I own my OC's ( Artemis Jaelyn Roberts and Thomas Roberts. As well as Max Brown ) but I DO NOT own any of the TMNT characters. (Leo, Raph, Donnie, Mikey, Splinter, April, Casey, Shredder and any other TMNT world characters that may be mentioned.)


Artemis's POV

"Bye Thomas!" I wave as he walks towards the door out. Instead of walking back into my house, I go to the alley to walk into the sewers. I pull up the manhole cover which I had gotten quite good at, and I slide down into the dark. Though, I knew my way around now.

I walk to the lair, I frown realizing how late it is. Maybe one or two, I called Thomas over and we talked forever. We had a good sibling bond. I just needed to come down here, I felt more at home here than I did in my own house. I know Mikey is the deepest sleeper, so I head into his room. I take his mask playfully and put it on myself, though as a bandana instead of a mask. What if I pranked the turtles, took all their masks...

I quietly slip into Don's room next. Gadgets and gizmos lay on shelves neatly. I quickly get his mask which is neatly, like everything else, on his beside table. I am nervous to go into Leo's room because he's the most likely to catch me. But I am more nervous to go into Raph's room because he would get mad at me if he caught me... I put Don's mask on over Mikey's and I slip into Leo's room. His mask is haphazardly set on his beside table, I hold my breath as I take careful steps towards it. I wrap my fingers around the mask and start to back out. He seems to begin sitting up so I rush out and into Raph's room.

Raph is sleeping soundly, even snoring a little. Unlike his brothers, his mask is on him. I slip Leo's mask on over the others and I hesitantly walk over to Raph. I lean over and untie it, but as I pull away Raph moves. His arm hits my stomach and he just... Brings me in. Like someone would cuddle a teddy bear. I'm held close to Raph, both arms around my waist. I put his mask on myself as I start squirming in his grip. His arms like an iron hold. My squirming is hopeless as he squishes me to his plastron.

"Damn it Raph, you had to ruin my fun." I mutter. I watch the clock on his beside table until I grow tired and soon fall asleep.

*V*

I wake up as I'm moved. I quickly snap my eyes open. Soon realizing I'm not in my own room but in Raph's. His arms are moving and they loosen enough for me to get away. The clock on his beside tables alarm goes off and I freeze, oh no.

"Artemis?" He asks.

"Fudge nuggets." I mutter as I run from the room. The other turtles are emerging as I run.

"Hey Leo have you seen my... Artemis?" Mikey says groggily and just as I'm about to leave the lair, one of my arms is grabbed and twisted. I yelp and stop, being pulled into Splinter.

"Why is it that you have all four of my sons masks?" Splinter asks curiously.

"It was supposed to be a prank but Raph was mean and he like... cuddled with me and I couldn't get out!" I pout.

"... Run! I'll hold them off." Splinter says playfully, letting me go. I grin and start running out of the lair. I make it up out of the sewer before I'm stopped by the turtles. No doubt Splinter let them through.

"Give us our masks back Arty." Leo says sternly, narrowing his eyes at me.

"Never!" I giggle, climbing up the fire escape to my bedroom window.

"Who wants to get her?" Leo asks.

"I do." Raph climbs the fire escape skillfully, jumping around. "Come on Arty, the masks."

I tilt my head. "You have to catch me first!" I say, slowly inching towards my window.

"Arty, ya know we'll catch ya in seconds, just hand me the masks."

"No!" I slide my window open and quickly scramble in before shutting it and locking it. I go around and lock all the other windows and doors.

I giggle and finally take the masks off, walking to the washroom. I set them down by the sink and start up a shower for myself. Splinter said yesterday that we wouldn't train today, so I didn't have to wait until after I'm all sweaty to shower. I strip down and step into the shower, singing as I wash myself. When I step out I dry myself off and wrap a towel around myself. I walk out into my room but freeze when I see the turtles. Mikey's chilling on my bed, reading a book, Donnie is at my desk on my laptop, Leonardo is leaning against my wall watching Raphael who is going through my clothes.

