This was quickly becoming Sabine's favorite way to wake up. The warm body she was pressed up against contrasted the cold of the room she felt against every part of her that wasn't under the blanket. And when she opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was the source of that comforting heat. Her rugged-looking Jedi with the stunning blue eyes, staring at her like he had been waiting for her to wake up. Yesterday had felt like a dream, and now the dream continued.

Ezra had his arm bent, resting his head on his hand behind his head. The other arm was wrapped around Sabine's waist as she lay on her side, gently running her hand across Ezra's chest in greeting.

"Hey there, handsome." Sabine compliments.

"Good morning, gorgeous." Ezra says in return in that husky morning voice of his that had her rubbing her legs together.

She should really make a rule for him that he's not allowed to be sexy until noon or something. Having Ezra Bridger of all people turn her on this early in the morning was ridiculous.

Sabine giggles and buries her face in his neck to hide it from him.

Ezra instinctively holds Sabine tighter and she lets out an appreciative hum from the hug.

"How long have you been laying here watching me sleep?" Sabine asks.

Ezra laughs and Sabine smiles contentedly as she feels it reverberate in his chest.

"Not long enough for it to be creepy, don't worry." Ezra says and runs his hand through her hair and she laughs. "I woke up a few minutes before you did. I could sense you were starting to wake up and that actually woke me up." Ezra laughs.

"Are you serious?" Sabine asks and shifts her head to the pillow so she could look at his face.

"Yeah." Ezra says and smiles. "Weird right? I didn't know that was a thing. But now it makes sense why Kanan and Hera were always up together."

"Well, I'm sorry for waking you up by waking up." Sabine apologizes.

"Don't apologize for anything 'bine." Ezra says and kisses her forehead. "I like waking up with you."

Ezra keeps his face low, towards hers. Their faces are so close that their lips brush against each other ever so softly.

"I do too." Sabine confesses in a soft breath against his mouth.

Sabine and Ezra lock eyes as they share a gasp and reality comes flooding back to them. As much as they seemed like it and secretly wanted it, they weren't a couple. They were supposed to be just friends. And friends didn't cuddle and almost kiss like this. Ezra seemed to realize this and decided to change the subject.

"If the sun's out then that means we should probably get out of here before it rains again." Ezra suggests.

"I know but…you're so warm I don't want to leave." Sabine says and presses herself against him again and closes her eyes.

Ezra lets out a short laugh before placing his hand over hers and smiling.

"Yeah…I don't think I want to leave yet either." Ezra says and squeezes her hand and wraps his arm tighter around her waist. "Even though you snore." Ezra adds.

Sabine's eyes shoot open as she turns to look up at Ezra.

"Excuse me?" She asks.

"Your snores. I don't really mind them all that much." Ezra explains.

"Uh…I do not snore." Sabine firmly states.

"Uh…yeah you do." Ezra disagrees.

"I do not!" Sabine swears and sits up and pokes at his chest.

"Do too!" Ezra retorts and pokes her arm.

Within a minute they're both wrestling around in the bed, laughing like a couple of kids.

Then Sabine pulls herself up so she is sitting up on his lap, straddling his torso with her hands pressed on his chest.

Ezra's eyes went wide from the sight of Sabine straddling his lap in her very skimpy night attire. Just like she was last night.

"Okay, you win." Ezra says, trying to keep his voice as steady as possible as to not give away how he felt about Sabine straddling him in this current position.

Sabine smiles proudly as he admits defeat and she sits up straighter.

"Thought so." She says then feels something hard poking at her backside.

"Oh." Sabine gasps as her cheeks heat up before she sighs in relief and remembers what Ezra told her the other day. "Oh. It's just your morning wood again."

"Y-yeah. Exactly. Just that silly old morning wood again…." Ezra stammers as his eyes rove over her slightly visible breasts, bare thighs, and athletic figure.

Sabine sways her hips a bit in his grip as she settles in his lap and Ezra's eyes go wide, not expecting his brief fantasy from yesterday when he was helping her undress to come true and he coughs to disguise his moan. He moved his hands to hold the sheets on either side of him in a death grip as it took all of his willpower to refrain from rocking his hips back against her movements. If only he could tell her how badly he wanted to flip her over onto her back, with him laying on top of her, staring into her eyes, that looked even more beautiful with the rays of sun casting over them to compliment their color. He would cup her face, and shower her in compliments along with proclamations of his unworthiness to share her bed. Allegations that she would debunk with her kisses of reassurance that he will have a home in her arms forever and always.

But looking up at her, smiling and well rested while straddling his lap, felt just as much like home to him. Whether or not he had her heart, he knew the place he truly belonged was by her side.

"You seem happy." Sabine notices and smiles.

"So do you." Ezra observes and smiles back.

Sabine looks down and laughs before looking back at him.

"Because I am!" Sabine says with a look of pure joy on her face. "I never in a million years would have thought that taking care of kids with you…like a family, like the one we went through our teens with but different, would make me feel like this! I…I…I don't think I've felt this happy in ages! T-This might even be the happiest I've ever felt!" Sabine exclaims and then a moment later she begins to weep.

"Sabine." Ezra says, sitting up in concern and he gently touches her face, wiping a tear off of her cheek with his finger.

"Sorry I…I don't know why I'm crying." Sabine smiles and lets out a laugh that turns into a sob.

"It's because you're happy." Ezra says, gently lifting her chin back up so she can look into his eyes. "You're happy and now that we have to leave you're sad and scared that you'll never feel like this again, that you'll have to leave what we have here behind."

Sabine gives Ezra a tearful smile and leans into his hand and places her hand over his on her cheek.

"Leave it to a Jedi to read my mind and know my own thoughts better than me." Sabine says.

