" PUZZLES AND RIDDLES"
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"Loose threats"
" Mikey I am so sorry, I never meant to do that!"
" It's okay, Mons I've said that a dozen of by times now, it's ok."
" But I should nor have done that. You could have been killed!"
"I wasn't, Mons, so don't worry about it tot.."
" Oh Mikey, I'm so sorry,"
" Sorry is not going to help you young lady…" Don's eyes were fixed on the young girl while he wrapped Mikey's arm in a sling and bandage. " now go and make yourself useful and bring me some clean cloths for the sling."
The young girl sulked, she clearly looked very sad for what had happened. Her broad green brows were lowered and her hazel eyes were very wet, and she sighed and turned her shell to the two adult turtles and went out of the lab.
" You don't have to be so hard on her ,Don," Mikey said shortly after Mona left.
" She needs to learn that she wont get anywhere with that attitude." Don took the scissor and cut the thread on Mikey's arm. " Move your fingers,"
Mikey did as his brother instructed him to, and gently moved his fingers in circles.
" Fine," don said and rolled away on the chair over to the backside table. " the stitches will have to me removed in a week."
" It was my own fault," Mikey said.
Don turned his head around and looked in the direction of his brother. " Mikey, you don't have to take the blame for her, she needs to learn."
" Well I just feel so bad for what I did… I tricked her off on purpose."
" Yeah right, and you accidentally jumped into the glass cubbard on purpose too?" don snorted. " I bet that if you haven't had training in ninjitsu, you would have been a living glass hedgehog by now."
" I tripped over the panel." Mikey continued.
" Let's say that you did, but Mona was still the one pushing you." Don rolled back on the chair to Mikey and took his arm. There was a short silence while don examined his brothers arm, and then he asked. " I was just wondering, what did you do to trick her off like that?"
" When she turned her shell to me, I accidentally came to smack her behind…"
Mona stiffned when she heard the scream coming from the lab. She was standing in the kitchen closing the closet, when she heard the terrifying cry from her youngest uncle, and immediately ran to the lab. She had the clean clothes in her hands and was standing breathing heavily while trying to get a hold on the situation in the lab.
Mikey sat on the same chair he had left him in, and was bended over in a very awkward position as if he had just got a kick to the abdomen, and held a hand on the damaged arm. What had happened here, Mona thought at took her gaze to her father. Donatello was standing by the metal sink and washing his hands.
" What happened to Mikey?" Mona asked.
Don turned around and looked at his daughter. " Oh!" it clearly looked like he was not trying to hide the fact that he knew about Mikey. " Mona I'm so sorry," Don said taking some paper to dry of his hands. He walked over to his daughter who tried to get a hold on the situation and looked confused from Mikey to don several times.
" You… you're sorry?" she asked.
" Oh yes, Mikey explained the situation," Don smiled and took the clothes in her hands and padded her cheek. " I think I owe you and apology, sweetheart."
Mona looked at Mikey who was still in pain, but the tears in his eyes seemed to have stopped flowing.
" Dad, what did you…?" she said before don interrupted her and cupped her face with both his hands.
" No one touches my daughter, and gets away with it," Don said. " Remember that sweetheart,"
Mona placed a hand on her fathers hand and nodded slightly. Her eyes never leaving his. Don smiled and nodded back and then kissed his daughters forehead. " I have to go now, Leo needs his medication."
" Hmm mm," Mona nodded and remembered her oldest uncle, Leonardo, who had been hurt badly on his trip back from Asia. He now needed to be on morphine most of the time. Mona watched her father walk away but knew it wouldn't be long before she would start a row.
It was hard to see in the dark in this part of the city of New York. The forrest of the foot hill mountains were a peaceful place at this time a year, and to see the sundown from here was a magnificent sight. A lone stranger stepped out of the forrest, and stood by a hill top and enjyod the truly beautiful sight.
" Really?" the teenage boy asked. " So your father just took a hold of the stitches and almost ripped them out?"
" Just enough to make Mikey cry!" Mona said. " Geez he's so overprotective of me!"
The young boy nodded. His so-called cousin, Mona, sat together with him on an old pile of bricks in the darkness of the old lair. If anyone would take a look at the couple, no one would ever think that they were family. Family by heart. Hector Jones was the son of the turtles best friends, April O'Neil and Casey Jones, and he loved his cousin, Mona, as his own sister. They had grown up together, and learned to accept each other differences, biological, physical and social ways. Hector had learned to accept that Mona, was different and would never be like the other friends he had, and perhaps for some reason he liked that. She was different and he liked that. He smiled and took her hand.
" You know, you ought to tell uncle Don about what happened. You know the thruth."
" What!?" Mona turned her eyes and they became quite big. "Are you crazy! You know what he did to Mikey! I could never do that! What do you think he might do to him then? No, dad will probably just kill him the whole way! God, hector! What have I done!?"
" You haven't done anything, Mona." Hector took an arm around his ´sister´.
