(A/N): Just wanted to give a HUGE thank you to my beta reader Alex Hamato for her help with this fic. She's awesome! ;-)
Summary: After the Tengu Shredder injuries Karai she, is bought to April's home by the turtles for help. Though soon after she heals, she begins having disturbing dreams about Chaplin being tortured by the Shredder. Despite her remaining injuries, she sets out to find him after one of her nightmares was too sadistic, and realistic to ignore. But she is followed by a curious April. After being attacked the two are not able to turn back and must flee in the opposite direction of help. They must now choose to either rely on each other for survival or perish. Rather it be because of the Tengu Shredder, or because of their seemingly, undying hatred for each other.
Disclaimer: TMNT is not mine. I own nothing.
Karai pulled at her chains in an attempt to free herself but with no prevail and winced as the cuffs around her wrist grew tighter. She felt her hands become slightly numb as it began harder for blood to flow to them. No doubt a Tengu spell. She thought to herself with a grim expression on her face. She released a sigh mixed with frustration, hopelessness, defeat, hatred, but most of all, shame. Many things were going through her head as she angrily leaned her head forward before slamming it back against the brick wall she was chained to. The pain that came as a result of the action was overshadowed by the anger boiling inside of her. She closed her eyes and said a silent apology to her father for her failure.
She wrinkled her nose as a tang of blood filled her nose her again. April did the same. The two of them had shed much of it in the past 24 hours. Some of it was from their own, some was from the large number of the Tengu's soldiers they had to stand against and some even belonged the other.
"I'm going to ask you again." April said. She did not look at Karai when she spoke. She stared straight ahead with a scowl on her face. "Why did you leave?" April twitched and her nostrils flared when Karai did not respond. "Answer me!" She snapped suddenly. She caused Karai to jump, but still got no answer. Karai only turned her head far away. She still was not willing to tell April her true intentions for leaving. Her reasoning was no one's business but her own. After everything they had been through, she was not prepared to reveal that she had done all of this for him.
Karai did not respond. April snorted and laughed darkly. "Whatever, not like it actually matters anymore." She muttered to herself.
And it did not.
Because in just a few hours, maybe less than that, the two of them would die along with any hope of saving the world.
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