Hey people
I am so sorry it's taken me forever to update I've been busy working on my story 'through the swirly portal', if any of you guys are transformers fans look it up.
Little update to story, after watching some of the recent episodes I've realised it it never gonna be donniexapril, so I'm changing it to aprilxcasey and Donniexoc, so any donniexapril lovers please don't hate, I want to keep this story to run alongside the episodes. So no flames.
But please review, follow and favourite,
Lexi: come on you know you want to
Me: what are you doing here?
Lexi: you were taking forever to update so we came to see what was taking so long
Me: oh…wait we?
Mikes: yo dudettes what's happening
Raph: I really don't want to be here -.-
Donnie: your not ill are you, you were gone for ages
Me:* sigh* I'm fine guys just got a little caught up in another project… Where's Leo?
Lexi: crap I've left him alone, gotta go people
Me: mikey will you do the honours please
Mikey: li0ness95 under no circumstances owns the turtles, now onwards with the chapter *fist bumps into the air*
Chapter 3: going home
Normal POV:
It's been almost a week since Lexi found Leo down at the docks and every second has been spent with them together, Lexi was lucky because she had spring break, meaning she could hang out with Leo, and the more she hung out with him the more she learnt that she had a lot in common with him for example drawing, both Leo and Lexi could draw and so when Lexi had to leave for occasional errands and snack stops she gave Leo her extra drawing pad to keep him busy. She also found out his love for the old show space heroes, which she had the whole series of. They spent a whole day watching the show and by the evening Lexi had introduced the turtle to the Internet and the world of fanfiction, to say Leo was excited about it was an understatement.
It was the sixth day and Leo was finally standing on his own, it turns out his ankle was worse then they actually realised and took longer for Leo to put pressure on it, his walking was much better as he only stumbled a couple of times a much better improvement than earlier that week.
Leo was extremely worried about his family, he didn't have his t-phone on him and even if he could use Lexi's phone he couldn't as he didn't know their numbers by heart, he's also been housebound by Lexi until he was stable enough to walk without help. He couldn't help but wonder if they were alright, did they get out of the ship ok? Where any of them hurt? And more importantly did they think he was dead?
"Your family will be fine Leo stop worrying" Lexi said as she entered the lounge, with a large cup of tea for Leo, he smiled warmly before taking the mug
"Thanks" he said before taking a big gulp "I should be able to leave tonight right?" He asked,
"well as long as you don't put to much force on your foot, especially the fancy jumps you can leave in a minute if you want" Lexi replied with as she began drinking from her mug of tea, Leo looked up in surprise
"Really?" He asked excitedly
"Yep, however I need to ask you of a favour first" Lexi asked as she sat down slowly on the sofa and patted the space next to her, indicating for Leo to sit down as well. Leo placed his now empty mug on the table and sat down, placing his right hand on her shoulder
"What's wrong" he asked, Lexi sighed before continuing
"I don't want you to tell your brothers about me" she said "just hear me out" she then said before Leo could reply. Leo closed his mouth before mutely indicating for Lexi to continue
"Don't get me wrong you are totally amazing and I still want us to be friends more than anything else but I still have a responsibility to Nix, Evie and Jessie, they are my little sisters I don't want them getting involved…just yet. I know that because I helped you at some point I'm going to be dragged into this and so will my sisters, most likely if I know what they are like, and I want to delay that point for as long as possible. The reason I don't want you to tell your brothers is because it would be easier if they didn't know About me until the times right and with less people knowing me the longer it would be before I'm dragged into all of this.
And I'm not saying I don't want to be involved because you're my friend and if your ever in trouble I will be there but I'm just asking to please not talk about me until it's the right time, please Leo" Lexi begged as she took Leo's much larger hands into her smaller hands and looked him directly in the eyes, Leo stared at her before sighing
"Fine, I won't tell my brothers but I need to tell splinter, he's my father I can't lie to him" Leo said, he knew he could probably get away with lying about to what happened to his brothers but his father was an entirely different story, Lexi's smile faltered a bit when Leo mentioned his father but she could understand why it's important
"I think I can handle with your father knowing" Lexi replied with before wapping her arms around Leo's neck and giving him a hug, Leo froze a sec, unsure about what to do before wrapping his arms around her body and hugging her back.
"I should probably head off now" Leo said as he let go of Lexi and stood up and grabbed his gear that was lying on the table, he hadn't wore his gear for the week that's he's been at Lexi's and so it felt slightly weird wearing it again, Lexi got up as well and made her way to the window by the fire exit
"You have my number so text me when your home so I know your ok" Lexi said " oh and no fancy jumps" she said as pointed at him in a scolding matter, Leo placed his hands up in surrender and laughed
"Don't worry, I'll be careful ok" Leo said reassuringly as he slowly climbed out of the window, he looked back at Lexi for the last time before climbing down the fire escape and made his way to the closest manhole
"Oi Leo!" Said turtle heard his name being called and looked back towards Lexi again "let me know when your ankle is 100% again, I want to see how good your ninjutsu is" Lexi said as she leaned out of her window and looked down at the turtle, Leo laughed
"Haha, then prepare to lose" he yelled back before he jumped down the manhole cover, Lexi also laughed before grumbling to herself "I said no jumping, Baka". She entered her lounge again and went to get her keitou tachi sword "better start practicing" she said to her self before climbing on to the fire escape and making her way to the rooftops.
