**Still don't own the Ninja Turtles, darn it!**
Sara was throwing dirty clothes into her hamper, hoping to at least be able to see the floor again before her guest reentered her room. Her long curly hair was falling in her face and with a growl she got a hair clip to keep it at bay. After picking up the clothes she made her bed, her room smelled like him. It was an odd odor, male in nature but not exactly the same as previous men she had known. She felt a shiver run down her spine again and wondered briefly if something was wrong with her. She had been having odd feelings all morning.
She could hear the soft murmurs of Leonardo talking in the kitchen, he laughed and Sara felt herself smile. She tried to keep busy picking out clothes to wear so that she wouldn't ease drop. She was bending down digging through her underwear drawer when she heard someone clear there throat. Underwear in hand Sara looked up to find Leonardo staring down at her, her eyes grew wide as she thrust the underwear behind her back blushing.
Leonardo could feel himself color also, he had, had one simply question and felt stupid yelling across the apartment. He hadn't expected to find her handling things that went on parts of her body that he shouldn't be thinking about. He cleared his throat a few times…He could hear Mikey's voice over the phone asking him if something was wrong…
"Um….Sara?" He ignored Michaelangelo for the moment.
Sara stood up swiftly wishing desperately she had been looking for a shirt instead. "Yes Leo?" She waited, hearing a small voice complaining over the receiver.
"What's your address here? My brothers just want to know where I am, you know incase anything happens….." Leonardo was trying to not hear Mike's voice, asking him about Sara, because she sounded really pretty and why Leo wanted to come home in the first place. Leonardo felt himself color more hoping Sara couldn't hear him.
"My address and my phone number are written on the dry easer broad by the phone base…" Sara pointed back out to the kitchen. "I tend to forget them." She gave Leo a-lop sided grin, both her hands still behind her back hiding.
"Oh..." Leonardo looked back toward the kitchen. "Thanks." He smiled as he walked away, Sara could hear him hissing something into the phone as he left but couldn't make out the words. Sara let out a deep breath as her doorway cleared. She piled all her clothes together and dashed for the shower. Not wanting anything else embarrassing to happen to her for the length of Leo's phone call.
She showered quick and changed. Sense she had already called in for the day off she put on low-rise jeans and a tank top. She braided her wet hair into two pigtails to keep it out of her way. Leaving the bathroom she noticed Leonardo was off the phone now and in on her couch flipping thought magazines that had been on her coffee table. Grabbing a granola bar to eat she went to stand in her living room doorway, smiling she leaned against the wall.
'Everything taken care of?" She asked the reading Turtle. He looked up, she saw his eyes wander over her and she felt herself blushing again.
"Yeah, I'm going to wait for nightfall to take off. You don't live in a good place to take cover to make my way home. Plus well, I seem to have lost my disguise."
"Oh…. You're going home…?" Leo thought he heard disappointment in her voice. The strange thing was he too felt a bit disappointed but couldn't figure out why.
"Yeah I don't want to be in your way….." His voice trailed off… there was an uncomfortable silence in the room. Neither really wanting to admit the thoughts they were thinking. Leonardo decided to change the subject to help clear his mind. The absolute mess his thoughts had been all morning disturbed him. He wondered if maybe he had been hit harder then he had thought. He'd have Donnie look at it when he got home.
"Hey Sara?" He asked, "Did you happen to see any swords when you helped me? I seem to have lost my Katana blades. They are about this long." He spread his arms apart to give her an example.
"Oh no those were yours?" He saw a pained expression cross her face. "The two Officers on the scene picked them up. They were taken in as evidence." At this Leonardo's face became pained too.
"Hell…" he exclaimed with a soft sigh… Sara saw his face fall and she felt terrible. She crossed the room to sit on the coffee table in front of him.
"I may be able to get them back." Leo's face rose. He looked surprised and suspicious.
"How?" Sara shrugged.
"They went to the station I work at. I know the guy in evidence. He owes me a few favors. If they aren't under lock and key, I may be able to convince him to sneak them out to me."
"Oh I couldn't ask you do that… it's dangerous." Sara shrugged.
