Noise of the busy city and bright sun shining on my face woke me what felt like minutes later. Groaning I turn to the window, my body stiff from being in the same positing all night of dreamless sleep. Stretching with a yawn I notice that it is still fairly early, well early for me… Not really knowing if anyone would be up yet? Curious, I opened my door peering into the living room and kitchen seeing a flash of red hair busying herself around the apartment. I smiled, putting on some leggings and a shirt over my tank top padding my way into the kitchen.

"Morning, how'd you sleep?" She asked her back to me as I furrowed my brow. She didn't see me, and I have socks on, so how'd she hear me on tiled floor? She turned to me with a smile as I smelt the beautiful aroma of coffee starting.

"Uh, wonderfully actually. That bed is comfortable." I said as she nodded. "Leo mentioned something about us going down to the lair…"

"To discuss some more about the Earth Protection Force. I let Casey know and to get some more intel if we can. I'm sure Donnie barely slept." She sighed shaking her head. I smiled at her mention him.

"How long have you two been together?"

"Oh, um… I've never been asked that before…" She chuckles. "About thirteen years I guess?" She says furrowing her brow. "Wow… Yeah since we were fifteen so… Yeah." She chuckles again, surprising herself with the number.

"Jesus…" I say as she shrugs.

"Well, it's kind of a life time commitment with those boys." She says as I nod.

"Have you been friends with them since you were a kid or….?"

"I thought you knew everything?" She asked in a chuckle as the coffee dinged. She grabbed some coffee mugs, creamer and sugar as I smirked to her assumption.

"Well in a lot of instances there's underline flirtation with you and Donnie but, it's never actually blossomed into a relationship. Unless you read fanfiction." I chuckle as places a mug in front of me with some creamer and sugar. I take a sip of the dark liquid sighing as the wonderful taste courses through my veins.

"Isn't that something mega fans right about like Star Wars or something?" She says as my cheeks redden.

"Or TMNT." I argue.

"TMNT?" She asks as I shake my head with a smile.

"Uh…Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." I say taking another sip of coffee, looking up at her from under my lashes as her face contorts in confusion. She thinks for a minute before shaking her head.

"They're in their twenties." She said with a laugh as I shrug. "That's silly."

"They had a version in the 80s that had their initials on their belts." I say as she snorts a laugh. "Also a majority of the cartoons or movies, they're walking around naked, just belts and gear and weapons."

"Now that's a movie I'd watch." Casey yawns coming from the hallway as she stretches, grabbing herself a cup from the cabinet. I look up at her, putting my head down back at the to the table to look into my black coffee. She was about as modest as you'd think in the morning, same tank top from last night, no bra and a pair of black underwear that had a skeleton hand holding up a middle finger across her backside. I kept my eyes down at the table to keep y eyes from wondering over her perfect body. Both her and April looking like super models stepping out of a magazine at nine in the morning was enough for my insecurities to have my head spinning. She sat at the table looking at me as I took another sip of my coffee.

"How'd you sleep?" She asked, tucking her wild black hair behind her ear.

"Good." I say with my face red and stomach twisting in nerves as she nods. "You and Raph have fun last night?" I ask with a coy smile.

"Raph and I have fun every night baby doll." She says with a wink. "We went to Dragon head courters for a bit. Didn't see nothin' unusual. Raph was sayin' somethin' 'bout this Protection Force?" She asked looking to April who nodded. "Jesus, do they ever catch a break?" She asked as April sighed.

"Seems not." She said sadly as I frowned at my coffee.

"They always seem to get themselves into trouble." I add as Casey and April look at me.

"You care for 'em hey?" Casey asked as I looked at her with a nod. "I can tell…" She smiled. "Let's hope your geek knowledge can help us as much as Donnie's." She said musing my hair as I smirked.

"Well, I hope so anyways. It never seemed to be much help before."

"Let's get ready and go." April said, nodding to Casey as she takes her mug of coffee to her bedroom to get ready. I placed my empty up in the sink rinsing it out as April smiled at me. "You don't have to do that." She says kindly. "We'll take care of it later. Change into something you can move in, I'm sure Leo is going to want to test your skills with fighting, see where you're at. He doesn't like to waste time." She said with a grimace as I nodded.

"I figured." I say with a shrug as she smiled.

"Of course you did."

Entering the lair for the second time wasn't any less intimidating or mind blowing. April had me follow routine as they did with every stranger. I was blindfolded on the street and hand my hand on April's shoulder to follow her to the entrance.

"Alright, you're good." She said, holding my hand as I took the cloth from my eyes.

"Welcome back Miss Margret." Splinter said kindly at the bottom of the cement stairs where we stood. "Miss O'Neil, Miss Jones." He said in greeting, bowing his head as they made their way down the stairs.

"Good morning Master Splinter." They said in unison, bowing their heads. I smiled to their sweet behavior especially Casey's as I followed their gesture towards the Ninja master.

"I'm not having this argument with you again Mikey." I heard Leonardo's voice chuckle as he came from an alcove that I didn't get to venture down as he and Michelangelo emerged from. My foolish behavior from yesterday starting all over again at the sight of him. His body as incredible as it was yesterday, not understanding why I would think it would be any different. I pressed my lips together, trying to keep my face as indifferent as I could as they made their way over to us. Casey looked over at me, her face furrowing in expression before a knowing smile went over her face. She nudged me with her shoulder hard breaking me out of my gaze on the eldest.

"You got a little drool…" She said, tapping the side of her mouth as I slapped her hand away, glaring at her as she chuckled.

"Shut the fuck up." I hissed as she laughed louder.

"Morning ladies." Mikey said with a wink, leaning his arm against his brother in blue as April smiled.

"Morning Mike where's…"

"Lab." Leo said as April patted his arm in passing making her way to the lab to see her turtle in purple. "How was your first night in another dimension?" He asked looking at me as Casey leaned her arm on my shoulder smiling at me.

