"MIKEY!!!!"
Mikey ducked behind the couch as Angel stormed out of the shower, dripping wet and shivering, only a towel on. Ocelot Aradion looked pissed, bristling beside her.
"I'M GONNA KILL YA, MIKEY!!!!" She snarled.
"Angel?"
She looked up to see Raph sleepily rubbing sleep from his eyes.
"What did Mikey do now?" He questioned in a slurred Brooklyn accent.
"He put a video camera in the shower!!!"
Raph nearly fell over the railing in sudden shock and anger, and glared at Mikey.
"Mikey…"
"I DIDN'T DO IT!!"
"The camera has YOUR name on it…" Angel stated, holding it up.
"Oh…someone framed me!!"
"…Not buying it…"
Raph jumped down, taking the camera, and checked the tape.
"'Blackmail for Angel'…"
"…You're dead, Mikey!!"
Aradion snarled, and Mikey ran, a girly scream bouncing off the walls.
"Stupid little orange-banded knucklehead…" She muttered.
She turned to Raph, and saw him watching the tape. She blushed crimson.
"Raph!!"
"What? I'm yer boyfriend! I have a right to see!!"
"RAPH!!!"
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During the year and a half that Leo had gone for training, things had…changed around the lair.
Don and Mikey got jobs, in order to support their family, but Raph would just sleep all day, and disappear during the night.
Angel, being the oldest, tried to take the responsibility of leader onto her shoulders. She trained harder, did more meditation, and tried not to act like a child. Bottling up her emotions often led to her blowing up more, but she still tried to take time to be her old self.
She'd gotten into the habit of checking on her brothers every night, to see if they had any nightmares.
Her brothers got into the habit of her singing them to sleep after a nightmare.
It seemed to be the only time that they could imagine that everything was back to the way it used to be, where they had fun and Angel smiled and joked and Mikey would pull pranks and Don would stay up late building inventions and Leo was there, always training and meditating, and Raph wasn't as short-tempered and he was more open around Angel…
But that was a long time ago…
Angel sometimes sang at bars or other such places, but it was only when Splinter said she needed a break from such intense training.
Sometimes, she'd go to bed with her limbs shaking from exhaustion, and Aradion would whimper in pain, both physical and emotional.
She just wanted Leo to come back…then everything would be the way it was supposed to be…
