So this is the first chapther of the sequel to "Given and Taken", so if you haven't read the that one, you should, before starting this one.

I hope you enjoy :)

TMNT (c) Mirage

Amy (c) me

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Chapter 1: What really happened, part 1

It was all over. Over were Winters and his stone army, over were the monsters and the portal to other world. Over was the shock of Leo's sudden return. Well, at least it looked like it.

It was over a month after turtles, Splinter and Amy had defeated Winters' stone brotherhood and their monsters.

Raph had forgiven Leo for his year of absence, Mikey was just happy to see his family together again.

Don was happy too, but was still little angry at Leo how he had left and how things had gone for Leo and Amy.

And Amy didn't know should she be angry or happy with Leo being back.

It was night time, and Amy went downstairs, where her three brothers were watching a movie.

Well, at least it looked like that, but in reality they all had fell asleep before the movie had gone half way through.

When she got to entertainment center, Mikey, Don and Raph were sleeping on the couch, on the floor and on the chair.

She smiled a little. She have been doing this for almost a year, going to bed before the others, waking up couple hours later, going downstairs, waking up his brothers and putting them into the bed.

She turned off the TV, which woke Raph up from the floor.

"Wha- What happened?" he asked, sitting up and looking at Amy with stunned face.

"The movie ended Raph. It's time to get bed" Amy said.

"Oh. What time it's?" Raph asked, while Amy started to wake Mikey up.

"Something around eleven and twelve," she answered, "Mikey, wake up. You can't sleep here."

"You won't get 'im up like that. Wake up, knucklehead!" Raph said and yelled at Mikey's ear.

Mikey woke up and fell to the floor.

"Whaat? I was having a really nice dream, and then you scream in my ear" Mikey said, and looked at Raph, who too was sitting on the floor.

While Raph laughed at Mikey, Amy started to wake Don up.

"Donny, wake up and help me get your brothers to their beds" Amy said, slapping gently Don on the face.

"Do ya want me to wake 'im up too?" Raph asked.

"No thank you. I already woke up when you woke Mikey up" Don said and opened his eyes.

"The movie ended already?" Don asked and stretched himself.

"Yeah. I don't get it why do you stay here and watch TV when you know you're gonna fall asleep" Amy said.

"It's a bad habit."

"I like it."

"I can't sleep without TV."

All three turtles said at the same time. Amy sighed.

"You go to your beds, before you sleep again" Amy said, and looked at the table, which was covered with garbage and leftovers.

"Are you really going to clean that? You know you can do it tomorrow" Don said.

"Nah, I'll do it now. I don't feel so sleepy anymore and beside I'll just get mad to myself if I don't do it now" Amy said.

Then she looked at Don, meaning that if he didn't go up now, he would have to help her clean.

Amy smiled and turned around to clean.

"You really know how to keep them in order. Or should I say, us in order?"

Amy stopped when she heard the voice. A voice that used to make her feel only happiness, and now was filled with feelings from happiness to anger.

She turned around to see Leo close to staircases, standing in the shadows.

"Yeah, well I've always been able to do that" Amy said, and turned around again.

"Mind if I help you?" Leo asked and without an answer started to clean with Amy.

They worked in silence for almost ten minutes, before they got all the trashes to the trashcan.

They got in upstairs and Amy turned around to look at Leo.

"Well, goodnight then, and thanks for the help" she said and turned around to open the door.

But Leo stopped her for not entering the room, by grasping her wrist.

"You've been avoiding me ever since I got back" Leo said, his face really close to Amy's.

"You want to explain that?" And without a warning he opened the door behind her and pushed her in.

"What are you doing? This is my room, and you're entering without permission" Amy said, angry with Leo's action, trying not to feel any kind of affection on that same action.

"I know you're angry with me for leaving like that being away for a year, but you haven't really even talked to me. I want to know what you have been doing while I was gone. I know from Mikey and Donnie that you wrote to one magazine. And I know almost everything

what you've been doing while I was gone. But I was hoping to get to hear your story" Leo said, looking at Amy with intense look.

"Fine then, I'll tell you, because it seems that you won't leave before I tell you" Amy said and sat down on her bed.

"You better sit down too, this is going to be a long story" Amy said, and Leo sat down.

"I want you to only listen, nothing else but listen. I don't like to be interrupted. When I'm finished you can leave if you want to, you can talk if you want. But after I've finished, okay?" Amy asked.

Leo nodded. He realized that her temper had gone maybe even worse or then she just was angry with him.

