"Margaret remember your footing." He warned as I collected myself from another one of April's attack. I was once again covered in sweat in the Dojo keeping myself as far from the quick redhead who was 'going easy on me' as she put it.
I was doing everything Leo had told me to do earlier in the session but, it was hard remembering everything when she kept coming at me like an actually fuckin' Ninja that has had years of actual training. I swallowed the fear building trying to make it seems like I wasn't as out of breath as I was watching her circle me. I could hear Leonardo's voice in my head to be mindful of everything around me… Whatever the hell that meant. The concept sure, but actual executing it… How?
I was beginning to get frustrated and April took notice. She came in for her final take down. Her palm struck my shoulder and I stumble back from the force of it. Hooking my leg with hers and soon I was looking back up at the high golden ceiling.
"What the fuck..." I groan as April kneels next to me.
"You need to clear your head." She suggested kindly as I look up at her, with clear aggravation on my face.
"What does that even mean, like really? You're a chick, you get me right? You're mind isn't always going a million miles a minute?" I ask as she smiles placing her hand on my forehead.
"Of course it does, but when I need to I can shut it off."
"So, you're a witch." I say with a shrug as she laughs.
"No, she's practiced her entire young adult life to clear her mind as we have to reach that goal of meditation." Leo says coming up to us. He holds his large hand out for me as I grab it and he lifts me easily to my feet. "I think that's enough training for today..." He said as I being to dispute. "You and I will work on clearing this mind." He says placing his finger to my forehead. April nods giving me a smile before leaving the Dojo, shutting the door behind her.
Leonardo leaves me in the middle of the Dojo, taking a box of matches left with various other items in a corner of the Dojo he ignites a stick with one quick swipe. His blue, intense eyes meet mine past the flickering flame, my once settled heart from the workout now racing again as he starts around the room lighting candles and incense along the brick walls. Flicking the lights off we are covered in the thick blanket of darkness, just the bouncing lights of candles barely reaching the center of the room where we stood. I watched his large shadow more towards me then past me for some floor pillows off in the side of the room
"Come sit." He beckons kindly, taking pillows from where Splinter had sat yesterday and putting two next to each other. "It's not as easy as it sounds." His voice low in the quiet room as I turn to him. His eyes we're closed and posture in lotus as I followed. "Some say it's thinking of something that calms you like a sound or a place, a person. Some think that you should empty out your mind thinking of each item piece by piece and tossing it away into nothingness and some can just shut it off like a flick of a switch." He says with a snap of his fingers
"What's it for you?" I ask softly, my eyes keeping shut trying to keep my voice and breathing as steady as I could
"I think of the lake at Casey's Grandmother's house we used to visit when we were younger." His voice wistful as he spoke. "It was serene, calm. I was able to be outside, feel the sun warming my skin." Taking a slow breath in through his nose and out of his mouth slowly. The sound itself was enough to calm me. "It's about finding balance within yourself. You're not balanced here." He says simply. I open an eye to look over at him to see he's looking at me turned to me as I open both my eyes now
"I'm still adjusting." I shrug
"Not only that." He says, shaking his head. "You've adjusted fine to April and Casey, their apartment, being around Donnie, Mikey even myself... Raph well…" He stopped and smiled. "He'll come around Casey will make him. It's something else. Are you missing home, missing a significant other?" He asked softly as I scoffed
"No. I don't date." I say quickly. "Never had an interest." He looks at me with curiosity on his face, almost not understanding what I just said. Like I had spoken another language.
"Whys that?"
"Not sure really? Busy with work, or never the right person for me..." I say with my pocket excuses. I let a deep breath go, might as well be honest here. "I don't like people very much to be honest, and the ones I do I keep close and dear. It's hard to penetrate through that or let anyone else in." I shrug as he smiles nodding his head
"Again, you and I have much in common. So, let's try something." He says, turning to me as I look up at him. He smiles, grabbing my pillow, my body turns to him so we're both facing each other. He puts his hands out palms up in front of him and I look at them. "Give me your hands." He says as I smirk a little
"Are we gonna play that hand slapping game because I'm pretty sure I'm gonna lose?" I chuckle as he smirks.
"No. Just place your hands in mine it's called Reflexology." He says as I raise an eyebrow.
"Oh... Pressure points." I say as he nods. "You know about those?" I ask hesitantly putting my hands in his. He grabs them pressing his thumbs into my inner palm. I take a slow breath feeling the tension in my shoulders relax. He pulls on the tips of my pinkies and my neck tingles, feeling pressure lessen from the top of my skull down my spine
"You're incredible tense." He says to himself moving his hand to my index finger pressing in at my knuckle and rolling, moving back to my palm and up to my wrist messaging gently. I breathed slowly, holding everything in to keep from moaning. "You've been through a lot." He said as I opened my eyes to his.
"Not any more than most." I shrug.
"Tell me about your family." He says, dropping my left hand and working primarily on my right. I press my lips together tightly stifling a moan as my head rolls back feeling shoulders loosen.
"Um... Well. I don't have much of one I guess...? My mom died of cancer when I was fourteen and dad left during chemo, couldn't take the treatments and what it was doing to her so I was left to care for her..." I clear my throat feeling tears sting my eyes. I hadn't thought about this for years. "Um... " My voice cracking as I cleared it to continue. His fingers moving slower across my hand and taking my left now. "After she passed I went to live with my aunt, my mom's sister until I was eighteen. When I moved in with her, that's when I moved into the city. It's where I fell in love with helping inner city kids and being a part of the Boy's and Girl's Club. I would volunteer on the weekends and did a lot of after school activities there. I busted my ass to get scholarships and studied my ass off, got my Masters and got a job at a well-known direct care office in the city and... " I shrugged "That's that. Paying off student debt and loans until I die but, it's worth it to see a kid go into a good home and off the streets."
"You're an incredible individual." He says softly as I open my eyes to his.
"It's no different than..."
"You don't know your own self-worth." He interrupts as I furrow my brow, his eyes looking into mine as his fingers continued. "Your father never spoke with you after your mother's death, did he?" My brow crease further. I never talk about my dad, never like to. I don't notice it but my hand starts to pull back from his. He pressing his fingers more firmly into my palm keeping them in place. "You're already retreating and we haven't even gotten started." He says looking at our hands. "One simple question about your father and you're ready to leave?" He asks, there wasn't judgement in his tone it was more curious than anything. I still didn't like it. I didn't like the question, I didn't like speaking about this at all. I straightened my posture from my once comfortable position.
