The turtles were worried about Lianna. Mattie had stayed about the same, but ever since the failed rescue two weeks ago Lianna hadn't been quite the same. Oh she would still joke and play video games, but her smile didn't quite reach her eyes and the bubbly energy that usually surrounded her, just wasn't there. It was like a piece of her had died that night, like she had lost hope.

Karai had felt awful about the false information she had given them, she felt responsible for hurting Lianna that way. She didn't say it out loud, but it was killing her inside that she did that to her friend. Christmas was coming up and she wished that she could find and give any information that would leave to the real rescue of her friend's parents. But Shredder had said nothing to her lately and she wasn't party to that information. To ask about it would just prove that she was cured of his mind control, so that was out of the question.

Mikey finally couldn't take it, seeing his friend hurting the way she was, so he went to Master Splinter to see what he should do. "Sensei, how do I fix Lianna?" "I didn't know she was broken, perhaps you should have Donnie take a look at her." "Sensei, you know I didn't mean that kind of fix." "I know my son, but the only one who can fix Lianna is Lianna. You can help her get to the point where she does, but she must be wanting to, willing to be fixed."

"How do I even get her there then?" Mikey asked eagerly. Splinter sighed and said, "That is a good question, one I'm afraid I don't have the answer to. Each person is different Michelangelo, and so to get to each person's fixing point, you must do different things. For some its getting to have a good cry, for others it is realizing that someone else is hurting just as bad as they are and needs them. But if anyone can find Lianna's fixing point, I believe it is you, my son."

Mikey smiled at that, determined to live up to his Sensei, his father's, expectations of him. He would get Lianna to fix herself, to bring herself back to being so much fun to being around, to being happy again! "I'm on it Sensei!" He declared, jumping up from where he was kneeling. He went in search of Lianna, knowing she had to be in the lair, as the school had declared a school day, which was epic since the next day was the start of Christmas vacation so the teachers hadn't been able to give out last minute homework.

He saw Karai walking in from the kitchen and so he asked, "Have you seen Lianna Karai?" She shook her head no and said, "I'll help you look for her." Karai found Lianna in her bedroom, working on something that she hid the moment the door opened. When she saw it was Karai she relaxed and said, "Thank goodness it's you, I thought it was Mattie." Anyone who didn't know Lianna would think she was fine, but Karai could tell she wasn't.

"I'm sorry." Karai blurted out suddenly. Lianna paused from bringing the gift she was working on from the hiding place she had stuffed it in and looked at Karai. "Sorry for what?" she asked. Karai looked at the floor embarrassed, but she softly replied, "For giving you such false hope. If I had only know I would never have told you about them, or at least I would have told you they were fakes."

Lianna got up off the bed, her eyes gently looking at Karai. "It's not your fault Karai, you never even met them before. I grew up with them and even I was fooled until my fake dad made a statement that couldn't have been made by him." She stepped forward and hugged Karai. Then she backed up and looked Karai in the eye as she continued, "And you didn't give me false hope, if the Shredder feels the need to make dummies of them they must be alive some place. I have just been wallowing in sorrow instead of seeing an obvious reason why they should still be alive."

She hugged Karai again and said, "Thanks for making me realize I still have an even better reason to hope they are alive." Karai returned the hug, the stress and sorrow she felt for hurting her friend melting away. Lianna was right, the Shredder would not have made a double unless he had a reason to need one. Yes he could have made the robots so that they would have been used to trace the turtles to the lair, but they would have to be alive to find out so much information about them that he almost fooled their own daughter.

Mikey walked in just then and Lianna smiled a real smile at him and asked, "Mikey can you take a picture for me? I need to add this to my scrapbook." He nodded and eagerly took the picture of her and Karai hugging and sent it to her, so happy to see that his Lianna was back. Maybe now he could get a real challenge when it came to video games.

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Everyone was glad to see that Lianna was back to her old self, if not even more happy than before. It was the last weekend before Christmas and it felt like a Christmas gift to have her back. But that didn't mean they were going to take it easy on her for the Who Controls the Weekend Contest, as they had come to call it. They had decided that this one would be a free for all, and that they were taking next weekend off from the contest, so it would be two weeks before they would even have another one.

For the first time ever, Mikey won the solo contest, pitted against Raph of all turtles for the title. "I declare this weekend to be Movie Marathon Weekend! We'll buy pizzas and enjoy movies, everyone gets to pick a movie they want to watch. We'll watch five today and five tomorrow." Everyone was thrilled with this idea and hurried off to figure out which movie they would pick. The order was decided by picking a number out of a hat, Sensei got number one, so his movie was first. He had picked The Karate Kid, the original one.

Mikey went and popped some popcorn while the others got the movie set up and seating claimed. Lianna reserved a spot for Mikey on the couch, after all it was his weekend. As soon as he returned they started the movie. The hours flew by as they watched The Spy Next Door (picked by Leo), Cool Runnings (picked by Raph), The Terminator (picked by Casey), and Batman (the 60s version, picked by Mattie). They laughed, they cried, they screamed in surprise, they did it all.

The next morning they got up and scrounged around for food, for Mikey said it was against Movie Marathon Weekend Rules for anyone to have to cook. Then they got started with Mikey's pick of Are We Done Yet, followed by Princess Diaries (Arpil's pick), The Computer That Wore Tennis Shows (Donnie's pick), Muppets Most Wanted (Karai's pick) and Nanny McPhee (Lianna's pick). To end the weekend, Mikey pulled randomly selected titles from the internet and put them in a hat. The one he drew was the new Annie, and so that is what they watched.

Everyone declared Mikey's Movie Marathon Weekend a success and said it would be fun just to do that sometimes. As they finished off some pizza that they had ordered, Lianna slipped into the kitchen. She returned shortly with ten bowls of ice cream on a tray in one hand and a bunch of Sundae making supplies in the others. As she set everything down she said, "One of my favorite family traditions was we would always make Sundaes on Sunday. I am hoping, that as long the person whose weekend it is is cool with, we can start doing that here too."

Everybody nodded and hurried over to make their Sundae before the ice cream started melting. Mikey kept eating his too fast and getting a brain freeze, causing everyone to laugh, though a few also ate a couple bites too fast themselves. Lianna took a picture right after everyone had finished making their Sundaes and she planned to add it her scrapbook, though it would probably be after Christmas since it was in five days and she still had some gifts to finish before then.