Amy took a deep breath before she started.

"It's better if I start from beginning, after you left."

Year before, after Leo was gone

Amy sat on the floor, tears still falling from her eyes. Don walked over her.

"Come Amy. You can't stay here forever" he said.

He took Amy's hand on his own, to get Amy up from the floor.

"I'll take you to your room and I'll bring tea for you, okay?" Don asked.

Amy nodded and Don started to pull Amy with him to the upstairs. He had picked the picture from the floor without Amy noticing it.

"Mikey, clean that up for me, okay?" Don asked when they passed him and Raph by.

"Why I sh..." Mikey started, but then Don looked at him with a face that looked more likely to be Leo or Amy's face.

"Sorry, I'll start right away" Mikey said.

In Amy's room, Don put Amy sat on her bed and put the picture to her nightstand.

"I'm going to get some tea for you, so just wait for me, okay?" Don asked, and turned around.

"Donny, please don't go" Amy said quietly.

Don smiled and sat next to Amy and wrapped his arm around her.

"Will six months go fast?" she asked like a little girl.

"Faster than you think, he will be back before you'll notice" Don said.

"When he gets back, do you think he still loves me?" Amy asked.

"Of course he does" Don said and hugged Amy little tighter.

Amy put her head on Don's shoulder and smiled a little.

"Thanks, Donny" she said.

"No problem, Amy" Don said and leaned his cheek against Amy's head.

They were like that for half an hour before Don realized that Amy had fallen asleep. He put her in bed and left the room.

Almost immediately when he had left the room, Raph and Mikey attacked him.

"What was that about?" Mikey asked.

"Yeah, I know it's sad that Leo left, but isn't that little too much?" Raph asked.

"Come, I'll explain everything in here" Don said and walked to his room.

It was time to tell the truth, at least to Mikey and Raph. Amy had said that she would like to tell them the truth. And now when they saw how badly Amy had taken Leo's sudden leave; they would start thinking and realize what was really going on.

"Okay, I know this might feel weird, but the truth is that Amy and Leo loves each other" Don said.

Raph's mouth opened a little bit.

"So what? We all love Amy and we all love Leo," Mikey said, "so why does Amy feel so heart... Oh!" Mikey said after he had realized.

"But... But they're brother and sister. Isn't that wrong?" he asked.

"Well, they're brother and sister in our family. They've been raised in the same family, but they aren't a real brother and sister. They just fell for each other, it can't be helped" Don said.

"So that's why Amy's so heart broken. Leo got some nerve to leave her like that" Raph said angrily, even though Don wasn't sure was he talking

about Amy's or his own feelings.

"So how long have you know?" Mikey asked.

"For some time now. But you can't tell her it immediately when she wakes up. Master Splinter doesn't know and I don't think Amy or Leo want him to know yet, okay?" Don said, looking at his two brothers.

Both of them nodded.

"Great. Now let Amy be for awhile, she fell asleep, but you can talk to her later" Don said.

"I think we all want to be alone for awhile" Raph said and stood up.

"I'm gonna see Casey" he said and left the room.

Mikey and Don watched as he walked away, then Mikey turned to see Don.

"What now?" he asked.

"I really don't know" Don said.

Days went by and soon it was weeks, and before they knew, it was months. Don had decided that they should have jobs for them, to get some money.

Splinter wasn't feeling so well at the moment and they needed medicine, and they couldn't ask for Casey and April, who had they own problems with the money, now when they were finding a new place to live.

Don was the first one to get any. He started to take phone calls when people had problems with their computers and tried his best to help them that way.

Amy was the second. She had noticed an add where a new magazine wanted someone to write on the magazine stories. The magazine was meant for children and young people, it would be best if the same writer was with them from the beginning.

Mikey made his own job. He started doing kids' parties, dressing up like a big turtle (which meant he would put a giant turtle head in his head) and going to kids' parties. First Don and Amy were against it, because it could make people realize what Mikey really was.

But after Mikey had explained them what he had been thinking and Don had promised to help him, Mikey could start his new job.

Raph was the only one, who wasn't doing anything. The only thing was that he slept all day.

"Don't worry about him" Don said to Amy, who had come to talk to Don about her worries about Raph.

"He probably doesn't want to get up from bed before its 3 pm, or then he just stays up all night. You know Raph."

"Yeah, I think you're right" Amy said.

Amy had understood Don's reasons to tell Raph and Mikey the truth about her and Leo, and she had talked about it with Mikey.