"It's a loaded question Leo." I say looking to him offense clear in my tone. He barely knows me, yes I may know some about him and his, his family life but, he doesn't know me or mine. What I went through, what I had to deal with. I stop myself from thinking too much into it. I don't want to, it's too sad and there's nothing to be done. It's over with and in the past for a reason. I like to leave it there.
"Why is it a loaded question Mags?" He asks, his hand still not faltering as I can feel everything tense again.
"I-it just is... You don't know me." I say. I feel myself jerk in attempt to free my hand from his but, it's impossible. His grip is strong and unmoving, but soft as his thumb gently circles my palm.
"But you presume to know us." He counters as my heart starts to pound fast in my chest. "It's a simple question about one man Margaret. You want to face these fears and fight with us. How can you if you cannot face your inner demons in a simple conversation?" He asks simply in the darkened room as the candle light bounces off his emerald skin as I look up to his face. His blue eyes intense with concern and intrigue. My heart races, not from his proximity or beautiful imagery of him before but, the questions he's asking. Questions I barely ask myself, things I haven't let myself think about in years. The rise of a panic attack starts with the tightening in my chest and he can sense it, taking both of my hands in his. His face calms as does his touch placing my hand over his plastron. My hand lays flat against the new texture as I close my eyes, feeling his chest raise and fall with steady breaths. "Slow breaths." His voice soft as I followed instructions. "In through your nose, out through your mouth. He's only one man and has no hold over you or who you are." My breathing catches as tears start to build in my eyes. I shake my head, feeling the need to tug my hand from his. He's of course quicker than myself and is able to hold my hands in his, keeping them in place over his chest letting me feel his breathing. "No. Stay here with me and let it go Maggie. You need to."
"You don't get it." I say feeling anger start to boil under the fear and anxiety. My eyes open to his as hot tears stream down my cheeks. "He didn't even say goodbye. He left a fuckin' note like a coward, not even being able to say it to her face! Who does that? After twenty-five years. Twelve of them being married." I say shaking my head in disgust. "I never wanted to know a man like that again. I never wanted to know that pain..." My voice catches as my eyes clench. More tears glide freely down my face and neck and I want to be swallowed by a black hole. I don't want to be siting here in front of him, crying like this. Out of weakness, out of anger.
"Maggie look at me." He says and my eyes refuse to meet his. He takes a slow breath in one of his hands lifting from mine to my face making me meet his eyes by my quivering chin. "You have to let him go. He has no power over you or who you've become. You're an incredible woman and he had no part of that, it was all you. Relish in that." I feel a sob rack through me as both my hands go to my face feeling tears pool in my palms. "Shh..." He coos in my ear. I feel his arms engulf around me, their strength and safety pulling me to his chest as I go willingly.
I can't remember the last time I cried. The last time I felt this type of pure emotion spill out of me. My breathing shuttered as his hand rubbed my back his hand going up to my hair as he let it down from my sweaty bun, stroking through it as I felt my body calm once again. I took a slow breath wiping my face from sweat and tears lifting my face to his, shaking my head to my ridiculous behavior. What the hell was happening? How was he able to evoke all these emotions so freely and easily from me with just one simple touch, word, tone, or look? It was infuriating.
"I didn't expect for that to happen... I'm sor-"
"Don't you dare apologize." He said simply. "Never feel like you should apologize for that." I could only nod as I wiped my cheeks, finally taking notice of where I was. I looked down and he had moved me from my pillow to his lap. I fit perfectly on his large lap leaned against his chest, his arms encircling me around my back and waist. My already red face heated with a new awareness of our proximity as my heart started to race again. I twisted my hands nervously in my lap as my face kept forward, not really knowing where else to look, too nervous to look up into those blue, electric eyes. Too nervous to think of what I might do with us this close.
"I don't think we got very far with meditation but, you got a lot further than any therapist ever has." I chuckled as he smirked.
"We're not done." He said as I looked at him, our faces eye level as my eyes danced over his. I swear he could feel my heart beating as fast as it was.
"Oh...?" I ask as he smiles. He presses on my hips lifting me off his lap as I get up and he stands, lifting me with him to our feet. He turns me, his hands still held at my hips pulling me to him so my back is pressed tightly to his front. I could feel the form of him against me, the hardened strength of his plastron, the metallic coolness from his belts and gear. I clench my eyes shut tight to his hands sliding down my arms, gazing gently against my fingers before he holds my hands lifting them out to the sides.
"I want you to feel how I breathe." His voice was quiet against my ear as he spoke, a whisper in the darkness as we stood in the middle of the Dojo. "It'll help calm you and also help with your anxiety. We need to work on your breathing first before just jumping into meditation to help you get a better understanding of how your body will react, what will get you in that head space. Just breathe when I do, close your eyes focus on nothing else but my breathing." I take one last shuttered breath nodding my head.
Fuck.
His large plastron expands against my back as I follow. He holds it for a beat as he lets it out slow through his mouth as I do the same. His breath over my head but I can still feel the heat of it against the tip of my ear. My breath is shuttered as his hands move under my arms grazing slowly in. His chest expands again and his fingers graze under my armpit as I squirm a little to the feeling and he stops.
"You're not focusing." He says as his hands go back to mine. "Focus on nothing but our breathing and you shouldn't feel anything." His voice soft and quiet in the room, barley above a whisper as another shiver moves through my spine.
"I'm ticklish." I whisper back, looking over my shoulder at him as he smiles, his eyes remaining closed.
"Who isn't? Focus, look straight." He commands as I sighed looking ahead again my back to him and eyes closed trying to focus on our breathing and nothing else. His hands go to my hips pulling me back tight to him, moving my arms back out to the side in the same position. His chest moves slowly in and out again and I am to follow. His fingers grazed my armpit once more and I felt my body twitch but kept my breathing steady. "Better." His voice above my ear as I clench my eyes tight. "Try again." He breaths in as I breath out. He bypassed my arms, letting them relax at my side, gliding his hands like featherlike touches to my hips. I keep my focus on his breathing, listening to it, feeling his chest expand against my back as his exhale glides over the top of my ear. His finger slip under my shirt touching my bare skin and I can't help a giggle from his calloused fingers against my smooth skin. I move from him completely as he fights back a smile opening his eyes as I glared at him.
"That was a low blow Leonardo." I say as he shrugs.
