Cristen walked into the lobby of the building and was meet with a friendly face. The doorman Mr. Welman smiled at her knowingly.

"There you are. Georgia was getting worried for a second there, almost called the cops. But I told her, that girl is fine. Probably with those friends she spends so much time with."

"Yep that's were I was sir." She answered. "Thank you for keeping her from calling the fuzz."

He chuckled as the elevator doors opened.

"Never doubted it. Have a nice night."

"You to." She replied as the doors shut. She pressed the highest button and watched as the numbers changed. When the door finally opened no one was around. The room had been cleaned and most of the heavy furniture was still intact. The room was dark and the only source of light was from down the hall. She walked towards Georgia's office and knocked as she slid in. Georgia looked up from her paper work and stared at her in shock. What happend next shocked her. Georgia came up and gave her a hug.

"Thank God that doorman was right."

She pulled back and ran her hands over her face checking for any signs of harm.

"Are you all right? Where did you go? Why didn't you call? Are you wearing color contacts?"

"I'm fine. I went to my friends house. I'm sorry I didn't call I should have."

She avoided the contacts question and was grateful when Georgia let it go. Georgia pulled away and sat back in her chair.

"Well, thats all in the past now. All that matters is that your all right."

An awkward silence filled the room as Cristen struggled on what to say next. She was saved when Georgia spoke up.

"I have good news." She said shuffling some of her papers.

"Oh really. What?" Cristen asked relived she didn't have to carry in conversation.

"I got a call this morning from an old colleague. I'm going to be doing some work in South America for a while and I wouldn't want you to stay here by yourself with all the renovation that have to be , I've arranged for you to stay in with Oroku Saki and his daughter. They're here in New York and you don't have to change schools or anything. Doesn't that sound like fun."

Cristen nearly threw up. Karai had sold her out to her dad and know they were after her.

"Um...yeah but um when are you leaving exactly."

Georgia have her a stern look.

"You know how I feel about the word um. I thought that you had grown out of that. But I'm leaving in two days. Tommorow after school, Saki will send someone to fetch you and I'll send your stuff later."

Tomorrow. There was no way that she was going to go with them. Shredder was going to use her to get to the turtles. Karai knew that and she told him anyway. She really had changed.

"Would you be a dear and start to pack up your things." Georgia said. Turnin back to her work. Cristen nodded and quickly dashed to her room. She immediately pulle out her t-phone and called the number 1 person on her speed dial.

"Raph?" She asked desperately.

"Yeah. Is everything ok. Is Georgia not home?"

"No she is. But that's not what I needed to tell you."

"Then what-"

"Georgia's sending me to Shredder."

"What?!"

"S-she said that she didn't want me to be here by myself s-so she sending me to live with them." Cristen had started shaking and the severity of the situation was setting in.

"When?" Raph asked.

"T-tomorrow." She was full on crying now. She had no idea what she was supposed to do.

"Tomorrow? That's it. Hold on I'm coming to get you."

"No!" She yelled into the phone. "No you can't. I just. I'll come to the Lair tomorrow instead of school. Ok."

Raph was silent for a moment before responding.

"Fine. Be here by 8 or I'll come looking for you."

"Ok." She said. "See you then."

They hung up and she layed back on her bed. Wiping her tears she started to pack a duffle bag. She didn't know how long she would be at the lair and wanted to be prepared. She took a shower and got into bed praying that everything would be alright.

The next morning she woke up and went down for breakfast like she normally did. She didn't want Georgia to become suspicious of anything. Just as she finished Georgia walked in.

"Oh great I caught you before you left. I was thinking that I could take you to school this morning. Since I won't be seeing you for a while after today."

Cristen started to panic again. If she took her to school that would delay her. She wouldn't get to the lair in time and Raph would come looking for her.

"No. That's not necessary." She quickly said.

"Nonsense I'll be ready in five." Georgia said picking up an apple and walking out. Cristen tried to come up with an excuse but couldn't come up with one good enough for Georgia. Ten miniutes later she was sitting in the back of one of her cars on the way to her doom.

"Remember to be polite and respectful. Mr. Saki didn't have to do this for you."

"Yes ma'am ."

They finally got to the school and After saying goodbye Cristen dashed out. She pretended to be going inside until Georgia was gone and then took of down the street. She checked her phone 8:10. She was late. She ran down an alley that she knew would get her there quicker, but as soon as se turned the corner she was meet with a group of foot ninjas. She turned to run the other way and more jumped down behind her. They slowly started to close in on her and she dropped her bags to get in a stance. She wasn't going down with out a fight. Get as the first foot went to strike her he was taken out from the back. As he fell Raph stood behind him sai's raised.

"You're late." He said as he started to fight off the foot.

"Sorry." She choked out. She felt something come up behind her and on instict turned and punched them as hard as she could. As her arm wound up it glowed slightly and with a blast, they stumbled back. Raph who somehow hadn't seen gave them a blow that knocked them out.

"Nice one. Now lets go."

She looked around to see everyone of the foot on the ground. She let out an impressed whistle and picked up her stuff running with Raph to the nearest manhole. Raph let her jump down and then checked to see if it was clear before jumping down and closing it up. When Raph dropped down he instantly started to check if Cristen was ok. He lifted up her arm to see a cut from her wrist to her elbow. It was thin but was still bleeding.

"You're hurt." He said tracing the cut.

"It's no big deal." She replied trying to pull her arm away. Raph kept a good grip on her arm and studied the cut more carefully.

"What are you doing." She asked.

"Look." He said.

She bent her arm so she could see it better and gasped. The cut was slowly closing up on its own. They watched as the long cut disappeared completely not even leaving a scar.

"Woah." They said in unison. Donnie needed to see this.

When they got back to the lair, everyone was sitting watching tv. When she walked in they all stared at her in suprise.

"What are you doing here?" Leo asked. "Don't you have school."

Cristen turned to Raph.

"You didn't tell them?"

"Was I supposed to?"

Cristen sighed and ran her finger through her hair. She began to tell them everything that happened from when she arrived home until the wierd thing that had happend to her arm a few minutes ago.

"That's fascinating." Donnie said. "I would have never guessed that healing was a part of your mutation. I guess thier no way to see the full affects-"

"Yeah that's great Donnie." Leo said cutting him off. "But can we face the problem at hand. Because of us, Cristen is now being hunted by te Shredder."

Cristen cringed at Leo's words.

"It's not your guys' fault."

"Yes it is." He said. "But don't worry. We will make sure that you're safe."

She nodded ad Mikey jumped up.

"I think this moment calls for a group hug." He pulled all of them together with Cristen in the middle.

"Mikey...can't...breathe." Mikey let go and chuckled.

"Heh heh sorry dudette."

At the TCRI an alarm had sounded.

"Kraang has detected traces of energy that is Kraang where Kraang has not been to give out the energy that is Kraang."

"Kraang should find the source of this energy that is Kraang and bring it back to Kraang."

"Kraang will."

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