April walked through the trees in the direction Mikey told her she would find him. She rubbed her arms as she sped up and broke into a clearing. Even with the warmth of the sun, the chilly spring air bit against her skin. She knew she should have brought a coat.
She stopped suddenly and had to do a double take. On a sunny patch of grass among large rocks there was an oval shaped rock, too smooth and rounded to be a regular boulder. She walked up to him slowly, expecting him to rise when he heard her. She wasn't trying to walk silently and the boys had incredible ninja senses, it was nearly impossible to creep up on them. A seed of worry grew in her chest when he didn't stir. From behind him she couldn't even tell if he was breathing and she ran the last few yards up to him, stepping around him to see his face.
He seemed fine, just dozing in the sun with a contented smile on his face. She reached for him and had to pull her hand back quickly with a gasp, surprised at the heat that almost burned her fingertips when they brushed his carapace.
Her hand returned a moment later, carefully feeling the heat coming off his dark shell with the palm. Her cold fingers travelled along the fevered leathery skin of an arm, along his shoulder and neck to rest on his cheek and he seemed to rouse only then, turning slightly to face her, opening his eyes slowly and giving her a lazy smile.
She felt freezing in comparison to him and she couldn't help but shift a bit closer to soak in some of the warmth he was radiating. He only blinked up at her, as if in a daze or a dream, his pupils blown wide while he peered at her from under his heavy eyelids. He lifted his arm slowly and cupped her cheek mimicking her gesture and searing her skin.
"Donnie?" She whispered shyly but he didn't respond.
It was as if he were in a trance, stroking her cool, freckled skin with a thumb and sliding his fingers against her hair. He wouldn't have made such a bold gesture if he'd been completely awake, would have probably been too embarrassed to do something like that but right now he was only content and sleepy. April liked him this way, the others could wait or start eating lunch without them, she no longer cared.
She leaned into his large hand, pressing her face against it and sliding her arms around him as she lowered herself against his heated body. "So wa~arm." She sighed into his neck as he curled around her, his long limbs drawing her further into his embrace before dozing off again. She decided she'd worry about getting him back to the farmhouse after a nice, warm nap.