Hogwarts Rebels

Fear can control you

Sabine ran after Ezra.
The two were jumping around on the furniture, playing 'the floor is lava.'
Sabine landed on the couch.

"Keep up Ezra!" She laughed rebounding off a table.

Ezra smirked and jumped from his chair to the nearest couch.

"You don't want to challenge this tiger" he grinned.

He ran across the L-couch and jumped on to a near table.
Unfortunately in doing so, he accidentally knocked a china vase off.
It shattered on the ground.
Ezra and Sabine stared at the mess.
Ezra gasped as he had a flashback.

*Flashback*

Ezra was dusting a shelf of china crockery. His elbow accidentally bumped a pot and it fell to the floor.
Breaking into pieces.
Miss Atama stormed in.
She glared down at Ezra who stood petrified, staring up at her. Fear rooting​ him to the spot.
Miss Atama slapped him across the face.

"You worthless, no good little bastard" she snarled.

She grabbed a piece of the china and scraped it across his skin.
Ezra yelped in pain at the sharp contact.
Miss Atama beat him for minutes.
Ezra cowered in fear.
Unable to do anything to defend himself.
After Miss Atama stopped and left, he sat, whimpering in pain.
Blood and bruises all over him.

*End flashback*

Ezra backed away from the damage. The memory of his beating clear in his mind.
He barely knew Hera and Kanan.
They could do anything to him for this.
Punish him, beat him.
Anything.
With a glance at Sabine he ran from the room, out the front door and straight in to the woods.
Ignoring Sabine's calls to him to come back.
He was too scared.
He didn't want to experience pain anymore.
He didn't want to go back to the orphanage.
He didn't want Kanan and Hera to hurt him.
He ran into the forest and didn't stop to consider the massive situation he'd just created.

Poor Ezra.
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Star-Wars-Dragons out 🐲