Thanks for all the amazing feedback. Enjoy!

(Leo's POV)

"I'm so boooored!" Mikey complains.

We ignored him but then Mikey started groaning at the top of his lungs. About a minute in, Donnie and I both looked up and glared in Mikey's direction, but then we both smirked as we looked in Raph's direction.

He was trying to block out Mikey as he read his comic book. Then we saw his hands progressively start shaking. Donnie and I continue to smirk at each other before looking back at Raph, waiting for it.

"SHUT UP!" Raph finally yells. "But, there's nothing to do. We're not doing anything." Mikey groans and whines somehow at the same time.

Surprisingly though, this still isn't bad for Mikey. Eversince he started hanging out with Irma, he's kind of become a little more mature sometimes, just a very small amount though. Otherwise he acts like himself most of the time.

"Fine! Then pick something to do before I bend you into a pretzel." Raph threatens aggravated.

Mikey was looking through some stuff in the corner of the room and then he said, "Guys… look what I found." Mikey says smiling and holding up a box. We look and our eyes go wide at what we haven't looked at in like 11 months.

"No, no! We are not doing that!" Raph says, totally dead against it.

Mikey was holding up Mazes and Mutants.

"Why not?" Mikey complains. "Because it's a game for total dorks that live in their mom's basement, that's why?" Raph says, backing up his position. After 5 more minutes of Mikey persisting in trying to get us to play it, Donnie and I decided to just do it since we were bored out of our minds too.

Besides Irma, April, and Mona went to hang out at the mall for most of the day and it was more of a girl kind of hang out so that made us just leave them to it.

Eventually Raph also gave in.

We started to play and I was the maze master like I usually was in the past. As the game went on Raph made an unlucky roll of the dice and it instantly killed his character.

"NO! C'mon! I hate this game!" Raph complains, enraged and flipped the game board over violently. "Hey!" Me, Donnie and Mikey say simultaneously. "This is totally stupid. Only a total dweeb with no idea how to fight would make dice the fighting mechanism in a game." Raph complains again.

Then Raph started yelling me and I started yelling back and then Mikey and Donnie started telling both of us to shut up. Eventually, and I seriously don't know or understand how exactly it ended up happening, but it somehow ended with us finding the larping stuff we had and us having some weird, insane battle scenario in the main room.

"Hey, guys what's…" Then April froze with Irma and Mona frozen on either side of her, staring at us.

Me and my brothers froze where we were in where the battle was taking place with Raph and I still locked up with our fake weapons and Mikey and Donnie frozen from their weird spots in the livingroom. Raph was the first to snap out of it and throw as much of his larping stuff away from him as possible.

"So… what's going on here?" Mona asks with a teasing smirk.

Raph was looking beyond embarrassed that they caught us doing this, but I think all of us felt like that. "Babe... I can explain." Raph says putting his hands up.

Then Mona glanced over and then her eyes went wide. "Oh, Mazes and Mutants? I remember playing this." Mona says and I swore me Donnie, and Mikey dropped our fake weapons simultaneously and I felt my mouth go slack when she said that.

All of us were looking at Mona in disbelief.

"What? I used to play it with these guys at my old high school's library in their larping club." Mona explains. We all looked at her even more confused.

"Look, it was a stupid idea to begin with, I don't want to talk about it, and don't judge me." She says defensively. It was silent and the atmosphere of the room got beyond the point of being awkward.

Eventually, we all agreed this never happened and we just ended up watching TV in silence.

(Raph's POV)

I was sitting with Mona in her room, sitting on her floor reading comics.

For some reason, I don't know why. But I've been feeling weird since she told us that she used to hang out with a bunch guys in a larping club who were probably total dorks.

Look, the reason it bothers me is because I just know that all of those dweebs were probably crushing on her big time for obvious reasons and it just was grating on me to think of all those dorks probably have sick weird fantasies about having my girl.

I wish I could've been there to give them swirlies in a bathroom toilet or slam their heads into a locker for even thinking like that about her. Sure, I didn't even know Mona then, but that doesn't mean I didn't hate the idea any less.

"So…larping club?" I ask, raising an eyebrow at her. She sighed annoyed.

"Yes, what about it?" She asks with a little cheek. "Why would you hang out with all those nerdy dweebs?" I say flat out.

She shot me a look but responded, "Hey, I said it already, it was a weird phase. But 3 months into it, I couldn't take it anymore." I quirked an eyebrow at her and said, "What do you mean you couldn't take it anymore?"

