Leo waited on the side of the room, leaning against the room with his arms crossed. His normal relaxed position when there wasn't a place to sit, or if he chose not to sit.

Lavi was already resting on one of the beds, sleeping peacefully under Donnie and Tony's watchful eyes. Leo was more than a little thankful that nothing serious had been damaged. But, as Donnie had predicted, she was a little bruised up. If her plastron hadn't taken the brunt of the hit it could have been much worse.

Ty was in just in bad shape. Where Lavi had gotten just one major hit, Ty had suffered several smaller ones. Not to mention the throws through the walls. Thane was also nearby, getting his arm looked at by the shy Emily.

Leo smiled a little at her. She was a very good medic, that he could tell when she nodded confidently at what Donnie told her to do and remembered it well enough to be able to tend the grumbling teen on her own so the more turtle experienced medics could work on Ty and Lavi's injuries. Her calm presence, and her tendency to flinch when Thane got too loud, actually forced the boisterous son of Raph to check his temper.

Raph walked over and joined him against the wall. "You said you would explain later, alright...it's later. What in the hell happened?"

"They were attacked."

Raph snorted. "I gathered that much fearless. But by what?"

Leo shook his head. "By the dead."

Raph gave him a long look. "Leo, I think you need to get checked out too. I think you got hit in the head."

"I'm fine Raph. It ran when it caught sight of me and didn't even try to attack me." Leo looked at Raph then, his gaze serious. "It was Jeff. You know just as well as I do he couldn't have survived that fall. And there was no way he could have done all this and then grow wings and fly off."

"You sure you didn't get hit on the head?"

Leo gave him a level look.

"Ok, fine. So Jeff came back to life somehow and he's stronger and has wings. Now the question is...what do we do about it?"

Leo looked out towards the younger turtles again with a sigh. "I'm not sure Raph. I don't think it's us he's after, not directly. Whoever was controlling him didn't seem to want him to face me."

"Cindy maybe?" Raph's eyes wandered over to the redhead who sat quietly nearby, watching and worrying as Ty was worked on.

"That doesn't sit well either with me. Not after hearing what he said to her. She's the reward, not the mission. That much I could gather."

"It's us Dad." Ty said softly. "Or at least me. He's made numerous references of wanting to take us all out."

"You sure?"

"Oh yeah." Thane growled in agreement. "I've heard a phrase or two myself. He is definitely intent on wiping us all out, except for you guys. Why...that I don't know."

"Not really hard to guess on why." Emily quietly said, then blushed when she realised the elder turtles were looking at her, then her mouth effectively shut.

Leo pushed off of the wall and walked over to the shy girl and turned her away from her task to look at him, but she was too embarrassed to look at him and turned her eyes away.

"Oh no, I won't have none of that." Leo told her with a smile. "Look at me child."

Slowly her eyes raised back up to his. Which was quite a distance since she was a tiny little thing.

"You and Dante are a couple now, right?"

She just nodded, unable to get the words out.

"Then you need to get used to talking to us as well, not just our children. If you have something you feel needs to be said, don't hesitate to make it known. We value every member of this family's input, and I have a feeling you might soon join in...if you haven't already."

Donnie's eyeridge raised at that last bit as he looked at the small woman. It really didn't help her out any when she blushed even redder. Then the other eyeridge came up. "Ah. I think it has gone that far Leo." Emily groaned and hid her face in her hands.

"Really Dad!" Dante flustered as he came in from the next room. "Did you really have to blurt it out to the whole room that we are sexally active?"

Donnie turned his head to slowly look at his son. "I never said you were. I was implying that you two are now a firm item...you are the one who just blurted out what goes on in the bedroom."

Emily was about to cry now even as Raph and Thane were trying not to laugh at the poor girl and Dante.

Leo sighed and pulled Emily into the next room, and away from the argument and teasing that was rapidly filling the one left behind. "Emily, don't listen to them. There is nothing to be embarrassed about." He pulled her over to a couple of chairs that were set up as a waiting area in this room and motioned for her to take a seat in one. She did, sliding quietly into it as he sat down in the one next to her.

He sat there with her for a bit, wondering how to break into that shy shell of hers when he decided on humor. "You want me to hit 'em? I'll go back in and smack them around for you a bit if it'll make you feel better."

She looked up at him in shock a moment before a smile found it's way onto her face. "No." She quietly said, then actually laughed. "You don't have to do that."

"Sure? Won't take any effort at all really."

She laughed again. "Yes Leonardo, I'm sure."

"Ok." He leaned back into his chair and crossed his legs out in front of him. "You just let me know when you change your mind. I'll stand up for you until you feel brave enough to do it on your own."

"I'll remember that." Her eyes sparkled with amusement.

