A Christmas To Remember
Chapter 6: Sadness With No Tears
"Hey Raph, watcha doing?"
"Nothing Mikey", Raph shifted up on the sofa to let his brother sit next to him. Mikey smiled and plonked himself down next to Raph.
"Want to watch some T.V?"
Raph shrugged. "Sure".
Mikey grabbed the remote and flicked on the T.V. Since Donnie was in his room typing away on his computer Mikey had nothing to do. Leo and Splinter were meditating so he couldn't do anything with them. So that led to one person. Raph.
Mikey flicked on a film and smiled. "Oh boy, 'Muppets Christmas Coral'.
"Oh boy", Raph rolled his eyes and sighed. "How many times have we seen this?"
"30", Mikey replied, eyes fixed on the screen.
"It was a rhetorical question Mikey".
"Huh?"
"Means you don't need to answer".
"Oh", Mikey frowned and shrugged. "Never mind, I'll go get the grub". He got up and ran to the kitchen, leaving Raph alone.
Raph leaned back on the sofa and relaxed. He just heard the T.V say 'hey light the lamp not the rat! Light the lamp not the rat!' when a movement came near the ladder. Raph got up knowing it was April and walked over.
But April wasn't coming down the ladder, Tailor was. Raph frowned and watched her take a step down the ladder, then jump the rest. "Man what have you been eating, wheatabix?"
Tailor looked up at him with hardly any colour to her eyes.
"Man, you look awful", Raph studied her carefully. Her hair was down and pieces covered her face. Her tanned face was now pale and her dimples seemed to have vanished, her eyes had lost all their brightest. "What's wrong?"
Tailor swallowed trying to get her voice back. "I - I . . . he - I . . ."
"Whoa, stop, you're not making ANY sense . . . tell me when you've got your full voice back". He grabbed her arm and sat her in Splinter's armchair, and sat himself on the sofa. "Now can you talk?"
Tailor nodded. "He - Scott . . . he came to April's".
Raph frowned; a sudden thought came to his head. "Where's April then?"
Tailor shook her head, wanting to get her words out. "She - I . . . think she's still at work - b-but . . . Scott came in . . . I tried to stop him . . . b-but he pushed past me".
"Are you hurt?" Raph asked.
Tailor shook her head again. "I - I was so scared, he wouldn't leave . . . no m-matter how m-much I begged him . . . then he left, l-leaving me with bloody damn haunting words".
"And they were . . .?"
"H-he just said 'you'll be mine before you go to India' . . . b-but the l- look h-he gave me w-was just a-awful! . . . I-I locked t-the door when he left, b-but April d-didn't return . . . I-I had to c-come here".
Raph nodded. "I'll go get Splinter".
"No!" Tailor put a hand on his arm. "Y-you can't leave me, I'm scared".
Raph sighed and patted her hand. "Don't worry, I just think you'd rather talk to Splinter, I'm not the person to deal with this if you cry".
"You d-don't understand m-me Raph, I-I don't cry, I'm not l-like that".
Raph frowned. It was true, she wasn't crying at all. Her eyes showed fear and he could feel her hand shaking on his arm; Raph was about to ask her why she never cried but Mikey walked in, carrying trays of food.
"Hey Raph I got food, it's a bit out of date but never - whoa! Tailor what's wrong, you look awful, when did you get here? How?"
Tailor gave him a shaky smile and took her hand off Raph's arm, which was still shaking slightly. "I - I had a spot of trouble, I'm ok, I just needed to come here".
Mikey frowned and put his food on the floor, in front of the T.V. "What's wrong?"
Tailor sighed and told him all about Scott, and how he came in the apartment against her will, and those words he whispered with pure evil before he left, she shivered at the memory.
"Aww, are you ok?" Mikey held her hand and gave her a small smile.
"Yeah I'm fine, I just had nowhere to go, and I need to talk to April".
Mikey frowned. "Well April ran me earlier to say she was at work till late, about 8:00, your phone line must still be dead".