When they were working they didn't have anymore time to each others and even less time to train or patrol the city.

Raph, who slept all days, rarely even talked to other family, and when he was awake, he was almost everyday angry.

While Mikey, Don and Amy were coming even closer together, Raph didn't want to be close to his brothers. Only one he really could talk was Amy and master Splinter, and of course Casey.

After one night when Raph and Don had fought about how Don had took the leader's place that clearly didn't belong to him, according to Raph. Don on the other had got angry with Raph when he thought he had taken the leader's position on free will.

He had taken it because it was clear they couldn't trust Raph or Mikey to handle it.

"Are you saying I'm immature?!" Raph had yelled.

"No! I think you're irresponsible! Your temper had always been the one to separate us; you go with the flow and never think consequences! If you're a leader we will be discovered and taken to the lab before you van even say responsible!" Don had answered yelling.

They would have continued that if Amy hadn't stopped them. She hated to see his brothers fight like that and so did Mikey, who had always wanted everyone to be happy without any fighting with each other. After that, Raph had left out to get some fresh air.

Now Amy sat on the rooftop. She had left out couple hours after Raph. She had promised to Don that she wouldn't be in her human form, and now she was sitting there as a cat.

She was so glad to get topside. It was already dark and no one was out. It was so quiet she found it strange; after all it was the city that never sleeps.

Amy stood up and transformed. The sky was cloudy and no light couldn't come to the rooftops. She couldn't be spotted.

She started to run, running from rooftop to rooftop. She enjoyed every breathe she took and every step she stepped.

That lasted some time before she realized where she was. When she looked up, she saw one of the tallest skyscrapers in New York, and she felt how something got around her heart.

This was her favorite building, or it used to be. She loved to be on top of that, in there all her worries would disappear. But thanks to Bishop, it wasn't anymore. She couldn't go there anymore without remembering how she had been kidnapped and how Leo had opened up about

his feelings.

Amy closed her eyes. She blamed herself, blamed herself that Leo was gone and their family was being torn apart. If she hadn't been kidnapped Leo wouldn't have gone to train to be a better leader. But he was gone, and they were all alone, breaking their own brotherhood.

Amy turned around fast and started running. She couldn't be there anymore; she couldn't watch the place where everything had gone so horribly wrong. She wanted to get away from there and forget her feelings about Leo, so she could pretend that everything was alright again.

When she jumped away from the rooftop to get to another one, she didn't notice the precipice and she tripped.

She was able to get hold of the edge of next rooftop, but she was hanging with her fingers and then she fell.

She was lucky that she fell to a dustbin which made the fall little softer.

"What was that?" heard a voice.

Amy got up from the dustbin to see two men standing in front of her. She cursed that she hadn't turned into a cat, now she couldn't leave.

"Hello darling, how did you get in there?" said the other man.

He had dark blonde hair and stubble in his chin. He looked couple years older than Amy.

"I fell" Amy said.

"From where?" said the other man who had long brown hair.

"From the rooftop" Amy said and got away from the dumpster. She hoped she wouldn't smell that bad for long.

"You didn't try to kill yourself, did you?" said the man with a blonde hair.

"No, it was an accident" Amy said, checking she wasn't covered with any trash.

"Would you like to join us? We got some booze" said the brown haired man. He too looked like he was couple years older than Amy.

"No thanks, I should get home" Amy said, and started to walk away.

"We can walk you there" said the blonde guy.

"No thanks. And if my father and brothers see you it won't be pretty" Amy said.

"You shouldn't worry about that, we can handle them" said the blonde again.

Amy was going to disagree, but if she told them that her brothers could kick their asses, they would want to see her brothers even more eagerly.

Beside men seemed to be little drunk already, so she decided to be a good girl and smile politely.

"But come drink with us, we won't bite" said the brown haired man.

"No thanks, I really should go" Amy said, and started to walk away, when she was stopped. The blonde man had grabbed her arm.

"It's not polite to do that, little miss," he said, "come now, we'll have some fun."

And Amy was dragged to the alley. She saw how men glanced each other and smiled.

"Please, just let me go" Amy said.

"No little missy. You look too good to let your walk on your own" the brown haired man said, and she was pushed to the wall.

"We can take good care of you" said the blonde man and stroked her cheek. With his other hand he grabbed her throat and pushed

her towards the wall, so she couldn't move.

She couldn't do anything. The man was stronger than she had thought and if she transformed they probably killed her from the shock.