She sighed and said, "Look, it started out fine and I thought the guys were pretty nice, but they turned into leeches. They were being all creepy and weird around me. I mean, I did want guys to like me and stuff but not the way they were thinking of it and I really didn't like any of them that way. They were just so creepy and they were really freaking me out." Mona says freaked out.

"Why? What'd they do to you?" I ask, ready to track down all those dweebs and hang them by their underwear in an atomic wedgie off a flag pole if they did anything to her.

"No, nothing. They didn't try to do anything like that. Besides, I really don't think they liked me for any other reason than the fact that I was female and didn't treat them like crap. But since I was the only thing with two X chromosomes that wanted to be anywhere near them, they all developed this weird, creepy, infatuationous crush on me. You have no idea how many creepy love notes I found in my locker written in Elvish. Also, ever have a guy follow you to where you live and serenade you with a panfluit outside your window? That's pretty messed up. Ugh, I still get the chills from those times I actually looked up the stuff they wrote me in those notes with a translator on some larping site online." She explains and shudders.

I smirked and couldn't stop myself from snorting out a laugh.

She looked at me and shoved me. "Shut up… Also, you know I'm kind of a nerd too right?" She teases, going back to when I called those dweebs nerds. I smirked in her direction.

"You're not a nerd." I say back.

"Are you kidding? I wear glasses, I'm a Physics major, I like science fiction... how can you not even possibly admit that all three of those things constitute me as a nerd?" She fires back, raising an eyebrow at me.

Yeah, but she's literally the hottest nerd ever.

I smirk at her and reply, "Well, alright... you're a nerd." I scoot closer to her and reach out slowly to take off her glasses. "But, you're my nerd. Does that make it better?" I ask.

"I can live with that." She says back with a smirk and we both let out a laugh before slowly looking back at each other.

She smiled as she moved in to kiss me after we glanced to see if the door was shut. We stayed sitting next to each other and trying to kiss each other from where we were. But then she moved over and straddled over my lap and running her fingers through the hair on the back of my head, making me groan at her touch.

Like usual, my shirt eventually found it's way to the floor. But then she did something I still wasn't used to and that she hasn't done since that one time a month ago.

She pulled away from me and pulled her shirt off over her head. She still had a bra on underneath, but who really cares? But before I could react she reattached her lips to mine and just I had to do it.

I put a hand under each of her thighs and lifted her up with me and carried her to her bed. I laid her down and quickly hovered over her. Both of us laughing to ourselves as our session continued. But then she sat up and pressed herself against me. Our lips still desperately trying to get as much of each other as they could.

I kept tracing my hands over her back but then I froze when I felt the clasp on her bra underneath my fingertips. I wanted to take it off her so bad, but I didn't want to make that moron move with her if she didn't want me to do it.

Then she pulled away from me and I felt like coughing up my stomach, thinking I was in for it. "You can do it Raph, it's okay." She says and starts to kiss me on the lips again before working her way to me neck and I craned my head over her shoulder to look and make sure I was taking it off right and avoid making a total idiot of myself.

My hands were shaking in anticipation. I kept messing up but then I smirked and bit my lip when I finally got it. She pulled it off her and I just stared at her.

Seriously, how is this real? Am I sure I'm not dead? Man, she's just so perfect and beautiful… I don't care how much of a sap I sound like right now, she was literally an angel.

"Raph?" I was pulled out of it and looked up at her. My face felt like it was on fire. I'm probably gonna get hell for just staring at her like a total creepy weirdo. "Raph, you can… touch me... if you want to." She says and grabs my hand and places it on her right breast.

Okay, I seriously have to be dead.

I was just freezing up, still overwhelmed. This was the first time I actually touched her there. I mean, I've seen her like this before that one time but I never touched her like this. Then she put a hand on the side of my face, causing me to look up at her, she smiled a little at me as she leaned in to kiss me again.

I eventually got enough guts to try something.

I heard her gasp and sigh into me when I squeezed her a little. I felt her arms tighten around my neck and that gave me the boost that I was doing something right. I started to try stuff with my hands on her and she was moaning against my lips and I felt like I almost exploded when I heard her moan out my name.

I didn't know how far she wanted to go and then we just went back to making out again but then I glanced down when I heard a zipper and saw her pulling off her jeans and underwear.

Yes… Can this seriously get any better than right now?

We kept making out when we started to slow down a little and then she pulled away and looked at me.

"Um… Raph?" She asks, looking a little hesitant. "Yeah?" I ask, my chest heaving. "Um… I've been thinking and I was just wondering if you'd… you know… can I... see you?" She asks hesitant and curious. Her face looked completely red and totally embarrassed.

I thought a bomb went off in my stomach.

