Ninjago Oneshots

Spirits (cole x jay)

Sike! It's a bruise fic. Glacier will be next then, probably. Tw in comments.

It's midnight, and raining hard. The ninja and everyone else are asleep. Except for one ninja.

That ninja is the ninja of Earth. He's sitting at the window of their room, as he's been ever since he saw that the ninja were asleep. Then the rain started. He sat and watched the rain kick off and become heavy quickly.

Then one particular flash of lightning flashed and a loud clap of thunder came after, waking a the second ninja. The ninja of lightning. This happened often during a lightning storm, as if there was a sort of connection between them that caused him to awaken whenever it happened.

He'd usually fall asleep right after, so it didn't bother him much. However, as he turned to rest again, he heard something that wasn't usual in his "wake up during lighting" routine. It sounded like... crying.

He sat up slowly, and looked around for the source. It was Cole. He was sitting at the window, his head leaning on the frame as he stared outside. From where Jay was, he could see him trembling slightly, making quiet sniffing sounds.

It wasn't often that you'd see the ninja of Earth cry. The sight startled Jay. So for a bit, he just stared at him, wondering if he was perhaps dreaming. It wouldn't be his first time dreaming of him. However, it usually involved more romance and less crying.

He quickly realized that this was not a dream when suddenly, the rain picked up with another resounding clap of thunder. Jay heard the wind begin to whistle and heard Cole make a painful hissed sound.

That instantly brought Jay wide awake. He got up quickly, and walked towards Cole, who had moved his head away from the window frame after the wind had sprayed droplets of water onto him.

"Cole," he whispered, not wanting to wake the other ninja. Cole kept his eyes traced on the storm happening outside, though he'd obviously heard him, because he bit his lip and forced away his silent sobbing.

Jay went to sit with Cole on the other end of the window frame. From there, he could see Cole's eyes, glassy yet void of tears. He could see the sadness in them, something that was visible even without any tears present.

"Cole, you shouldn't stand so close to the window. It's raining really hard. You know that water can ki- hurt you. Very badly."

Cole was silent. He continued to stare outside the window for a few more seconds, before finally speaking. "Does it matter if it kills me if being a ghost is already considered being dead?"

Jay's heart stopped. Had he heard correctly? "W-What are you saying?"

"What if I want it to hurt me?" he turned to face Jay, locking eyes with him as he said so.

"N-No!" he looked around, to see if the others had heard his sudden outburst. They kept on sleeping. He turned back to Cole. "No you don't. I don't!" he said, barely managing to keep his voice down to a whisper.

Cole just sighed deeply in response and went back to staring outside the window. "Did I wake you?"

"No. It was the rain. Cole, what's wrong?" Jay asked worriedly. He'd never seen Cole like this before and it was freaking him out.

"Nothing's wrong."

"Something's wrong. You were crying just now." Jay's words became more urgent as he went on. "And you're just sitting here, in the middle of the night, in front of the rain!"

"I couldn't sleep. I wasn't crying-"

"I heard you-"

"Dammit Jay, I can't even fucking cry properly!" Cole interrupted, shocking Jay silent. "I can't even fucking cry." His voice cracked as he cursed, sounding utterly weak. He covered his face with one hand and let out a shaky breath. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell at you like that."