Afterglow: Outtakes - Chapter 1

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Jealous April and Oblivious/Clueless Raphael

Story Summary: I wanted to go to canon events but in my "One Year" and "Afterglow" universe. They're completely pointless drabbles that aren't exactly connected to the stories themselves just little what-if Raphril moments that take place in the canon events of the newer TMNT episodes. Shameless 2k12 Raphril again here, folks!

Chapter Summary: Beautiful Mona Lisa, jealous April, and completely oblivious Raphael. Put them together and what do you get?

The response from you guys was overwhelming - the people have spoken and a new drabble series was born!

This is "Afterglow: Outtakes". Little moments that include the Afterglow universe but don't necessarily take place in canon events. Instead, supposed to be fun little what-ifs and not to be taken seriously with the canon of "Afterglow" or alter that timeline in any way. So, basically, these are just for shits and giggles. Lol. But it's nice to place one-off chapters here that don't necessarily fit into the story.

Hope y'all enjoy and thank you for your support! You have no idea how much it means to me! :-)

(Also, no space helmets in this chapter for obvious reasons lol.)

April did not like Y'Gythgba...not one little bit.

Ever since landing on this planet, that strangely beautiful lizard-like woman had been sizing up her man and April O'Neil was getting pretty damn sick of it. She'd catch the strangely beautiful creature's gold eyes flicking down her boyfriend's stocky, muscular body and the way she did it was as if she was checking out a piece of meat (and no, not the kind you eat) and made the redhead's blood boil inside her already tense body.

As if being stuck in space wasn't stressful enough, Master Splinter died in their arms, her father as well as the rest of the planet had been annihilated, and they had a measly 6 months to travel throughout the universe and find pieces of a weapon that could save or help destroy their planet...again...

Yes, it was confusing and a nightmare to explain, but it was her life now.

As much stress as it took on her, it only grew worse for now, here she was, having a tall, incredibly strong and quite annoyingly beautiful and powerful alien flirting with her man!

The worst part was that, of course, Raphael was completely oblivious to the entire situation.

How her boyfriend somehow befriended the Herculean lizard and talked her as well as her partner, G'thraka, into helping them; April wouldn't have believed happened if she hadn't been there. How he even convinced the redhead into breaking from the group to talk to them but she did...and here they were.

Just her and Raph standing down the obviously stronger Salamandrians and Raphael for the first time in his fuckin' life, playing peacekeeper when he was usually the one disturbing it?! What was it about space that was making him act all crazy!? Just what the hell was going on here!?

It just made April crave being back on earth all the more...

The redhead in question appeared neutral on the outside hoping to God they couldn't hear her teeth grinding or pulse pounding in her ears. It was all she could do to hold on just enough to her sanity before she did or said something really stupid - or both. Instead, she kept her mouth shut and focused on the task at hand...

Which currently was not taking her eyes off the female lizard for a single damn second.

The creature's large, bulgy amber eyes still checking Raphael out and April was starting to get really pissed off. No, and she was not overreacting for she knew that look well - she wore it for the first year of their relationship when all she wanted was to jump into Raphael's pants.

Aw screw the connotations, this alien obviously wanted to fuck him...and that was her job, dammit!

Pushing that to the back of her mind before she blew a gasket, she refocused for April still was unsure if they could/should be trusted. They were talking about something or other, she stopped listening awhile ago.

Half-listening for what had to be over ten minutes was when suddenly, Raphael spoke; found he couldn't pronounce her name when trying to address the female alien, he said Mona Lisa was a cool alternative was when April finally lost her shit.

About damn time.

Yes, April knew all about the famous Mona Lisa; one of Raphael's favorite paintings and he had to give the name of it to her of all people!?

All April knew is that she had quite enough...

Roughly grabbing the terrapin's arm, she dragged him into a rocky alcove while he was still talking (he was so shocked by her action that he allowed her), ignoring whatever confused voices of the Salamandrians were speaking about in their native tongue as she did so.

"Stop it." April demanded angrily, hands firmly on her hips and face flushed when they finally came to a stop behind a rocky outcropping hopefully far enough from their prying ears. The redhead hoping the language barrier was enough of a distraction they'd have trouble deciphering anyway.

"Stop what, April? Is something wrong?" Raph asked, genuinely confused.

Of course he didn't see what was wrong...April mused inwardly. Recalled just how many times she found herself coming onto him before he finally grabbed the bait...ugh... Stupid naive turtle who didn't know when a woman was blatantly throwing themselves at you...

"She likes you." April muttered, hating the way those words felt on her lips.

"Who?" Raph had the audacity to answer...

Clueless bastard.

"Y'Gabartha!" April announced probably louder than intended.

"Wait...they're both girls?!"

"No, you idiot! T-That Mona Lisa chick!" April mocked, saying "Mona Lisa" with air quotes and an obviously annoyed voice, "She keeps staring at you and it's pissing me off!" April growled lowly, her teeth grinding, fists rigid by her sides, and body felt as if it was about to spontaneously burst into unquenchable flames.

"She does?" Raph said, eyes bugging out and if he didn't think she noticed the flushing that appeared on his cheeks, he was sadly mistaken.

"Yes, now cut it out!"

"Cut what out? W-What do you mean, April? They're just helping us." Raph said, hands up in a placating matter when he finally realized April was set to detonate.