"This is a test." He says crossing his arms over his chest. He continues to smile as I continue to glare. He chuckles waking over to me. "I'm sorry." He says. "That was a bit over zealous of me." He holds his hand to me as I eye it for a moment. "We can continue if you wish."
"No more tickling?" I ask as he smirks.
"No." He says as I glare at him. "You can trust me." He says bowing his head as I smile.
"I know that. I trust you with my life Leo, just not with my ticklish parts..." I say as my face reddens realizing how that sounds, thinking it sounded a lot more innocent in my head.
"What other parts do you trust me with?" He asked with a dark chuckle as I shuttered to the noise in the candle lit space.
"Shut up, it sounded better in my head." I grumble as he laughs louder, the sound echoing around us brining a smile to my face.
"Come here." He says standing back where we were as I took my position back against him, my back against his chest.
He places his hands at my hips pulling me to him. He has done this already it's getting comfortable, his fingers on my body and his strong fingers wrapping around the thick skin of my hip. I press back against him as his hands both hold me to him, his large hands feeling so good along my body. I close my eyes slowly, letting that sink in for a moment instead of the breathing as heat strikes deep into my belly and down my legs. I clench my eyes shut tight, scolding myself and try and focus on his breathing, not his hands. Go back to focusing on why I'm here, not my hormones.
I hear him take a deep intake of breath through his nose, his hands gripping even tighter around the thick skin of my hips, pulling me even closer against him. Was… Was he able to smell me?... That didn't help the excitement building again in my stomach as another strike of heat ran rampant throughout my body causing dampness between my legs. From just one touch of his hands. But, they were his hands. I opened my eyes, daring myself to look down at those hands and I regretted it instantly. The look of those large green digits digging into the thickness of my hips holding me to him. I attempted again to steady my breathing, shuttered intake of breath through my nose as his fingers loosen and his body move back from me.
I'm over reacting. I need to calm down… I take a step forward as his hands regain their hold, tight and close. His chest expanding in the deep breath against my back as I look over my shoulder at him.
"Leo, what's… Going on?" I ask softly, not being able to take much more for my own sanity regardless if he felt anything or not I couldn't keep playing this game with him.
"I-I'm not sure..." He breathes, his eyes meeting mine. "Do you feel it too or am I just crazy, barking up the wrong tree or something?" He asks, his eyes less confident than usual. Another chink in armor falling away. I turn in his hold facing him. His face confused and almost worried as I smile placing my hand up against his cheek.
"You're definitely not wrong." I say with a sigh of relief. We're down the fuckin rabbit hole now kid. "I've always found you attractive..." I pause, chancing my boldness in the moment, my excitement getting the better of me with the candle lights flickering across his beautiful body. "Your hands on me alone is enough to make me..." Well, that seem to do it.
His mouth was to mine in an instant, my back bending from his impact of the kiss. I made a noise of surprise in my throat as it turned quickly to pleasure from his large hands searched my body tugging me closer to him. We broke apart for a breath, his blue eyes opening slowly on mine. This close and clear my heart was in my throat to their intensity. My mouth couldn't be stopped before I knew what was coming out.
"Your eyes are so fuckin beautiful..." I sigh, lifting my hand to his face as it furrows in confusion. He shakes his head, pressing his mouth back hard to mine, his long arms encase me against his strong body. I moan to the feeling of being engulfed in this pure muscular God like being. I was surrounded by so much power and yet his mouth against mine being so gentle and slow. Moaning into his mouth a churr leaves his chest.
"Shit..." He sighs pulling back from me pressing his forehead to mine. "You're like no one I've ever known before." He says shaking his head. "It's selfish of me to think you came here just for me when this is all so much bigger than just that..." He sighs as I smile.
"I would have come for just you." I say softly as his eyes darken on mine.
"This is ridiculous." He sighs as I nod my head. "I tried to ignore Raph when he kept saying you had a thing for me... And I could feel it... You felt it right?" He asks as I rolled my eyes.
"No Leo, I felt nothing..." I say plainly, sarcasm dripping from my tone as I look towards our bodies pressed together. He smirks at me pressing his face into my neck and taking a long, deep breath in of me. It left a shiver up my spine as my fingers clenched into his leathery flesh. "Should we go back to training?" I ask timidly as he chuckles.
"Training..." He muses looking around the Dojo and back at me. "No. We're done for the day. We need to reflect on this..." He sighs.
"It's a lot." I say nodding my head. "Especially with what's to come, I don't want Splinter to think that you're distracted from the mission or..."
"Wait, what?" He asked a chuckle in his tone. I looked up at him biting my bottom lip, there I go assuming again. "Out of all of my brother's being in relationship, you think I would be the one to get distracted during a mission?" He asks, amusement still in his tone as I furrow my brow.
Never thought of that...
"No... I guess not."
"Don't get me wrong, you are going to be a distraction in here however, with you by my side in a fight if it comes to that I will have trained you to be ready and prepared. Anything to distract me with will have to come later." He said pulling me tighter to his body as heat strikes again. His hands clench at my lower back, dangerously close to the curve of my backside as his head dips to my shoulder. "That however, is a distraction." He says raising his eyes to mine, dark like the angry ocean before a storm.
"Then stop talking." I say with an exasperated sigh as he chuckles. "You're the one causing it to happen."
"But… So quick?" He asks. "Usually it takes getting to know me and my, Well..." He hesitated for a moment, his expression searching for the right words. I groan trying to move back from him my hands pushing at his plastron as he chuckles lightly holding me close. I understanding what he was referencing as another strike of heat rolled through my body from mention of him and what could have possible brought woman coming back to him.
"Well, I'm not a normal woman." I groan from the thought of him and his talents as he nods.
"I've noticed." He said leaning down to my neck, leaving soft kisses against my skin. My eyes rolled back in my head his mouth opening on my tender flesh with the swipe of his tongue just touching before he pulled back to look at me with a devilish gleam in his eyes.
"You wanna play this game Leonardo Hamoto? Fine." I hiss at him as a smirk widens his face. "Wanna know why it's taking just your touch or just simply you here with me to make me this excited?" I asked as his eyes darkened on mine from my tone and he nods slowly. "I would get off on you. Just you." I say simply with a shrug. Rabbit hole meet Maggie. Maggie, meet Rabbit Hole. "Just thinking about you in my universe and what you would do to me down here in this very Dojo or your room a roof top, an alleyway. Demanding things of me, ordering me around or just taking me here on this mat. I would get off from just the simple thought so now, here in this room physically being held by you, saying those things to me and you're expecting me not to be wet?" I ask, my voice unfamiliar to my own ears low and deep as his eyes dilated on mine. His mouth opens as to say something but, his feet only carry us to a wall, pressing my back against it.