"I didn't read your mind." Ezra says and Sabine's smile falls into a look of surprise and she drops his hand. "I didn't have to. How you feel is written all over your face." He says and gently runs his fingers along her cheek with his hand.

"Ezra…" She mutters with a look of awe and longing on her face.

"You're not going to lose this feeling. This doesn't have to be the end if you don't want it to be. It doesn't matter where we go, we can still be a family if that's what you want." Ezra assures her and Sabine gives him an optimistic smile.

"Is that…Is that what you want too?" Sabine asks him.

Now it was Ezra's turn to get emotional, like he wasn't already but Sabine's question unlocked his guarded heart and he didn't even see it coming.

"Sabine…" He mutters softly and Sabine gasps as she feels his hand grab her waist and pull her a bit closer. "I do…" He exhales and her bright smile lights up his own. "I do! I do!"

He rests his forehead against hers and she laughs and cups his face in her hands, gently rubbing his cheeks with her thumbs.

"You know, after being stranded with Thrawn for so long." Ezra starts and Sabine gets serious. "Just dreaming about home, about being back with Hera, and Zeb, and you. And the whole time yesterday, when I made this place a home with you and the kids…I…" Ezra tears up and laughs. "I had to keep reminding myself that I wasn't dreaming. Because I was terrified that I was. That I was still lost. But then I woke up and instead I found you in my arms and I just…" He laughs again. "Sabine I…I don't even know what to say."

"Then don't say anything." Sabine says, shaking her head and running her hand along his jawline. "You don't need to. I'm right here. I'm real. This is real. You're not lost anymore Ezra Bridger. I found you, and I'm not letting you get away from me again anytime soon."

"Oh Sabine, believe me, I don't ever want to leave." He professes and tilts his head and her chin to the proper angle for a kiss.

Sabine didn't even have time to register what was happening before-

*CRASH*

They both freeze and turn towards the door, startled by the noise coming from outside. It was then they noticed that the door was open. And slowly, as their minds stopped processing their emotions and returned to reality, they realized something was missing. Two somethings.

"Wait?" Sabine asks, moving around the covers, confirming that they were the only two in bed. Which they weren't last night.

"Where are the kids?" She asks.

"I…think I know the answer to that." Ezra says and looks out the door. "And the answer to what made that noise too."

Ezra gave Sabine his cloak as a makeshift robe to wrap around herself to protect her from the morning chill, as they quickly made their way downstairs.

"Oh no! Here they come!" They hear Icarus exclaim.

They both look at each other and giggle as they're reminded of their youth before continuing onward to assess the damage. When they come around the corner into the kitchen they both gasp at the mess before them.

Icarus was completely untouched. But poor Lu'na was covered in some sort of batter with an upside down bowl and whisk on the floor beside her.

"Great! Now our surprise is ruined and they're going to get mad at us because you tried to stir the batter when I told you not to because you clearly didn't know how!" Icarus scolds her.

Lu'na's bottom lip trembled and she began to sniffle. The tears and wails of crying followed shortly after.

"Icarus!" Sabine scolds as Ezra kneels beside the crying child. "Don't be so hard on her! She's little! She didn't know any better!"

"More like, any…batter." Ezra jokes and swipes some of the batter off of her head with his finger before putting it in his mouth and tasting it, making Sabine give a heartwarming laugh at his pun.

Lu'na's cries turned to giggles as Ezra gave her his verdict.

"Mmm, tasty." He compliments and grabs a dish towel and she squeals with laughter as Ezra playfully cleans her up with it.

"You know you probably shouldn't be eating raw batter." Icarus reminds him.

"And you probably should be explaining this mess." Sabine reminds him, putting her hands on her hips and doing her best impersonation of Hera's face when she wants a confession from one of her reckless specters.

"Well, we really liked Ezra's cooking. And since you guys took such good care of us yesterday we just wanted to do something nice for you. So we tried to make you guys breakfast. To thank you for taking care of us." Icarus explains.

"Aw you guys…" Sabine mutters and kneels beside the boy and hugs him. "You don't need to thank us for anything. You're kids and we're adults. You will never owe us anything for taking care of you. Ever!" Sabine affirms. "Got it?"

"Got it." Icarus says, holding back his tears as he hugs Sabine tightly and she hugs him back.

"Good. Now let's get this cleaned up and get going before it rains again." Sabine instructs.

"And once we get back to the homestead, I'll show you both how to make my flatcakes." Ezra promises the kids, and they both light up with excitement.

"So…." Ahsoka starts in a suggestive tone that makes Sabine's cheeks color. "How was playing house with Ezra yesterday?"

Sabine laughs and looks at her hands as they walk along the path, thinking about how to answer.

"It was uh…it was…interesting. Nice." She decides and looks at the flowers growing on the bushes beside them, deep in thought.

"It definitely seems like it was. If that look on your face is anything to go by." Ahsoka accuses and Sabine laughs and shies away from her. "You know I've never been to a wedding on Lothal before, I wonder-"

"Ahsoka!" Sabine exclaims and punches her arm in a flustered response.

"What are you talking about? There's no wedding happening anytime soon. Or ever…" Sabine says, her smile falling at that last bit before she forces it to return. "Ezra and I are just friends."

"Oh you're still trying to pull that bantha shit?" Ahsoka laughs. "Last I checked, friends don't decide to raise kids together after a decade of being entirely devoted to each other and doing nothing but profess what they mean to each other and get flustered whenever they're in any physical proximity to each other."

Sabine's face felt like it was on fire.

"Well…Ezra and I are just…different like that." Sabine excuses.

"Yeah, you are different. You're not friends, you're lovers! You are in LOVE!" Ahsoka insists and leans over to her and Sabine pushes her away gently.