"Bullshit! I think she wants a new turtle toy to 'play' with and you're not helping matters with being all friendly and showing off!"

"How am I showing off?! Mona Lisa kicked my ass when we first met!"

"Yeah, and you liked it, didn't you!?" April was aware she was shouting but she couldn't care less at this point. Her cheeks were completely red by now and she was fighting back the burning of tears that developed in the backs of her eyes.

"April, what is up with you?!" Raph asked softly, reaching to touch her arm.

"Answer the question!" she yelled, pulling away from his touch as if it burned her skin.

"No! What is your problem?!"

"My problem, Raphael, is you are my boyfriend and don't even seem to care that t-that alien lizard woman is blatantly coming onto you!" April finished, chest heaving and by how tight her yellow jumpsuit was, it was rather distracting for the green-eyes terrapin to keep his eyes on her eyes instead of her chest. April's face fell; eyes suddenly finding her feet rather interesting as they both grew silent.

The atmosphere around them drew quiet and tense for a long moment. Both lost in their thoughts and the obvious stress viable surrounding them and their situation they were in.

It didn't last too long for Raphael's smooth voice broke it.

"...April..." Raph mumbled a moment later, bravely reaching and scooping a large thumb underneath her chin to keep her face level with his eyes (which was odd considering she was taller than him).

April surprised herself when she allowed him but her eyes remained fixated on the dirt below.

"Mona Lisa can come onto me all she wants... I ain't takin' that bait." he continued with a smirk, the words coming out smooth as silk and it was amazing when he didn't pat himself on the back after saying it.

"..." April didn't answer, her cheeks crimson at this point when he reached out to touch her further; hand rough and warm against her hip as she allowed him to pull her flush against his body where he rested it over her lower back. The redhead still had yet to look at him but he leaned over to nuzzle his nose over her cheek in a gesture she always seemed to like.

"She looks like those stupid girls you draw all the time..." she finally spoke after a moment, completely aware of how petty and stupid she was sounding but not giving a flying fuck about it. If anything, she deserved to sound this way right now.

Raphael pulled away a moment from her face to look at her and the sadness laced in her pretty blue eyes made his stomach clench involuntarily. While he was joking about this, it was obvious April was taking it seriously and he knew convincing her was his main objective at this point.

"So? April, the girls I drew were human females with green skin, right? I mean, growing up, me and my brothers are green. It's what I was used to and...I used to think if I ever got a girlfriend, she'd have to look kinda like me...because, let's face it. How else would a girl fall for this?" he asked, gesturing to himself and April finally met his eyes.

"Raph..."

"April, I never imagined I could be with someone as beautiful as you. How you looked beyond what I am to be with me is incredible, and let me tell ya, the only reason I don't draw you is because I know Mikey snoops in my room and the last thing I want him to find is some nude picts I'd draw of you...sometimes in very suggestive positions..." he said and the heartfelt thing he said previously faded with his wiggling brows and smirk accompaniment.

"You're a pig."

"Yeah, and you love it."

"Shut up..."

"But seriously, April." Raph said.

She was listening intensely to his words; gasping in surprise when his mouth was suddenly firmly pressed over hers. Pushing his wide tongue between her lips and teeth to battle with hers all while his hands cradled her like something unbelievably precious. Blue eyes slipping closed at the feeling; she allowed all the stress, tension, anxiety, and pettiness she felt toward their whole situation faded with his mouth over hers. The taste of him was something she'd missed like crazy for the hellish long time they'd already been up here.

April melted into his embrace...

When Raphael reluctantly pulled away, he cradled her face before continuing to speak, "I love you, April. You have nothing to worry about because to me, you're prettier than any girl in any galaxy 'cause you're mine. Besides, babe, don't you trust me?"

"Of course I do...I just don't trust her..." April grumbled, her eyes flicking toward where the Salamandrians were located.

"April, she's pretty but that doesn't mean I wanna start shacking up with her; you're the only girl for me. Okay? They're just helping, if anything, I'll just make our relationship stronger, dontcha think? Tell ya what, I know you said no PDA's but I think maybe we should start huh? Make it more apparent we're a couple in case anything else happens?"

"Okay..."

"Oh, and don't get me started on how that weird worm guy at port was checking you out yesterday - I didn't see you turning that down." he teased and April's eyes narrowed at the mental image of the 800 pound slimy, disgusting alien that slapped her butt when she passed his stand.

"Alright, Raph, you can shut up now." April grumbled even though she would readily admit it was unbelievably sexy when Raphael viciously threatened the same alien as soon as he found out. It almost got them all killed but the sentiment was not lost on her.

"Make me." he growled lowly with wiggling brow ridges and toothy grin; hand that was on her back now proudly cupping her ass.

April sighed for a moment but still couldn't help but take him up on his offer. Throwing her arms awkwardly around his heavily armored shoulders before insistently pressing her mouth on his and damn, did it feel good...

Y'Gythgba and G'thraka stood around awkwardly, pretending not to hear the strange sounds coming from behind the rock...

"So...what do you suppose they're doing?" Y'Gythgba asked lowly in her native tongue when the voices coming from that direction faded into some kind of strange popping noises and heavy breathing.

Her partner G'thraka standing dutifully at her side and he was inwardly questioning if this was really happening right now...

"I'd rather not know..." G'thraka admitted lowly and the indications had both of them growing stone silent as they waited for the couple to reappear.