AN: This is just a short one shot of a fluffy Sezra moment. I have a lot of little drabbles drafted out. Want to see more?
This is set after episode 12, "A vision of hope."

"You're up late."

Ezra turned, surprised Sabine had snuck up on him. He dropped the wrench he had been balancing with the force between his hands, catching it before it could strike the table. Ezra had thought everyone else had gone to sleep hours ago, and had immersed himself in his thoughts and the rarely gotten silence on board the Ghost.

He sat up straight, and winced as his muscles slowly unseized and relaxed back against the back of the booth.

"Yeah," Ezra blinked, a little blearily as his thought reorganized themselves and withdrawing back behind the guarded walls. He shrugged, "Can't sleep. You?"

She rolled one of her favorite explosive balls, thankfully deactivated, across the table. Ezra caught it and palmed it absently, eyes boring through the table.

"Just keeping busy." She said in a conversational tone and sank into the seat opposite his. After a beat of silence, she added, "Long day."

"Yeah." he nodded, rolling the little globe in his hands. "Long day."

They were quiet for a long moment, and chopper came rolling by. He refocused his octoscope and gave them a long measured stare.

Ezra didn't look up. "You just keep rolling, droid."

Chopper immediately lifted the panels on either side and extended his mechanical arms, making an angry hum-

Ezra just shook his head, but lifted his eyes briefly. "Not tonight, yeah?"

Chopper hummed in place for a beat before withdrawing one arm and making flapping gesture with the other, suggesting Ezra wasn't worth the time. He emitted a series of beeps that Ezra read as: "forget you, human." before spinning his top and and rolling through the galley towards his recharge station in the wall.

Sabine made a low falling whistle.
"Wow you must be in a mood if Chopper doesn't want to mess with you."

He visibly bristled, shoulders tensing in fount of her eyes.
"You don't want to have one of those 'serious talks' again do you?" Ezra questioned her with a tired but guarded look.

She nodded her head to the side a little in thought, seeming to think about it before shaking her head and resting her chin on her hand.
"No. I figure neither of us has the energy anyway."

"Good." he said, a little quicker then he'd meant to.

They lapsed back into silence, not entirely awkward but far from comfortable.

Ezra absently rolled the small device over his knuckles, then palmed it, and then made it reappear between his third and forth fingers.

Sabine cocked her head to the side still resting on her elbow, her bangs falling neatly over her cheek. "Is this a new Jedi trick?" she asked with a warpish smile.

Ezra, found himself flashing a tight grin before his somber mood won out. But something in her voice pushed at the gloom overshadowing his usual cheek.

He bared the little ball in his open hand for her to see, then put it in his left hand- while really keeping it in his right and then he lifted his left and made a gesture of shock when he revealed his hand was empty.
Then he surprised her, by leaning across the table, and made it reappear from behind her right ear. His fingertips grazed her cheekbone as he withdrew his hand and she blinked at the warmth in his fingers.

He held out the bomb with a half heated flourish and the tossed it up in the air. Letting it drop back into his hand.
"Nah," he told her with an apologetic smile. "It's an Ezra trick."

Her mouth twitched and then she made the tight amused face she always did when she didn't what him to know she wanted to smile.

Ezra felt the dark cloud lifting from his thoughts a little. Maybe things weren't so bad if he could make Sabine almost smile...

He was suddenly very tired.

He yawned, wide and loud, and tossed her the little explosive. Sabine caught it with deft hands, and she studied it before meeting his eyes. In a serious but genuine tone she said,

"I like those better."

I like to think Ezra is a baws at slight of hand.
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