Felicia could hear the singing of birds and people of New York getting ready for the day ahead as she woke in the large shared bed. Stretching her body out and feeling the empty space next to her, she frowned looking over at Raphael's large impression on the mattress. She knew he wanted to get up early and head to the dojo, she just wasn't thinking this early.
She looked over at her alarm clock and it's glaring red numbers reading nearly 11am.
"I guess it's not that early..." She muttered with a yawn and another stretch. Lazily she got to her feet only to sit back down quickly, putting her hand to her head. "Jesus...Must have got up too fast." She said to herself, trying to get up from the bed once more. She walked into the adjoining bathroom to their bedroom looking in the vanity mirror. She groaned to herself looking at her tried face. "I should start using face cream..." She sighed. "I'm starting to look like my mother."
She walked into the kitchen, noticing that Raphael had already had a pot of coffee made. She smiled to herself seeing her favorite coffee mug next to the coffee machine with a small note underneath it.
"Hey babe,
I headed in early to help Leo. Be back later. I'll give you a call.
Love you.
Raph"
She loved that he was that thoughtful to leave a note. Years ago he would have left and she wouldn't of heard from him all day. He was getting better at this dating thing. She understood now why it took Leo so long to ask Willow to marry her. She laughed to herself at the thought as she sat at her small kitchen table sipping her coffee.
"Hey Feefee." Betty said with a yawn as she entered the kitchen, taking a mug from the cabinet. "Raphie leave early?" She asked plopping down in the seat next to Felicia as she nodded.
"Yeah said something about helping Leo."
"Yeah, Don left around like four this morning." She said with a roll of her eyes. "I don't know how they can do it."
"Apparently Leo used to get them up at that time everyday for training. Raph tried it with me once, I lasted a week." She chuckled.
"I would have lasted punching Donnie in the throat and going back to bed." Betty said taking a sip of her coffee as Felicia shook her head.
"I can't believe Willow did it for months."
"I know, remember how she looked? She was ripped." Betty chuckled. "She looks good now though. Having some meat on her suits her. You too, you were too skinny in high school."
"I don't know about all that. I've felt pretty disgusting the past couple weeks." She sighed as Betty rolled her eyes.
"And how does Raph feel about that?"
"I don't tell him that kinda shit. He'd think I was ridiculous."
"You are ridiculous." Betty laughed. Felicia shrugged getting up to get another cup of coffee and felt dizzy again as she stood. She gripped the back of her chair as Betty looked up at her worried.
"You alright?" She asked as Felicia shook her head, hanging it between her shoulders.
"No..." She sighed. "I feel..." She put her hands to her mouth, rushing off to the bathroom in the hallway. Betty watched as the door slammed and the sound of Felicia getting sick in the toilet traveled it's way into the kitchen. Betty looked at her cup of coffee and pushed it aside, getting up from the table to going to the bathroom door.
"Fee.." She said softly knocking. "You OK, you need some water?"
Felicia hung her head inside the cool porcelain bowl as she groaned, trying to push herself back. She breathed heavily out of her mouth, closing her eyes as she turned her head to the ceiling. Rubbing her head on the back of her hand, back and forth trying to push away the dizziness she flushed the toilet and tried to get back to her feet.
Opening the door a little Betty looked in to see Felicia leaning against the vanity sink letting the water run cold. Cupping her hands Felicia splashed the cooling water onto her hot face as Betty took a washed cloth from the cupboard dropping it into the shallow sink to run it under the water. Felicia tried to smile at her young friend as she guided her back to the toilet, sitting her down. Betty placed the cool wash cloth over Felicia's forehead as she groaned, putting her head back against the wall.
"Maybe it was something you ate?" Betty asked as Felicia shrugged.
"I don't know... I made burgers last night but, you know me. I can't eat one unless its a hockey puck." She sighed as Betty nodded.
"And I ate them, along with Donnie and Raph, I don't feel sick?"
"I don't know..." She sighed getting up from the toilet as Betty held her friend's hand to guide her back towards the vanity mirror. She groaned at her reflection, her gray skin and eyes glossed over. She had to be getting the flu.
"You should go lay down. I'll text Don." Betty said as Felicia rolled her eyes, shaking her head.
"No, don't do that. I'll just go lay down. I'm already feeling better." She lied, moving towards the door on her unsteady feet. She leaned on Betty for a moment before going out of the bathroom on her own. "I just need some orange juice." She said as Betty followed her, keeping her hands out in case she needed to catch her wobbly friend.