"No I'm not! At least, I don't know if I am. I've never been in love before. Truth be told I never really wanted to be. It just seems like so much unnecessary drama and pain and for what?" Sabine asks.

"Why are you asking me that?" Ahsoka asks with a laugh and Sabine laughs in turn, remembering how silly it was to ask someone like her such a question.

"I've only ever seen it hurt people." Ahsoka says. "But before that pain comes, I've seen people be happier than they ever were before it. I suppose that pain is just what it costs."

"So…do you think it's worth it?" Sabine asks.

Ahsoka stops walking and smiles at her thoughtfully.

"What did Hera tell you?" She answers.

Sabine felt her chest get tight as she got her answer. She could feel the tears coming but the familiar sound of two kids screaming gleefully pulls her from her deep introspection as she turns her head towards the sound of cheering and…splashing?

"So how did your day of playing house with Miss Wren go?" Thrawn asks.

He and Ezra were also walking together, just on a different path than the women.

"Amazing!" Ezra exclaims with a dreamy look on his face. "Oh Thrawn, it was incredible… It felt we were back on the Ghost again but different. A good different. I loved it. A-and so did the kids! And so did she!"

Thrawn smiled at the Jedi. He was happy for him. Truly. They may have started off their relationship on the wrong foot with trying to kill each other and all that but after ten years stuck together on a planet they had put those differences aside and grew to care for each other as friends. Mostly. At this point Thrawn was only rooting for the couple in hopes that it would make Ezra stop annoying him with rants of his pining for the Mandalorian girl.

"So will the two of you, or I guess, the four of you, be spending more time together now that you've established this connection?" Thrawn asks.

"Yeah!" Ezra says, beaming. "Sabine said she wants to adopt Lu'na and Icarus and raise them with me!"

"Ezra, that's wonderful!" Thrawn exclaims. "I'm very happy for you and Sabine. I'm so glad you two finally confessed your feelings for each other."

"Feelings? What feelings?" Ezra asks.

Thrawn stops in his tracks and his eye twitches.

"What?…Feelings?" Thrawn repeats. "You know, your romantic feelings for one another? The feelings you would have confessed to each other prior to agreeing to start a family together?!"

"Oh! Yeah no it's not like that at all." Ezra says and runs his hand through his hair, giggling. "We're raising them together platonically."

He said that with such a straight face that Thrawn knew there was no way Ezra could be lying.

"Platonically?!" He exclaims. "How do you raise children together platonically!?"

"By being best friends who are also parents." Ezra explains. "It's not that complicated."

"No you're right! It isn't complicated but you two are making it complicated because for some reason you two are doing everything in your power to avoid addressing your obvious romantic attraction to each other!" Thrawn exclaims.

"Obvious romantic attraction?" Ezra asks and scoffs. "Thrawn, I already told you that Sabine doesn't think about me that way…"

Thrawn notices Ezra dip his chin so he's looking away from him, and he swallows hard. Thrawn narrows his eyes and presses him.

"Bridger, you told me that when the two of you met she barely wanted anything to do with you. But then once you grew up and matured, she started to enjoy your company. You changed and she liked the changes and started to see you as something more than a nuisance. So doesn't it stand to reason that if you've changed since you first met that it's entirely possible, if not incredibly likely that Sabine's feelings for you have also changed!" Thrawn shouts and Ezra blinks for a few seconds while he processes the information but once it clicks he freaks out.

"Holy shit you're right!" Ezra shouts and puts his hands on his head in shock.

"YES! FINALLY!" Thrawn exclaims, relieved that he had finally gotten through to the boy.

"She must think of me as an even better friend than she did before!" Ezra exclaims, flashing Thrawn the happy grin of an idiot.

Thrawn blinks and his eye twitches.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!" Thrawn shouts before launching himself at Ezra.

Sabine and Ahsoka followed the sound of the splashing and found themselves in a nice pool area.

"Wow, this place really has everything doesn't it?" Sabine asks rhetorically.

"Sure does." Ahsoka agrees. "It's really hot out today. This could be a good way to cool off."

Although the Jedi did have a feeling that things would end up heating up even more.

"Mama! Mama!" Lu'na's shouts.

Sabine turns towards the sound of the girl's voice and lights up when she sees the little girl wearing floaties in the pool clumsily swim her way over to her.

"Look at me mama! I'm swimming!" Lu'na says.

"I can see that ad'ika!" Sabine explains. "You're doing so good!"

"Yeah she's really improving!" Eli says.

Sabine looks to see Eli in the pool, wading his way over to the edge towards where Sabine and Ahsoka are standing. They both watch as Lu'na tries to flap her arms side to side to propel herself forward.

"Oh is she doing a butterfly stroke?" Sabine asks.

"Uh no, that's actually supposed to be the dog paddle." Eli says and he and Sabine chuckle.

"Mama! Come swim!" Lu'na requests. "I wanna play!"

"Oh uh, well I don't know if I can. Don't you have Icarus to play with?" Sabine asks.

"He do not like swimming!" Lu'na says and points to the young Chiss boy sitting on a lounge chair reading a book.

"Oh. Well you know I would love to play with you but I don't have a bathing suit so I don't know if I can." Sabine explains.

"Don't you worry dear!" Thelma shouts.

They turn and see the old woman wearing a comfortable sundress approaching Sabine with a two piece suit in her hands.

"I found this in the pool house. You can wear it. It's very hot today, so you should take a dip and cool off." Thelma advises.

"Yeah I guess I should." Sabine says, wiping her brow and pulling back her fingers to look at the sweat on them.

"Perhaps your stupidity is a sign from the Force that you shouldn't procreate." Thrawn insults and brushes dirt off of himself.

