~Thanks again to ziptango for the review. Everyone else, when you've read this, please let me know how I am doing.

Nancy was already at the meeting place and it was only eleven fifty. She leaned against the wall staring at a streetlight, when someone tapped her shoulder. Nancy turned expecting Shredder, but instead found a man with a shaved head and vest was standing next to her. When Nancy backed up reflexively the man grinned yellow teeth at her, as he stepped forward. Remembering what Master Splinter had taught her, Nancy sprang into action.

Nancy faked a step to the right, dropped and kicked the guy's feet out from under him. Growling, he got up and charged at Nancy. She stepped out of the way and he ran into the wall. Nancy then slammed his head into the wall again, which knocked him out. Clapping was heard then Shredder came into view.

"Now, finish him off," Shredder commanded. Nancy gave him a yeah, right look.

"Did you try to pick put men for Shannon as well?" Nancy asked. "Because if you did it sucks." Instead of waiting for an answer, Nancy got right to the point.

"Where's Michelangelo?" Nancy demanded.

"Of course," Shredder stated. "All for the mutant." With a swirl of his cape, Shredder took Nancy to the technodrome. There, Kraing was at the main control panel. Nancy made a bit of a face, shook herself, and looked at Shredder.

"Go and get the mutant turtle," Shredder said. "Once you find him return with him in twenty four hours. If you send him back alone, he won't live to see the next day. If you don't find him in twenty-four hours, return, or I'll take out his brothers one by one. They'll be lost with out their brother and apparently got attached to you as well." Nancy hung her head, knowing he was right. Shredder laughed

"So it seems that you helped me after all." Nancy glared at him while Shredder went to the control panel and typed something in. On the screen night appeared, Nancy's house came into view. Shredder picked Nancy up and pushed her through the portal. She looked back and saw Shredder in the technodrome, surrounded by a glimmer. Then it faded.

Nancy looked up at the house. 'No better place to begin than at home.' The house would be locked up right now and Nancy didn't have her keys. Her car had been put in the driveway though. Nancy walked up to her car and jostled the door handle and found that her parents had locked it. Just when Nancy thought it wasn't going to open, the lock sprang. Under the drivers seat Nancy found what she was looking for, the spare house key.

Quietly as she could, Nancy entered the house and went to her room. Nancy stopped short as her heart thudded in her chest. Then Nancy let out a sigh of relief. Michelangelo was asleep on her bed. Nancy looked at her TV and saw that Michelangelo had watched all three of the movies, all not rewound or put back in their covers.

A piece of paper was on the floor. Nancy picked it up and realized that it was a missing persons poster for her. Nancy sighed and looked over at her old book bag. She knew what she had to do. Emptying the book bag, Nancy opened her clothes drawer and took out her favorite sweater. Slowly she put it in the book bag, feeling kind of numb that she might never see this room again, that she wouldn't see her parents again. Nancy's gaze fell on Michelangelo breathing softly as he slept and she took a breath.

I'm doing this all for you, giving up my family, everything I know. Nancy's radio in the corner of her room had some cd's in a rack next to it. She grabbed almost all of them and a long time favorite book. From her photo albums, Nancy grabbed a picture of her parents and tucked it in the pages.

Goodbye to you

Goodbye to everything, that I knew

You are the one I love

The one thing that I'm going to try to hold on to

A picture stuck in the side of a mirror called to Nancy. It was her best friend, Mary and she. Nancy took the picture down and wrote a note on the back.

Dear Mary,

From this point on, I'll be far away, yet somehow close. I'll be with those that care very much about me and will keep me safe. I can't explain it now, because I don't have the room or the time, I must move fast. Please trust me in this and believe me. If I ever see you again, I'll try to explain what happened. I'll never forget you.

Nancy

Nancy looked at the photograph and them tossed it onto the desktop.

And it hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time

I want my family and I want yours to

The time has come to make a decision now

Nancy looked around the room and felt like she was going to cry.

Goodbye to you

Goodbye to everything that I knew

I gave it up for love

For the one I have to hold on to.

As Nancy turned around she looked at the door and nearly lost her breath.

~ The lyrics from the song above are slightly altered from Goodbye to you by Michelle Branch. I unfortunately do not own or make money off of it.