-This picks up where BurnThoseEyesBlue's story "You Can Hide Besides Me" left off. Please read it first. You can find it on Fanfiction.net

Hera waited at the Ghost for the rest of her crew to return. She knew Kanan would probably want to talk to her after what he had reported earlier in the day about the Bridger's house being burned down.

"As if losing his master and the Jedi order was enough for Kanan. Having to give custody of his Padawan, who he managed to save in the mist of it all, back to his parents. Now, finding out that the empire attack the kid's home, and probably killed them all." She sighed to herself. "Poor Ezra. He never even had a chance. Kanan's probably going to be taking this pretty hard."

Just then she saw something in the horizon.

"Specter 5 to Ghost, we got the crates. Specters 3, 4, and I are coming in." Sabine said over the comm system.

"Where's Specter 1?" Was Hera's only reply.

"Well Specter 2, we'll give you a full update once we get everything on board." The young girl replied.

"I'll be ready. Ghost out." She answered. Then she lowered the ramp.

The three members of her crew drove the speeders with the crates right up the ramp before releasing the crates. Once they were done Hera met them in the cargo hold.

"So how was the mission, and where's Kanan?" She asked before the others got a chance to relax.

"The mission went fine until some kid tried to steal the shipment before we did. The Boss handled it though." Zeb said.

"The kid messed up our entire plan halfway through by jumping off the rooftop on to one of the speeders. I think he had a death wish trying a stunt like that. Kanan and him seem to know each other somehow." Sabine continued.

"Wait, a kid messed you up and Kanan knew him?" Hera asked. "Did either one of them say any names or anything?"

"Yeah, the kid just stopped and looked at Kanan then said 'Caleb?'" Sabine answered mimicking the kid's tone of disbelief at the end.

"At first I thought he was mistaking Kanan for someone else, but He seemed to recognize the kid too. What was the name he called him?" Zeb added.

"Was it by any chance Ezra?" Hera asked.

"As a matter of fact I think it was Ezra. Wait how do you know that? You weren't even there?" Zeb answered.

"His kid's alive after all!" Hera exclaimed.

"His kid?" Zeb and Sabine both asked.

"How old is Kanan? Aren't you and him..." Sabine asked trailing off as she processed this new information.

"Is there something else about the boss's history we should know about before we get another surprise thrown at us?" Zeb asked.

"Like who Caleb is, and how Kanan has a kid living on the streets here on Lothal when he said he's never been here before." Sabine added.

"It's a long story. I guess I'll have to update you guys on it now anyways." Hera replied. She then went into explaining some of Kanan's past by only giving them the basics & what they needed to know.

"Well that explains a lot." Zeb says.

"So he left Ezra here with his parents to keep him safe before he changed his name." Sabine recapped. "What happened to the kid's parents?"

"Kanan went to visit the kid earlier today only to find the house burned to the ground. He commed me and said that there was no traces of life forms left. He sounded really upset. I looked into it. The kids parents were arrested a few years back. I figured the empire probably took Ezra too. If so, chances were that he had already been executed. Nether one of us thought he would be back on the streets by himself." Hera explained.

Then she grabbed a speeder and started it up.

"Where are you going?" Zeb asked.

"To find Kanan and meet our other crew member. You three stay here." Hera answered before taking off.

They watched as she drove out of sight.

"Other crew member? Where's the kid going to sleep?" Zeb asked.

"Logical answer, he'll bunk with either you or Kanan." Sabine replied.

Chopper beeped the stats for both probabilities.

"Well he's not bunking with me! He's the boss's kid not mine." Zeb states.

"Chopper disagrees. He thinks that you'll get stuck with Ezra because you have the bigger cabin." Sabine says.

Meanwhile Kanan and Ezra had moved the reunion to the rooftops so they had more privacy. The two sat there talking and getting caught up.

"I didn't believe you were actually coming back." Ezra admitted after a while.

"I thought about it several times. Always figured you were safer if I didn't. Maybe I should have came just to check on you from time to time like I promised you I would." Kanan confessed.

"But you didn't, so you didn't know what was going on." Ezra said.

"Ezra, I'm so sorry I didn't come. Some master I would have been. Trust me if I had known about your parents I would have been here immediately. Especially if i got word you were back on the streets." Kanan replied.

"I tried to get a message to you when they started broadcasting. By the time I ended up on the streets again I had lost hope that you would ever come back for me already." Ezra said. "I cried for days after you left. I kept waiting for you to come back. The messages never went through."

"Probably because I changed my name when I went into hiding. I don't go by Caleb Dume anymore." Kanan replied.

Ezra didn't say anything this time.

"Kanan Jarrus, that's what most people know me by now." Kanan finally said.

"Is Kanan a Jedi too, or just a normal person. If so I want my master Caleb back." Ezra says.

"To be honest, I usually try not to be a Jedi when I'm Kanan."

"Try? Master Yoda would scold you for that." Ezra replied.