Ezra does the same, clearing the grass and leaves that got stuck in his hair from their scuffle. They were heading towards the pool, deciding a dip in the water might help them cool off. Both physically and socially.

"I don't need to procreate to be with Sabine. Just being with her would be enough for me. And having Lu'na and Icarus around is just an awesome bonus. We don't need any more than them honestly. Besides, it's her body, that decision is entirely up to her, not me. I have no right to ask her to put herself through that hell for a kid when there's other ways to have them." Ezra explains.

Thrawn smiles at him.

"Then you're a good man. A stupid man. But a good one nonetheless." Thrawn says. "How she hasn't just jumped you already is beyond me."

"Because I told you she doesn't think about me that way." Ezra reminds him and Thrawn rolls his eyes.

"But you clearly think of her that way. So why don't you make the first move?" Thrawn asks as they make their way up the steps towards the pool.

"I can't! I already made the first move when I was 14. The ball is in her court now. It's up to her where she wants to take our relationship from here. I don't care how attractive she is to me. I will give her nothing but my respect- SWEET SUFFERING YODA! SABINE IS KRIFFING HOT!" Ezra yells and trips and falls.

Thelma and Ahsoka spit out their fruit drinks and laugh hysterically from Ezra's reaction.

"Oh that was way funnier than I was expecting!" Ahsoka says and clinks her glass with Thelma.

Ezra dared to pick up his head again to see if what he thought he saw was real. And his jaw dropped when he saw Sabine walking up the steps out of the pool, wearing nothing but a small purple bikini and the water shimmering off of her skin from the artificial sunlight casting overhead. His eyes were glued to her body, he couldn't look away as her hips swayed as she walked up the steps and flashes him a bright smile that makes his heart melt while his dick stiffens. Then her smile falls when she sees him collapsed on the ground.

"Ezra!" She exclaims and runs over to him.

"Oh karabast she's coming over here." Ezra panics and scrambles to get up but then Sabine puts her hands on his shoulders and he crumbles again.

"Ezra are you okay?" Sabine asks and Ezra recoils and scrambles away from her and stands up.

"Yeah! I'm fine! I'm GREAT! I'm great! Great! So great! Everything is GREAT!" Ezra rambles and laughs nervously.

Sabine stands up and Ezra gulps as he watches her stand.

"You're so hot." He mutters.

"What was that?" Sabine asks. "Did you just say I'm-"

"HOT!" Ezra exclaims and quickly slaps his hand on her forehead. "Hot! It's really hot out! And you look hot I just want to make sure you're not overheating haha!"

"Haha yeah…" Sabine says, removing his hand and laughing along. "That's why I went in the pool." She reminds him.

"Right! Right right right…" Ezra rambles.

He senses Thrawn's taunting red gaze on him and sends him a deep blue glare in return.

"Hey Thrawn!" Eli calls to him from the pool.

Thrawn tenses up when he sees the man shirtless in swim trunks and he quickly sat down in the chair that was conveniently beside him. Ezra could sense what he was feeling. Thus he flashes Thrawn a cheeky grin of his own which makes the Chiss growl at him.

Sabine turns and walks back into the pool and Ezra puts his fist in his mouth and looks away as he makes the mistake of watching her go.

Thrawn starts snickering beside him and Ezra shoots him another glare back at him.

"Why don't you come swimming with us?" Sabine asks Ezra once she's thigh deep in the water.

Thrawn expected Ezra to reply but unsurprisingly he turns and sees the boy just staring at her still with that shocked expression. Thrawn gives him a quick kick in the leg to snap him out of his sexually aroused trance.

"Huh?" Is all he can manage to squeak out. "You w-want m-me?" Ezra stammers. "I-in there? With y-you?" Wearing that!? Ezra mentally finishes for himself.

"Yeah. It's a hot day, you should come in and cool off." Sabine says. "You do know how to swim don't you?"

"S-swimming? Oh! Yeah! Of course! Duh! Y-yeah pretty girl- I mean p-pretty good. I'm pretty good at it…Hehe…" He chuckles nervously. "But uh…" Ezra looks down at his attire. "I don't have a-"

"Gotcha covered!" Thelma shouts and holds up a pair of swim trunks for Ezra.

Lu'na squeals as Ezra jumps into the water. He stands up in the pool and shakes the water from his hair and smiles at her. Sabine looked him up and down, appreciatively, biting her lip briefly as she appraised his wet physique, very clearly liking what she was seeing. Thrawn however, seemed less than pleased being splashed by the Jedi as he stood beside Ezra with his arms crossed. To which Ezra smirks and splashes him again, causing the Chiss to growl at him.

"What? You're not going to splash me back?" Ezra asks.

"No." Thrawn states simply. "I do not see the point in stooping to such childish behavior-"

Ezra splashes him again and Thrawn coughs as some of the pool water gets into his mouth. Lu'na laughs hysterically from where she's floating in her inner tube, beside Sabine, who held it to keep her from drifting into the deep end. Ezra is about to make his way over to them but then Thrawn slams into him from the side and pushes him down into the water.

Lu'na laughs again and Sabine can't help but laugh herself as the two men tussle with each other in the water, occasionally making a splash that would hit the girls.

"Mama! That looks fun. Can I go play?" Lu'na asks.

"Oh uh…" Sabine grimaces. "Well…no. See they're both dunking each other under the water and swimming out in the deep end and stuff. It's too dangerous for you since you don't know how to swim."

Lu'na pouts just in time for Ezra to pop back up out of the water. And as soon as he sees how disappointed the little girl looks, he knows he has to fix this.

"Hey there little lothcat." Ezra says and swims over to her in the shallow end. "Don't look so sad, you can swim with me."

He holds out his arms to her and her face lights up.