"Well, I'm gonna hang around here so, if you need anything give me a holler." Betty said as Felicia nodded, making her way into her bedroom.
Betty went to the kitchen, grabbing a glass and some OJ to bring to Felicia's room.
"Here ya go sweet pea. Please, call me if you need anything. I'm gonna clean up my room a little and if you're hungry let me know, I'll make you some toast and soup." She said as Felicia smiled with a nod, laying her head down on her soft pillows.
Opening her eyes again, what felt like seconds later she noticed the darkening sky behind her dark green shear curtains. Groaning to herself, she tried to push onto her back but, was stopped by a large hand on her shoulder. She smiled at the familiarity of it, looking up at his dark familiar eyes wrapped in red.
"You're up." He said with a smile over his normal green face. She felt the bed give to his weight and he kissed her forehead with a frown. "You're warm. Don!" He called as Felicia sighed.
"I don't need Doctor Don to examine me. It's just a stomach bug." She shrugged as Donnie came in the room, flicking their light on. Felicia squinted, covering her eyes with her hand.
"Sorry..." Donnie said, taking Raphael's seat next to her on the bed. "Under your tongue please." He said, holding out a thermometer. Felicia rolled her eyes, opening her mouth as Donnie put the thermometer in her mouth. "You threw up this morning?" He asked as she nodded. "Anything since then?" She shook her head as the thermometer beeped. "Huh..." He said looking at the number. "It's high, one hundred and one." he sighed as Felicia did too.
"See, just a stomach bug." She shrugged as Donnie nodded.
"Most likely, but... Can I take a blood sample? Just in case?" He asked as Felicia rolled her eyes, sticking her arm out. Donnie smiled, going back to his bedroom and returning with a kit.
"He's only being cautious." Raphael assured her as Felicia nodded, putting her head back on the soft pillows. "Are you cold, or... warm?" He asked as she looked towards the windows.
"It's a little warm in here?" She said as he nodded and opened the window for her.
Donatello entered the room with gloves over his human hands and small black case. He opened the case next to Felicia on the nightstand, taking out a sanitize wipe. He rubbed it over Felicia's inside elbow before taking a syringe from it's place in the case and searching for a vein. He pressed his gloved thumb along her arm until he felt her pulse, and a vein made itself known in her milky complexion. Felicia looked away, biting her bottom lip as she felt the small prick of the needle go into her skin.
"There, all done." He said with a smile as he put a small band-aid on. "I'd give you a lollipop but, I don't want you to throw up on me." Donnie said with a chuckle as Felicia smiled along.
"What are you gonna do with that now?" Felicia asked as Don looked at her blood in the vial.
"Probably go down to the lab and see if there is anything going on." He shrugged. "You're probably right it's most likely just the flu but, better safe than sorry." He said as Felicia nodded, reluctantly.
"You'll let me know if something is off?" Raph asked as Donnie nodded.
"Of course bro." He nodded as Raph sighed, sitting back down next to Felicia.
"It's just a bug." She said, trying to reassure him as Donnie left the room and Raphael pushed Felicia over, laying down beside her.
"I'd rather know that for sure than not know and have it be something else." He said as Felicia rolled her eyes closed, laying her head back against her pillow. "You need anything?"
"Just you." She sighed sleepily as she felt a soft kiss on her cheek before sleep took her again.
Donatello entered the lonely liar from a way that hadn't been used in years.
The man hole cover was hard to move, but pushing away the dust and spider webs was worse. Dropping down into the dark hole, he took out his shell cell, lighting the path a little better.
He was feeling nostalgic he guessed... Going down this way, as a turtle with his bo staff strapped to his shell just seemed normal. He felt as though normalcy was missing in his life lately. Well, their kind of normal.
Walking to the large brick wall ahead he pulled down the correct pipe as the doors to the liar slid open. They moved slower than they should have and stopped only about half way. Donnie poked his head in, pushing the wall back a little as he looked over the release mechanism he installed in his teenage years. He hummed to himself, moving ahead some debris and cobwebs from the leavers.
"Some WD40 and it should be good as new." He said, turning towards the lair and walking into the main, large room. He went into his lab, taking the veil of Felicia's blood and putting it on a glass slab for his telescope.
