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" Waking up."

A three fingered hand gently lay swept across a plastron that slowly raised it self up and down, clearly showing that the person it belonged to was content.

Something had happened that night. Only a few words had either been uttered or spoken, the rest had gone by as when the conscious had been taken over by a more divine instinct.

The two turtles laid on the bed, almost lock into each other with legs and arms entangled.

" If only I had not been so stubborn…" a voice said.

" Don't blame yourself."

" I have too," the first voice said. " I was so stupid back then… with stupid ideas."

" You did it because you felt it was right, and I came to understand that… that's why I left."

Don turned around and looked at Raph. He moved his hand from the older turtle's plastron and moved it further up. " You act like you never left," he said. " you act like nothing ever happened…"

" I never left," Raph said raising his head to make eye contact with Don. Raph then raised his hand and touched his plastron where his heart was located beneath. " Perhaps my mind managed to shut out the memories, but THIS never did…"

" I thought I would be more than just mad at you, if I ever saw you again," Don said. " silly actually, especially due to how I reacted just now."

" Why?" Raph took Don's hand.

Don shook his head and looked away. " After Rose died I never thought I was going to experience more pain than back then, but then you left, never knowing if you were still alive or dead… you left in such a condition that could have made you a very easy prey for a wild beast or an enemy..." Don sighed. " I was so devastated once again… feeling what I had felt when she had died…"

" Don," raph took his face. " we agreed to let her memory lay. Forget about her…"

" Leo said the same thing about you too," Don then said.

Raph looked shortly shocked but then smiled.

" Leo was right for once then,"

Don looked down on their hands and Raph felt how he had hit a soft spot.

" You say you will leave again," Don whispered and let go of the hand Raph held and sat up with his shell to the turtle lying on the bed. " Dunno why I even bother to stay in here.,,"

Raph sat up and placed a hand on Don's shoulder and leaned his head over the other one.

" Because neither you or I can deny what fate have in store for us… that's also why I left," Raph said and turned Don back down on the bed. " If I could not have you, I could not see any other way they to get as far from you as possible…" he bended down and captured Don's lips and the younger turtle joined in to the kiss.

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Bishop knew that the creature was coming back now, so he placed the scalpel on the table once again and covered the two bodies on the tables. " Some other time then," he said and walked over to the entrance of the lab. He closed the door behind him and saw that he was all ready eyed by the strange creature, known as just; Epsilon.

The creature, which Bishop had named him, was only a child a mother could love, and even bishop had a hard time getting used to the horror of the creature's face. It was scaly and yet it had a beardlike facial hair and goat like eyes. He wore a simple armour to protect chest, arms and legs, and even though Bishop knew it, the creature was more human than mutant. But anything with scales and hair at the same time, was in his mind considered non-human, therefore he knew where his loyalty was.

As Epsilon stepped up behind bishop he said:

" They've seen the tape," he said.

" Good," Bishop said and turned around. " Then it wont be long before you have to get your men ready."

" Oh don't worry about that," Epsilon smiled so his long fangs of yellowish teeth could be seen. "They've been ready since the Assassin betrayed us."

" For how long is that exactly," Bishop asked." I cant remember what you said…"

" That is unimportant now," Epsilon said taking a sharp intake of air. " what I came to say also, is that when upon keeping an eyes on the Foot, one of my men discovered something…and since I have told you that the plan must not be changed, I also know that you are a man of science. "

" Yeah, and?" Bishop had hiss full attention on the ugly creature.

" You told me before that one of the turtles had a little romance with Karai, " Epsilon said. " and when my soldier came and reported to me, he told me something that might come to both our advantages…"

" What?" Bishop lifted his brows. " Speak out!"

" Karai is expecting," Epsilon said.

" She's what?" Bishop's brows lifted even more.

" She's pregnant." Epsilon said. "And it looks like it won't be long before the world will see a new species…"

" Send out one of your soldiers and bring her to me!" Bishop said folding his hands in anticipation.

Epsilon called upon a soldier dressed in black and gave him orders to bring back some 'prey'. "That will be done now," Epsilon said turning to Bishop.