"Okay!" Lu'na agrees as Sabine removes the inner tube from over her head, leaving her in her floaties to swim towards Ezra.

She clumsily makes her way over to him and Ezra makes a huge deal out of it once she reaches him.

"Oh my gosh you're so amazing!" He cheers and lifts her up out of the water, causing her to squeal in delight.

"You're the best swimmer I've ever seen!" Ezra praises.

"Bridger you can't be serious." Thrawn insults. "If anything that was hardly adequate-hey!" He shouts as he gets splashed.

"Don't be such a jerk. She's just a kid." Ezra scolds as Lu'na giggles in his arms.

"Yes and you're also acting like a child, splashing me whenever you're displeased-" Thrawn gets splashed again and Lu'na squeals with joy. "With something I-" *splash* "Said." *splash*.

Then Ezra gasps as he feels himself and Lu'na get splashed and he sees Eli was the culprit.

"Hey! What was that for-" Ezra says before getting splashed again.

"Payback for you messing with my man- I mean Admiral, friend, buddy." Eli says and laughs nervously.

Ezra arches an eyebrow.

"Uh huh." He says, clearly not buying it.

"You're one to talk." Lu'na says, pointing out the hypocrisy while pointing to Sabine leaning against the wall of the pool, resting her hands on the concrete patio and tilting her head back and pushing her chest forward a bit to stretch out.

Ezra gulps at the sight.

"Thought so." Lu'na says with a smirk. "Ahh!"

Eli splashes them both again, breaking Ezra out of his ogling. Then Thrawn started splashing too and Ezra and Lu'na scream playfully. They needed back up.

"Sabine!" Ezra shouts.

Sabine immediately comes to his aid and starts splashing Eli, screaming as he splashes her back.

Ezra sets Lu'na down on the patio by the edge of the pool so he has two arms free and jumps back in to help Sabine in their fight.

Eventually, when no one seems to be giving up, Eli gets an idea about how to settle this once and for all.

"Thrawn! Let me get up on your shoulders!" Eli requests.

Thrawn ducks down to allow Eli to climb on and that's when Sabine and Ezra realize they need to copy them in order to survive this fight.

So Ezra ducks down and lets Sabine up on his shoulders and when both he and Thrawn stand up, all four people immediately get flustered.

Ezra and Thrawn because they realized that their heads were currently being sandwiched by the thighs of the people they were crushing on, and Sabine and Eli were flustered for that same reason.

Sabine and Eli looked down and their cheeks colored when they saw their boys heads in-between their legs. And said boys couldn't help but appreciate the view.

Ezra wasn't sure about Thrawn and Eli, but right now he was thinking about how good it felt to be between Sabine's legs. And his mind couldn't help but wander to imagining how it would feel to have Sabine turn around, so his face was facing her cunt, and maybe even taking off her swimsuit bottom so he could taste the juices that would be dripping from her folds-

"Ouch!" Sabine yelps as a small rock hits her back and she turns around to see Icarus standing by the edge of the pool, furious.

"CAN YOU ALL STOP BEING HORNY FOR EACH OTHER FOR FIVE MINUTES SO I CAN READ MY BOOK IN PEACE WITHOUT HAVING TO HEAR YOUR DIRTY THOUGHTS FOR EACH OTHER!" Icarus exclaims.

The four adults stood there, stunned by what the boy had accused them of and they immediately dropped their partners into the water, and dunked themselves to cool off.

"Children." Icarus insults under his breath before going back to reading his book.

That seemed to do the trick as the atmosphere went from sexually tense back to fun and playful.

Sabine screams in delight as Ezra lifts her out of the pool and laughs as he carries her over to the edge and sets her down so she was sitting on the cement with her legs up to her knees still in the water.

Ezra stood between her legs and laughed along with her while still keeping his hand placed on her thigh and his other hand gently resting by her rear. Once their laughter died down Sabine realized how sexual the position they were in was. Well, fun and playful didn't last long. But the gaze they held with each other was.

They knew how awkward this position was. And yet, neither person wanted to leave. They both looked at each other, expecting the other to make the first move away. But neither of them budged. They both just stared at each other, and let their minds wander towards certain thoughts that are fueled by a sexually tense moment like this.

Ezra envisioning placing kisses along her stomach, eventually leading down to her bathing suit bottoms, which she would kindly remove for him to be able to eat her out.

Which is exactly what Sabine was picturing, as Ezra stands between her legs. Gently rubbing her thigh. What else could a girl think of?

Sabine bites her lip and slowly spreads her legs open and Ezra's cheeks color and so do Sabine's until Ezra gets hit in the head with a cup by a very disgusted looking Icarus.

"I said cut it out!" Icarus scolds him.

Embarrassed, Ezra swims away from Sabine before she gets the chance to ask him anything.

Sabine watches from one of the lounge chairs as Ezra holds onto the handrails and pulls himself up out of the pool, muscles flexing as they work to support his weight to allow him to lift himself up out of the pool. And she looked at him very appreciatively as she pressed her thighs together to alleviate how the sight made her feel between them.

Meanwhile Ezra had an entirely different reaction at the sight before him. Instead of his blood flow shifting south, it just pumped faster in his heart when he saw little Lu'na fast asleep sitting on Sabine's lap, using her chest as a pillow and sucking her thumb. Ezra lets out a short laugh as he approaches the girls and sits down in a chair beside them.

"I thought she was too old for naps." Ezra says and Sabine chuckles and looks at the sleeping girl on top of her.

"Yeah…I thought so too." Sabine says and bites her lip as she watches Ezra take a towel and use it to dry his hair.

She gently brushes Lu'na's hair out of her face.

"All that swimming must have tired her out. Poor thing." She theorizes.

