Thank you all so much for your support of Flirting with the Enemy, it is very much appreciated. This shows what happened to Leo the night that the rest of his brothers went to Prom. Remember, I gave the story and M-rating to be able to discuss slightly more mature themes. Enjoy!

(Leo's POV)

I was running as fast as I could.

It was finally warm enough to go back to the tenement. This just had to be the longest winter ever. I was literally aching for this. To finally see her again. No one else, just us.

I came in through the window and it was still and silent. I glanced to my left and then I just felt myself get blindsided as my body flew into the couch with force. I almost thought it was going to over turn it when I collided into it.

Then I looked up into those eyes that make me forget who I am. She reached out her left hand and trailed her fingers through my hair slowly. I did nothing. I said nothing. I was just looking up at her, mesmerized as I felt a smile creep up on my face.

She was grinning slyly back at me and then I felt her hand trace down the side of my face and then her lightly running her index finger along my jaw, making me shudder and causing her to chuckle to herself.

I had no time to make any other reaction as her lips connected with mine. I immediately pulled her close to me.

As our session progressed, it was us getting back to that intoxicating yet familiar intensity. After she pulled off my mask, not even bother to untie it, I felt her hands tugging at my shirt, annoyed, and I immediately started to shift it off. One was because I wanted to and two was because I know that if I didn't do it or didn't do it fast enough… she'd cut my shirt off me herself.

I felt her hands smooth down my torso, causing me to shudder and groan.

I pulled her against me again and I heard her sigh into me as she wove her fingers into my hair. This felt entirely right. Everything about this was so right to me. Why doesn't she do anything to give me real hope that she wants something more with me? I just don't under… Then she pulled away and grinned mischievously at me.

I felt a little deprived and tried to pull her back to me but she kept a distance between us. Then she leaned into my ear, feeling her slightly panted breaths against my skin, making my eyes roll slightly into the back of my head.

"Patience Leo." She whispered, coating her words. That alone made me shudder. But then I managed to think.

Patience? Patience with what? Why is she saying…

Then my whole thought process was halted as I saw her reach her hands to her shoulders and I heard a subtle metallic click. My eyes went wide and my lips parted slightly went I saw her chest plate fall away from her body and she tossed it to the floor. She also detached the back and I heard it fall to the floor behind her as well.

She was grinning at my reaction as she removed the plates from her forearms.

My thoughts and heart were racing when I saw her reach behind her back and I heard a very small and subtle sound. Then my eyes went wide in shock when I saw her shifting the top portion of her jumpsuit with deliberate motions off her shoulders.

My jaw went slack and my face was burning. I didn't know what to do. I just sat there, staring at her.

Her eyes were looking right into mine with intensity and her mouth still held that smirk, all the while.

I watched as her arms slide their way out of each sleeve individually and she pulled the top portion all the way down. But I turned my head away quickly, biting my lip. I was completely embarrassed and way beyond the point of being nervous. I didn't feel comfortable. I was sweating and I felt like my heart was caught inside my throat.

Then I heard her laughing a little at my reaction. That made the burning feeling in my face intensify. I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

What if I stare? What if I do something stupid? Or say something stupid? What if…

Then I felt her lips at my ear, "What's the matter, Leo?" She teases, nipping at my ear slightly. I gulped and felt a shiver go down my spine. "Afraid to look?" She inquires, still slightly teasing me. Her fingers were brushing against my hair.

She didn't say anything but then she turned my head to face her. I tried to look anywhere but down. Then I got sucked in by her eyes.

"Just look Leo. I want you to look." She says, her voice brimming with a certain desire. I felt like I was unable to look down. It didn't feel like the right thing to… My thought process was interrupted by her hands moving to either side of my face and forcing me to look down.

My eyes were initially shut tight but then I cracked one open… then my eyes were opened, literally and figuratively.

My mind was a blank space and my body felt useless to me. I could not look away. I felt myself slump back into the couch as I just stared at her. There were no words, no thoughts, no anything, as I looked at what was in front of me.

I've never seen anything like this. Nothing I've ever seen before could compare to this. She was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my entire life. I never thought seeing her like this would have any effect on me like now, but I just couldn't stop myself from just continuing to look at her.

My eyes study every curve, every plain of flawless, soft skin on her body I could see.