"It was fine." I said softly as Casey kept the large smile on her face.

"No weird dreams?" She asked sounding concerned as I looked over at her. She winked at me as I rolled my eyes, letting her arm dropped from my shoulder.

"So, did Don get any more information on the Earth Protection Force or the Foot?" I ask, walking away from Casey towards the lab as Leo follows me.

"Kind of, however we barely scratch the service. John Bishop is a very complicated man." He said as I signed.

"Complicated, sinister and sick. All those things." I say as we enter Donnie's lab where he and April are looking at a large computer screen with images filled of Bishop. "Yeah, that Matrix lookin' mother fucker. That's him." I say pointing to the screen as a man in a suit and black glasses appears next to the EPF van, with Foot Ninja loading it with several crates.

"Why is he with the Foot." April asked.

"Shredder isn't dead?" I ask, already knowing the answer but, looking at Leo for confirmation. His eyes are already narrowing on the image of the men before us as they turn to me nodding his head. "Then Saki is planning on using him to get to you. Bishop likes to run, experiments…"

"What kind of experiments?" April asks, her already pale completion turning even whiter. I give her a pointed look as she sits down onto Donnie's lap, seeming to lose the power in her legs to stand.

"I'm not going to let that happen." I say going over to her, putting my hands over her face as she nods. Her eyes gloss over as I feel mine start to well with tears as well. I look up at Donnie, his eyes hazed over as they stare ahead at the screen. "Donnie." I say as his eyes move to mine. "I'm not gonna let it happen." I say as he nods his head slowly. His mind is on overdrive and I can see it behind his blank expression. He's not focusing on anything I'm saying, he's running through scenarios and simulations in his head. He's thinking of experiments, equipment that could possible be used.

"How can you know that?" Leo asks. I turn to him, feeling the warmth a tear roll down my cheek. I wipe it away quickly, crossing my arms over my chest.

"I don't but, I'm at least going to try." I say with a shrug.

"What if you get killed in the process?" He ask stepping up to me as I feel my body heat to his proximity in the smaller space. His body inches from my own as his eyes dance back and forth over mine. I take in a slow breath feeling the warmth move slowly through my body to my cheeks.

"I get killed then it was at least for you guys."

"That's absolutely ridiculous. You don't know us and you're ready to lay down your life for us? You understand how crazy that sounds?" He asks, his voice raising as I nod.

"Doesn't this all sound a little ridiculous Leo?" I ask as he looks at me his face slowly fading from anger. "I know it's going to take a lot more than me saying this just once for you to understand, especially coming from a stranger as fucked up as it sounds I do care about you and your family. I am here to help and if I end up getting killed then…" I shrug taking in a slow breath. "I guess I get killed."

"That's not going to happen." April says, getting from Donnie's lap, putting her hands on my shoulders. "We're getting ahead of ourselves. We need to take one thing at a time here." She said as Don stood as well, going to his brother.

"April's right. We can't just assume the worst because of one man. We've gone up against many men before, this won't be any different. We have Mags here to help, not get killed." He said looking at me with a smile, I returned it looking at the floor. Leonardo sighed, audibly leaning his large body next to mine on a metal bench Donnie had various tools and gadgets scattered across. I peered up at him, as his head was down, his arms crossed over his chest in thought. "We have to use what we have to our advantage like we always have." Donnie added, putting his hand on his brother's shoulder. "This isn't something we haven't faced before Leo."

"Having an innocent bystander in the mix is." He said looking over at me as I rolled my eyes.

"I wasn't brought here against my will." I said with a shrug.

"Still…" He said as I shook my head.

"April said you wanted to train me?" I asked, changing the subject. He looked over at me and then at April.

"Did she." He said with a smile at his redheaded friend. He eyed my attired, tight black compression leggings, with a well worn Deadpool self-made muscle t-shirt, a neon green and black sports bra underneath with the same blue converse on my feet. He smirked pushing himself from the table nodding his head for me to follow him. "I'm starting you with the basics." He said as I followed him from Donnie's lab and down the alcove that was still new to me.

My feet stopped as a large room opened up to warm inviting lighting and tranquil sounds. Leonardo walked ahead until he heard the padding of my feet stop behind him. He turned to look over his shoulder at me, my face opened in awe as my eyes scanned the immense area.

I slowly stepped onto the bamboo mat entering their Dojo.

Japanese art hung on brick covered walls, metal sconces screwed into place with hardened wax melted down the bricks. My feet carrying me to them forgetting about the turtles watching me intently. My fingers tracing over the thick inky lines on rice paper of the art I could only assume if from Hamoto Yoshi's past in Japan. Hardened wax and incense dust coat the tips of my fingers from years of burning in those sconces on the wall as I make my way around the room. I arch my neck up, the ceiling as high as it is in the main room with a golden ceiling making it look like sunlight can burst through at any moment, not realizing that you're buried underground.

My hands touch the coolness of steal and my feet stop. The middle of the room, hung in a line their old weapons worn down from age next to pieces of fabric colored blue, red, purple and orange. My breathing caught as I traced my fingers along the steal of Raphael's Sia, eye level above the smooth wood of Donatello's Bo staff, and below that Michelangelo's Nunchka. I raise my eyes to the beautiful crossed blades of Leonardo's katana. Tears well in my eyes as I ran my fingers through their old bandanas.

"Wow…" I breathe, Donatello's tattered purple fabric between my fingers as I feel Leonardo's presence beside me. I clear my throat, wiping my eyes to my ridiculous behavior before looking up at him, and letting my hands drop to my side. He smiled at me watching my expression as his changed from confusion to curiosity.

"These are from when we were about sixteen." He said, looking at his twin katana crossed on the wall. "This is important to you." He said looking down at me as I met his eyes, wiping the tears that filled my eyes once more. I rolled them, him finally starting to understand why I even dimensionally traveled for them.