-with Leo—
It's been about fifteen maybe twenty minutes of walking before Leo saw the familiar turnstalls that signalled he was nearly home, Leo at this point was supporting himself against the wall as his ankle had soon started to ache. "Damn it" he growled to himself "just a little more" he kept repeating, when he reached the said turnstalls he carefully pushed through and entered his home.
"Hello!" He called out, it's awfully quiet he thought to himself, the lab door was open so he could see that Donnie was not in there, he couldn't hear the familiar noise of Raph punching his punching bag and he definitely couldn't hear Mikey at the TV with his video games "Hello!" He called out a little this time as he hobbled to the kitchen in search of some painkillers, his ankle was really starting to hurt
"Leonardo"
Leo turned around when he heard his name to become facing his father, he rubbed the back of his neck "hey..sensei" he chuckled nervously, out of all his family members he was most worried about how splinter would react but suddenly he was engulfed in a big hug
"My son" he heard Splinter say "your alright, but how?" Splinter asked as he let his son go to have a good look at him, he instantly noticed the new wounds that littered his body and noticed that many of them have been carefully looked after, meaning Leo had someone help him, and he especially noticed how his son was currently favouring his left leg to stand on, splinter frowned "how badly hurt" he asked
"nothing major, very shallow cuts and a busted ankle, other than that it was bruises" leo answered
"And who looked after your wounds?" splinter then asked as he went to fetch the painkillers for Leo
Leo gulped before answering " umm…well…I can't really say, I promised that I wouldn't tell my brothers" he started, splinter noticed how nervous his son was
"Do not worry about your brothers, they are on patrol and won't be back for a while" he sighed before continuing "they keep going down to the docks after what happened, hoping to find you but came back empty handed each time, now take a seat and start from the beginning" Splinter said as he pointed to one of the kitchen chairs, Leo sighed as he sat down and told splinter everything that happened, well everything that he could remember as at the beginning he had spent a bit of that time unconscious, so he wasn't sure about what actually happened.
Splinter stroked his whiskers in thought about what Leo had told him about this Lexi girl, someone else who knows the art of ninjutsu and comes from Japan himself, he was instantly grateful when he heard that the girl had helped his eldest son and looked after him until he was able to get home again, he also understood the girl when Leo had told him about the favour, normally it would be them asking if they can keep the secret but this time it was the human was asking to be kept as a secret, he really wanted to meet this girl
"Would it be possible for me to meet this girl myself" Splinter asked Leo as he watched his son take a sip from his cup of tea, Leo almost dropped it in shock
"Uhhh… I'm not sure let me ask" Leo said as he went to his room quickly and got out the spare t-phone he had, Donnie had given them all spares in case something ever happened to the original* hint,hint,nudge,nudge* Mikey, he also pulled out the piece of paper from his pocket, that had Lexi's number on it before heading back to the kitchen to text her
-hey it's Leo, don't worry back safely. Quick question though, I've told my father about you and he wants to meet you, is that ok?-
He placed the phone on the table and had to only wait a few minutes before his phone vibrated
-should have guessed he would of wanted to me, I don't mind, how about we meet at my flats rooftop in a few days time around midnight?-
Lexi had replied with, Leo smiled before he turned to his father "she's says that ok and would it be ok if we met her at midnight at the rooftops in a few days time?" Leo asked, splinter smiled
"That would be just fine, I'm looking forward to meeting her" splinter replied with, Leo grinned before texting back
-sure that would be great, talk to you later-
Just as Leo pressed the send button he started to hear voices approaching the lair, Splinter was silently thinking before smiling a little
"My son" he said as he turned to his eldest child "I believe your brothers do not know your back yet, let's give them a surprise" he said, Leo chuckled before he went and hid behind his father making sure that his brothers wouldn't see him. Leo was quiet as he heard his brothers enter the lair
"My sons, how was it?" He heard Splinter ask the others, there was a pregnant pause before Donnie spoke up first "nothing…again, we're never gonna find him" Donnie said softly, Mikey was on the verge of tears as he truly didn't want to believe that his oldest brother might be possibly gone forever, Leo felt guilty at how upset his brothers were and just wanted to hug his baby brothers but he didn't want to reveal himself…just yet anyway.
