Author's Note: Please People don't kill me (running from reviewer's carrying torches and pitchforks)! I'm sorry, but I needed to start this next story. Please read and review and tell me if it is worth continuing. And I will still continue If You Could Change a Night.

Chapter 1

Well I should probably introduce myself. My name is Ella. Ella Hamato Johnson. You could say that I was a normal human being, but you would be so far off with that statement. See my father is a mutated rat named Splinter Hamato. He was his Master Yoshi's pet rat who mutated when he got ooze on him from my brothers. Their names are Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello. My brothers were standard pet shop turtles. Then they mutated after coming into contact with Utrom ooze.

So anyway, my father found me when I was three years old. My mother and father were both killed by Purple Dragons, and I was left to wander the streets aimlessly, when I met an old rat who took me to his home. I grew up learning the art of ninjitsu and grew up in the safety of the sewers. Under New York City. With four turtle brothers and a rat for a father.

So when I was eighteen I met a human man who seemed like the perfect man. My father disapproved but I felt like I should go with him, and I did. Little did I know that the perfect man that I thought that I loved was everything but perfect. I married Samuel Johnson two months after leaving my family for this man. I kept in touch with my family but I didn't tell them what Sam did to me.

When I was nineteen I became pregnant. I gave birth nine months later to a beautiful baby girl. Sam loved her for two years but the past two years have been a hell for her and me. He began to hit her. I tried to take most of the blows for my daughter but sometimes, there wasn't a lot I could do. Especially when I passed out from the pain.

I remember the day that I left. Allie and I had been curled up in a room when we heard Sam come in. Too drunk to care about anything but inflicting harm upon us. He removed his belt once he found us and made to hit Al. I didn't let him and took about forty blows to my back. Then I passed out and couldn't save my daughter from the horror of her father. When I came to, I saw Allie in a corner rocking back and forth, belt stripes left down her back. I cried when I saw them.

"Allie, we need to go," I told her in a low tone. I grabbed a duffel bag, ignoring the pain in my back. I stuffed it full of her clothes and added a pair of jeans for me and a few shirts and a pair of shorts. Then I carefully picked her and the bag up and left the apartment. The sun was rising, it was a dull pink color. I carefully maneuvered her and went down the nearest manhole. I took great pains to cover our trail. I walked with her through the sewers and took her to the lair.

I walked into a lair full of activity. Mike was watching TV, Leo and Raph were sparring and Donnie was staring at his computer. I set my daughter down and whistled loudly enough to grab all their attentions. Mike hugged me but stopped when he saw me wince.

"Sis, what's wrong?" I began to cry, while Mike tenderly wrapped me in his arms.

"I made a mistake. A horrible one. And Allie had to suffer the consequences." I told him snuffling after sobbing into his arms.

"Mommy?" I heard a tentative voice say.

"Yes baby?" I asked her.

"Is daddy gonna hurt me here?" she asked in a small voice. Raph's face contorted with anger as did Don's and Leo's.

"No," I told her. She nodded.

"Sam hurt her?" Donnie asked.

"Hurt mommy too!" Allie said nodding her head. "More so than me. She pro- pro - teded me." I looked at my furious brothers.

"Allie cat," I looked at her. "Let me see your back and then I will introduce you to your uncles and your grandfather, after I speak with daddy." Allie trusted me completely and allowed me to take off her shirt. I looked at the injury and gasped. Her back was bloody and bruised. I silently communicated with Don and he left to get some supplies and a topical. When he approached she tensed visibly.

"Allie, he won't hurt you. I promise. He is my brother. The most gentle of all my brothers." I told her. The guys grinned and sat cautiously in the chairs around the couch. I washed her back and applied the topical.

"Now, Mr. Doctor, fix my mommy!" Allie told Donnie. I laughed.

"You can tell she's your child. Already giving Donnie orders!" Mike said laughing. Donnie came over to me and told me to remove my shirt. I did so and my brothers could see the extent of my injuries, old and new. Donnie hissed in anger and began patching me up best as he could. When he was finished with his administrations he wrapped me up in bandages.

"Now the one in orange is your Uncle Mikey," I told Allie. "Uncle Leo is blue, Uncle Raph is red, and Uncle Donnie is purple," I pointed out each one to her. She smiled and just sat closer to me.

"I'll tell you the story after I speak with father. Where is he?" I told Leo, noticing the command he was giving me. He pointed and I silently left for my fathers room.