"You did that in your universe? Thinking of me?" He asks and I can feel him against me, all of him as my eyes shut to the hardening length pressing against my stomach. My mouth waters as my eyes become hooded with lust open back to his.
"Yes." I sigh out. His mouth opens shoving his greedy tongue into my as a moan escapes. His chest vibrates with a churr his hands gather mine above my head, pinning me under him allowing myself to be crushed by him.
None of it seems real. It still feels like a fantasy I'd play in my bed between my sheets as a toy buzzed between my thighs but, his tongue warm and large in my mouth felt so real. My hands clenched into his flesh needing to feel him, be grounded to him and reassured he was here, that this was real.
"You're really here...?" I breathe out just above a whisper, as his mouth moves to my neck. He moves his body closer to mine pressing his hardened length into me, grinding his hips to mine as I moaned.
"I'm here Maggie." He whispered back, his teeth grazing my ear lobe as I clenched my eyes shut. "We have to stop..." He sighed. "I-We can't do this here and, I am not going to defile you against a wall." He said, his breathing heavy as his forehead pressed against mine.
"Your room." I begged as he chuckled.
"I can't exactly throw you over my shoulder and take you there."
"Why not?" I asked as he chuckles again, pushing himself back from me, his clenched fists pushing into the wall beside my head. His beautiful arms still encaging me beneath him.
"I'm not cheapening our experience." He said softly. He lifted a hand, his thumb grazing against my heated cheek, down my neck as he cupped my face in his large hand much as he did last night. "We need some cold water." He sighs stepping back from me and walking to the door. His shoulders raise and fall before flickering the lights on sobering us both from the moment.
I blow out some of the candles and stub out incense and he does the rest, moving the pillows back as he helps. His hand brushes mine, handing me a cool water bottle.
"This doesn't mean I'm going to take it easy on your during training." He says as I smile.
"I wouldn't think you would." I say taking a pull of water the cold water extinguishing any heat throughout my body was I attempted to calm myself. I watched as he too took long pulls from the water bottle, finishing it in a few gulps and clenching the small bottle in his grasp like paper. I looked down at my feet. Knock it off Mags, he's just like any other guy.
Yeah, just any other guy that's pure muscle and walking sex that can literally make you a whimpering, sex crazed deviant with one look.
"I feel as though we shouldn't tell anyone?" He almost asks me, furrowing his brow as he tosses the crumbled bottle into a waste bin easily.
"Agreed... I want to enjoy this first." I say softly.
"It's not that I'm not willing to tell anyone about us or... " He starts.
"No... I want it to be just us for right now… I want us to be able to enjoy, us." I say as his smile widens. He makes his way back to me and grazing my cheek once more with his knuckles.
"Exactly." He agrees leaning down to my lips and grazing them with his own. He sighs softly pulling back as his eyes open on mine. "It's going to be hard refraining from doing that to these beautiful lips." He said, his thumb grazing my bottom lip slowly as I felt my stomach flutter to his sweet words.
"You have no idea..." I chuckle as he smiles.
"I don't?" He asks cheekily as I roll my eyes up to his.
"You and I have been in here for far too long and Donnie is waiting for us Sensei. So I suggest that we go and speak with him about what we should do about Bishop and the Foot." I say with my own command, starting out of the Dojo as I feel his large hand grasp on my bicep tugging my body back hard against him.
"One thing, Margaret." His voice darker than it was before, eyes dilated as they were when I was pinned against that wall. "You should really save calling me Sensei for when we can be alone." His voice husked and smoky as it reaches my ears. His hand around my bicep gliding down my side to the curve of my ass. I felt my breathing catch as his hand grips the flesh of my round backside hard in his hand, pulling me against him as his mouth meets mine again. He pulls back slowly, stepping past me to the door and walking out of the Dojo, leaving me breathless in the middle of the floor.
Smug bastard. I smirk following after him finding him leaning against Donatello's lab.
"Nice of you to join us." He says with a smile as I give a sweet one back.
"I was just still trying to catch my breath." I say with an audible sigh and chuckle. Donnie smiles at me noticing my reddened faced.
"Leo's putting you through the ringer huh?" He asked as I looked up at Leo from the corner of my eyes. His face says enough with a smug smile still spread across it as I nod to Donnie's innocent question.
"Oh he sure is…" I say with a small smile, passing said turtle. With a gentle touch I let one finger slide along the opened skin of his side between his shell and plastron feeling the muscle flex and twitch under my finger going unnoticed by his nerdy brother. I smirk to myself as I enter the lab, walking over to April as she flicks through images of Bishop with the Foot on a computer screen.
"How was training?" She asks as I smile leaning against her as Donnie and Leonardo still speak just outside. Leo's eyes meet mine, dangerous and threatening from my touch. I look down at the table, my smile growing wider knowing I've just unleashed something in him with one simple touch.
Two can play at this game sensei.
"Invigorating." I say with a happy sigh as April looks at me, my face coated in a large smile. She eyes me curiously, arching a perfectly manicured brow as I smile larger. "What?"
"So, we've narrowed the location of the EPF down to a couple locations but, primarily they're working through Saki Industries." Donnie says as he and Leo walk into the lab.
"Saki Industries? He has a cover for the Foot with that bullshit?" I ask as Donnie nods.
"He doesn't in your universe."
"Well, normally evil men are rich and rich men don't have to answer too many questions when their filling the right pockets." I shrug as Leo nods.
"It's the same here, except with our pushing we had the FBI investigate those filled pockets and found money laundering throughout the city. Same going for Hun and the Purple Dragons. Got him and Saki put away for a little while but, that money doesn't seem to run out so they were bailed out and they found it was us that got involved..."
"Didn't seem too keen on that." Donnie added.
"So, we've been keeping a low profile since then and the police have been doing an OK job with keeping tabs but, now this Earth Protection Force is involved and we're not sure where or how they fit in we need to get involved." Leo finished.
"And that's where you come in." April said looking at me.
"Well, from what I remember they're dropped in from time to time for different reasons but, the main one being you guys and wanting to figure out what exactly you are. Um... So this may be a strange question but, have you heard of the Krang?" I ask with a grimace as Donnie rolls his eyes.
