Raphael sighed as he flipped through the channels on the television. Barely here half an hour and the turtle was already bored out of his mind. Finally standing to go to the bathroom, movement caught his eye in one of the open rooms, the source being Evangeline hopping up and down in attempt to reach a bottle from the top shelf of a bookcase she used for supplies. Deciding that more than likely she would still be there when he returned, Raphael found the bathroom and relieved himself first.

"Alright, now what's that yer'tryin' ta reach-" Raph began to ask but paused when standing in the doorway. Somehow, without making the shelf fall, Evangeline had scaled up the front, balancing one foot on a shelf, the other on the edge of a tank just within her reach, and hung onto a corner to the left, successfully grabbing the bottle before making a graceful drop to the floor, perfectly landing on her feet.

Deciding not to stick around for his own mental health, Raph went straight back to the T.V. Around twenty minutes later, he saw her travel to the kitchen and begin shuffling through the cabinets, most likely to fix dinner. This was as good a time if there was one. Raphael strode over to sit at the bar, watching her work. Damn, now what? What was he suppose to ask or say?

"So, uh, what's cookin'?"

Smooth, real smooth Raph.

"Just some goulash, nothing that will take long" Eva replied, her voice having mostly recovered from the damage her throat took, making it softer and much more quiet than before. It would have been difficult to hear her had Raphael not had sensitive ears already.

The turtle nodded, trying to think of what to say or ask next, but for some reason her presence just made everything awkward! It sort of felt like being around Donnie or Leo when they were being quiet or trying to work on something. Movement suddenly caught Raphael's attention as a mouse scampered from behind a spice jar on the counter. Just as Raph was opening his mouth to say something, Evangeline's hand shot out, her fingers flattening down on the rodent's tail with a loud 'SLAP'. It wasn't really the fact the female had just caught a mouse by the tail that made the turtle freeze, it was the look in her eyes. They starred at the little creature from the very corners of her vision, dark, and reflecting something dangerous, predatory.

"Uh, what are you gonna do with that?" Raphael asked stiffly, watching Evangeline put the mouse in a tupplewear bowl.

"I'll release it outside after dinner. I can't give it to my snakes or it might make them sick" she replied, pouring Raph a bowl before making one herself.

They ate in silence, and after the mouse had been let free, Eva had decided to go to bed. Raphael stuck around for around another hour before heading back to the lair where his brothers were training as usual. They all paused when seeing their brother's return, greeting him with hello's and welcomes, that is, except for Leo.

"Anything?"

Everything Raphael had seen and experienced that night seemed to hit the adult turtle all at once.

"A cat Leo. She's a god damned cat" Raphael stated firmly, pushing past, mumbling something about needing more sleep.

"Seems like Raphael didn't get anywhere either" Donnie commented as Mikey went off to catch some sleep also.

"I'll take the next watch tomorrow. I want to actually find reasons we can trust this girl" Leo stated before walking off toward his own room.

Donatello took his time, all the while thinking about his own approach to the matter should Leo fail.

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The blue masked turtle, Leonardo, had arrived around the time Evangeline was starting her rounds with feeding her own animals, which was around 2pm. The young woman had begun to adjust to them being in her house since Michelangelo and Raphael basically kept to themselves, however that seemed to be completely different with this Leonardo character. Every room she ventured to, he was right there! Not, thankfully, right on top of her, but the turtle stayed standing against a nearby wall, watching the girl like a hawk. Frankly, Eva didn't like it at all!

His quiet stare was unnerving as the day went on, making her otherwise steady hands shaky and off balance as she tried to feed all of the animals according to her schedule. This resulted in multiple missed strikes, some nips and even harsh bites from the baby snakes on the second floor. This continued until they were forced to travel down to the first floor some hours later.

Evangeline had, had to skip feeding most of the babies on the previous floor due to her hands being so sore from all the bite marks. She'd had enough. The young woman strode across the room, Leo in tow of course, until reaching the desired terrarium, opening the top. Reaching fearlessly under a log that was set up like a cave, one of many, Evangeline pulled put the Goliath Bird Eater Tarantula that had been recently dropped into her care due to the previous own becoming too fearful of its size and bite.

"Damn, I forgot the holding container upstairs" Eva acted, cursing aloud before turning to Leo, "Here. Hold her while I go get it"

She gave hum no time to protest as she planted the spider on his crossed arm but before Leo's instincts to swat it off kicked in, her next words stopped him.

"Don't make any sudden moves to harm her, if she feels afraid she may bite and I can't take you to the hospital for anti-venom" Evangeline warned, fighting back a grin when the spider began to crawl up the turtle's arm toward his head, "She likes you"

"That's wonderful, now please take her off" Leo stated nervously, his eyes following the tarantula all the way to his scalp. The leader of the ninja turtles stood frozen in place, completely unnerved.

"Just wait here, I'll be right back with the critter keeper to put her in until I'm done" the young woman reassured the turtle before scurrying upstairs. While there she continued where she was forced to leave off with the young reptiles, also finding time to try and sex some that were ready for a gender check. As much as Eva hated to do it, the female was trying to avoid downstairs until Leo had to leave.

So far, Evangeline wasn't crazy on this Leonardo character's act toward her space and privacy. She hoped that the fourth brother wasn't so uptight and overbearing as this one. Sighing heavily after finally checking the time, Eva grabbed a keeper box from the storage cabinet and went downstairs, finding that Leonardo hadn't so much as twitched from the position she had left him in.

"Sorry, I had to finish checking on the assisted feeds and I couldn't find the critter box" she stated, not technically lying, before reaching to remove the spider ad put her in the box. Eva threw on some raised eyebrows when glancing at the clock on the wall.

"Holy shit, its already 8:50, you'd better get going"

Leo stood there for what seemed like an eternity, his sharp eyes boring into hers, narrowed thin. Evangeline only returned the gaze, both well aware of what the other had tried to do. The victor here, was obvious. The turtle said nothing as he left the female standing with the venomous spider in her small hands.