So this isn't gonna be super long or elaborate. I just wanted to get something out of my system. In all honesty, I probably should have released something for the one-year anniversary of the show ending. #RebelsRemembered and #SabEzraForever!!
The Imperial dome.
Hera had just finished scolding Ezra for surrendering to Thrawn and was now looking at a holodisplay with the others trying to come up with a new plan. Sabine was on the opposite end of the command center and saw Ezra sneak his lightsaber to Chopper and knew what was about to happen.
The young Jedi snuck over to an air vent and then his eyes met Sabine's.
This one glance said everything.
"I have to do this", his electric blue eyes whined.
"I know", her amber irises replied.
He stepped into the vent and was gone. Gone to face Thrawn, liberate Lothal...
And disappear from Sabine's life for five years.
A few short days after the Battle of Endor, Ahsoka arrived on Lothal and she and Sabine set off looking for Ezra. They followed his trail of proverbial breadcrumbs from one end of the galaxy to the other, the Rishi Maze to the Akkadese Maelstrom. Finally, they narrowed his location down to a remote jungle world tucked in a barely-charted sector of Wild Space.
"Looks like there's a large village down there. Seems peaceful", Ahsoka commented as she performed a flyby.
"Well hurry up and land!!", Sabine exclaimed, "I feel like this is it!!"
The former Jedi landed the craft and Sabine practically kicked the ramp open, startling some of the villagers. The Mandalorian regained her civility and raised her hands in the universal gesture of peace and goodwill, which the primitive humans thankfully understood. One of them, a grey-haired elder, hobbled up and poked Sabine's armored chest with his cane, uttering a flurry of words that she couldn't understand.
"Uh... Ezra?", she croaked, praying to every possible deity that they knew his name.
The elder's face tigthened and he spoke something to two of the young boys. They ran off to one of the lean-tos and came back with someone else.
Sabine's heart shot out of her chest, and Ahsoka smiled widely.
It was him.
Ezra had gotten taller, much taller over the years and was sporting a hefty set of muscles, clearly outlined under his thin tunic. Somehow, he had managed to remain as clean-shaven as when Sabine saw him last.
The villagers parted, leaving a large circular area in the center of the sandy courtyard.Sabine walked forward, and so did Ezra. They met in the middle and eyed one another up and down.
"You changed your hair again", he deadpanned, as if he'd forgotten about her finicky view of personal appearances.
"You've gotten bigger", she retorted, "Looks like I've lost whatever bragging rights I still had over you."
Acting on almost pure instinct, the young woman reached forward and grabbed Ezra's hand, bringing it to the center of her chest.
"Ezra... I missed you", she said, almost sobbing.
"I missed you, too", he replied soothingly.
Then, in an almost bittersweet re-enactment of that fateful moment five years prior, their eyes met, once again saying everything that needed to be said.
"I love you", her golden eyes screamed.
"I know", his oceanic orbs responded.