Hey everyone! So I'm experiencing a bit of writers block right now, so I decided to play around with a prompt generator, and here's what came up. I had fun writing this, so I might continue with prompts like this in the future. Let me know if you want me to continue and if you know of some really good prompt generators. Enjoy.

Prompt: character deals with broken plate belonging to a lost loved one.

Ships: Jaya (in parts)

Characters: Jay, Nya, Cole, Wu (in a way)

Setting: Temple of Airjitzu, after HoT but before ninja go separate ways leading into SoG

Other Notes: if you've read my story Survivor's Remorse, certain pre story things are explained here. Also, not necessary to have read Just a Dream, a brief callback scene is made, but the story will still make sense with out having read either of those stories.

He believed that nothing could replace it. And that belief lasted for forty eight hours.

"It's just a plate," Nya said over Jay's shoulder. "Just sweep it up. It's no big deal."

"It wasn't just any plate. It was Wu's plate, and I broke it."

"I'm sure Master Wu would forgive you," Nya replied, "Do you want help cleaning this up?"

Jay nodded and stood motionless in the center of the kitchen as Nya worked around him. He stared at a closed door just beyond the kitchen. That door hadn't been open in months... not since Wu's disappearance.

Where was Wu now? The other ninja still believed he was out there somewhere. Maybe Jay did too, but after seeing both Zane and Nya return from the dead, he found it foolish to hope it could happen a third time.

Jay snapped out of his thoughts when Nya placed a freezer bag filled with the broken plate pieces in his hands.

"When I saw how much the broken plate upset you, I figured you might want to hold onto it, maybe glue it back together? I can help if you want," Nya explained.

Jay hugged Nya, the freezer bag, awkwardly wedged between them, "Thanks Nya," he whispered.

(Time skip)

He shifted in his sleep. A light tap on the door woke him up. It was funny really. Cole had always been a heavy sleeper; the others had always taken advantage of that from time to time.

But since Wu's disappearance, Cole wasn't sure if he'd ever slept a full night. The slightest creak in the night pulled him back into consciousness, and often he swore he could hear Wu's footsteps clunking past the bedroom door.

He never considered it could be another ninja up at night. That was until he heard the door close and not one, but two sets of feet padding down the hall.

Deciding to investigate, Cole slid out of his bunk and found his slippers. He wrapped a blanket around his arms and slipped into the hall, following the stream of light coming from the kitchen.

(Time skip)

"We don't have to do this if you don't want to. I only suggested it because you looked like you wanted to get your mind off things," Jay explained. He cleared off the kitchen counter and dumped the plate pieces out. He pulled super glue from the junk drawer as Nya pulled out two barstools for them.

Nya rubbed a stray tear from her eye and yawned, "It's alright. I promised I'd help if you wanted, and it's not like we're sleeping or anything. Might as well do it now. Besides, you're right. I do need to get my mind off things..."

"Hey, it'll be alright. It's just a dream."

"Thanks Jay," Nya smiled, "Now! Let's get started!"

They had just begun sorting the pieces out when Cole walked in.

"Watcha working on?" Cole asked as he opened the fridge and searched for something to drink.

"Gah!" Jay flinched, "Don't do that!"

Cole snickered and closed the fridge. He undid a straw wrapper on a juice box and shoved it in the hole, "Easy, you'll wake up the whole temple! Speaking of which, what are you doing up?"

"Fixing a plate," Nya replied as she swiped her bangs from her eyes and continued sorting through the pieces.

"Uh, why? It's like two in the morning?" Cole crossed his arms and took a swig of his juice box.

Jay shrugged, "Couldn't sleep."

Cole looked back and forth between Nya's red eyes and Jay's mischievous expression. The two of them shared a glance as if hiding something. "Riggggght! You two are weird."

Cole watched in silence as the couple sorted through the pieces of the broken plate. He'd never understand why they wouldn't just throw it away. It wasn't like the team didn't possess more plates than there was room for them. But yet again, it wasn't like he'd ever understand Jay and Nya either.

"So, why not just throw away the plate?"

Jay gasped, "We can't. It's Wu's plate!"

Cole nodded in understanding, "want help?"

