Yo kittens, what's up?

I know that I haven't been writing as much as I used too. But never fear, I haven't forgot you.

So, without further ado- here is the next chapter of Redemption.

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The second Leo was out of his lab, Don's eyes strayed back to the wallet and it's contents as he thought, Useless piece of junk. He'd have to do a physical on the woman before his brothers could, ya know, get physical with her. Her license hadn't told him anything about medical conditions, disorders and so on. So doing a physical was the only way to really know.

And as much as it pained and irritated him to think about, it couldn't wait until she was awake. Because sooner or later someone was going to get impatient. Setting aside everything that he had assembled for interrogating her, he then stood up and walked over to one of the shelves lining the wall of his lab and found a worn black leather bag that he kept some medical stuff in and picked it up.

Opening it up he raffled through it a bit to make sure that he had everything and found that he had everything but a few needles and syringes to take blood with. Grabbing the remaining items that he needed he stored them away and closed the bag then headed for the door to make his way upstairs.

He passed the room where the other women had been kept and found Mikey and Leo carefully placing a body on a plastic tarp, the woman's eyes were closed, her features peaceful, making Don pause for a second to stare.

It always saddened him when things came to this. But it was one of the rules that had been keeping them safe. Much like the rule that they only took hookers, runaways, and strays. People rarely looked for those, but from time to time someone looked.

And they would return that person to their family if they had one. As long as they weren't a threat that is.

The woman's body was covered carefully, almost gently with the plastic, forcing Don from his thoughts long enough to move on. Quietly he slipped past the room before his brothers called on him to help prepair the bodies and crept up the stairs only to pause again when he found his second older brother standing in the open doorway of the room that Isis was in.

His amber eyes locked on the female, an unfathomable expression on his face.

"Raph? What are you doing up here?" Don asked curiously. His brother didn't awknowledge him at first, he just kept staring at the woman as if he were trying to see something that they couldn't. Then finally after a moment he turned his head and looked at Don and frowned.

"Don? What are you doing up here?"

"I just asked you that same question a moment ago," Don poined out before asking. "Didn't you hear me?" Raph frowned even more and slowly shook his head then looked back towards the woman and said.

"Nah. I was just thinking, she seemed awful familiar for a second. Almost like deja^vu-" Raph said before looking at Don again, this time noticing the bag in his hands. His eye ridges raised a bit giving him an almost amused look. "Planning to give her a physical already?"

Don didn't respond as Raph moved back out of the doorway before asking, "You mind if I sit in on this?"

Now this surprised Don. Mainly because Raph usually didn't show any interest in any of the females brought to the lair until the rest of them had had their turn with said female. It was simply uncharacteristic of him. And he usually only went for a certain kind of female.

He was like Leo, preferring the spirited ones that fought him until she gave in to the inevitable. Don figured that part of the reason he went for those kinds of females had something to do with his warrior blood and rougher personality. He didn't want to break his partner in half by going for a weak female. He wanted someone that he felt could give as good as she got.

And if he was pleased, he rewarded her with gentleness instead of the savagry he was so well known for.

Don hesitated for a second as he considered his request but in the end nodded his head earning a grin from his older brother before he maneuvered him inside of the room and quickly followed him in then closed the door silently behind them. "What are you going to start with?" Raph asked curiously as Don walked over to the bed and set his bag down on the small table beside it and looked the woman over.

"She may be wounded, which may have attributed to her collapse on the streets earlier so I'll check for wounds, then the more basic stuff."

"Need any help?" Raph asked. Don gave him a funny look then slowly shook his head no.

"Not unless she wakes up and freaks out and starts fighting, no." Don said as he leaned down and started from the top of the woman's head, running his fingers through her silken hair until he felt a large bump under his fingers and gently probed it while watching the woman's expression for any signs of pain. Even in her unconscious state, she winched and tried to move away from his hands.

Taking the hint, Don moved on as he made a mental note to come back to the wound in a minute and slipped his hands down to her throat to feel her lymph nodes, and take her pulse before sliding his hands lower to her collarbone. Again she winched, his sharp eyes noting the action and he narrowed his eyes a bit.

Deciding that he would get a better look at her without her jacket on, he slipped an arm under her shoulders, not missing the faint hiss and pained expression that crossed her pretty face as he carefully lifted her just enough to slip the jacket from her slender shoulders before nearly hissing himself.

Merde! Her skin was cut up and scratched with bruises that were green and yellow and purple- "Well, you really pissed someone off didn't you?" Don muttered darkly as he glanced over at Raph who had that unfathomable look on his face again with just the faintest traces of anger before Don continued his examination.

Don laid the woman back down and made quick work of checking her arms and legs for fractures before pulling her shirt up a bit and pushing down on her stomach to make sure that she didn't have any internal bleeding.

She had more bruises there that were were older than the ones he'd discovered so far but she didn't have any internal bleeding or broken bones. Sighing he pulled her shirt back down into place over her stomach and made a mental note to have Leo look over her wounds before bothering to interrogate her.

After all, one wrong move from them could kill her before they got any information about how she had known they're names.

Using her jacket to cover her up against the chill in the room he told Raph to turn the heat up a bit as he checked her head wound again. Parting her hair he found a small bloody mess from where her skin had been torn open from the force of impact and grabbed some stuff from his bag to clean it. It only took a minute or so and once he finished with that he bandaged the wound to keep it from becoming infected and then took the blood samples he needed to check for illness and sighed as he straightened his spine and put everything away.

All in all she appeared fairly healthy, though she was banged up. Picking up his bag he headed for the door so that he could get back to his lab and maybe find Leo and paused when he realised that Raph was over by the bed.

Turning around, he glanced at his older brother and blinked in confusion when he found Raph leaning over the woman with one hand held just a hairs breath over her chest, whispering something inaudible to her in japanese.

"Raph?" His brother jerked his head up to look at him, his eyes had an almost feral look to them that caught Don by surprise before Raph seemed to catch himself and blank his expression.

"I'm coming Don." He said in an almost snappish tone, making Don feel as if he had just intruded on something he shouldn't have seen. But that couldn't be true.

Right?

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Raph watched his brother as he continued to try and push away the nagging feeling that he knew the female laying on the bed a few feet away and waited until Don was done and out of the way before walking over to the bed to look at the woman a little more closely. Cuts and bruises aside she looked like a goddess to him.

Her beauty seemed so familiar and other worldly that he found himself leaning over her with his hand poised over the place where her heart was as words tumbled from his lips.

Otherworldly beauty, as lovely as a pearl;

I want to kiss your lips once more.

Delicate rose, cradled in the palm of my hand- I'll claim you in ways you can't begin to understand.

Beloved one, filled with such passion; let me once again touch your heart-

"Raph?" Don's voice broke the spell he seemed to be under and he snapped his head up to glare at his brother, suddenly feeling angry that he had been caught in a moment of weakness.

"I'm coming Don." He said in a harsher tone than he meant and stared at his younger brother until he nodded and exited the room before straighteing his spine and dropping his hand back to his side and glanced down at the woman and muttered, "I'll be back for you." Then walked out of the room and closed the door behind him and went downstairs to the kitchen to grab a beer.