Evacuating
Story started by Loaturtle00 ~1998
About this story: This is an AU story, where the TMNT (which I still don't own, BTW) are orphaned human kids living in an unstable Russia. It may have been based on a dream I had…but I'm not sure.
Chapter 2: Breakfast
Splinter carried Raph up to his room and told him he could get dressed along with the others. When the four brothers got dressed and came back into the kitchen, they could hear a new voice talking with Splinter. They all ambled in curiously to see who it was.
As they entered, Splinter turned to them and said, "My sons, I would like to introduce you to your new sister." He motioned to a girl who was sitting on the counter next to where he was making breakfast. He also mentioned her name, but it was a very long name the boys couldn't pronounce. She smiled shyly at the boys, who were still just shy around her.
She had dark hair and light brown eyes, just as the four boys did. Her hair was braided into a single, long ponytail and tied back with a faded blue ribbon. She was wearing a comfortable-looking dress to match the ribbon. She was about seven years old, and she was just as small and thin as the four orphan boys.
Splinter went on to explain, "Since my friend across town has been struggling with his illness, he has had trouble taking care of his daughter. I thought and prayed about it for quite some time, and I finally decided to take her in. I hope we will all be happy as we welcome this new member to our family."
The boys all looked at each other.
"Will she sleep in our room?" asked Leo.
"No," Splinter replied, "she might sleep in my room for the first few nights before we either find a better room for her or a bigger apartment for all of us. We can talk about it all over breakfast."
The six of them sat down to breakfast together. As they ate, Mikey noticed an article in the newspaper (which Leo had placed on the kitchen table) about a new satellite to orbit the planet Venus. Mikey studied his new little sister before deciding to be the brave brother to first befriend her.
"Hey, Venus!" He said to the girl. She gave him a funny look that simultaneously expressed pleasure and confusion. Mikey continued, "May I call you Venus? I like that name. It's easier for me to say and remember, and it's pretty, like you."
"Venus" seemed pleased that a little boy seemed interested in being her friend—especially one who would become a brother to her. She continued to talk to him sweetly and shyly, "Thank you. You seem like a nice person to make friends with, but I didn't think you'd like me because I'm a girl."
"Are you kidding?" Donnie chimed in, "That's the reason he likes you—Mikey is crazy about girls. All the other boys in our class at school are mean to him. The three of us are the only boys he has for friends. It's the same way with the rest of us—the big boys bully us at school. So, we'll be your friends!"
"Okay," Venus said as she laughed along with the rest of the breakfast table conversation while getting more acquainted with her new brothers and soon-to-be best friends.
As the children talked and laughed, Splinter looked over the newspaper on the table and started reading some of the economic and political articles. They weren't good news. Splinter spent the rest of the morning thinking about them. He glanced around the kitchen at the four little boys who he had raised since they were very young, and also at the little girl who he just adopted. He thought of how they all needed a better future. Russia was falling apart—it was no place to bring up such precious children. Even the school was a bad environment for them.
As each child was sent off to school that day, Splinter silently prayed that they would survive the bullying of the day, and that they would soon have a better life. In America they would have a better life, so Splinter spent the rest of the school day planning on escaping there with his kids.
