head to the hospital and comfort his wife.

The thing Wasabi loved about being at home was the peace and quiet. Though he loved the nerd gang as Fred put it, the lab was never quiet. Getting to relax at home with no worries was fantastic. That is, until his phone started making a noise he didn't think a phone should ever make. Thinking something was seriously wrong with it, he picked it up only to find the screen flashing with a message saying,

AMBER ALERT

2 BOYS KIDNAPPED ON SEPTEMBER 28th AT 8:30PM HIRO HAMADA AND

Wasabi froze when he saw the first name, not even thinking to look at the other name. Hiro was abducted? What happened? Was Tadashi okay? Terrified for his friend Wasabi frantically called Tadashi's phone, letting out a groan when it went to voice mail. What if Tadashi was in the hospital? What if he was taken too? A million questions raced through Wasabi's mind as he, with shaking hands, dialed Fred's number.

Thankfully Fred picked up after the second ring, "Hello?"

"Fred I just got an Amber Alert about Hiro, what happened? Is Tadashi okay?"

"Yea he's fine," Fred assured. "Hiro was at his friend's house when he got nabbed."

"Oh man…" Wasabi said. "How's Tadashi holding up?"

"Not good," Fred admitted. "We're heading back to my house now."

"Do you think he'd want me to come over?" Wasabi asked. Fred was silent on the other end for a minute before saying,

"I don't think so…"

"All right just….tell him if he needs anything and I mean anything just call."

"Yea I will."

"I mean it," Wasabi said. "No matter how late or how stupid he thinks it is."

"Thanks Wasabi."

"Anything for my friends," Wasabi said, meaning it with every fiber of his being.