A Spiders Thread

by NicoDiAngelo235

Speech Key:

"talking"

'thinking'

"Other language"

A/N: : Hello all! Now I know what you guys are thinking 'Oh my gosh! Your actually alive!', Yes, I am alive. I have thought of starting another story for a while now, so I said 'What the hell' hence why I am here. Anyway for my The Life of Sheila: The Sister of Goku fans the new chapter will come out soon and since I took so long it will be extra long. Any who, Peace Out!

Narrator

Life is a funny thing, with all its twists and turns and surprise endings and what not. It contradicts itself a lot by being very cruel one second and amazingly kind the next. Sometimes it decides to take a turn that no one expects. But every once in a while, Fate will pull an amazing stunt that is exceptionally unbelievable, may it be an awesome and good one or a horrible, nasty one. This is a story about one of those rare times, and how one girl ended up becoming way happier because of it.

. . . .

Katie

Katie was fifteen and had just got off work at the local library, where she worked from seven in the morning to six in the evening. It was December and it had snowed all day in the little town of Point Pleasant that she called her home, so she had to be extra careful coming home on her motor bike. Now she knew the stereotype where this cool, tough, and hot chick rides a motor cycle and she is not afraid of an any thing and everyone loves her. Well, she considered herself the opposite. In her opinion she looked quite plain. Her eyes were a piercing blue/gray and framed by blue glasses that made her look like the smart type. The long hair that fell in uncontrollable curly waves down her back had streaks of blonde with a dark brown underneath. The teenager was really tall for a girl, standing at a whopping 5'7 an a half. She was healthy person, weighing at 150 pounds. Which was lot bigger than most girls at her school.

To top it off, she was a loner. Books were her life, along with cartoons and anime, TMNT and DBZ to name a one. Also having a love for animals and anything she thought cute, it was a secret dream of hers to some day own a horse. Being very intelligent, with all top marks in every class, with the exception of math, where she came in second. Usually, people only talked to her if they wanted to be tutored, and it was strictly business. Most of all, she often found it hard to make friends, being very shy in nature, but don't let that fool you. She could be vicious when provoked to an extent, and defended someone furiously when she felt they were being wronged in some way. Although, she usually didn't cuss unless angry, really excited, was really hurt or had just woke up. Anyway, she never had a true friend. The teenager didn't get the other girls in her school, who wore make up and talked about boys all the time. She much preferred and enjoyed her animals, books, cartoons, and anime thank very much.

With all of this joined, she was pretty invisible in the school part of her life. At home it wasn't much better. She lived with her two brothers, mom, and her little brother's dad.

Her older brother Andy, was two years ahead of her and her complete opposite. He had coal-black hair, was skinny, and he was straight F student. All he cared about were his friends, his video games, and anything else considered his. And for some reason, he hated Katie. He called her names like 'nerd' and 'freak'. He got incredibly jealous if she got something and he didn't. And he would sometime resort to violence. When she was four and he was six, she was playing on her mother's bed, when he came in the room and, for no reason what so ever, sprayed her right in the eyes with Windex window cleaner. When ever she got hurt, he wasn't much help in the comforting department. For example, when Katie was eight and he was ten, she cut her leg on a rusty nail and while she sat there crying in the yard with blood poring out of the wound, her brother stood and laughed at her. Even though he did all of that, Katie still didn't hate him, he was her brother, she still loved him, she just strongly disliked him.

Jayce, her three-year old brother, was twelve years younger, so he couldn't be as much trouble. He had brown hair and green eyes and was bigger than most five-year olds. Jayce was the only one Katie actually liked as a person as we'll as loved as her brother. Sure there were moments she wanted to never see him again, but nobodies perfect.

Her mother was a big woman, weighing over three hundred and standing at 5'5. She had brown hair and eyes. She was kind of lazy, mostly staying in her room unless she was cleaning or making food. Sometimes Katie felt like her mom didn't like her very much, because she would some times yells at her for no reason, but she loved her any way.

Chris, her little brothers father, looked like an older version of him, and she didn't like him.

Period.