"But I want to help you." Her brown eyes met his… she reached out to touch his fingers. Their gaze locked, suddenly Leonardo pulled away.
"Anyway its my fault for not grabbing them in the first place." Sara looked determined and Leonardo sighed, recognizing the expression.
"I'm not going to be able to talk you out of this mission am I?" He sat back into the couch, his arms crossed across his chest a look of authority on his face. Sara simply shook her head. Her mind set.
"Well then I better hang around one more night. If you get hurt I'm going to feel like it's my fault if I'm not here to do something." Leonardo ran his hand back over his smooth scalp thinking. "I'll need you to give me a complete layout of the station and the surrounding buildings. I don't like going into things blind."
Sara nodded and stood. "Let me just grab a piece of paper and a pencil and I'll draw you a rough diagram." She started to walk from the room.
"While you're doing that, can I use your phone again? I should call my brothers and tell them there has been a change of plans."
"Feel free…" Sara called over her shoulder, "my house is your house!" She disappeared around the corner and Leo rose to grab the phone.
Michaelangelo, the brother Leonardo had been on the phone with a short time before was now sacked out on the couch watching daytime talk shows. A bag of chips at his side he was booing a deadbeat dad with the studio audience. He looked a lot like his brother, with the exception that he was shorter and had an orange bandana framing his face.
As he started throwing chips at a particularly awful man that claimed his wife had cheated on him with half his town and that's why he didn't care about the kids, the phone rang. Mike glanced up and then looked back at the TV.
"Donnie! The phones ringing!" Michaelangelo yelled but didn't move. His brother's voice answered him back.
"Can't you get it Mikey? I'm in the middle of rebuilding a hard drive and I hate to be interrupted." The voice faded away. Donatello had that busy sound to his tone that Mike knew meant he wasn't going to be able to sucker him into taking the call.
"RAPH!" Mike tried for his other brother… "The phones ringing!"
"Then answer it!" Came a voice from the kitchen.
"But I answered it last time…" Michaelangelo whined. "I wanna see if these kids are this guys!" Loud thumping could be heard heading in his direction. A very annoyed looking turtle stomped into the room stopping to glare at Mike with an expression of disgust on his face.
"You lazy sack of shit! Your nearest to the phone you know." Mike shrugged at his brother and Raphael rolled his eyes turning towards the phone. Raphael was as tall as Leo and as built but not as disciplined. The red bandana that graced his face could be said to represent his fiery temper. He grabbed the phone.
"Whoever this is this better be life or death…."
"I miss you too Raph." Leonardo's claim voice dug into Raphael's already flaring mood.
"Well if it isn't little miss pussy willow! I heard some little girl had to save your ass…" Raph chuckled into the phone. On the other end Leo's face colored with displeasure, but for the time being he tried to ignore his brothers taunts."
"The reason I'm calling Raphael is I won't be home until tomorrow night. Could you please tell everyone, especially Splinter."
"Whoa Leo are you getting a piece of ass?'" Raphael was downright smirking now and even Michaelangelo had turned from the TV, thoughts of his brothers sex life much more interesting.
Now Leonardo really turned red, he growled into the receiver… "Raph why can't you just kept your big mouth shut!" He yelled, losing a bit of his ever-enduring cool. Raphael was the only one that really knew how to push his buttons.
"Yeah whatever Leo…listen call us if you need anything….like you know an explanation of what goes where okay?" On the couch Mike was hanging off he was laughing so hard.
Leonardo was about to set into a tirade when a small female voice was heard on Raphael's side of the receiver. He couldn't make out any words, just that her tone was soothing and pretty.
"Listen Raph I need to go…" Leonardo's temper was claming.
"I'm sure you do…" Raphael got one more good jab in. "See you on the flip side."
"Yeah….bye." Leonardo swiftly hung up and Raphael started chuckling, as he too hung the phone up on his side.
"That was too funny man." Mikey was wiping tears from his eyes. Raphael sat in the chair next to the couch and grinned.
"Well I am the master…"
"So what did Leo want anyway?" Michaelangelo turned back to the television, the show on the phone over.
"Oh he won't be home for another night…"
"Why?" Mike sat up again question in his eyes. Raphael thought for a moment before he smirked again.