"Duh Leonardo." I said with a chuckle as he smiled.

"Well, I've out grown those." He said, a bit of cockiness in his tone as he pulled a blade from its scabbard. I stepped back from the long blade as it shined in the light overhead. He held it on one finger, perfectly balanced as he flipped it easily, twisting it in his grasp before presenting it to me with both hands. I hesitated lifting my hand to it as the water marks from the blade glistened in the light. I sighed softly putting my hand down by my side.

"It's beautiful." I say, looking up at him as he smiles. "Did you name them?" I ask with my own smile as he snorts a laugh.

"No. They're an appendage, not a tool." He said simply as I nodded. Literally the hottest thing I've ever heard.

"However, I know that Wade does have his named." He said nodding to my shirt as shirt as I smile, my face reddening.

"You know Deadpool?" I ask in shock as he furrows his brow.

"His choice weapon are Katana, of course I do." He said, placing his blade back in his sheath. "Also, if I didn't watch the movie Mikey would have blown a gasket." He said with a shrug. "Come, let me see what you've got." He said nodding his head towards the middle of the mat. "Shoes off." He said as I nodded, slipping my shoes off and walking to the middle of the mat. "First position." He said as I took a beginning stance, right leg behind me, left leg slightly bent in front of me with my arms up to my side. He walked around me lifting my arms. His hand went to the back of my thigh on my right leg, moving it in slightly as I felt my body become hot. "Decent." He said walking in front of me. "Been awhile?" He asked as I nodded. "Well, you can tell." He sighed.

"So, you didn't want lame and unprepared? Got it." I said nodding my head as he chuckled a little. I adjusted my footing as he made a face nodding his head.

"Better." He said, stepping up to me as he now took position in front of me, his form much more intimidating and immaculate compared to my own. "Hit me." He said as I arch a brow.

"Excuse me?" I asked as he chuckled.

"Hit me." He shrugged as I kept my hands up.

"You want me to hit you?"

"I want you to try and hit me." He corrected with a smile in his tone.

"What happens when I do?" I ask warily as he snorts a laugh.

"When you hit me?" He asks as I nod. "You won't." He says as I narrow my eyes. "Unless I let you." Why is his smug tone so fuckin' hot? Bastard. "Hands up." He said tapping my hands as I raise them. He adjusts them to about chest level. "Eyes on your opponent, never down. You look down, they take you down. Understood?" He asks as I nod. "Good. Strike." He said as I took a step forward, following my basic lessons from when I had learned Judo years ago. Feet apart, hands up, eyes forward, shoulders and breathe even. I punched, following with my body as he caught me against his plastron. My hand under his bicep as I felt the flex against the top of my hand. I swallowed the saliva coating my mouth as I looked up into his blue eyes shining down on mine. Our bodies pressed together tightly, for the first time since coming here. "That was good." He said, his voice low against my ear as I felt a shutter roll down my spine. "Try again." He said letting my hand go as I nodded. "Other hand." He said.

"It's not my dominate…"

"I know, but try." He said kindly as I nodded taking opposite stances and tossing another strike. He caught me again the sound of my fist making contact with his palm thud in the Dojo.

"Very good Miss Margret." I heard Splinter say from behind me as I looked over my shoulder at the old rat. Leonardo let me go, his hand sliding slowly down my back as he let me out of his grasp. I took notice of his gentle caress whether he wanted me to or not. I smiled, looking behind him as he smiled at me.

"She has a steady base Father." Leonardo said as Splinter nodded.

"Good core." Splinter said, tapping on my stomach with his walking stick as I furrowed my brow. Pretty sure that's just tacos but, OK. "And strong legs, she'll be a good student." He said, nodding his head.

"I don't exactly think I'll become a Kunoichi." I say with a chuckle as Splinter smacks me in the arm with his stick. I hiss in pain, rubbing the sore spot.

"One will not become something they already planned to not be." He said as I nodded my head. "You want to become Ninja, you will train like Ninja." He said nodding his head to Leonardo. "First you start with Judo." I nod, keeping my face straight to Splinter's serious tone. "We need you here to help our family and I will not have one that cares for us so deeply be so blind to what they can learn and achieve. You are here to help us, we will help you. Now, kāi shǐ." Leonardo nodded, bowing towards his father as Splinter went to the outskirts of the mat.

"He said begin." Leonardo said softly to me, catching my look of confusion to the dialect. "Hands up, remember the stance." He said, circling me as I fell into the same stance as before. He pushed on my shoulder lightly and I didn't move. He tried again from the side and I lost my footing, catching myself before I fell. He grasped my bicep steadying me upright again. "We'll work on that. Let's see take downs." He said as I felt my face heat.

"Um, OK...?" I say slowly as he smiles.

"Casey will be a willing participant. I don't want to hurt you yet." He said as my expression furrowed to 'yet'. "Case!" He called into the lair, his voice strong and deep.

Her and Raphael didn't take long to make their way into the Dojo. She smiled at me, putting her arm over my shoulder. She changed from her attire earlier when we came to the lair. Now wearing a cropped hoodie, the sleeves cut off showing her toned arms and mid drift. Different from my overall covered up appearance. Working a sedentary job for some years and going home to 'Netflix and Chill' with a bowl of pasta was being to make me a little... Doughy.

"How's the mating sess going?" She asked as I tsk, pulling my body away from her as she chuckled. Leonardo ignored her.

"I want to see how good she is at take downs." He said as Casey smiled.

"Oohh... Alright Rhonda Rousey let's see what you've got." She said putting up her fists as I roll my eyes.

"I'm far from a championship fighter and also, if we are going to do this unfortunately..." I sigh looking down at my inadequate body. "No lose clothing." I say as she shrugs slipping off her hoddie and tossing it to the side. Donnie, April and Mikey make their way into the Dojo. Great a fuckin audience at this train wreck. "Well this is upsetting." I grumble, lifting my shirt and tossing it with Casey's leaving me in my sports bra. Luckily the compression leggings are doing their job.

