Star Wars: Love and Hope

Chapter 4

Two days after Ezra somehow allowed the ghost crew to join his army as Sabine was arguing with Leia again

"Didn't realize that Ezra found himself a nanny girlfriend" Sabine said with a smirk that made her feel good. She was immensely enjoying pissing the girl off after she had come into the room to berate her. "Did you come to fight his battle for him?"

"Had he asked be to I would have, because unlike you, I truly care about him. From what he told me about you I would have thought that you would have felt the same. However, it seems to me that you're more obsessed with pointing a gun at his back and throwing his own affection back in his face for some inexplicable reason." Leia said

"You mean the affection he felt when he ran away with you?" she said calmly, but wanted to scream back at the girl whose name she was still struggling to remember. "The Ezra I know wouldn't have done that, he wouldn't have left us in the dark about that!".

"You did this because your feelings are hurt?" Leia asked with almost disbelief. "You broke Ezra's heart simply because he didn't ask you hot!"

In all honesty the girl had hit the nail on the head. Ezra didn't understand what he had put them through during his absence. Their family had basically torn one another apart until they could barely stand the sight of each other. He had to know what that felt like, it served him right! Yet...the part that stuck with her was what Leia – she finally remembered her name – had told her. She had just broken Ezra's heart.

"He needs to know" she said through clenched teeth before she could stop herself. "He should know the pain that we've felt after he faked his own death. It's justice and it's right. That 'death' tore us all apart in ways he can never know. On Mandalore –"

"We aren't on Mandalore you fool! That boy has thought about you every single day we were together. I've heard so many stories about your pranks and your missions, and I was hoping to meet a group of people who would be ecstatic to see him. A person you care about is alive so the first thing you think about doing is destroying him since he feels the same about you? That doesn't make any sense at all!"

"Why do you even care?" she finally did shout back at the criticisms from Leia. Her bloodshot eyes analyzed the girl unable to find answers that came so easily to her before. "You barely even know him while I've known him for years! Ezra is arrogant beyond words, and he's so confident in his abilities that he forgets what matters most. If he really thought he could come waltzing back to the Rebellion with open arms then he's more naïve than I thought before. Maybe if he cared about others –" she tried to say but found it hard to speak or even breathe. The hands that had been trembling before now felt like leaves on a tree in a windstorm as they went towards the pressure she felt on her throat.

"I would be very careful about the pressure you put on him" Leia told her in a very dangerous tone. Sabine's eyes caught sight of the girl's hand that had been in a vice grip position by her side. "There are many things that Ezra taught me Sabine, but the one thing that always sticks with me is that you should always defend the people you care about most. It shouldn't be too hard to guess who that pertains to in this situation I don't think".

The door opened and closed quickly as the healer in charge came bursting into the room. Leia released her phantom grip on Sabine's throat slow enough to make the girl nearly gasp for air, which caught the attention of the doctor who asked if everything was alright.

"Of course" Leia told her with a smile that oozed innocence. "I was checking on Ms. Wren for a friend of mine to whom I should be getting back to at this moment".

"I heard yelling" the medic said demanding an explanation.

Leia shrugged her shoulders, "if it was my guess I would say it's probably due to her withdrawals. She seems to in need of those pills she was on and asked me if I had any of them. When I said no she tried to stand up to look when I made her stay back down".

The nurse glared at Sabine as she heard Leia's false words. Any refute from the Mandalorian would fall on deaf ears, and both she and Leia knew that all too well. The scowl on the Jedi's face returned tenfold as they both ignored the healer who was looking for straps to tie Sabine to the bed. Neither of them acknowledged the medic who had been speaking to them, but was insignificant to the situation as a whole.

"At least now you won't be able to hurt yourself or anyone else Ms. Wren" the healer said haughtily while tying down the straps.

Leia turned to walk out the door, but not before Sabine shot a few last words at her, "I didn't even do it, that was all for show. It's not hard to see your feelings for him too, but we both know who he really loves".

"It may have been a show to you, but he didn't see it that way, and it changes nothing. How long do you think those feelings would last Sabine? Because even if they were as strong as you hope they are it won't last forever, not after I tell him the truth. While you're in here feeling arrogant about your choice I'll be there to help him through this. We'll be gone for a mission on Lothal where you won't be anywhere near. If you want my advice, I'd recommend that you leave here before we get back and get yourself help. After what you pulled you'll be lucky if he wants to see you after that. I certainly wouldn't blame him if that's what he decided".

"Bitch." Leia thought as Ezra awaited at the Rogue Shadow

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