"Excellent," the anti- alien agent said and looked with a smirk upon Epsilon. Perhaps this creature was a little useful after all.

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When Mona awoke the next morning, she could not help but to give a little silent giggle, when she saw how Mikey drooled. There was a little wet spot on the pillow he rested on. Mona reached out and dried the drool of the side of his mouth and leaned gently over and gave him a light kiss on his forehead. He had been wonderful last night, and even now Mona tried to calm down her body, that had been yearning and begging for him all night. She smiled when she remembered how gently he had been, and told her that he would not go any further than just kissing and cuddling before she turned sixteen. But oh my goodness, mona had beed so awfully tempted last night, that both her and mikey had had a hard time keeping to the promise. Deep inside mona felt ready for the big ride, and she wanted to so awfully much, bit mikey was the perfect gentleman belive or not, and he wanted her first time to be perfect.

Mona had occasionally wondered if Mikey had been with other women before, but when Leo and Don had begun to talk about Mikey's "riot days," just after Raph's disappearance act, there was no doubt by the fact that he had been a ladies man to all limits. But it had been after, Mikey began to have and eye on Nona, he himself had said, that he had changed back again. She had helped him to get back to his old self, just by being his little niece, a child that loved him and he could play with…. That was where there relationship and bond had begun to form.

Mona had not been very old, when she had found Mikey on the couch very sad and very tired. She had come to him and just sat down together him, and comforted him, and in the end felt a sleep next to him on the couch… and now she knew, that it was back then, when she had been no more than seven the bond had been formed. But it was not before she turned fourteen that they discovered their real love for one another. Yes, it had been there, but both of them had ignored the strange feeling or pushed it away…. Until they had been alone together under one of Mona's 'times'.

Mona remembered it so clearly.

When Mikey threw the pillow at her again, she had had enough. Just because he was bored, he had to take out on her! She had had enough of this stupid jokes and his irritating snore that had been there just a few minutes before when he was a sleep. She took the pillow and stood up from the lab table in the living area of the Lair and went over to Mikey with the pillow behind her.

" Mons?" he said and began to help himself get up to sit in the couch. He looked a bit scared. Perhaps due to the fact that this was one of Mona's most emotional 'times'. That rage, had Don often said, must be tackled probably, so remember to leave her alone. But Mikey had not left her alone, he had provoked her long enough. And when Mona reached the TV-area with youngest brother, Mikey began to make gulping sounds. " Mona! Now don't do anything stupid, all right?"

" Oh you have had it coming for so long, uncle Mike!" she growled and took the pillow forth and held it with to hands. " For how long are you able to keep your air inside?"

She was quick, very quick, but Mikey still had a good handle on his old ninjitsu skills and got away before Mona got to him with the pillow.

" GET BACK HERE MIKEY!" she yelled and jumped over the couch to run after the turtle.

Mikey was running to the stairs, and Mona was running after him in a surprisingly quick tempo, and she almost pushed Leo back to the wall when she ran past him. The older turtle was rather stunned, and then looked over at Don who was coming out from the lab with a tray of glasses, Mona was to use for her experiment. Both of them shook their heads and Don took it as a small lunch break and followed Leo out into the kitchen to let the 'kids' have a little time to ware their energy off.

Mikey ran to the dojo and tried to hide in the shadows, but Mona had seen him, and she ran straight at him throwing the pillow. Mike ducked and grinned. Mona now got even more furious and growled and proceeded to ran after him,but then suddenly Mikey's old skills failed him and he tipped over an old weight lift, and since Mona was running so fast herself, she fell too, and landed on top of her uncle.

Mona had a clinched fist ready to hit hard, and she raised it into the air as Mikey turned around. She had never hit him before, and nor was she going to do it now, because when their eyes met, and they both sat in the very intimate position ( Mona with her legs on each side of Mikey's waist), her fist stopped in the air.

Mikey himself reacting rather calm, but his eyes were fluttering until they reached hers. In that moment they were both very stunned. Mona lowered her fist, but did not move her brown hazel eyes from his baby blue, and then she sighed and fell forward to place her hands on the floor on each side of Mikey's head.