"So, this is just glorified wrestling right?" She asked as I smirk at her.

"Yeah Case, just glorified wrestling." I say to her with a darkness to my tone as she eyes me carefully.

"You haven't done this in awhile right?" She asked, as I started to circle her.

"Give or take a couple months." I shrug. "Some days are more stressful than others and I like to head to the gym and see my coach for some practice." I say. I'm starting to feel a little more comfortable. Casey is more my speed. She's in the right height and weight and she's not a trained deadly ninja that's about 400lbs of pure muscle and sex walking. I feel my confidence build back slowly even if a little muffin top is showing. Fuck it.

"How do we start?" She asks as I stop circling her. She does the same as we face each other. I bow as she does.

"Ding." Mikey says as I chuckle.

"You got this baby." Raph says as Casey smirks.

She leaves herself open, her focus for so long being weaponry and punching it was easy to go down wrap my arms around her thighs and bringing her to the ground with me. Her back fell back hard against the mat as I fought to pin her shoulders down but, she was quick. Pushing me back with her knee to my chest I was pushed off her but I was able to counter, my hand moving fast under her knee where it bent and pulling her body to me and twisting so her body wrapped around my back as I flipped her up and over me slamming her hard once more against the mat in attempt a pin. But, she was scrappy and quick to move out from under me. I would have to get her by submission. Changing my game up, she once again moved me from her body by her legs and I took this opportunity to grab it, turning my body around and placing her leg between mine. My feet were at her head and vise versa. I twisted her leg in my grasp, clenching my thighs as she hissed, attempting to squirm out of the hold. I held tighter, and the more she squirmed and moved the tighter my hold got. I felt her hand tap my thigh and I let go sitting up and looking at her face red with sweat matching my own.

"Jesus..." She said as I put my hand out to her helping her to her feet.

"Well we know strength won't be an issue. Shit." Raph said looking at Leo who nodded.

"April." Leo said as she smiled and got to her feet. "This is not a test of strength." He said as he and April walked up to me. "April is quick, she's trained along side us and is a kunoichi. Her agility is unmatched by any of us because of her size. I'm your Sensei but, she's your partner." He says putting his hand on both our shoulders. I nod smiling at April as she gives me one back. "Stances." He said as April took hers. I waited for her to do it so I could copy. I imitated it the best I could as Leo came over adjusting me. "Better." He said. He placed his hand on my stomach and one at my lower back. "You're not lifting weights in here, you need to loosen up." He said softly moving my midsection as I chuckled a little.

"Ok." I said a smile still on my face as he went in front of us.

"Watch and follow April." He said. I turned my attention to her, her face serious and straight as she threw out a fist with a yell, followed by a step and another fist. She went back gracefully to her position looking at me with a smile.

I took a slow breath, following her movements. Remembering not to over extended my elbow as I strike, bend my knee, be on the balls of my feet to move as quickly as I could. I was back in being position and looked to April who had a look of approval on her face.

"Not bad." Leo said as I smiled, feeling sweat start to drip from my brow. "Think we can move on to combos?" He asked as I shrugged.

"Yeah." I said as he nodded.

"I'll get us some water." April said jogging out of the room as Leo went to a box sitting off to a corner in the Dojo, covered by weights and a workout bench.

"Here." He said tossing me a roll of tape. "For your knuckles." I caught it, starting to unravel it and wrap it around my palm and over my knuckles. He watched me for a moment before a smile went over his face.

"What?"

"That looks like shit." He says with a chuckle as I sigh throwing up my arms. He walks over to me, taking the tape and my hand. "I suppose I'll have to teach you everything from scratch." He jokes as he settles my arm under his bicep to hold it steady. I look up to his eyes, watching his work on my hand intently.

"I guess so..." I say softly, feeling the ramming in chest being. I thought I was over this, I guess not? His eyes flicker to mine as we look at each other. My breathing catches in my throat to his beautiful eyes looking down at me. My body pressed up against his, already hot and slick with sweat.

"Other hand." He says, his eyes not leaving mine as I furrow my brow.

"What?" His face breaks into a smile as he releases me from his hold.

"I need your other hand." He says. Oh, duh... We were doing something.

"Oh..." I say, lifting it to him as he smiles, taking other arm and turning. I sighed, shaking my head to my once again ridiculous behavior. I lift my eyes to Casey's from across the Dojo and notice a large smile across her beautiful face.

furrow my brow at her as she points her finger at me and then Leo. I look at him and he's intently working on wrapping my hand as I look back at her making kissing faces. I press my lips together to stifle a laugh as Leo looks at me.

"What?" He asks as I look back at Casey talking to Raph as if nothing happened.

"Nothing." I say looking at my fists, opening and closing them. "Thank you." I say as he nods.

"Drink some water and we'll continue." He says going over to Splinter who's sitting on a grouping of pillows watching the training as I nod, walking over to everyone else, taking a cold bottle of water that April hands me. Casey grabs my arm, pulling April with her as I sip my water.

"What's your damage Jones?" April asks, being pulled away mid conversation from Donnie as Casey points at me.

"She likes Leo." She smiles crossing her arms over her chest.

"What is this fourth grade?" I ask with a roll of my eyes.

"Yeah, no kidding." April says as I turn to her with a shocked expression.

"What?!" I say as Casey chuckles and covers my mouth from my outburst.

"Yeah, I knew the second you looked at him." She says with a shrug. "First, the way you acted with Donnie, I thought... But it was just the overall shock of seeing them but then, seeing Leo it was like whoa, she's got it baaad." April said as Casey tsked.

"Man I miss all the good shit." She said as I looked at them with wide eyes.

"Does he know?"

"Ppfffttt..." Casey laughed.

