Star Wars Rebels fic: On the Edge of the Devil's Backbone (Chapter 18: Ghost)
On the Edge of the Devil's Backbone (208549 words) by bedlamsbard
Chapters: 18/?
Fandom: Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla
Characters: Hera Syndulla, Kanan Jarrus, Sabine Wren, Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios, C1-10P | Chopper, Ezra Bridger, Cham Syndulla, Barriss Offee, Kallus | ISB-021, Darth Vader, Ahsoka Tano, The Inquisitor (Star Wars), The Seventh Sister, The Fifth Brother
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary:
Ten years after she vanished during an Imperial raid on a Twi'lek colony, Cham Syndulla sees his daughter Hera for the first time in a hologram -- now wearing the uniform of an Imperial agent and apparently working closely with a human Inquisitor. All Cham wants to do is to bring his long-missing child home to what remains of her family, but he soon finds that Hera Syndulla is only interested in two things: her duty to the Empire and her loyalty to her crew, a mismatched collection of outcasts brought together by Hera and her pet Inquisitor.
With Cham and the Rebel agent known as Fulcrum in pursuit, a new mission takes Hera and the crew of the Ghost to the planet Lothal, where a chance meeting with a Force-sensitive teenager awakens something long buried in the Inquisitor once known as Kanan Jarrus...and has dire consequences for Hera, their crew, the Empire, and the fledgling Rebel Alliance.
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Kanan woke up with a pounding headache, a throbbing jaw, and Patience crouched in front of him, staring intently at his face. He jerked in surprise, but managed not to do anything as embarrassing as cry out or try to use the Force on her.
“Oh, good,” she said. “You’re awake. I was starting to worry the Hangman might have hit you too hard. He does that, you know.”
“Yeah, I remember,” Kanan said shortly, taking rapid stock of his surroundings. He was in a cell on the Nex, one of the small starships the Inquisition occasionally used for retrievals; Kanan hadn’t set foot on one since he had been a trainee. He was also in binders and a shock collar, neither of which at this point came as any surprise.
He folded himself carefully into a more comfortable position, keeping his gaze on Patience as he did so. One of her droids was perched on her shoulder; the others were hovering on either side of him, presumably to slow him down if he went for her. The idea was tempting, and for a moment Kanan gave it serious thought before deciding it would probably do him more harm than good. He wasn’t sure that he was willing to take that irreversible a step just yet.
He lifted his manacled hands and said, “You know this is all unnecessary, right?”
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Chapters: 18/?
Fandom: Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla
Characters: Hera Syndulla, Kanan Jarrus, Sabine Wren, Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios, C1-10P | Chopper, Ezra Bridger, Cham Syndulla, Barriss Offee, Kallus | ISB-021, Darth Vader, Ahsoka Tano, The Inquisitor (Star Wars), The Seventh Sister, The Fifth Brother
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary:
Ten years after she vanished during an Imperial raid on a Twi'lek colony, Cham Syndulla sees his daughter Hera for the first time in a hologram -- now wearing the uniform of an Imperial agent and apparently working closely with a human Inquisitor. All Cham wants to do is to bring his long-missing child home to what remains of her family, but he soon finds that Hera Syndulla is only interested in two things: her duty to the Empire and her loyalty to her crew, a mismatched collection of outcasts brought together by Hera and her pet Inquisitor.
With Cham and the Rebel agent known as Fulcrum in pursuit, a new mission takes Hera and the crew of the Ghost to the planet Lothal, where a chance meeting with a Force-sensitive teenager awakens something long buried in the Inquisitor once known as Kanan Jarrus...and has dire consequences for Hera, their crew, the Empire, and the fledgling Rebel Alliance.
*
Kanan woke up with a pounding headache, a throbbing jaw, and Patience crouched in front of him, staring intently at his face. He jerked in surprise, but managed not to do anything as embarrassing as cry out or try to use the Force on her.
“Oh, good,” she said. “You’re awake. I was starting to worry the Hangman might have hit you too hard. He does that, you know.”
“Yeah, I remember,” Kanan said shortly, taking rapid stock of his surroundings. He was in a cell on the Nex, one of the small starships the Inquisition occasionally used for retrievals; Kanan hadn’t set foot on one since he had been a trainee. He was also in binders and a shock collar, neither of which at this point came as any surprise.
He folded himself carefully into a more comfortable position, keeping his gaze on Patience as he did so. One of her droids was perched on her shoulder; the others were hovering on either side of him, presumably to slow him down if he went for her. The idea was tempting, and for a moment Kanan gave it serious thought before deciding it would probably do him more harm than good. He wasn’t sure that he was willing to take that irreversible a step just yet.
He lifted his manacled hands and said, “You know this is all unnecessary, right?”
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