Katie's grandma used to live with them in the house, but . . . she died of a heart attack two years ago. Kate was thirteen and it had devastated her. Her grandmother was her only and best friend. She could feel the tears coming, so Katie tried not to think about her dead grandmother, but her mind betrayed her. Images of her face flashed through Katie's mind. Her grandma's long black hair and kind brown eyes staring at Katie lovingly. Her short figure standing next her on the porch. She comforting her when her mother didn't come home for Easter. And finally, finding her lying cold in her bed with her eyes, that were always filled with a fierce, wild-fire and always so alive, staring unseeing with cold, glazed look, like the fire had been extinguished.

Now the tears flowed freely down Katie's face as the bitter wind whipped around her. But the wind had nothing on the sadness that rushed though every pore of her body. She accelerated the motor cycle, trying to run away from sad and happy memories. Viciously, she shoved all those memories in the back of her mind. For a split second, Katie closed her eyes, trying to calm down the raging tornado of emotions running in chaos through her mind.

Katie never stood a chance.

In the time she had been submerged in memories and had closed her eyes, she hadn't noticed the black truck ahead of her that was swerving on the road in a way that screamed that the driver was drunk. By the time she saw it, all she could do was swerve out the moron's path and before she knew it, she was headed straight for the guard rail. When in the split second she registered what was going to happen, Katie had time for one last thought.

'I'm sorry guys, I love you'

She pictured her mom's and brothers' faces in her mind's eye.

Her front tire hit the guard rail, flipping her head over heals over the handle bars. As she saw the ground rushing up to meet her, she stuck out her arm on reflex, trying to catch her self-

SNAP!

That was the sound of her arm breaking as all of her weight landed on it, followed closely by her head bouncing off the unforgiving ground that was frozen due to the recent weather. All Katie could register was the unbearable pain that came with it as her head became fuzzy from the hit. She knew she would pass out soon as she bounced a few times, flipping, flopping, and bending unnaturally until she landed awkwardly again, this time on her ankle, before Katie started to roll down the hill, that she knew ended with a lake. Through the pain and the fuzziness in her brain from the hit on the head, she felt her self hit the ice-cold water. Right before the sweet, blessed darkness of unconsciousness took her in its embrace, Katie thought saw a flash of pure white. She didn't have time to wonder on it as she blacked out.

Katie woke up after what felt like three seconds later, twenty feet deep in murky water. Panicking, Katie stupidly opened her mouth trying to suck in air, but all she got for her trouble was water. Her lungs felt like they were lit on fire, they burned so bad. She flailed wildly, trying to desperately reach the surface. Somehow, she made up to the surface with all her flailing. Her head broke above water, as she spit, coughed and hacked all the water out of her body until she was just dry heaving. Katie just floated there for a second, her shivering and abused body trying to calm down from the near drowning.

After she got her body somewhat under control, Katie told her self to figure how far away from shore she was. Looking up, she thanked her lucky stars she hadn't lost her glasses. It would be hell to be tired, hurt and blind as a bat. Looking around her, she did not recognize any thing until she looked straight ahead and saw a very familiar skyline. It was foggy and smoky but there was no mistaking that skyline that had been in so many movies and videos. She froze, staring in bewildered disbelief as she registered what she was seeing.

Katie was in effing New York City.

She closed her eyes and opened them again hopes that she was just imagining the giant Empire State Building she saw in the distance. Nope, it was still there in all its giant glory.

'What in the hell! There is now way I could be here! I live thousands of hundreds of miles away from here! THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE!' she thought in panic.

Katie was starting hyperventilate and she knew if she didn't calm down she would soon faint. Already she could see the blackness at the edge of her vision. Forcing her self to breathe normally, Katie waited until she couldn't see the black at the edge of her vision any more.

Katie shook her, trying to thing rationally "Alright, I'll figure how I got here later, now I gotta get to shore before I faint" she told her self in a reassuring manner.

Already she felt exhausted, but Katie knew she had to get out of the water unless she wanted to get hypothermia. Since her left arm was broken, she'd have to swim sideways toward the dock. It took her a good thirty minuets, but eventually she made.

