You Pretty Little Liar

Chapter 1 - Fever

You Pretty Little Liar
Chapter 1
Fever

It was morning time on the Ghost and everyone was getting up to get ready and start there day! Well, almost everybody....

"Hurry up brat, it's way past time to get up!" Zeb hit Ezra with a pillow.

"Leave me alone." The teen croaked and scrunched up his face, still half asleep.

"You've slept in way too late, don't make me tell Hera and Kanan." Zeb's threat fell on deaf ears as Ezra pulled the blanket over his face with a groan. Bad idea, as hot as he felt, it was like a furnace under the cover. Ezra threw it off and sat up as he gasped for air. Zeb raised a confused eyebrow, "What's wrong with you kid?" He noticed Ezra's face was flush and covered in sweat, his eyes looked exhausted and far away. Zeb put his hand on his forehead, "Karabast you're on fire!"

"Thanks, I try." Ezra rasped dryly.

"No I mean you're hot."

"I know you are but what am I...."

Zeb frowned, "You're not even listening to me are you."

"I dunno, something about waffles?" Ezra hung his head and closed his eyes.

"Hey... Hey!" Zeb pulled open one of Ezra's shut eyes but he made no response or movement, "Yup, lights are on but nobody's home. I'm getting Kanan and Hera." He turned to go.

"Sure! A movie sounds great right about now!" Ezra flopped back down as Zeb left the room.

"Guys!" Zeb found the rest of the crew in the kitchen eating breakfast. "I think the kid is broken."

"Broken?" Sabine chuckled slightly.

"He's got a raging fever and I think it's melted his brain."

"Fever?" Kanan's eyes went wide.

"I'll get the med kit, we'll scan him and see what's going on. Thanks for telling us Zeb, no doubt Ezra would hide something like this from us until the bantha came home." Hera got up and headed to the med bay.

"Is he awake?" Kanan asked.

"Ehhh in a sense." Zeb shrugged, rubbing the back of his head.

"I better go check on him." Kanan grabbed some ice and placed it in a thin towel before he headed towards their room.

"What...?" Zeb glanced down at Sabine who had stopped eating her cereal and was glaring up at him with an unamused sense of calm that made him nervous.

"We were trying to have a nice quiet breakfast... Thanks for ruining it, you mood killer." She sighed.

"Not like I got the kid sick."

"You couldn't wait half an hour to be the bearer of bad news and let me at least start the day off right?" She shook her head to herself and pushed her spoon in her cereal bowl with a scoff. Zeb didn't know how to respond, it was too early for this.

"Ezra?" Kanan spoke quietly as the door opened, he could feel the sickness hanging in the air even without the Force. He approached his bunk, Ezra was breathing shallow and his face red and furrowed and covered in sweat.

"Help. Help me..... It's so hot. Help." Ezra rasped weakly as he struggled to breathe from his body over heating.

"Hey, wake up." Kanan spoke quietly, he was sure Ezra must have a bad headache, he tapped his cheek but flinched and pulled his hand away, his skin felt like it was burning. Not good! "Here, this might help." He placed the bag of ice on Ezra's head, Ezra hissed thru his teeth with pain but then his body seemed to relax with the relief of the cold. "Ezra, are you awake?"