At first, I wanted to just spring up and do whatever she said, but my eyes glanced down and I felt that completely familiar, tight, throbbing, annoying feeling below the belt and it made me hesitate.

What if this freaks her out? What if she laughs at me? What if…

"Raph?" She asks concerned. "Raph, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to…" "No, Mona. I want to. But, are you sure you want to see me like this?" I ask, wanting to make sure she was 100% sure this was what she wanted from me.

She nods at me and smiles shyly at me as she gives me a peck on the lips. I smirk and nod back at her as I get up. Besides, this was what she did with me that one time. I started to unbutton and unzip my jeans as I kept looking at her.

Before I just went for it, I looked at her, just to make sure. She nodded at me with an intense blush on her cheeks but she was smiling at me.

Okay, c'mon Raph, you got this. She said she wants to see this.

I start to pull down my boxers and my jeans.

(Mona's POV)

I didn't know what I was expecting, but I was curious.

Also, I may have never had... sex before, but I'm not an idiot. During our multiple make out sessions in the past, I could tell he was… aroused, to put it as delicately as possible.

At first I couldn't believe I had that sort of effect on him and it also freaked me out knowing that he was at that physical point where he did find me desirable in that way, but I knew he wouldn't do anything to pressure me into it.

He's never pressured me into doing anything I wasn't comfortable doing. But now, I was looking right at him. In a way, I felt slightly intimidated. I was looking at what was eventually going to take my virginity.

But, I did want that with Raphael at some point. I love him and I know he has that same feeling toward me and there's no one else I'd rather have that experience with than him.

He kept glancing at me hesitantly with his face beet red, trying to figure out what I was thinking.

I just smile at him and walk up to him. I put my hands on his shoulders. I saw him slowly smirking back at me as I leaned in to kiss him and he put his hands on my waist, pulling me closer.

The gravity of the situation didn't fully hit me until I felt him brush against my navel and him groaning a little against my lips.

This was real. We were both fully exposed to each other and this was literally the furthest we've ever gone. But I don't feel uncomfortable looking this way in front of him like I did the first time. I trust him. Also, I may not be ready quite yet, but this definitely felt right.

Raphael was the guy I wanted this with and I know that I won't regret it once I'm ready.

Later that night

(Leo's POV)

We regrouped and finished our patrol as one unit.

It's been eerily quiet lately and as much as we like kind of having a rest period, it's been...well… boring. Also, it makes us kind of suspicious; especially about the Kraang.

We got to the end of our perimeter and did one last glance around.

We were done early tonight and I was going to head to the tenement immediately after this. Karai really seemed to like what I gave her. Ever since I gave it to her, I see her wearing it under her jumpsuit when she takes it off when we were at the tenement together. I assume she keeps it hidden for multiple reason, the main one being her father.

But still…

Everything was quiet and still in the streets below.

"Well guys, I think we're in the…" I was interrupted by what sounded like lasers in the distance; Kraang. It had to have been. We all immediately took off and ran toward the sound of the action.

"Finally." I heard Raph say, knowing he was probably psyched about finally having something that could mean a fight.

As we got closer we heard weird growling and snarling and… "KRAAAAAAANG!"

No…

"No way." I heard Mikey say as he took off in a sprint.

We eventually got to this abandoned nuclear plant and we all froze as we saw Kraang firing at and also being destroyed by… Leatherhead?! He roared as he knocked out another 3 Kraang droids.

"Guys, we gotta help." Mikey says and withdrew his nunchucks. "I'm comin' buddy! BOOYAKASHA!" Mikey yells as he makes a leap below.

We all just look at each other. "Well, you guys do what you want, but I'm goin'." Raph says and also goes below to get that fight he's aching for for weeks.

After he left, Donnie and I just looked at each other and shrugged and joined in. Hey, if you can't beat 'em; join 'em. Also, I wanted know how Leatherhead got back from that time we saw him disappear into Dimension X.

The Kraang seemed to finally be gone for now and Leatherhead still looked like he was trying to collect himself. His shoulders were heaving as we heard a low growl resonate in his throat.

Mikey walked up to him with a huge smile on his face.

"Leatherhead, dude, how did you escape the Kraang?" Mikey asks still not believing Leatherhead was here. But then Leatherhead looked at us as we saw the film glaze over his eyes and Mikey realized that he said the "K" word on accident.

Leatherhead roared before yelling, "KRAANG!" Then he reached for Donnie who was initially frozen and tried to get out of the way. "No, no, no, NO!..." Donnie yelled frantically as Leatherhead grabbed him with one hand by his face.

"OH, C'mon! WHY?!" Donnie exasperates as Leatherhead started to shake him around.