"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." The two Jedi quoted together in their best impression of Yoda. Then the two bursted out laughing.

"I never did understand that." Ezra then confessed. "How do you do anything if you don't try it first?"

"I never really understood it either. I just remember failing every time I said I would try. He said it every time someone said they would try though." Kanan said.

"I guess we were both still learning huh?" Ezra says.

"We were." Kanan admitted.

"So, what happens next with us?"

"I don't know, but I'm not leaving you here on the streets. I might not be a Caleb or a Jedi anymore, but you're still the most important person to me. I'll have to talk to Hera about finding you a place to live, & someone to take care of you."

"I don't want to live with anyone other then you. Your still supposed to be my master no matter what you go by now. It's out of your hands Caleb, Kanan, Master, whatever you want me to call you now, you're stuck with me." Ezra says.

"I really would check up on you this time kid." Kanan says.

"I don't believe you."

"Check the force then, see if I'm lying."

"I don't have too. You meant it last time, and you fail through. Let me talk to this Hera, because I'm not letting you drop me off somewhere this time. I'm staying right by your side where I belong." Ezra says.

"Something tells me she's going to love you." Kanan says. He gets up and extends his arm out to Ezra to help him up. "Ok, then lets go find the rest of my crew, and properly introduce you then."

"Sounds like a plan." Ezra says.

The two hop down. Immediately Kanan senses Hera nearby.

"I guess we start with Hera. This way." He says. Ezra follows him down an alley.

"There you are Kanan." Hera says the second she sees her Jedi crew member. Then she sees the teenager behind him. "You must be Ezra."

"I am." Ezra says.

"Ezra, this is Hera." Kanan says. "She's the only member of the crew that knows about you, and our past."

"Nice to finally meet you Ezra." Hera says.

"You too I guess. I hope Caleb hasn't been given you too much trouble." Ezra says in a tone that Kanan could have sworn his master would have used in saying the same thing.

Kanan did a faceplate.

"Not that much. I'm sure you can straight him out though." Hera laughed. "I thought Kanan was supposed to be the master though."

"I am, I not going to be able to take you anywhere kid." Kanan replied.

"Well we'll all have plenty of time to get to know each other better once we get you moved in with all of us." Hera said.

"Wait what?" Kanan said.

"Are you for real?" Ezra replied.

"Kanan, why are you shocked? I figured you'd want Ezra off the street more than anyone else." Hera replied.

"Yeah, but I figured I was going to have to talk to you about temporary living arrangements, finding him a new home, and visiting him first. At least let the rest of the crew have a vote if he stays with us." Kanan replied.

"If I stay with you? No, I was stay with you no matter what." Ezra said. Then he added "even if it meant using a mind trick on your entire crew," under his breath.

"You don't even know how to do mind tricks." Kanan said looking at Ezra. He turned back to Hera. "From the sound of it you want Ezra to move into the Ghost immediately. The others don't even know about him yet. Shouldn't they at least have a say before he joins the crew?"

"I could learn. You're the one that's supposed to teach me it anyways." Ezra mumbled. Both adults ignored him this time.

"I already explained everything they needed to know about you and Ezra to them. I'm pretty sure that they will have no objections to him moving in once they meet him. Besides I know better than to separate a Master from his Padawan." Hera says.

"You already told them?"

"Kanan, what choice did I have. They told me all about what happened. You didn't exactly com to warn me. The second I said your kid was alive they started asking questions. I only gave them the basics to get them caught up." Hera explained.

"Next time wait on me before you revile a part of my past." Kanan say.

"Next time? A Jedi can only have one Padawan. How could there be a next time if I'm with you?" Ezra says.

"I do have a life outside of being a Jedi, Ezra. You might know Caleb, but you don't know Kanan yet." The former Jedi replied.

"Well I guess that's about to change. It's not like you know everything about me anymore either." Ezra mused a little irritated. "You missed eight years of my life."

"Guess we both have our secrets then." Kanan says. "I think we could probably use the separate space right now though."

"Zeb's not going to like that." Hera remarked.

"You really do have something to hide from me." Ezra states. "What you do? Clearly something that the Jedi council wouldn't approve of."

"Like you haven't gone against the order before." Kanan said then he thought about a couple of examples. "Ok, so some of those times were my fault. I'm sure there's other examples though."

"The few I can think of weren't exactly willingly. I didn't have much of a choice at the time though." Ezra said quietly without looking at Kanan. Kanan sensed pain coming from the kid.

"Well I'm here when you want to tell me about it, or I'll understand if you don't." Kanan says.

Ezra didn't reply.

"Well we should probably get back to the ship. The others are waiting for us to get home." Hera says.

"Ready to meet the rest of my crew kid?" Kanan asked.

"As ready as I'm going to be." Ezra replied.

The three headed to the Ghost.

"Guy's I'd like to meet my Padawan Ezra Bridger." Kanan said once everyone gathered in the common room. Then he introduced the others to Ezra, explaining what each person's job was on the team. Zeb was not to happy when he was introduced as his roommate.