"Hell no." April said. "If that turtle is one thing it is completely and utterly clueless when someone is attracted to him."

"Is he... With someone?"

"Ha!" Casey laughed again.

"He doesn't exactly trust easy, if you've noticed." April added. "He's never really 'been' with anyone." She shrugged. "I mean he's 'been' with woman but, he's never 'been' with them…" She said as I furrowed my brow. I was about to ask her what the hell she meant as Donatello made his way over to us.

"Water break is over ladies." Donnie said before Leo started making his way in our direction. "Next time possibly lower our voices if we want to talk about our brother in blue?" He said with a shrug as my face reddened. April shoved him on his plastron, taking my tape covered hand and going back to the center of the room.

"Won't need you for this part April." Leo said as she nodded. "Guys, I would like Maggie to concentrate." He said over to the group as Raph nodded, putting his large arm around Casey's shoulder and pulling her out of the Dojo. Splinter got from his pillows as I watched everyone leave the Dojo.

Fuck.

Splinter shuts the doors behind him as I swallow hard, looking at the main focus of my fuckin wet dreams staring me right in the face.

"Combos are a little harder, need more concentration and I didn't want you to get distracted." He said stepping closer to me. I took a breath slowly. Distracted, OK buddy I've been fuckin distracted since I dropped in this fuckin universe by you and your presence but yeah, shut me off in a room with you. Sounds great.

"Are we using pads or...?" I ask as he smiles holding up his opened hands. I arch a brow looking at his large green palm. "I'm hitting your hands." I say as he shrugs.

"We don't have luxurious items such as pads." He jokes as I smile nodding my head. "Fist." He said making one himself. "Good." He looked it over, adjusting my thumb. "Don't tuck, you'll break it." He says as I sigh, shaking my head.

"Rooky mistake." I say, taking my stance as he opens his hands.

"I want good balance and speed, we'll work on precision of hits later. Right now just cross over combos and I'm moving you move with me. Got it?" He asked as I nodded. "Good. We'll start with left right left, go." He said as I threw my punch into his palm he moved backwards as I moved forward.

Our session seemed like it lasted for hours as my arms became heavier and breath faster. My body was drenched in sweat, I could tell I needed this workout and my body would be paying for it in the morning. I threw one last punch, my knuckles raw even with tape as he smiled, tapping my shoulder.

"Good. Good work." He said grabbing a water bottle from the floor and handing it to me. I drank it down quickly not even caring that half of it went down my neck, I was dying. I wiped mouth, breathing heavily looking back at him. "Your footing was sloppy towards the end but, it'll get better. We'll focus on that tomorrow with April."

Oh fuck me, tomorrow? No wonder April and Casey look the way they do. I did say I wanted to train, why did I fuckin say that? I could be watching horror flicks and eating pizza with Mikey right now.

"Great." I say with a grimace as he chuckles.

"Take a hot shower tonight. Tomorrow a bath with some salt April has, you'll be fine." He says as I nod, remembering when I first started training and not being able to move for days after. He walked up to me taking my hands in his. I furrowed my brow as he started unraveling the tape.

"Thanks." I say softly, looking up at him as he keeps his eyes down on his work.

"You'll want to ice these." He says, reveling my knuckles red and raw. His thumb skims over the sore flesh gently. "Thank you..." He says softly, his eyes finally meeting mine.

"For what?"

"For coming here, helping us. It didn't make sense. It still barely makes sense but, seeing you react to our weapons and the Dojo..." He said softly taking a deep breath. "It's new and still unsettling, but I'm beginning to understand." His eyes meet mine again and my ramming heart won't stop, I'm sure it'll burst through my chest.

"Thank you for understanding Leo. And letting me in your home and in this beautiful space." I say looking around the Dojo as he chuckles.

"Never heard it being referred to as beautiful before." He said as I shrugged.

"I'm sure there's a lot of things you haven't heard before I came around." I say, letting his hands slide slowly from mine as I collect my shirt and shoes from the Dojo floor. I clench my eyes shut to my brave behavior walking to the Dojo door. I almost expected to feel his strong hand on my arm, twisting me into his hard plastron and pinning me against the wall to challenge some dirty things to be said.

But, this wasn't a story. I wasn't here for love and adventure I was here to help friends. My hand touches the door of the Dojo door and the tone of his chuckle send a shiver up my spine. I stop in my place as I look over my shoulder at him. My tape from the session still in his hands as he stands in the middle of the floor.

"Ya know, voices carry with high ceilings." He says, his eyes meeting mine as his hand closing around the tape in his fist. He starts to walk over to me, his hand just above mine on the wooden door as he pushing it open. He extends his long, beautiful arm, holding the door for me, his eyes bright, blue and threatening to my health as I captured my bottom lip between my teeth. His eyes moved from mine to my mouth and back to my eyes as fire ignites in my body.

"How'd it go?" I heard April's voice ask coming towards us but, my gaze was held tightly in his.

"Went well." He smiled turning his head to April, releasing me from his blue hold. I let out a breath slow through my mouth as he eyes me from his peripheral with a smirk lifting in the corner of his mouth.

"We should probably head top side so you can shower. The last thing you need is a cold." She said as I nodded.

"We'll be up shortly." Leo said following us as April nodded.

"Patrol?" I ask, looking at him from over my shoulder as he nodded. "Be careful." I said softly as I caught his eyes again as he nodded.

"We're always careful babe." Mikey said coming to my side as I smiled at him.

"Of course you are Mike, but ya know… Still gotta say it." I say with a shrug as he rolls his eyes.

"Oh great, we have another mother hen." Raphael said nudging his shoulder with April's as she smiled.

"Fine, don't be careful." I say with a shrug walking away from the group as everyone chuckles.

"No, please! I hate being the only one telling them to be careful." She said grabbing my arm as I chuckled.

"I'm sure Splinter tells them." I say as Leo gives me a pointed look.