"You do that. Now, let's try this again, what were you trying to say in there before the topic wandered way off in the wrong direction."

She blushed a little again, but made eye contact with him at least. "Well, it's just that everyone who gets to see your inner circle knows how close all of you are. The way a family should be actually, but so many aren't. You obviously care for them, not just Ty and Lavi...but all of them. If I were a bad guy...that's what I would hit. Strike at what they love the most and you demoralize the biggest threat. Take out your wife and children...then what do you have left to fight for? I just think Jeff went after Ty first because of his personal vendetta."

Leo felt a rush of anger flow through him with those words, because he knew deep down she was right. It wasn't just Ty and Lavi, all of them were in danger. Amy, Dennis, Vicky, his niece and nephews, Cris, Marina and Cait. All of them were targets now. This was so much more serious than everything similar that has happened before. They could protect themselves now for the most part. But they couldn't protect themselves against this, and that frightened him to no end.

Emily nervously watched him finally accept what he hadn't wanted to before. He had somehow deep inside hoped that his family would be spared getting involved with this, had even planned later on to leave them behind to keep them out of the main fight he knew they would try and interfere with. But how could he do that now? How could he leave them anywhere if it was his presence that kept that thing away? He sighed and rubbed his face in frustration.

And how many now exactly were targets? Who would Jeff go after? Just his family or the humans who were beginning to form bonds with the younger members? Like Emily here. Was she now also at risk because she chose to show her affection to one of his family members? Kyle? Jessica? Adam? How many would he have to look out for now?

"Leonardo?" Emily spoke up, nervous now that the turtle next to her was brooding. "S-should I leave?"

He shook himself out of his frustrated anger and gave her a reassuring smile. "No child. I'm not upset with you so there is no reason for you to go. And I don't want you too really. I've been so caught up in the events unfolding around me that I haven't been able to spend any time with you or the others. I would like to get to know you better."

She blushed even harder. "Nothing about me to really know." She mumbled out.

"Of course there is. I already know you are very intelligent, or you wouldn't have gotten drafted in the middle of your training. When you have to be you are calm, confident and quick with descisions. But that's the professional you, I want to get to know the everyday you."

She looked at him a long while, not really sure what to say, or embarrassed to share anything of her personal life. "Well... I uh... I like to read. And I like to ride horses. My parents own a ranch in Montana and I grew up riding."

"See? Already two things about you I didn't know."

Emily smiled a bit at him. "And I really like your nephew."

"That is already very obvious." Leo chuckled.

The door opened and another newcomer to his family entered the room, now properly dressed. Jessica came in, her eyes more than a little worried. "Oh, hey... Didn't mean to interrupt anything."

This one Leo knew even less of. It was with a bit of startlement that he was noticing how much he had missed as he wallowed in his own personal struggles. So much had happened on the sidelines. "You're not. I was just taking the time to get caught up on some things is all."

"Don't be picking on my boy's girl Leo." Raph told him from the doorway.

"I'm not. I'm pretty much over the embarrassing them part. The relationships have obviously progressed further than that." He looked at the two women with a rueful expression. "And I missed it."

"Finally coming out of you self pity pit?"

Leo shrugged. "Had to eventually I suppose."

"How's Thane?" Jessica asked the large turtle leaning in the doorframe.

"He'll be fine." Raph answered her, his tone somewhat gentle as he did. "He was surprisingly lucky."

Leo raised his eyeridge at his brother and the change in his demeanor.

"What? He went through a lot of effort to catch her eye. Not sure he would appreciate me scaring her off again."

Leo laughed lightly as he got back to his feet. "I think you are letting that soft spot show Raph. Better not let Mikey find out."

"Then you better not tell him...or I'll knock both your heads together."

Speaking of the devil... Mikey came bursting in next, and didn't slow down one bit as he rushed by them all. "Donnie! Help!"

Leo and Raph exchanged amused looks as they followed with Emily and Jessica.

"What now?" Donnie sounded a little exasperated at the interruption as he checked over Lavi.

"It burns!" Mikey replied.

"What burns!"

"My mouth! Make it stop!"

"Will you stop babbling and calm down! What's wrong?"

"My damn mouth is on fire! That's what's wrong!"

Caitlin came walking in, her face a little furious as she held a tube of toothpaste in her hand. "Mikey, I usually don't mind these prank wars...but I draw the line when someone puts pepper, cayenne by the looks of it, in the stuff I use." She threw the tube at him and turned and stormed back out again. "I refuse to be collateral damage!"

"Buuuuusted..." Thane and Raph mumbled together.

"Cayenne pepper isn't that bad." Ty grinned from where he was sitting.

Donnie picked up the tube of toothpaste and squeezed some out. "It is when you got this much in it." Then he dropped it again as he cracked up laughing.