"No attorneys, to plead my case. No orbits, to send me into outer space..." Kamryn sung to herself as she waited for April outside a large office building, "And my fingers are bejeweled with diamonds and gold, but that ain't gonna help me now..."
Kamryn saw April come around the corner and stopped singing to herself, in fear of having to ask what song she was singing.
"Are we going up?" Kamryn asked April when they were close enough together to speak in mid-whisper. Kamryn was referring to a fire escape beside them that led up to the rooftop.
"Well..." April slowly said, as if she regretted agreeing to go some place high. "He wanted us to be some place private..."
"And there's no other private area in New York better than the skyline." Kamryn agreed. "Ladies with month names first." she then said while gesturing for April to start going up.
"Right." April muttered, then started up the fire escape to the roof with Kamryn close behind.


Kamryn just stared at April, unblinking and unmoving. Now, Kamryn wanted to believe that what she saw where just some group of teens in costumes.
"Wow A... just... wow..." Kamryn said, seeming to lack all other words in her vocabulary.
"But you have to keep it a secret," April reminded, "No one needs to know these guys exist. They already have people after them and running loose in New York. One of those people took my dad, and why I'm with my aunt."
"Wow." Kamryn said again. "I knew your dad was missing but I didn't know... wow..."
April was practically relishing this moment a little more than she should. But she was still waiting for the words that might as well end it all.
"This isn't a secret that anyone can keep A, many would want to market from it..." Kamryn then started, April prepared for the worst, "But I'm gonna keep it. These guys mean a lot to you, and if someone finds out about them and destroys them, it would destroy you too. I get that. I'm not gonna tell anyone, not when it puts your own happiness on the line like that."
April stared at Kamryn, she was sincere and a bit sad. But you would be too if you found out that someone put mutants before you when you were trying to make friends with them for years.
"You're gonna have to get rid of that photo you know." April reminded Kamryn.
"I know, I'll shred it with my mom's document shredder, not a problem."
April smiled, then quickly decided what she was going to do next.
"How would you like to meet them?" April then asked. Kamryn looked at April with wide, curious, and mildly enthusiastic eyes.
"I have to ask them," April quickly stated, to which Kamryn looked a bit upset again, "But I'm sure they'll agree. I have a good feeling."


"No." Splinter said simply.
"Why not?" April asked, not even trying to hide her apparent anger. "I get to tell her about you guys, but you won't let her see you? How is that fair?"
"Life is filled with many fair and unfair trials, trust me April, she does not need to see us. Be lucky I allowed you to tell her to begin with."
April was feeling more angry with each passing second. And she had no idea why.
"What if she is your baby daughter? The one you lost because of Shredder?" April finally said. Both Splinter and the Turtles looked at her. The Turtles were giving April a look of fear, surprise, and horror. Splinter's expression became unreadable, but April could feel that he was furious at her.
"It is impossible for..." Splinter started in a low tone, but April interrupted him.
"She told me herself," April said with her fists clenched, "That her parents used to travel up until her father died three years ago. She also told me that they went on vacation once and they wondered into an orphanage. In there, there was a little baby just a year old whose mother had died in a fire, but the father couldn't be found. Which is the reason why she was put in the orphanage to begin with. They adopted the baby and renamed her. That baby was Kamryn."
"That doesn't mean..." Splinter started again, but April interrupted him again.
"Kamryn told me on a later date that her parents wanted her first word to be in the same language they adopted her from. It was Japanese, she was adopted in Japan. Isn't that the same country you came from before the Shredder destroyed your home? Well?!"
There was several moments of silence that followed. At one point, Michelangelo opened his mouth to say something, but was instantly hushed by Donatello. This conversation was between April and Splinter, no one else.
"I have a feeling." April finally said before pushing past Splinter to go home, feeling a bit empowered and not at all regretful of what she had said.