"You know I forgot to ask."
"You better call him again and find out, Master will want to know." Mike nodded and started munching on chips…
"I think I have a better idea…" Raphael raised, an evil glint in his eyes.
Sara had reentered the room drawing in hand to find Leonardo almost yelling into the phone. His back was to her and from his posture she could tell he was tense and annoyed. She watched him almost roar into the phone and actually took a step back intimidated.
"Leo?" She asked in a small voice…"Is everything alright." She noticed some of the tension melt as he turned. His brown eyes softening as he looked at her.
"Listen Raph I have to go…" Sara noted the name and remembered Leonardo's description of his brother Raphael, the one that seemed to know how to get to him. She watched as Leo glared again, whatever Raph said back displeasing him, then he hung up.
"I made you your drawing." She followed him to the kitchen as he placed the phone back up on the wall.
"Thank you…" He reached out a hand and Sara gave the drawing to him. Taking it over to the kitchen table Leonardo sat down to study what Sara had made for him. Sara watched Leo as he looked at the map, noting that his shoulders were still tense, she wondered if he would mind her helping him. Biting the bullet she stepped up behind him and laying two soft hands on his strong shoulders started to massage them. She heard him grunt in surprise, his body tensing more for a moment before relaxing under her touch.
Leonardo felt startled, he had never had a women touch him in this manner before. So tender. He had known women in battle and a friend had mended wounds before but never had one caressed his body in such a fashion. Mixtures of feeling were speeding through him and the map in front of him was quickly forgotten. He leaned back hard against the chair enjoying the attention he was receiving. He didn't realize how much he was enjoying it until he began to feel a little too warm. He shifted, suddenly uncomfortable in his own shell.
"That's great thank you." He knew he had gasped a little, his own primal urges something he wasn't used to having to control.
"No problem…" Sara smiled as she pulled away and walked across the table to take the other seat, in her own naiveté not realizing the effect she had just had on this man.
Leonardo closed his eyes for one brief moment gathering his rattled senses, Sara looked at him worried she had done something wrong but stayed silent. Finally he turned back to the map.
"So why did you choose to work at a police station?" Leo was trying to start a new topic, to distill the emotions he was suppressing.
"I want to be a police officer." Sara stated matter-o-factly. "Figured there probably wasn't a better place for me to be until I pass the entrance exam." She watched Leonardo study her. He was thinking how she was so small and delicate in appearance. He simply couldn't picture her as a cop.
"Fighting crime is tough you know." He lowered his eyes back to the drawing, not seeing Sara's lips purse in annoyance.
"I'm very good at taking care of myself thank you very much!" Sara could feel passion rise within her at being questioned and didn't try to control it. Leo simply shook his head.
"I don't think you even realize what you are getting yourself into." He was surprised when Sara stood suddenly, his attention brought back to her. She looked irritated. Very few things aggravated her, except people that questioned her ability to follow her dream. She walked pass Leonardo and to her closet. Once there she grabbed a jacket.
"I need to go walk a neighbor's dog. Everything you should need to know is on that map. I shouldn't be much longer then an hour. Feel free to make yourself at home." Sara looked a little hurt by Leo's doubt of her and he felt suddenly stupid for what he had said, but he bit his lip, because he also felt his opinion was right. She didn't know what she was getting herself into. Sara looked at him a moment longer, before walking to the door and leaving. Leonardo put his head back into the map for a few moments, before he started to smell something. It was her perfume, light and airy, like a fresh spring flower. The scent was on him from she had been massaging him. Abruptly he felt really bad. It really didn't matter if his opinion was right or wrong. It wasn't proper of him to be so rude to Sara. Especially when she had been so sweet to him.
Leonardo stood; he had an idea about what he could do to make up for being a jerk. Rolling the drawing up so that it was safe he grinned and got to work.
