I do not own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I only own Dawn, Michael, and Mr. Howell.

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After the tug of war ended, the guys and April started telling me what to do and what not to do now that the Foot were after me. My life was over and I was supposed to hide in April's apartment until the Foot decided they did not need to kidnap me.

"Well that sounds like fun, I'll become a hermit," I muttered before burying my face in one of the couch cushions. "I appreciate this though," I said quickly with a smile before lying my head back down onto the couch cushion.

"Don't worry about it, just stay safe here with April. We need to go patrol so we'll check on you either later tonight or tomorrow," Leo said as he stood up and headed towards the window with the fire escape.

"I will miss you," Mikey yelled before Raph gave him a small shove out of the window and onto the fire escape.

"Stay here," Raph said before he disappeared and Donnie followed him with a laugh and a wave. April looked over at me before holding up some ingredients to make some food. I happily jumped up to help. I needed to do something to get my mind off the fact that some ninja clan could have possibly kidnapped me earlier today.

Staying with April would not be that big of a deal. Her explaining to Mr. Howell was surprisingly taken well after he found out that someone had tried to break into his house and take me away. He was adamant that I stay with April until nobody was trying to take me away, which there was no way of knowing when that would be.

However, staying at April's place and only inside of April's place was starting to drive me insane and I needed to get out of the apartment before I truly went crazy. April had been hesitant to let me even look outside of the front door just to see something different from outside the windows or in her apartment.

The guys were not told that I wanted to at least walk around but I could tell that they could sense I was getting a little sick of being stuck in one place. Leo or Raph would always remind me though that the Foot Clan were still looking for me, but at this point I just wanted a baseball bat and a can of mace so I could just go outside armed.

Today was one of those days where I was going insane and craving at least to go down to the street below. It was not like I was demanding to go blocks away, just out of the apartment building. April once again seemed hesitant but after being stared down by my pleading look for an hour she gave in. "Finally," I thought in relief when I saw April give a small nod.

"I need to run to the market anyways so you can come with me, but you are going in disguise," she said seriously and I just gave a big nod happily. I would wear a big duck costume if it let me get outside of this apartment.

April led the way to her room and straight to her closet. She pulled out a tan trench coat and a big black hat with some black sunglasses to match. "Isn't that a bit much?" I asked and she looked at it before laughing.

"Sorry, the guys wear stuff like this all the time so guess I just thought you'd want to wear it too," she said and we just shared a laugh before she put away everything except the sunglasses.

"Let me help," I said and we went through her closet. We finally decided on some of her old sweatpants with a big hoodie and some of her running shoes. I put everything on and put up the hood on the sweater before slipping on the sunglasses.

"Perfect, oh and walk like a guy too, it'll help be a disguise," she said and I just shook my head with a laugh before realizing that I did look a bit like a guy in this. Thankfully, the glasses were not too girly so they would not look out of place. April helped me hide my hair in the hoodie and soon we were on our way to the market.

Walking down the street felt like paradise to me after being stuck in that apartment for so long. I knew the guys would not be happy about me being outside but I cannot stay caged up forever. Once the two of us got closer to the market, I split up from April a bit. She could still see me but I did not want to be right next to her just in case someone from the Foot Clan was walking around the market and derived a conclusion and figured out whom I was.

I knew a few things to grab for April but she had the list so she would get most of the groceries we needed. I was mostly roaming around and enjoying the market. The market was busier than the last time I was here. The crowd made me a little uneasy but I just kept a relaxed walk even though I was trying my best to walk like a guy without looking weird.

Gathering the few groceries was not a big deal but I did start to get a bad feeling as if I was being watched as I looked around for April. I saw a flash of her hair before she disappeared behind the crowd. The bad feeling grew when I saw a few guys stepping out of the crowd towards me and I tried to keep relaxed as I turned to the side so I could still see them but so I would look to them as if I was not paying attention to them.

"Grab her," I heard one of the guys whisper and I slung around the plastic basket I was carrying and smacked one of the guys in the face. "We can't let her get away," another one of the guys yelled angrily as I took off running through the market.

"What do I do?" I thought as I ran around the market and finally I saw April. I grabbed her wrist and she yelled in shock before I pulled her behind a stand and put a hand over her mouth. "Shh, they know I'm here. What do we do?" I whispered before uncovering her mouth after she realized who I was.

"You can't go back to the apartment, they know by now you're staying with me and you can't stay there anymore. You need to go stay with the guys, I'll stay with Casey until the Foot clan stops sniffing around my place," April said and I just gave her a small nod. Adrenaline was still coursing through my veins as I peeked over the stand we were using to hide us. The coast was clear but there was no telling how long it would stay that way.

"Here is the directions to their place, take this flashlight, yes I keep flashlights on hand so don't give me that look," April said as she handed me a piece of paper and a flashlight while I gave her a confused expression about the flashlight. "The guys will let you stay just hurry ok, run as fast as you can till you get to that manhole and then make your way to the guys' place as fast as you can," April said as she gave me a small reassuring smile even though I could see how worried she was.

"Be careful," I whispered before she said she would cause a distraction in the market. I watched for a few moments as her distraction turned into her accusing one of the guys that was chasing me earlier as a thief. The other people in the market were not too happy about that and I took that moment to run out of the market and back towards a few blocks away from April's apartment.

My heart was pounding quickly as I raced through the streets and received a few horns honked at me by upset drivers that almost hit me. I was not going to stop for anything. I had to get somewhere safe. A curse left me as I tripped over some uneven sidewalk and I fell down scraping the bottom of my hands. I jumped up as quickly as I could before continuing to run. Relief hit me when I found the manhole April told me that I would need to use. The flashlight was on after I removed the manhole and I quickly slipped onto the ladder before covering the sewage entrance back up with the manhole.

I was grateful for the flashlight as I reached the bottom of the ladder and pulled out the directions. "This is going to be interesting," I muttered before hissing when the end of the paper touched one of the scrapes on the bottom of my hands.