"Yeah." Ezra agrees and gently swipes her nose with his finger, only to cause them both to laugh as her face scrunches up from the feeling of someone touching her nose.

"I'll go get you some water." Ezra offers and Sabine smiles.

He kisses the top of Lu'na's head, and then brings his face up to kiss Sabine. But her gasp of surprise halts his advance towards her lips. So Ezra smiles and moves away, trying to play it off like he was moving to grab a towel on the table beside her, and not getting lost in the moment and kissing her.

Ezra walks by Thelma and Ahsoka and can't help but laugh at the gigantic hat she was wearing and the huge sunglasses on her face.

"Looking good, Thelma." Ezra compliments and the old woman laughs.

"Why thank you." Thelma says and tilts her sunglasses up at him and smiles. "It's been a long time since I've gotten a compliment from a handsome young man."

Ezra laughs and pours some water for Sabine by the bar.

"Did you get a lot of compliments from handsome young men back in the day?" Ezra asks.

"Oh yes, many. I did fairly well in my youth." Thelma says and fans herself. "And I'm sure you'll do well too once you get back to wherever you're from."

Ezra purses his lips and looks across the pool.

"Well, I'm not really looking to do that honestly…" Ezra says and looks at Sabine stroking Lu'na's hair and smiling at her.

"I can tell." Thelma says. "Oh? What's this?"

Ezra hands her a glass of water with ice in it.

"Just some water. It's hot out, you need to make sure you're staying hydrated." Ezra explains.

"Oh how thoughtful of you! Thank you!" Thelma says. "But truth be told I don't mind the heat. It helps with my arthritis. Mostly when I sit by the fire. But unfortunately I'm running low on my supply of firewood in my favorite room to knit in. And obviously I'm too frail to lift an ax. I suppose I'll just have to wait until someone's available to chop some…" Thelma not so subtly hints while sipping her drink.

"Hey! I'm not doing anything right now. Once I give Sabine her water why don't I-" Ezra starts but Thelma cuts him off.

"Oh that's so kind of you to offer! Thank you!" Thelma thanks him.

"Yeah, no problem. Just let me go and change-"

"Don't worry, I've got it!" Thelma interrupts and tosses Ezra a change of clothes that were suitable for chopping firewood. "Ax is in the shed down the path."

Once Lu'na had woken up from her nap, Eli took her to give her more basic lessons and Icarus went to build his lightsaber. So once Sabine changed back into her body glove and armor, she decided to take a stroll down the path to find where Ezra had gone off to. Thelma said he'd be down this way, but she just didn't specify what exactly he'd be doing. So when she hears the sound of an ax hitting wood she pauses, clutching her over the shoulder bag before growing more curious than alarmed by the sound.

She walks towards it and her eyes go wide and her breath catches in her throat when she sees the sight before her. Just when she thought Ezra Bridger couldn't get any hotter, an extremely odd thought in of itself considering the fact that she found him attractive at all was nothing short of a miracle, he had to go and do this! Wear tight fitting pants of some durable material she didn't recognize and a red flannel that was unbuttoned to reveal a tight white tank top underneath.

"Oh manda have mercy…" Sabine mutters.

"Little more..." Ezra groans, his voice strained. The muscles of his legs tighten, spreading his stance wide to catch his balance. "...good, good...just a little-" He grunts, adjusting his grip.

He pulls back, sunlight bouncing off the bare, tanned skin of his neck and shoulders, reflecting off every droplet of sweat.

"Come on..." He snarls, impatience knitting his brow.

His lips draw into a grin as he finds the edge, the muscle of his arms bulging. Panting. He takes his shot, his upper body jerking forward, hungry for his prize. The wood cracks, long splinters splitting outwards and letting the two halves fall under their own weight. He wipes the sweat from his eyes, letting out a little laugh as he eyes the next log at his side. Seizing the wood, he stands it on the same spot as the last, only stopping at the sensation of eyes on him.

"Thought we could do with some spare?" He states, the pinch of his brows welcoming her judgment.

Sabine purses her lip, giving him a curt nod, the wave of her hand letting him return to his work. The log splits easier than the last. Sabine swallows, the sounds of his grunts echoing out into the emptiness of the forest. Her eyes drop down, drawing a line between every droplet of sweat that trickles down his collar and into the depth of his shirt, the motions of every swing causing his shirt to rise along his pelvis. Another log shatters, her legs pressing together at the growl that claws at his throat.

"Oh split me in half like that!" Sabine exclaims.

"What?" Ezra asks, hearing her say something but unsure of what it was.

"N-nothing!" Sabine replies and laughs nervously. "J-just...ignore me!"

She tenses, the bark of the tree she leans against digging into her shoulders, when Ezra wipes his face once more. Giving an irritated whine, he lifts the bottom of his shirt instead, running whatever patches not covered in splinters over his face. Heat pools in her core and she has to force her hips to stay against the tree at the gleam of muscle dappled with his labor. Sabine's breath came out in short pants as she fanned herself with her hand in front of her face. Feeling much too hot against the tree.

Ezra looks at her and his lips curl into a coy smirk upon the sight of the state she was in. "It's hot isn't it?"

"So hot..." She moans. "Ezra Bridger you look so kriffing hot!"

Ezra's eyes widen and so do Sabine's when she realizes she said that out loud.

"And sweaty!" She quickly adds, jumping back from the tree. "Haha so..so sweaty from all of the uh..." she gulps "chopping."

"Yeah." Ezra says and wipes his hand across his brow then looks at it. "I'm definitely going to need a shower after this. And some water. I wish I had some on me but I forgot to bring it."

"Oh!" Sabine says reaching into her bag and pulling out a bottle "Here!"