"That idiot." He says as I snort a laugh.
"Saki had run ins with them in the past that involved us, yes." Leo added.
"Well, that might be a reason the EPF are here as well, they are here to study extraterrestrial life. That is what Krang is." I shrug.
"If you want to degrade that word in calling them that, then yes." Donnie said.
"Have a sore spot do we?" I ask as Donnie sighs crossing his arms over his lanky form.
"Donnie has a long history with the Krang." April says, putting her hand on her boyfriend's arm as he sighs.
"Well, they could be the reason as well." I shrug as Donnie rolls his eyes. "But, maybe one thing at a time." I shrug. "So, anyways… Bishop." I say turning to April as she smiles opening a hologram screen in the lab and larger image of Bishop.
"He is seen here with Saki." She says as I furrow my brow to Saki without his Shredder armor. I take a step closer. He was a handsome man, looking about in his mid-forties and wealthy in an all-black custom suit with red tie. A woman at his side, looking almost in her thirties dark hair and wearing similar clothing, with weaponry around her slim waist. My heart caught in my throat as I looked at her.
"Karai…" I said my eyes glaring instantly. "So, we get to deal with her too. Fun." I say, crossing my arms over my chest as April snorts a laugh. "That's who that is right?" I ask, looking directly towards Leo as his eyes meet mine. He nods slowly as I shake my head. "Wonderful." I take a slow breath in and out and shake my head. "So, they're meeting to grab something." I say ignoring the beautiful woman that could or couldn't be the ex of the turtle I was just hot and heavy with moments ago. I shouldn't let it get to me as it was, but it was fuckin' Karai! How could I not?
"Seems like they're getting supplies." Donnie said as he played a video from a surveillance camera. It played for a moment before Bishop's eyes looked directly up at the camera Donnie was hacked into and turned off instantly.
"Huh…That's not a coincidence." I say, crossing my arms over my chest. "Play it back." I ask as April rewinds and play it back. I look at Bishop, watching him carefully as I smirk watching him reach for his watch as his eyes meet the camera. "There, his watch." I saw. "He must have an electronical scrambler in there." I say as Donnie plays the video back. I point to his watch as he furrows his brow.
"I didn't catch that." He says going to the video on his computer screen and watching it on full screen in color. "Alright inspector gadget… I'm on to you." He mutters as he increases to images on Bishop's watch. "I'm going to look up make and model of it and see what I can pull up." He says as I nod. "Nice one Mags." He says mussing my hair around as I pull back from him.
"Stop it." I say slapping his hand away in a chuckle. "You're welcome." I smile looking back to Leo as his eyes meet mine.
"Find anything new Nerdzilla?" Casey asks as she came into the lab, Raphael close behind with Michelangelo following after.
"Maggie did actually." Donnie said enlarging Bishop's watch and showing the others.
"A watch?" Raph asked, looking to Donnie then me. "So what?" He says as I roll my eyes. Casey smacks his large arm as he shoves her back gently.
"It's an electronic frequency scrambler. Any thing coming off of a electronic device gives of frequency waves, if those waves are interrupted by another frequency it can cause static or a device to malfunction." He explains while showing the surveillance video to the others.
"He was able to do that with just a watch?" Raph asked as Donnie nodded.
"James Bond type shit bro." Mikey sighed looking to his brothers.
"Precisely, which is why we need to be one step ahead. I will be putting blockers on all of our cells and devices so if we need to communicate that won't be a problem." He said, pulling up an already started blue print of a device to stop anything from scrambling their signals. I arched my brow to the grind on the screen of the prototype.
"Donnie I literally just told you..."
"He works fast." April says with a smile as Donnie's faces reddens.
"Time is of the essence." He shrugs.
"Speaking of, is that Karai?" Casey asked pointing to the screen as Leo sighs off to the side.
"Yeah we already talked 'bout it babe..." Raph said softly as Casey brushed him off.
"That's nice to include everyone." She said, looking past Raph, directly at Leo. I watch, sitting back confused by the animosity and a little amused.
"It wasn't a lot to discuss Casey. She's back." Leo said with a shrug as Casey rolled her eyes, turning to April for back up.
"Nothing to add?" She asks as April sighs.
"I'm just as pissed about it but, what can we do Case. She made her choice." She shrugs as Casey shakes her head, leaving the lab nudging her shoulder hard with Raphael and Leonardo on the way out. Raph goes to follow after her and I hold my hand out.
"I'll go." I say softly as he blows out a puff of air.
"What's that gonna do?" He asked, attempting to walk forward. I put my hand out on his large chest to stop him, looking up to his green eyes.
"You're pissed and she's pissed, is that a good mix right now?" I ask as he glares down at me. I stand my ground and he steps back from me, crossing his massive arms over his chest.
"Fine. Be my guest. You end up with a black eye don't come back 'ere cryin' ta me."
"Wouldn't dream of it Raphie." I say walking out of the old subway car. I hear the low thud and metal clanking of a punching bag echoing in the alcoves of the bedrooms. I make my way to Raphael's room, watching her go at it on his punching bag.
"Can you believe that shit? They just keep things from me because they think I'm gonna haul off and freak out... Because Raph never does that? Bullshit." She says as I lean against the doorway, just listening. "Karai used to be family. Used to be apart of us and used us. Used Leo. Did they tell you that in those movies of yours? She completely fucked us over. I'm the only one that called her out on it. Leo never believed me. Raph and I used to fight about it constantly, almost broke up... Until finally her true colors came out..." She seethes, jabbing the bag left and right. "Found out all of our little family secrets she was sending back home to daddy dearest. This isn't their original home." She said, stopping the bag and looking at me. "They took years trying to find another place after Saki and the Foot came and destroyed it. After Karai fuckin lead them down there and..." She shook her head, as tears started to water in her eyes. I stepped into the room, approaching her like a frightened animal. I put my hand to her shoulder slowly as she turns falling into me with a hug. "I don't know why or whatever fucked up reason your here but if it's to stop this and end her with us, I owe you my life." She says softly as I feel tears slide down my cheeks as I hug her tighter.
"I don't know if I could go up against Karai." I say softly as Casey pulls back, wiping tears from her cheeks as I do the same to myself.
"You won't face her alone, not if I have anything to do with it."
"Me neither." April says softly from the doorway as she walks into the room. "Karai is one evil we'll all face together." She says, putting her hand on ours. "She's not doing this to our family." I smile, thinking of being welcomed into their family. This little piece of secrecy, love and warmth that is the Hamoto clan.
