Disclaimer: I don't own the TMNT. They're just staring in my own story. They aren't getting paid and nether am I. I do own however Jeanetta Patterson and Monica Patterson.

A thanks to Mikell for beta reading.

A/N: What nobody like? Come on…tell me do you like or what?

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A week. Had it really been that only that long? She was fully healed in body but unfortunately not in mind. She continued to still have nightmares and almost every morning she was found asleep on the couch and always in the same spot. It didn't take long before they began to realize it was also the same spot that Raphael usually choose when he would watch TV. But other then that she didn't seem to try to get close to him. In fact she seemed to slightly avoid him. She talked to him and didn't ignore but she didn't seek him out.

April's bond with her had formed why back and because she was the only other female and could relate to her the best. Donatello was thrilled when she showed interest in all of his gadgets. He wasted no time in starting to teach her what they all were. And they both were studying on the affects of her mutation. Master Splinter was as close to a parent figure as she could get. She listened to all of his stories with intense interest often joining Leonardo in his studies. And Mikey was happy to have a buddy. She loved Mikey's jokes They picked back up were Mikey had left off teaching her how to play video enjoyed indulging in 'pizza attacks'. Mikey had been relived that she still loved pizza, though she still ate ether in her room or when every else was gone.

A pair of eyes watched her as she took her plate up to her room. The girl that he had first met had seemed to disappear and in her place a completely different person. She still moved with a stiffness, as if she was going to fall any minute. She never did and sometimes he would catch her move gracefully but then she would caught herself and her movements would become jerky again. He remembered that first night that they had met and Leo had put them on the patrols that would include watching her.

He had been surprised at her attack but as she continued to try to hit him and her determination had actually impressed him. She had been too clumsy but she had the passion. Raphael wasn't much of a problem solver but this clicked in him. The girl had spent all her life as a klutz and trying not to fall down, that now that she has the grace she didn't know how to use it and used all her energy on something that wouldn't happen any more.

Raphael moved to his father's room to talk with him.

Jean placed her plate in the sink and pulled on the long gloves that April had brought for her. Jean had found out that her fur took forever to dry after the first time she had taken a shower. And to do one plate and a fork it would take twenty minutes to dry her hands even if she used a hairdryer. She then began to wash it. She felt a hand on her shoulder and turned around to see Master Splinter. "Yes Master Splinter?"

"Jean, it had been brought to my attention that you would like to train with the boys."

Jean stared at him. "You mean ninjitsu?" He had been teaching her about mediation but never had brought her learning what he had taught and was teaching April and the turtles. She had never mentioned it to him. She had been planning to bring it up but someone had beaten her to it. And she had only told three off of it. April, Leo, and Raph. She smiled and nodded. "I'd love to."

Master Splinter nodded and turned to leave, "Then I'll see you at tonight's training."

Later that night instead of claiming the TV like she normally did when they went to the night sparing she followed.

"Jean! Hey dudette, you coming to watch us spar in the dojo!?" Mikey exclaimed as he bounded past. He stopped and wrapped an arm around her giving her puppy dog eyes. "

Yep. I think Master Splinter is going to teach me."

"Cool!" Mikey let go of her and ran into the was the last one in and stood in awe as she look around the massive room. Weapons of all kinds hung neatly on the walls. On one of the far walls, a Japanese flag hung proudly. There was also a well abused punching bag suspended from the ceiling and a rack of weights. She walked to a far corner of the dojo and sat down curling her tail around her legs. She watched as they began their lessons. They all grabbed some practice weapons.

Donnie and Mikey went first after they all warmed up. They bowed to each other and got into fighting positions.

Donnie was the first to make a move by charging toward Mikey. Mikey easily dodged Donnie by jumping up in the air with ease. Donnie spun around and tried to hit Mikey in the back of his shell, but Mikey flipped in mid air and kicked Donnie in the plastron, sending him flying across the room.

