Star Wars Rebels: The Padawan (Completed)

Sick Day

Hyperspace, aboard the Ghost, 0500 am

     Ezra lied in his bed, not feeling well, but not wanting the others to know. Just thinking about Jedi training made him want to do what he really didn't want to do: puke. But then he felt it and was too weak to get up, so he ended up throwing up on Zeb. The Lasat bellowed, angry at being woken up and disgusted at the smell. ''KANAN!'' he screamed. Ezra felt like shrinking down into his bed, but couldn't.

     Kanan almost barfed himself when he smelled the room unconsciously. Next he saw Zeb covered in vomit and Ezra holding his stomach. ''HERA!'' he yelled, running out of the room. Ezra rolled his eyes and Zeb growled low in his throat. Hera had the same reaction when she saw the mess, but she didn't run.

     Instead, she quietly ordered, ''Zeb, go take a sanisteam. Ezra, you stay in bed. I'll get you a bucket, then I'll have Zeb clean his bed.'' 

     Ezra smiled and spoke in his normal sarcastic tone, ''I don't think I can get out of bed. That's why I vomited on Zeb.'' 

     Ahsoka walked in and saw the mess. ''Lovely.'' She sighed, then walked out. ''I'll go get soup.'' Ezra groaned like people who are sick would, and closed his eyes, still awake. Rex walked in and face-palmed himself, shaking his head. Sabine knew not to go in there, for she had heard Kanan puke in the nearest sanisteam. Hera came back with a thermometer, medicine, and a moist cloth. 

     Hera smiled mischievously. ''Zeb gets to take care of you for painting my console pink. If you need anything, let him know. Rex, Ahsoka, and I will check on you at different times.''

     Ezra moaned, ''He'll probably poison me or something.''

     ''I don't think so. Kanan'll kill him,'' Hera reassured him, but he wasn't convinced. Zeb growled about the arrangement when he heard about it, but he dared not disobey Hera, for an angry pilot sealed your fate. He ended up doing many things for Ezra, who was basically pampered the whole day, but didn't like it. He wanted to bug everyone (especially Imperials), prank people (especially Imperials), and go on missions, but he couldn't. Instead, he had to stay in bed. 

     He had a moist cloth on his forehead because of having a fever of 102.1, soup all day, and foul-tasting medicine every four hours. Plus, he had Zeb get him things like books and water, which Zeb hated more than Imperials. Of course, this was the thing he liked most about being sick. He may have overdone it by having Zeb carry him around, but Hera did say it was a punishment, so that made it okay. The next day, Ezra felt better, so Zeb's punishment was over.