Sam was in a full blown sprint. Her heart was all she could hear pounding in her ears. The building was coming up on her right, but if she ran into the ally to climb up to the top they would definitely find her, so she ran past it.

'Maybe if I keep running they'll just give up' she thought, she just hoped that they would give up soon because her adrenaline wasn't going to last her much longer. They kept yelling after her, but she was so scared she only heard what some of them were saying.

"Get back here!" One of them yelled, along with another saying "Where ya gonna go eh?!"

She kept running, her legs were burning and she was breathing hard. She realized that she couldn't hear their heavy footsteps behind her or the crude commentary they were yelling at her anymore, and looked back. There was no one there. It was quiet. Too quiet. She took a minute to catch her breath while trying to figure out where to go next. She'd never been in this part of town before, although it wasn't too far from the crowded streets, it still didn't change the fact that Sam had no idea where she was. 'Which way? Which way?' She mentally was screaming at herself. Finally Sam turned and looked up to see a fire escape on one of the buildings. 'I can go up there right? I've never heard of anyone getting mugged on top of a roof before.' She thought as she walked towards the ally that the fire escape was in. Before she knew what was happening a large hand covered her mouth, and she tried to scream but it came out muffled.

"If you shut up, maybe this won't be as painful fer ya" said a deep voice that sounded like it was plagued by years of chain smoking. Sam tried clawing at his hand and arm trying to get him to let go, but he wouldn't budge. She heard two others behind her chuckling and she felt tears starting to brim her eyes. She was thrown against the ally wall and hit hard.

"It's gettin' awfully cold out, what do you suggest we do to warm up huh?" One said in a slick voice that made Sam want to cringe. She looked up to see three guys no older than twenty-five. Two of them were pretty big and looked like wild hyenas ready to pounce. The third guy was off to the side, he wasn't as big as the others, but the look in his eyes could make the toughest of men cringe.

"S-stay away" Sam said as she slowly started to get up and back away.

"Aw how cute, it's her first time" the first guy said coldly, he smirked and started walking towards her.

Sam kept backing away until she felt her back hit the wall. She could have passed out right then and there, her heart sank, it was a dead end.


Leonardo stood at the top of a building along with his brothers ready to split up for patrol. He knew winter was here, and it got colder and colder each night. It was the time of the year that patrols became shorter, but they still had to be just as thorough.

"Alright guys, we all ready?" Leo said turning towards his brothers. Raphael was leaning against the far wall while Michelangelo was trying to beat the next level on his gameboy as Donatello watched.

Raph walked over towards Mikey, "let's go chucklehead." he said as he smacked the back of his head.

"Oww, take it easy on the melon raph" Mikey rubbed his head and put his gameBoy away. "Well I don't know about you guys, but turtle titan is ready to beat up some bad dudes."

Leo and Raph groaned while Donnie shook his head. "Yea, have fun wit turtle twirp over 'ere" Raph said pointing to Mikey.

"Ok guys, lets get going, remember to call if you see something suspicious" Leo said as Raph clapped his shoulder as a silent way of saing 'let's go, they get it'

Leo and Raph jumped to the next building and Donnie and Mikey went the opposite way.

(Donnie and Mikey)

"I could reaaally go for some pizza right about now" Mikey said stopping and smelling the air coming from the pizzeria across the street.

"You had like four slices of pizza before we left, how much pizza do you need." Don said stopping to face his brother.

"As much as I could possibly eat" Mikey laughed and Don rolled his eyes and chuckled.

"C'mon Mike" Don jumped to the next building and Mikey followed.

"You up for a race? I mean, that is...if you're ok with losing to the battle nexus champion of course" Mikey rubbed his nails against his chest acting all nonchalant.

"Oh you're on, but just know that you're in for a wake up call" Don took off in a sprint and leapt to the next building.

"Hey, that's cheating!" Mikey yelled and ran after him, catching up quickly.

"Don't act like you weren't about to do the same!" Don yelled back, he was pushing hard on each step for extra momentum.

"Yea... But at least-" Mikey was cut off

"Sshh" Donnie put his hand up to signal to Mikey to be quiet.

"Get back here!" A voice said coming from down below, Michelangelo took out his phone to call Leonardo.

"Where ya gonna go eh?!" Another voice said

Donatello and Michelangelo both looked down to see three guys chasing a teenage girl, who at the moment didn't realize they all stopped running and started to sneak away to hide.

"Mike? What's going on." Leonardo said answering the phone.

"Hey Leo, we got a problem... The purple dragons, they're back, and they're after some dudette."

(Leo & Raph)

"Alright where are you?" Leo waved Raph on to follow him. "How did you wind up-" *sigh* "You know what, doesn't matter, we're on our way" Leo hung up the phone and Raph caught up to him.

"Ey, what's goin on fearless?" Raph asked while staying at the same pace as Leo.

"Mike said there's a couple purple dragons chasing down a girl" Leo jumped the the next roof along with Raph with a grunt.

"Purple dragons? They're back? Raph was actually kind of happy, he missed beating down the dragons, but he knew it wouldn't be good if they were regrouping.

"It could just be what's left of them" Leo slowed down when he saw Donatello step out from the shadows and waved him over. Both Leo and Raph came over slowly and saw the girl get thrown to the wall.

"Well, we ready?" Leo said quietly, and received a singal nod from his brothers before they all disappeared into the shadows.


Sam felt her back pressed against the wall and the hot breath of the man inches away from her face. Everything was happening in slow motion, it was too much like home, too much to process.

(flashback)

Sam reached for the old worn out door handle to hell, another word for it could be home, but it didn't seem right.

"Please don't be awake, please don't be awake." Sam quietly chanted to her self, hoping the devil himself would be kind enough to give her just one night where she could relax.

But that would be too much to ask.

"Where you been girl?" he said, no doubt he was drunk.

"I was out uncle Tony, I'll punish myself by going to my room and I won't bother you the rest of the night"

He chuckled softly, his laugh always put her on edge, and he knew that. "You don't think your gonna get off that easy do ya?" He asked, but it wasn't a question.

Sam knew all too well it wouldn't be that easy, it never was. "...no" was all she could say before she was pinned, hot breath coming at her face, and she was thrown to the ground.

She got bloody nose and a split lip that night. He had gone easy on her, of course that was only because he was too tired to continue beating her.

(end flashback)

There was a scream and the clang of metal. Sam was pushed to the ground. Her heart was pounding and her eyes were met with one of the thugs as he fell to the ground and screamed as he was dragged back by a chain. He flew up in the air, hanging upside down, chain around his ankles. Sam sat up and watched as the other two men were taken into the shadows, and they were silenced. It was quiet, and she had no idea what just happened. She looked around frantically not knowing what to do, hoping that chain wasn't coming after her next.

"Are you ok?" Said a voice somewhere in the shadows where the men disappeared.


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