I felt as if I was in a trance as my eyes eventually settled on her chest. I felt a little shame in me as I blatantly stared at her there. But… this was her, this was all her and she was showing me this side of her. I felt a whirlwind rushing through my body and my brain as I continued to stare.

Then I saw her move in my line of focus as she leaned into my ear again. "You can touch me, Leo." She whispers and then I felt her hands grab one of mine as she placed it on her breast. I was unresponsive at all these new sensations running through me.

I felt her lips reattach themselves to mine. This made me settle back into something familiar. My hand was still resting on her breast as our lips continued to move over each other's in perfectly intoxicating sequence. I was overwhelmed. I felt like I wasn't even thinking anymore.

That was until I felt her pressing into my unresponsive hand that was still resting on her… Is this really happening? Is this just another cruel, sick fantasy that always make me ashamed to think of when I wake up? But this wasn't a dream. This was reality.

Her arms locked themselves around my neck. Then I heard her gasp when I squeezed her a little. I retracted my hand.

Did I screw up? I did, didn't I? How could I be so… but then she pushed me down on the couch so I was on my back and forced my hand back on her. I couldn't take it. I wanted her closer. I took my hand off her again and pulled her so she was flush against me.

I groaned when I felt her skin come in contact with mine. It was an entirely new sensation. And a completely right feeling that it also felt totally unreal. My hands were running up and down her back out of the need and impulse to memorize and take in everything I possibly could about her.

She pulled away from me and started to suck and gaze her teeth over the skin of my jaw and neck. I groaned out her name out of impulse. I still couldn't believe that this was seriously happening. I couldn't take it anymore.

I turned her under me and started to return the favor. My mind was clouded by everything. My lips were trailing over her jaw, her neck. I heard her sigh and moan, "Leo." I shuddered and brought my lips back to hers gently. Holding her against me and feeling her nails trailing lightly down my back.

It was like that for a while with us but then she pulled away and whispered into my ear, "I have to go." "No." I respond desperate and tried to kiss her again but she stopped me with a coy smile on her face.

"Leonardo, be reasonable. I can't stay here all night." She teases, chuckling in my ear and smoothing her hands down my torso, my breath hitched. "Why not?" I complain, slightly desperate and not caring about showing my desperation for her.

She chuckled and smiled that smile at me as she ran a hand teasingly through my hair. "Then meet me here tomorrow night. If you want to?" She offers. I looked directly into her eyes, feeling totally under hypnosis. Nodding my head and grinning at her. She chuckled at me again and slowly pushed me off her.

I watched her walk away. The moonlight coming in through the window frame was catching her and I felt like I was frozen at the sight. She looked even more breathtaking.

She kept glancing over she shoulders at me as she put on and zipped up the top part of her jump suit again and put her armor back in place. I just sat there and stared at her. I somehow got the mental and physical capacity to stand and collect my mask and shirt off the floor.

I was about to put my mask on when she walked up to me and placed a hand on my face with a flirting and coy smirk on her face as she leaned in to kiss me. I just let her do whatever she wanted with me. But she pulled away and walked to the window. "Sayonara, Leo." She said and blew me a kiss before taking off.

I had no control anymore over myself. I felt physically incapable of doing anything. I knew I wasn't putting my mask on right but I really couldn't care less. I just kept thinking of her. She looked so beautiful. Then my thoughts got deeper.

Why did she do this with me? Wait… this had to have meant something if she was willing to show me that side of her to me.

It made me fall for her even more, which I thought was impossible at this point.

Please Karai, let what happened tonight mean something.

(Karai's POV)

That was just too perfect.

I've wanted to test the water with Leo like that for a while. I was still laughing a little internally by his reaction to me exposing myself like that to him. It just about killed me by how adorable and innocent he looked when he looked away and was too embarrassed to even look at me.

I loved watching him stare at me. It was an indescribable rush. When I put his hand on me, although unresponsive initially, I was going insane by how right his hands felt on my body and then later when he wrapped his arms around my body and the skin to skin contact between us when he pulled my body against his.

It fueled my want for him.

I still couldn't believe the effect he had on me. How can someone as sweet, gallant, and goodnatured as Leo have an effect on me in every way possible?

It's like I said before. Leo's like a pod person. He's handsome, he's smart, he's an extremely skilled fighter, he's sexy, and the combine that with him acting completely shy and embarrassed with me tonight… it was so good.

