a/n: after seabound, before crystallized. i always think about the ninja having to watch one after another leave after one of them dies (s3+s15) and it kills me on the INSIDE uguh. anyways enjoy the angst its short but its something i think
"Don't go," Zane says, eyes imploring. Jay looks as resolute as he was when he stepped into the kitchen with an overnight bag slung over his shoulder and announced that he was leaving.
"I have to." He says, voice wobbling on the edge of tears, and refuses to meet the nindroids eyes. Zane gets it, he does, except— then again, he isn't sure he does. He's never truly lost Pixal, not in a way where he wasn't sure he could never get her back.
He can't imagine anything like it.
Jay finally lifts his head to meet his gaze, and the lighting ninja looks as lost as the day she disappeared into the waves. He'd screamed after her for what felt like hours and then cried himself to sleep on a spare hospital bed after they'd coaxed him off the ledge and Cole carried him to the makeshift hospital the emergency workers set up, woke up sobbing and retching nonexistent water that was long gone over and over again.
Benthomaar rasped the same message he had over and over again haggardly, holding a wet cloth to his gills, that she wasn't coming back (Zane hated him a little for that, even if he would never admit it, for taking their hope away so abruptly), and Jay just never stopped asking for other ways to get her back.
He was stubborn like that. Zane knows that. And he knows that his brother will be leaving no matter what he says.
"Please." He says it anyway.
Thunder crashes down around them, and it feels like the end of something.
Jay shakes his head as the first drops of rain slips through his hair and drips onto his forehead, and the tears finally slip from his eyes.
Zane tilts his head toward the stars as lighting fills the sky, listens as the rain drums against the window, bubbling and dripping down the gutter, and wonders what it feels like to cry.
When he looks back towards the ground, Jay is gone.
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FanfictionA compilation of Ninjago one-shots, because only chaos can come out of the mix with the team rampaging through the city together. Or, all the lost moments throughout the series, including completely random AU's made up by yours truly in the spur of...