" How did Casey act when Marissa told you all about her first boyfriend?" Mona asked. " Did he also try to kill him!"
" At first, yes." Hector said and Mona began to shrug her head over and over again. " But, he learned to accept it in time."
" They are practically brothers, hector! They live together! Besides I don't know if it is real or not! F#ck, it only just happened to me! I'm rather shocked to! For god sake he's my uncle, hector. Why do I have to feel this way about him? Why couldn't it have been you?"
Hector took Mona in to a more firm hug.
" I dunno Mons, I really don't."
" How long do you think it will last, Donny?" April asked on the phone.
" To be frank, I really don't know, April," Don sighed. " but somehow I think that this is it. This time we have to be prepared for the worst…"
It was quiet for a while on the phone. Don could hear April take long breaths and finally cough before she spoke again. " Will Leo then be able to take his place?"
" I've talked to Leo, and he himself hope so," Don said. " But he and I both know that we have to be strong in this, and it probably will be different for us. I'm just afraid about how Mona will react, she and Leo are like what we used to know as 'Raph and Leo', try to get her to obey Leo, and she has never lost someone before. She only has a limited number of family members, and if one of them shall soon leave us…. I dunno…."
" It's all right Donny, you know we'll all be there for her." April said. " and besides she's a strong beautiful girl. Especially with a father like you… so what could possibly ever get to her?"
Don smiled. " Yeah, but you don't have to make me happy April," he said. " I am as happy as I need to be. Mona is my world, I would always be there fore here."
" I know, Don." April smiled. " So will I. But remember, if she ever gets cross with you again like today, you'll just know she will come to you again right away. She's a very passionate girl, very emotional…"
There was a short pause from both the phones. Don blinked a few times and leaned his elbow on the table and sighed. " I have to go now, April."
" I know don, I'm sorry. "
" That's ok. See you later."
" Yes. Bye Donny. Love you."
" Love you too. Give my regards to your husband." " click" Don hung up the phone and rubbed his face in his hands. He felt tired and used for the day. But he knew, that since Leo was recovering from his scars and infections, and Splinter was lying in bed, he had to get the help for the rest of the day from Mikey. He sighed when thinking of Mikey. His brother really haven't meant any harm in touching Mona, but somehow Don had felt so confused and hurt, so afraid to loose his daughter, that he had chosen to take certain actions in use, and punishing Mikey like he had done earlier that day, had only gotten Mona into an even darker mood. She was deffinently the most passionate and emotional girl Don had ever known and her cocky attitude could sometimes frighten him.
Don found it hard to be a single father to a young girl, and many years ago he had been able to read on his homework when it came to females and how they 'worked'. Mona was only seven when her first so-called 'time' had come, and it meant that in those periods, everyone in the Lair needed to be aware of the fact that almost anything could trick her off. But when she was over her time, she was that sweet little innocent intellectual girl that was more into science, knowledge and creating things from her own imagination, as he had always enjoyed to watch. But for all that he knew, was that his daughter meant everything to him, even know after she and him had had another big row…
Don sighed and stood up and walked over to take the coffee in the kettle he had made hours ago. He needed to be up running the rest of the day, but first he needed to get Mikey's help. He put the cup aside and walked out into the living area of the Lair and found his youngest brother sitting by the big drawing desk he had made for him years ago.
" If you come to put me in any more pains, Don, then let me just finish this outcast of my next page," Mikey said without looking up from the cartoon. " I need to be finished within the week."
" I'm sorry for later, Mikey," don said. " and no, I think you have had enough."
Mikey looked up. " You need to know I never mean any harm. It's just hard in her times…"
" Leo has told me the same," Don said and leaned up the table. " He says that even though he's devoted to Karai, he's still attracted by Mona in the times. But it is only natural… in the animal kingdom. Our human instincts finds it wrong… better she's with Hector then.."
" She's together with Hector!?" Mikey suddenly lived up.
" Er, yes," Don looked a little confused. " She feels more secure around him. You know that."
" Are you never afraid of the fact that she might.. I dunno, kiss him perhaps?" Mikey said.
" It is normal to kiss," don said raising a brow. " But I know she's not in love with him, so I never think about it."
" Oh, okay," Mikey sat back in the chair just as quiet and laid the pencil on the table. " I see…"
" Come on, Mikey. We need to be finish with the list before the day's over." Don said and walked to the garage. " The shell cycle has to be finished soon and first."
Mikey got up from the chair and followed his brother. " I still can't believe that you are actually giving Mona Raph's old bike, what if he comes back to claim it and it is suddenly pink?!"
" You and me both know that Mona doesn't like pink, Mikey," Don said and walked into the garage. He went over to the small table standing in the end of the garage and took on a pair of goggles and a pair of working gloves. " And we also know that Raph is never coming back."
A/N:Tam da da da daaah! Hope you liked the beginning of my little new story. And don't worry, I havev't forgot about LBB, it is still in progress, but somehow I had to write this new story!