A/N: This is the result of listening to one song over and over. You eventually end up writing something like this! I do not own the TMNT. They belong to Nick. Meg belongs to Gaia Kame. The song "I'm With You" belongs to Avril Lavigne and I can only dream of someday creating awesome music as she has!

Charlie stood upon the bridge that was somewhere in Central Park and looked down into the water. It was raining hard and Charlie was content to stay where she was and think. It was a place that she normally didn't go. The docks at night..anyone would be ridiculous to think of going there to look for her. The dark-haired woman needed to think. There were quite a few things on her mind that couldn't be said out loud..well not really.

It had been several weeks since she and Meg had met the turtles and Meg seemed insistent upon forming a relationship between Leo, Raph and Charlie. Charlie didn't think that she was ready, not yet at least. She kept on trying to make up excuses but Meg was starting to have none of it. Charlie didn't want to have to say the real reason. The real reason behind her avoiding the guys was because of her past, her Father most of all and the fact that her last relationship didn't go as planned.

Her Father...the Father she had left behind was very cruel. Ever since her Mother had died, he had made it a point to constantly belittle and mock her on every single thing that she did...and then there was the abuse. For a while it was okay. Just a few punches and hits here and there. A bruise on her arm, a handprint on her face that was easily covered up with some makeup. And then he started drinking and it became harder for her. Charlie had to start to come up with new reasons as to why she had a new noticeable bruise that wasn't there before. 'It's fine,' she'd say to her friends, 'I just fell down a flight of stairs when I was going to refill my drink last night. I'm okay. Really.' They were skeptical but they believed her tales until she had to go the hospital one too many times. They told her to make a choice. To tell the truth or they were out. As much as Charlie wanted to she couldn't. She wanted to be free of the lies, she really did but she couldn't risk her friends. She just couldn't. Not while her Father was alive and as powerful as he was. There was a reason why many feared him. And so her so-called 'friends' left.

Charlie didn't have another friend until the following year when she met this blonde boy with blue eyes named Adam Boyle. She was a Sophmore and he was a Freshman. He came up to her upfront and asked if she would go with him to the Homecoming dance and she said yes. They dated for a couple of weeks and then after she introduced him to her Father, at his request, things started to go wrong. Adam started to raise his voice alot, he'd grab her forcefully. He started to demand more out of her. When she'd refuse he made her pay by abuse when they were alone. It wasn't until a month later that she'd realized that he was under her Father's orders to date and control her. That was when she'd gotten pissed.

The next day she'd gotten to him when he was alone and they were going to their buses. "You! You foul, loathsome, evil little fuckin' bitch!"

"What is it, Honey?" He raised a lone platinum blonde eyebrow at her as she marched over to him.

"What's wrong? I'll tell you what's wrong! How is it that whenever I borrow your phone to use as a calculator, I end up unlocking it and somehow pulling up your latest calls to my Father? How many times does a girl's boyfriend need to talk to her Father? Hm?!" Charlie had narrowed her copper eyes as his baby blue ones.

Those blue eyes had widened for a moment before he smirked at her and grabbed her wrist forcefully. "So what if I did? We need to keep a tight leash on you or else you'll get away. Understand little Bunny?"

That was the last straw for Charlie. That was it! She'd had it with his so-called attitude as of late. "The talks with my Father are going to end now, Boyle. Do you get it? We are through!" With that said, Charlie proceeded to punch him in the face until he released her and from there she punched and kicked him until an aquaintance of hers pulled Charlie off of him.

"Charlie? CHARLIE, STOP! You're going to kill him!" It was the red-headed boy from her computer class, Steven. He was a thin guy with steel-blue eyes and a long mass of curly hair that his friends from Band Class called Mufasa.

"I don't fuckin' care! He deserves it!" Charlie had struggled and squirmed in his grip until she finally gave up. She left for her bus in a foul mood.

Charlie had full plans to talk with her Father that night but was instead picked up by some men that her Father was now working with. Taken to some sort of mansion and dropped off in a random room. A few minutes later, Charlie came face to face with a blonde-haired teen a few years older than her. This was Meg and she didn't know it at the time but they soon became friends. Charlie learned to control her temper and Meg learned how to live again.

Now however, Charlie was upset at Meg. Not pissed because that would involve decking her dear friend and she didn't want to do that or at least not yet.. But did she have to insist on setting up dates, or what would be dates, between Charlie, Leo and Raph. When she had Leo and Raph back at the apartment and Meg's not quite hidden giddy grin, Charlie had scowled and left without another word. You'd think that she'd learn by now and yet she just went ahead and set something up for Charlie without her consent. Well, it wasn't like Charlie had told her that she wasn't ready or anything but still!

The dark-haired woman sighed. She knew that she had to get over the past but it was hard to. Even after three years of having ran away and hiding from said Father and ex-boyfriend she was afraid. Yes, Charlie was afraid to move on to a new love. She was afraid that her new relationship would somehow end up like her last one had. But was it really of any surprise? She was abused by both her Father and her ex-boyfriend. It would make anyone reluctant to move on. Charlie wanted to move on and yet she didn't at the same time.

"Why is everything so confusing? Maybe I'm just out of my mind.." It wasn't like she didn't find Leo and Raph attractive. Quite the opposite really. She found the both of them very attractive actually. The dark-haired woman rested her head upon her hands as she looked down into the rapidly rippling water. Her elbows were alreading resting on the wet wood of the bridge. She knew that it probably wouldn't be a bad thing being in a relationship with them but she also couldn't help but be afraid. Charlie shivered and then she looked a little harder into the water. It was a little difficult considering how waterlogged her glasses already were but it looked like somebody was standing behind her. The dark-eyed woman whirled around and came face to face with someone in a dark trenchcoat and fedora carrying with them a black jacket that looked suspicously like hers.

"I couldn't help but notice how you bolted back there. Are you alright?" It was Leo but what was he doing? Was he actually looking for her?

She lightened her fierce gaze upon him slightly. "I'm fine.."

He handed over the black jacket and Charlie shrugged herself into it. Leo wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "C'mon. Let's go."

Yeah.. It probably won't be that bad to be in a relationship with them as long as they continued to go looking for her. Maybe she could try them out. Put out a couple of tests. Put them on a trial basis to see how it goes. 'I don't know who you are but I..I'm with you.'