"Excuse me?" I all but growl, glaring at them. "I am practically naked here, OUT OF MY ROOM!"

"Well, we feel pretty naked without our masks." Don states, not taking his eyes away from the computer. I can see him on my Facebook page.

"Hey, Leo, ya think she'll miss these?" Raph smirks, picking up a pair of my favourite underwear. Hey, some underwear is just comfier than others. That particular pair were Calvin Klein. I keep my face from going red only because of my shock at what the turtles are doing.

"I want to look through that drawer too!" Leo exclaims, walking over. "Any fancy lingerie in here Arty?"

"Yes." I reply, wait what. "I mean no! No, no I don't." I run over, holding the towel tight to myself. I don't know, is a red lace bra fancy? I have to play this cool because there is no way I'm giving them their masks back if they play like this. I pick out the red lace bra and toss it over to Leo. "Like it?"

He keeps his composure, though narrowing his eyes.

Mikey walks over and pulls out the only thing that I hoped they looked over. A few pairs of my boyfriends boxers. He kept them here in case he came over and showered or changed the next day. I can feel my face turn red.

"They're Max's!" I say, blushing as I take them from him and shove them back into the drawer.

"Why do you have your boyfriends underwear?" Mikey questions.

"Because I do now scoot. My underwear does not appreciate being touched by you guys." I scowl. I just didn't like them going through my underwear.

Mikey went back to my book, but Raph and Leo kept taking out underwear and bras. I sigh and pull out my boyshort undies and a matching sports bra. I walk into my closet, and though cramped, I pull the underwear on. Then the sports bra. I open the closet door and walk out. I feel exposed, but I just keep my mind on the fact that my bikinis are more revealing. I would have thrown on something from my closet if I used the closet for clothes.

"Artemis," Don says. Now on my phone. How did he get on there? Then I give it a second thought, I took my password off on it that's how. "Your last text to Max was 'I need food bring me McDonalds.' You do realize that right."

I blush. "McDonalds is good!" I whine. "And I was hungry."

"And it was at ten pm?" Don chuckles.

"What's wrong with McDonalds?" I huff. Don looks up and his eyes widen.

"Do you let everyone see you in your underwear? Goodness Arty, go cover yourself." He says playfully.

"It's there fault!" I exclaim, pointing to Leo and Raph.

"Well give us our masks and we'll let ya get dressed." Raph says.

I huff and walk into the bathroom. I grab their masks and hand them to them. "Now can I please put some clothes on, I still feel naked." I shudder, I really did. I feel so exposed, like everyone can see me. But this shouldn't be any different than a bikini, or when the turtles wear their boxers in the lair instead of everything else. They even wore sweatpants sometimes. I found it so amusing.

"Yeah," Raph moves away from the dresser though takes a thong with him. I give him a look and he chuckles. "Payback for the masks."

I find myself a nice pair of sweatpants and I slip those on. Though the boys stay in my room. I tilt my head waiting for them to leave, when they don't I sigh and pull on a shirt. I walk out into the kitchen.

"You guys hungry?" I call. Mikey is almost instantly in the kitchen.

"What are you making me?" He asks excitedly.

"Uh, toast. I can't make things." I snort. Putting two slices in for myself.

"Okay, I'll have toast." Mikey says slowly.

"Me too." Don says, walking in, bringing both my phone and laptop.

"I'll have some." Raph adds, sitting at the island.

"Me too please." Leo requests.

All of them had their masks back on. I put four pieces in to start and I do that several times to feed them all. By the time they're done, I've forgotten about myself. Raph narrows his eyes.

"Have ya been eating breakfast these past few days?" He asks.

"Yes," I reply. I always ate breakfast... Then again. I can feel my face slip, suddenly unsure. I had been waking up too late to have enough time to eat breakfast.

"Yer lying." Raph says, walking over. I frown.

