Note: My assumption is that they will add in a later one episode love interest for Donatello in 2k12 just to add some April/Donnie drama. My guess for that love interest: that Jhanna blue alien chick they put in 2k3 (I never even watched 2k3, so correct me if I'm wrong).

So here is April with the crush for a change (though she's clearly trying to fight it).

Disclaimer: Me no owny.

.

.

One Jealous Kunoichi... (And One Oblivious Ninja).

.

.

.

The guys were excited as they gathered around Donnie back in the lair. April changed the channel, frustrated and trying to avoid all the turtles. She had been out on a mission with Casey earlier but knowing that alien girl was making eyes at Donnie elsewhere made her less than ideal company for her vigilante companion. She snapped at Casey several times and came back in a foul mood, pouting at Master Splinter before sitting in front of the TV and pulling her knees up, letting her arms wrap around herself, her back pressed hard against the couch.

It shouldn't really bother her that much. Donatello didn't complain when she had that date with Casey so she had no right to complain the moment anyone became interested in him. But it still niggled at the insides of her stomach and she blew out a huff of irritation.

"Way to go Donnie." Mikey clamped his older brother on the back. "She kissed you man!"

"Didn't see that one coming," Leo wore an amused smirk and patted his brother on the head before going toward April in front of them. Donnie swatted both of them away with the remnants of a blush tinting his face.

"I don't care what you guys say, that chick was crazy." Raph grunted and followed Leonardo.

So the girl kissed him. April was torn between being annoyed at learning that and being curious about it. She wondered how it felt, for the alien girl... and for Donnie as well. Did he like it? Should she ask him if he liked it?

Duh April. How stupid could she be? Of course he liked it. Why wouldn't he like it? Just because it was with some blue, alien with freakish long hair and not, you know, a redheaded kunoichi with a quick-wit and a knack for technology... April couldn't even remember the last time that she felt so jealous over something as petty as this. Oh, yes she could. That time that Donnie implied Karai was a better kunoichi than she was. She was feeling a bit petty and jealous then. But now it was even worse.

What would it have been like if she had been the one to kiss Donnie? She couldn't help herself from wondering even though she hadn't really thought about it before. Sure, it may have crossed her mind briefly but she shook the thought from her usually as soon as it entered in. They were friends. It wasn't feasible. I mean, sure they had a special connection and everything but that was it. It didn't have to be romantic... it was already special.

"You shoulda seen it Ape," Michelangelo dropped down beside her on the couch and was given such a hostile glare that he jumped to the other side of it giving her a cheesy, half-apologetic grin. "I mean the girl kicked major butt and then she just grabbed Donnie and planted one on him. I think she was confusing him for me, but still it was pretty awesome."

Raph flicked him in the side of his face as he went by them, pausing to acknowledge April too. "So what about you? You and Case discover anything?"

April's face burned. "Nope. Not a thing." Her insides squirmed. She didn't even dare look behind her to where Donnie was. She must have been positively radiating with all her jealousy right now. It was embarrassing and it wasn't fair! Ever since they'd met Donatello had treated her like she was something special and she viewed him the same way. Some other girl wasn't supposed to come in and see what she saw in Donnie even if it was some alien that needed to get back to her home planet!

Donnie was standing behind her now, she could feel him, approaching apprehensively, questioning even. He could read her pretty well... was he able to tell...? Because she'd been out with Casey and he probably thought she was happier with that arrangement. She thought she had been but now she knew for sure that wasn't the case. Hesitantly she glanced up, there was a goofy expression on his face. "Well it's okay, we managed to get Jhanna back to her planet safely, so you know, all in a day's work."

She knew that expression. That lovesick expression and it only ticked her off even more. She didn't want to see him like that. Just not about somebody else, that little voice in her head told her.

"Yeah, it's hard work to be a hero," Mikey put in, "Kissing alien broads and all that." April glared the glare of death at him again and he scrambled even further on the edge of the couch until he was falling off. He got up, dusted himself off and tried to save face. "Well, I'll be going now. See ya guys."

The living space had cleared out pretty quickly. Everyone else had seemingly picked up on the hint from April except for poor oblivious Donnie, still hanging around. Donatello sat down in Mikey's place, giving a small smile to April. "We really could have used the backup tonight," he told her earnestly. It wasn't as easy as they were making it out to be clearly.

"Oh really?" She snapped, turning her head to him. "What could have you used me for? Kissing techniques? A lookout? Someone to help your new girlfriend into her spaceship?"

Donnie was clearly affronted. He hadn't expected that reaction from April. He recoiled as if he'd been slapped. "Are you okay? April?" He said gently, a hand reaching out toward her tentatively that she chose to ignore.

"I'm fine," she grumbled, getting up. She was lying. She was probably going to spend all night staring at the ceiling and wondering why she just couldn't get over the thought of her turtle friend with a romantic entanglement with an alien. "I just had a boring night, that was all. Casey led us the wrong way and by the time we got to the place all the files were already gone."

"Oh." Donnie replied quietly. "You want to talk about it?"

"Not really. I just really want to go to sleep Donnie." She wanted to get away from him because it hurt too much to dwell on it. And she didn't want to be hurt and she didn't want to be jealous and she didn't want to be acting ridiculous like this as if she had no control over her emotions. She didn't own Donatello. She didn't own any of the turtles and it wasn't fair of her to act as if she did.

"Okay."

She started off toward the room she stayed in but suddenly stopped herself and pivoted back toward him. It was going to haunt her forever if she didn't ask. "What was it like?"

"Huh?"

"The kiss. What was it like?"

"Oh." For a second she didn't want him to answer, like she didn't want to know. "Uh, I don't know. Alright? I didn't get much say in it."

"Would you have kissed her? If you had to make the first move?"

He sounded confused. "Probably not. I just didn't think I was her type. I mean how could I be?"

She was being selfish, she could see that now. And childish... it was wrong. A pang struck her heart. "How could you not be? Any girl would be lucky to even have half a chance with a guy as great as you." And she was that any girl.

He blushed. "Thanks April."

"No problem." It was true. And now she rocked on her feet, awkward with heat rising up her neck for the first time ever around her mutant friend. It was like a huge chasm had opened up between them, in just the few feet that they were apart. It hit her that she had feelings for him and now it wasn't ever going to go back to how it was. "I'll um, be going to bed." She gave a swift nod and turned away from him wishing the ground would swallow her up (but then she probably still wouldn't be free from the embarrassment then as he'd jump right in to save her). Going to bed to have a restless night thinking about what it might have been like if she'd been bold enough to make the first move on Donnie? Most certainly.

Suddenly her "special" relationship with the turtle just didn't cut it any more. This changed everything.

.

.

.