Donnie landed on his feet somehow, and jumped at Mikey, who was staring wide-eyed at Donnie. Donnie hit right into Mikey and knocked him straight to the ground. He lost his nunchakus. Mikey gasped for air because the air was knocked right out of him. He jumped up and charged toward Donnie. He started to try a series of punches and kicks but Donnie blocked each saw an opening and took it, smacking Mikey right in the legs with his bo-staff, causing him to fall on his shell. Mikey found the base of the staff at his throat.

Donnie helped Mikey up and they walked over where Jean was sitting. Mikey sat to her right, Donnie sat to her left. Mikey had a small pout. Jean smiled and leaned against Mikey slightly. He seemed to enjoy the attention and leaned back.

Raph and Leo stood up and walked to the center of the room. Like Donnie and Mikey, Leo and Raph got into fighting stances. Raph was the first to strike. He charged toward Leo and swung his practice sais. Leo slid to the left with ease and jumped in the air. Raph saw this and quickly spun around and tossed his right sai in the air. Raph lifted his right arm in the air and grabbed Leo's left foot and tugged him down roughly. He brought his arm down just in time to catch his sai.

Leo fell to the ground with a thump but he jumped up quickly. As he did so, he slid his right leg under Raph and knocked him to the growled angrily and got up. He glared at Leo as he dropped his sais to the ground with a audible, "CLANG!".Leo understood what he had meant and dropped his own started to throw punches a kicks at Leo who simply dodged each. Raph frowned and started to kick and punch much faster.

She soon realized each one's style. Leo would much rather dodge the attacks and let the enemy wear themselves out, while Raph wanted to get the job done quickly and wore himself out much minutes had passed and Leo must have seen an opportunity to strike and did so, popping Raph in his jaw roughly. The blow was hard enough to send Raph flying across the sent a glare at Leo and stood up and walked away. He stomped out of the dojo.

"Sore loser, every time!" Mikey whispered to Jean. Jean nodded, though she could see were Raphael came from. In the time that she had been with then she now understood the need for him to beat Leo, even if it was only in practice. Leo was the favored student. In Raphael's eyes Leo needed to be brought down a notch.

Splinter excused the others and called her over. He had her to go through a series of warm up movements. He watched her closely. She tried hard almost too hard. Master Splinter saw that she wanted to learn, but she was focusing too much on where to place her feet or when she would turn she thought too much on where she would move to.

"Jean." he stopped her. "Child, you are thinking too much on where you are moving to. Free your mind. You will not fall."

Jean stopped and took a deep breath. Come on relax. Girl, you have not fell even once since you had been changed. Donnie said that a cat's genes had been spliced into your own. Let the cat take over. The cat knows. After Jean relaxed she bowed to Master Splinter and took another deep breath and began the warm ups again.

This time she flowed through the warm ups. The simple exercises were what he had taught to his sons years ago. But she moved with a grace that even Leonardo and Michelangelo didn't have. He suspected that it was due to the fact that she was almost more cat then human now. After two hours he called the session to a stop. "Good. I will resume your lesson in the morning after the boys."

Jean bowed to him and watched him leave. She bit her lip to keep from jumping from joy. She then looked around and then did the movements again. She then stopped and did something she had always wanted to do. A cartwheel. At first she was afraid that she would fall but after she did it she grinned big. She then began to copy some of the movement that she had seen the turtles do that day. She did slip and fall, sometimes ending painfully on her butt or her knees, but she tried them again and finally she was able to Mikey's first movement he had done earlier. She jumped up in the air and flipped in mid air. She landed hard but she landed on her feet. She could move! The freedom of movement she had always wanted! She now had it.

"I've never seen anyone so happy to learn Ninjitsu."

Jean looked her shoulder. Raphael stood just inside the door, wearing a scowl on his face, his arms crossed."Well, when one has spent much of their life walking around with a handicap that made them fall every five minutes then learning how to be graceful you would be excited too." she retorted staring at him.

"I hope you know that it won't be easy. There will be a lot of bruises and pains and-" he was cut short when Jean ran up to him and shoved him.

