The letter H was on of the first letters to get a word. I think A was the first.

Anyway, I'd just like to give a special thank you to everyone that has reviewed this story. I know you've heard this before, but I really do appreciate it and it still excites me to see a review in my inbox.

Disclaimer: Today I started the process of officially declaring my major. I realized that, since my major has absolutely nothing to do with the Ninja Turtles, I have further diminished my chances of owning them in this lifetime. M(college)LIA.


H is for Hands:

Their hands don't fit well together. It makes situations like this a little stressful.

Apparently, even the heaviest of the ninja turtles can bounce just enough to go over the low edge of a roof.

None of the Turtles really believe in God, but whenever something like this happens, they all find themselves thinking, "Please, please, please, God, please just let me-"

Then Leo is squeezing his hand so hard he swears his fingers are going to break and he'll let go and just fall, fall, fall until he lands. They're high up, and he wonders if he'd ever hit the ground. He keeps waiting for Don to start telling him about the law of gravity, but then he remembers that Don is on the solid ground of the roof fighting for his life.

He doesn't like that he isn't available to watch his back, he doesn't like that he was the only one to fall off the roof, and he especially doesn't like the strain that's evident on Leo's face. Leo is strong, but not as strong as he is. Suspending him must be incredibly difficult.

Their hands are slick with sweat and he can feel himself slipping.

Leo grips him tighter and swears through clenched teeth. If they had a couple more digits- Donnie sometimes go off about homologous structures and how normal turtles have five claws so why don't they have five fingers and blah, blah, blah- but they don't have more digits, and this whole situation is really starting to suck. Then there's a familiar nunchaku in his face and a voice saying, "Grab the 'chuck bro!", and even though his hands are big and kinda awkward and missing a couple of digits, they do a good enough job of grabbing the 'chuck.

After he's been pulled up and over the ledge by a very haggard looking Leo and a grinning Mikey, he finds himself thinking that he likes his hands and homologous structures and evolution can kiss his mutated ass.


This one simultaneously pleases me and upsets me. This wasn't the original concept, but it's so frustratingly close to the original that I can't help but like it. Like, homologous structures? Yeah, that wasn't originally in there (it's true though, according to evolution the Turtles should have five fingers). It's up there on my favorite list, fo' sho' fo sho'. I've realized that I write in a different style from my norm when I write from this perspective, and I think I like it.

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