Mikey's hands were then placed on her knees and they slowly moved up to around her upper legs and shortly touched her but cheeks before they rested on her hips. Mona tried to open her mouth to let a little surprised moan escape, and suddenly they both leaned against each other to make their lips get captured in a loving kiss.

That was when their first kiss had happened, and Mona still remembered that very day she fell in love with Mikey. She and him had been through so many months of not knowing what to do about their discovery… it had been true heart ache just to be separated those first months, and doubts about how they had to handle their new relationship had lured in their heads all the time. But now it was settled, hopefully.

She caressed Mikey's cheek and could not believe that this wonderful turtle was now her true mate, her one and only. Mona yawned and then swung her legs out of bed and headed for a place where she needed to get some of the burden on her shoulders released.

She tripped over the darkness of the Lair, seeing that no one was awake yet, and she snug over to the last door closest to the stairs and knocked.

" Come in," a voice sounded.

Mona opened the door and stepped into the darkened room where splinter lay in his bed.

" Sensei, grandfather," she said.

Splinter sat up and eyed his granddaughter who came over to sit by his side.

" How are you feeling?" Mona asked as rhetorical question.

" Better, now that my grand daughter is here," Splinter smiled and returned the hug Mona leaned in to give him. "what brings you here this early in the morning my child?"

" I wanted to see how you were doing," she smiled and kissed his furry cheek.

" Very well," splinter smiled, and laid down his book, looking over the glasses on his snout. " I know that look."

Mona blushed lightly, she admitted to herself that she could not keep anything hidden from her grand father, and then she sighed taking his hand.

" I had a dream last night," she said. " dad says that you cannot tell anything from a dream, and even though he's always right, because he's so smart and all, I think that he might be a bit wrong about it this time…"

Splinter tipped his head to one side. " How so?"

" Well you see, grand, I had another dream about my mother," she said, knowing that splinter was the only one she could talk to about her mother. " and this time I think I actually got a glimpse of her!"

Splinter straightened his head asking his grand daughter with his eyes.

" You say that she was a turtle like the rest of us…"

Splinter nodded.

Mona continued.

" Dad told me something in anatomy class. Something about the a special system in the brain," Mona said. " he told me that when you grow up you can sometimes recall some memories of your childhood by smelling a familiar scent, which you have got in your early childhood, and then the brain registrates this and gives you an image back from that time you first got to know the smell. Something came to my mind, when uncle Raph returned home," she said and looked at her grand father. " and I know he left before I was born, but I was given his room right?"

" Yes, your father wanted you to have it," Splinter said shifting a bit uneasily in the bed.

" Did my mother also use to sleep in that room?" Mona asked.

Splinter looked quickly at Mona. He knew she was a clever and cunning girl and she used a lot of means to get to know some more about her mother. So splinter sighed, and took her hand.

" Your mother used to spend her night in different places;" Splinter said. " sometimes she also slept in Raph's room."

" Why?" Mona asked.

" The Lair does not have enough rooms, that is also why you have Raphael's old room," Splinter smiled and squeeze her hand. " and it seems to have affected you too…."

One of Mona's brows raised, she had no idea of what her grand father was talking about and thought that he was maybe a little delirious.

" What do you mean by 'affected' me?" Mona asked.

Splinter sighed again, he felt how his lungs tried to expand themselves as much as they could but it was not enough to get him the air he wanted, and he felt how weak he became. The illness was beginning to take him down piece by piece, and he himself knew that it would not be long before he had to leave.

" Anna- Mona my child, do you like flowers?" he asked.

" Well yeah, I guess so," she said. " it's not like I get to see them that much down here, but yes, they symbolise something more than the world I know down here. I like them."

Splinter took the picture down from his bed table and turned the frame. Mona watched as the old rat with the arthritis plagued hands began to take of the back side of the frame. He did it with much care and stiffness, but in the end he drew forth a picture behind the one that could be seen in the frame. Shortly he looked at the little photo and smiled before he handed it over to Mona.