My thoughts however dampened when I thought about this being a short trip. Once I do what I am here to do I will need to go back home. Realign the universe or whatever as not upset the flow of time. Butterfly effect and all that.
We made out way back to the main room, the turtles waiting for us as Raph slowly walked up to Casey. She smiled at him, gliding her small hand into his as they sat down together on the couch. Her on his lap as she apologized quietly to him and explained her concerns.
My eyes met Leonardo's, the once bright blue now tarnished with worry and almost guilt. I didn't want him to feel this way. Not about her. Not about something he had no control over, or knew she was plotting. I walked past him, sliding my hand along his arm in a soft touch of reassurance, hoping it was enough.
"I did find some other news..." Donnie said looking to April first as she came beside him. He showed her on her tablet as her face furrowed in confusion and then almost anger, and then calmed.
"I don't think she's ready yet." She said looking to Leo.
"I agree but, I was asked to leave it for a vote." Leo said softly as April turned to Donnie.
"A vote?"
"I don't think she would be put in any predicament where she would have to fight." He argued as I looked between the three of them.
"Excuse me?" I say waving my hands. "Can we please not speak as though I am not sitting right here? Do I get a vote? What are we talking about?"
"Sorry..." Donnie said softly.
"Sorry Mags..." Leo said. "Saki is apparently hosting a Charity event to raise money for the EPF, funding their 'research'. Guess what that is?" He asks with a sigh. "Donnie suggested while you guys were talking that you go and get some intel. However, I think that you are not ready to..."
"I'll do it." I shrug as Donnie claps his hands together.
"Ha! Good on you Mags! See! Told you she'd do it." He said looking at Leo at the eldest rolled his eyes.
"I don't think you should." He said again, looking at me sternly as I shrugged.
"It's a charity event. You get dressed up, bid on crap you don't need. Get hit on by creepy old white guys, eat bad shrimp and leave." I say simply as Casey chuckles. "If you're lucky there's an open bar."
"Ok, but this time there's Saki, Hun, Bishop and Karai there." April adds.
"Who don't know me from a whole in the wall." I counter. "I go in and pretend, I don't know I'm a reporter." I say looking at April and smile. "Yeah, Channel Six news." Smiling wider as she's obviously not understanding my joke. "I ask some questions. The worst thing that happens is they don't answer me and I get kicked out. Press sneak into that kinda shit all the time." I shrug as Leo sighs.
"I don't like it." He says.
"We can keep an eye on 'er." Raph says. "Keep tabs so nothin' happens." He says, sensing the eldest' struggle.
"I'm sure Don has an ear piece he can hook me up with." I say looking at the turtle in purple as he nods. Leo sighs looking to April for help as she shrugs.
"Seems like we're out numbered..." She says as Mikey puts his large arm around she shoulders tugging her petite body to his massive side.
"Don't worry Angel cakes, Mags got this and we'll have her back like always." He smiled it being contagious and leading to a large one going over my face.
"Yeah Angel Cakes." I say with a wink as she rolls her eyes.
"So, bright and early training tomorrow then." Leonardo said pointing at me as I smile.
"Of course Sensei." I said as his eyes narrowed on mine.
"You guys are so cute." Casey said with a smile. "When are you gonna fuck?" She asked as Mikey chuckled. I snorted a laugh, walking away from the conversation to grab another bottle of water. April followed after me to the kitchen as she smiled at me as I closed the fridge.
"What?"
"How'd training go today?" She asked again with a coy smile. I untwisted the bottle and took a swig of cooling water, needing to think before I spoke.
"It was fine, like I said earlier?" I asked furrowing my brow. "You forget?" I ask as she looked at me with a knowing smirk crossing her arms over her chest.
"Uh-huh…" She said as I started to walk back to the living room. She put her hand on my arm stopping me. "We need to talk later." She said her green eyes glowing in mischief as I sighed.
"Talk about what?" I asked, trying to keep my own excitement at bay. Not that I didn't want to scream it from the Empire State Building that we had kissed and it was literally the most amazing, breath taking kiss I've ever had.
"Please." She said with a roll of her eyes, looking over to Leo and back to me. "Just remember, I grew up with them and know them all like the back of my hand even if they think they're so mysterious." She chuckled. "He's not. He's still a man with simple wants and needs." She said raising a brow. "And it's pretty simple to surmise what he wants."
"What are you two talking about?" Mikey asked as April smiled at him.
"Nothing Mikey." She said as he eyed her for a minuet and looked to me. I looked down at my feet, twisting the bottle cap in my fingers nervously.
"Uh-huh…" He says with an even glare on us. "Leo wants to strategize about the Gala event and I think we need pizza for that, he disagrees." I chuckle shaking my head at his serious tone as he moves over to me, his glare still in tact. "Something funny Maggie?" He asks as I chuckle, covering my mouth.
"No, not at all Mikey." I say shaking my head.
"That's what I thought. Who's going to get me pizza?" He asked as April rolled her eyes.
"We'll go get you pizza you endless pit. Anyone else want anything?" She asks.
"Beer." Raph said as April shook her head.
"Anything else? Should I just make a grocery run?"
"Actually I am out of creamer…" Donnie said with a sheepish smile as she sighed.
"Fine. Maggie, grab you stuff we're going to the super market." She said with a fake smile.
"Seems like something you enjoy." I chuckled as she took a slow breath. "Just clear your mind." I shrugged as she glared at me, swigging her bag over her shoulder.
"So…" She said as I placed some eggs and butter in the cart. "You and Leo are a thing or…?" She asked as I looked around the semi busy store.
"No… I-I don't… We don't really want to tell anyone." I shrugged.
"He wouldn't want to." She says as I look up at her from putting orange juice in the cart.
"W-why…" I ask.
"Well, he would want to keep you to himself." She shrugs. "Donnie didn't tell anyone about us for a month. Tried to anyways. Mikey found out real quick, kinda how he almost did tonight." She chuckled. "Everyone takes him for granted but, he's more intuitive than he leads on."
"I can see that, growing up with four brothers I guess it would be hard to actually have something for yourself." I say with a smile.
"So, not only do you care for them, but… You have feelings for Leo." She says, not as a question but knowing already that I did. I look to her as we stand in a grocery store, in another universe. I'm looking at April O'Neil, talking about Leonardo, who hours before I was kissing… I shook my head at the ridiculousness it all sounded in my head but, she wasn't wrong.
