Hiya! Here's chapter 2. I hope you enjoy, and please, leave a review! :)
Chapter 2
"Uh, uh... Hello?" Raph stammered out, and she giggled. She turned her gaze to each of his brothers in return.
"And Leonardo, and Donatello, and Michelangelo!" She beamed at each and every one of them in turn. Leo looked startled at finding out she knew their names, and Donnie looked thoughtful.
Mikey however, winked and grinned. "You can call me tonight!" His brothers rolled their eyes at his cheesy pick-up line.
"That was just awful, Mikey!" Donnie groaned.
"I have to second that!" The girl laughed. Raph couldn't help but snicker at the crestfallen look on his baby brother's face. She look back up at Raph. "Uh, Raph?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah?" He snapped back out of his trance.
"You can put me down now." He gently put her feet on the ground and she wobbled, clutching his arm until she got her balance.
"Oh! Sorry, uh-"
"You don't know who I am, do you?" She pouted, sticking her bottom lip out and quivering. Tears brimmed up in her eyes, and instantly the boys clambered over each other to answer.
"Of course we do!" Leo reassured her.
"Why wouldn't we?" Donnie shrugged nonchalantly, as if he knew the answer.
"Nope!" Mikey said happily, bandana tails bouncing. Donnie smacked the back of his head.
"You idiot!" He hissed. Raph remained silence, eyes narrowed in thought.
"Oh, really?" She replied sarcastically, all traces of crying gone. "Then why don't you make it clear for Mikey here?" She turned her gaze to Leo and cocked her head. "I'm waiting."
Leo cowered slightly underneath her gaze. "Little help, guys?" He whispered.
"Spike?" Raph murmured. "Is it really you?"
Her smile lit up the room. "Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!"
"But how?" Donnie asked, the only one (besides Raph) without his jaw dropped. Raph was just standing there, struggling to grasp the idea.
"Sorry, Donnie, but all I remember is falling into a puddle of goo." Spike said apologetically. She fingered the soaked tips of her hair, still glistening with the remnants of the ooze.
"What is going on in here?" All five turtles whipped around, Spike hiding behind Raph's shell. "Where is Miss O' Neil?"
"I took her home," Raph responded, shifting his weight.
Splinter narrowed his eyes, sensing there was something his sons weren't telling him. "Now, what is it you are not telling me?" No point in being secretive about it, he would have just figured out anyways.
The boys all stepped back, leaving Spike in front of them for Splinter to see. The rat's eyes widened. "Who is this?" Spike smiled sheepishly up at him. She practically had to crane her head all the way back to look at him.
"Spike, meet Sensei. Sensei, meet Spike." Leo introduced the two, causing Raph to glare at him. Wasn't Spike HIS to introduce? Splinter's eyes widened even more.
"Spike? Your pet turtle, Raphael?" Splinter tore his gaze from Spike to his second eldest. Raph nodded and opened his mouth to explain.
"I took April home, and Spike with me. Before I dropped April off, I couldn't find Spike. So we went searching the path we came. I heard the Kraang talking, and saw two containers of mutagen. The Kraang were dragging April off, and she was still holding Spike." When Raph said the part about the Kraang and April, Donnie's eyes narrowed into slits. "I fought them, and they dropped the mutagen. April, so she wouldn't get splashed, jumped back, hit her head, and dropped Spike into it. And that's it." Raph shrugged. His eyes hadn't left Spike the entire time.
"Was April okay?" Leo asked, concerned. Raph shrugged again.
"I don't know. I just told her to go home while I mourned the loss of my pet. I thought Spike had died." Spike blushed, her cheeks turning as red as her hair.
Donnie bristled. "You didn't make sure April was okay?!"
"Relax, Brainiac. I'm pretty sure she made it home."
"PRETTY SURE?!"
Mikey interrupted Donnie's ranting and panicking with a question. "So Spike, how'd ya like being a girl?"
Spike frowned. "I've always been a girl. But I never had hair before!" She wrinkled her nose as she rubbed it in between her fingers. "I don't know if I like that or not."
Raph let out a strangled noise. "You've... Always... Been... A... Girl?" His face turned bright red. "You've slept in my bed before!" Spike's face turned the same shade.
"I knew she was a girl!" Donnie imputed, smirking at Raph's expression.
"You didn't think to tell me?!"
"It wasn't exactly important at the time," Donnie defended. "Besides, you were set on her being a guy! Who was I to burst your bubble?"