" This," he said, while looking at Mona. " this was Mary-Rose," he said.

Mona took the picture and looked at the female turtle on it.

" Oh my," she said all stunned and short for words. " This is… was my mother?"

" Yes," Splinter said. " as you can see she was very beautiful."

Mona nodded and studied the picture. The female turtle looked a lot like her uncle's and father, except from the fact that she had a slender figure and very pale green almost yellowish skin. She wore a nothing but a scarf around her neck. Mona looked closer into the eyes of the turtle, and saw that her eyes were blue, like Mikey's.

A single tear swept down her cheek and she took the picture into her heart and looked at her grand father. " Can I keep it?"

" Then you must show it to no one but yourself," Splinter said firmly. " there's a reason for why I have not showed it to you before, Donatello did not like you to dwell at a thought of something you have not been acquainted with or had any relation too. Maybe she is your mother, but not by heart…"

" I understand," Mona replied. " thank you grand father."

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The picture Mona had got was now her most priced item. She had carefully placed it in her little notebook that she wrote in occasionally, and then hidden it away safely, before she had gone to find Mikey in his room.

She first checked the Lair, to see if there were any curious eyes watching her, and then she slid into her lover's room.

" Mikey?" she said coming inside.

Mikey hummed shortly and turned in the bed towards her. He rose up his arm to make space for her, and Mona took the invitation and crawled in under his protecting embrace.

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Leo opened his eyes by the sound of something he had not thought was possible. There was something familiar about the way the person, he knew was watching them, moved, and he sat up in the bed looking out into to darkness of the bedroom.

" Raph?" he said.

The answer came from out of the blue, and darted against Leo. Leo turned in a flash and grabbed the blade of the ninjaken between his hands, and held it steady.

" Who are you!?" he asked the intruder in front of him, he could clearly see by the shape that it was not a mutant turtle.

There came no answer, but a snarl from the attacker, and Leo called for Karai to wake up. Immediately she grabbed her own ninjaken and got to her feet as quick as she could due to the big belly.

" Leonardo!" she yelled, and saw him stride against the stranger dressed in black. As Karai made herself ready for an attack, she noticed that the black dressed man in fact had a long bushy tail swirling around him. It was grey and hairy and filled with scales, and was just about to take a turn to the right, when Karai ran to help her lover. She pushed the intruder away, and went for his tail, which she missed by an inch. She growled, and prepared herself for another attack.

It all happened so fast that Leo did not have time to get to his own ninjakens before Karai was hit by a quick hand from the intruder and fell on the floor on her belly.

Leo roared and ran to Karai, but the intruder came up in front of her, and once again attacked Leo. But this time Leo was more ready, and slowly he began to find out which techniques the dark dressed person used.

He himself had long ago started to improve his ninja skills after he become leader of the Foot, and it just meant, that now he had a bit of competition when this sudden new enemy had come to attack them without an explanation. But to mess with Leonardo was not something you should do.

Even though Leo felt that the intruder was very skilled, he had him down in no time and with one last strike, the ninjaken went through the abdomen of the dark dressed intruder. He fell to the floor and Leo immediately ran to Karai. He took her in his arms and turned her around to hear that she was murmuring.

" Are you okay, Karai?" he asked holding her tight.

" Yeah," she said and looked at the dead intruder.

" We need to get you to the Lair," Leo said holding a hand on her belly. " Don needs to have a look at you."

" Who was he?" Karai starred at the body on the floor.

Leo did not answer but he had on the feeling that one man, with the name of a certain priest, was to blame.

A/N: I know, there's been way too much cuddling and making up and stuff, but I promise you all; in the next many chapters we will see some more ACTION!! ( and some more answers to all my twisted secrets ;))

" Mary- Rose" is an experiment from a time when Bishop and Stockman worked together on creating a 'soldier' with special abilities, such as seduction…. But if you think that " Mary-Rose" is going to play a major part in this, then think again. I've all ready planned this story from start to end, and as I've said before, I am not very fond of too many OC's…

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