Hello everybody! So, we gots a time skip happening here, it's been six months since their first time. Enjoy!
Responding to reviews:
Guest: Thank you so much! That's such a big compliment, wow...
turtleformer66: Thank you :) I think you're jumping the gun a little there, though, where Leo and Karai are concerned. They're not together quite yet :(
Donatello panted, his eyes closed. Wow.
"Well I think I have a new favorite position." He reflected as he backed away from the bent over April and lay back on his bed. April giggled from her place in front of him and turned, settling down next to him and snuggling into his arms.
"Yeah, I liked that one too." She agreed. Donatello chuckled lowly, turning to pepper her face with kisses.
"What brought that on?" He asked. "Not that I didn't enjoy having you bust into my lab, drag me to my bedroom and have your way with me. Because you should really feel free to do that whenever you feel like it."
"You mean aside from the fact that I'm in love with you and sex is fun?" She smirked. "I don't know. I'm just...I'm really happy, Donnie. Not that I wasn't happy with things before, but..."
"Sex is awesome?" Donatello quipped. April snorted and thumped him on the arm playfully.
"Yes, and thank you for putting it so eloquently." She grumbled, rolling over. Catching her with one of his large hands he rolled her back over and pressed a kiss to her pouting lips.
"Because you were so eloquent earlier." He chuckled.
"At least I used the word 'love.'" She grumbled, puffing out a breath to blow her bangs away from her eyes.
"You know how much I love you." He smiled, leaning his forehead to touch hers, his red-brown eyes warm and deep. She closed her eyes with a smiled and a happy hum, fingering her necklace,
"That I do."
...
Leo wasn't quite sure how he had gotten in this position.
She was looking at him now, eyes narrowed, her amber eyes occasionally flicking down to their now joined hands. He wasn't sure what to say, he wasn't sure he could say anything without stuttering like an idiot.
She was looking at him so intensely he felt he would melt from her gaze as it roved over his naked form. He was panting, staring at her with reddened cheeks. They'd never gone this far...he'd held her close before, but there had always been a layer of fabric between them. Now she was exposed fully, her long, long legs going on forever and her breasts, soft and round and there...she was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen, a Yuki-onna to his eyes.
"Leo..." she said, her voice taking on a threatening edge. "I asked you what it is you think you're doing at the moment."
"I was..." He looked down at their intertwined digits, noting her hand was stiff and unresponsive. "I was holding your hand?"
He had only touched her briefly before she had dipped her hand under the front of his plastron and prompted him to drop down. He gasped, he'd never felt such warm hands on his shaft before that moment. He moaned lightly, the sound cut off when she leaned forward to kiss him and pulled him to her, slipping him into her slick passage with ease.
"Leo." She ripped her hand away from his. "I...don't do this."
She sighed with every thrust of his hips, gasped when he held her hips and bit down on her neck, moaned his name when she came and drove him over to the edge as well. She took him everywhere.
"Were you in my bed last night or not?" He hissed. Owl-eyed, she looked at him, surprised at his boldness.
"W...what?"
"This isn't okay, Karai. I'm not a toy-"
"I never said you were!" She snapped, standing up from the sofa. "I'm just not ready for-"
"Not ready?" Leo looked at her incredulously. "Then what the heck was last night?"
After, he held her. She wouldn't look at his face, simply tucked her head into the crook of his neck and shoulder and fallen asleep.
"Closeness...comfort, I don't know!" She placed her hands on her temples. "You said to do whatever I felt I needed, why is this different?"
"How is this not different? Karai...we...we've never done that before! That's a big deal, it changes things!"
"Why do things have to change just because we got a little more physical?"
"A little?" He balked. "Karai...there is literally no way we could've gotten closer!"
"It's just sex, Leo."
"...Not to me." He whispered, turning away from her in mind and body.
...
Turtles, like most animals, have very good senses of smell. The Hamato brothers, being part turtle, were very perceptive when it came to detecting pheromones and the like. The brothers couldn't hide a lot from each other, they could tell each other's moods and health just from the way they smelled. April had actually stopped using scented soap products because they bothered the sensitive noses of her friends. It was handy a lot of the time to know ahead of time who was feeling what, it helped them know when their family and friends needed comfort or just to be left alone.
Now, though...well, the brothers wished that they didn't know so much from smell. Ever since that morning after their first night at the beach house, when Mikey pointed out to Leo and Raph that he could smell Donnie on April really strongly and the other way around...well, let's just say they recognized that particular smell and desperately wished for brain bleach every time they detected it. Leo had showered repeatedly that morning for that very reason.
Like right now.
Donatello was humming to himself, preparing some tea while Leonardo sat on the table, somewhat mortified at how strongly April's scent was coming off of Donnie. Wait...