"Oh come on. You surprise us with you having a kid, and I end up getting stuck roomin' with him." Zeb complained. "Why can't he bunk with you? You have an extra bunk too."

"Under normal circumstances he would. However, nothing about the way things are now is normal, and we could both use separate spaces away from each other right now." Kanan explained.

"Chopper said to tell you 'we told you so'" Sabine says.

Late that night Kanan was woken up when something felt off in the Force. Normally he would have ignored it, but this time he knew he couldn't. He heard a noise in another part of the ship, and decided to investigate.

"Ezra?" Kanan said finding the boy in the refresher with the door open.

"Wake up Ezra, before something goes wrong. None of this is real." Ezra says as he splashes water on his face. "Why isn't anything working?"

"Ezra, what are you doing? It's the middle of the night." Kanan says.

"Trying to wake myself up. As much as I want it all to be none of this is real." Ezra replied.

"What makes you think this is a dream?"

"One, your here Caleb, but you can't be if you're dead. Secondly, everything is just to good to be real." The boy responded.

"Who told you I was dead?" Kanan asked trying to make sense of everything that was going on.

"Why else would you not come back? No one ever comes back. Mom, Dad, Caleb, Master Depa Billaba, and all the other Jedi. They are all dead. The empire killed them all. That's why I'm always alone. It's better that way. That's why no matter how much I want this dream to be real I have to wake up." Ezra explained.

Kanan almost wanted to cry. Ezra had convinced himself that everyone that cared about him was dead. What was worse is that he wasn't entirely wrong.

"There just a few flaws with your logic." Kanan said.

"Like what?" Ezra asked.

"For one, Jedi don't dream."

"The Jedi are dead."

"Your not dead."

"I wasn't even a Padawan yet. I don't have the right to call myself a Jedi. Remember?"

"I'm not dead."

"Prove it Caleb."

"I don't have to. You already know it's true."

"I'm not convinced."

"Ezra, search the force. What's it telling you?"

"You told me not to use the force anymore. That I could never use it again, because it wasn't safe anymore." Ezra cried.

"I know what I said. Listen to what I'm saying now, Ezra. You won't believe me that you're not dreaming. That you're safe with me and my crew on the Ghost. Than search the force for the truth." Kanan said grabbing Ezra's shoulders and turning the kid around. He looked the kid in the eyes. "Please Ezra, just this once to convince yourself."

Ezra closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"I'm not dreaming, and this is all real. You're not dead, and neither am I." The boy says in a calm and convincing voice.

"All true. Now how do you feel?" Kanan asked.

"Safe for once. Like I belong here, not just with you, but on this ship with all these people. Like I'm back at the temple with you." Ezra answered.

"Is that it?" He asked his student.

"No, but I don't know how to describe the rest." Ezra replied. His eyes snapped open. "Kanan, I haven't felt like that in a long time. I didn't expect the force to feel like that. Not after all this time of not really using it."

"What it feel like?" Kanan had to ask.

It had been just as long since he had really touched the force like that himself. Sure there was the occasional slip when it was practically screaming at him and he used it, but he hadn't looked into it for anything like he had just asked Ezra to do.

"Calm, comfortable, familiar, safe, and trusting. It's like it is welcoming me back, and saying that everything is going to be okay." Ezra says.

"Then we can go back to sleep."

"Caleb, do I have to go back to my bed?"

"You don't want to wake up in a strange place with strange people?"

"Partly, Zeb snores loudly and smells really bad."

"Says the kid that spent a night behind a dumpster in the underworld with me once." Kanan laughed.

"Ok, maybe I just want to wake up with something familiar in the room for once." Ezra confessed.

"Look, I'll be in the next room if you need me." Kanan told him.

"I know, but I always felt safe and comfortable when I was with you. It never mattered where we were, or how horrible things were. Your the one that taught me to how to survive on the streets. If it hadn't been for that first time we were on the streets I might not have survived after my parents were taken. You just had to help me convince myself of the truth, because I had to convince myself for years that you were dead." Ezra said.

"Ezra, I promise you are never going to wake up on the streets again as long as I'm alive. If you do than you can have my lightsaber because I don't deserve to have it." Kanan says.

"Your swearing on your lightsaber? Ok, that's new. I would have had my first one by now, wouldn't I?"

"Probably, I don't really like to think about that stuff anymore."

"You think I'll ever get one? That we can ever safely be ourselves again?" Ezra asked.

"I don't know. Maybe someday we won't have to hide." Kanan replied.

He watched the Ezra walk down the hall.

"I really missed you Caleb. Thanks for finally coming back." Ezra says just before he started to pick the lock because Zeb hadn't given him the code yet.

"Oh, what the force! Ezra, come on you can sleep in my cabin." Kanan said. "I missed you too kid."

•I sent this story to BurnThoseEyesBlue to read before I posted it. I was not originally intending on post it until they read it and gave me there opinion of it.

•May the force be with you always

•Cass