Broken

Chapter 3

Kanan's POV

I think it was a bad idea to leave the kid behind. There's this burning feeling nagging at me that something's going to happen, and it's not good. I just couldn't help it though, I just don't think I'm cut out to be the master he needs. I just hope they'll go easy on him, even though I know they won't. They already know about his force sensitivity, it's not hard to tell.

Maybe he'll escape though. He's a tough kid. Hera had told me that he had no parents. Was he living on the streets for a long time? How long? If he has, then he must've gotten captured before and escaped. Questions start to blast through my head, pulsing and pounding against my mind.

What if he doesn't escape?

What if they torture the life out of him?

What if they kill him?

Will they turn him into their own weapon? Break him?

By now my palms are shaking, my breathing is ragged. Calm down Kanan. Calm down. He's going to be okay, believe in that. I can't. I know he's not going to be okay, but there's nothing we can do now.

My ears start ringing, and I'm still breathing heavily. I hear a familiar sound echoing in the back of my head? What is that? Who is that? Why am I so worried about him?

"Kanan? Kanan!" I hear, and everything finally becomes clear.

Hera is kneeling in front of me next to the co-pilot seat I've been sitting on for who knows how long. How long have I been sitting here? Minutes? Hours? I didn't keep track of time.

"Kanan, are you okay? What's wrong dear?" Hera says gently.

"I don't know, Hera. I don't know." I reply shakily.

"Just calm down and explain to me what happened. Is this about Ezra? Are you okay? Do you need rest?"

"It's about Ezra I guess. I just started thinking about it my decision was right or not. I was wondering if he was going to be okay or not and all the 'what if's' kept popping up everywhere. Was what I did right?"

"I can't tell you Kanan. That your job to forgive out. We can't do anything about it right now either. It'll just endanger everyone and I cannot let that happen, I'm sorry."

I nod. I want to say it's okay, but it's not. I want to believe what I did was right, but it's not. I just need to calm down and get some rest.

Everything isn't going to be okay, nothing is ever always going to be okay and I know that. So I just need to calm down. Breath in and out. In and out. There's nothing I can do, and it's the worst feeling in the world.

I get up from the co-pilot seat, tell Hera goodbye and head to my cabin. I hope you're okay, Ezra. I'm sorry for the decision I made, and I'm sorry I can't help anymore. I pray to the force that you escape.

*Le tiem skip* (Not the time, I know. Don't judge me)

Ezra's POV

I wake up groggily, squinting my eyes at the bright light above me. Where am I? What happened?

I feel everything come back in a flash and I remember where I am. Everything that's happened, why I'm here. I look down, and see that I'm strapped to a table, restraints on my arms, hands, legs and feet forcing to lie on my back. I struggle beneath my restraints, trying so break free, but I can't.

I need to get out of here but I know it's impossible.

I wonder how that Ghost crew is going? Are they even worried about me? Are they ever going to come back? No! Stop it, Ezra! You shouldn't need to think of them when they left you behind in this hell hole!

But I still can't help to think if I'm going to be stuck here forever. If they are ever going to come back. I don't even know why I'm worried about them either. Why am I so scared if they made it out safe or not? They abandoned me, why should I care? I don't understand.

I feel my breath begin to quicken. I don't understand. I don't understand. Why do I care? Am I going to get out of all this? Are they okay?  That Kanan guy, is he okay? Why am I worried about him? I'm so confused.

The door opens with a quick flash, and I look over to see the inquisitor and side burns there with this weird looking guy with a lab coat on. Who's he?

"Well hello child," he speaks creepily sending chills up my spine, "How are to today?"

"How do you think I feel? I'm strapped to a table with three idiots in the same room as me. How about that, huh?" I reply sassily. I'm testing my luck but I don't care right now.

They glare at me before speaking, "So this is the weapon you demanded me to test on? He's feisty, I like it. This is going to be way more exciting then I thought it was going to be"

Wait, what? Testing on? Why? And to think, I thought what was already happening was bad, now look at the situation I'm in.

"What are you talking about? Why are you going to be testing on me?!" I yell.

The inquisitor looks my way, "We decided that to turn into our own weapon, there need to be a few more aspects we needed to include in our plan. This is one of them. You will find out the rest later, my dear boy." he speaks in a creepy and raspy tone.

The doors open again as I see an interrogation droid enter the room. No... not another one, please. My eyes widen as it comes closer, but suddenly stops next to the grand inquisitor.

The man in the lab coat, who I have yet to discover the name of, picks up a large needle with a weird, sticky looking red liquid inside of it.

"Let me just inject this into you" the scientist says, "When it is injected, it won't hurt that much. Oh, who am I kidding? It's going to hurt a lot. Experiment number one has begun." He says, while shoving the needle inside my neck as I struggle beneath his grip.

When all the liquid is inside my body, my body begins to burn. I feel like I'm on fire. Like my organs are being burned to shreds by a fire inside of me. I scream. Make it stop. Make it stop!

I yell and I cry out loud as the pain course through my body. Everything is burning. But there's no fire anywhere, everybody in the room is watching me. Emotionless, cold faces watch my every move while I scream in pain.

Everything is burning! Make it stop! Help me! It hurts! What did I do to deserve this?!

I can't even hear myself scream anymore but the pain is still coursing through me. When will this be over?

~ Wow, 1198 words (not including this of course). This is one of my longest chapters yet, I think. I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while, I just didn't have any inspiration, and I couldn't think of what to write. I started working on this is my English reading period, since we have those sometimes. Then I started working on it when I got home from school then stopped, and now at 12:04 am I finished it. You're welcome😂 Well, anyways, thanks for reading! And thank you for the votes, reads and comments. Even if it's not a lot of reads to some people, it's good to know that you guys like my story so far. Love you guys and have an amazing night/day/afternoon/evening. Btw, sorry for any grammar mistakes if there are any, I'm tired now and I'm too lazy to check😂 love you guys!

~ EzraBridgerisBae