Donatello had been having sex regularly, and he needed sex advice. But was that really the best idea? He supposed Donnie would be more sympathetic than his other brothers and there was no way he was going to Splinter with this. There was no one else in the room...
"Donnie." He sighed.
"Hm?" The bo-wielding turtle turned to his brother and smiled. "Hey Leo, what's up?"
"I...need your advice on something." He admitted. Donatello looked surprised for a moment; he wasn't sure Leo had ever come to him for advice before. What could he possibly give Leo advice about? Still, he grabbed his fresh mug of tea and sat across from Leo, nodding to him.
"Sure, Leo. What's up?"
"Well...you know, you and April...I mean, I know you and April...have been...doing...stuff." He said, looking at his younger brother sheepishly before glancing away. Donatello sighed; he knew someone was going to say something at some point. He usually showered when he could after sex, but since the first time, when he had forgotten...he figured it wasn't that big of a deal. It wasn't like he was going to be able to hide that forever from his family anyway.
"Yeah...we have." He took a sip of tea. "What about it?"
"I um..." Leo could feel his cheeks burning. "I was wondering how that was going for you."
"Um...Leo, I don't kiss and tell, but if this is you being a big brother and worried about my happiness I can assure you everything is great."
"It's...neither of those. I needed to...talk to someone who'd understand."
"Understand...?"
"Last night, Karai and I..." He sighed deeply and left the confession hanging, figuring that Donnie could fill in the blanks. Judging by the spray of tea now coating the table, he had been correct.
"YOU. WHAT?!" He raised his voice, slamming his hands on the table and flying out of his seat. He had long accepted Karai into their lives and knew that Leo still had a soft spot for her...but he didn't know they were even a couple.
"Donnie, Donnie shhh!" Leo tried to silence him, waving his hands wildly. "I don't want everyone to know, okay? I'm just really confused." Leonardo's eyes were pleading and Donatello found himself taking a moment to calm down before slumping into his seat and speaking again.
"Let me get make sure I have this correct: you had sex with Karai."
"Um...yeah."
"And you're telling me...why?"
"Because...I love her, Don. I thought we were...and she says we weren't. That she doesn't 'do this.'"
"Doesn't do what? She had sex with you, didn't she?"
"She says it was just for comfort, she felt like she needed to be close to someone."
"Well, that would certainly do the trick." Donatello stood to get some paper towels so he could wipe off the table. "But...did this come out of nowhere? Have you been doing other...things?"
"I mean, we've kissed before, but...no. We've never even gotten close to what happened last night."
"Wow." Donatello rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "I um...don't really know what to say." He considered things for a moment, rubbing his hand over his chin. "April and I...it wasn't like that for us."
"I know...but...what do I do? Everything is different now. What if I lose her completely? Do I tell her I love her, do I just never bring it up again...I don't know what to do."
"Leo...I don't know what to tell you." Donatello sighed, wadding up the used paper towel and throwing it away. "With April...we've never had sex, we've always made love. And it took us a long time to get there. But...when I first told her I loved her, it was a mistake. I blurted it out, and she accepted it and reciprocated my feelings after she had had time to think. I remember the time between telling her and having her tell me...and I think I get how you feel."
"But do you regret telling her that way?"
"No. It was stupid and just sort of happened, and neither one of us were prepared...but it started everything that came after, and I'm grateful for that. I guess all I can tell you is let her come to you. And whatever happens...I'm here for you, Leo. Always." His blue masked brother nodded and smiled at him momentarily before turning thoughtful.
"Thanks, Donnie." He rose from the table, heading for the turnstiles. "I'll be out." Watching his older brother leave, Donatello shook his head and smiled.
That moment of advising Leo had been nice...he wondered if it was ever going to happen again.
...
He had been out for a run two nights later when she found him. Those two days had been just as bad as Donnie said, and with her not-quite-silent footfall behind him he hoped that they would come to an end, that at the very least they could stop avoiding each other. He turned to face her then, trying to keep his expression guarded, something he was positive he was failing at.
"Leo..." Karai sighed. "I'm sorry." Leo practically fell of the roof with his surprise and whirled around at her to see if she was joking. Her amber eyes wouldn't meet his except for an occasional guarded look. She was serious.
"What?!" He looked at her, shocked. "You're apologizing?!"
"Pfft." She scoffed. "It's not that remarkable." But she crossed her arms and avoided his gaze as she continued, "I...shouldn't have done that with you the other night. I didn't know it meant anything to you."
"Karai..." he sighed deeply. "You mean...everything to me." He looked away from her. "And I'm sorry I didn't tell you that before...I shouldn't have invited the physical stuff knowing I had feelings for you." Karai shook her head.
"No...it's what I needed. I needed all of this, Leo." She rubbed her arms nervously. "I'm um...not very good with telling people I care for them." In that moment, Leo felt his heart lift. He approached her to take her hands, amber meeting blue, and he knew it was true.
"I love you too."
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