Summary: Jay and Nya talk after the events in Prime Empire late at night.
For the last couple hours, Jay’s been staring up at the ceiling in his room. His head is full of thoughts that won’t leave him. Preventing him from getting the rest he needs after everything that happened in Prime Empire.
He can’t stop thinking about what he said to Unagami. How he knows what it feels like to be abandoned by your maker, and for his case, parents.
Cliff Gordon still died even without Nadakhans influence. The only thing that changed was that he didn’t inherit all of his money and estate.
Not yet, anyway.
And as for the master of lightning, his real mom, he has no idea what happened to her. He’s tried to look her up, but could only find that she mysteriously disappeared a couple of months before he was put on his parents’ doorstep. his adoption day, what his parents considered his birthday.
He found out his mom’s name is Lisbeth during his search. That’s one thing he knows about her now.
He hasn’t worked up the courage to ask his parents about this.
But it makes him wonder. What would life be like if he was the son of a movie star and the elemental master of lightning? If he were rich instead of borderline poor. If he lived in an actual house instead of a trailer.
He didn’t hate growing up in a junkyard. He learned things that he wouldn’t have learned if he didn’t. He loves his parents, and they love him. He knows they’re proud of him; he knows they accept him for who he is, for what he is, for what he does. They love him no matter what.
Jay inhales sharply and a lump forms in his throat.
He needs to talk to someone about this. Because if he doesn’t, he’s just going to keep on thinking about it and never act on it.
Because Unagami was able to find solace, so why shouldn’t he?
He could ask his parents what they know about his birth parents, but he doubts they know a lot.
Master Wu? He would know about his mom.
He’s getting ahead of himself.
Sitting up, he takes his phone off his nightstand, blinking at the sudden brightness, and heads to the messaging app. His thumb hovers over his mom and checks the time first, 1 am. Too late for her to be awake.
So instead, he opens Nya’s. She knows this about him. She knows that he’s been struggling with bringing this up with his parents. Because there’s never been the right time to do so.
Jay hopes that she’s still awake.
Jay grabs his phone off of the nightstand and opens the messaging app. His thumb hovering over the chat he has with his parents. Then he remembers how late it is and sighs. He selects Nya instead, hoping that she’s still awake.
Jay: are you awake?
Nya: yeah?
Nya: just barely tho, why?
Jay: I’ve been,,,,,,, thinking about things
Jay: can you come here?
Jay: I need you
Nya: omw
It took a moment for Nya to respond, and when she did, that’s when the dam broke.
As soon as he puts his phone back down on the nightstand, he lets out a choked sob. Everything crashing down onto him all at once. Everything from the past few days to Nadakhan years ago comes flooding back, so suddenly and fiercely that it feels like a wrecking ball has crashed right into him, knocking down the walls that were barely there at all.
Everything that happened in the game was almost nothing compared to the torture he endured on Nadakhan’s ship, but to see his friends, all literally dropping like flies for the second time in his life. That took a toll on him.
He couldn’t wish that all away.
At least no one was permanently dead this time.
But the pain of being alone right now is almost too much for him to bear.
There’s a soft knock on the door before it opens slightly, Nya pokes her head in, sees Jay crying, and rushes in, a frown on her face as she gets into his bed, she pulls him into her lap and hugs him tight.
“Are you okay?” she asks him after a moment.
“Better now that you’re here,” he says with a sniffle, taking one of her hands into his.
“Didn’t want to be alone, huh?”
“N-not really. I- I was just thinking about things, about my birth parents an- and then I wanted to talk to you about it because you’re the only one who knows about this, b- but then its spiraled into remembering everything that happened in the past few days and everything with Nadakhan, and- and how I was the only one left because you and everyone else was taken away from me. I couldn’t do anything about it, I couldn’t bring you back. I… I lost you.” jay says, clinging to his girlfriend and yang like his life depended on it. “I don’t think I can be alone anymore.”
“Because all it does is remind you of when you lost everyone, right?”
“y-yeah. Can- can you stay here?”
“Of course.” she kisses his hand, “I’ll stay as long as you need me to. If you want to talk, I’m here.”
“Okay,” he says with a sniffle. It only takes him a few minutes to calm down, and he sits up. Realizing that Nya has her hair down, he’s rarely seen her with her hair down as of recently. He likes it. “You’re pretty with your hair down,” he moves a strand away from her face.