"Leatherhead, calm down! It's me! It's Michelangelo!" Mikey yells. The film disappeared from Leatherhead's eyes as he zeroed his focus on Mikey. Donnie was still thrashing around to try to escape Leatherhead's grasp.

"Michelangelo?" He questions. "Yeah buddy, it's me." Mikey says smiling, clearly looking glad to see him. "You look different." He says pointedly, confused, and also somewhat hostile. "Yeah, I know. It's kind of a long story, but dude, trust me. I'm still the same Mikey." Mikey assures with a grin and gesturing to himself with his thumbs.

"Okay Leatherhead… now just put Donnie down." Mikey says, waving his arms down. Leatherhead looked at his hand, seeing Donnie desperately trying to pry his grip off his face.

"Donatello?" Leatherhead said as he put Donnie down and released him. Donnie still looked horrified. "I am sorry, my friends." Leatherhead apologizes.

"My face... Why is it always my face?" Donnie still in a state of mixed emotion and shock.

We got Leatherhead to explain how he escaped from Dimension X and then continued, "I also have something that I was told to deliver by a friend." He explains and Leatherhead handed Raph these two things that looked like folded up paper squares.

(Raph's POV)

I was really confused.

The top one had Mona's name written on it and then I got even more confused when I saw what was on the one behind it. The other had my name.

"There was this man who was held in the same sector as me. He went through horrors. Terrible tortures by the Kraang for information. His wife was also there… but she died after several days into them being there. He was kind but spoke strangely to me. He gave me these things to hand to you since I told him you were my friends. He told me his name was James." He explains.

I froze on the spot; trying to wrap my head around what he just said. Dr. Lisa, Mona's dad.

"Wait, he gave these to you? What happened? Is he still alive?" I ask quickly. Look, Mona's mom may be… gone, but her dad could still be alive. He hung his head before saying, "He is not. He told me to deliver these for him just before he died." He explained.

I immediately hung my head. Look, we all just assumed Mona's parents were dead… but now that we knew.

It was… sad.

I went off on my own to clear my head after what just happened.

I looked down at the squares in my hand that I realized were handmade packets made of crappy notebook paper. I stared at the one with my name on it. I was so confused. I kept staring at it and wondering if I should open it or not.

Mona's father… her dead father, wanted to give this to me. It felt so morbid looking at it. But, I just had to know.

I opened it and something fell out. My eyes went wide when I realized what it was. It was a ring, Dr. Lisa's ring. It had a thick band made of sterling silver and it had some crazy symbol displayed on the top of it that looked like a bunch of ovals and triangles.

But then I saw something written on the inside of the paper:

Mr. Raphael Hamato,

Raphael, if you are reading this note given to you by some other means, then it is a pretty definite assumption for what has happened to me. But with my wife gone now and Mona now being on my mind constantly, I had to do something provisionary. In this you have found my ring. This is a ring that has been passed down from father to son for generations in my family and since I came from a family with 3 older sisters, it was given to me by my father as it was to him by his father and since I have no sons, I was always hoping to give it to my future son-in-law if Mona ever married. But since I won't be around to see that happen, I want to give it to you. The symbol on this ring is an old Celtic symbol for family and even though you are not my son-in-law by any means at this time… you are the closest thing I have to one and you are more than worthy to have it. You're strong, driven, and you have always done everything you could to protect my daughter and as a father… I am forever grateful to you. Do not let anything hold you back from keeping this possession of mine in your hands, I want you to have it and I hope you'll enjoy sporting it proudly like I have over the course of my ownership of it. I know you'll continue to keep my daughter safe from harm. Stay strong lad and please tell Mona that I will always love her.

Good luck my boy,

Dr. James E. Lisa

I was stoic.

I didn't know what to think after just reading that. I looked at the ring in my hand. Playing over it with my fingers as I stared at in deep thought.

These were Mona's parents, I no ties to them whatsoever. But, this was really getting to me. I didn't understand why... They weren't my parents. But I felt...really… bad. I felt a weird pressure in my chest looking at this ring.

It wasn't just the fact that her parents were dead for definite fact now or the fact or that Mona's dad gave me his ring. It was the letter that was driving me crazy. He gave me this, one of his most prized possessions, because he actually thought of me as a son or something.

But, I kinda saw this coming I guess from whenever I was over at their old apartment.

Although I wasn't entirely close with her mom, she was always really nice to me and invited me over for dinner a lot. I was always happy about that. Her mom surprisingly, for a genius physicist, was a freaking awesome cook.