"I do." I say with shrug.
"What's going to happen then?" She asks softly as I look to her, her face now sullen as it was before.
"When?"
"When you leave?" She asks, her green eyes shinning with tears watering in them. I move to her, placing my hand on her back as we move down an isle, out of the way.
"I-I honestly don't want to think about it." I shrug. "I guess that's my defense mechanism. I just don't think about stuff." I sigh, wrapping my arms around myself to keep my from loosing it in the cereal isle.
"Maybe Renet can make it so you can come back?" She says, her voice hopefully as I smile.
"I would like that, but… I doubt it April."
"Well, Usagi can travel back and forth why can't you?" She asked, her voice lowered as I shrugged.
"Usagi and I live in different universes, we're different… Species…" I speak softer so passerby's don't hear our curious conversation. "There could be various reason." I shrug. April sighs in frustration leaning against the PopTarts. "We should talk to Renet though there isn't any harm in that and maybe she can figure something out. It's not like I want to leave but, I also don't want to mess anything up." I shrug as April nods.
"No, I know…" She says. "I don't want you to go either." She says with a small smile. I put my arm around her shoulder, giving her a small hug. "I don't get how in a short seventy two hours I feel like I've known you my whole life?"
"I know, I feel like I've just always meant to be here…" I say with a deep sigh.
"Yeah…" She shakes her head, kissing the side of mine as she pulls back from me. "Come on, let's get back before Mikey tries to come and find us." She chuckles as we finish our shopping.
"Finally!" Mikey calls as we make our way down the cement steps, grabbing the bags from our arms as he searches for snacks.
"Like a toddler." I say watching him rip open a bag of chips with a chuckle, taking them in the other room. Leonardo stands from the couch as he was watching the News with Splinter, Casey, Raphael and Donatello and makes his way to me taking the rest of my bags.
"Thanks." I say with a smile as he nods going into the kitchen.
"We have to cook the pizza?" Mikey says looking at the box as I roll my eyes.
"Image that Mikey." I say taking it from him as I preset the over. "And looket sparkling water. Maybe it's time to cut down on the sugar hmm?" I ask as he looks at the cans of water with utter confusion on his face.
"I don't… What?" He asks, his face crumbling as I roll my eyes at his antics.
"Oh my God, big baby…" I say grabbing another bag and pushing a large pack of Crush soda into his plastron. He smiles kissing my cheek and hops back into the living room, opening a can on his way. "His teeth are going to rot out of his skull." I say looking up at the eldest as Leo nods.
"Donnie does routine check ups for us, but yeah." He chuckles as I smile. "You actually bought us food. Like food, food." He said, looking at the items on the kitchen table and counters.
"Well, I like to cook." I shrug as he smiled. "April helped." I said as she snorted a laugh.
"April also cannot cook." She said behind us filling the fridge. "Growing up with four boys and training your whole life to be a Ninja kinda doesn't help you with home maker responsibilities." She says as I roll my eyes.
"Well, I um… I had to learn at a young age so." I shrug as I feel Leonardo's hand at my lower back. April looks at me, noticing my tone. Her eyes go to Leo as he shakes his head once, she nods in understanding. It was better to ask at another time.
"Well, you'll have to teach me then because these boys like to eat." She says as Casey makes her way over with Raph. He pops open a beer off the corner of the table.
"Thanks Ape." He says as she nods. "What all this?" He asks.
"We have a Betty Crocker?" Casey asks, looking at me as she picks up a large packet of drumsticks.
"I enjoy cooking and there was no food here other than pizza and soda so, I figured big guys need a lot of food." I shrugged as Raph smirked.
"I like her." He said nodding his head as he went to go back and sit on the couch. I looked at Casey as she smiled starting to clap slowly at her boyfriend.
"Well, holy shit." She said as a bottle cap came whizzing past her head.
"Keep it up Jones." He called to her as she chuckled.
"What are we making tonight?" She asks as I open the over behind me.
"I was told pizza." I said as she nodded in approval.
"Did you get enough?" She chuckled looking at the three already in the oven.
"Well Mikey can eat like what two by himself?" I asked looking at Leo as he chuckled.
"If he's not stopped, yeah."
"There's snacks too." I say putting the bag of snacks on the table.
"And wine." April said putting a bottle on the counter as Casey claps her hands taking out her keychain to unscrew the cork. "We got the rest of this Mags, go relax." She said pouring me a glass of wine and handing it to me. I took the plastic cup with a smile, going to the couch and sitting next to Mikey.
Leonardo helped in the kitchen but, before long I felt the couch give next to me to his weight and the heat from his body brush along the side of mine. I was halfway through the large solo cup of wine and feeling the alcohol take effect of my already running high emotions.
Remembering his hands on mine, his bright blue eyes shinning in the minimal candle light, his warm breath cascading over the tip of my ear, his fingers digging into my thick flesh, his mouth against my lips, his warm tongue exploring and messaging against mine...
I stood quickly from the couch, looking over at April sitting comfortably on Donnie's lap.
"Bathroom?" I ask as she smiles, getting from the nerdy turtle as taking my hand with hers. She leads me to another alcove, flicking on lights down the long dark tunnel.
"Door on the left." She says with a smile. I nod, walking down the large hallway, noticing that it was the only door in this alcove, much like the Dojo. I furrowed my brow, opening the door to a large bathroom. Large bath tub off to the side of the room, large enough to fit Raphael and guest. My face heated to the thought as I closed the door timidly behind me as the click echoed in the tiled space. I walked further into the space and noticed a half wall up, peeking around the corner, four showerheads were affixed to the tiles with drains in between. On another wall, four sinks lined up with mirrors above them, tooth brushes and toothpaste on the vanities. I took a slow breath going to one of the four sinks and looking into the mirror at my reflection.
I was tired. I looked like I had cried earlier, bags under my eyes and puffy cheeks. My face and chest was pink from the alcohol and my hair was a frizzy mess on my head from sweating earlier. A shower actually didn't sound so bad, not that I had clean clothing to change into. I ventured further into the large space noticing a large cabinet stock piles of soap and toothpaste in a cabinet along with towels and other toiletries.
Stalls closed off on another wall tucked back into a corner for privacy and behind another halfway. Not that I really had to go to the bathroom, I just needed to not be around Leonardo at this moment before I actually spontaneously combusted.