The battered girl managed to drag her self on to land after much struggling and effort. Katie just stood there for a while, shaking in exhaustion. 'Okay, Katie. Now figure out how much damage was done from the crash' she thought to her self. Wiggling her toes, she noted the shock pain that came with it that was coming from her left ankle. She knew her legs were mostly okay, since they were now in use. Then, Katie used her unbroken right arm to poke her self from the waist up. The hips and stomach had some nasty bruising, and when she breathed in it hurt so Katie probably had a cracked or broken rib. Her poor head was also throbbing so much it felt like the mother of all migraines.

Katie started walking, looking for a police officer, a pay phone, or at the very least some place to rest. Staying to the shadows, she traveled as fast as she could go. Some how, she knew that this part of the city was not going to beneficial to her cause. Katie's ankle throbbed at every step, and she kept getting increasingly tired before she admitted defeat and entered a dark ally. Dropping like a sack of flour to the ground, she sat breathing raggedly. It felt like Katie's eyes were holding up lead weights and she dimly realized she had got a concussion. Shakily, she got on her hands and knees and half crawled, half dragged her self behind a dumpster so she would at least be somewhat safe. Then Katie finally surrendered to the black darkness of sleep that had hovered in the back of her mind since wakening up in the ocean.

When Katie woke up the next day and came out of the ally, she realized that she must have slept for long time, because it was dark again. 'Just like my rotten luck' she thought darkly. Fate had apparently decided to be a bitch to her today, because she felt only a little better than yesterday. That thrice damned headache had receded a little and Katie was thankful for that, but her broken arm had turned a dark blue and pain shot up it at the slightest movement. Her breathing was ragged, because every time she breathed her chest would flare up in white-hot pain. Walking felt like she was running a marathon because her ankle felt worse every time the poor girl put her weight on it. At least her clothes had dried off, so she wasn't cold.

This time Katie didn't bother to stay to the shadows as she walked right on the side-walk. She was attempting to find a doctor's office or even better a hospital to get her injuries treated, but it wasn't exactly working out. After leaning against a wall trying to catch her breath for the fourth time, she decided to try to figure out how she had gotten so many miles away from home. Idly, Katie wondered what her family had thought when she didn't come home. 'Andy was probably ecstatic' she thought with a bitter, dark smile.

Pushing off the wall, she continued down the street. The whole time she had walked, she didn't see not one person anywhere. It was just her god damned luck at work here once again. And people said that this city never sle-

"Well well, what do we have here. What you doin' out so late pretty thing"

Katie froze, her heart picking up speed and the pain fading to the back of her mind as the fear spread through her battered and bruised body as her fight or flight reflex activated. Slowly turning, she faced the voice. Four men stood behind her. They were wearing the typical get up a gang from the cheesy movies would. Now, Katie knew, she was in trouble. She was injured and tired an even if she was able to out run these guys, she could hurt her self even further than she already was.

"Get away from me," Katie tried not to let the fear that was trickling down her spine like cold water show on her face and in sound of her voice.

All the men smile at each other in a way that she was reminded of a pack of wolves closing in on a frightened deer who had reared up on its hind legs had begone kicking its hooves at them.

"Ya, sure beautiful? Me an' my boys here could give a real goo' time" said the biggest man. He leered at her in a way that made the teen want to be sick.

Suddenly, Katie was angry. Angry at her situation, her helpless to do any thing, and most of all she was angry at this lech of a guy that was probably twice her age suggesting such a thing as that. She realized through the swirling torrent of anger that this wasn't going to help in the slightest, but she'd be damned if she didn't try to make it help.

"Piss off, you ass" Katie spat at the man who was obviously the leader, glaring fire daggers into his beady eyes.

One the 'men' behind him laughed.

"Ooh, this one is feisty. Y'all have to take turns" he said, nudging his buddies. They all laughed at the crude joke.

