Tomorrow

                                    

                                          
Still set in S1, Ep.4. I did not draw that. I photoshopped stuff so all rights go to L.L.C. Enjoy
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"Dead? Dead! A man I don't even know wants me dead!" Zare starts to pace and Ezra sighs, annoyed. 
"Zare, if you do well, and he realizes you are not force sensitive, he will find you useful and not kill you."
"Oh, so that's supposed to make me feel better. Great pep talk. And what were you doing breaking into Kallus' office? That's s great way to get shot."
"Long story. But I need that decoder and I could use a partner who knows his way around."
"What's in it for me?"
"Do you really need a reason to mess with the Empire?" Ezra sticks out his hand for Zare to shake. He smiles and takes it. 
"No, I don't." Ezra smiles. 
"Good. Now, we'll have to finish in the top three tomorrow if we're gonna get back inside Imperial H.Q."
"Then let's do it. I'm Zare by the way. Zare Leonis. And you're Dev, right?"
"Yeah. Yeah, that's me..." Ezra says, solemnly, knowing he can't give him his real name. 
~~~~time skips to after Zare, Jai, and Ezra, and others are done with the second test and Ezra pushes Jai to bottom of well to make sure that Zare could move up with him and stay in H.Q. Ezra and Jai are back at the Ghost, Zare staying to look for his sister. Jai is asking him about how he knew about Project Harvester, for he had told him the same thing he told Zare.~~~~
"So, what is it, anyway?" Jai questions, grabbing a space waffle then sitting across from Ezra in the kitchen. 
"What's what?" Ezra lifts bits of space waffle into his mouth with the force, too tired to actually move his arms, getting no sleep the past two weeks. 
"Project Harvester?"
"Oh, it's an operation by the Empire to capture young Force-sensitives and turn them into Siths, or dark side users. It was operated from a secret installation on the planet Arkanis, connected to the planet's Imperial headquarters and the Arkanis Academy." Jai stares at him, stupefied. 
"How do you know so much about it?"
"I was part of it. I had been captured but was able to escape." Ezra gave him a fraction of the truth. The space waffle bit, halfway to his mouth, fell into his lap when the door swished opened. He grumbled and grabbed it from his lap with his hand and set it back on his plate. "Kanan." He greeted. 
"Ezra. Jai, can you give us a minute?" Jai nodded, quickly exiting. Kanan swiftly took his place, staring at Ezra. "I want to thank you, Ezra. I know that posing as a cadet was probably hard, but I'm, along with many other people, are very grateful. What you did was right and very brave." Kanan smiles but does not get one in return. His face turns into concern. "Ezra, are you alright?"
~~~~ inside Ezra's Head~~~~(warning for abuse/beating/blood)(not graphic)
"What you did was foolish, wrong, and very stupid! How dare you do such a thing!" (So intimidating) The Inquisitor ignites his lightsaber, bright red illuminating the room. "You will pay for what you have done!" He slices his lightsaber on Ezra's back, the mark immediately turning black. Ezra screams in pain, begging for it to stop. Nine at the time, it was his first time sneaking out of the academy. He had stopped one of the vendors from being killed for not giving something to a stormtrooper, although they had not paid. When he tried to sneak back in, the inquisitor had caught him and was told what he had done by the stormtroopers he had stopped. The searing hot blade pierced his back again and again before his nose, jaw, and eye were caught in a fight he did not sign up for. "Get up!" Snarled the Inquisitor. "I said get up!"  
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"Ezra?" He jumped at his name, his back aching from the memory. "Are you alright?" Ezra smiles tiredly. 
"I'm fine. Just... tired is all. Long couple of weeks." He finishes the last few bites and puts the plate in the sink. "Call me when you guys need me."
"You're not staying?"
"Why would I? This isn't my home. It's yours." He starts to walk out, but stops when he hears Kanan say, 
"It can be." And he freezes. 