"You do know breakfast is the most important meal of the day?" Don states.

"Yeah, yeah, I know." I murmur. "I just haven't had the time to eat."

"Ya eat lunch though, right?" Raph asks.

"Of course." I nod.

"And dinner?" Raph proceeds.

I roll my eyes. "Yes." I grab myself a granola bar and take a big bite of it in front of him.

Raph goes and sits back down.

"So, what do you do when you aren't busy?" Don asks.

I shrug. "Write."

"I figured. Noticed you were an author after I went on Facebook. How are your books coming along?" Don asks.

"Uh, fine."

"What's your book about?" Mikey asks.

I walk to my room and grab a copy of the first book in the series, I walk back out and hand it to Mikey. The cover is of me, made to look like the main character. The book is about a girl who was on the run from everyone because of a crime she was wrongfully accused of. She learns to fight and does her best to prove she is not guilty.

I walk over to the sink to do dishes when I see the biggest spider I have ever seen. I let out a noise between a scream and a cry and I scramble away from the sink, hitting the island really hard. I can feel tears in my eyes.

I had the biggest fear of spiders. I didn't know where it came from, I just had it. When I was home alone once, I saw one. I had a panic attack and when my nanny came back from getting the groceries she called the hospital to ask what was wrong with me.

"What's wrong Arty!?" Leo asks quickly, glancing at the sink then back at me.

I watch the spider crawl down the sink cupboard and I start to cry, my body shaking, my chest hurting; like my lungs had been crushed. I couldn't move anymore and the spider was just getting closer.

"She's having a panic attack." Don says softly as soon as he sees me. He kneels down beside me and follows my gaze to the spider.

"Why?" Raph asks, looking a bit panicky himself.

Don points to the spider. "Can one of you get rid of it?"

Leo picks it up and walks away with it.

Raph kneels down in front of me and takes my hands. "Come on now little ninja, yer gonna be okay. The spider ain't gonna hurt ya and I'm gonna stay here with ya. Leo took it away it's gone."

Don wraps an arm around my shoulders. "We won't let it touch you."

I close my eyes and start taking deep breaths. I'm okay, I'm okay. It's gone. Don and Raph keeps saying sweet things making me feel better. I open my eyes when I feel okay again.

"You feel better?" Raph asks. I nod and the both help me up.

I had seen spiders in the lair sometimes, but only tiny ones. Those I could just... Avoid. I was stil scared but not as scared as I get of big ones.

Leo seems to have been here for quite some time since disposing of the spider. I can feel my chest tighten again.

"Where is it? You killed it right?" I ask quickly.

"It's dead." Leo assures. "And it's not inside the house anymore."

I let out a breath I didn't realize I was holding. The only problem, the rest of the day I'm going to be so jumpy. Anything that moves I'm going to jump at. What kind of a ninja is scared of spiders? Ugh.

I plug my phone into my stereo and start some music up. Putting it as loud as I always have it in the mornings. I climb up onto my counter to reach the plastic cups which I kept on the top shelf. I kept them for if I ever had little family members over. And sometimes I used them. They came in handy in situations where I could very possibly drop it.

The turtles thought it was the funniest thing that I am too small to reach the cups and Mikey is practically on the ground in his laughter.

"Not everyone can be six feet tall!" I huff, stomping my foot.

"And how tall are you?" Don asks, still chuckling.

"Five foot three." I say hesitantly.

Their laughter increases. I scowl and put the music louder to drown out their laughs. I jump when a loud song comes on... Hey I love this song. I bounce along as I fill the cup up with milk and head into the living room. I do a quick check for spiders around the room before fully walking in. Hesitantly setting my cup down and sitting on the couch. I jump seeing a fluff, thinking it's a spider. Damn it. Stupid spiders.

The turtles file in, rather quiet. Don had ditched both my phone and the computer, though Mikey still has my book. They make themselves comfortable and I can feel a little smile play at my lips.

"Have you boys ever played Just Dance?"