**Sorry this chapter took so long to get up. I'm almost done with school and I find myself much too busy as of present. I felt this was an interesting place to leave off. I mean where was Price in this chapter and what is Leonardo up to? And the better question is…what is Raphael up to? As always reviews, comment, ideas and questions are appreciated. Thanks for reading!**
Sara was throwing dirty clothes into her hamper, hoping to at least be able to see the floor again before her guest reentered her room. Her long curly hair was falling in her face and with a growl she got a hair clip to keep it at bay. After picking up the clothes she made her bed, her room smelled like him. It was an odd odor, male in nature but not exactly the same as previous men she had known. She felt a shiver run down her spine again and wondered briefly if something was wrong with her. She had been having odd feelings all morning.
She could hear the soft murmurs of Leonardo talking in the kitchen, he laughed and Sara felt herself smile. She tried to keep busy picking out clothes to wear so that she wouldn't ease drop. She was bending down digging through her underwear drawer when she heard someone clear there throat. Underwear in hand Sara looked up to find Leonardo staring down at her, her eyes grew wide as she thrust the underwear behind her back blushing.
Leonardo could feel himself color also, he had, had one simply question and felt stupid yelling across the apartment. He hadn't expected to find her handling things that went on parts of her body that he shouldn't be thinking about. He cleared his throat a few times…He could hear Mikey's voice over the phone asking him if something was wrong…
"Um….Sara?" He ignored Michaelangelo for the moment.
Sara stood up swiftly wishing desperately she had been looking for a shirt instead. "Yes Leo?" She waited, hearing a small voice complaining over the receiver.
"What's your address here? My brothers just want to know where I am, you know incase anything happens….." Leonardo was trying to not hear Mike's voice, asking him about Sara, because she sounded really pretty and why Leo wanted to come home in the first place. Leonardo felt himself color more hoping Sara couldn't hear him.
"My address and my phone number are written on the dry easer broad by the phone base…" Sara pointed back out to the kitchen. "I tend to forget them." She gave Leo a-lop sided grin, both her hands still behind her back hiding.
"Oh..." Leonardo looked back toward the kitchen. "Thanks." He smiled as he walked away, Sara could hear him hissing something into the phone as he left but couldn't make out the words. Sara let out a deep breath as her doorway cleared. She piled all her clothes together and dashed for the shower. Not wanting anything else embarrassing to happen to her for the length of Leo's phone call.
She showered quick and changed. Sense she had already called in for the day off she put on low-rise jeans and a tank top. She braided her wet hair into two pigtails to keep it out of her way. Leaving the bathroom she noticed Leonardo was off the phone now and in on her couch flipping thought magazines that had been on her coffee table. Grabbing a granola bar to eat she went to stand in her living room doorway, smiling she leaned against the wall.
'Everything taken care of?" She asked the reading Turtle. He looked up, she saw his eyes wander over her and she felt herself blushing again.
"Yeah, I'm going to wait for nightfall to take off. You don't live in a good place to take cover to make my way home. Plus well, I seem to have lost my disguise."
"Oh…. You're going home…?" Leo thought he heard disappointment in her voice. The strange thing was he too felt a bit disappointed but couldn't figure out why.
"Yeah I don't want to be in your way….." His voice trailed off… there was an uncomfortable silence in the room. Neither really wanting to admit the thoughts they were thinking. Leonardo decided to change the subject to help clear his mind. The absolute mess his thoughts had been all morning disturbed him. He wondered if maybe he had been hit harder then he had thought. He'd have Donnie look at it when he got home.
"Hey Sara?" He asked, "Did you happen to see any swords when you helped me? I seem to have lost my Katana blades. They are about this long." He spread his arms apart to give her an example.
"Oh no those were yours?" He saw a pained expression cross her face. "The two Officers on the scene picked them up. They were taken in as evidence." At this Leonardo's face became pained too.
"Hell…" he exclaimed with a soft sigh… Sara saw his face fall and she felt terrible. She crossed the room to sit on the coffee table in front of him.
"I may be able to get them back." Leo's face rose. He looked surprised and suspicious.
"How?" Sara shrugged.
"They went to the station I work at. I know the guy in evidence. He owes me a few favors. If they aren't under lock and key, I may be able to convince him to sneak them out to me."
"Oh I couldn't ask you do that… it's dangerous." Sara shrugged.