"Maggie?" Oh for fuck sake… His voice echoing in that space was both heaven and hell. I took a slow steady breath and came out from the half wall as he stopped. "Sorry, I uh… I don't know why I came in here really…" He said, stumbling over his words. Another chink in armor falling away, for me. I smile at his behavior.
"I wasn't…" I chuckle shaking my head. "I actually um, I needed to get away from you." I said with a shrug as his expression soured.
"Oh…" He said as I furrowed my brow and then covered my mouth, realizing what I just said.
"NO! No, no… Not like that. Oh my God…" I say, walking up to him and taking his large hands in mine. "You sat next to me on the friggin couch, and the wine in my system all I could do was think about you kissing me and your friggin hands on me and…" His smile slowly returned as his hands left mine, encircling around me, bringing me closer to his hard, strong body. I closed my eyes, remembering the feeling. "We can't keep sneaking off like this… April is already on to us." I say, opening my eyes to his as he shrug, leaning down to my face. His lips leaving soft kisses over my heated cheeks.
"April is always right because she's observant. My brother's are not, well Donnie is. Raphael has his head in Casey's boobs and a bottle of beer and Mikey is too full on pizza and half asleep on the couch to care." He says, his mouth gliding across my face as he moves to my neck. My eyes close to the feeling of his warm mouth back on my flesh. His hands once again on my body. The heat down from pit of my stomach straight between my thighs. A slow steady churr rumbles through his chest as I push myself closer to him.
"Is it still cheapening the experience to take me in here?" I ask, my hands wrapping around his shoulders as he breaths slowly, steadily.
"Yes." He says, pulling back from me so his eyes look to mine. "You need to have patients."
"Young grasshopper." I say as he smirks, a chuckle leaving his throat. "So how long to you plan on drawing this out? Until I just actually burst into flames in your arms?" I ask as he continues to chuckle, placing his face to my neck.
"We need to give it time Mags…" He sighs. "I-I need some time." He says as I pull back from him.
"You still don't trust me?" I ask, my brow furrowed as his eyes dance back and forth over mine.
"No, it's not that."
"It's when I leave." I say as he sighs, his face falling to my shoulder.
"You can't change you life because of this and I don't want this to be a defining factor of that." He says softly.
"It would be." I say honestly as he nods.
"I know. I can't be the reason you give up your life." He says as I shake my head.
"I wouldn't be giving up Leo, I'd be starting something new." I say, pulling back from him to look back in his eyes as they meet mine.
"It's a beautiful ideal Maggie but, the truth is that you'd be coming here and our universe isn't idyllic as it seems in movies." He says pulling away from me completely as I watch him step back. My arms fall to my side as I cross them over my chest.
"I understand that Leo."
"Do you? We don't just train and have pizza parties." He says. "We go out, we fight. We kill." He says his eyes meeting mine. "Are you ready to allow yourself to be with someone like that, like me? Aside from the fact of what I am, and how wrong that is but adding to it as well that I'm a killer? You're a good person Margaret. You're beautiful and caring and shouldn't be with someon…Something like me." He says as I shake my head.
"Leonardo. I know exactly who you are and what you've done. You've protected this city and saved people. You've killed because you've needed to. You…"
"Maggie you don't…" He started as I held up my hand.
"I let you speak now let me speak." I say as he nods, crossing his arms over his chest.
"You don't think that police face this dilemma on a daily basis? And yet they're still seen as heroes because of what they do. How are you different?"
"For one I'm a Mutant freak." He says with a shrug as I roll my eyes.
"And the world is fucked for thinking there is anything wrong with that. You're a beautiful person too Leo. Yoshi trained you to be good and honorable. He didn't train you to be a killer and you know that. This scare tactic isn't going to work on me and as for you being a freak. Then I guess I'm a freak too because no man has ever gotten me more hot or turned on from just one touch like you have. As for me leaving, I still haven't made up my mind on that yet and you would be a contributing factor yes but, so isn't April and your brothers. So, don't flatter yourself." I say with a small smile as he looks at me, his arms still crossed over his large chest.
"Getting into this life isn't going to be easy."
"No shit." I say simply as he sighs, shaking his head taking a step towards me.
"You're going to make this impossible aren't you?" He asked, a small smile crawling back over his face.
"Yes." I say defiantly as he chuckles, placing his arms back around my waist. "I have another question…" I say curiously as his eyes meet mine.
"OK…" He asks cautiously as I smirk.
"Um, did you and Karai have a…" He sighs softly, placing his hand to my cheek.
"Did Casey say something to you about it?" He asks as I shrug.
"Not really. In my universe you and Karai kinda, always had a thing for one another…" I say slowly as he furrows his brow.
"Really?"
"Yeah, but she ends up using you and betraying you some how." I say as he nods his head.
"Seems about right." He says. "That's the gist of it. Can we not speak about her while I'm holding you?" He asks as I nod, smiling going over my face as he takes a breath slowly, leaning his face into my neck to take in a breath of me. "That's better." He says against my neck, I let my eyes flutter close as I bury my face into his warmth, feeling the safety in his arms comfort me. A yawn takes me off guard as I cover my mouth. "Let me take you home, it's late." He whispers gently against my ear as I into his neck. He sweeps me up easily in his arms, carrying me out of the bathroom and down the long alcove to the darkened living room where only Donnie and April remain on the couch, cuddled together watching reruns of an old sitcom. He sets me back on my feet as we walk to the couch to let them know we're leaving. "I'm going to take Maggie back home." He says as Donnie nods. April smiles at me as I give her a kiss on the top of her head.
Stepping into this apartment by unlocking it without Casey or April by my side was unfamiliar. Weird. I walked into the dark space, flipping on the switch to Leonardo closing the blinds. I wasn't as surprised anymore to see his large form taking up the living room as he walked to me. I yawned again, the long day catching up to me as he smiled, placing his hand to my cheek.
"Get some sleep." He said sweetly, leaning down to kiss my lips.
"I'll see you in the morning." I say as he nods. I don't want to let go of his hand as he starts for the window. He smiles down at our hands still clasped tightly together as he raises them to his mouth giving my knuckles a soft kiss. "Is it weird to say that I'm going to miss you?" I ask, shaking my head at my own ridiculous question as he smiles, leaning back into me meeting my lips with his. His mouth opens over mine as I follow letting our tongue mingle slowly, lazily against each other as I feel the heat rise in my belly.
"Good night Turtledove." He says kissing my forehead and dropping my hand gently as he makes his way out the window and across the New York night.