A/N: Please don't stab me.

  "Knock knock," Lizz sang, pushing open the large gold doors, "Anyone home?"  

"Jade!" Selma ran over and quickly pulled her into a bone crushing hug, "Where have you been? I've been worried ssick, dear."

Lizz hugged back, "Sorry, Mother, I... I just got caught up in something, that's all."

"You have been for almost two weeks, Jade! What could possibly take that long to get out of?" She demanded, holding Lizz at arms' length.

I need to tell her the truth, "Mother, I-" she swallowed, "I need to tell you something, and you, and Father, are not going to like it... At all, actually."

"I promise whatever you tell uss will not make uss think any differently of you, dear," Selma told her as the two went to sit around the campfire that was always burning. 

Selma looked expectantly at Lizz and waited patiently. After a couple seconds, Lizz took a deep breath, "I'm a Garmadon. The Green Ninja's sister and... I've the element of water. Even weirder... my name isn't- My name isn't Jade. My real name is Lizz C. Garmadon, daughter of Montgomery...? And Misako."

Selma was quiet for a while, and Lizz could see the emotions dancing over her face, "Is that true?"

"Apparently," Lizz looked at her boots, "I don't believe it but look," she looked at Selma, showing off her eyes, "They force fed me something that took... took the Serpentine influence out of me and turned me human."

She looked revolted, "How dare they?"

Lizz shrugged and looked at the ground, "I've no idea, mom..."

Selma leaned over and pulled Lizz in for a hug. Being wrapped in the arms of someone else, almost unwillingly, felt so comforting to Lizz all her defenses broke down and she found herself hugging back with bone-crushing strength, crying hard into Selma's shoulder. The events from the past week and a half came crashing down on her, only making her cries shake her body harder.

Selma patted her back, giving a consolation-squeeze once in awhile, "Jussst let it out, it's alright, Lizz." 

Alright, calm your bitch-ass down, Lizz, she scolded herself and pulled back, wiping madly at her eyes as she struggled to calm her breathing, "You're not angry?"

Selma chuckles, "Why would I be angry with you? I always knew you were not a Sserpentine, and thiss only proves my ssusspicions."

Lizz smiled a little, still scrubbing at her eyes with the hem of her dress, "I think I'm going to go take a bit of a nap. I've had a long day, you know? Is that alright?"

"You've alwayss got a home with uss, dear," Selma nodded, standing, "Are you staying for dinner?"

Lizz shrugged and stood as well, only now noticing how much taller she was than Selma, "Probably. Good night."

*

"Wake up."

Insert groaning noises here. Lizz rolled over and opened her eyes a slit to glare at the blurry intruder, "What year is it...?"

"What?"

"It's a movie reference, Kai," Lizz sat up, yawned, and rubbed her eyes, "Now get out of my house."

"This isn't a house, and it's not yours," he crossed his arms and leaned against the wall, "Get up, c'mon, we're leaving."

"No no, you're leaving," she corrected, flopping back down on her pillows, "I, however, am staying here until I sort my life out." 

"Sort your life out at home."

"That's your home. This is my home that you're inside uninvited," a malicious grin spread across her lips, "Therefore I've the right to shoot you."

"Please don't."

"Why? It'd be so... fun. Now what do you want?"

He sighed, "For you to come home," he spoke slowly, pronouncing each word to make sure she understood him, "You don't belong here."

His way of talking annoyed her even more, "I don't belong here? I don't belong here? This is the only place I actually do belong!" 

Kai recoiled, "You belonged here when you were a Serpentine. They won't accept you now that you're not one of them. Come back home."

Lizz growled, "That's what you think family is? Being the same? No, family means everyone accepting you for who you are whether they want to or not."

"Who you were when you lived here wasn't who you are, though, it's who you were being led to believe you were," Kai reasoned gently, "The you that you really are doesn't belong here, she belongs with her real family."

"In case you haven't noticed this is my real family!" she stressed hopelessly, "They're the ones that protected me when I couldn't do it myself, they're the ones that raised me whether they knew I was Serpentine or not and they're the only ones that actually know who I am! You're all complete strangers, so I'm not going with you!"

"We're going to be strangers as long as you keep pushing us away the way you are," Kai moved slowly and sat next to her on the bed, "At least give us a chance, Lizz."

Lizz sighed exasperatedly, "What if I don't want to give you fools a chance, hmm?"

"You know you don't mean that," Kai objected kindly, "If you give us a chance, maybe we can all change."

Lizz snorted and rolled onto her side. She propped her head on her hand as she spoke, "You can change all you want-" her voice dropped to a low whisper, "I'll still be an outsider..."

"Outsider?" Kai repeated, "Is that what you think you are?"

Lizz's tone was sharp, "Yes! It's what I am, alright? I've always been an outsider to everyone no matter where I am, Kai! Here I'm just used to it because everyone doesn't care anymore that I'm half Serpentine and half human."

"Lizz, that's what I'm trying to say," he moved from the doorway and knelt down to be eye level with her, "If you give us a chance, we won't treat you like an outsider."

Lizz resisted the urge to push him over, "Says you! Walker hates me!"