I can't deny the I have a desire for Leo, I've actually wanted him for a while now.

But I don't want to jump to that; not yet. I want to make this gradual.

Let's just say that with Leo I'm going by one simple philosophy; All good things come, to those who wait.

2 weeks later

(Raph's POV)

Training ended and I was reading a new comic book that I picked up yesterday.

Then my phone rang and I smirked when I saw who was calling me. It was weird, she usually txts me. I shrugged and smirked as I picked up the phone.

"What's up ba…" "Raph, help me!" She whispers hysterically into the phone. She started to say a bunch of things frantically that I couldn't understand what she was saying. "Mona, slow down, what's…" Then I heard what sounded like hydraulics and she screamed. Her scream was sounding further and further away from the phone.

My stomach sank as I froze. I couldn't believe it. I was able to get back into my head again.

"Guys, something happened to Mona." I say urgently. "What happened? What did she say?" Leo asks. "Leo, she's in trouble. We're burning time, we have to go NOW." I say, getting irritated.

My girlfriend was just kidnapped and they're seriously playing 20 questions with me right now about it?!

I immediately ran to my room and suited up. Luckily I saw my brothers ready by the time I got out. I felt my mind going in a million directions. But I did have one thought that was clear.

Whoever took her… and if they do anything to her… they have a death sentence.

We made our way to the shell raiser and I swear Leo was driving slower than usual. Does he not understand? Mona, my girlfriend and his best friend... was just kidnapped! I couldn't believe we actually got there after Leo driving like a 1000 year old blind dog.

We scaled the outside of the building; Mona lived on the 6th floor.

My heart sunk when I saw a huge hole blasted through the wall of her room leading to the outside. I climbed in and her room and apartment looked like chaos.

I saw her cellphone laying by her bed. I bent down and picked it up. I reactivated the screen and I saw something that tore me apart internally. The background on her phone was a picture she took of us at prom 2 weeks ago.

I grit my teeth. Who could've done this to her?

As we looked around her apartment, I stepped on papers from her dad's desk that were thrown all over the floor. The place was vacant.

"Who could've done this?" Leo said out loud after I asked myself almost that same thing. "Um guys?" Donnie says after a long pause. "I think I know." Donnie says and showed us what he found on the ground. It looked like a computer chip. But then I grit my teeth again and let out a long exhale through my nose as I looked at the symbol; Kraang.

Those slimy brains are really going to get it now.

2 days later

I feel like ripping off my face right now.

I haven't slept since she was taken. I tried to sleep that first night. But then I started to think about what those slimy freaks could be doing to her. She's probably in a cell somewhere, torchured, or… I couldn't about that.

Donnie was trying to find clues as to where the Kraang could have taken her… and her parents.

I felt vulnerable, helpless, infuriated; here I am sitting around while those alien freaks are doing I don't even want to know what to my girl.

I was spinning my sai in my hand as my imagination was getting the best of me. Then Donnie ran in and I stood up immediately. "I think I know where she is." He says and we all run to the lab and gather around Donnie's computer.

"I was able to hack into her building's security system and look at the license plate number on the van they were taken in from a surveillance camera. I was able to trace it to this old shipping warehouse about 50 miles outside the city. The shell raiser's navigation system is already calibrated to find it." Donnie explains and Leo gave us the go ahead.

I couldn't get inside and out fast enough.


It was pitch black by the time we got there.

This place was literally in the middle of nowhere. Nothing but farm fields for miles around. The warehouse was huge... and really old. The overhead windows had a film of dust and cobwebs over all of them.

She better be in there... or there will be blood.

We parked the shell raiser and we were trying to find a place to get inside. We almost ran into a group of Kraang droids as we rounded a corner. Well, at least we know that those slimy brain freaks have run of the place.

We used grappling hooks to get on the roof and climbed in through a grating.

It was a shift. The outside was a crappy brick building, but the inside was completely Kraang. It looked a lot like the place April and Kirby were held captive that first time.

We ran around the halls looking for any sign of anything. Then we get to this hall lined with endless doors with a small opening in them. It looked like a futuristic cell block. We split up to look in each window, they were all empty. I felt like my stomach was in a vice as every horrible thought was going through my head.

I was so close to giving up when I heard something that immediately caught my attention. "Lads. Boys, over here."

