Prologue
The blond-haired teen hummed softly to himself as he crept upstairs. It had always been impossible for him to be completely silent - even in situations like the current one.
But as soon as he opened the door to the crappy, run-down apartment, the song died on his lips. Ice cold fear shot through his veins and he rushed forward. The need to be quiet was completely forgotten.
The apartment had been ransacked.
Books and papers were scattered everywhere. The few pieces of halfway decent furniture that remained in the rooms were smashed to pieces. Someone had punched huge holes in the walls.
But he didn't care about any of that. His voice, unused to anything more than a quiet sentence here and there, cracked as he called out through his ruined home. The single word echoed in the silence, and the only response was the pounding of his feet on the old floor. He yelled again, frantically, and got the same result.
Then he heard it. A little sniffle.
The blond tore down the hallway and into his bedroom, shoving aside the heavy bedframe in seconds. He reached down and tugged at the floorboards until a whole panel of them opened to reveal the body underneath.
A scrawny kid with shaggy brown hair and a dirty, tearstained face stared up at him, lip quivering. He sniffled again and launched himself into the bigger boy's arms.
"I was so scared," he whimpered. "I was playing a game and I heard all these footsteps outside, an' so i went and hid just like you told me to. They were really loud and mean and they said they wanted to k-kill me-"
"Shh. It's okay. You're safe, i promise."
"Did I...did I do a good job?"
Michelangelo smiled and blinked back the tears from his baby-blue eyes, cursing every deity he knew because of...well...everything. "Yeah, Leo. You did real good."
A/N: Sooooo...whatcha think? Is this an AU worth reading? Do you want to know what happened to them? What about the others? *crud-eating grin*
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