A/N: I don't usually post my stories incomplete. I typically finish them, then post so you get to read straight through (a better experience for you in my opinion). However, I've been working on this for three months, it still isn't finished and I want to give you guys something to read! I recruited a beta to help me make this series better and it has greatly helped the original Zoe (Part I) and we are almost done with the upgrade. Zoe Part II is in great need of a face lift as well and hopefully I will eventually get there, but for now it serves its purpose as the middle of the story that brings us here. Please be sure to read the series and its one shots before picking this one up as I jump right in (they are listed in order on my profile page), and Antonello has a great bearing on why Zoe and Raph end up facing what they go through in the first half of this story.

I'm not sure what Raph and Zoe are trying to do besides break my heart, and when you get to where I am now, well, they keep telling me something I don't want to hear, but we're working through it. Wish them luck as we jump right into the drama, drama, drama, and remember, Zoe's an empath…

Two Years Post Part II

The Hamptons House

Zoe

"Andrea, get off your brother's shell. Now, please." I cut her cheese pizza into squares fit for two year old hands as she's climbing on her brother's shell and pinching him in the tender flesh between his plastron and carapace.

"MOM, I'm gonna hit her! I'm gonna-" Antonello is giving his sister a fair warning, as far as four year old boys can do, especially four year old turtle boys with their fathers temper. Well that could be my temper too. Eh, I'll claim responsibility for the girl. Raph can be responsible for the- oh shit he's going to flip her!

"Anton, do not flip her over! Andrea, get off your brother! Both of you sit down and eat your pizza! Then you're going to pick up your toys and get a bath!" I sigh, I'm beat. It's been a long week without Raph.

April runs a hand over her ready-to-pop belly, "Is this what I have to look forward to?"

I nod and rub my eyes. She showed up at dinner time, after she'd gotten off of work, with pizza, and I was grateful, but suspicious. I was hoping Raph would be home today, but not too long after April arrived so did his text telling me they'd be another day. Donnie always told her what was going on before Raph got around to telling me. Lucky April for Donnie's communication skills, poor Raph when I get a hold of him.

"Guys please don't make me come in theeerrree- Oh, Oh my- " What starts out feeling like a running cramp in my side, immediately digs deeper as if someone is scooping out my flesh with a knife, "Oh no. No, no, no. Oh." The pain tears through my ribcage like I'm being pulled apart, muscles are burning… Oh god it hurts. The searing, ripping sensation brings me to my knees. I can feel my children's tiny hands tugging on me and hear their worried cries, but I hurt as if my side is being peeled away. My heart picks up a hard jerking pace as my world sways and whirls, beads of sweat arise over my damp, shivering body. Shock. Why am I going into shock?

It's the connection, our bond. What's happened to him? "My phone," I gasp. "My phone," I open my eyes but everything is spinning. I think I'm going to be sick. Oh, this is bad, very, very bad. Gripping the counter top I pull myself up then fumble for the phone and slip back to the floor.

"Zoe, are you okay? What's wrong?" April looks horrified as she searches me for injury but obviously she can't find one.

"It's Raph," I grunt, writhing away from the torture impressing itself deep within my flesh, "Something's happened." The phone in my hand is ringing over and over. While there's a shredding sensation in my side stealing my breath away, the thrum of my pulse becomes an annoying sound in my head. My abdomen tightens from the stress and adrenaline, a cramp shoots through to my core… Our baby, I have to calm down. I have to, oh fuck this hurts! I roll onto my side, listening to the phone ring wondering what has happened to him, and no one is picking up…

The Lair

Raphael

"Lay him over here! Here, Leo, here!" Donatello swipes an arm across the metal table in the needle room, knocking a pile of his books onto the floor.

"Yes I'd come for you, no one but you. Yes I'd come for you. But only if you told me to."

My phones ringing, it's her ringtone. I'd Come for You, by Nickelback. I'd laugh, cause it's so damn girly, but I'm bleeding all over the damn place. Donnie fixed it so it plays the entire song as long as we let the phone ring. If a ringtone could ring incessantly, mine has been, since that damn blade ripped into my bridge.

Leo is dragging my sorry ass to the table and I'm bleeding everywhere. Shit. It's a lot of blood, and she's feeling my pain, I know it. I can feel her with me. Damn. "DAMN!" I scream.

"Master Splinter, please sterilize his sai." Don takes one of my weapons, hands it to my father then throws open a cabinet and fills his arms with supplies.

"Donatello," Splinter's eyes reflect his concern. He always tries to appear calm, but sometimes when we're hurt, it's hard, even for him. Now that I'm a father I understand. Oh, how I understand.

"And I'd fight for you. I'd lie, it's true. Give my life for you. You know I'd always come for you."

"It's not good Sensei, please hurry. If I don't stop the bleeding-" Don looks at the gash in my bridge, then to Leo, my father, and finally me.

"Don't talk like that Don. Just fix it up, quick. She can feel my pain Donnie, hurry it up!" I think that's what I'm saying, but the rooms starting to spin and I can feel darkness calling, I sound strange, even to myself. I just have to focus, on her. Not the pain. God, she can feel my pain. I never get hurt this bad anymore. Never. "DAMN! DAMN IT!"

My phone is still ringing. We never even set up our voice mails, we promised to always answer no matter what.

"No matter what gets in my way, As long as there's still life in me, no matter what, remember you know I'll always come for you."

"Somebody answer my phone. She's going to be scared, in pain, and scared." I think that's what I'm saying. Damn it. I sound like I feel. Like shit.

Donatello grabs a suture kit and towels, as Splinter returns with a red hot sai.

I look at it, know what I do, about Zoe, and freak out. "SHIT! You can't, we can't do it like this Don. You've got to do something else!"

Donatello leans in toward me, "Raph, I've got to stop the bleeding. I have to do this."

"I'd crawl across this world for you, do anything you want me to, no matter what-"

I try to focus on Leo who appears ready to hold me down, but everything is blurry. "Somebody answer my damn phone! Leo, you've got to go to her. You've got to take care of her. Leo, promise me! Promise!"

Leo's face shifts from worried to confused, his blue eyes widening. "You are going to be fine Raph. She's going to be fine too. I already sent Mike straight to the house. He'll be there soon. April's with her-"

"Enough talking, he's going to bleed out!" Donatello leans toward my bridge with the sai.

"Just one more moment, that's all that's needed, like wounded soldiers in need of healing."

"Leo she's pregnant! GO NOW!" I scream, slamming a fist into the table beneath me. This is not how I thought we'd share our news with our family but my brother's not picking up the urgency here. Fuck, it's getting dark. I try to focus my thoughts on my family, Zoë's feistiness, flickers of my daughter's sassy smile and my son's smirk flash through my mind.

"I can't believe I said I'd lay our love on the ground, But it doesn't matter cause I've made it up, forgive me now."

"I'm going right now Raph, right now." Leo looks at Donatello and I can hear him whisper, "Is she going to be okay – uh – Are they going to make it through this kind of pain? What's that going to do to her?"

Don frowns, "I don't know, but if I don't get this done she'll be losing her soul mate, and I don't want to think about that scenario at all." He doesn't look back as he touches the red hot sai into my wound.

"I finally know what it means to let someone in. To see the side of me that no one does or ever will."

Soul mates, bonded for life. That's what we chose for ourselves. We aren't the marrying types but we are completely entwined. There will never be another for either of us and we know it beyond any doubt. Until our dying breaths and damn it mine won't be now.

Shut it off Zoe.

Shut me out.

A/N: Drama, drama, dripping with drama. I'll update soon, I promise. ;)