The rat had told me and my sister who was now several feet closer to the rest of us about how the turtles and himself had become giant walking talking creatures. He also explained how the shredder had killed his master. I noticed Raven relax after he admitted he had also lost someone to the shredder only for her to tense up once again as thoughts flew through her head. I sighed and shook my head. "Now that we have told you about us, we hope you would make it fair and tell us about yourselves." Master Splinter asked. Though I think he was directing his question towards my sister more then me.
"Of course" I said.
"No" Raven replied.
"Raven they told us about themselves we have to be fair-"
"They were the idiots for sharing there stupid story's to people they just met, and life isn't fair you should know that more then anyone." She snapped turning and stalking towards there door. I looked at the others. Mikey and Donny looked shocked, Raph just looked pissed off, Leo shook his head. Turning to look at Splinter's expression all I saw was pity and sympathy in his eye's where I expected anger.
"WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM!" Lilly shouted once she got home. I glanced at her and then closed my eye's as I listened to my Ipod, and sipped at my tea. Unforgiven by Fefe Dobson blared from the headphones, all of a sudden the headphones were ripped from my ear's. I stood up and glared at my little sister.
"What the hell was that for!" I yelled.
"You know exactly what that was for" She growled."Why can't you just forget the past and move on, we need friends" Lilly yelled glaring at me. I glared right back and watched as she backed down. Lilly sighed, bowing her head as she tried to come up with a different approach. She looked back up, glancing over the house's interior. "You know what your problem is?" she said finally, turning back to her sister. "You just never let go of anything. Never want to change."
"Shouldn't have to change," came the prompt response. Lilly frowned.
"I can't believe how rigid you can be when you're so good at adapting, you've twisted every problem to your advantage, and yet here you are, right where you started." Lilly sighed again. "Living in this house isn't good for you, Raven," she muttered. "Why don't we go live with Francis? He's got plenty of room, we can -"
"I'm not leaving," Raven interrupted in a hard voice.
Lilly was silent for a long moment. Then, "He's not coming back, you know," she said quietly.
Raven rotated the mug slowly on the table top. "He might," she replied in an equally quiet voice.
"He won't," Lilly insisted firmly. Raven didn't reply, and Lilly ran her hand over her head in exasperation. "All right," she grumbled, "let's say he does come back. What then?"
Raven rested her elbows on the table, lifting the mug to hold it just in front of her lips. "Don't know," she admitted. "Depends on how I feel. "
Frowning, Lilly folded her hands on the table top. "Sometimes, I don't know if I do know you, Raven. You've changed a lot."
A small mirthless chuckle escaped Raven's lips. "I haven't changed at all, Lilly. You're just not lookin at me the same way you used to."
Lilly's thin brows furrowed at that statement as she worked out what it meant. Her face darkened slightly. "You're smart, Raven " Her voice lifted, and she slapped her palms against the table. "You could've done something with your life!" she exclaimed suddenly. "Finished school, then gone to college, made something of yourself, done anything you wanted like Francis -"
"I am doing everything I want!" Raven shot back. "Why should I chain myself to some dead end job takin' orders from a nobody, when I already got almost everything I want right here?"
Lilly pursed her lips, visibly forcing herself to calm down from her outburst. "Never did like taking orders, did you?" she muttered, settling back down.
"Can't help it," Raven growled, setting the mug down. "Got all of Mom's dominant genes."
"You mean all of Mom's domineering genes," Lilly corrected under her breath. Raven stared for a minute before busting out laughing.
Lilly chuckled, then twisted around to reach into her coat. "Oh, hey, that reminds me," she said, pulling out an object from her inner pocket. "Here." She held out the item to her sister. Raven looked at it, making no move to take it.
"What the hell is that?" she asked flatly.
"Christmas present from Francis and me." Lilly bobbed the item in the air, indicating that Raven was to take it. "Hadn't given you one for a good few years, now. Francis figured we were overdue."
Raven narrowed her eyes at the gift and reached out a hand to take it. She held it up, studying the shiny green and red wrapping paper and the thick square shape. "Let me guess," she growled. "A CD of his latest album, signed, with a snide message about how he made it big, even though I said he'd fail and a DVD from you with you're latest stunts."
Lilly frowned. "You know," she said, "most people say 'thank you.'"
"Thank you?" Raven's voice hardened. "After everything I did for you growing up, you want me to thank you?" She tossed the CD's to the table. "You're right, Lilly," she sneered. "Maybe I could have done something with my life - if I hadn't been stuck babysitting you for 8 years, making sure you didn't end up starving in a gutter somewhere!"
Lilly's hands fisted against the tabletop. "No one asked you to take Mom's or Dad's place," she snapped, her voice rising. "We'd have done just fine without you riding us the entire way!"
"Yeah?" Raven challenged angrily, her own hands pressing against the table. "So that's why when I got sent to a foster home that one time, I came back to find you flunking out of school and mom tryin' to sell the house 'cuz she was too stupid to figure out how to manage the bills by herself?"
"Mom did the best she could!" Lilly cried, shoving herself to her feet.
"No, she didn't!" Raven shouted back, rising to meet her sister's stance. "If she'd done the best she could, she would've taken care of her family, instead of leaving it to me to take care of it for her!"
The two sisters glared at each other furiously. Lilly finally straightened and snagged her coat from the back of her chair. "Coming back here was a mistake," she hissed stalking away from the table. "I should've known you'd be like this." She started for the front entrance, and slammed it behind her.