"No, he knows we're careful. He trained us to be." He said crossing his arms over his chest as I roll my eyes.

"Yes, but he's still your father." I add as he shrugs. "Whatever, fine. You four better be careful tonight or so help me." I say pointing at him, Michelangelo and Raphael. "Donatello Hamoto! You hear me?" I call in the air as he pokes his head out of the lab with a confused look on his face.

"What happened?" He asked coming out of the lab holding a gadget as April chuckles beside me.

"Nothing Don." She laughs as I glare at him with my finger out.

"You better be careful tonight on patrol young man." I say as he furrows his brow.

"What's happening?" He asked looking at me to Leo as he shrugs.

"Maggie is our new mother hen." He says.

"Assistant mother hen, no one can take April's title." I say as April nods. "Good? Am I done now?" I asked as she nods again still laughing.

"Ah God, what am I gonna do when you're gone?" She asks, wiping her eyes from tears as I smile.

"I don't really want to think about that actually." I say softly….

We made our way back to the apartment, my disposition a little soured at April's comment.

What was I going to do knowing that they're actually out there, living their lives? How was I supposed to just go back to my daily routine? Be like of yeah I meant TMNT and they were cool but, let's go back to my world and keep it moving.

Really?

Casey held out a beer for me as I sat at the kitchen table, April in the bathroom as she cleaned up for the evening.

"What's up?" She asked as I took the beer with a smile.

"Nothing, just um…A lot on my mind." I say as she nods.

"About earlier with Leo, ya know we were just kiddin'…"

"No, it's not that." I smile, taking a swig of the beer. I sigh to the taste. "You're both right." I shrug as a smile goes over her beautiful face. "He's beautiful and it's hard not to hide it." I say shaking my head. "But, who knows what he thinks."

"He wants to hit that." She says in a 'duh' tone as I furrow my brow, rolling my eyes.

"Doubtful."

"Darlin', are you and I not seein' the same turtle because he was lookin' at you like a fuckin' snack today." She said as I shake my head, taking another swig of beer.

"You're crazy."

"OK, we'll just know that I fuck his brother and they are just that. Brothers. And believe me when I tell you, I have seen that same exact look on Raph's face a time or two." She said with an arched brow.

"Anyways." I say ignoring her as she shakes her head, taking a pull of her own beer. "I'm thinking about when I go back…" I sigh as she nods.

"We're going to miss you." She shrugged as I shook my head.

"That's an understatement."

"Feels like we've known you forever…" She said looking over at me as I nodded. "It's weird…"

"Alright, you're turn." April said twisting her hair in a towel as she took Casey's beer taking a swig from it. I smiled getting from my chair as April stopped me, putting her arms around my shoulders giving me a tight hug. I felt my eyes start to sting with tears as I pulled back, going to my room to gather some clothes for a shower.

Getting out Renet was sitting in the kitchen with Casey and April, regular clothing on her body, her long blonde hair in pigtails as she smiled at me.

"How's everything going?" She asked, hopping to her feet and giving me a big up. I smiled to her adorable disposition as she pulled back awaiting my answer.

"Great. April and Casey are amazing, they've welcomed me with open arms." I said with a smile.

"As I knew they would. They're the sweetest." She said with a smile. "We were just having some girl chat." She said sitting on the couch and patting the cushion next to her. "Come sit."

"OK…" I say sitting down as April sits in a chair next to the couch and Casey on the other side of Renet her legs tucked under her. April had a large glass of wine in her hand as I eyed it.

"Want some?" She asked as I nodded my head.

"I got you babe." Casey said, getting from the couch, going to the kitchen.

"So…" Renet said looking at me with a smile. "How's training going?" She asked as I shrugged.

"Well… I'm sore." I sighed as April nodded.

"Oh tomorrow you should take…"

"A bath with Epsom salt… Yeah Leo already told me." I said with a smirk as April eyed me and looked up at Casey. I rolled my eyes at their expressions.

"He didn't tell me about that when I was training." Casey said, coming back to the couch and handing me a large wine glass with white wine filled to the brim. I licked my lips in anticipation to the bitter sweetness about to take me away. I took a sip, sighing to the wonderful taste of chardonnay.

"You didn't train with Raph?" I asked as she laughed.

"Ha! Hell no! You kiddin' me? We would have killed each other. Also, that Dojo belongs to Splinter and Splinter Jr." She said as I snorted into my glass. "I mean don't get me wrong, dude is disciplined AF but, he was tellin' you to loosen up today and I was like really bro because uh? Have you seen you?" I chuckled, taking another big gulp of wine, feeling the warm of the liquid enter my blood stream as my cheeks already rush with heat.

"Maybe he just needs a blowjob?" I say as April chokes on her wine and Casey looks at me with a large smile and mouth wide open. Renet looks at us confused.

"What's a blowjob?" She asks as I laugh, putting my head in my hands as April gets from her chair, her hands up in the air grabbing the bottle of wine from the kitchen.

"Girl, you might need this." She said putting the bottle on Renet's lap. I chuckle, taking another large gulp as April eyes me. "Have you eaten?" She asked in a chuckle and I think for a minute.

"Oh shit… No." I say. "Just that protein shake, Wreck it Ralph made me earlier." I say thumbing over at Casey as she laughs, throwing her head back.

"Yes! I love that." She said clapping her hands. "I'll order pizza." She said as I nod.

"Of course." I say.

"What else goes with wine?" She asks, calling in the order.

"A blowjob?" I ask in a chuckle as April throws a pillow at me, laughing.

"OK, seriously what is a blowjob?!" Renet asks again as I smile, leaning over to her.

"It's when you go down on a guy." I say as she looks at me more confused. "OK, so you're with Mikey?" I ask as her face reddens.

"No…" She says as I roll my eyes. "Well, not really?" She says as I shake my head.

"They're not 'official'."