"You don't think I can't handle it!?" she snarled. Her ears were pinned back and her tail was swishing madly behind her. "Look at me!" she shrieked, "The experimentation that they did on me wasn't exactly pain free! My whole body changed. My insides twisted and turned! I grew a tail! My teeth had fallen out and new ones grew! My eyes!" her voice rose even higher. "My eyes oozed and ran then changed! Is that enough details for you? And you think that I can't handle a little soreness and mere bruises?" she shoved him again this time out the door. "Men and their egos!" she then jumped over him and took off up to her room.

Raph turned around and raised his eyebrow ridges at the sight of his brothers staring at him.

"Way to go Raphie!" Mikey laughed.

"Whatever." he scoffed. He went back into the dojo, muttering, "Women."

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Jean didn't know why Raphael seemed to bring the worst out in her. But he deserved it. She growled as she paced in her room. She let her claws slide out and dug them into the wooden plank that she and Leo had carried up into her room. The fresh smell of peeled wood tickled her nose and she sneezed.

"Bless you." the soft voice of Donatello sounded behind her.

Jean turned around and smiled warmly, "Donnie."

"You alright?" he looked down at his hands.

"Yeah, it was just my nasty temper again." she sheathed her claws and looked at him. "So what's everybody doing?"

"Master Splinter and Leo is off meditating, Mikey decided to have pizza tonight and Raph is in the dojo." he looked down at his hands again, "Jean-"

"Dinner! Pizza time dudes…and dudette!" He was cut off when Mikey's voice shouted out in the main room.

"Do you want me to bring you a slice?" Donnie shook her head.

"No. I think I'll eat down there tonight." She walked up to Donnie and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Thanks."

When they walked into the kitchen everyone else was at the table. Leonardo looked up surprised as Jean slid into a chair. "You eating down here?"

Jean nodded, "I can't eat in my room forever. Plus after seeing the way Mikey eats I really shouldn't feel so bad."

"Hey!"

Everyone laughed. Except Raphael. He kept glaring at her the whole time. Jean just ignored him.

Mikey then proceed to prove her point. He began to gobble down his.

Jean picked up the pizza and bit into it. True her teeth was not made to chew, but she still had her cheeks. The past week she had learned to control her teeth. She just had to take smaller bites. She ate dinner with them and laughed at Mikey. Just as they were finishing up Raph sent one last glare at her then stood up. "I'm going to bed." He mumbled not looking back at them. Master Splinter also began to walk toward his room.

"Good night, Master Splinter." the boys all yelled in unison. Jean laughed as she pulled on the gloves so she could wash the dishes. Thankfully they weren't many. Paper plates seemed to dominate most of the china. She put the last dish away and dried her damp fur. She turned and almost squeaked when she saw Donatello still sitting at the table. "I thought you had went back to the lab." She said after her heart calmed down.

"Nah. I was just thinking."

"And what is going through the whiz kid's mind?" Jean joked as she sat down at the table.

"Many different things. Jean, earlier I wanted to ask you-" again he was cut off when Mikey came bounding up waving a movie.

"Hey guys! Did you want to watch this?"

Jean's ears pitched forward at a low growl from Donatello. That was new. The olive turtle was normally quiet and hard to anger.

Donatello sighed and his shoulders dropped. "Yeah Mikey. We'll be right there."

Jean didn't remember the name of the movie that Mikey had picked out. Whatever it was it was a gory one. Normally Jean would be hanging onto every blood splattered scene, but tonight she was distracted. She got lost in her thoughts and was shaken out of her thoughts at a loud snore. She looked around and saw that Mikey had fallen asleep in the middle of it and was snoring loudly. She looked over to were Donnie was. He had also fallen asleep but at least hewas quiet. She then noticed that Leo had joined, though he didn't really pay attention ether. She turned back to the movie just as the last monster was killed and the credits began to roll. She yawned and stretched her arms up. Leo did the same as he stood up and stretched.