Tailor nodded. "Kay".
Mikey gave her a smile. "You can stay here, April said she would come here after work".
Tailor smiled. "Thanks Mikey".
"So", Mikey smiled and got up. "Want to watch 'Muppets Christmas Coral' with us?"
//
Leo got up and bowed to his master. "Thanks for the meditating practice, Master Splinter".
Splinter smiled at his son and got up as well. "No problem, let's take a break".
They both headed out of Splinter bedroom and into the main area of the lair. Looking around, they could see Raph, Mikey and Donnie on the floor watching T.V and . . . Tailor sleeping on the sofa?
Leo frowned and walked over to where Tailor was sleeping, her hair draped over one side of her body. "I didn't know Tailor was here".
"Yeah", Donnie agreed crunching on some popcorn, "neither did I, until Mr. Orange here told me she had a spot of bother with that Scott guy, poor girl, when I came in she couldn't stop shaking".
Splinter walked over and sat in his armchair. "How long has she been here, Michelangelo? April will be worried".
Mikey put a finger to his head. "About an hour, or more, and April rang me before Tailor came, she's coming here straight after work, at about 8:00, something like that, but Tailor didn't know, the phones are still down in the apartment".
"She'll be safe here then, if she was shaking she must had have quite a fright".
Leo sat on the arm of the sofa, near Tailor's head. "Must be exhausted as well, when did she go to sleep?"
Mikey smiled at his brother. "Well when she sat down next to Raph, bless her, she fell to sleep after 5 minutes, right on Raph's shoulder".
Leo smiled. "Bet she WAS exhausted then".
Mikey nodded and turned his head back to the screen. "So we gave up the sofa and laid her on it, didn't want to disturb her".
Splinter smiled at Raph and Mikey. "Very kind of you my sons", he looked at Tailor and could see her side rise up and down in time to her breathing, her face looking innocent as she slept, he watched her body give out a shiver. "We better give her a blanket, it'll give her some extra warmth".
//
"I'm sick of you throwing words into my mouth April! If you do that once more I'll get you fired! You here me! FIRED!"
April walked out of chief Sternum's office and slammed the door. He was an idiot; she could never do an interview with him when he didn't answer her properly. Damn stupid, she thought, he should have never gotten into the police force.
A man packing away a camera smiled at her and looked at his watch after timing her. "1:02, a new record April".
April smiled and straightened out her jacket. "Thanks".
He nodded at her and smiled. "See you tomorrow".
"Tomorrow", April replied as she turned a corner.
She left the office building and walked out into the dark streets of New York. She turned left and walked down a thin street, which was deserted.
April walked over to a manhole and waited. Seconds later it moved and revealed Leo's blue bandanna and eyes. April smiled down at him. "Hi Leo".
"Hey April, come on".
April swung her legs over the side of the manhole and jumped down into the dark sewer. She dusted off her jacket and looked at Leo. "Everything ok? I can't stay long. I have to get home to Tailor".
Leo smiled in the darkness and replaced the lid of the manhole. "No need, Tailor's here".
"Huh? What?"
"She's here, c'mon", Leo grabbed her hand. "Let's go".
//
"Oh my, she's not hurt is she?" April cupped her hands to her mouth and looked at Tailor. Donnie, Raph and Mikey were still on the floor and now Leo had joined them. Splinter still sat in his armchair.
"No", Donnie answered, still eating some popcorn, "just asleep".
April sighed and moved her hands away from her face. She sat on the arm of the sofa, near Tailor's feet and near Splinter. "When did she get here?" April turned to Splinter.
"Quite a while, but she's been asleep all this time so I don't think she's noticed".
April nodded. "Imagine, four days here and she's been knocked out and frightened, I hate that Scott, I know for sure he's Chief Sternum's son, and I hate him!"
Splinter smiled a little. "At least Tailor could come here, would you like to wake her up and take her home?"