The anger left as quickly as it came, only to replaced by the fear. In an instant Katie's body was ready to take off. The crippling fear wiped away the pain of her injuries. Her eyes watched the man intensely, waiting for the slightest twitch so she could run. The leader took a step forward and that was the excuse she needed as she took off like a shot down the street, pumping her legs as fast as she could. Katie could hear the gangs pounding footsteps as they ran in pursuit of her as she ran down the street like a deer from a pack of wolves. Cutting into an ally, she looked over her shoulder and saw them running after her. Her eyes widened. There was supposed to be four guys running after her, but she could only see three shapes.

In the moment Katie realized this, she bodily crashed into another person, sending both of them to the ground. Even with all her injuries screaming at her in protest, she struggled and flailed fiercely as she tried to get free and the man tried to pin her. Luckily, Katie was able to get her good arm free and she promptly socked her assailant right in the face, making sure to put all her weight into the punch. As the man fell back, swearing all the way, she got to her feet and took off down the street again.

Racing through the street, Katie knew if she didn't lose these goons soon she would get caught. Pumping her legs as fast as they would go, she cut into another ally. Swearing like Raph from TMNT as Katie realized with her heart in her throat that it was a dead-end. Spinning around wildly, she searched with terrified eyes for a means to escape or at least some type of a defense from the gangsters. Spotting a fire escape, Katie took her only chance as she scrambled up it without a thought. Once she was about half way up, she stopped, breathing heavily, and contemplated her options. She could go up the rest of the way to the roof and hide in a space closet or try to jump to the next roof over, or Katie could try to get someone to come help by beating on the window.

"D'eres da' bitch!"

Panicking, Katie threw her self at the nearest window and pounded on it desperately, hoping with all her heart someone would answer. Glancing down, she saw that the gang were only three windows down from her and closing in fast. Hitting the window one last time with her fist, Katie raced the rest of the way to the top. Making it to the top, she looked around wildly. There weren't any storage sheds, so try to jump it is. Looking at the closest one, she saw that it was the same height. Katie had never believed in God, but she did believe in Fate, so she sure hoped the bitch was feeling generous. Backing up until Katie felt she was ready, she surged forward, sprinting to the edge and jumping once she got to it before the desperate teen could convince her self otherwise.

Katie hit the edge with half her body hanging off as she scratched at the brick with her one good arm. Her body started slipping as she lost the lower half of her body to gravity. She promised her self if she got out here alive, she would find a way to give Fate one heck of a slap to the face. It didn't seem meant to be as she kept slipping against her best effort. Katie was just about fall, when she felt a bare hand grab her's at the last-minute, hauling her up and over the edge.

Once she was put on her feet, she looked up at the person who had saved her life. It was a man, with black spiky hair, brown eyes, and a skinny build. Katie gave a thankful smile, and was about to thank him verbally and maybe with a hug, when her injuries reminded her of their existence. Her legs shook as she tried to stay on her feet. The whole of her body was aching something fierce. It felt like Katie might have broken her ankle all the way instead of just sprained. Wouldn't be surprising since she'd been running, she probably had broken it farther than it already was. What had used to only feel like some one was hitting her in the head with a wrench, now felt like they had upgraded to a sledgehammer. Katie felt dizzy and suddenly, the ground was about to say hi to her poor head for a second time as she fainted.

Through the inky blackness, the last thing she saw was worried brown eyes looking into her half awake, pain filled blue ones. Then she succumbed to sleep.

April

Two Days Earlier~

"There. That's where I saw him"

The little boy told April, pointing his finger at a tree about fifty feet away. She smiled in thanks, ruffling his black as night hair as she passed. The red-head reached behind her and slid her katana out of sheath from where it was strapped to her back.

"Do you know the ghost?"

The young boy's made her turn slightly to look at him.

"He wasn't always a ghost"

April told him, before turning around and continued into the jungle.

As she walked, she thought of the reason she was in Central America in the first place. After quitting her job as a journalist, she had opened an antique store. One of April's biggest costumers,Matt Winters, owner and runner of Winters Corperation, had his heart set on acquiring a three thousand-year old statue based upon the likeness of the fourth general that was in a myth about an Aztec warlord named Yaotl and his four generals who had discovered a portal opening into a parallel universe which is said to have great power. Yaotl becomes immortal from the power, but his four generals were turned to stone.

