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Chapter 2: The Mystery Girl
Donny rushed out as soon as he had heard what Leo had urged to him over the shellcell. Luckily, Leo hadn't travelled that far from the lair, so it only took him a few minutes to get there.
As Donny finished climbing up, he was surrounded by emotions. First shock, then surprise, followed by a mix of confusion and curiosity. Leo was giving mouth-to-mouth to this girl. He ran over as Leo stopped. Leo then had to explain briefly how she had appeared and how she wasn't breathing properly. Don checked her over; she was bruised and seemed to have hurt a lot of muscles, but none the less all right. Leo had done a good job getting her to breathe. But this wasn't an ordinary girl, Donny couldn't understand, they had always been the only four mutant turtles, and now there was her.
"We can't leave her" Leo concluded to Donny.
"I know..." he looked at Leo. "I guess we'll have to take her to the lair, so she can heal safely"
Leo added to this "Like the others will care!"
Don just had to laugh at this but something made him stop and say "I just hope Master Splinter doesn't mind" They then both carefully picked her up and took her back to their home.
'What a strange night this has been...' Leo thought to himself as they re-entered the lair.
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Falling, that was all she could remember as she awoke in a strange place. "Uhh... what?" she muttered to herself. She opened her eyes slightly; she was in a small candle lit room. It was peaceful and calm and had possibly the loveliest display she had ever seen. She started to try and get up. "Where... am I?" she asked groggily. She soon regretted it as she saw a short figure lurking in the shadows move round to look at her. Their eyes gleamed white in the shadows, it sort of reminded her painfully of what had happened in some strange way. They started to approach her answering her question.
"You are here of course, child" She began to believe her vision hadn't focused properly as she could swear she could see a giant rat in front of her.
She went to rub her eyes, but when she saw her hands she screamed. "MY HANDS! WHAT HAPPENED TO MY HANDS?!" Splinter just looked at her with a sort of curious expression as if to ask 'what do you mean?' She looked at him properly for the first time, "Can I please have a mirror? I NEED a mirror!" she urged towards him. He sighed, and passed her a mirror from on the side. She looked in it to see a strangers face. She screamed again. By this point, the turtles had gathered outside the door of Splinter's study to see what all the screaming was about.
Unfortunately for them, Splinters noticed them hovering in the doorway and called them in. The girl ignored them all and continued to freak out. "Will you just SHUT UP!" Raph glared at her impatiently.
To his surprise, she returned the same look and answered "Oh SHUT UP yourself!"
Raph grinned at Mikey, "I like her!" he whispered to him.
Mikey replied by adding "Yeah! She is such a hotty!" and grinned back at Raph.
Splinter noticed none of this was helping and turned to Leo. "Would you please take this young lady up to your room Leonardo" he stopped as Mikey and Raph both cursed at loosing the chance. "I need to talk to your brothers about something" he looked vaguely towards Raph and Mikey. "Will you try and calm our guest? I will send Donatello up to check her over more thoroughly after I am finished" he concluded.
"Yes, Sensei" Leo bowed to his master and approached the girl. She tried to resist him but was too weak and was easily led out of the study up into Leo's room. He led her to his bed and allowed her to sit down. He glanced at her and could tell by her eyes that she was terrified as well as confused. "My name is Leonardo" he spoke to her softly. He looked for recognition on her face, but all she was doing was staring at the floor. He turned around and was startled when he heard her speaking.
"Violet... is my name" she told him. Her voice was so sweet but it was riddled with pain and sadness.
He had by this time turned back to face her. She began to cry, he didn't know what to do so quickly said "I'm sorry if I've done anything to hurt you..." he started but she looked at him with her tear stricken face and responded.
"No... it's not you... it's me..." she sobbed harder.
"What?" Leo was confused by this but was overwhelmed with shock.
But it was worse when she shouted out "I"M A MONSTER!" He looked at her, a little disheartened by these words. He bit his lip before he began to speak again, embarrassed by what he was about to say to her.
"I don't think you're a monster. I think you're..." he had to really force the last word out as he began to blush, "... Beautiful"
She gazed at him with tear filled eyes and asked him "Really?" He looked her in the eyes. Her eyes were a very deep hazel, glittered with a fair amount of green
"Really" he answered. She suddenly jumped up and hugged him as if she had known him for ages, she almost felt as if she never wanted to let go but continued to cry, safe in Leo's arms.