April looked at her niece and smiled. "No, if it's alright I would like to stay here with her for an hour, then wake her up. Unless she wakes up on her own, I'm sure she will be very thankful that she had somewhere to go".
Splinter nodded. "Very well, we will wait".
//
After an hour of watching Monster's inc. that April had brought them, the guys decided to wake Tailor up.
Mikey moved towards her and then stopped. He looked at April and smiled slightly. "Umm, does she? Is she? You know, a grumpy person like Raph when she wakes up?"
"Hey!" Raph glared at his brother.
Mikey shrugged at him and turned to April. "Is she?"
April laughed and shook her head. "No Mikey, she's not. She's like me, an early bird, she can get up easily".
"Right", Mikey said slowly. He turned back to Tailor and rested a hand on her shoulder. "Hello? Tailor?" He shook her slowly. "Tailor? Tailor!"
Tailor rolled over and whacked Mikey in the face.
April tried not to laugh but a giggle escaped her lips. "I - I forgot to tell you that she has a habit of, erm, slapping people".
Leo, Raph and Donnie laughed at Mikey who was rubbing his cheek.
"It's not funny! That hurt!" Mikey moaned.
"What hurt?"
They all turned to find Tailor looking around, confused, as if trying to remember why she was there. She looked at Mikey and frowned. Her eyes squinted at him and his hand that was rubbing his cheek. After a few seconds silence her face broke into a small grin. She looked at Leo, Donnie and Raph and smiled. "I, erm, hit him, didn't I?"
Leo, Donnie and Raph all nodded in reply.
Tailor laughed, one that Raph noticed was a happy laugh, despite what happened to her.
Tailor clutched the blanket that covered her and sat up. "Hehe, sorry Mikey"
Mikey gave her a little smile. "S'ok, man, do you ALWAYS do that?"
Tailor shrugged. "Depends on how I'm sleeping, you know, whether I'm dreaming or something like that".
Mikey looked at April. "Could have told me before I tried to wake her!"
April smiled and gave Mikey an innocent face. "Sorry", she turned back to Tailor and sat on the sofa properly. "You ok?"
Tailor nodded. "Yeah", she turned her gaze to Splinter, "thanks for letting me stay Splinter".
Splinter smiled. "Your welcome, feel free to come and stop anytime"
//
Back in April's apartment Tailor looked round nervously. She was scared that Scott would come round from behind a corner and frighten her.
"Hey", April said softly and put a hand on her shoulder. "Are you alright?"
Tailor gave her a small nod and a smile. "Yeah, I'm ok, I'll get over it, there's not much I can do but forget it, and besides, being at the hairdressers with you tomorrow will make me feel better".
April nodded and hugged her niece. "I'll make you some tea". She walked over to the kitchen and clicked on the kettle.
Tailor smiled and ran up to her room. She clicked on the light and double- checked the bathroom; making sure no one was in there. She lay on the bed and grabbed her phone. A message was left on the screen for her. She pressed the button and the message popped up.
Hey Tailor - I fount out that I'm leaving 2moro at 9:00, is that early for you? Or will you be able to come and see me off? Text back when you can - Luv Elliot xXx.
Tailor smiled and opened a new message. Her appointment at the hairdressers was at 8:00, she'd have time to go home and have a shower then meet him. She quickly punched the keys on her 3310.
Hey Elliot - sure I can make it; I'll be up way before that anyway - can you meet me outside the leisure centre? Tailor xXx.
She sent it and waited. A few minutes later Elliot sent her another message.
Totally - see you tomorrow, I'll meet you there at 8:40 - bye xXx.
Tailor sent him a message back that said ' sure, bye, I'm going to put my phone on charge' and turned her phone off and plugged it in.
"Tailor, tea!" April called from downstairs.
Tailor jumped off the bed and ran to the bathroom. She quickly gave her hair a brush and walked downstairs, wishing tomorrow came quickly.
(Ok, finished part 6, thanks for the reviews everyone! Love ya all!)
