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The Hero’s Hero (Chapter Two - The Lantern Cafe)

Hii!! So I managed to finish the second chaper of this...  YaaaY! This is really long... and I usually never write chapers, only one-shots. A bunch of this was written at the same time chaper one was written but I finally finished it. I still don’t know how many chapers it’s going to be... whoops... well neither do I fully know where I am going with it but I have an idea. And yet again @evelinaonline and @ninjagoruinedmylife preread it, though this time they haven’t read the final edited version! B) I HOPE YOU ENJOY AND FEEDBACK IS GREATLY APPRECIATED!!

Title: The Hero’s Hero

Fandom: Ninjago

Word count: 2116 *sobs* I’m sorry, this is so long

Summary: The story of how Teddy met Lloyd... continues.

(The story is under “read more” or if it shows it in german “Weiterlesen”)

(Two days later)

Teddy was just walking out of a meeting, a tablet clutched to her chest. When again someone called her name, once again scaring the crap out of her. This time she tripped over her own feet, falling face first towards the floor. The tablet in her arms stopping her from catching herself. Yet before she could hit the ground, an arm snaked around her waist and she was lifted back to her feet.

“You are really jumpy you know.”, Lloyd smiled.

Teddy smacked him on the arm with her tablet and he didn't even flinch. “Maybe if you stopped sneaking up on me, I wouldn't jump so much!”, she spoke up.

“Hey, it's not like I'm doing it on purpose! I'm a ninja, it's literally my job to be sneaky.”, he put his hands up in defence.

“But like can't you at least walk a little louder when you're not doing the whole ninja thing?”, the girl tilted her head slightly.

“Honestly by now it's just a habit.”, the blonde scratched the back of his neck. Teddy snorted.

“Do you have anything from the laptop yet?”, he quickly changed the subject.

“Yes, I do. But I really don't have time right now, my next meeting is in like,” she looked at the tablet. “SEVEN MINUTES!” she quickly started to walk towards an elevator.

“So when do you have time?”, Lloyd followed her.

“I have my lunch break at two. Do you know the Lantern Cafe one street over?” Teddy pressed a button on the elevator panel.

“Yes.”, Lloyd answered.

“We can meet there if you want, then I can show you everything I found. I wanted to go there anyway for my break.”, the girl looked at her tablet again.

“That would be great, but are you sure you want to sacrifice your lunch break for me?”, Lloyd raised an eyebrow.

“Sure, it's not a big deal. We had bagel day today, so I had food at 11.” with that the elevator door opened and Teddy walked out. “I'll see you then!”, she waved.

“Okay!”, Lloyd waved back as the elevator door closed again.

(Later that day at the Cafe)

Lloyd sat in a booth in the Lantern Cafe, starring at his phone.

“Why are you wearing a fedora?”, a female voice asked from the open side of the booth. Lloyd turned to see Teddy.

“If it's suppose to be a disguise you're missing the moustache and sunglasses.”

He laughed and picked up the pair of sunglasses he had been wearing earlier.

“Can't have everyone recognize me, right?”, the blond took the hat of and placed it on the table.

“Let's hope the terrible disguise method works as well for you as it does for Steve Rogers.”, Teddy sat down in the booth as well.

“You know you really don't look like someone who'd be really into comics and such.”, he quirked a brow.

“It's the dress and heels isn't it?”, she took the menu in hand.

“Kinda, I guess.”, the ninja leaned on his elbow while looking at the girl.

“You should have seen me when I was still in school.”, she absently answered while reading.

“Why? Did you wear pants back then?”, he smirked.

The girl laughed and looked at the ninja, “No, not really. I've always liked dresses better, plus I do wear pants sometimes. It's just, I looked more the part. I still wore glasses instead of contacts, my hair was longer and I didn't straighten it. And my dresses were a lot uhh less formal.” She looked back at the menu, searching it once more.

Lloyd knitted his brows together, “You straighten your hair?”

“Yep, I naturally have really curly hair and I cut it off while it was straightened and now it's just really short if I have it curly. I don't like how it looks... It makes me look chubbier than I already am.”, she put the menu down and looked at the blonde.

“You're not doing a very good job.”, he smirked. “And I think you look great, you'd probably even look great with really short hair!”

The girl pulled one of her still fully curled strands of hair straight and let go, so it bounced back into place. “Yeah, I know- Wait no, that sounds like I think I look great! I mean about the being bad at straightening my hair part!”, she tried to explain.

Lloyd laughed and was about to say something more when a bubbly waitress walked up to their booth asking what she could get for them. Teddy ordered an iced coffee and Lloyd green tea. After their drinks had arrived Teddy scooted closer so she was sat directly next to Lloyd.

“Why did you do that?”, he gave her a confused look.

“How else am I suppose to show you what I saved?”, she pulled her own laptop out of her bag and placed it on the table, opening it and shutting it on.

“Oh right, I forgot what we were here for for a sec...”, the ninja scratched the back of his neck.

The girl opened the files she had saved from the busted laptop. After showing Lloyd a little more than half of the files she found and him not really having any reaction he finally had a reaction.

“Hey, wait, wait, wait what's that one?”, he leaned in to see better.

Teddy looked over the file while Lloyd looked at her in anticipation. “Uhm It... it seems to be a map with different locations all over Ninjago marked.”, she answered.

“What locations?”, the blonde leaned in closer to see better.

“Well one of them is the museum, then there is the high-school and the mall and- Hey! There is Borg Industries.”, she pointed at the different places on the screen.

“Is there anything about why these are marked?”, his eyes wandered over the screen.

