Ezra woke up to a quiet, empty room. He looked around for a way to get up, then he saw the ladder. He was about to try to get down when he remembered what Kanan said:

"Com me if you want anything kay? Even if you just wanna go down. Don't try to climb down alone."

Rubbing his eyes, he search around for his com, and found it on the edge of the bed. He quickly snatched it up, examined it, and then turned it on.

"Mommy? Daddy?"

For a second, he heard nothing before the com sprung to life. Blaster fire could be heard on the background as Kanan's voice replied:

"Ezra is that you?"

"Kamam?"

"What's wrong, did something happen?" Kanan asked worriedly.

"I wuama goo doun."

For a moment there was silence before Kanan said:

"Just hold on a sec we'll be there soon."

And then silence engulfed the room once more.

It took a minute for Ezra to get impatient and considered going down the ladder alone. But Kanan told him not to......

Just then the door swished open to reveal a certain grumpy orange astromech coming in.

"Cobber! Hep me doun?"

Chopper just stood there, then beeped a couple times before he left. Then came back five minutes later, with Ephraim on his heel, or wheels technically.

Ephraim quickly placed Ezra down before racing out. Curiosity getting the best of him he followed before Hera called:

"Ezra! Come over here love!"

Ezra complied and opened the door to the cockpit. He put his stuffed tooka on Sabine's chair and sat down on Kanan's. There, he turned to Hera and said:

"Wuzz gonin on?"

Hera turned slightly and replied:

"The facility we were infiltrating turned out to have Tie freighters docked. When we got ready for take off-"

"Wha?"

Hera smiled, remebering he was talking to a seven year old and said:

"You know that big building where the Empire was making bad things?"

"Uha." Ezra nodded.

"Well we were going to attack it so the Empire couldn't make bad things anymore."

"Uha. Bud why wee bean shoo at?"

"You see those ships?" Hera pointed at a Tie just in front. "The Empire had some of those and they are attacking us."

"Ohh!" Ezra said.

Hera couldn't help but smile.

After a few more shots and a jump to hyperspace, they crew made it safely to Lothal to discuss a matter they've been holding on for long enough.

"What are we going to do about Ezra?"

Ephraim looked at Kanan in suprise and said:

"What about him?"

"I mean," Kanan explained, "What are we gonna do about him being force sensitive?"

Ephraim glanced at Ezra, who was on the floor with Chopper, trying to balance some fruit on his tip.

"Easy," He responded after a moment, "You train him."

"Me?" Kanan placed his hand on his chest. "I-I can't. I'm not...good with kids."

"Kanan we've had this discussion." Hera cut in. "Your perfectly capable of training Ezra."

"Yeah but-"

Suddenly, Ezra made a frustrated noise and smashed the jogan on Chopper's top thingy, the sharp point sticking out. Ezra laughed while Chopper started spinning, trying to shake the fruit off.

"YAY! I DUD UT!"

Kanan moaned, Hera laughed and Ephraim smiled. Ezra stood up and started jumping and pointing at Chopper.

"Kanan? I'd like to you. Privately." Ephraim said, looking at Hera and Mira knowingly.

"Come on Ezra, lets let the men talk." Mira said, gently pushing her son foward.

"Boot I a man!" Ezra complained, "See, I stwong lik Daddy an Kamam! An Bed!"

"Not only men are strong, Ezra. Sabine, Hera, and I are strong, too. Just because your strong doesn't mean your a man." Mira told her son.

Ezra thought for a moment, "Bu you say I gro stwong lik Daddy."

"Right but women are strong, too."

"So...I can gro stwong lik Mommy?"

The look on the boy's face was enough to make you smile. Electric blue orbs shone with a mixture of confusion, curiosity and innocence. As they walked out of the room, Hera kneeled down and explained:

"What your mom is trying to say is, that some people can take it bad when you say that only men are strong or just include males. That's why you include women, too."

Now Ezra was really confused and everyone could see it.

"I don get ut." Ezra pouted and crossed his arms.

Suddenly, Sabine cleared her throat.

"Um..are we gonna tell the kid or not?"

"Right," Hera said. Back to business. "This week, Ezra, we were going to throw Kanan a party."

"Paty?" Ezra's eyes lit up. "Ut is burtday?!"

"Yup," Sabine responded. "It's his birthday. And we wanna throw him a surprise party and we need your help."

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With Kanan and Ephraim
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"What you wanna talk about Ephraim?" Kanan asked, hands folded behind his head.

"Well, I was wondering if you would let me see you train Ezra today."

"Today?" Kanan's eyes widened. "Why today? Can't we wait like, one more year?"

Ephraim rolled his eyes. "Why don't you tell me why you feel a year would be enough time? I mean it's simple. You tell Ezra what to do and everything and we'll help calm him down so he can actually learn."

"Yeah I get that the trouble is knowing where to start." The jedi huffed out and leaned foward. "Any suggestions?"

Ephraim thought for a moment before responding:

"Ezra usually has a lot of energy in the morning. You can try some physical training to tire him out, and then tell him about the history of jedi or something and he'll take it as story time and listen to every word you say."

"Wow." Kanan leaned back. "You really know him."
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He shrugged, "It's my job. If you ever need to train him alone and he gets scared you can try to give him something to eat of gently touch his head and he should calm down."

Kanan nodded. Before sighing and mumbling.

"Why are kids so complicated?"

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So nothing really happened here........yet. But there are some pretty important things that are said, done that are key points that I threw in here and there....some not so obvious.

This chapter is a little shorter than the rest, but I decided to leave it here so I could organize everything and not let it be a big jumble. I thought I'd show Kanan's insecurity by showing his hesitation to train Ezra, and I didn't see many fanfiction where it's Kanan's birthday. I might throw in another birthday later.

I'm bored. So it's a long authors note. So......what do you guys like best about this story and what do you think I could improve on? Do you have any ideas I could use?

I'll try to update as fast as I can, but I wrote this chapter once, and then I didn't like it so I redid it and, got this.

So random question: what's your favorite fruit? Mine is banana or oranges.

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