She smiles and kisses him, “I take that as you’d like for me to have it down more?”
He kisses her back, “maybe,” he lays back down, pulling her down with him, “you always play with my hair. I can’t do it with you because it’s up all the time.”
“Yours is soft,” she kisses him again, “also you're shorter than me, which makes it easier.”
“Aw, no fair.” he laughs, “I think I’m ready to talk now,” he says, much more seriously.
“What’d you want to talk about?” she asks, putting her head on his chest, to allow him to play with her hair as he talks.
“Just… about my parents? My birth parents, I mean. I did some research, and I found out the name of my birth mom. Her name was Lisbeth. She fought in the serpentine war with Wu and Garmadon and against the time twins.”
“I saw her when Kai and I went back in time to stop Krux and Acronix. She and the former master of ice seemed to be good friends. She talked about how she and Cliff were going to go on their honeymoon.” Nya smiles.
“You saw her?” he whispers incredulously, “why didn’t you tell me?”
“I forgot, I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay,” he says with a shaky sigh. “I would’ve told my parents after we told the others what happened with Nadakhan, but I didn’t know how to. There’s never a right time to do it.”
“I could come with you. Would that make it easier?” Nya offers, taking his hand in hers, squeezing it in comfort.
“Y-yeah, that would help a lot. Do you think we should go to master Wu? He knew my mom. He probably automatically knew that I was adopted when my parents showed up but said nothing about courtesy, you know?”
“If you feel like that would help. I think that’s a good idea.”
“I think it might.” he kisses her hand and then yawns. The events of the day have finally caught up to him.
“Getting tired?” Nya asks him teasingly.
“Maybe.” he yawns again. “Please don’t leave.”
“I already said I’m not going anywhere.” Nya reassures him.
“I-I know.”
Nya scoots up to face him, placing a kiss on his lips in reassurance. “You don’t have to worry about anything. I’ve told you I won’t leave. I never will. You’re my yin and I’m your yang. I’ll be here when you wake up, I’ll be with you, forever.”
He nods with a smile, kissing her back. “I love you.” he yawns again, drifting off to sleep with his girlfriend beside him.
Jay was able to fall asleep relatively quickly and easily now that Nya was here with him, and he wasn’t in the suffocating abyss that was being alone. He didn’t have any dreams either, which he takes as a good thing because more often than not, it’s a nightmare.
When he wakes up that morning, Nya is still there, arms wrapped around his torso and head by his shoulder. He can feel her breath on his neck.
Even though he did not dream last night, he still finds relief that she’s still here and still alive.
So Jay just stays still, the best he can, anyway. He doesn’t want to wake Nya up from her slumber.
But because of their unfortunately messed up internal clocks thanks to waking up at dawn for training, she’s awake not long later.
“Good morning.” she says to him with a smile, “did you sleep well?”
“Yeah, didn’t dream at all.”
“Better than nightmares,” she says sympathetically, sitting up.
“Did you have any?” he frowns.
“No, it was just a weird one.” she shrugs, “let’s go see if any of the others are awake.”
Since it was still less than 24 hours since their latest escapade, there’s no mandatory morning training today. So the two of them head towards the kitchen with pajamas and all still on.
“Good morning, you two,” Pixal says with a smile as she and Zane prepare that morning’s breakfast.
“Morning, Pix,” Nya says with a yawn and gets a cup of coffee for herself and then sits across from her brother and jay sitting down next to her.
Kai looks up for a second and gives the two a scrutinizing look, “hey,” he says, “you left your door open.”
Nya just shrugs at that, “and?”
“Nothing, I’m just saying.”
Moments later, Cole and Lloyd enter, just as Zane and Pixal have finished making breakfast.
“I apologize if it’s not as good as Zane making it by himself. I am still learning how to cook.”
“It’s okay, pix, its still good!” Cole grins, making the samurai shrink in on herself slightly.
“I also think you did well,” Zane says, giving her a warm smile. “Pixal and I were going to go talk to Cyrus Borg today with Milton Dyer and Unagami. Would any of you like to join us?” he glances at Jay for a split second.
“I’m not up for it today, maybe next time?” he says automatically.
“Oh.” Zane blinks. He must’ve thought he would’ve liked to come along, but there’s a bitter feeling somewhere within him when he thinks about how Unagami got their happy ending. That they and Milton could reunite. These feelings weren’t there last night. He’s… never really felt this way before. “That’s alright. Would you like me to tell them hello?”