In the cell right behind me and Leo, was Mona's dad. "Dr. Lisa?" Leo says and we both sprint over to him. "Am I glad to see you boys." He says looking relieved.

But he looked horrible. He's been here only two days and his eyes had huge dark circles and he looked almost sick.

Donnie and Mikey ran in behind us. "Dr. Lisa, what's going on? What's all this about?" Leo asks. "The Kraang, they're collecting physicists and chemists from the whole state and taking them away. They've been taking all of us in waves. They already took my wife in the previous round up yesterday." He says and hangs his head, looking totally broken.

"Look, Mona's here. She's in the south wing. Just find her and get her out of here." He says determined. I felt myself lift when he said that she was here.

"We're not leaving you here, Doctor…" "Boys, listen to me." Dr. Lisa says, interrupting Leo.

"Boys, the Kraang only brought her here as an incentive for my wife and I's cooperation. They don't want her, they just want me. I'm almost 61 years old and I've lived a good life. My daughter's barely 17. She still hasn't had a chance to live life yet. Don't rob her of that, please… just save her. Get her out of here." He pretty much begs and demands at the same time.

We know arguing at this point with him wouldn't help anything anymore. Besides, I didn't want to leave him either, but I know what he means. If we don't act now and get Mona out of here, then all of us could end up dead or taken to Dimension X and possibly turned into slaves, and then killed later.

We all nod at him.

"Let's go." Leo says and we all were about to take off when he said, "Raphael, wait, I need to talk to you." I stopped and looked at Mona's dad before looking back at my brothers. "I'll catch up, just go." I say and then ran I back to Mona's dad. He smiled at me.

"Raphael, before you ask. Mona's told me everything… about you and your brothers." He explains. I was about to respond when he continued, "I'm grateful, truly, for everything you've done to protect her… Look, I'm not going to be here for much longer… and I need to ask a huge favor of you." He says, looking serious again.

"Yes, Doctor…" "James, lad. Call me James." He says smiling at me again. I was shocked that he insisted on me calling him by that. I nod at him.

"I'm probably not going to come back if I'm correct, so if I'm right… Raphael, I can see you care about my daughter, very much. So, please, I want to make sure she'll be kept safe and be looked after. Mona's all I have left and she has no other close family. I was the youngest of my siblings and they're all dead and my wife was an only child. She has almost no one else." He begs.

"I will. I'll keep her safe. I promise." I say, dead set on what I was saying. He smiled as he reached his hand through the window. I reached out my arm too and he set his grip on the inside of my forearm. I returned the gesture back at him.

"Good lad." He says smiling at me. I smiled back at him and nod.

"Now go, go save my daughter and get her out of here." He orders. I smile and nod at him again before I run off. "Go on lad. Go. Go!" He calls out as I run away.


I was able to track Leo's location in the south wing. Since this wing stretched out into a 'V', Leo sent Mikey and Donnie down the other side to look for Mona. We got to this section of the hallway and saw one of the doors was wide open. The locking mechanism on the door looked busted up beyond the point of repair.

I wonder… then we heard, "Leave me alone!" and then a sharp clang of metal on metal. We looked at the end of the hallway that connected to a different hall like a 'T' intersection. We saw a Kraang body crawling away and moving past the opening in the hallway.

That voice… she's okay!

"Mona." I say to myself and run to the end of the hallway.

I looked and I saw a shadow casted on the ground amongst these crates. "Who-who's there?" She stutters, freaked out but I also saw her shadow holding something… it kind of looked like a pipe. But I smiled a little to myself.

It was her; she's okay.

"Mona… babe, it's me." I say, still entirely relieved that she was okay. "Raph?" She says and I saw her peak around the corner slightly. Her face was shadowed in the darkness. I tried to step closer.

"No, stop." She says, sounding jumpy. "Babe, c'mon. We're getting you out of here." I say and take another step and she hid more behind the crates.

"No, don't come closer! I don't want you to see me." She says frantic. I stopped and quirked an eyebrow in her direction. I was confused. Why doesn't she want me to see her?

"Mona, what's going on?" I ask, feeling worried about her again. "I-I, I just… I just can't have you look at me. Not like this. I'm a freak." She says, sounding almost on the verge of a mental breakdown.

Oh no.

My thoughts were running wild at the conclusion my brain came to. But the last thing she needs is me freaking out right now.

