I do not own anything from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, manga, movie, or anything.
Leo's P.o.V.
My brothers and I decided to stay home one night. We trained really hard earlier today, so we thought it would be cool to not patrol. Mikey was stuffing his face with pepperoni pizza and I was playing pinball with Raph hovering over my shoulder. Donnie was gawking at pictures of April on his computer.
"Remind me why we aren't on patrol." Raph said, clearly annoyed and bored, "My sai is itchin' for some Kraang."
"We worked hard today," I told him slowly, "I thought it would be nice to have a break, now and then." He groaned and went to beating up one of our punching bags. I returned my attention to my game.
"So, when are you going to ask her out?" Mikey suddenly asked Donnie between chews of pizza.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Donnie scrambled to shut his laptop.
"Oh, it's okay, Donnie," Raph said while walking over to him and giving up on assaulting our training equipment, "Our little bro is becoming a man!" he punched Donnie in the back of the head.
"Ow! Cut it out!" they were bickering when I heard metal scraping. I knew each of my brothers heard the noise too, because they fell silent. I took out my swords and they each pulled out their weapons. I heard the scraping noise again. It was coming from the spiral ramp that was attached to a manhole. I gave them a sign that meant 'Hide' and they did. Raph gave me a wicked grin, looks like we are fighting tonight.
Alyssa's P.o.V.
I was being chased down the street by two guys.
"Leave me alone! I don't have anything you want!" I yelled at them. They laughed and continued to chase me. I turned a corner, tripped and landed on a manhole. I heard them laugh from around the corner. 'Think, Lyssa, think!' I silently shouted to myself. I looked down. 'This may be your only chance!' I tried to lift the cover, but dropped it. I was running out of time; I could hear their laughs grow closer. 'Focus!' I lifted it up, successfully this time, and jumped in. I landed on a ramp and struggled to stay leveled. I pressed my ear to the cover to hear what was happening.
"Way to go, idiot!" I heard a gruff voice say, "You lost her!"
"Me!?" a slightly higher pitched voice said, "You're the one who lost the girl!"
"Doesn't matter," the gruff one sighed, "We'll find her again. Let's get back to the others." They walked on the manhole cover and that startled me, so I gasped loudly and quickly covered my mouth. I waited a moment before relaxing. I started to shake and I felt tears stream down my face. I pulled my knees to my chest and quietly sobbed, alone, in the dark. I heard shuffling and the room I was in and my head snapped up.
"H-hello?", I sniffled and wiped my eyes. "Is someone there?". No response. I looked in front of me and realized I was on a slide-like thing. I slowly scooted down and eventually ended up on a cement floor. I walked around, trying to find some form of life. "Hello? Please come out." no response.
I tripped on a pizza box and fell to my knees. More silent tears came flowing out of me.
"You're alone, Alyssa," I told myself out loud, "Just like always,".
Raph's P.o.V.
Leo didn't want us to make a sound, and to just wait until she left, but I wasn't about to leave a crying girl on my living room floor. Especially a cute one. I'm not heartless, you know.
"You're not alone." I said. She gasped and fell backwards.
"Hello?" she stood up, searching for my voice.
"I'm going to step into the light," Leo shot me a dirty glance, but I shook it off, "Just don't freak out."
"Why would I?" she asked cautiously.
"Just trust me on this. You'll be surprised." she nodded in understanding. I walked closer to her and her eyes widened, but then relaxed and she smiled.
"You're a turtle." It wasn't a question.
"Yeah," I said coolly, to not freak her out anymore then she was, "Last time I checked." that made her laugh and I smiled. "But you should know," I warned, "There are four of us. I have three brothers."
"Well, thanks, Raph," Leo stormed up to me, with Donnie and Mikey not far behind, and slapped me behind the head. "Hi," he changed his tude when he spoke to the girl, "I'm Leonardo or Leo, for short."
"Donnie."
"Mikey."
"And I'm Raphael, but you can call me Raph." I smiled at her.
"My name is Alyssa," she smiled at all of us, "It's nice to meet you all. Oh, wait, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to come here. I mean, I did, but not into someone's house. I'm sorry."
"It's fine," Leo said like the leader he is, "What was it that made you take shelter anyway?"
She wrapped herself in her arms, as if protecting herself from bad memories, "Just... some guys I knew were chasing me for who knows what reason." she looked at the ground. "I really am sorry." She looked me in the eyes.
"Really, it's okay," I assured her. She nodded, but she had a look of guilt on her face. "So where do you live?"