"Sure!"

Cole pulled up a stool and began sorting. So many pieces! He wondered how all this could belong to just one plate.

"Remember when Wu used to go and unplug our games when he thought we'd had too much screen time?" Cole asked asked.

Nya hit her hand against the counter, "Yes! You guys got so mad when he did that. It was hilarious!"

"Ooh! Or remember when he walked in on Kai yoddeling in the shower that one time?" Jay chuckled to himself, "I think I still have the recording he took on my phone." Jay pulled out his phone and searched for the file. Kai's voice terrible signing filled the room, and the three of them burst into laughter.

"How about when he'd make us do pride workouts and offer to buy the winner ice cream?" Nya replied, "Except for we always felt too sick afterwards to eat anything."

"Yeah, that was cruel," Jay agreed.

"Remember when he took pictures of you two making out one time and hung them up all over the bounty on Valentine's day?" Cole asked.

"How could we forget?" Jay replied, "Kai was so mad!"

The three of them chatted about their memories of Wu on into the night. At some point, they must've fallen asleep because the next thing he knew, Jay was staring back at three blurry figures he knew were his teammates. Cole yawned and stretched his arms across from Jay.

Nya rubbed the back of her neck, "I feel so stiff. Don't let me fall asleep against the counter again."

Lloyd looked at the broken plate on the counter and back at his three teammates. Confusion was written in his brow. "Do I even want to ask what you were doing last night?"

"Probably not," Nya answered as she rubbed crust from her eyes, "it's complicated."

"Well, we're making pancakes if you want to join us," Zane offered.

"Or you could go back to sleep... in your beds. That's probably a lot more comfortable, and you all kinda look like death right now," Kai retorted.

"What?" Cole snapped, "It's not like we have bed head or anything! We weren't even in bed!"

"Yeah! I'm offended, Kai!" Jay folded his arms.

Kai, Cole, and Jay began to bicker three ways as Zane and Lloyd watched amused. Meanwhile, Nya stared at the plate pieces still scattered across the counter. A familiar shape began to take from, and the more she thought about it, the less she was able to unsee it.

"Um guys?"

"Yeah?" The other five ninja answered in unison.

"Do we still have those old frames in the storage closet. I have an idea, we're going to need some grout."

Jay pulled the old frame from the closet and rummaged around for some grout. When he returned, Nya showed him and Cole what she saw, and they approved of her idea. Rather than fixing the plate, they would turn it into a miniature mosaic depicting one of Wu's favorite things.

Stopping only at meals, the three of them spent the rest of the day creating the mosaic. They chatted a little bit, but for the most part stayed focused on the project at hand.

"Where do you think Wu is now?" Cole asked.

Nya brushed her hair out of her face, noticing she had let it grown enough that it could fit in a ponytail almost, "I don't know, but I believe he's still out there."

"Jay?"

"I'm not sure. I feel like we should've heard from him by now, but if he's out there, I want to find him."

"I do too," Cole whispered. Jay could see the storm clouds gather in his friends eyes as he refused to cry.

"We'll find him. After we finish this we'll find him. We'll search for clues and follow them until he turns up," Jay decided.

"Where do we start?"

"I don't know, but we'll figure it out. We always do."

Shortly after dinner, the mosaic was done. The three some stood in a circle admiring their handiwork.

"Where should we put it?" Cole asked.

Nya looked up and toward the unopened door just beyond the kitchen, "In there."

"Are you sure? Nobody's been in there since Wu's disappearance," Cole pointed out.

"Yes," Nya replied, firmly, "What better place to put it?"

"We'll do it together then," Jay determined.

The three slowly walked towards the room and opened the door.

Dust was sprinkled across every piece of furniture. The bed was made up hospital style, and stacks of books cluttered his nightstand. His lamp had been left on all this time, and a few candles sat on the windowsill melted on one side from the sun.

Nya walked up to his dresser. An arrangement of photos filled the space. She found an older photo of all seven of them grinning beside a newer selfish Wu had printed out shortly after they'd moved into the temple.

"Kai, let me borrow your selfie stick," Wu requested.

"Uhh, why?"

"We need a family photo of all of us in our new home."