Chapter 6: Sadness With No Tears
"Hey Raph, watcha doing?"
"Nothing Mikey", Raph shifted up on the sofa to let his brother sit next to him. Mikey smiled and plonked himself down next to Raph.
"Want to watch some T.V?"
Raph shrugged. "Sure".
Mikey grabbed the remote and flicked on the T.V. Since Donnie was in his room typing away on his computer Mikey had nothing to do. Leo and Splinter were meditating so he couldn't do anything with them. So that led to one person. Raph.
Mikey flicked on a film and smiled. "Oh boy, 'Muppets Christmas Coral'.
"Oh boy", Raph rolled his eyes and sighed. "How many times have we seen this?"
"30", Mikey replied, eyes fixed on the screen.
"It was a rhetorical question Mikey".
"Huh?"
"Means you don't need to answer".
"Oh", Mikey frowned and shrugged. "Never mind, I'll go get the grub". He got up and ran to the kitchen, leaving Raph alone.
Raph leaned back on the sofa and relaxed. He just heard the T.V say 'hey light the lamp not the rat! Light the lamp not the rat!' when a movement came near the ladder. Raph got up knowing it was April and walked over.
But April wasn't coming down the ladder, Tailor was. Raph frowned and watched her take a step down the ladder, then jump the rest. "Man what have you been eating, wheatabix?"
Tailor looked up at him with hardly any colour to her eyes.
"Man, you look awful", Raph studied her carefully. Her hair was down and pieces covered her face. Her tanned face was now pale and her dimples seemed to have vanished, her eyes had lost all their brightest. "What's wrong?"
Tailor swallowed trying to get her voice back. "I - I . . . he - I . . ."
"Whoa, stop, you're not making ANY sense . . . tell me when you've got your full voice back". He grabbed her arm and sat her in Splinter's armchair, and sat himself on the sofa. "Now can you talk?"
Tailor nodded. "He - Scott . . . he came to April's".
Raph frowned; a sudden thought came to his head. "Where's April then?"
Tailor shook her head, wanting to get her words out. "She - I . . . think she's still at work - b-but . . . Scott came in . . . I tried to stop him . . . b-but he pushed past me".
"Are you hurt?" Raph asked.
Tailor shook her head again. "I - I was so scared, he wouldn't leave . . . no m-matter how m-much I begged him . . . then he left, l-leaving me with bloody damn haunting words".
"And they were . . .?"
"H-he just said 'you'll be mine before you go to India' . . . b-but the l- look h-he gave me w-was just a-awful! . . . I-I locked t-the door when he left, b-but April d-didn't return . . . I-I had to c-come here".
Raph nodded. "I'll go get Splinter".
"No!" Tailor put a hand on his arm. "Y-you can't leave me, I'm scared".
Raph sighed and patted her hand. "Don't worry, I just think you'd rather talk to Splinter, I'm not the person to deal with this if you cry".
"You d-don't understand m-me Raph, I-I don't cry, I'm not l-like that".
Raph frowned. It was true, she wasn't crying at all. Her eyes showed fear and he could feel her hand shaking on his arm; Raph was about to ask her why she never cried but Mikey walked in, carrying trays of food.
"Hey Raph I got food, it's a bit out of date but never - whoa! Tailor what's wrong, you look awful, when did you get here? How?"
Tailor gave him a shaky smile and took her hand off Raph's arm, which was still shaking slightly. "I - I had a spot of trouble, I'm ok, I just needed to come here".
Mikey frowned and put his food on the floor, in front of the T.V. "What's wrong?"
Tailor sighed and told him all about Scott, and how he came in the apartment against her will, and those words he whispered with pure evil before he left, she shivered at the memory.
"Aww, are you ok?" Mikey held her hand and gave her a small smile.
"Yeah I'm fine, I just had nowhere to go, and I need to talk to April".
Mikey frowned. "Well April ran me earlier to say she was at work till late, about 8:00, your phone line must still be dead".