Kai flared his nostrils, "Forget him, Lizz! Don't tell me he's the one pulling you back."

Lizz rolled over and face-planted into her pillow, "I just don't like being stared at..."

Kai quirked an eyebrow at her, watching, "Stared at?"

"Yeah," Lizz's tone was flat.

Kai sighed, "Look, is that all you're angry about? That Jay hates you?" I can't believe that's all she's worried about when the Overlord is out for her head.

Lizz turned her head so she wasn't being suffocated in her pillow anymore, "Maybe just a little..."

"If that's it," Kai started, "Then I'll make him like you and if Jay won't listen I'll make him listen. There's no reason for him to hate you."

Lizz raised her eyebrow a little at him and blew her bangs out of her face, "Really?"

Kai smiled, "Yes. I'd do anything for you-" he stopped mid-thought as if he'd said something he didn't mean to.

Lizz sat up and gave him a look, "Why?"

Kai made a strange noise and scratched the back of his neck, looking anywhere but at Lizz, "Because..."

She couldn't help but chuckle, "You're so flustered."

There was about a six minute pause before Kai blurted out a rush of words that Lizz couldn't understand, "Imayhaveacrushonyou."

She chuckled again, "What?"

Again, there was a very long pause while Kai figured out how to word his sentence, "I... may... have... a crush... on... you..." he drawled out. Lizz didn't say anything in return, too many things were rushing though her head at his declaration. He looked down to try to hide his blush.

Lizz scratched her neck, "So..." Kai stood and backed up a bit, whistling nervously. Lizz spoke through his whistles, "If I go with you do I still get to bunk with Nya?"

Kai shrugged, "Depends: do you still want to? Or would you rather have your own room?"

Lizz shrugged too and stood up, just only realizing that she was a fraction of an inch taller than Kai (not including his spiky hair, anyway), "I wouldn't mind it."

"Then bunk with her," Kai told her, "If things don't work out I'll help you find another room to stay in."

Lizz's mouth quirked up at the corner, "Of course you would help me."

Kai looked her over and noticed something off, "What's wrong?"

"They're not going to like me," Lizz said after a small groan. Really, she didn't care. Lizz was simply making up every excuse in the book and then some as a reason to stay away from the people branded as her family.

Kai stepped forward and grabbed her hands in his, "They'll like you. Even if it takes time, they will."

Lizz nodded a little bit, an uneasy feeling crawling into her stomach. She wanted to pull her hands away but didn't and she only hummed a bit in agreement to Kai's statement. He only looked at her and soon she pulled away her hands, grabbing her bow and arrow quiver, "Well, lead the way, then, I suppose," Kai turned towards the door but Lizz cried out, "Wait!"

He turned around to face her and jumped back around to face the wall when he found Lizz sliding off her dress, "Whoa!"

"What?" Lizz pulled off her dress and pulled on some loose fitting black sweatpants that actually probably belonged to Lloyd, "I'm sick of wearing that damn dress."

"You could have warned me, at least," Kai muttered, crossing his arms as he studied the wall.

"I could have," Lizz slid a white sports bra on over her normal black bra and adjusted her hair, "But I didn't. Let's go."

"Do I dare turn around?"

"Go right ahead," Lizz began stuffing some clothes and things into a blue duffel bag, "I don't really care, I'm decent," she zipped it shut, "Lead the way."

Kai nodded and walked out, not turning around. Lizz took one last look at her room and stepped out, closing the door, "MA!"

Selma walked over from somewhere that was already really near, "Yesss dearie?"

"I'm... erm..." Lizz's gaze flickered between Kai and Selma, "Uh..."

"It's okay, Lizz," Selma put a hand on her shoulder, "You can go and I'll ssee you next time you decide to visit."

Lizz's lips spread into a grin, "Okay. Thank you, mum," she gave Selma a quick hug and bolted out the door best she could wearing her flip flops (her inch-and-a-half-high-heel boots that went up to a little below her knees were inside her bag).

Kai gave a look of question to Selma, shrugged and ran after Lizz, finally finding her waiting calmly at a bus stop above ground, "You need to stop running off like that, especially since we're in town."

"I can take care of myself," Lizz didn't bother looking at him, just continued picking at her thumbnail, "Let's just get out of here before someone notices your obnoxious red outfit."

"As if they won't notice your obnoxious shirtlessness?" Kai quipped, walking away. Lizz caught up to him and he looked at her through his peripheral vision, "So you've actually decided to come home?"

"Noooooo, I'm just following you around for the hell of it," Lizz still pulled at something on her thumb.

Kai finally asked about it, "What are you doing? What's wrong with your thumb?"

She shrugged, "Maybe I broke, maybe it's just a hangnail, I don't really know, nor do I really care."

A/N: Alright, never mind go ahead and stab me because I haven't updated since October of fuckin' 2015

A/N: AGAIN alrighty this is a thing I forgot to point out before when I published this chapter

FrostNinja106 helped me with the dialogue between Lizz and Kai because I'm horrible at having conversations with myself most of the time, so yeah

Everyone go thank her n such please