“Sure.” a small smile on his face, but he can’t shake this foreign feeling as he eats the rest of his breakfast. Jealousy? He doesn't like it.
Nya takes his hand and squeezes it as if detecting his feelings. “I’ll join next time, too. I’ve been meaning to get some things done.”
Zane nods, though he doesn’t seem entirely convinced. They all know each other too well.
Once Jay finishes his breakfast, he waits for Nya to be done before going back to his room to change, Nya waiting by his door for him so they can talk to Master Wu. He puts his ninja gi on out of habit, not even thinking about putting on his casual clothes since there is always a chance that something could happen. He then waits for Nya to get changed, she wears her gi out of habit too.
Going up to master Wu’s door, he cracks it, “Master Wu?” He asks tentatively.
“Come on in.” Master Wu says, looking up at the two of them, “Is everything alright? There seems to be something troubling you.”
“You knew the original master of lightning right?”
A warm smile appears on Wu’s face. “I did. I was wondering when you would come to ask about your birth mother.”
Jay laughs, “of- of course, you would know.” he says, not knowing whether to be relieved or upset by this.
“I knew ever since your parents came to visit. Though I knew it was not my place to say anything.” Wu confirms what Jay had said last night.
“Right, yeah. The thing is though, my parents still don’t know that I know. Cause the whole thing with Nadakhan, and I just honestly haven’t worked up the courage to ask them.”
“That’s alright, Jay. You will one day.” he puts a hand on the blue ninja’s shoulder, “what would you like to know about her?”
“What… what was she like?”
“She was wonderful and very kind. She cared about all the other members of the elemental alliance greatly. She wormed her way into Garmadon’s heart and they were close friends. She and the former master of ice were good friends as well. I see a lot of her in you. You both talk a lot.” he chuckles. “I remember the day she met your birth father,”
“Did you ever get to meet him?”
“Briefly, she invited everyone to their wedding. He was a nice man.”
“We were planning on asking my parents about her too, were her and my mom close as well?”
“Yes. your mother, the former master of shadow, and eventually Cole’s mother when she gained her powers were good friends. I’m not sure what the extent of their friendship was, you’ll have to ask her.”
“Do- do you know what happened to her?” Jay asks, frowning, “her name was Lisbeth, right? I looked up who the former elemental masters were, and she came up.”
Wu’s smile turns into a frown, only to return a moment later with a sad look in his eyes. “Yes. that was her name. She went by Libber most of the time. Though unfortunately, I don’t know what happened to her. I did my best to keep track of all the elemental masters and their descendants, but she disappeared one day and left you at your parents.”
“Th-thank you, Master Wu,” he says, starting to tear up again. That strange, jealous feeling he had earlier has gone away. He has that closure he wanted for a while now. He, Master Wu, and Nya talk about his mother and the other former masters for a while longer. Jay may not know what happened to her, but at least he knows a little more about his mother.
summary: Jay and Zane have their first official date after regaining the bounty from Garmadon.
Jay is happy that they finally got the bounty back from Garmadon and those snakes. Now they can properly start training Lloyd! Not in Dareths dojo, as... interesting as Dareth is. Or in that dingy old apartment, they were staying in for the time being.
Something he’s going to miss is sharing a bed with Zane, though.
“We can still always share one,” he says with a shrug. Waiting for the milk to boil in the kettle so they can have hot chocolate.
“I know.” Jay leans against the counter, it’s their first official date, and they’re going to spend it under the stars in the sky on the deck of the bounty. “At least the beds will be more comfortable.”
Zane chuckles, “yes, they will be.”
They spent a while cleaning it up and refurbishing it back to its former glory after Garmadon and the serpentine have been living in it for a while. The mess wasn’t too bad, but there still was some mess left behind from the snakes.
Zane gets down a couple of mugs out of the cabinet for the two of them. “I don’t think I’ve ever had hot chocolate with milk before?”
Jay gasps, “a travesty. A crime.”
“Oh no, I hope I can pay for my crimes.”
“You will, one day.”
“Gross! Stop flirting!” Lloyd whines at the kitchen door.
“Hey kiddo, what’s up? Need anything?” Jay asks.
