"There's no place like home, I guess." This was Raphael's first thought as he entered the lair; which was quiet, with the exception of Mikey's shouts as he played videogames. Donnie was, without a doubt, tinkering with some sort of … "stuff"; it was the only word that came to Raphael at the moment that could describe Donnie's projects. Leo was probably in the dojo, sulking.

"Hey Donnie, need some help here!" Raphael shouted. Donnie's head popped out of the lab, he was wearing his goggles and there was a smear of oil on his face. "Oh gosh! What happened to her?" He asked as he threw his goggles somewhere inside the lab. "Don't know, I just found her." Raphael answered.

"Get her to the lab, hurry!"

At this point, both turtles' shouts had been enough to alert the other members of the family that there was something going on. Mikey muted the T.V., and Leo came out of the dojo and forgot all about sulking.

Donnie cleared one of his tables and motioned to Raphael so he could lay the limp body on it. "Wait here, I'll go get cleaned up." Donnie left and Master Splinter entered the lab. "Who might this be?" Raphael jumped when he heard his father's voice, with all the commotion, Raphael hadn't notice his father standing there.

"Sensei, I-I don't know. She was there and then…" Raphael couldn't understand why he was so nervous.

"It is alright my son, you did the right thing." Master Splinter said with a reassuring smile.

"Coming through!" Donnie entered the lab and hurried towards the girl.

"Come my son; let us give your brother some space. How about you tell me everything?" Raphael was curious about what Donnie would do to the girl and wanted to stay, but knowing that he would just be getting in the way, he decided against it and followed Master Splinter to the dojo.

Meanwhile, Leo and Mikey were peeking inside Donnie's lab, trying to see what was happening.

"Who's that?" Leo asked Mikey in a hushed voice.

"Beats me." Mikey shrugged.

"I need privacy!" Donnie exclaimed as he slammed the door shut.

Donnie took several deep breaths before resuming his work. From what he could see, none of her external injuries were severe; however, the girl was suffering from both hypothermia and dehydration, which he should definitely treat first. He walked back to the door and flung it open, startling his brothers in the process. "Leo, get me some blankets and towels! Mikey, call April and ask her to bring spare clothes!" His brothers were astonished; it wasn't always that Donnie showed his bossy side. "What are you waiting for? Hurry up!" At this, both turtles scurried away to perform each task.

Donnie sighed and reached out to the "emergency cabinets" and prepared an I.V. line. "Here are the blankets." Leo entered the lab with a mountain of blankets and towels on his arms. "Good, just leave them there." Donnie motioned to another work table. "Donnie, April asks what kind of clothes!" Mikey called out from the living room. "A few of everything!" Donnie answered, and once again, closed the door of his lab and prepared for what was to come.

The girl's clothes were soaked and so Donnie proceeded to remove them. He felt so awkward doing this, this was, after all, the first time he saw a girl without clothes. He discarded the dress and continued with his diagnoses. Some of her ribs were bruised, but luckily none seemed to be broken, her right wrist was definitely broken, and several bruises, cuts and scrapes adorned almost every inch of her body; there were also a few scars of old injuries. "Her body," Donnie thought, "it seems quite athletic."

Donnie cleaned her up the best he could, he tended to her injuries, and then made sure that the blankets were enough to warm her up. The turtle, finally, sat down and felt proud of himself and his work. The girl's wrist was reset and immobilized, the worst of the cuts had been bandaged, the I.V. line was hooked to her good…"less bad arm", Donnie thought, and her temperature was slowly rising. "I could make myself a good clandestine doctor." There was a triumphant smile plastered on the turtle's face.

"You in there, Donnie?" A familiar voice called out from the other side of the door. Donnie got up and opened the door, outside was "the lovely April". "Hey April, how you doing?" Donnie flashed his "manliest" smile at her. "I'm good. I brought the clothes you asked me. What happened? Mikey told me Raph came back with someone." April's remark brought Donnie back to reality. "Yeah, she's in there. She isn't in the best shape but she'll be good in some time." Donnie entered the lab with April following close behind him. "She looks like she got the beating of the century. What do you think happened to her?" April asked as she examined the girl's face.

"I don't know, most probably she had a run-in with some gang or was escaping from somewhere. We can't be sure until she wakes up." Donnie said while inspecting the bag full of clothes that April had brought. He took out a pair of yellow jammies. "These would do nicely."

April pushed strands of hair out of the girl's face and flinched at the sight of a rather nasty bruise on her face. "April, give me a hand, will you? I don't feel comfortable with the thought of having a naked girl in my lab." Donnie said as he closed the door for the umpteenth time. "Sure thing." April smiled to herself as she pictured Donnie's embarrassed face, although she didn't have to imagine much because Donnie was already sporting said look.

"Okay, we'll do it nice and easy." Donnie said as he looked away.

The pants went first and Donnie tried hard not to look; the boldness rush was long gone and had been replaced by awkwardness. Meanwhile, April tried extremely hard to not chuckle at Donnie's futile attempts of hiding his embarrassment. "He's such a good person." April thought as she gently lifted the girl's upper body to put on the shirt. As she did so, her eyes caught sight of something unnerving on the girls back. "Donnie, you have to see this."

"April, I seriously don't want to look more than I have to." Donnie answered.

"Donnie, this is serious."

Donnie caught the worried tone of his friend's voice this time and hurried to her side. "What is it? Tell me."

"Donnie, if you close your eyes you won't see."

Donnie opened his eyes and they instantly found what April was talking about. "Oh no."

Author's Note: Hello once again, I hope you enjoyed reading the second chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. In this chapter I decided to try and intertwine some of the character's thoughts with the paragraphs. I would love to know your opinion about it, so please review (I felt so happy about my first review that I couldn't stop grinning all day. Thanks Raphaelfangirl4real.). I will post as soon as possible.