Ezra smiles at her and gratefully accepts the bottle from her. Letting his rough, sweaty hand linger along hers, as well as his gaze, locked with her eyes, for a bit more than was necessary. He reluctantly pulls himself away with a soft "thanks" and Sabine replies with a gentle "you're welcome" while both of their cheeks heated up and they avoided each other's eyes.

"W-why are you cutting wood?" Sabine asks, trying to break the silence.

And get an explanation for who gave him the audacity to be so damn sexy without any warning.

"Thelma wanted me to chop some for her. She has arthritis and sitting by a fire makes it better. But she ran out so I'm chopping more for her." He explains as he cracks open the bottle and takes a sip.

How sweet.

"Hm. Good boy." Sabine says, her tone a bit more breathy than she intended and Ezra suddenly spits out his water and coughs, startling Sabine.

What the hell was that about? Sabine completely forgets about it as she made the mistake of looking up as Ezra held up the bottle and took long gulps of water. It was spilling down the sides of his mouth and Sabine couldn't help but let her mind wander to him doing other things…to her…with that mouth. Ezra finishes his drink and wipes his mouth off with his forearm and Sabine squeezes her thighs together as that action related to her smutty thoughts even more.

Ezra rests the axe on its head on the ground and rocks it back and forth as he considers how he wants to bring up this thing he's had on his mind since yesterday.

"Hey uh, 'bine?" Ezra asks and Sabine tilts her head, awaiting his question. "You know, Icarus said something yesterday…something about you uh…thinking I have a…cute butt?" He asks with a short laugh at the end due to how ridiculous it was to say that.

But Sabine's reaction, her eyes widening, her heart rate increasing, and her cheeks coloring made Ezra have a similar reaction upon realizing that Icarus was telling the truth.

"A c-cute what?" Sabine stammers. "Haha! How uh, hilarious! I mean wow! A cute…butt! Really? Wow! Where would he…how could he…why would he…wow! Haha! Kids just…say the darndest things don't they?"

"Yeah…and they often parrot what they hear." He reminds her.

He couldn't help but giggle at Sabine's frustrated frown. She really did look cute when she made that face. He could tell her that. But he valued his life so he kept quiet.

"Well…I never said anything about your butt." Sabine defends.

"No but Icarus heard you thinking it." Ezra explains.

"Oh just like how Lu'na heard you thinking about mine today." Sabine adds.

Ezra gulps and looks away from her, until he senses her approaching him.

"She was very chatty when she woke up from her nap." Sabine explains.

"Oh, was she?" Ezra asks in a high pitched voice.

Sabine smirks, looking at him cool, collected and confident. A complete contrast from her expression when Lu'na initially told her that, which was flustered and panicking and denial that it was true while walking back and forth and rambling about how it made no sense until Ahsoka calmed her down.

But now that she knew Ezra didn't mind that she found...certain parts of him attractive...that made her feel a lot better about him feeling the same for her parts.

When Ezra looks up, she looks like she's ready to admit the truth.

"Go on." He coaxes her. "You know you can touch it if you want."

Sabine's face heats up at first, flustered by the idea of grabbing him there, but then she laughs and embraces the idea with confidence, thinking it was just to be playful.

Sabine slides her hands into his back pockets.

"Okay. I confess. You do have a very cute butt." Sabine giggles and squeezes it in both of her hands making Ezra smile and laugh softly.

Ezra smiles at her and pulls her in closer but Sabine pushes back against him.

"Oh no you don't!" She playfully scolds.

Ezra raises an eyebrow in confusion.

"I just let you cop a feel off my butt and I'm not allowed to hug you back?" Ezra asks with a short laugh in disbelief.

"Yes, because you're sweaty and gross and covered in wood chips right now and I don't want to get that all over my body glove that I just washed!" Sabine scolds.

Now as any good man should, he respected her boundaries and politely backed off. But then he saw that mischievous smirk on her face and knew that she wanted a fight.

As soon as Sabine saw the look of understanding on his face she took off and Ezra chased after her.

They ran around the clearing, screaming and laughing together until Sabine stopped to pick up some wood chips to throw at him for a distraction but it did nothing to deter him and as Sabine turned to give chase again Ezra caught her from behind, wrapping his arms around her waist and lifting her up and spinning her around as they both laughed.

Once he sets her down he turns away to go back to chopping wood. But, Sabine looks him up and down and smirks as she considers how to make things even between them.

"Go ahead, grab it." Sabine says.

"I'm sorry what?" Ezra asks.

"My butt. Grab it." Sabine says and puts her hands on her hips.

Ezra quickly looked her up and down, shock and fear evident on his face.

"Uh…am I hearing that right?" Ezra asks. "This is probably a trap isn't it?"

Sabine rolls her eyes.

"It's not a trap, Ezra. I'm not trying to trick you into holding out your arm for me to flip you over my shoulder, I'm just trying to make things even." Sabine explains.

Ezra's gaze flicks down towards her ass before meeting her gaze again.

"I'm serious!" Sabine emphasizes. "I won't get mad at you! We're friends and you let me pinch your cheeks so I think it's only fair I let you get a squeeze of my-eep!" Sabine squeals as Ezra suddenly reaches around her and gives her butt a squeeze while also pulling her up against his body so she was now pinned between him and the tree with her leg slightly bent over his hip.

Sabine's brain was going haywire. She was too turned on to think properly! That was so much hotter than she was expecting! All she could do was stare at Ezra's lips that were inches from her own and imagine herself closing the distance between them and making out with him passionately. Then they would walk backwards, stripping each other as they went. Flannel and armor being strewn around the clearing as Ezra would lay her against the chopping block and pull down her body glove to make sweet love to her against the wood.

"Is this what you wanted?" Ezra asks and looks at her with those gorgeous half dilated sapphire eyes.

