I tried to do a whole complete story arc years ago, but not only do I have a really hard time keeping a consistent story line because different scenarios jump in my head all the time, but I hate my old character. She is a regret that I have scrapped. So here's a new one, a more realistic one, and here's a bunch of collective one shots in time I'll do when I have time (Which is a thing; yay graduating). It'll have a flow, but I won't have to keep exact story lines together. Weee.
Raph knew April had told them her cousin was staying with her for a few weeks, but that was a month ago; he was certain the nuisance had left by now, or at least that's how he'd justify it. The turtles had barely been able to visit their friend since she'd told them the news, and he was determined to drag her down to the lair for Mikey's proposed movie night, even if she came kicking and screaming. So, when he scaled the fire escape to the window of April's living room and climbed in, he was a little surprised at who walked out of the bathroom at that moment.
Dana never expected to come out of her shower to some enormous green man-thing in her cousin's living room, so she found it completely understandable to let out an ear-shattering shriek as she clutched her towel closer to her. What was he here for? Did he break into the house? Why was he just standing in the living room if he was a burglar? WHY WAS HE GREEN? After recovering from having his eardrums destroyed, the large, like magic steroid large, green man-beast growled out at her.
"What, you gonna faint 'cuz a monster's in your place?" He looked like he was used to this kind of response, which made sense to Dana, all things considered. She opened her mouth to answer, sputtering nonsense until some semblance of thought came through her mouth.
"Well, no!" She stammered, "but, I, I'm very naked and, you, you're VERY alarming!" Wow. That sounded stupid, she thought, great first impression. He chortled, not expecting such a stupid answer to come from the white-faced girl in front of him. As if by magic, April entered from her bedroom, stopping dead in her tracks as she became aware of the situation unfolding. She turned toward the big green bulge, that's what Dana had decided to refer to him until she had a name, and glared. Dana was confused; just a glare for a man who entered the house through the fucking window? April then turned toward Dana, rubbing her temples.
"You're gonna want to get dressed before we start explaining things. He's friendly, I promise. Well, kind of." The bulge scowled in April's direction, clearly very unaccepting of being talked of like some kind of pet. Nonetheless, Dana turned on her heels to the spare bedroom to quickly change and dry off. This was going to be a weird night.
After Dana had made her self publicly appropriate, she came back into the living room, seating herself cautiously in the armchair at the opposite end of the couch where the bulge resided and let him and April explain. It turned out that around last year, they'd met in a scenario that sounds like an action movie; the bulge, whose name was Raphael, which was a very fancy name for a mutant turtle ninja man, which is apparently what he was, and his brothers are vigilantes and saved April and a bunch of people in the subway and yadda yadda, they ended up saving New York from this Japanese gang thing. Dana had never expected April to get into that much trouble, but apparently anything is possible. The younger girl sat in silence, too shocked to process very quickly. After a few minutes, she turned, brow furrowed, to Raphael's direction.
"There are 4 of you?! Where do you hide, on the moon?!" She knew that was dramatic; this situation called for it. Raphael snorted.
"No, princess. Think much lower. Listen, you better not go around tellin' people about us. Others ain't as friendly when they see a giant turtle, understand?" He huffed, turning his attention to April after he received a furious nod from the new girl, "Anyway, I came to ask you if you wanted to come down to the lair; Mikey's havin' a movie night, but seein' as you got company, I'll get outta your hair." He rose to leave, when Dana jumped up, possessed by the weird need to see his other brothers.
"Wait! I can keep secrets, and, uh, and I'd like to come down with you guys. Right, April?" April raised a dark eyebrow, simultaneously confused and annoyed with her cousin. She didn't quite understand why she wanted to go, nor did she want to have to mediate any argument that broke out with Raphael. Surprisingly, the turtle rolled his eyes, and actually chuckled.
"Not tonight, princess. But I'll tell you what, you keep our little secret and I'll think about it next time. I'll see you later, Ape." He had to head home and deal with explaining his fuck up as it was, he didn't need to babysit, too. He crawled his way out of the window and made his way to the rooftop, hearing a loud voice from where he'd just come from as he left,
"My name's Dana, by the way!"