"What are you doing?" He heard his brother say from behind him, making his whole body jump from the seat he was in. He looked over his shoulder at his brother in blue, normal green self strapping his katana to his shell.
"I took some of Felicia's blood to test. She's sick. What are you doing?"
"Needed a break." Leonardo said with a shrug as he looked over Donnie's shoulder. "You too I take it." He said with a smile, slapping his brother's shell.
"Yeah, well... It's an amazing thing what I did and all but, I miss it." He shrugged as Leo nodded.
"Does Betty..."
"She understands... But, you know me I like my space." He said looking back at the droplet of blood in his microscope as Leonardo nodded. "... Huh." Donnie said, mostly to himself as he slid his computer chair over to his other desk, grabbing some solutions to drop into Felicia's blood and seeing how they reacted.
"What's wrong?" Leo asked as Donnie shrugged.
"I'm not exactly sure. I've never seen this before. She's not sick, that's for sure. However, her blood isn't responding normally."
"What else could it be?" Leo asked as Donnie looked up at his older brother for a moment, his face furrowed in a frown.
"I-I'm not sure. I mean, it looks...I-I don't think it's even possible? Could be just a dirty glass, I'll grab another one." He said, taking the glass out from underneath the microscope and looking through his files for a new one. He examined the glass in the bright lights overhead, twisiting it to make sure there was no debris on it. Place it back underneath the microscope after placing a droplet of blood back in the center he adjusted the lens once more. "Wow..." He said to himself as Leonardo, crossed his arms over his plastron, trying to look over his nerdy brother's shoulder.
"What wow?" He asked as Donnie, looked back at him.
"I-I think I need to call Felicia." He said as Leo furrowed his brow.
"Why, what's wrong?"
"It's not wrong per-say... Just..." He stammered for a moment looking around his lab. "Here!" He said, getting from his computer chair and grabbing a book from off the shelf. "Read this." He said opening up to the correct page in the book and handing it to Leo.
"The Female Anatomy? Don... I'm well aware of..."
"No, no not that, this." He said pointing towards the lower section of the biology book.
"Pregnancy? You think Felicia is pregnant?" He chuckled as Don shrugged. "If Willow hasn't what makes you think Felicia has?"
"Blood sample." Donnie said with a roll of his eyes pointing towards the microscope.
"OK, sure... But, first of all Willow and I have been together way longer than those two and have had... She's hasn't been pregnant, at least not that I know of... A-are you sure it's true? You can't go announcing something like that to Felicia, to Raphael? Think for a second." He said, putting the book down on Donnie's lab table and his hands on his little brother's shoulders. "If you're certain than I think you should let them know something is up but, what if you're wrong and they get their hopes up or if Raph does something... Gee, I don't know hot headed?"
"That's true..." Donnie said with a sigh, sitting down in his chair. "But, the complications she could have throughout. The sickness, morning sickness she'll get... What if they're DNA isn't compatible with one another, what if she has a turtle..." He said with a wince, almost as if it was a bad word. Leo grimaced as well, shaking his head.
"All things you do not need to worry about right now. Look at the sample again, do some research on it. You just gave it a glance, maybe something changed?" Leo said with a shrug as Donnie took a breath.
"I need to look some things up. It would be helpful if I took samples of Izzy's blood while she was pregnant..." He sighed as Leo chuckled.
"Yeah, that would have gone over well." He said.
"I should call Felicia and let her know... Something." He sighed.
"Just, don't tell her... That." Leo said as Donnie nodded, dialing his cell phone.
"Hello?" Felicia answered, recognizing the number instantly. Raphael leaned over so he could hear his brother's end of the conversation. Felicia rolled her eyes, nudging him with her shoulder.
"Hey Fee, uh... How are you feeling?"
"Better. I ate something and kept it down and I can stand without wanting to pass out." She chuckled as Donnie smiled along with a nod.
"Good, good. Uh... So, you blood seems OK..."
"OK... But?"
"But... There is something strange about it. I need to do some more research on it, but don't worry OK."
"OK..." She said confused as she looked at Raphael that muted the TV next to her.
"What's going on?" He asked as Felicia shrugged.
"I'll keep you posted." Donnie said as Felicia nodded, and Donnie hung up.
"Huh..." She said looking at her cell phone screen dim. "That was weird. I've never known Donnie to be cryptic."
