Hey Guys! Sorry it took so long for this chapter, I've been super busy with work. And to answer AbigailDarcy88, I was actually having a hard time deciding, but I don't really care for the new movie turtles, the muscles are good but I can't do their faces man. Freaky stuff. I think that its more edged towards the 2012 Turtles with a little of the live action movie because I like Raph to have the accent. It's just a thing. So I hope that answers your question, if you'd like to see it geared a different way, let me know! Otherwise, enjoy! Picture 2012 Characters, just Raph a little more... Muscly and Brooklyn...y. Thanks. Review!

Chapter 4.

You can never expect secrets to always remain that. With Raph's first brutalization of Charlie, he thought he could get off scotch free. Nothing would ever come of it. However, he developed a sickness. This sickness was not to make Charlie suffer, in fact he hasn't come across him since the first occasion. It was a sickness developing over this Ryan girl.

The girls had stayed with them a little over two weeks, before Ryan picked her job back up, in order to buy proper groceries for everyone. Now that she didn't have half her money stashed away and another quarter of it going to her Step-Dad's alcohol addiction, she actually had a little money to play around with. It was nice and she always liked to thank the turtles and their father for all they had done for her and her sister, so buying a few pizzas every Friday night seemed like a nice thing to do.

Raph loved every nice thing she did for them, but he absolutely hated when she went to work. In fact, he would stalk her out of the lair, up to the surface and all the way to her job. Then he would patiently wait for her to leave before following her back down. His brother's had noticed this, however they didn't see anything wrong with it. Mikey followed Kylie wherever she went on the surface and the girls really shouldn't just roam the streets by themselves.

It was so much more than protection with Ryan and Raph though. Raph found himself falling into a deep obsession over her, imagining the two of them retreating to his bedroom more than once. However, he knew that would never be the case. Ryan was a beautiful oyster waiting to slam shut at any sort of attention, so he watched her from a distance.

It all happened, one day, on her way to work. A man was heavily bandaged and sitting in a wheel chair outside of her old apartment. She didn't even give the man a second glance, however, when she walked by he reached out and grabbed her arm, causing a scream to subconsciously erupt from her throat.

"Stupid bitch, if you were there he would have done this to you! What did I do to deserve this?" He growled out and Ryan froze. That was Charlie's voice, for sure. She sputtered a few times and backed up before a large shell blocked her view.

"Who do ya think yer talkin' to?," Raph growled, grabbing Charlie by his collar and dragging him out of his wheel chair. He was ready to pound the man. He felt a soft touch on his arm and the anger poured out of him. Ryan was touching him. He threw the scum back into his wheel chair, causing him to roll back a few feet. "You never come near her again, or you'll end up worse than last time!" Raph shouted, stomping towards Charlie, who was in the building as fast as the Handi-Cap button would open the door. Ryan was dumbfounded. Was her step father in a wheel chair because of Raph?

"R-Raph, you beat him up?," She asked, her voice shaking with fear. She never expected seeing Charlie and if she would have saw him from a far, she would have gone a different way. Raph's shoulder's tensed and he slowly turned around. He hadn't meant for her to find out, but when that scum bag laid his hands on his Ryan, he was about ready to kill. Then she just... touched him and he was goo! She took the fight right out of him.

"I... I did." He was ashamed of himself, she was probably going to hate him for fighting her battle. He waited to be berated by her, but instead he found her warmth wrapping around him. She was... hugging him? A little shell shocked, he almost didn't hug her back, but then he did. He really did. He pulled her to his chest and hugged her like he imagined somebody would want to be hug and she hugged even harder back. He felt her hot tears hitting his plastron.

"Your not mad?," Raph said, after a while and she looked up at him, face hot, red and tear streaked. The look in her eyes was not of hate or sadness, it looked happy. Relieved even?

"No! I never... I never thought somebody would care enough to defend me. I was always the defender, I was always protecting my sister-"

"I can protect you," he cut her off, just after grabbing her chin to make her look him in the eyes. "I will protect you," he whispered, before pushing his head down and laying his lips against hers. She was shocked at first, but she moved with him after a moment. The broke only a few moments later, both breathless and star eyed.

After coming to her senses, Ryan stuttered a few times, red as a tomato, before pointing to the diner down the block and dashing off. Raph stared after her, unable to deny the knots in his stomach or the hammering in his chest. What had he done? He smashed a hand against his forehead, rethinking what he had just said and did. She was going to hate him!

"I sounded like a freakin' soap opera!," he yelled to the dark sky.

"Yea bro? You still sound like one," Raph recognized the voice as Mikey answering back to him and he spun around to face his younger brother and his blonde haired friend. Kylie giggled and nodded in agreement and Raph growled.

"What are you guys doin' up here anyways, it's late," Raph demanded, still embarrassed that his brother caught him in his short monologue.

"We just wanted to go visit Ryan at the diner she works at! Nobody will be there now anyways, so I figure that we can probably go in! Besides you guys have your trench coats on," Kylie stated and Raph's face heated. Go see her? Now? But he didn't want to send up a red flag to his brother either so he agreed after a moment.

Kylie went in first, to check it out. She came back out a little later and ushered the two turtles to come in. Once inside, they sat at a booth in the far corner, away from most of the empty seats. Ryan came out a few minutes later, a little shocked to see the trio. Her eyes lingered on Raph for a little longer than necessary, as if she were trying to decode him or something.

"What do you guys want to eat?"she asked, shoving her hand in her apron for her pen and paper. The ordered different things, Mikey wanted pizza, but they didn't make anything other than a breakfast pizza so that's what he had. Her sister had the usual pancakes and blueberry syrup and Raph had a meat lovers omelet. Ryan took the order back and began making it for them. Raph stared at the younger two in front of them, noticing now their joint hands.

"Are.. are you guys dating?," Kylie giggled and Mikey blushed before nodding to his big bro. Raph found himself smiling, happy that he wasn't the only one falling for a human. He blushed at that thought.

"Yea, yea we are. Ryan just found out last night and is surprisingly cool with me having a boyfriend. After she threatened Mikey once." Mikey looked sheepish as Kylie spoke and Raph found himself laughing. It sounded like Ryan to him. Speaking of Ryan, she rushed out to bring their food, before disappearing with out another word. Her face still seemed to be red. And it was like sister speak or something. She gave Kylie one look, Kylie gave her a look back, then gasped and then Ryan was gone. It was the strangest thing he has ever seen. Raph watched her retreating form before he turned back to the young couple. Kylie's eyes were on him like a hawk.

"What happened between my sister and you?," she said after a moment, causing Raph to choke on his omelet and turned a special shade of green. Mikey stopped eating and looked up.

"How?" Raph questioned, looking to the sky in confusion before back at Kylie. "I.. I uh, kissed her." He finally admitted, when her gaze didn't break his direction. Mikey or Kylie gasped distantly, probably Mikey. His chest felt tight, was it getting hot in there?

"You better take care of her," she warned, her tone was low and threatening, not consistent with her normal, cheerful demeanor. Raph nodded instantly.

"I promise." And he did, he would make sure of it.