Author: Vampirerex1
Category: Cartoons – Ninja Turtles
Disclaimer: I don't own Leo, Raph, Donnie, Mikey, Splinter, April, Casey or any other character in TMNT. I just own Sapphire and her sister Sophia as well as the parents and grandparents.
Genre(s): Romance/
Pairing(s): Raphael/OC/Leonardo
Rating for chapter: T
Summary: "I used to think that maybe I'd found my place in the world, my little niche, a place that I could call home, where I belonged…" Sapphire's life has been turned upside down and inside out, will she be able to make it up to the two boys who love her?
Title: Some things best forgotten
Warning(s): None.
Notes: Italics - story , Normal font - Narration, Bold - Flashback.
Chapter One: Reminiscing
I used to think that maybe I'd found my place in the world, my little niche, a place that I could call home, where I belonged; but now I don't know what to think. Since that day, I've had my life turned upside down and inside out. I guess you're wondering what the hell this crazy woman is on about. Well…if you really want to know, I'll tell you. My story begins when I moved to Manhattan Eighteen years ago.
My parents weren't very wealthy people, they didn't have that much money to buy food and only had a one bedroom flat to live in, but what they did have was each other and when my mother found out that she was pregnant with me, both of my parents were thrilled and upset.
"Don't you think this is great news Stan?" Mrs James asked.
Stan James looked at the woman and gave a little smile, walking up to her and putting a hand on her still flat stomach.
"Of course I do Sarah; but...how will we feed a child when we can't hardly feed ourselves?" He asked.
Sarah looked down to her stomach and put her hand on her husband's hand, her simple wedding band almost glowing on the almost pale skin of its wearer.
"We'll find a way to manage; we'll have to" she replied.
Stan smiled and pressed a kiss to Sarah's cheek.
They were thrilled because my mother had always wanted children, but they were upset because they didn't have enough money to feed themselves as it was, let alone having to feed a child. But they decided to keep me anyway, my mother had told my father that she would happily cut down her meals to feed me and my father agreed.
"It's for the best Stan; we can live like this until one of us can find a good paying job" Sarah said.
Stan smiled and put his hand on the head of the child that was in his wife's arms.
"If Sarah, if one of us can find a good paying job, you know what the economy is like now-a-days; you'd be lucky to find even a low rate job" he said.
Sarah smiled sadly and put her head on his chest.
"We'll have to look Stan; Sapphire's our main priority right now" she stated.
Mr. James agreed and put his arms around both his wife and his newborn daughter.
"We'll sort something out" he promised.
So for two years, my mother and my father ate less to feed me and keep me healthy. I started going to kindergarten and making friends; but then my mother found out that she was pregnant yet again.
"Feeding one child is hard enough Sarah; I'm not bringing in enough money to feed a family of three let alone four" Stan said.
Sarah nodded and then looked down to her once again budding stomach and she gave a little sigh.
"I know what we can do, but it'll mean giving Sapphire up to your mother and father" she stated.
Stan sighed and gave Sarah a pleading look; but they knew that it was something they would have to do.
So when my little sister Sophia was born, I was sent to live with my grandparents. My grandparents lived in Manhattan so my parents had to save up money to get me a passport so that I could get on a plane to go to my grandparents. Once I got on the plane, I was given a book and was looked after very well once my grandmother came over to come with me.
"Are you excited Sapphire?" The elderly woman asked.
Looking up to her; the young girl didn't say anything, she just looked back down to the book she had brought with her and continued to scribble in it. The elderly woman gave a small sigh and looked out of the window.
I hadn't wanted to leave my parents, but it was a necessity simply because, my mother and father had to feed my little sister. It was hard, learning to live without my birth parents, but after a year, I got used to it and settled down in my new home and my new school. Even with my grandparents, it wasn't always easy; instead of doing what a normal child did in Manhattan, I was told that I had to stay indoors in the evenings because there was a group of nasty people who were around the city. I also had to have my grandparents walk me to school.
"Have a good day in school Sapphire; and please don't get into any fights" Ethel said.
