Ninjago; If I Was Your Girlfriend

(*BONUS*) When Everyone is Hanging Out - ALL

Life was a piece of work. That was for sure. Every girl had gone through a tremendous ordeal. And each girl dealt with the aftermath in a different way. K/G/N relied heavily on Kai and was at therapy two, even three, times a week. She talked about everything, but when she wasn't in therapy she was hiding in her apartment with the blinds shut and her eyes closed. She was certainly in a state of depression, choosing to shut everything out and revealing only what she needed to in therapy. Kai was constantly checking on her, even spending nights with her just to make sure she was eating and drawing. College was approaching and he was determined to get her there. He even had to help her study for exams when he had no clue what he was doing.

Now J/G/N. She buried herself in her work. Every day she was at the shop doing any and all projects Mr. Davis assigned her. She was determined to work through her crisis. She didn't have the answers she wanted about her powers and her parents still didn't know about what she had gone through, but it was easier that way. She enjoyed the distraction that work provided her, but she knew it was only a matter of time before she needed to know the answers that kept popping up in her head. Jay didn't have to give her his undivided attention, but he would have liked for her to need him more.

C/G/N. A nightmare... truly. She was still stuck on the fact that her perpetrator went to school with her friends. He was well known. He was a student with a future. He wanted to go to the same school she did and he wasn't fortunate, just like her. He had gone through a lot as a kid, just like she had. She understood him. She felt bad for him. Cole had to constantly make sure she wasn't sneaking off to visit him or talk to him because it would only set back her progress. He needed to help her move on but she wanted to stay put. It didn't help that dancing was her mechanism to cope with stress and she couldn't dance. She was either studying for exams, coaching girls at dance, or hanging out with Cole. But she still had the time to worry about things that she shouldn't have been.

Z/G/N. She was doing fine. Considering the circumstances, she was surpisingly okay. She was ready to put everything behind her but knew she couldn't given that her best friend needed constant attention and help. She was willing to give her friend that help, but she couldn't escape the over protective grasp of her mother who didn't let her out of her sight unless it was to hang out with Zane or to go to school.

And lastly: L/G/N. She was... a mess. Her progress was outstanding, though. She wasn't shaking in fear, she had only a few nightmares a week, and she was eating again. She was finally letting her friends help her and had talked to her brother and boyfriend about what happened. She wans't alone anymore. But she still wasn't the same. She wasn't smiling. She wasn't laughing. She wasn't playing practical jokes on the ninja. And she wasn't hanging out with them. As Kai put it, she was "living just to live." She needed more.

The girls were getting better, but the ninja knew that they weren't themselves. How could they be? They went through hell, and not one of them was willing to pour out their souls to their boyfriends. They all had their trust issues from before, and now they were worse. K/G/N's parents had both died trying to help her and she had to take care of herself and her grandmother for years. J/G/N's parents didn't pay attention to her in the slighest and cancelled on every event of hers hours before happening. C/G/N's mother had died as a kid and her dad had just left, leaving her to live on her own until her best friend took her in. Z/G/N grew up with only her mother who was overprotective and feared her daughter leaving the house. L/G/N's mother had died and she was taken from her dad and brother as a young girl and lived with her Aunt, thinking her family left her. All the girls had their dark past, and then something even darker happened and they had to learn how to deal with it all.