~Flashback~
"Donnie! Donnie! I need your help!" 11 year-old Raph burst into Donnie's lab. He was cradling something small in his hands. "Donnie!"
"What?! What's wrong?!" Donnie looked up and sprang out of the rolling desk chair Splinter had scavenged for him at the junkyard. He immediately rushed over and met Raph halfway. "What happened?"
"I found this turtle! But I think it's sick!" Raph beamed and held up a small baby turtle in Donnie's face. "See?"
"... Seriously? You freaked me out! I thought someone got hurt!"
"But Spike did!"
"Spike?"
"Spike is my turtle! I found him in the sewers." He held it up again. "He's epic!" Raph beamed proudly at Donnie.
"How do you even know its a guy? Master Splinter won't let us get pets though! Remember that cat Mikey found?"
"I promised that I wouldn't hit Mikey for like a day. And of course Spike's a guy!"
"Okay, okay! Give me 'Spike,' and I will try to find out what's wrong with him." Raph surrendered the pet over to Donatello's excellent hands. Donnie ran a few blood tests immediately at Raph's insistence to find out that the only thing wrong with the turtle was that he was a little dehydrated and malnourished. And that that the little turtle was most definitely not a male. So he hooked the little "guy" up to an IV, and was sure to let Raph feed him plenty of greens. In a few days, Spike was healthy, and Raph took him to keep him in his room.
Donnie never told Raph his secret, and he never planned too.
Until now.
~End of Flashback~
"Why wouldn't you tell me that MY pet was a GIRL?!" Raph was furious that Donnie had kept that 'minor' detail from his for FOUR years!
Donnie was a little more than exasperated at Raph. "Well, gee, Raph! I wasn't the one who was insistent that SPIKE WAS A GUY!" Donnie yelled, causing Leo and Mikey to immediately scoot back a little. Spike's eyes widened and she shrunk down a little.
Splinter noticed this, and immediately got the boys attention. "Spike, are you hurt at all? From Raphael's description it seems you fell from quite a height." Raph turned his suddenly concerned gaze to his former pet.
Spike squirmed a bit once everyone's attention was on her, but she did a quick once-over and shook her head. "I just gotta buncha bruises, I think. I'll be okay!" She assured Splinter, who nodded once and just stroked his beard.
"Are you sure?" Everyone turned to see the red clad turtle looking closely at the girl. She giggled and nodded, and Leo smirked at Donnie. Seems someone was a little 'over-protective.'
"Leonardo, do you remember that old room you boys used to play in as children?" Splinter snapped Leo's attention away from Raph with a question. Leo cocked his head slightly in thought.
Leo smiled. "You would put us in there so we wouldn't be in your way while you meditated. Yes, I remember it. Nobody's been in there in years though!"
Splinter stroked his beard and turned back towards Spike. "How would you like to have that room as your bedroom?" Spike's face looked like it was about to explode from that smile.
"Yes! Yes! YES!" She ran up and hugged Splinter around the middle. "Thank you, Master Splinter!" She squealed, beaming up at the rat. He chuckled down at her and smiled. "I am sure that Raphael and his brothers would be happy to help you get situated." She released Splinter from his hug and turned to the four boys. All four had dropped jaws.
"I am going to go meditate. I will see you boys in the morning?" He nodded at each of them and got a chorus of 'Good Nights' in return. Spike looked a little downcast that he didn't mention her. "Good night, Spike." He nodded at her, too, and suppressed a chuckle when her face stretched out in another smile. He padded off to his bedroom in the dojo.
"Good night, Master Splinter." She smiled at him, and after he disappeared from sight, at the brothers. "Will you help me?" Her grin was huge and contagious, and each of them soon found themselves wearing it.
"Of course, Spike!" Leo couldn't stop nodding, and Donnie reached over and held Leo's head in place, giving him a concerned glance.
"We'll make this the most tricked out bedroom ever!" Mikey jumped up and down in excitement. "This is going to be awesome!"
"Yeah!" Donnie wasn't as enamored with the girl as his brothers were, but his brothers could understand that. After all, April was his girl.
"Shell yeah!" Raph gave her a crooked grin, and she ran up and hugged him too.
"I'M SO HAPPY!" She screamed, causing him to adopt a goofy grin. Mikey made kissy faces at him. Raph glared, but when Spike pulled away, the grin was back. "Let's get started!" Spike beamed, bouncing from one foot to the other.