"What the hell does he have to be cryptic about? You're either sick, or not sick."
"I guess I'm not sick." She said with a shrug as Raph looked at her unbelieving.
"Then why'd he call? I'm gonna go see what he's doing." He said getting up from the couch as Felicia rolled her eyes.
"Why? He'll come back here tonight anyways to tell me what's going on. I'm not sick, it's probably iron deficiency or something. Don't worry. Please, sit and finish watching this with me." She said, patting the seat next to her as he looked at her for a moment before sitting back down.
"Fine, but if he can't figure this out you're going to a real doctor." He said, pointing a finger in her face as she rolled her eyes kissing it.
"Yes sir."
Willow sat on the couch, flipping aimlessly through channels before hearing the window in the guest room slide open and shut. She smiled to herself, getting up from the couch to lean against the door frame of the other room.
"There's my night in shinning armor." She said with a smile as Leonardo rolled his eyes, putting his arm around her waist to pull her into his plastron for a kiss. "I missed you." She pouted as he kissed her once more.
"I saw you before I left." He said, heading back towards their room as she nodded.
"I know, how was your spacious workout?" She asked as he smirked at the choice of her words, putting his katana in their hold on his side of the room over his dresser.
"It was good. Weirdly silent in that place until Donnie showed up."
"I thought that's what you wanted? Space and quiet?" She asked, sitting on the edge of their bed as he sighed, turning to look at her.
"I didn't mean space from you." He said as she shrugged.
"It's fine if you do, I like my space sometimes." She said as he nodded.
"So, this isn't a fight?" He asked as she smiled a little.
"No, I understand you need space and quiet and your meditation. I just, missed you." She shrugged. "I rarely get to see you during the week and on weekends I'm busy with the Hayden's kids or going to see mum... It's just I don't know, I miss you." She sighed as he smiled, going to stand in front of her. He leaned down and kissed her forehead softly.
"I missed you too." He said softly, looking down into her eyes as she smiled up at him.
"So, what was Don doing there?" She asked as he went back to taking off his gear.
"He was checking Felicia's blood for something, she was sick earlier I guess."
"Oh, yeah... She texted me something about Donnie being cryptic."
"Yeah, he couldn't figure out what was wrong. Her blood wasn't responding as though it was sick but, it didn't seem normal to him.
"Huh... Maybe she's pregnant." Willow said with a chuckle as Leo stopped unwrapping his hands looking back at his wife as she sat on the edge of their bed. She was nonchalantly flipping through a magazine that was left on her side of the bed, shaking her head at the celebrities within it's pages.
"That would be something..." He said, turning back towards what he was doing.
"Yeah... Something ridiculous." Willow said with a roll of her eyes, tossing the magazine onto her nightstand. "What do you want for dinner? Izzy is gonna bring Avery over later and I have to make him mac and cheese anyways so I might as well cook us something just as delicious." She chuckled as Leo smirked, kissing the side of his wife's face.
"Anything you make sounds good to me. I'm gonna shower and get changed." He said, grabbing some human clothing and heading into their master bath.
Willow smiled to herself as she walked into the hallway, making her way down to the kitchen. She rolled her eyes at the noises coming out of Riley's bedroom, smiling wider to herself.
"Well, at least I know they'll be hungry." She chuckled going into the kitchen. She started dinner.
"Riley, do you have the corset I let you borrow before I was pregnant? I think I can actually fit into it again and Zachary and I were thinking of heading up to Manhattan next week."
"Do you have a sitter?" Willow asked willingly as she hopping with baby Avery on her hip. Leo watched happily over her shoulder.
"Oh that would be awesome! He loves you guys... Especially his Uncle Leo." Izzy smiled as Avery held tightly onto Leonardo's human finger.
"He is rather fond of you." Willow smiled as Mikey got from the table and started making faces over Willow's other shoulder. Avery watched him for a moment before a squealing laugh came from his small lungs. Avery squirmed his way up and over Willow's shoulder as Mikey held his hands out for the little boy.
"I'm totally the better uncle." He chuckled, sticking his tongue out towards Leo as the older brother rolled his eyes.
"Yes, but not by marriage." Izzy said as Riley snorted.
"We're not even sister so, that's irrelevant."
"Whatever, do you have the thing or not?"
"Yeah, yeah it's in my top dresser draw." Riley said waving her hand at her friend as she watched her handsome boyfriend blow raspberries into a giggling Avery's stomach.