"Oh my God… Really? You think he's sexy?" I ask as Renet's face red complexion deepens. She nods her head slowly with a smile crawling over her face. "Have you guys kissed?" I ask, getting a better understanding of her pure behavior as she nods her head. "Have you ever felt him… Get…" I look to April for help. She sighs.

"OK, so… You've been on Mikey's lap. When you're sitting on his lap, have you ever felt anything… Hard?" She asks as Renet thinks for a minute. She smiles and nods.

"Oh…" She says, her face pinking as she picks the label of the wine bottle. "Yeah." She says as I sigh. "We've um… Yeah." She said with a shrug. "Sex, is that what you humans call it?"

"Yes. So… That, being hard… And ya know going into places…" I say slowly as she looks at me from under her lashes.

"Well, it can also go into other moist places." I say, tapping to my mouth. Hers drops open as her eyes widen.

"They like that?" She asks as I shrug.

"A. Lot." Casey said, sitting back in her spot as I smile.

"Huh…" She says as I snort a laugh.

"Well, we know what Mikey's gettin' tonight."

"And just so you know, they can return the favor." April said as Renet's brow furrowed again. "Just sayin'." She said as I chuckled. "They have other thick muscles on their body." She said as Casey nodded.

"Preach sister!"

"Alright, you're all making me tingly." I say adjusting myself on the couch as Casey chuckled.

"So, how long have you had a thing for Leo?" April asks as I shrug.

"Has it always been just Leo?" Casey asks as I smirk.

"Yes and no." I shrug. "They're all hot." I say as Casey nods.

"Not going to lie, dreams of Raph and Leo holding me down have come to mind… But, if anyone tells Raph that I will murder you." She says looking at us as I smirk.

"Same." I say as she nods.

"He always did want a three some." She says as I nod.

"Really?" I say with intrigue as Casey laughs.

"You're both sick." April says shaking her head.

"What's a…"

"Don't ask." April says not letting Renet finish as she gets up to grab another bottle from the fridge. I finished my glass as April goes to refill it. I shake my head as she pulls a bottle of water from behind her. I smile taking that instead.

"Pizza should be here soon." Casey says, looking at her phone.

"The guys too." Renet says looking off into the distances as I look at her confused.

"She does that." April says waving her off. "Her 'visions." She says as Renet snaps back out of it.

"They had a good night. Talked a lot about you Maggie." She said looking over at me with a smile. "Leo seems to be taken with you." She said as my face reddens.

"W-What do you mean?" I ask as she smiles.

"He and Donnie had a good conversation about you fitting in well with April and Casey… Said you're going to make a strong fighter…" She stopped again for a moment. "He said he'll be sorry to see you go."

"Yeah, he wants to hit that." Casey said as I rolled my eyes taking a drink of water.

Wrapped in a hoodie and fire pit going, we all waited on the roof top as Renet told us the guys were ending their patrol. Casey and April said that it was normal for them to wait on the roof top and have a fire going for them. Casey had some beers for Raph and left over pizza for the guys. April took out some Saki for Leonardo and Donatello by chance if they wanted some, and tea if not.

"Sometimes he'll have a nightcap." She shrugged as I nodded. I sipped my wine now, not taking large anxious gulps as before. Even through the anxiousness was growing inside of me as I watched the skyline.

He was 'taken' with me. Whatever the fuck that meant. He appreciated me. He appreciated that I wasn't in this world to fuck with his family and friends that I came to help. That's all. It wasn't any more than that. I pulled my hood up over my head as I watched the flames, feeling the warmth of the fire and liquid of the wine slide through my blood stream.

"Evening ladies." I heard behind me. That fuckin' voice… I took a slow breath in and out, my eyes closed as I felt his presence. I didn't move. I sat next to the fire, sitting on the roof top under a floor pillow April and Casey had spread out. Someone brushed against my arm as they sat next to me and I opened my eyes slowly, looking over at his large green arm and tattoos coming into view as he sat next to me. "Have a good evening?" He asked as I smiled a little.

"Yeah." I say softly.

"Good."

"You?" I asked, looking over at him as his eyes met mine. Fucking Christ, is this ever going to get old? Like a flame igniting the pit of my stomach it runs rampant throughout my limbs as soon as those blue eyes land on mine. Blue isn't even the right word, they're so much more than that. So much more beautiful than just 'blue'.

"Slow night." He said simply.

"That's good isn't it?" I ask as a smile goes to his face.

"Sometimes." He says, his eyes looking back at the fire as I now smirk.

"Sometimes you need that itch scratched." I say as he looks over at me. I look back at him and our eyes don't leave the other. Crackling electricity. The feeling of something moving me towards him. I never thought that could be true. Always thought it was something of love stories and bullshit but, my body felt it. I felt the string of something strike throughout my entire being as our eyes met, needing to be closer to him, knowing he felt it too. Hoping he felt it too. I let out a slow shuttered breath, my tongue darting out slowly to lick my lips as his eyes moved down watching my tongue move, then back to my eyes. His softening as his hand moved, slowly and almost not at all but soon it was over mine.

"Right Leo?" Mikey called over as his head fell in a sigh, looking over his shoulder at his younger brother. Casey smacked him in the back of the head as he furrowed his brow holding the back of his head. "Ow, what?"

"Dumbass." She hissed. I chuckled, looking back to the fire as I lifted my glass of wine, with the hand that was once under his.

"What Mikey?" He asked as Mikey made his way over to us.

"I was talkin' about Agent Simpson and that bus load of drugs we got, did you tell Maggie that one yet?" He asked as I furrowed my brow.

"Agent Simpson?" I asked as he smiled.

"We work with the Police on occasion. Since saving the City a couple hundred times they were beginning to wonder who's doing it. We eventually got caught, but April and Casey were able to explain our way out. Now we're allies. Couple months back a Cartel moved in, using a school bus system to move drugs. We were able to stop 'em." He said as I nodded.