Donnie's smile dropped. "Spike? It's midnight."
She stopped bouncing. "So?" She tilted her head in confusion.
"It's time for bed," he clarified. Her smile drooped.
"Oh," she said. "I understand." Her light green eyes lost a touch of the sparkle.
"Wait, where is she supposed to sleep though?" Raph argued. "There's nothing in that room right now!" He matched each of his brother's gazes with a glare. "She can't just sleep on the ground!"
Leo and Donnie exchanged sly smirks. "She could always sleep with you!" Leo waggled his eye ridges, grinning triumphantly as Raph's and Spike's cheeks heated up.
"Yeah, Raph. It isn't like she hasn't before!" Donnie tacked on, howling with laughter as Leo tipped over with giggles. Mikey was looking at them with a confused expression. Raph scowled, but the blush still hadn't dissipated from his face.
"But Raph doesn't even have a bed!" Mikey protested, the wheels turning in his head. The wheels may have been turning, but the hamster was dead. "He sleeps in that hammock!" Thank you Mikey for pointing out the obvious.
Leo and Donnie looked at each other with pure delight. "Even better!" They high-threed each other, congratulating the other on a job of embarrassing Raphael well done.
"I'm. Going. To. Murder. Both. Of. You." Raph hissed, clenching his fists as both brothers gave him, 'yeah right' glances. "I'm going to KILL-"
"Raph?" Spike hesitantly interrupted the hotheaded turtle's threat. "I can sleep on the couch tonight. It isn't that big of a deal; I've slept in worse places before." She blushed slightly. "Really!"
Raph had a funny look on his face. "Are you sure?" He asked, pursing his lips in thought. She nodded, giving him a slight smile.
"Really, it's okay!"
Raph shook his head 'no' fervently. "No way! Spike, you can sleep in my bed, and I'll take the couch!" He looked rather pleased with himself for doing the gentlemanly thing to do. Leo suppressed a snicker.
Spike wore that same look Raph had on earlier. "I couldn't kick you out of your own bed, Raph! I can take the couch!"
"No, I'm going too!" He protested, still feeling proud at letting the girl take the bed. It's not like his shell could get a crick in it, anyway. He'd do most anything for Spike, mutated or not.
"Really, you don't have to do that."
"I-"
"Stop arguing!" Donnie stepped in between both turtles, throwing both exasperated looks. "Listen, Spike. You're the guest, after all! Besides, Raph deserves to sleep on the couch for once." Raph nodded, satisfied. "Everything settled? Good. Now go to bed; I have to work on fixing the toaster... AGAIN." This time the purple clad turtle glared at Leonardo, who gave him a sheepish smile in return.
When everyone just stood in the circle without moving, he proceeded to give his brothers a light shove in the direction of their rooms. He patted Raph on the back with a smirk as Raph took the two steps to the old, lumpy couch. The temperamental turtle growled a warning and burrowed into the heap of blankets Mikey had lugged out just ten minutes earlier.
Spike just stood there awkwardly; what was she supposed to do now? Mikey, sensing her uncertainty, stopped walking and skipped back towards the girl.
"Come on, Spike! I'll show you where Raph's room is!" He grabbed her wrist and tugged her down the hallway, totally oblivious to the death glare Raph was giving him. Donnie snickered at his naive brother; he would definitely get an earful in the morning.
"I-" Spike opened her mouth to thank Raph for letting her use his room, but Mikey whisked her away before she had the chance. The last thing she glimpsed was his bright green eyes following her.
"Mikey, I know where Raph's room is." She tried telling him, but he didn't listen. It's not like she was completely stupid as a normal turtle, although she did seem to have new skills and traits.
"This is so cool! I always wanted a sister!" Mikey was blabbering, and Spike tried her best to tune him out. "Can you-" BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
Mikey paused in front of the bedroom door. "Here ya go! I'll talk to ya more in the morning. I have a ton of questions I want to ask you!" With a cute wave, the hyperactive turtle bounced off. Without anyone pulling her along, Spike realized just how tired she was; her eyes were closing and she couldn't help it.
She turned the door knob and stepped inside, making a beeline for the bed. As soon as her feet lifted off the ground, she was out. The last thing she pictured before she fell asleep was Raph's amazing neon green eyes.
I didn't really go back through and edit, so just let me know if there's any errors, okay? :) Leave a review, and have a good day! :D
