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Chapter 12
I walked into the boy's lair, surprised to see no one waiting for me. "Hey guys!" I called, walking to the kitchen and throwing the groceries on the table. "Guys?!' I called. Still no answer. I smiled and rolled my eyes, pulling a couple of pizza boxes out from under my arm and and opened it up. "I have pizza!"
Suddenly Mickey's head popped out of his room. I had really started to wonder what it was he did in there to keep him so very busy all the time... "Long time no see!" He said happily, running at me and tackling me with a hug. I felt him steal a piece of pizza from behind me as we hugged.
"Hey Josephine. How's work been?" Leo gave me a gentle, brothery hug, then took a piece of pizza and stood next to me.
"Eh, work. It is nice to be back though. You know, getting my mind off things and being able to keep busy."
"Josephine!" I turned my head to see Donny enter the room right behind Sammy, who ran up to me and gave me a bear hug. For such a small girl, she sure had some arm muscles. "I'm so glad your back!" She grinned, letting go.
"Nice to see you too, Sammy." I gasped. Donny simply nodded his head at me, taking a piece of pizza in one hand, and Sammy's hand in the other. I couldn't help but let a grin land on my face at the sight. They were a cute couple, even if they didn't realize it. And thinking of couples...
"Where's Raphael?" I asked Leo, as causally as I could manage.
"I fixed his bike earlier today, so he might be out driving." Donny suggested. Sammy's eyes suddenly darkened. She tapped on her turtle boy's shoulder and got up on her toes to whisper in his "ear". Donny's dark eyes widened. "Oh." he mumbled. I furrowed my eyebrows.
"Oh?"
Donny started to examine his feet intensively while Sammy kind of hide behind one of his well toned arms. "Yea...oh...I forgot I-uh...I left an experiment in my lab unfinished."
I crossed my arms. "Oh yea? What is it?"
"It's a sort of...well...Sammy?"
"It's a kind of..." Sammy spoke from around Donatello's arms, never once meeting my eyes. "You know that kind of...thing..."
"Yea that thing!" Donny added.
"Very delicate."
"Probabaly shouldn't be left alone any longer."
"We need to go check on it."
"Yes! Go and...bye."
The two love doves ducked into the hallway and were gone in a matter of seconds. I rose an eyebrow at Leo and Mickey. The youngest ignored me completely while the oldest shrugged.
"No idea."
"Where's Krystal?"
Mickey looked up from his pizza, realization sweeping across his features. He grabbed one of the pizza boxes and quickly retreated into his room, calling out behind him, "Oh yea I...uh...forgot to pause my video game! be back after I beat this level...or two...or the entire game..."
I turned to look at Leo with a puzzled expression. "Alright, who died?"
Leo returned my look and shrugged. "Nobody as far as I know. I have no idea why...oh. That would explain the...oh." The oldest put down his pizza and sighed, running a hand across his face.
"Leo? What is it?..." At this point I wasn't sure if I really wanted to hear what was to come or not. Either way I knew Leo would tell me.
He laid and hand on my shoulder and sighed. "Don't shoot the messenger, ok? But...well while you were away Krystal kind of...I mean Raphael sort of..."
"Hey Josephine!" I heard Krystal shout at me from up the stairs. I laughed at her as she ran down the tackle me with a hug. "You've been gone for so long! What have you been up to?!"
"Hide'n from us prolly." I heard a jersey accented voice mumble from up the stairs. Raph made his way down the steps and stood in front of me, slightly awkwardly. I mentally sighed after looking his face over. He looked upset, mad and...was that a little bit of guilt I saw? We'd probably have to talk everything over privately later today and then everything would be fine again. Everything would be back to normal, back to peaceful, back to loving, back to me and him and-
"Oh be nice!" Krystal laughed, rising up on her toes and kissing the hothead on his lips, sparing no amount of tongue. I felt a knot form in my chest. It took every bit of self control I had to not drop kick the both of the right then and there.
"You two are a..." I asked, hoping, praying my voice wouldn't break.
"Yep." Krystal grinned. Her smile disappeared as a look of concern flushed over her. "This doesn't bother you does it? I mean before you left we talked and you said-"
"I know what I said!" I snapped. Leo, Raph and Krystal all looked taken aback at my outburst. I shook me head into a weak smile. "It...it's fine. I have nothing against it. Why should I?" I asked the question rather directly, look Raphael in his burning amber eyes pointedly. "Why should I?"
"I don't know." He answered plaintively.
There was a long painful silence that took over the space between us. After too long I looked away and shook my head slightly. "I'm going to the dojo to meditate. Good luck with...with you two." And before another word could be said I disappeared around the corner, fighting tears that I knew were all too inevitable.
Author's note; Sad, I know...but don't get downcast! I have a surprise waiting for you guys just around the corner as sort of a cheer up chapter tha I'm sure NO ONE saw coming! :3
