***I DO NOT OWN TMNT***
**I DO OWN MY OC**

-August Tuesday 31, 2010 at 12:59am-

"I thought you said she was dead." Jessica said.

"So did I." Raph replied.

"Let's head back to the lair, wait and see if she'll call again, find out where she is and put a plan together." Leo said.

"How is that possible? There's no way she's alive, she had no pulse!" Donny yelled.

"Donny, look we are just as confused as you are." Raph said trying to calm his brother.

"There has to be a reasonable explanation." Donny said as Lexi walked into the lair.

"What's going on here?" Lexi asked seeing the Raph and Donny huddled together.

"Ashley's alive." Raph said.

"How?"

"Don't know."

"Where is she?"

"Don't know that either."

"What do you know?"

"Besides that she's alive, nothing." Raph said annoyed by the question, before Lexi could say anything Raphs cell started ringing.

"Raph, it's me."

"Where are you?"

"Shredder's tower. Heavily guard."

"I'm coming to get you. Just hang on."

"NO! He's waiting for you."

"I don't care. I'm coming to get you whether he's waiting for me or not."

Raph heard a sign on the other end of the phone, "Just, be careful."

"You know I will." Raph said as the phone disconnected.

"Where is she?" Donny asked already knowing the answer.

"Shredder's tower. It's heavily guarded, and he's waiting for us."

"I know a way to get in there without him knowing it." Lexi said.

"No." Raph replied as he started to leave to find Leo.

"Why not?" She asked.

"I don't trust you."

Lexi sat on the kitchen counter as Jessica started making some food, watching as the guys made a rescue plan to save Ashley.

"You okay?" Jessica asked.

"Why doesn't he trust me? I saved his life several times, I let him in on things that no one else knew, and I trusted him to keep the others off my back while I did my own thing, but he still doesn't trust me." Lexi vented.

"Who doesn't trust you?"

"Raph. I could be helping them with this plan right now."

"Raph is quite a character, no one quite gets him and why he does things, not even his brothers."

"That still doesn't tell me why he doesn't trust me."

"We found you 5 years ago lying in the snow, beaten and left to die. When Donny found you he brought you back to the house and took care of you, Raph didn't think that was a good idea he would have wanted to leave you out in the snow to die and wouldn't tell anyone about it. When you woke up not knowing who you were, Raph didn't believe you, he still doesn't, and having the Foot and Purple Dragon's tattooed on your arm and shoulder doesn't help."

"But I have that other tattoo, the one with the dragon head and five stars. I just have to find them and get my answers."

Jessica signed, "You aren't getting my point."

"Then what is it?"

"He doesn't care if you're the good guy or the bad. All he cares about is that you worked with the enemy, and he thinks you're with them and planning on stabbing us I the back one day."

"What happened to me starting over, no matter what happened?"

"Just because his brothers agreed to it, doesn't mean he did."

"Will I ever gain his trust? Because it seems like if he trusts me then I might be included in every little thing they do."

"I don't know."

"I'm going out, if anyone cares."

Ashley sat in the cell waiting… Waiting for something to happen, and it's one of two things, the guys to come and save her or for Hun to walk her back to the dojo, to her death. She's been alive for two weeks, and for what, to join the foot to only be killed later on. She should have stayed dead. She shouldn't have been brought back. Something bad going to happen and it'll be because of her. The door to her cell opened, it was Hun.

"Come on. Time to go." He said as Ashley stood up and walked out.

When we arrived at the dojo she saw the guys, their arms and legs chained to the floor, and not a scratch on them.

"You did well Ashley. You brought them to me." Shredder said, "Go on, tell them I say the truth."

She avoided eye contact, "You told Kari to put that cell in my cellar. You knew I would call for help." She looked at Raph, "Why didn't you heed my warning? Why did you come for me?"

"Why wouldn't I come for the person I love?"

"You are a fool to think I would love you. You're nothing but a hothead and think only of yourself. You would never care about anyone." She lied, hoping Raph would catch on.

"What have they done to you?"

"Enough! I did not chain them so that you can have a coded conversation. Kill them." Shredder said handing me a dagger.

She took the dagger and walked up to Raph.

"Don't do this." He pleaded.

"Will you trust me? I know what I'm doing." She whispered.

"What's the hold-up Ashley?" Shredder asked.

"You know, I was thinking. What happens when you bring the dead back to life?" Ashley asked Shredder but looking into Raph's eyes.

"You make better choices." Shredder replied.

"No, supernatural things start to happen. And when supernatural things start to happen, someone ends up getting hurt."

"Good thing there's a microchip in that head of yours. One press of the button and you'll be in a world of pain." Shredder said as he pulled out the remote.

Raph's eye widen, he now knew that she was stuck, he knew that she had no choice, he knew she had to hurt someone, he knew it was going to be him.

"I gave you a warning, I told you not to come." she was close to tears, "I'm sorry." Ashley whispered as she thrust the blade into his side.

Raph grunted and acted as if it was nothing, but his face had pain written all over it. His brothers started to yank on the chains, trying to break free.

"You still have the other 3 Ashley. Finish the job." Shredder said.

She left the dagger in Raphs side and back away. Raph looked at me and gave me a nod.

"No, I can't. I won't."

"That's too bad." Shredder said pressing the button and watched as nothing happened.

"I told you, supernatural things would happen and someone would end up getting hurt over it. Your microchip, doesn't work anymore." She said turning around to face him.

"Even still, you can't beat me. I killed you once I'll do it again." He said then finding that he couldn't move, "What the-"

"Yeah, hi, we'll be doing this under my rules now." She said as the chains unlocked and dropped to the floor.

Leo went to help Raph up as Raph said, "Ashley lets go. We're done here."

"He has to pay Raph." Ashley replied getting ready to about snap Shredder's neck.

"And he will but not like this, not for revenge. Nothing good will come from this and you know it."

Ashley took a breath and gave a "force push" to Shredder into a pillar, knocking him unconscious. Then went to help Leo take Raph back to the Lair.

Donny walked out of his lab after patching Raph up and leaving him to rest.

"Don-" Ashley started only for him to cut me off.

"He's fine. He needs to rest but he'll live." He said frustrated, "I don't know what happened to you but that," He pointed to his lab were Raph was resting, "Shouldn't have happened."

"I had to do something, and in order for me to do that I had to get rid of that chip I had in my head."

"How do I know you had a chip in your head to begin with? How do I know you aren't playing us all?" He asked as Lexi walked behind him.

"You could trust me."

"After what you did to my brother, I won't."

"Donny-"

"No! Don't tell me it was the only way! There was another way, you just weren't paying attention." He said walking off to his bedroom.

"Um… Do you want some-"

"What was their plan Lexi?" Ashley asked cutting her off.

"I don't-"

"I know Don told you. What was it?"

"Me. I was to come in and create a distraction so you guys could get out."

She looked toward the ground while rubbing her forehead, "I'll be in the dojo if anyone needs me."