Kriff That

My Heart is Yours:

Sabine dropped Ezra's hand as she turned and faced her father with heat rapidly rising to her face. "Father!" Shit, he'd seen her practically throw herself at Ezra twice now. What must he think of her? "I was just... um..."

"Checking for signs of the Karatos Plague in Ezra's eyes?" Kanan provided helpfully, all but laughing his ass off at her if that grin was anything to go by.

Sabine nearly growled at him. "Not helping, Kanan."

The masked Jedi Knight simply shrugged unapologetically.

Nerfherder.

"Relax, Sabine. I've already given your young Jedi my stamp of approval," Alrich reassured, pushing himself off the doorframe he was leaning on.

"Oh. You did? That's... good." When did Ezra have time to win over Father? Then again, who doesn't Ezra win over? He's literally one of the most liked people in the galaxy. Even the scum of the universe likes him. (Cough, cough, Hondo, cough.)

"The rest of the clan, on the other hand..."

"I know, Father. They're not exactly going to break out the good whiskey to celebrate my choice." More like dump Ezra in the lake and then eject him into space and laugh as he fractures into a million pieces. Or maybe that's what they'll do to me after they find out about Mother and Tristan. She sighed dejectedly as she walked up to her father and joined him as they moved into the common room. Eyeballing a couch that looked mighty comfy right now, wishing she could take a ten year nap, Sabine continued with, "Between that and the resurfacing of that weapon I wish I never invented, I'll be lucky if all of Mandalore doesn't eviscerate me." She huffed out another mournful sigh, aiming for the couch. A ten year nap might not be possible right now, but she was hoping for at least a ten minute sit. Preferably with Ezra beside me.

She never made it to the couch.

Ezra managed to cool off his face by focusing on Kanan's comment, brows rising in curiosity. What's the Karatos Plague?

Kanan sure is enjoying this whole thing. I wonder how long he's been waiting to be able to tease Sabine and I about our love lives like we tease him about his? Did he anticipate that we'd be together, though? I sure didn't. I was so worried Sabine would fall for some buff Mando guy while we were apart.

Someone her clan would approve of.

Ezra sighed as he listened to Sabine and her father discuss the consequences of her getting together with him. This doesn't sound like a good idea for her at all. Maybe I should back off now before things go any further. I don't want to hurt her standing with her clan any further. With her mother gone, doesn't that mean that she's the Countess now? Or does her father take over?

I have no idea. Sabine is always so reluctant to talk about her culture and her past.

He followed Sabine as she moved into the common room with her father, but stopped beside Kanan, just inside the doorway.

"Hey, what's the Karatos Plague?" Ezra whispered to his Master, keeping half an eye on Sabine as she walked towards the far side of the room and a rather comfy looking grey leather couch.

Ezra backed up a step to let a frowning Lady Kryze pass him as Kanan replied with, "Originates from Concord Dawn." Fenn's broken planet. Lovely place. "Causes blindness in forty minutes and death in sixty."

"Wow."

"Yep."

"Fenn mentioned it..." Kanan's words sputtered out as his head whipped to the side, prompting Ezra to look fully towards Sabine.