Prompt: heylin raimundo visiting the monks in their cells during Wuya's reign? (Submitted by anonymous on tumblr.)


It's the middle of the night, and Raimundo can't sleep. He tosses, and he turns on the large, soft mattress, but slumber continues to elude him, and so he sits up and tosses the blankets away before climbing down from the bed. Raimundo pauses only once, to set Ninja Fred gently on the pile of blankets and sheets upon the bed, before he leaves the ornate chambers Wuya has made for him, and his feet follow the familiar path leading down, down, down.

They're exactly where he'd left them, just as Raimundo knew they'd be, although he can't help but think that he'd hoped they'd somehow figured out a way to escape: Kimiko, Clay, and Dojo are discussing something amongst themselves—a plan to escape, perhaps—and Jack is trying to talk to them, trying to convince them to help save him, too. The sight of them causes something ugly and dark to tremble inside of Raimundo (is it pity? is it guilt?) and then he leaves, as silently as he'd arrived.