"gah! It's my fault he's gone" he heard Raphael shout, Leo's eyes widened when he heard his brother "I should have stayed with him, to the very end, he still might be here" he heard raph continue to say.
"Maybe" said splinter "or we might have lost two family members if you also had stayed with Leo"
Raph sighed "I was such a jerk to him, and a really bad brother yet he still protected us and because of that he's dead, if I could repeat life I wouldn't have been such a jerk to him" Raph finished, as he placed his face in his hands in defeat, Leo decided it was time to make himself known and stepped from behind Splinter so he was facing his brothers, both Donnie and Mikey were looking at Raph so they had yet to notice him.
"You really mean that otouto" he asked as he looked over to Raph and crossed his arms
"Oh course Leo, you're my only big br….wait Leo?!" Raph asked in shock as he looked confusedly at his older brother, who was standing there looking smugly
"Aww, you do care" Leo said teasingly, the other three turtles looked in shock before Mikey was the first to shake out of it and went and glomped his brother
"Dude! Your ok" he said as he cried tears of joy, Leo hugged him back "of course" Leo said "who else is gonna save your tail when you get in trouble"
"But how?" Donnie asked, slightly confused at what was going on, Leo looked over to sensei before answering "I ended up further along the river and managed to pull myself out, but I completely busted my right ankle and didn't have my t-phone so I couldn't get a hold of you guys, that and I was completely exhausted so I spent pretty much the whole time sleeping and gathering my strength before I was able to make the journey back home a few minutes ago" he Lied. Well it wasn't a complete lie he told himself, just slightly bending the truth.
"We need to celebrate" said Mikey as he finally let go of Leo
"Why don't you get yourselves some Pizza and on the way knock on miss O'neil, I'm sure she'll want to hear the good news" splinter said as he headed back towards the dojo
"Yes, pizza time" said Mikey as he ran towards the entrance of the lair, Donnie sighed "why don't you two stay here and me and Mikey will get the food" Donnie said as he pointed to Raph and Leo before heading off, Leo watched in amusement but then frowned as he looked over to Raph who hasn't said a thing yet.
"Raphie?" Leo asked, using the old nickname they gave Raph before placing a hand on his shoulder "you alright?" Leo asked, then sighed before he continued to talk "okay okay your mad I don't blame you, if you want I'll let you have a free punch at me for…" Leo was stopped as Raph moved and then tightly hugged his brother, his head nestling into Leo's neck. Leo was a little unsure on how to act, his hotheaded brother never really show emotions before
"Don't ever do that again" he herd Raph mumble, Leo sighed as felt tears against his neck, he reached up and started to rub the back of his brothers shell in an effort to comfort him. "I thought your were gone forever, it all changed. Mikey was always crying and Donnie just didn't do anything, you left and everything fell apart…I didn't know what to do, I was scared" Raph continued, Leo's eyes widened when he realised how scared Raph really was, if that was him in that situation he probably would be in the same state
"Don't worry, otouto, I'm not going anywhere" he said reassuringly, Raph let go of Leo and wiped his face of the tears
"Good cos if you ever do something like tha' again, Imma bring you back from the dead kill you myself" Raph threatened, as playfully punched Leo in the arm "and if you ever tell the others what happened here, I will deny everything" he said as he pointed to Leo, Leo smiled and wrapped his arm over Raph's shoulder
"Sure thing bro, now how about a video game before Mikey gets back and hogs it" Leo said as he nodded towards the TV, Raph smirked "your on" he said as they headed towards the TV. Splinter watched from the shadows at his two oldest sons and smiled softly 'the family is back together again' he thought before heading towards the dojo thinking about the previous events 'Lexi Bennett' he thought 'now why do I know that name' he decided to meditate on the matter.
okay people I'm done for the night and so I hope this chapter makes up for taking so long for me to update.
Raph: -swings sai-" now review! Before I stick this sai where the sun don't shine
Me: RAPHAEL! We do not threaten the audience, if they want to review they can if they want
Raph: -mumbles something-
Lexi: -swings sword dangerously near Raph- what was that?
Raph: Grrrr, none of business
-Lexi tackles Raph and they start fighting and destroying my lounge—
Me: -face palms- why me. LEO! Lexi and Raph are fighting again
Leo: again
Me: get them out before I make sure they die horrible deaths in this story -.-
Leo: -holds hands up in surrender, the makes way to the fighting duo, grabs Lexi's ear and Raph's bandanna tails and starts to drag them away
Raph & Lexi: ow Leo that hurts
Me: -sighs- finally, okay Mikey, Donnie you want to finish for me please
Mikey and Donnie: please by the totally awesome readers that you are and review, follow and favourite our story please
Mikey: or don't bother if it's too much of a hassle
Donnie: don't say that , we want them to –hits Mikey round the head-
Mikey: ouch, why you…
-Mikey and Donnie start fighting –
Me: LEO!
Li0ness95 out
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