"But I want to help you." Her brown eyes met his… she reached out to touch his fingers. Their gaze locked, suddenly Leonardo pulled away.
"Anyway its my fault for not grabbing them in the first place." Sara looked determined and Leonardo sighed, recognizing the expression.
"I'm not going to be able to talk you out of this mission am I?" He sat back into the couch, his arms crossed across his chest a look of authority on his face. Sara simply shook her head. Her mind set.
"Well then I better hang around one more night. If you get hurt I'm going to feel like it's my fault if I'm not here to do something." Leonardo ran his hand back over his smooth scalp thinking. "I'll need you to give me a complete layout of the station and the surrounding buildings. I don't like going into things blind."
Sara nodded and stood. "Let me just grab a piece of paper and a pencil and I'll draw you a rough diagram." She started to walk from the room.
"While you're doing that, can I use your phone again? I should call my brothers and tell them there has been a change of plans."
"Feel free…" Sara called over her shoulder, "my house is your house!" She disappeared around the corner and Leo rose to grab the phone.
Michaelangelo, the brother Leonardo had been on the phone with a short time before was now sacked out on the couch watching daytime talk shows. A bag of chips at his side he was booing a deadbeat dad with the studio audience. He looked a lot like his brother, with the exception that he was shorter and had an orange bandana framing his face.
As he started throwing chips at a particularly awful man that claimed his wife had cheated on him with half his town and that's why he didn't care about the kids, the phone rang. Mike glanced up and then looked back at the TV.
"Donnie! The phones ringing!" Michaelangelo yelled but didn't move. His brother's voice answered him back.
"Can't you get it Mikey? I'm in the middle of rebuilding a hard drive and I hate to be interrupted." The voice faded away. Donatello had that busy sound to his tone that Mike knew meant he wasn't going to be able to sucker him into taking the call.
"RAPH!" Mike tried for his other brother… "The phones ringing!"
"Then answer it!" Came a voice from the kitchen.
"But I answered it last time…" Michaelangelo whined. "I wanna see if these kids are this guys!" Loud thumping could be heard heading in his direction. A very annoyed looking turtle stomped into the room stopping to glare at Mike with an expression of disgust on his face.
"You lazy sack of shit! Your nearest to the phone you know." Mike shrugged at his brother and Raphael rolled his eyes turning towards the phone. Raphael was as tall as Leo and as built but not as disciplined. The red bandana that graced his face could be said to represent his fiery temper. He grabbed the phone.
"Whoever this is this better be life or death…."
"I miss you too Raph." Leonardo's claim voice dug into Raphael's already flaring mood.
"Well if it isn't little miss pussy willow! I heard some little girl had to save your ass…" Raph chuckled into the phone. On the other end Leo's face colored with displeasure, but for the time being he tried to ignore his brothers taunts."
"The reason I'm calling Raphael is I won't be home until tomorrow night. Could you please tell everyone, especially Splinter."
"Whoa Leo are you getting a piece of ass?'" Raphael was downright smirking now and even Michaelangelo had turned from the TV, thoughts of his brothers sex life much more interesting.
Now Leonardo really turned red, he growled into the receiver… "Raph why can't you just kept your big mouth shut!" He yelled, losing a bit of his ever-enduring cool. Raphael was the only one that really knew how to push his buttons.
"Yeah whatever Leo…listen call us if you need anything….like you know an explanation of what goes where okay?" On the couch Mike was hanging off he was laughing so hard.
Leonardo was about to set into a tirade when a small female voice was heard on Raphael's side of the receiver. He couldn't make out any words, just that her tone was soothing and pretty.
"Listen Raph I need to go…" Leonardo's temper was claming.
"I'm sure you do…" Raphael got one more good jab in. "See you on the flip side."
"Yeah….bye." Leonardo swiftly hung up and Raphael started chuckling, as he too hung the phone up on his side.
"That was too funny man." Mikey was wiping tears from his eyes. Raphael sat in the chair next to the couch and grinned.
"Well I am the master…"
"So what did Leo want anyway?" Michaelangelo turned back to the television, the show on the phone over.
"Oh he won't be home for another night…"
"Why?" Mike sat up again question in his eyes. Raphael thought for a moment before he smirked again.