“No, not really, but there are-”, she turned to Lloyd, “Wait, I thought the laptop was yours?”

The ninja turned to her, wide eyed. Teddy could practically see the gears turn in his head.

“D-did I  say that?”, the ninja asked smiling awkwardly.

“Yes, yes you did. But if this was your laptop you'd know what is on it, so this can't be your laptop.”, the auburn haired girl looked at Lloyd with a more serious expression now.

“I- You-”, Lloyd stumbled over his words.

“Lloyd you know that this is illegal right? You can get in serious trouble with the law for this. I can get into serious trouble for this! I could loose my job if anyone finds out about this! We could both be sued!”, Teddy had an expression of complete disbelieve on her face.

Lloyd looked down with a frown and rubbed the back of his neck once again.

“By the first spinjitzu master you can't be serious... Where did you get this from?”, the girl started taping on her laptop rapidly.

The blonde looked back up at Teddy, “It- I got it on a mission.”

“What kind of mission?”, Teddy was still taping away on her laptop.

“Uhhm we... We broke into a warehouse in which we knew the bad-guys were camping out in. Sadly they escaped but we managed to get the laptop... which as you know also got busted in the process.”, the green ninja explained while trying to figure out what Teddy was doing on her laptop.

“I'm gonna get murdered.”, Teddy kept typing.

Lloyd looked surprised at that remark,”What? You're not gonna get murdered! Why would you even think that?!”, his surprise quickly turned into concern and he carefully grabbed the girls arm and with that stopping her from typing.

Teddy looked at the blonde boy with a worried look, “How... how can you be so sure about that?”

“No one knows about you helping me, well Mr. Borg probably does because he sent me to you... but apart from that no one knows.”, the blonde squeezed her arm slightly.

“What about your ninja friends?”, the girl knitted her brows together.

“None of them know. They were all busy so I was sent to figure things out with the laptop on my own. I promise you no one will hurt you.”, Lloyd looked completely serious.

Teddy sighed and leaned back in her seat, she kept her hands on the table but leaned her head back so she was looking at the ceiling.

Lloyd removed his hand from her arm and thought for a second. He put his and over Teddy's and squeezed it slightly. “I'm being serious, I would never let anyone get hurt because of me... especially someone like you.”

The girl lowered her head again, “Someone like me?”, she asked with a questioning look.

“Yeah, you know someone normal... someone who can't protect themself.”, Lloyd tried to explain.

“Oh okay wow... Thanks!”, Teddy pulled her hand out from under Lloyd's and gave him a sarcastic look.

The blonde pulled his hand back to himself, “Was that bad? I'm not that good at giving speeches yet but I'm trying...”, he raised his eyebrows up slightly.

“I mean... it wasn't really nice of you to assume that, but in my case you're right.”, the auburn haired girl explained while gesturing with her hands.

Lloyd gave a sad look and looked away, “I didn't mean to insult you...”

Teddy sat up straight again and smiled softly, “I know you didn't, but how are you going to stop anyone from hurting me when I live in a completely different part of the city?”

The green ninja thought for while but then an idea hit him, “Give me your phone number!”

Teddy gave a questioning look, “My phone number? What am I supposed to do? If someone comes at me with a knife text you 'Hey Lloyd I'm gonna get stabbed now'?”

“Exactly!”, the blond boy looked very proud of his idea, “It'll also be so much easier when I need your help again too!”

“When you need my help agai- You know what, never mind... But what would you even do once I texted you?”, Teddy gave him a challenging look.

“Fly over with my dragon?”, Lloyd answered with an unsure look.

The girl laughed and rolled her eyes, “You ninja with your oversized lizards...”

The blonde gave an exaggerated offended look and exclaimed: “RUDE! They aren't oversized lizards! Lizards don't have wings!”

“Besides you don't know where I live.” Teddy waved off.

“Then just tell me that too!”, Lloyd smiled happily.

“WHOA! Okay just because you're the green ninja and a hero doesn't mean I'll just trust you with everything immediately. I've only known you for a few hours after all.”, the auburn haired girl crossed her arms with a playfully sassy look.

The green ninja jokingly pouted, “Do I seem that sketchy to you?”

Teddy snorted: “Well with that hat...”, the girl pointed towards the fedora.

The blonde laughed: “You really don't like the fedora do you?”

The two's playful banter and laughing continued for some time until Teddy's break was about to end. Both of them paid for their drinks, Lloyd even offered to pay for Teddy's drink as a thanks, but she refused thinking it wasn't necessary. They walked out of the Lantern Cafe and Lloyd held the door open for Teddy. They were standing in front of the Cafe to say their goodbyes.

“I guess I'll see you around?”, the blond boy smiled slightly with a quirked brow.

Teddy looked at the ninja and sighed, “Give me your phone.” She held her left hand out.

“Huh? Why?”, the blond looked confused.

“Just do it. It's not like I'm gonna steal it. I couldn't, even if I wanted to you know.”, she looked expectedly.

Lloyd fumbled with his pocket for a second to get his phone out and unlocked it. He handed it to Teddy and she started tapping on it. The blonde ninja stared at her confusedly. After a short while the blue eyed girl handed him the phone back and he looked at it trying to figure out what she even did.

Teddy spoke again with a smile: “I'll see you.”

She turned and started waking away.

Lloyd tapped on his phone for a good few seconds with a confused expression and knitted brows, “Hey what did you-”, he looked up only to see that Teddy was already gone, “-even do?”

The ninja turned, now even more confused. After a short while he started to walk home too. Even on his way home he kept taping and searching his phone for what the girl did. He once even almost ran into a lamppost and ended up not finding anything.