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Ch5 discovery

Leonardo walked back down to the lair, feeling numb. He couldn't disobey Master Splinter, yet, Melody was right. That's what he has been doing all along. Maybe what he needed to do was talk to his sensei, come clean with everything and see what Master Splinter can make of it. Inside the lair, Leonardo knocked and waited for permission to enter Master Splinter's room. Sitting across from him Leonardo crossed his legs.

"What troubles you, my son?" Master Splinter asked. He patiently waited as Leonardo took a breath.

"Remember Melody?" Leonardo started. Master Splinter nodded. "Well, I said goodbye to her, even thought you told me not to." Master Splinter waited knowing it was more than that.

"So through out the years, I shadowed her making sure that she was always safe. A few times I stopped a burglar going in the apartment, but I didn't know if it was Melody they were after.

"Two years ago she disappeared for a few months and when she returned, I found that she had moved in a mew apartment and had some new friends. I was hoping that she was going to get on with a normal human life when last night I noticed her apartment was dark a lot earlier than usual. I went to the window and saw a note saying where she would be, meeting some people. I think she put it there on purpose.

"So I went to the theater and heard someone talking to her. Once I got in, they were gone and Melody claims that it was me. She then told me that she was tired of me shadowing her and wanted me in her life or out of it, not in-between." Leonardo paused for a minute.

"So what did you do?" Master Splinter asked.

"I gave her a hug," Leonardo said. "And left her there." Master Splinter nodded.

"I see that it may not have been a wise decision to have you break all contact with her so quickly, but," Master Splinter said, before Leonardo could respond.

"Let me meditate on this and see what answers I can find," Master Splinter, said. "Maybe in time, we will know what we can do, in the mean time, be true to your word. Do not follow Melody, leave her be." Leonardo nodded and bowed to his sensei before leaving.

I was in the bathroom drawing a bath, I needed to relax. Putting in perfumes of all sorts, mostly lavender I sighed and put on the radio softly playing music. A soft jazzy tune filled the air as I lowered in the tub.


Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize - don't patronize me

Picking up my razor I started to shave, out of habit more than actually needing to do so.

Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't

As I accidentally cut myself, I cursed out loud.

"Leo, why are you doing this to me?" I cried flinging the razor across the tub. I sat there in a fury, feeling my anger grow until I thought I was going to…

'Crack'

Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power

Looking over to the mirror I saw that it didn't look like it was hit with anything. Just cracks ran all along side it. Forgetting about the rest of the bath, I got out, dried myself and called the apartment manager. He came in and was surprised to see the mirror like so.

But you won't, no you won't
'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't

"I'm sorry Miss Melody, I'll get a repair man in right away.." I waved him off.

I'll close my eyes, then I won't see
The love you don't feel when you're holding me

"It's alright," I looked over at it and crossed my arms. "Just bizarre." The manager apologized over and over until he finally left, I closed the door thinking, what in the world happened in there?

Morning will come and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight

Shaking my head I grabbed the radio and sat down on the couch. The TV was on mute but I wasn't watching what was on. I just sat there staring blankly at it.

Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't

I spent the rest of my night on that couch, my thoughts tripping on themselves about Leonardo and the bathroom mirror. In the morning I was surprised to wake on the couch and I looked around wondering what woke me. A knocking on the door sounded and I got up, flinging on my robe as I went. It was only the repairman for the mirror. He went in and I went in my room to get dressed. I heard him leave and I poked my head out to make sure he was really gone. I went inside the bathroom, the broken mirror was still there and saw a note left on the counter. I picked it up and read:

"This is your power," I shook my head and kept reading. "This was fueled off of your anger, be ware that it could get out of hand." What was it talking about, sure I've gotten mad before but it never broke a mirror. I threw the note across the room feeling even more frustrated. Jamming my feet into my shoes I went out for a walk.

By now I should know that walks are my downfall. Even with the bright sun out, it never fails. I stopped at my bank to make a withdraw. While inside at the tellers cage everyone hears a shout from behind them.

"Everyone freeze, this is a stick up!" I groaned and followed the instructions like everyone else. Lay down on the floor, don't look at the robber. Right now I wasn't scared like I should have been. My mind is so busy buzzing around with past events that I failed to see how serious the situation really was.

"Hurry up lady," The man threatened the teller I was just at. From what I could see there was only the one thief. I chanced a glance up at him and saw his hand shaking, he was scared to death. My nose started to itch and I couldn't help it, I sneezed. The thief spun around and took a shot at me, the bullet landed right in my arm. I screamed as the pain stretched through my shoulder and down through my hand. I looked up at the burglar. He wore a stocking mask and even through it you could see he was shocked at what he had just done. My arm was bleeding slightly as I got up, holding my right hand over it. He took a step back then remembered that he had a gun.

"Don't make me shoot you again," He threatened.

"Put that down," I said slowly, pointing my uninjured hand at him while walking towards him. He raised his arm like he was going to shoot again then lowered his weapon. His legs hit the edge of a chair and I reached out a hand to push him into it. Before my hand even touched him, he flew backwards and hit the wall, which was a few feet away. Shocked I looked at my hand then realized there were people all around me running and screaming. The cops showed up a few minutes later and arrested the criminal. When the tellers told them what I had done they asked me how.

"I don't know," I said. They nodded, not believing me and left after some paramedics came and patched up my arm. I don't even remember the walk home, I was just there all of a sudden. The bathroom mirror was fixed one thing that went right today. Back on the couch I was thinking, I almost preferred Eric to this. At least back then I could make some sense of what was going on with me, I was either crazy or seeing this phantom killer after me. Right now I had no clue.

"Don't think about that vampire." I looked up at the voice and saw James standing in the shadows of the room.

~ Oooh a cliffhanger, I know I'm evil ::Mwuhahahaha:: Next chapter on it's way :o)