Lou slowly made his way down the hall, sucking on mints to curb the nausea. The ninja wanted to take Cole to the monastery, but Lou eventually convinced them he needed to be in a hospital, specifically St. Albert's in Ninjago City. He slowly made his way to the infirmary. No one was there, but Cole's vitals were remotely linked to Zane, so they could be there if anything happened. Lou looked at his son. Cole looked pale and lifeless. This wasn't the first time his ex-wife had hospitalized Cole, but it could be the time she actually succeeded in killing him.

Cole was born on a Wednesday afternoon. Lou took the rest of the week off work, even though the Royal Blacksmiths were about to start a tour the next Friday and there were still a million things to do before then. Shortly after they came home Thursday, Lou noticed something was off with Morgen, but he assumed she was just tired.

All weekend long, visitors came, but Morgen was still off. Everyone brushed it off as sleep deprivation.

"I'm fine," Morgen snapped when he asked her how she was feeling.

Lou felt in his gut that there was something more going on with Morgen, but he didn't know how to talk to her about it. He wanted to take more time off work, and even called to see if he could take Monday off as well, but Matt, his manager, wasn't having any of it.

"We leave this Friday! You assured me months ago that having a kid wasn't going to affect anything! If you aren't here by nine o'clock sharp, I'll… do something to make you regret it… Just get here!" Matt screamed through the phone.

Lou felt awful about leaving Morgen alone with Cole all day, but he was worried Matt would have an aneurysm or something if he didn't show up.

"Bye, Morgen. I'll be back around six tonight," Lou said before he kissed her cheek.

"Yeah, whatever," Morgen mumbled as she walked into the kitchen.

Lou sighed and left the house. He wasn't ten steps down the street when he saw how dark the sky was and decided he better bring an umbrella. He quickly ran back in the house and dug through the hall closet, but there wasn't an umbrella there.

"Morgen? Do you know where an umbrella is?" Lou called. There was no response. He went into the kitchen and found her abandoned coffee. He checked the downstairs bathroom for her, but it was empty. He ran upstairs to see if she was in the nursery.

Morgen was standing over Cole's bassinet, staring at him as he slept, knife in hand, when Lou entered.

"Morgen, do you-what are you doing?" Lou slowly walked towards her.

"It was him. He took them from me. He did," Morgen muttered.

"Okay, Morgen, I don't know what you're talking about, but how about you give me the knife, and we can talk about it with a trained professional." Lou reached for the knife, but she wouldn't let him have it.

"He has to go, Lou. Everything will return to normal if he goes."

"You're not making any sense, Morgen."

"I never wanted to have children anyway," Morgen said as she raised the knife.

Lou quickly grabbed her arms and pinned them behind her back, causing her to drop the knife. Morgen screamed and kicked over Cole's bassinet. Cole screamed as he rolled out onto the floor. Morgen kicked Lou in the knee hard enough to make him loosen his grip on her just long enough for her to escape. She grabbed the knife and raised it, but Lou grabbed her arm. She struggled, accidentally cutting her left cheek in the process, but she managed to free her arm and thrust the knife into Lou's stomach. He fell onto her, but she threw him onto the floor. She looked over at Cole, who was still crying, then she looked around the room.

"Morgen…" Lou grimaced.

"I'm sorry it has to be this way, Lou." She picked up the lamp on the table.

Just then, a man with a long, white beard wearing a bamboo hat burst into the room.

"Morgen, put down the lamp this instant!"

"Wu? How did you get in here? What are you even doing here?" Morgen asked.

"Your father was worried about you and asked me to check in on you. When I arrived, I heard the struggle," Wu explained.

"I have to make things right."

"This isn't the way."

Lou didn't see what happened next, since he passed out from pain and shock. He woke up hours later in a hospital bed. Once he gained his bearings, he pressed the nurse call button.

"Ah, you're awake." The nurse smiled at him.

"What happened?" Lou asked weakly.

"You were stabbed. The police are outside. They want to talk to you." The nurse grabbed his chart and wrote something on it.

"Cole… Where is Cole?" Lou tried to sit up, but a sharp, stabbing pain forced him to lie back down.

"It's okay, Mr. … I'm probably wrong but I'm going to go with Burton. Your son is in the NICU, and he's going to be okay. I don't know the extent of his injuries, but I can get one of the NICU nurses up here to talk in a moment to talk about them. Now… Lucan?"

"Lucien. Three syllables."

"Right, Lucien. I'm going to give you something for the pain, and then I need to check your bandages. Then you will talk to the police, and I will find someone who knows what's going on with your son."

Lou nodded and let her do her job. A couple of police officers came in and he answered their questions as best as he could. They told him that by the time they arrived at the house, Morgen was nowhere to be found, that the old man had scared her off and probably saved Cole's life in the process. The NICU nurse came in and said they didn't think Cole had a concussion, but he did fracture his arm, and they wanted to keep him overnight for observation.

"Lou? There you are. We're nearing St. Albert's. We're seeing if we can land on the helipad," Kai said as he entered the room, snapping Lou back to the present.

"Yes, thank you. Do you have a phone I could borrow? I think mine is at my house," Lou asked.

"Yeah, in the bridge."

Lou groaned at the thought of going up to the bridge of the flying ship. He popped another mint in his mouth and followed the Master of Fire.