This was the first reason anyway. The second one being that April had promised the Turtles (with the exception of Raph) that she would talk to Leo about why he hadn't come home a year and a half ago, when his training period was supposed to end. Besides, she missed the calm mannered turtle's company. She felt like there was a hole in her little make shift family that would only be filled by Leo's return.

April shook her self out her thoughts, continuing to slice though the overgrown plants in her path. She came across a little clearing, so she put her katana away in its sheath. A gun lay on the jungle floor, and she knelt to look at it. Deciding there still might be some humans in the forest, she stood up while taking the katana off her back.

"Hello?!"

April called out, swinging her katana in a slicing motion to move the plants out of her way. After walking for a few more seconds, she called out again.

"Hello? Is any one there?!"

A breeze suddenly came through, making the plants around her rustle. April walked onward into the bushes, pushing the plants out of her path. Suddenly, she was falling, with vines hanging around her. She tried to reach out and grab one, but she couldn't get a good grip on it. April was preparing to land on the ground in a heap, but instead of landing on the unforgiving ground as she expected, she landed in a pair of strong, warm and green arms. April looked up, and came face to face to a pair of familiar brown eyes.

"Hello, April. It's a long way from the city for you to just drop in" Leo joked.

"Leo" she said in greeting, a warm smile spreading over her face.

Once he sat her on her feet, April examined Leo's hide out. The whole under ground chamber in the corner where she had 'dropped in' as Leo had put, was covered in vines. In the other corner there was a fire and what appeared to be Leo's sleeping place.

Leo led her over to where the fire was crackling cheerfully, grabbing more wood for it along the way. When she sat down, the turtle dropped the wood on to the fire.

"You came all the way out here to look for me?" he said.

"Yes and no. I was already in the area on business when the local legend started sounding familiar, so I decided to snoop around" she responded.

"What kind of business?" Leo asked curiously, raising an eye ridge.

"Ancient artifacts. Some tycoon with too much time on his hand has his heart set on a 3000 year old" she told him.

"Hmf. Well you did always run with the strange crowd, April." he told her teasingly.

She sighed. "Yeah, well, our strange crowd hasn't been the same without you. Things aren't looking so good back home" she said, watching as he tensed slightly.

"Hm. How bad can it possibly be? Donnie's probably got everything under control" he responded.

April could sense the silent question in the response. "He hasn't had that much time. He took a job as an IT Tech Support." she told him. April could see the troubled expression on his face.

"Donnie's a genius, why would he take a job like that?" he asked.

"Well it's contributing to the family. At least he's keeping busy." she told him, trying to defend the brains of the group.

"Well if he's doing that, who's keeping an eye on Mikey?" Leo said, looking vaguely amused.

"Mike's gotten into the . .um, entertainment business. For kids' birthday party's. He's a real hit" literally she thought to her self with a mental wince. Who knew kids could be so vicious.

Leo sighed in defeat. "Alright, let's here it. What's Raph doing?" he asked, distinct wariness in his voice.

"No one really knows. He just . . . sleeps all day" she told the turtle. To be honest, she was kind of worried about the hot head. April hoped he wasn't getting in trouble.

"We'll what's he do at night?" he asked, leaning forward, looking deep in thought.

"Your training period ended a year ago. And, Splinter says you don't write anymore" she decided to change the subject.

Leo look a little irritated at this. "Splinter sent me down here to become a better leader to my brothers, I can't go back a failure. Besides, these people need me more than my brothers do" he said.

"If Master Splinter were here, he would ask what is you heart telling you" she said wisely.

"I don't know, it just feels like there's something missing" the turtle said, standing up and throwing the sick he'd been using to mess with the fire into the flames.

April looked at the ground. "Your brothers need you Leo. They're lost without you" she said, looking up. No one was there. April stood up quickly.

"Leo!?"

She called out. But she was too late. He had vanished into the darkness surrounding her.