Sapphire looked up to her grandmother and nodded, walking into school with a red backpack on her back and in her school uniform; walking into the playground just as the school bell rang. Sapphire then ran with the other children into the building and into class.
This happened until I was sixteen; I was out late because I had stayed at school to do some of my judo work; yes I used to do judo at school. So I was walking home and I got pulled into an alley; of course, as soon as that happened everything that I had learned flew out of my head and I was left motionless. Scared to death in front of a group of four or five men, with no way of escape.
"Heh; and you said that she'd been learning Judo" one man said.
The others laughed and the man who had just spoke grabbed Sapphire by the face and made her look into his eyes.
"We're gonna have some fun with you" he said.
I screamed out and kicked and struggled, but then I froze when I felt a knife at my throat. Tears were running down my face and I was begging for my life, but the man who had the knife at my throat was just laughing as were his friends at the way I was begging, making me cry even more because I knew that the guy was going to do something horrible then kill me.
"Now, now sweetheart; that wasn't very nice" the man said.
The other men laughed and mumbled amongst themselves as the main one grabbed Sapphire's face again.
"You're in trouble now princess" he growled.
Just as I thought that I was gonna be killed, the pressure from the knife against my neck was gone and I heard a load of grunting. I turned around and saw the bloke who had hold of me was on the floor and out cold as well as his friends and there were four figures stood over them. Yes; I was still so scared that I still couldn't move, but these four had just saved my life and I couldn't even speak.
She just stood there, looking at the four figures, not moving except from the shaking movements her body made. Adrenaline was pumping through her body, but she couldn't do anything except stand there and stare.
"You aright kid?" One asked.
Sapphire just nodded and continued to stare at the four figures who had just given her a second chance, if she could've, she would've run away from this alley and straight home, but...her legs wouldn't cooperate with what she was telling them.
"Where do you live dudette?" Another asked.
She looked at the one who spoke and managed to get her arm to comply with what she asked it to do and she pointed down the road. She was still unable to speak and as she pointed down the street, her hand and arm were shaking. All four of the guys nodded and then three of them disappeared leaving one standing there.
"We'll escort you home; but you shouldn't be out here this late at night" he said.
I had given a little and turned around almost robot-like, beginning to walk towards home. Once I got there, I walked up the steps and then turned around, looking around for the guys and then I spotted all four of the figures on a roof, before I opened the door and walked inside. I remember briefly wondering how they got up there and how they were so quiet that I hadn't heard them following me; but that had all been pushed to the back of my mind when I saw my grandmother.
Ethel James was stood with her hands on her hips looking at the Sixteen-year-old girl who had just walked through the door.
"Sapphire; where have you been, it's late" Ethel said.
Sapphire looked at her and gave a shaky smile before feeling more tears running down her face.
I remember feeling so ashamed of what had happened and feeling embarrassed about crying in front of my grandmother.
"I was a-attacked a-a-and I-I-I j-just fr-froze" she stuttered.
Ethel pulled her into a hug and stroked her hair and cooing calming things to her as she cried into her chest.
"Wh-what's t-the p-point of me doing j-judo i-if I c-can't even d-d-defend myself?" She cried.
Ethel just stood there and her hand stopped stroking Sapphire's hair as she contemplated the answer.
"Sometimes Sapphy; sometimes even the bravest of people freeze up when they're faced with a situation like you've just been in; it doesn't matter if you've been taught how to defend yourself or not, when you experience the level of panic you have, it all flies out of the window" she said.
I remember how I still cried and how embarrassed I felt for what had happened as well as for crying like this. But after that day; I vowed to make myself stronger, to be braver and I vowed never to freeze up like that again.
~TMNT~
A/N: Alright; this is my first TMNT fanfiction, it will be told from my OC's POV and hopefully this will be the first installment in a 'Some things best...' series. If this story takes off, then I probably will do a sequel and so on. So...I hope this first chapter is alright, not far fetched or anything. I tried to put myself in that situation, the situation of having been attacked by a group of guys and then saved by four more guys and how I would feel about that, how I would react to it and act in that situation. So I hope you enjoy the format of the story, and that it is a little different than what you've read before.
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