"You know I forgot to ask."
"You better call him again and find out, Master will want to know." Mike nodded and started munching on chips…
"I think I have a better idea…" Raphael raised, an evil glint in his eyes.
Sara had reentered the room drawing in hand to find Leonardo almost yelling into the phone. His back was to her and from his posture she could tell he was tense and annoyed. She watched him almost roar into the phone and actually took a step back intimidated.
"Leo?" She asked in a small voice…"Is everything alright." She noticed some of the tension melt as he turned. His brown eyes softening as he looked at her.
"Listen Raph I have to go…" Sara noted the name and remembered Leonardo's description of his brother Raphael, the one that seemed to know how to get to him. She watched as Leo glared again, whatever Raph said back displeasing him, then he hung up.
"I made you your drawing." She followed him to the kitchen as he placed the phone back up on the wall.
"Thank you…" He reached out a hand and Sara gave the drawing to him. Taking it over to the kitchen table Leonardo sat down to study what Sara had made for him. Sara watched Leo as he looked at the map, noting that his shoulders were still tense, she wondered if he would mind her helping him. Biting the bullet she stepped up behind him and laying two soft hands on his strong shoulders started to massage them. She heard him grunt in surprise, his body tensing more for a moment before relaxing under her touch.
Leonardo felt startled, he had never had a women touch him in this manner before. So tender. He had known women in battle and a friend had mended wounds before but never had one caressed his body in such a fashion. Mixtures of feeling were speeding through him and the map in front of him was quickly forgotten. He leaned back hard against the chair enjoying the attention he was receiving. He didn't realize how much he was enjoying it until he began to feel a little too warm. He shifted, suddenly uncomfortable in his own shell.
"That's great thank you." He knew he had gasped a little, his own primal urges something he wasn't used to having to control.
"No problem…" Sara smiled as she pulled away and walked across the table to take the other seat, in her own naiveté not realizing the effect she had just had on this man.
Leonardo closed his eyes for one brief moment gathering his rattled senses, Sara looked at him worried she had done something wrong but stayed silent. Finally he turned back to the map.
"So why did you choose to work at a police station?" Leo was trying to start a new topic, to distill the emotions he was suppressing.
"I want to be a police officer." Sara stated matter-o-factly. "Figured there probably wasn't a better place for me to be until I pass the entrance exam." She watched Leonardo study her. He was thinking how she was so small and delicate in appearance. He simply couldn't picture her as a cop.
"Fighting crime is tough you know." He lowered his eyes back to the drawing, not seeing Sara's lips purse in annoyance.
"I'm very good at taking care of myself thank you very much!" Sara could feel passion rise within her at being questioned and didn't try to control it. Leo simply shook his head.
"I don't think you even realize what you are getting yourself into." He was surprised when Sara stood suddenly, his attention brought back to her. She looked irritated. Very few things aggravated her, except people that questioned her ability to follow her dream. She walked pass Leonardo and to her closet. Once there she grabbed a jacket.
"I need to go walk a neighbor's dog. Everything you should need to know is on that map. I shouldn't be much longer then an hour. Feel free to make yourself at home." Sara looked a little hurt by Leo's doubt of her and he felt suddenly stupid for what he had said, but he bit his lip, because he also felt his opinion was right. She didn't know what she was getting herself into. Sara looked at him a moment longer, before walking to the door and leaving. Leonardo put his head back into the map for a few moments, before he started to smell something. It was her perfume, light and airy, like a fresh spring flower. The scent was on him from she had been massaging him. Abruptly he felt really bad. It really didn't matter if his opinion was right or wrong. It wasn't proper of him to be so rude to Sara. Especially when she had been so sweet to him.
Leonardo stood; he had an idea about what he could do to make up for being a jerk. Rolling the drawing up so that it was safe he grinned and got to work.
**Sorry this chapter took so long to get up. I'm almost done with school and I find myself much too busy as of present. I felt this was an interesting place to leave off. I mean where was Price in this chapter and what is Leonardo up to? And the better question is…what is Raphael up to? As always reviews, comment, ideas and questions are appreciated. Thanks for reading!**