Then with her dad, I saw it even more. He would always ask me to sit and talk or watch boxing with him on TV. He would constantly call me lad or my boy like he said in the letter. Also, I'll admit it. I really liked Mona's dad. He was a good guy. I still couldn't believe he actually thought of me as almost a son-in-law kind of thing.

Okay, look at me, I'm 16 and getting tied down is by far the last thing I want to think about. I mean, later I'd probably want that, but right now I was cool with everything. And with Mona… I probably would want to get to that point with her in the future.

Look, I may not seem like the type, but ever since I met Mona, I thought about it and now that I was human and so was Mona… we might have a shot to having something like that in the future, once the Kraang are gone at least.

Besides, the idea of sealing the deal that Mona's mine and no other guy is allowed to have her except me, that sounds fantastic.

I was still looking at the ring again, I remembered seeing Dr. Lisa wearing it all the time on the middle finger of his right hand. I looked at my own hand and then back at the ring, still not believing I was holding it in front of my face.

I never thought of myself as a ring guy. I always thought guys who wore rings were unmanly posers. But I actually thought this one was cool when I saw Mona's dad wearing it.

I discretely and slowly slipped it onto the middle finger of my right hand, it fit me so perfectly that it was kind of creepy. I clenched my fist as I looked at it on my hand. I smirked to myself.

I felt weird but also really good in way wearing it. It made me feel honored that her dad wanted me to have it and I also knew he probably would've like to see me use it. Other than this, nothing has changed.

I looked up as I thought to myself serious and determined, "Don't worry sir, I'll do everything I can to keep your daughter safe … I swear."

I was sitting with Mona in her room.

She was trying to keep herself controlled after she read her note from her dad and she was clutching this necklace from her mom that was in her hand.

She handed me the note that her dad wrote with it and it was a necklace that her dad gave her mom when they they were dating and I looked at her as she had a stoic facial expression but I saw tears brimming in her eyes.

Seriously, why does everything bad always have to happen to her?

I can't believe I'm saying this… but I can't wait for the Kraang to invade.

I want to finish those slimy freaks once and for all and end this.

3 days later

(Leo's POV)

We were all kinda sort of dressed up nice. Splinter walked in dressed up in his slacks, button up shirt and jacket and looked at all of us.

"My sons, Hazel was nice enough to invite all of us over for dinner to meet you all and I am expecting all of you to be on your best behavior when you meet her. I told her I raised well behaved boys and I am expecting you to act as such." Splinter says and me, Raph, and Donnie all shoot a look at Mikey.

"What? Why are you looking at me like that?" Mikey asks confused and offended. "Cuz you're the one who usually does or says something stupid." Raph points out bluntly.

"Yup." "Pretty much." Donnie and I add with a shrug, agreeing with Raph.

Look, we know Mikey doesn't do that stuff on purpose to be rude or anything, but it always happens.

Mona was going to come with us but she went to hang out with April and Irma instead. But we were all cool with it. Ever since Mona found out for sure that her parents were dead… it put her into a slump again.

But hopefully April and Irma can cheer her up a little bit.

Splinter let us go after dinner was over.

Me and my brothers were sort of surprised. Hazel was really nice. I mean, we knew she had to have been if both Mona and Splinter liked her, but she was just a really, really nice lady. She was really easy to talk to and she really seemed like she really enjoyed having us over and talking to us. In a way, there was just something motherly about her.

Also, by some miracle, Mikey did not say anything to embarrass Splinter or the rest of us. But I could tell he was trying really hard not to say much just to prove a point to the rest of us. I was pretty impressed.

I looked at the time on my T-phone and smirked.

"Hey, Leo. Are you coming?" Donnie asks. I was pulled out of my thoughts. My brothers were all looking at me.

I knew what Donnie was talking about. He got a txt from April after Splinter let us go. She was asking if we were able to catch up with them at the movies for a 9:30 showing. But, I kinda didn't want to go. Outings like that for them weren't the same for me. It's not that I don't want to hang out with them, I do. I just don't like being the seventh wheel and feeling awkward being around my brothers with their girlfriends and me just being that weird loner guy tagging along.

I smile and say, "No, I'm okay. You guys go." They just shrug and walk away.

I still find it weird how they still don't say anything about me and Karai. I know that they know about us or whatever we are at this point….

Well, I have time to gear up before heading to the tenement. It's not because of Karai. I just like being prepared for anything at all times.

Sure, my situation is still not completely ideal. But, I guess I can keep waiting and I know that I am getting so close, I just know it.

I hope you all liked this one. Thank you all for reading and please share your thoughts with me if you can. Have a Happy Thanksgiving! (: