Authors Notes: And because its my birthday Imma put this chapter out there early. Plus one more.

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Gold Fields

Fragmented Code

Chapter 5

Just a...dream

Zareth sat on the dirty ground running his fingers through Inky's hair. She was breathing evenly having fell asleep ages ago. Once upon a time he wouldn't have ever done this, he wasn't totally sure why he did. The rock in the pit of his stomach really didn't want to, but here he was caring for this little girl. Searching the countryside for the mind of a doll. Moreover calling her his sister. It was...horrible, and it hurt. Why would this be okay?

He lay back looking up at the sky. The stars could be seen perfectly through the trees.

A shadow fly over them. Far to big to be a bird. He slowly lay Inky down putting his jacket on her to keep her warm while he was gone. He ran to where he saw it land. He hid behind a tree seeing the shadow near the ocean's edge. He could barely make it out in the moonlight. Zareth pulled out his gun and held it low.

"Freeze." The hair bristled for a moment. Zareths jaw dropped when he saw the hornet turn and look at him. Green eyes looked at him, the blond hair draped over her shoulders, the black band shirt, her jeans fit her perfectly. Although she didn't have any shoes on. She couldn't be...could she. A look alike right?

"Zareth?" He held up his hand stopping her from coming nearer to him.

"No stay back...Who the hell are you?" Zareth asked pointing his gun at her. Danny looked deep in thought for a second.

"We totally missed Van Halen's concert." She said. It was supposed to be the Saturday before all this happened. Zareth looked at her, the air got caught in his throat as he tried to gasp for air. The gun hit the sand. There wasn't a bullet in there anyways. He used them all on Cryptor.

He found his feet moving before his own mind wanted to. They just started to move when she did. His hands wanted to hold her, they needed to hold her. So much pain in his heart, he never had such a desire in his whole life.

When his arms wrapped around the woman they searched. It felt so nice, the soft skin, the hair. He had to make sure she was real. He couldn't help it, this was what he really really needed. He could feel her breath on his skin. He let out a whimper as he tried to breath again.

"Dannygirl…" He breathed out. He could feel her tears through his shirt. Kissing the top of her head. He leaned down picking her up. Spinning on the spot. It felt so nice to be with her again. She even smelled like Danny.

"Zareth...I'm so sorry." He was angry with her, he really was.

"Why did you do that Danny? We should have stopped them. We could have…"

"Because they were going after Inky and you. Always, every time. I had stop stop them Zareth." Danny said pulling away putting her forehead to his.

"You saved the city Danny." Danny giggled.

"Zareth...I didn't do it to save the city. I'm no hero my past says so. Please don't mistake what I did for heroism. I did what I did...to save you and Inky. Ninjago just got lucky." She said. "I love you both so much Zareth...Zareth?"

Zareths eyes opened and he looked around the grove they had stopped in for the night. He looked at Inky who was still wearing his jacket. He ran his fingers over his eyes and coughed. Trying to cover up the fact that he was crying.

"You okay Uncle Zareth?" Inky asked rubbing her arms trying to keep warm. The fire had gone out. He cleared his voice again and looked down at his charge.

"Yeah...yeah I'm good. Just dreaming." He looked down at the ground and sighed. "Just a dream…" He picked up the suitcase and started to walk again. Inky looked on at her Uncle as he walked.

"I'm sorry Uncle Zareth. I'm know you'd rather have mom here." Her bottom lip quivered as she tried to talk. "I should be the one in the box." She walked past him toward the smoke off in the distance.

It was sudden and he didn't expect such an attitude change from Inky. He put the suitcase down on the ground and picked her up. She pushed away from him and kept walking.

"Inky!" She stopped, and looked over her shoulder.

"It was my fault! You said so. If I hadn't of pushed that damned button...mom would still be here." She called out. Zareth stomped forward taking Inky into his arms looking her in the eyes.

"Now you stop that! Blaming yourself isn't going to help anyone. Your mother did what she did for us. Don't you ever forget it." Inky looked up at Zareth.

"Are we ever going to get mom back?" Inky asked. Zareth took a deep breath hugging her to him.

"I donno Splat...I donno. I'm trying hard to find her. You know I am. We were so close...we're making our way back to that observatory to look for clues." He picked up the suitcase and sighed. "Come on kiddo...let's go before it starts bottoming out."