Men smelled like alcohol, when he leaned to kiss her. Amy closed her eyes and tears formed behind her eyelids when she thought of Leo.

Maybe it would ease the pain, if her thoughts were with Leo.

But before anything else could happen something jumped on the man. From the sudden release Amy fell to the ground and looked up to see

what had saved her.

It was something that had been covered with metal, something that she had heard from the news and from Mikey. The new hero of New York: Nightwatcher.

The blonde man had lost conscious when the Nightwatcher had fell on him. The brown haired man tried to fight the Nightwatcher.

Now when Amy looked at him fighting, he realized that something was familiar with the way Nightwatcher was fighting.

He finally got the brown haired man to the ground. Then he tied two men together and got them to the end of the alley.

Then he got to Amy.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

Then he stopped when he looked at her closely.

And without a warning he got her to his arms and got to the rooftop, and away from two men.

"You're save here, you should go home" he said, when he put Amy down.

"Not without you, Raph" Amy said.

Nightwatcher stopped, when he was about to walk away, turned around and took his helmet off.

"How did you notice me?" Raph asked.

"I saw you close by and I know your fighting skills. And your voice is exactly the same even with that helmet on" Amy said.

Raph sighed.

"But why are you doing this?" Amy asked.

"I couldn't just be at home doing nothing. I know I won't have the passion as you guys to get a job. I thought I do the thing I'll do the best, bustin' the bad guys, even if it meant Donnie to say I don't do anything at all" Raph said.

"You know you'll put us all in danger if you get caught?" Amy asked.

"Yeah I know. Are ya gonna give me a lecture and sound like Leo?" Raph asked.

"No, you just saved my life, it would be wrong if I started to lecture you now" Amy said.

"I didn't even know it was you before I saw you. It felt horrible to see you there, thinkin' that if I've got there minutes later what those scums had done to you by then, to my own lil' sister" Raph said and stroked her cheek.

"Yeah, that is the reason why I can't lecture you" Amy said, "and you won't lecture me for being out in my human form."

Raph laughed.

"That just shows that you've raised with us" he said.

"Can keep this a secret from others?" Raph asked with serious face.

"'Course I can, if you promise to try not fight with Donny so much. You know what Mikey thinks about your fights" Amy said.

"Yeah, I know that. By the way, why were you down there? I don't think you went there on purpose?" Raph asked.

"I accidentally went to my favorite building; you know the tall one, where Bishop then kidnapped me. I couldn't be there any longer than five seconds" Amy said.

Raph looked at her, and saw a guilty face on her."Ya don't feel guilty for what happened to Leo, do ya?" Raph asked.

"I..." Amy said confused. Raph had read her like an opened book.

"You really shouldn't. I think master Splinter had sent Leo away even if you haven't been kidnapped, I just know, don't ask how. But that you blame yourself for that, makes us all worried about you for nothin'" Raph said.

"I know ya miss him, we all do, but it must be hard on you, when you love him. But you shouldn't blame yourself; Leo wouldn't want that, right? And beside, he had already been gone for almost two months, he should come back soon enough" Raph said, and put his hand on Amy's shoulder.

"Thanks, Raph" Amy said, and tried to smile.

It was rare to Raph show his soft side, and Amy had always been proud that Raph had showed it to her so often.

"Now it's time for you to get home, I'll come little later" Raph said and put the helmet back on.

"I'll see you around, Nightwatcher" Amy said smiling and turned into a cat.

As she jumped on the ground and to the first manhole, she watched as Raph ran away from her sight.

'Yeah he's right' Amy thought as she turned back to human and slipped through the manhole, 'two months has already passed, four to go and Leo will be back at home.'

Weeks went by and nothing happened expect Don, Mikey and Amy doing their jobs and watching from TV how Nightwatcher (whom Amy knew to be Raph) protected the city from any kind of crimes. Raph had kept his promise and didn't fight with Don anymore, which made everything better for Don, who seemed to be avoiding Raph incase he wanted to fight again.

The first thing that really seemed to wake them up was the letter from Leo. It came when he had been three months gone.

He told about his live at the South America, how he had became some kind of hero to the citizens and what he had learned being alone, training. He didn't say a thing about have he thought about coming back nor did he miss them as much as they missed him.

The letter contained a picture of the view of his new home that was all.

Splinter put the picture on the door of the fridge, but even when everyone smiled on that gesture it felt that no one was really happy about Leo's letter. It left even more empty feeling to them than before Leo's letter.