“I was just coming to maybe get a snack, and you two are in here being gross!” the young green ninja says with disgust in his voice.
“You can have some crackers. Don’t want you staying up too late,” Zane tells the young boy.
This makes Lloyd whine again. “Fine.” he mumbles, watching as the white ninja gets down a bowl and the box of Tritz crackers, putting a few in the bowl and handing it to him, “thank you.”
“You’re welcome. Now go bother Kai.”
Lloyd cackles, “if he complains about it, I’m going to tell him you sent me.” he says as he walks out the door.
“That’s fine.”
“Gotta love the kid, even if he can be a little pain in the ass.” Jay grins and gets the hot chocolate packets out of the cabinet.
“Thats true, It’s really hard not to love him now.” Zane smiles back and pulls Jay into a hug, who hums happily.
Wiggling out of Zane’s hold, Jay pours the hot chocolate mixture into the mugs, he grabs a couple of spoons. “Do we have whipped cream?” he asks Zane.
“We should.” the nindroid says and looks into the fridge, “yes, we do.” he puts the whipped cream on the counter. “What else do you want on your hot chocolate?”
“Chocolate syrup? Sprinkles?”
“Now this just sounds like ice cream.” Zane teases. “We have both.”
“We don’t have to use sprinkles. But chocolate syrup is a must.” Jay says taking the chocolate syrup out of his boyfriend’s hands and puts it next to the whipped cream.
“You’re the hot chocolate expert here, so I will follow your lead,” he says, taking the pot off the burner as steam starts to come out of it and pours the milk into the hot chocolate mixture. Jay takes his mug and mixes the hot chocolate and milk together.
Zane watches as Jay puts an ungodly amount of whipped cream on top of his hot chocolate with a raised eyebrow, “that’s a lot of whipped cream.” he says plainly.
Jay shrugs, and before Zane can react, he reaches up and sprays a small amount onto the nindroids nose and cackles.
He blinks, “you’re funny.” he says and wipes it off of his nose with a smile.
Jay laughs again, “do you want some on yours?”
Zane hums, “sure, please don’t put as much whipped cream onto mine as you did to yours.”
“I won’t!” he says and puts a reasonable amount onto Zanes before grabbing the chocolate sauce and putting some onto the whipped cream on both of theirs. “Okay, maybe I put a little too much whipped cream on mine.” he says with a nervous laugh as some whipped cream drips down the sides of his mug.
“I said it was a lot.” Zane says as Jay grumbles and licks some whipped cream off the top. “Would you like a paper towel?” he offers a sheet to his boyfriend, who takes it and wipes the dripping whipped cream off the mug.
“Anyway. Let’s go out onto the deck! I missed just looking up at the sky and seeing the stars! It’s not the same in the city.”
“It isn’t. You can barely see them there.”
“Yeah! And it sucks!” Jay takes his mug and takes a sip and smiles widely.
“I’m assuming its good?”
“Mhm!”
“I am glad.” he takes a sip of his own. “I believe I prefer hot chocolate this way now.” he declares
Jay gives him a wide grin. “Let’s go!” he takes Zanes hand in his and leads him out to the deck of the bounty and sits in the middle of the deck.
“Would you like me to get some blankets and pillows?” Zane asks.
“Sure! It’s a little chilly.”
Zane sets his mug on the ground next to Jay and heads below deck to grab what he needs. Grabbing a couple of pillows from the linen closet along with a couple of blankets. He turns and almost walks directly into Cole.
“Oh- I apologize.”
“It’s cool, things are going well?”
Zane nods, a blush creeping up onto his face, and Cole laughs “I’m taking that as a yes.”
“Y-yeah. I think I might love him. Like a lot.”
“Are you going to tell him tonight? Isn’t it like your first official date or something?”
“I was thinking about it. I don’t know if I should since we have not been dating for very long, and yes, it is our first.” he wants to bury his face into the pillows.
“I mean, I don’t know a lot about romance, it’s not really my strong point being ace, but you can take as long as you want to. I think he would feel the same if you said it.” cole says with a smile, clapping the nindroid on the shoulder.
“Thank you, cole. I must go now. He is waiting for me and my hot chocolate is getting cold.”
He returns to find Jay sitting at the same spot he was before, and even though it’s dark, he can clearly see the look of wonder on his face as he stares up at the night sky. How it lights up when he sees him with pillows and blankets. How much he… loves the blue ninja. He loves him. He loves Jay. He loves Jay with all of his being, his core.
