Heart Transplant (Zezra)

Hidden Love

Sorry for the Short chapter!

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[EZRA POV]

I felt like I was in cloud nine. My heart was thumping fast and hard in my chest, partly aching because of my condition. The soft smile on my roommate's face made me internally squeal as I begin to unconsciously smile wider than I expected.

For weeks, I have had some... complication with my feelings. And no, it wasn't because of my heart cancer. It was because I was starting to feel something... different. Different good or different bad, I have no idea. What I DID know was that I wasn't looking at Zeb with a friendly or a brotherly admiration. It was something worse. Deeper, even.

I was in love. I knew I was. It's the same feeling my mother explained to me when she was talking about how she fell for my father.

"...so, what can I do to help?" I snap out of my thoughts and find that Zeb had been looking at me with a raised eyebrow.

"O-Oh! R-Right..." To be honest, I never once had a thought of what Zeb might do to help me, but I'm sure Dr Gia's got something. She always does.

I take the prescription from where Zeb placed it when he hugged me, which I still can't BELIEVE had happened, then I look at what Dr Gia had written down.

"Hmm... Dr Gia wrote down that I need a heart transplant," I say, and his eyes widen before grabbing the paper out of my hands. "What the— Hey!"

"How in the world can you even read this?!" he narrows his eyes, and he tilts the paper to try to understand Dr Gia's messy handwriting. "It's like doodles!"

"It's called Cursive," I chuckle. "And I can read it because I'm used to her writing words that way,"

"Argh," Zeb finally gives up and hands off the paper back to me. "Anyway, if you need a heart transplant, why didn't this... Dr Gia give you one already?"

"She doesn't have a healthy heart in store to replace with mine," I sigh. "And there hasn't been any donations whatsoever, so she can't give me anything,"

"Oh, I see," Zeb starts to think, his eyes wondering to the ceiling. "Hmm... where else can we find a healthy human heart?"

We think about it for a while then a thought suddenly comes to my mind.

"The Black Market!" I exclaim. "There are tons of illegal organ trading there! Plus it's a little cheaper than the original bargain,"

"The Black Market, huh?" Zeb's face twists in disgust. "Let's just hope we ain't buying from Vizago. I'm going to end him, if I EVER see him again,"

"Alright, let's make sure we aren't trading with Vizago then," I giggle.

"But how do we search?" Zeb questions me. "Hera and Sabine are possibly in the common room with Kanan and Chopper, so we can't use the holo-search,"

"Well, I guess we'll search tonight," I tell him.

He raises an eyebrow at me. "Tonight?"

"Yes, tonight," I nod. "While everyone's asleep, we can sneak into the common room to use the holo-search,"

"That could work," he nods at me with a smile.

"Great!" I grin before I place the paper in my bag then I set my bag down on the floor and head up to the top bunk. "First, we should get some sleep to not seem tired and exhausted tomorrow,"

"Then you might want to wake me up later," Zeb lays back and yawns.

"Yeah," I chuckle. "you can be such a heavy sleeper. And you snore too loud!"