And the time went by, and moths passed them and they were getting closer to the day Leo was getting back.

He had left on October so he should be back on April or May. Amy was really looking forward to that, because her birthday was on May, and there wasn't really a better birthday present than Leo being with them again. She really didn't know when her birthday was, but Splinter had

decided it should be that day when they had found her. Like the turtles' birthday was the day Splinter had found them (on April 4th), the same thing was

for Amy, and her birthday was on May 10th.

April had started and everyone seemed to get excited. Mikey glanced to the door all the time when he was at home. When he heard someone walking towards the door, he almost couldn't sit still, and when it turned out to be Raph, he got mad to Raph, which got them into a fight.

Raph was even more often outside than at home. Amy thought it was 'I don't care if he comes home' attitude, but every time he got back or woke up middle of the day, he checked if anyone was acting strangely because Leo was home.

Don didn't seem to be able to concentrate on his customers so easily anymore as before. All he was saying most of the time was:

"No", "Yes", "Hello" and "Have a nice day".

Amy was as nervous as her brothers. She did her work and daily chores, but every time she heard the door opening, someone being at

the dojo or even master Splinter's voice, made her heart almost stop and whatever she was holding was about to drop.

Leo's second letter came at the end of April. It was the same as before, but now Leo told them how it was getting hot in there and how he missed lair's chilliness.

"That's a good sign. He misses the lair, so he misses us, he's just too proud to say it" Mikey said, when they had read the letter.

They have just night before talked about when Leo was coming back, now when April was turning to May.

"I swear he's coming back next month, I could even think he's coming back at 10th day" Mikey said, trying to cheer Amy up, who hadn't been at her best for some time.

"Yeah, if he comes" Raph said so quietly that Amy and Mikey didn't hear.

Don did hear him and gave him a look that he did really agree with him, even if he didn't want to.

They had celebrated turtles' birthday, but three brothers hadn't felt like that when Leo was missing.

So it was all and all very sad birthday when there was one missing on the birthday picture.

April turned to May, and days went by. Amy's birthday came and still no sign of Leo. Her birthday seemed to be even more sadder than the brothers'. Everyone had thought deep down on their own minds that they all would party on Amy's birthday together, but when Leo didn't show up, it felt like no one did like to celebrate at all.

At the end of May, Don was getting to sleep at late hour. When he walked to his room, he noticed to his surprise that there was light on Leo's room. His heart almost popped out of his chest. It couldn't be, could it? Was it possible that Leo had showed up when they all have been sleeping. Don wanted to go wake someone up, but then he restrained himself. If it wasn't Leo, it would be too big disappointment to others. So Don walked to Leo's room on his own.

When he got to the door and opened it, he didn't see Leo.

Amy was standing middle of the room. She just stood there looking at nothing.

"Uh... Amy? Are you alright?" Don asked, and stepped in.

Everything in Leo's room was filled with dust; it really looked like no one had lived there in moths.

"I... I thought that I should clean his room up. You know, when he gets back he shouldn't live middle of this dust. But then I couldn't make myself to do it. I just thought that what if he doesn't come and I've cleaned his room ready for him and he doesn't come and live in it" Amy said.

It sounded like her voice was coming far away, like she was talking behind a glass.

"What if he doesn't come back? What if something had happened to him?" Amy asked, and turned to see Don.

Her face was serious, like she was in hypnosis when she talked.

"He'll come back. You know how Leo is, he doesn't want to come back before he had done what he's supposed to do" Don and took Amy's hand in his own.

"I think he's not ready, not ready for himself. We might think that he's ready, even if we were there with him, but he doesn't. He doesn't want to come

back failing master Splinter, us or you. He went there so he could become a better leader, so he could protect us. He's not ready yet, but he's okay. We would feel it if something bad had happened to him. We're his family and we feel each other. So he's alright, he'll come back, I'll promise" Don said, and took Amy to a hug.

"Thanks, Donny" Amy said.

"No problem" Don said.

'You better get back here soon Leo. We all are broken and it's your fault' a thought from Don's deepest feelings came to live as he hugged his little sister.

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That was that! I'm already writing the second chapter, so you shouldn't wait too long for that.

I just want to make clear that the part where Leo is gone, is a flashback, but I didn't want to write it like this because I don't like to

write too much text like that and reading that kind of text it starts hurting your eyes, not nice :/

Just wanted to make myself clear here :)