“I was wondering when you were going to appear again,” he says, standing up and putting his hot chocolate on the ground, which he suspects is mostly gone now. “What took you so long?” he takes the pillows and puts them on the ground.
“I got distracted in choosing which blankets would be the most optimal for tonight,” he says, half lying.
Jay snorts, “hopefully your hot chocolate didn’t get too cold.”
“Yes. I hope it didn’t either,” he says a bit stiffly and nervously. He so desperately wants to tell Jay he loves him right this moment, but it doesn’t seem like it’s the right moment.
Jay gives him a worried look but shakes it off as soon as they both sit down with blankets wrapped around themselves. Comfortably protected against the wind and the cool air.
“My parents would tell me about the stars a lot, we would look at constellations and they would tell me what they knew about them. It was really fun.”
“I was not allowed to leave the tree at night. My father said it was too dangerous.”
“Oh yeah, because of the Tree Horns?”
“Correct.” he takes a sip of his hot chocolate. Still warm, but noticeably colder. “Did you know that the three stars at the top of the sky form a triangle?” he says, “it is called the summer triangle as it is most visible during the summer.” Zane points up to the sky, pointing out the shape and the stars.
“Woah.” jays eyes sparkle, much like the stars do, like lightning during a storm does. “I didn’t know that, that’s cool.”
“Yes, I suppose it is.” he smiles, his power source beats within him a bit faster.
Jay shivers, wrapping the blanket tighter around him. The wind is picking up, making the already cool air turn chilly. Zane wraps an arm around Jay's shoulders, the blanket hanging over the blue ninja too.
“It’s really pretty, but man is it cold,” he says shivering again, but pressing up against Zane anyway, who probably doesn’t help because he is the ice ninja, and that he himself is also cold. Aside from the fact that he is a robot. But Jay doesn’t seem to mind.
“It… it truly is.”
“You okay?” Jay asks after a moment of silence between the two. “You’ve been acting a little funny since you got back with the blankets.”
“I am fine,” he says, looking away, a blush rising to his face. Is it time to say it?
“Seriously. Is something wrong? Are you not enjoying this? Do you have something wrong with your systems?” jay beings to ramble.
“No, no, no, none of that. I- I don’t know how to-” he pauses, looking back at jay with all the love he can muster, takes a deep breath he doesn’t really need, and ignoring the look of concern on his boyfriends face “I love you.” he says finally.
“Oh- oh! I love you too! I-” he squeaks out in surprise. “Is that why you’ve been acting nervous?”
Zane nods, “I’ve been wanting to say it all day.” his smile returns, pulling jay in for an actual hug.
“I’ve been wanting to do something too, actually. For a while now,” he says, facing Zane and sitting on his knees.
“What is it?”
“Um- close your eyes.”
“Okay.” he closes his eyes.
Suddenly a pair of lips are on his, soft and warm, and a pair of hands cup his face. He opens his eyes just as jay releases him from the kiss. His eyes are wide.
“I’ve been wanting to do that, too.” he laughs.
Jay snorts and leans in for another one, an actual kiss this time.
He tastes like hot chocolate.
It’s nice.
He likes it.
Suddenly the two of them hear somebody whoop behind them and somebody shushing. Turning around, Zane sees the rest of the team watching the two of them. Lloyd looks disgusted while Cole sheepishly gives them the thumbs up.
“Kai!” Nya scolds, “you interrupted them!”
“Gross!” Lloyd whines, “why did you drag me out here?”
“Kai wanted to spy on the two lovebirds, that’s why.” Cole says, leading the kid back inside. “I didn’t tell him to do this, by the way!” the earth ninja says as he walks down the stairs.
Zane feels like he should be mad, but he isn’t. He’s just happy that he’s finally told Jay he loves him. Along with the fact that they have had their first kiss.
Though, Jay must’ve looked unhappy because Nya drags Kai below deck, saying that he should apologize later.
Turning his attention back to his boyfriend, he pulls him for a hug.
“Well, that was ruined.” Jay grumbles into Zane’s chest. Listening to the subtle beat of his power core.
“I am sure Nya will have some words with Kai.” Zane says, “and besides, we can always have more.”
“More what?”
He puts a hand under Jay's chin and gives him another kiss, “more of those.”
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