I kept my cool and said, "Mona, it's okay. Just come out here. I need to see you."

I heard her let out an unsteady breath, "Are… Are you sure?" "Yeah, it's okay babe. You can trust me. Just come out." I say, almost plead. I had to see what happened to her… and if my conclusion was correct for what the Kraang did to her… then those slimy freaks are all dead.

I heard her drop the pipe and then I saw her silhouette in the darkness. I didn't get it? She looked totally… then she stepped closer into the light and I saw why.

"The Kraang threatened to test a dose of mutagen on me if my dad didn't tell them the location of his work on the mechanical properties of a nuclear power source that he's been mapping. He told them but they went through with it anyway. Then I remembered when Donnie told me his theory about Mutagen; how you gain traits of the last thing you touched that wasn't your own species… the last thing I touched was Fin." She explains as I took her in.

Fin, her pet lizard.

Her body, well everything I could see that wasn't covered by her t-shirt and jeans, was covered in dark green, lizard-like skin. Her hands had webbing half way up between her digits. Her legs were set about shoulder width apart, letting me see a short tail that was behind her. But other than that, she still looked like herself, she looked human. Her face still had the same features, she still had her hair, she still had her same eyes.

I just smiled at her and hugged her. I really didn't care. She was here in front of me and she was okay.

I felt her tense up in my arms and I released her, smiling at her to show her that I was relieved that she was okay. She looked at me shocked. I also noticed the lens on the right side of her glasses was shattered.

"Raph, we have to go." Leo says urgent. "No, what about my dad?" She says, insistent. "Mona, he told us to get you out of here. We need to go." Leo orders.

"I'm not going without my dad, Leo." Mona says, stubborn and entirely serious.

"Mona, we have to…" "Leo, we can do it. We might have a chance to get him too if we act now." I say. I know her dad told us to get her out, but how could I deny her this. With her mom gone now… her dad is all she has left of her immediate family.

"Raph, he told us to…" "Leo! For once will you stop following the rule book and just do what's actually the right thing outside of it." I snap.

I was angry at him. He always has to be by the book, and guess what? Life doesn't always work that way. Leo debated and I saw him looking at Mona who was looking back at him determined.

I saw him reach for his T-phone. "Donnie, we found Mona, you and Mikey meet us by the apex of the halls, we're getting Dr. Lisa out of here." He says.

I smirk and nod at him. Funny when me losing my temper can sometimes have its benefits.

We got to the apex and I thought I was going to have to clobber one of them if they made a comment about how Mona looked. But they didn't say anything. Then again, we all were mutants once too and we understood the rejection and being judged. Still, I was surprised that Mikey especially didn't say anything.

We went back to her dad's cell and saw he was gone.

"He could be in the epicenter of this place. There's a portal generator they're using to transport the scientists. Follow me." Mona says and runs off, we all follow.


We got to these two large doors and Donnie picked the lock, causing them to open. Then we saw this large control room with a purplish-black circle in the center that all these Kraang droids were filing into, among other scientists. But at the back... was her dad.

"Dad!" Mona shouts to get his attention. Her dad whipped his head around to look at her and looked like he was desperately fighting his confines as these two Kraang droids continued to drag him toward the portal.

"Mona!" Her dad shouts back. "Mona, GO!" He yells at her.

"No dad! I'm not leaving without you!" She yells back, stubborn and determined.

He just smiled at her, even though he still looked totally broken. "Mona, sweetheart, I love you." He says.

Leo gave the directive to run in and stop it, but it was too late. Once her dad disappeared through the portal, it closed. The whole area was vacant. It was dead silent in the room.

I looked back at Mona. She was on her knees. I was expecting her to do something, say something. She did nothing. Her facial expression was stoic as she just stared at the empty space where the portal was in shock.

"Mona?" I say as I kneel next to her. She didn't do anything to respond. She just continued to stare in front of her. I tried to get her to talk to me or even look at me but she remained silent and kept looking forward.

We had to go. There was no point in staying here anymore. The Kraang might be gone, but who knows when they'll be back.

I tried to get Mona to move, but she wouldn't budge. She was still in a state of total shock. So I just lifted her off the ground and carried her back to the shell raiser.

I was determined. I had a promise that I had to hold up to now. With her parents gone, I was all she had left.

It was my job to look after her and keep her safe now… and that was what I was going to do.

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