Tailor nodded. "Kay".
Mikey gave her a smile. "You can stay here, April said she would come here after work".
Tailor smiled. "Thanks Mikey".
"So", Mikey smiled and got up. "Want to watch 'Muppets Christmas Coral' with us?"
//
Leo got up and bowed to his master. "Thanks for the meditating practice, Master Splinter".
Splinter smiled at his son and got up as well. "No problem, let's take a break".
They both headed out of Splinter bedroom and into the main area of the lair. Looking around, they could see Raph, Mikey and Donnie on the floor watching T.V and . . . Tailor sleeping on the sofa?
Leo frowned and walked over to where Tailor was sleeping, her hair draped over one side of her body. "I didn't know Tailor was here".
"Yeah", Donnie agreed crunching on some popcorn, "neither did I, until Mr. Orange here told me she had a spot of bother with that Scott guy, poor girl, when I came in she couldn't stop shaking".
Splinter walked over and sat in his armchair. "How long has she been here, Michelangelo? April will be worried".
Mikey put a finger to his head. "About an hour, or more, and April rang me before Tailor came, she's coming here straight after work, at about 8:00, something like that, but Tailor didn't know, the phones are still down in the apartment".
"She'll be safe here then, if she was shaking she must had have quite a fright".
Leo sat on the arm of the sofa, near Tailor's head. "Must be exhausted as well, when did she go to sleep?"
Mikey smiled at his brother. "Well when she sat down next to Raph, bless her, she fell to sleep after 5 minutes, right on Raph's shoulder".
Leo smiled. "Bet she WAS exhausted then".
Mikey nodded and turned his head back to the screen. "So we gave up the sofa and laid her on it, didn't want to disturb her".
Splinter smiled at Raph and Mikey. "Very kind of you my sons", he looked at Tailor and could see her side rise up and down in time to her breathing, her face looking innocent as she slept, he watched her body give out a shiver. "We better give her a blanket, it'll give her some extra warmth".
//
"I'm sick of you throwing words into my mouth April! If you do that once more I'll get you fired! You here me! FIRED!"
April walked out of chief Sternum's office and slammed the door. He was an idiot; she could never do an interview with him when he didn't answer her properly. Damn stupid, she thought, he should have never gotten into the police force.
A man packing away a camera smiled at her and looked at his watch after timing her. "1:02, a new record April".
April smiled and straightened out her jacket. "Thanks".
He nodded at her and smiled. "See you tomorrow".
"Tomorrow", April replied as she turned a corner.
She left the office building and walked out into the dark streets of New York. She turned left and walked down a thin street, which was deserted.
April walked over to a manhole and waited. Seconds later it moved and revealed Leo's blue bandanna and eyes. April smiled down at him. "Hi Leo".
"Hey April, come on".
April swung her legs over the side of the manhole and jumped down into the dark sewer. She dusted off her jacket and looked at Leo. "Everything ok? I can't stay long. I have to get home to Tailor".
Leo smiled in the darkness and replaced the lid of the manhole. "No need, Tailor's here".
"Huh? What?"
"She's here, c'mon", Leo grabbed her hand. "Let's go".
//
"Oh my, she's not hurt is she?" April cupped her hands to her mouth and looked at Tailor. Donnie, Raph and Mikey were still on the floor and now Leo had joined them. Splinter still sat in his armchair.
"No", Donnie answered, still eating some popcorn, "just asleep".
April sighed and moved her hands away from her face. She sat on the arm of the sofa, near Tailor's feet and near Splinter. "When did she get here?" April turned to Splinter.
"Quite a while, but she's been asleep all this time so I don't think she's noticed".
April nodded. "Imagine, four days here and she's been knocked out and frightened, I hate that Scott, I know for sure he's Chief Sternum's son, and I hate him!"
Splinter smiled a little. "At least Tailor could come here, would you like to wake her up and take her home?"