Wu held out the selfie stick and the ninja gathered around making goofy poses. Zane stood stoically while Cole gave him bunny ears. Kai held Lloyd in a headlock, and Jay carried Nya on his back as she flung her arms in the air.

Their faces would forever be frozen in time like that. She remembered the way they were all laughing that day. She had Kai, but the way Wu had called them all family that day made her feel like she had a replacement father almost. It was so weird to have Wu be gone yet her real father be there now.

"So, where should we put this?" Cole asked, drawing Nya back into reality.

"Here," Nya pointed at an open space between two photos.

"Perfect," Jay breathed. He positioned the mosaic among the photos, admiring the snapshots Wu had carefully displayed of each of them, his family beyond blood. "Now he'll be able to see it when he comes back."

"Yeah," Cole looked at the floor, "uh, if you guys don't mind, could I have a moment alone in here?"

"Sure," Jay and Nya nodded in agreement and walked out together hand in hand leaving Cole alone to his thoughts.

He picked up a picture from the dresser. It was of him and Wu in front of the monastery just a few days after he'd become Wu's student.

"Jay and Nya love each other," Cole whispered to the photo, "My parents never did. When Mom left, Dad fell apart. I felt like I had no family even though both my parents were still breathing. But you gave me a new family, brothers and a sister who love me for who I am. These six years I've never felt alone."

Cole set the photo back down and picked up the photo Nya had stared so hard into earlier. He saw Wu grinning from ear to ear, eyebrows raised, giving a thumbs up. He looked at each of his teammates smiles. This was his family, "I'll find you Wu. And when I do, our family will be complete again."

(Time skip)

Jay and Nya stepped outside and sat on the front step. Since moving to the temple, this had The sun was just beginning to set, and a soft breeze tussles leaves around in the trees.

"Remember when Wu..."

"Shhh! Just listen."

Nya closed her eyes and turned her ears to the birds still chirping and the quiet sound of the wind.

Noticing Nya's closed eyes, Jay slid his hand into his pocket and produced a ring. He carefully slid the ring on Nya's finger and took in the expression of pure joy on her face.

"Look, I don't know how long Cole and I will be gone, but when we get back..." Jay began.

"Yes!" Nya threw her arms around Jay, and they stayed that way for a while not addressing the uncertain future, just knowing that one day they'd end up together, and it would be so worth the wait.

"What are you going to do when we're away?"

Nya shrugged, "I don't know, of course I'll be planning our wedding, but besides that, I think I have one idea," she pulled out her phone and searched for a news article. It was one highlighting a small farming town, "you see in the back of the pictures all those people?"

Jay nodded.

"Well, I did some research, and they're all slaves to that man right there," Nya pointed to a man's photograph, "I want to make things right."

"So go do it," Jay grinned, "you know you can."

"Thanks Jay." They sat in silence a bit longer, Nya leaning her head against Jay's shoulder, "promise to call every night?"

Jay kissed her forehead, "and write, and text, and we'll meet up whenever we can."

"Just find Wu and come home safe, okay?"

Jay wraps his arm around Nya, and they stare into the sunset, "Okay," he whispers.

Well, I hope you all enjoyed. This piece ended up way longer than expected and took nearly a week to just write, not to mention editing and revisions. I tried to give each of the three ninja an equal share of the angst, but I'm a sucker for Jaya, and SoG was lacking of it, so I gave the two of them a bit more airtime than Cole. Sorry Cole fans, but eventually I will write a piece that is Cole centric. Feel free to give me ideas.

Speaking of which, in order for this fic to work, I have two requests: One, if you know of any good prompt generators, please send them my way, so I can play around with more fun prompts like this one. Two, if you have a certain prompt you come across you think would be good, feel free to request it and certain characters if you want (otherwise I'll probably pick my couple favorites). Just note that if you request a prompt, I may or may not use it depending on if I like it, and I will not do any boy x boy or girl x girl shippings as well as lemons or anything else that would give my grandmother a heart attack if she read.

Thanks for reading, reviewing, and maybe sending in suggestions. I think this will be a lot of fun. Have a fantastic day!

#God's Not Dead!