"Oh, you know," she shrugged, "Here and there..." she didn't have a home.
"Do you want to stay with us?" Mikey asked enthusiastically.
"Whoa, whoa, group meeting. Excuse us, Alyssa," Leo dragged us to a corner. "We don't know her. how can we trust her?"
"Do you really want her on the street with two guys chasing after her?" Donnie asked, "She's in danger, Leo, and we help those in need." Egg-head was right. Leo looked at me and I nodded. He turned around to face Alyssa, who was staring at her feet.
"Would you like to stay here?"
Donnie's P.o.V.
I honestly felt bad for her. All alone with no home and people chasing after her. She seemed like a decent girl; who would want to hurt her and cause her trouble? I don't know why Leo had such a big problem with letting her stay.
"Stay here? With you guys?" she repeated, stunned, "That would be amazing! Thank you. I only want to stay if you all want me to stay, though. I don't want to be a bother." she didn't seem to have a lot of self-confidence.
"It's not a bother," Mikey said. "And can I just say that you're taking the whole 'My new friends are turtles' thing really well? It's like you grew up around them or something."
That made her laugh. She had a pretty laugh. "Not exactly," she said, "I've seen worse, believe me. Plus, it just so happens that turtles are my favorite animals. That's why I smiled when Raph showed himself. I was intrigued and slightly amused. No offense."
Raph placed his hand on the back of his neck, "None taken," he laughed. Then he yawned. "Well, I think I'm done for the night it's pretty late." Alyssa nodded and she, too, yawned and smiled.
"I really can't thank you enough, Leo." she looked at him with almost overwhelming eyes, "I directed my thanks towards you, because I'm getting the drift that you're the leader." she's good at reading people. "So, um, where do I...?"
"We have a lumpy couch." I said and shrugged, "Sorry we don't have any beds to offer."
"A couch?" she smiled, weird? "A couch would be awesome!" I lead her to it and handed her a blanket from a closet we passed on the way there. She looked at it with awe. "Wow." She sat on the rugged piece of furniture, yawned, then lied down. "Thanks again, guys. Really." With that she fell asleep. I chuckled.
'Wow,' I thought. 'and the way Raph was. He was being... nice.' I shook my head and started to walk away. I was stopped by Leo.
"Our group meeting isn't over yet." He had his arms crossed over his chest. "I'm going to get Mikey and Raph. Wait for us in the kitchen."
"Sure thing, Leo," I said with a fake smile. 'Someone's bossy tonight' I thought. I headed for the kitchen and waited.
Mikey's P.o.V.
Leo called us all to the kitchen for an 'important' meeting. Of course, it was about Alyssa. I get where he's coming from, though. I mean, we should be careful after what happened with Rad-Brad, but this girl is different. I could feel it.
"I'm guessing you all know why I've called you here," Leo tried to have a voice of authority. It didn't work for him too well. "It's the matter of our new guest," he put air-quotes around 'guest'.
"What about her?" Raph sounded annoyed, but that's not unusual. "She needed help and we gave it to her. You saw Alyssa's face, Leo. you saw how scared she was and you all saw how safe she felt here." He's got a good point.
"I know," Leo relaxed a little,"But what about Splinter? What about April? What if they don't get along?"
"Well," I started, "We can tell Splinter as soon as he wakes up. April gets along with us and so does Alyssa, so it only makes sense that they would get along too." They all stared at me. "What?"
"That... That doesn't make sense, Mikey," Donnie put his hand on my shoulder. I wiped it off and pouted. "And that still doesn't help with Splinter. What if she freaks out? The only reason she didn't freak when she saw us was because Raph was flirting with her-"
"Hey!" Raph protested, but Donnie ignored him.
"And," he continued,"Four giant turtles seem nicer than a huge rat." He has a point too.
"We should at least give her a chance to prove she isn't bad or anything." I said sourly. To my surprise, they all nodded. "So... So she can stay?"
"For now," Leo nodded. "But I want someone to watch her tonight."
"That's creepy, Leo." Raph said flatly.
"Okay, I guess you're creepy then." Leo smirked. "Watch her. If you get really tired, come and get me. If she tries anything, she's out. See you in the morning." He walked away. Donnie and I followed.
Raph groaned and sat across from her, not really watching, just reading a magazine he found. I couldn't help but smile. 'Raph's got a girlfriend!' I sang in my head. I went to my room and fell asleep. Eager for the morning to come.