"Oh…"

"Yeah, not to mention she's hot." Mikey said as Casey hit him again.

"Dude, shut up!" She said as he winced.

"You need to learn how'd shut ya face." Raph said as Mikey looked at them.

"What? She wasn't as hot as you Mags." He said with a shrug as I smirked rolling my eyes.

"Thanks Mike. So, Agent Simpson was a woman…" I say with a nod.

"Marilyn Simpson." He says, his demeanor changing as I nod my head, understanding where this is going. Taking a sip of my wine, I look into the flames of the fire pit, letting myself think on this for a minuet. Can't be mad at him for having a life before me. He is a male after all. I'm obviously not the only woman in the world that finds him attractive. Makes sense. Also, he shouldn't be shy right? He shouldn't be wondering if he can or should make the first move? He should know signals? Sense them? This must have been what April meant earlier about him having 'been' with someone.

"It's good that you have other allies." I say, taking another sip of wine as he looks over at me. Donnie comes over, two small cups in his grasp as he hands one to Leo. He looks at his brother, giving him a smile as he takes it clinking the glass with Donatello's.

"Thank you brother." He says as Donnie nods, going back over to April sitting in a chair. I look over at her as she raises her glass to me. I smile, looking back to the fire. Leonardo takes a small pull from the glass sighing to the warm liquor. "We'll have to discuss our approach on the EPF and Shredder tomorrow after we train." He said staring hard into the fire.

"It is the reason I'm here." I sigh, pulling my hood from my head and running my fingers through my long hair, curly from air drying from the shower. I massage my scalp, putting my hair up in a messy bun as I turn to look back at him as his eyes are steadily on mine, darker than before. My breathing catches in my throat as I look at him, his eyes look down at the small china cup in his hand, clenching it tightly as he drinks down the last of the clear liquor in the glass. Getting to his feet, quickly and fluidly he walks back over to Donatello and April. I watch as he takes the large Saki bottle bringing it back with him to where we sat, re-filling his cup.

"I'm curious as to any other reason why you're here?" He asks, his voice a little rough as the liquor darkened his tone. I felt goosebumps crawl over my skin despite the heat of the fire.

"Well, you." I say with a shrug, taking another sip of my wine. He looks back to me, a smile going over his face.

"Me?" He asks as I nod.

"You, your brothers." I shrug. "I care about you guys as I've said before."

"Ah, all of us." He said nodding his head.

"Yes… And no." I say softly.

"Which one is it?" He asks as I smile.

"I'm not playing a game with you Leonardo." I say looking at him. Either the wine is going to my head or, I'm sick of this back and forth. "I like you." I say, leaning in putting my hand over his. "You like me otherwise you wouldn't have wanted to just take me right here in front of your brother's from me just putting up my fuckin' hair. So, we can either go back to the lair and itch that scratch or stay here and play cat and mouse?"

"Which one is it?" He asks as I sigh, wanting to say so bad everything that played out in my head. It's on the tip of my tongue but, I can't. I'm not that girl. Regardless of man or Ninja Turtle.

"I came here to help and because I care about you, all of you." I say softly letting out a slow breath. I look over at him. "I would be lying if I said that you alone didn't have something to do with it." I look down at my hands rolling my eyes at myself. "As ridiculous as that sounds coming from a complete stranger." I say looking back over at him.

"Well, you're not so much of a stranger anymore." He voice just a low as mine. "You've done more than most have to prove yourself to this family." He said looking to his brother's all sitting with their significant other, quietly talking as we were.

"That means a lot coming from you, thank you." I say with a sigh as he moves a little closer to me.

"I don't want you to feel as though you're continuingly having to prove yourself to me either Mags." He sighs shaking his head. "This is new for all of us and it's something we all have to go through together." He said placing his hand on my knee. The touch warms my whole leg, sending shivers across my body and heat strike hot into my belly and down between my thighs. I meet his eyes, darkening slowly as his fingers enclose slowly around the curve of my thigh. His hand large enough to just be resting innocently on my knee but, his fingers to be grazing devilishly against my thigh.

"I just don't want to let you guys down." I said taking a slow breath as he smiled, letting a soft chuckle out as his hand left my leg and cupped around my face. My breathing caught as his calloused hand grazed my cheek, his fingers curving around the back of my neck as the shivering returned.

"You and I have a lot in common." He said as I smiled.

"You think?" I asked, my hand going to his thick wrist as he nodded. "I've always thought we were quiet opposite."

"Well, remember you didn't want to assume anything anymore." He said with a smile, leaning closer to me as I felt my heart ram harder. He's not going to kiss me, is he? His lips graze against my cheek, as my breathing catches in my throat making an audible noise as he chuckles, darkly. "Good night Margret." He said in my ear, leaning back from my as he got to his feet. He held his hand for me as I took it. He helped me to my feet easily. "You need to get some rest, we have a long day tomorrow. Drink plenty of water, I don't want you dehydrated and passing out on me because you decided to drink." He said nodding to my glass of wine. "I'm heading back fellas." He said as his brother's waved to him. I walked with him to the ledge of the building, wrapping my arms around myself as the coolness from the night sunk into my skin away from the warmth of the fire.

"Good night Leo." I said softly as he smiled, unwrapping one of my hands from around my body. He let his hand graze over my knuckles.

"You didn't ice these." He said looking at me as I bit my lip. He tsked, reaching to my mouth his thumb pulling my lip slowly from my mouth. I looked up at him as his thumb dragged against my bottom lip slowly watching it intently. His eyes flicked to mine then back down at my hands. He lifted my sore knuckles to his mouth, kissing them gently. "Ice." He said as I nodded. "Goodnight." He said with a smile as he stepped on the ledge and leaped to another fire escape and across to another roof top. I watched until his shadow wasn't visible anymore, moving gracefully through the night sky.

What. The Fuck. Just. Happened?