April looked at her niece and smiled. "No, if it's alright I would like to stay here with her for an hour, then wake her up. Unless she wakes up on her own, I'm sure she will be very thankful that she had somewhere to go".
Splinter nodded. "Very well, we will wait".
//
After an hour of watching Monster's inc. that April had brought them, the guys decided to wake Tailor up.
Mikey moved towards her and then stopped. He looked at April and smiled slightly. "Umm, does she? Is she? You know, a grumpy person like Raph when she wakes up?"
"Hey!" Raph glared at his brother.
Mikey shrugged at him and turned to April. "Is she?"
April laughed and shook her head. "No Mikey, she's not. She's like me, an early bird, she can get up easily".
"Right", Mikey said slowly. He turned back to Tailor and rested a hand on her shoulder. "Hello? Tailor?" He shook her slowly. "Tailor? Tailor!"
Tailor rolled over and whacked Mikey in the face.
April tried not to laugh but a giggle escaped her lips. "I - I forgot to tell you that she has a habit of, erm, slapping people".
Leo, Raph and Donnie laughed at Mikey who was rubbing his cheek.
"It's not funny! That hurt!" Mikey moaned.
"What hurt?"
They all turned to find Tailor looking around, confused, as if trying to remember why she was there. She looked at Mikey and frowned. Her eyes squinted at him and his hand that was rubbing his cheek. After a few seconds silence her face broke into a small grin. She looked at Leo, Donnie and Raph and smiled. "I, erm, hit him, didn't I?"
Leo, Donnie and Raph all nodded in reply.
Tailor laughed, one that Raph noticed was a happy laugh, despite what happened to her.
Tailor clutched the blanket that covered her and sat up. "Hehe, sorry Mikey"
Mikey gave her a little smile. "S'ok, man, do you ALWAYS do that?"
Tailor shrugged. "Depends on how I'm sleeping, you know, whether I'm dreaming or something like that".
Mikey looked at April. "Could have told me before I tried to wake her!"
April smiled and gave Mikey an innocent face. "Sorry", she turned back to Tailor and sat on the sofa properly. "You ok?"
Tailor nodded. "Yeah", she turned her gaze to Splinter, "thanks for letting me stay Splinter".
Splinter smiled. "Your welcome, feel free to come and stop anytime"
//
Back in April's apartment Tailor looked round nervously. She was scared that Scott would come round from behind a corner and frighten her.
"Hey", April said softly and put a hand on her shoulder. "Are you alright?"
Tailor gave her a small nod and a smile. "Yeah, I'm ok, I'll get over it, there's not much I can do but forget it, and besides, being at the hairdressers with you tomorrow will make me feel better".
April nodded and hugged her niece. "I'll make you some tea". She walked over to the kitchen and clicked on the kettle.
Tailor smiled and ran up to her room. She clicked on the light and double- checked the bathroom; making sure no one was in there. She lay on the bed and grabbed her phone. A message was left on the screen for her. She pressed the button and the message popped up.
Hey Tailor - I fount out that I'm leaving 2moro at 9:00, is that early for you? Or will you be able to come and see me off? Text back when you can - Luv Elliot xXx.
Tailor smiled and opened a new message. Her appointment at the hairdressers was at 8:00, she'd have time to go home and have a shower then meet him. She quickly punched the keys on her 3310.
Hey Elliot - sure I can make it; I'll be up way before that anyway - can you meet me outside the leisure centre? Tailor xXx.
She sent it and waited. A few minutes later Elliot sent her another message.
Totally - see you tomorrow, I'll meet you there at 8:40 - bye xXx.
Tailor sent him a message back that said ' sure, bye, I'm going to put my phone on charge' and turned her phone off and plugged it in.
"Tailor, tea!" April called from downstairs.
Tailor jumped off the bed and ran to the bathroom. She quickly gave her hair a brush and walked downstairs, wishing tomorrow came quickly.
(Ok, finished part 6, thanks for the reviews everyone! Love ya all!)