"What? No. It can't be. If you knew..." Ezra flinches at memories as himself as an inquisitor. He takes a deep breath and turns toward Kanan. "If you knew what I was, you wouldn't be saying that. So please, do us all a favor, and don't." His voice cracks and he turns tail before Kanan can stop him. 
"Ezra!" Kanan chases after him, yelling at him to stop and come back so they could talk, but Ezra knew if he knew... He dashes into the tall grass fields, not having a speeder to help him this time because it was forgotten at the parade. He would have to go get it tomorrow. He tried to lose Kanan a few time, zigzagging, backtracking. It never seemed to work until he realized that he had a tracker on him. Once he finds it, in the back of his neck, he finds a loth-cat to put it on. The cat goes the opposite way he does and leads Kanan away from him. He slows, catching his breath. A blue blur passes beside his face and he jumps, going for his lightsaber. As he ignites it, a purple hue is between the two. "You're a Sith!" Kanan shouts, surprised. Ezra knew this would happen. He shouldn't ignite it, but his training made him turn it on automatically. 
"I'm not  a Sith, Kanan." The purple hue turns blue again, his lightsaber put away. He turns from Kanan, He is stopped by a lightsaber by his throat. 
"Then what are you? Have you been spying on us for the Empire?" Ezra sighs. 
"No. But I was once an Imperial. I was forced to become a Sith, but I never truly was. I used my hatred of the Empire to fuel me, but my eyes were never yellow and red. And please, get that away from me. I'd like to keep my head, thank you. And that offer still stand?" Kanan removes the blade by his throat, but it is still ignited. He squints, confused. 
"What offer?" Ezra sighs, shaking his head. 
"Never mind. Kanan, please, listen. I... I once worked with the Empire, yes, but-"
"No. You worked with a Sith!" His face changes from confusion to anger in the blink of an eye as his grip tightens on his lightsaber. 
"Kanan... It was either that, or I died. And while I was an inquisitor, I helped the people. I wasn't caught until... Kanan, he isn't the only Inquisitor. I wasn't the only inquisitor, I was only second in command, almost, if he died. There are about eight more after me."
"Either way, you killed people. You-"
"No, I didn't! I stunned them or I knocked them out and made it look like they were dead so I wouldn't end up dead myself. Kanan, how do you think I was chosen as an Inquisitor, hm? They didn't kidnap me, I was in the academy and was picked out as special. The Inquisitor came and almost killed me and then I trained under him for three years. Kanan, when I went into the academy, I was eight. I was supposed to be trained as a pilot, but the inquisitor came and took me to Arkanis, and trained me as an Inquisitor for five years, and escaped a few months after I turned thirteen. 
"Do you know how hard that was? People looking for me like bounty hunters and the Empire itself. I was only on my own for three years before I met and learned the hard way to never make friends because of me, they would die. Every chance I could, I would sneak out of the complex and take a look at what the Empire had done. I would bring my lightsaber and make sure other troopers didn't kill any other families and so their kids wouldn't have to like alone as I did."
"How do we know you aren't lying? How do we know you're not working under the Empire anymore?"
"You're a Jedi, or were, anyway, can't you sense when I'm lying?" Ezra turns tail, knowing that Kanan is distracted, and runs. He goes towards the hills and is halfway there when he knows that Kanan didn't follow him. He slows when the area opens up. A lot-cat comes from out of the grass and walks up next to him, rubbing his face on Ezra's shins and purring. He smiles and looks towards the mountains. The sky is a mixture of blue, red, pink, and orange. He sits down and the Loth- cat climbs into his lap, purring. Ezra puts his hand on the cats head and smiles as the sunset reflects off the snow-covered mountains. Yeah, he'll get the speeder tomorrow. 
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OMG, she lives. Sorry, it's taking so long for these updates. I hope you guys stay safe on the East Coast from the winter storm and in England. Stay safe and have a good rest of the week!!