Izzy made her way into Riley and Michelangelo's bedroom, going over to a dresser and opening the top draw. She furrowed her brow, noticing the men's socks and underwear. She rolled her eyes to herself, about to close the draw before something caught her eye. She moved a sock out of the way with her well manicured nails and saw the velvet black box that lay underneath.
"That's Mikey's..." Riley stated as Izzy picked up the box, turning to her friend with an opened mouth. "Whatever it is put it back, he's weird about his underwear." She said in a chuckle as Izzy closed her mouth quickly, rushing over to their bedroom door and shutting it behind her softly.
"Mikey is gonna purpose to you!" She squealed as quietly as she could. Riley rolled her eyes.
"He does that every day." She said, noticing the small black box in Izzy's hand. "That's probably like a prized action figure or something, put it back before he freaks." She said as Izzy rolled her eyes opening the box.
"Oh my god... He has taste." She gasped, looking down at the piece of jewelry that lay surrounded by crushed velvet.
"Will you quit it!" Riley said closing the small box in her friend's hand. "You don't even know that's what it is." She said crossing her arms over her chest.
"You're right..." Izzy said disbelievingly. "I mean, who buys a ruby encrusted diamond ring and leaves it in his sock draw? Not a mutant turtle now turned sex on legs because he doesn't know any better and probably thought that was a totally awesome place to hide it." Izzy said as Riley rose an eyebrow to the description of the ring.
"Rubies huh?" She asked as Izzy smirked, slowly starting to open the box again. She turned to ring towards her friend as Riley looked down at it fondly.
It really was beautiful. The diamond was cushion cut with a halo of rubies around it. The band was white gold, or platinum, either way it looked expensive. Not her type though, and she would think by now Mikey would know that? She furrowed her brow at it taking it out of the box to examine it better.
"Is it not beautiful?" Izzy asked as Riley shrugged.
"It's not exactly my type..." She said as Izzy scoffed at her.
Mikey opened the door behind them and both women jumped. Mikey jumped back himself, putting a hand to his chest.
"Jesus babe..." He breathed and then furrowed his brow as he noticed the small ring. "What uh... What's that?" He asked as Riley's face turned a bright red.
"Um...Nothing." Izzy said, snatching the ring quickly from Riley's hand and putting it back in the box and behind her back. "Something I wanted to show her." She shrugged as Mikey arched an eye brow, putting his strong hand on Izzy shoulder and turning her slowly so her back was to him.
"Uh huh..." He sighed, taking the box from her. "Ya know Izzy my dresser and Riley's aren't exactly similar. Ya know bras and thongs and then there's Riley's dresser." He said, folding her arms over his chest. Izzy looked at him for a moment with her head cocked to the side. Riley snorted out a laugh, before Mikey looked over at her with the same stern expression.
"He looks like Leo when he does that." Izzy said with a giggle as Riley shook her head.
"Babe, I'm sorry... I didn't mean to ruin a surprise or... Something? Izzy was being snoopy again! Because, that's all she does." She said, glaring at her red headed friend who's mouth dropped in shock.
"Me?! You took it out of the box!"
"You took it out of his sock draw!"
"Ok, ok... Let's relax here for a minuet. You didn't ruin anything." Mikey chuckled.
"What?" They both asked as Mikey rolled his eyes, putting the ring back into his top draw.
"It's not my ring... Well, it's not Riley's, I mean rubies? I have better taste than that." He chuckled as Riley sighed happily.
"Then who's is it?" Izzy asked as Mikey shrugged. "It's obviously one of your brothers..." She said as he shrugged again. "Donatello better have a much better ring if he thinks he is going to marry my sister!" She said as Riley rolled her eyes, pushing her towards the door.
"It's not Donnie's." Mikey called after them in a sing song voice as Izzy and Riley looked at each other.
"It's obviously not Raph's." Izzy said, walking into the kitchen.
"What's not Raph's?" Willow asked as she make an airplane noise, moving a spoon of food into Avery's mouth.
"The ring Mikey is hiding in his sock draw."
"What?" Leo and Willow both asked as Riley chuckled.
"It's not mine, apparently. It's not Donnie's either..."
"No, if it was Donnie Mikey would be the last person he would ask to hide it for him." Willow chuckled as Mikey furrowed his brow.
"Hey..."