Sabine was already wet but now she was absolutely drenched. She couldn't help the soft moan that slipped out of her mouth. And the words that followed.

"Yes and now I want you to take me against that chopping block and blow my back out you insufferably sexy jetti!" Sabine rambles in one short breath.

Thankfully for Sabine, Ezra was too lost in her eyes to hear her words. But even though he didn't catch what was coming out of her mouth, the look in her eyes conveyed the same message. And Ezra's heart races with hope and fear at the discovery. Even though her lust was as visible as a lothcat trying to hunt when the two moons were full, he had to be just as stealthy when addressing it. He couldn't pounce too soon. He needed her to make the first move. But he could at least ask for clarifications.

"What did you say?" He asks her.

Her reaction was immediate.

"Nothing!" She shouts and pushes him off of her in a flustered panic.

Ezra felt a slight pang of disappointment but he couldn't help but smile at the state she was in. There was his answer. He made the right choice by not taking it further. But still, he got so close, he just couldn't help himself.

"You definitely said something…" He gently probes again.

"Yeah! I was talking about how you smell even worse up close!" Sabine half lies and Ezra laughs from the insult.

"Oh come on!" Ezra retorts and laughs. "I don't smell that bad!"

Sabine smiles and walks up to him and gently plays with the collar of his tank top.

"Go shower Ez. You absolutely reek." Sabine says and Ezra lets out a short laugh.

"I may smell bad, but at least I know I do look good." Ezra retorts with a grin and Sabine giggles and steps back to admire the outfit and the attractive man wearing it.

"You do look good." Sabine compliments.

And with that Ezra's heart swelled with hope again, making a bright grin form on his face that warmed Sabine's heart in turn.

Sabine turns away and walks back to the house and giggles to herself.

"I got to squeeze his butt." She giggles. "And he grabbed mine…" then her smile fell. "And I let him do it…I asked for it…and I LIKED IT! I let Ezra Bridger cop a feel and I wanted him to do MORE! What is happening to me! What in the Force came over me to let him put his hands on me like that! I-it must be the heat!" She theorizes. "I just…need to take a shower and cool off!"

That cold shower was just what she needed. As Sabine washed the soap from her body, she felt all her anxiety wash away with it. Although she was feeling a bit too chilly. So she turned up the heat a bit so the water was at a more comfortable temperature as she washed her hair and thought about the conversation she had with Jabba earlier.

"You know what I want to know." Sabine says to the lothcat. "I know you've watched him change. So just tell me. I need you to be completely honest with me. And tell me." Sabine takes a deep breath. "How big is it?"

Jabba flicks his ear before looking down at his paws. Then he holds two of them apart by a distance that makes Sabine's eyes go wide.

"That big?! There's no way!" Sabine exclaims and falls backwards in surprise.

Jabba looks down at his paws and meows an apology and brings his paws closer together by about an inch.

But it still didn't calm Sabine down at all.

"That's still way too big for him! He can't possibly have a dick that big! Because if he does then I'll want him to use it to do things to me that I shouldn't want him to do!" Sabine wails and Jabba just scratches his ear. "I really need to shower now!"

Sabine sighs as she rinses the shampoo from her hair and grabs her conditioner. She really shouldn't be this freaked out over the approximate size of Ezra's dick. It's not like she was planning on seeing it any time soon. Or ever. That thought disappointed her more than she felt it should have.

As she was rinsing the conditioner from her hair, she thought she heard the door to their room open and close.

"Hello!" Sabine calls out, but gets no reply.

She was concerned at first, but then remembered that Thelma said she'd be coming by to drop off towels and she relaxes and continues washing her hair.

Once she finishes she steps out of the shower and makes her way to the door. But when she opens it, she looks down and sees that creepy little pink lizard that was always with Ezra and she yelps and shuts the door behind her and leans her back against it.

"Damn that stupid slimy lizard!" Sabine curses. "How am I going to get a towel now…I've got to think of something!"

But what Sabine failed to think of, was the fact that Rex was always with Ezra. So if Rex was in the room, then it stands to reason that so would the Jedi. And said Jedi, was in fact in the room, stripping naked to get ready to take a shower himself.

Ezra looked curiously at the bathroom door, swearing he heard it open and shut, but then there was only silence. So he assumed it was nothing and proceeded to fully undress by pulling his pants and boxers down.

Sabine finds a small hand towel in the bathroom and wrings it in her hands as she thinks about what to use as a weapon to defend herself against Rex. Then she looks down at the towel in her hands, twisted like a rope and she gets an idea.

Rex tilts his head when he sees the doorknob jiggle and then the next thing he knows, the door swings open and a naked, angry Sabine is standing in front of him, and he barely has time to jump away as she cracks the towel at him like it's a whip and sends him flying to the other side of the room where he comfortably landed on a pillow.

"Ha!" Sabine cheers in victory as she quickly runs towards the bed to grab the towels only to run straight into an equally naked, but less wet and more sweaty Ezra.

Ezra caught her in his arms and felt himself stumble backwards and he held her as they both fell to the floor, with him breaking her fall.

Sabine gasps as she feels herself pressed against his body and they both grunt as they hit the floor. Slowly, once they recover from the fall, she sits up to try to get a bearing of her surroundings. She looks down and sees Ezra underneath her, shirtless. Not a strange sight, she's seen it before. But then she realizes she's not feeling any clothing against her skin. And remembers that all she's showing is skin and that there was something fleshy resting against her butt and she knew exactly what that was.

And Ezra opens his eyes fully after blinking away the stars in his vision he got from the fall only to see Sabine's bare chest, heaving slightly with her heavy breaths right in his line of sight and he muttered "karabast" under his breath as he took in the sight of Sabine Wren, naked, straddling him.

Force have mercy on them!