Jean really didn't want to go to bed though she was tired. She was beginning to dread the nightmares though she couldn't remember them.

"What's wrong?" Leo asked looking over at her.

"Oh, nothing." she stood up and looked back at the two turtles still asleep. She smiled and shook her head. She followed Leo up the stairs.

"I'll see you in the morning." Leo said stepping into his room.

"Okay. G'night." she waved as Leo waved back and continued on down toward her room. She paused outside Raphael's room. Loud music was playing. She bit her lip and raised her hand to knock, but shook her head. Why did she want to seek him out when he was so mean to her? She hadn't done anything to him and he had been nice that night before she had been taken. She had liked spending that time with him. She opened her door and turned the light on. Untying the red obi sash to her knee length yukata she let it fall. She then pulled on her favorite black cotton pants and black and white tank top. April had gotten her five of the yukatas. All of them was pastel floral prints expect one, which was a bright red with a white obi. She wore them most of the time now like Master Splinter. The soft cotton was loose and didn't pull at her fur. Though she still wore loose t-shirts and pants every now and then. She curled up on the bed feeling even more alone then she had felt when she was still at home.

Jean shot out of the bed, panting. Another dream and like the last one she forgot it as soon as she woke up. All that she knew was that it was bad. She sighed and walked out of her room. She knew were she was headed. The couch. Maybe she should just move down to the couch. That is were she always ended up at. But tonight something was different. The lights were off, but the flickering TV wasn't. She sniffed. There was only one turtle and he was wake and waking watching TV. Her dark gray cat ears swiveled. As quietly as possible Jean padded down the stairs, following the noise.

Ahead of her was the couch. Voices reached her ears. The back of the couch was facing her impairing her vision and making her think that no one was around. A slight movement caught her attention and Jean grinned.

Crouching down she crawled across the room towards the couch. The predator within her took over as she eyed her prey and moved silently in the dark. She kept low and paused when her position was in potential danger.

Finally she was crouched just a few feet away from the couch. Jean's nose was filled with the smell of her victim. It was a purely masculine scent with motor oil and grease with a under scent of a light sugar and milky scent.

The give-away trait of her victim tapped his fingers slowly. Jean hunkered down as she watched.

She prepared herself for the jump.

For a third time he tapped his fingers and Jean felt her tail twitch as she judged the distance and made the final preparations.

On the fourth tap Jean launched herself off the floor. Her body soared through the air. With ease she reached one clawed hand down and slapped the fingers.

Unfortunately for Jean she had forgot that he was a ninja and used to sneak attacks. He had known where she was and when she had moved. The arm came up and batted her down onto the couch. He flipped her and she landed on her back her legs on his lap and her head on the other end of the couch. She felt a presser pressure on her belly. One of Jean's eyes opened and then the other. She looked at first at the large hand pressed against her belly, keeping her pinned down. Her eyes followed the green arm to met the two amber eyes that were glaring at her.

"What are you doing?" his voice was low.

"You know I don't know. I guess I was just practicing my hunting skills," she said. "So, what are you doing up?"

He glared down at her. "Sometimes I can't sleep. What are you doing up?"

"Couldn't sleep," she said finally.

"I'm not surprised," he said looking back to the TV.

Jean laid there waiting for him to lift his hand but he didn't. "Uh, you think you can lift your hand. I'd like to get up now."

He didn't answer but continued to watch the program and hold her down. Jean began to squirm and wiggle but she couldn't move and he didn't lift his hand up. She finally gave a irritated grunt and then lifted her head to glare at him. "Let me up please."

Raphael turned from the movie to grin evilly at her. "No. You stay right there. You wanted to sleep on the couch then that's what you are going to do. Right there." His grin got wider as she began to wiggle even more.

She snarled then gave up. He had turned his attention back to the movie. Jean turned her head sideways her legs still laying on his lap. She crossed her arms and began to watch the movie. It was some action movie. It held her attention for awhile until she began to drift off to sleep.