~ I was going crazy. I had a short writer's block on this. I would open it up pause and not be able to type. Oh that was so not cool! Thanks for all the reviews I'm glad you do all like this story. Whew, okay, next chapter up !
As the turtles landed, the three brothers paused to look at their surroundings, then realized one of them was missing.
"Dudes, where's Donatello?" Michelangelo asked. The rest of the turtles looked around, when they noticed that all the people around them frozen in place. A person in mid-jog, cars, nothing was moving. A flash got the turtles attention and they turned to see Oberon there with Donatello.
"Don, are you okay?" Leonardo asked as his brothers rushed to see Donatello.
"He's fine," Oberon said.
"Yeah, he saved my life," Donatello added.
"Well I need all of you other wise this quest will be a failure," Oberon mentioned. "Since I am here momentarily, is there any questions you have?"
"How long will we be doing this?" Raphael asked.
"That," Oberon held up a hand. "Remains to be seen.
"Does time speed ahead when we go to a new place?" Leonardo asked.
"Yes, the events do not take place one after the other," Oberon said. "But now I must go and Raphael." Raphael was looking across the street and turned to Oberon. "Watch out for the car."
"What," Raphael murmured before a screeching of brakes was heard and Raphael felt a slight impact, enough to knock him down. The driver jumped out of the car and ran to Raphael.
"Oh my God, are you okay?" The blond girl asked.
"Well you just hit me," Raphael replied.
"I'm sorry I didn't see you," The girl stopped hearing some Japanese music blaring from her speaker. She flipped the key off and went back to Raphael, his brothers were by him now.
"Hey, I'm really sorry about what happened, to make it up, can I offer you guys a ride somewhere?"
"Sure," Leonardo said. "I'm Leonardo, and these are my brothers." Leonardo introduced each. "What's your name?"
"I'm Hannah, and on my way to the airport to pick up my cousin," Hannah said.
"Is there enough room for everyone?" Michelangelo asked eyeing the car.
"Sure," Hannah waved her hand at Michelangelo's comment. "Raphael please sit up front, the rest in the back." As they filed in Raphael heard Michelangelo say something jokingly.
"Aw, but I wanted to sit on Raph's lap." Raphael smiled as he playfully shoved his brother the rest of the way in. The drive to the airport was brief, they were pretty close to it, but the traffic of people and cars, amazed the turtles. It seemed that people were motorized as they zoomed around, most seeming to notice where to go.
"Hey are you going with me?" Hannah called from across the lobby. The turtles looked over amazed that Hannah got all the way across the lobby with out them noticing. Once there, Hannah grabbed Raphael's hand that in turned grabbed one of his brothers making a link of hands. Stopping at a terminal, the turtles watched some people get off the plane. A guy with dark short hair came over and hugged Hannah then looked at the turtles.
"Okay which one is your boyfriend?" He asked.
"This is Craig," Hannah introduced. "This guy," Hannah pointed at Raphael, "Is someone I almost ran over and these are his brothers." Hannah made introductions then pointed back to Craig.
"I call him my cousin but we're not really blood related," Craig smiled and locked Hannah in a headlock giving her a noogie. Once she slipped out of his grasp she playfully pushed him away.
"Yeah, our mothers were just really close while we grew up," Craig said. "So are we staying here all day, or are you taking me home?"
"Yes, yes, lets go, " Hannah said and linked hands again. Out at the car, they paused for a minute. "Hmm, my car seems to have run out of room.
"How about I drive," Craig said and one of you guys sit on your brothers lap?"
"Craig, they will not fit," Hannah said. "So if it's okay with you Raphael I'll sit on your lap up front and Craig will drive us home hopefully with out killing us all." The turtles nodded that was okay and piled into the car. Once they started to drive Craig started to tell Hannah about where he was.
"Yeah, when I got to Manhattan, it was all in the news paper about a new serial killer and the police have no leads," Craig said. The turtles mouth dropped open hearing what has happened since they have been away.
"Who are the victims?" Donatello asked.
"They seem to be random chosen," Craig said. "In two months there have been five victims and no clues.
"But I'll tell you one thing, it's great being back here in Ontario." The turtles were a little solemn about hearing the news of a serial killer and Hannah noticed.
"Hey if you guys want, as a way of apology," Hannah said. "You can come over for dinner." The guys nodded their heads and the rest was quiet until they got to Hannah's house.
"I'm going to go put my suitcases back in my place," Craig said pointing to a house next to Hannah's. "Then I'll be over to tell you about some happy news.
"Are your parents still away?" Craig asked.
"Yeah," Hannah said. "They won't be back until the beginning of September, two more weeks." Craig nodded and went to his place. Hannah took the turtles in, gave them a short tour which ended up in the living room. Three turtles sat on the couch while Raphael took the easy chair next to it. Hannah sat in another easy chair across the way.
"You know I normally don't invite strangers off the street into my house," Hannah said.
"Do you want us to leave?" Leonardo asked getting up. Hannah told him to sit back down.
"No, you are different," Hannah's thought was interrupted by Craig coming inside.
"Hey there, how's it going?" Craig stood there for a minute, like he was waiting for Raphael to get up from the chair. When Raphael just gave him a look, Craig sat on the floor next to Hannah.
"Craig where are your parents?" Hannah asked. After Craig left she didn't see them every morning getting ready for work.
"Oh, uh they left town, for uh, business trip," Craig said and smiled at Hannah. Hannah turned her attention to the turtles and Craig left to go home for a nap. Finding the turtles nodding off, Hannah offered them a room to lay down in and take a nap. All except Raphael accepted.
"I'd like to stay up, think," Raphael said. Hannah nodded and sat down in the living room with Raphael.
"What brings you all here?" Hannah asked.
"Business," Raphael said.
"What kind of business?"
"I'm not really comfortable talking about it." Hannah nodded and flipped on the TV.
"I never thought I would miss my home so much," Raphael said out of the blue. Hannah looked over at Raphael and turned the TV volume down.
"What do you mean?" Hannah asked.
"Well, at home, I usually fought with my brother Leonardo then I would go out to retreat, usually end up in a bar, and," Raphael shrug. "I'd sit there not wanting to go back home."
"I can understand what you mean about not wanting to be at home," Hannah said. "Sometimes when my parents are gone, I'd rather go anywhere but home." A computer in the corner beeped. "Hold on a second." Hannah went to the computer and saw that she had a new e-mail message. Raphael walked up behind her.
"What you doing?"
"I got an e-mail from my friend, Natalie," Hannah said, then watched other e-mails pop up. "And one from Emma, and Rashel, wow, why did it take my computer so long to…" Hannah was cut off as the computer fizzed and the screen went blank.
"Oh, no, no, I just fixed this thing," Hannah said faking a kick to the computer. Raphael let out a small laugh. "You find this funny?" Hannah demanded. Trying to hide a smile Raphael started to shake his head no then nodded letting a loud laugh out. Hannah sat there with her mouth dropped open, then started laughing too.
"Why are you laughing," Raphael said between laughs. "It's your computer that broke?"
"I know, but you," Hannah couldn't finish and started laughing harder.
"Me?" Raphael mocked surprise. "Well take that." Raphael attacked Hannah's sides, tickling her until she got up running from Raphael. He gave chase going through the entire floor of the house. He knew this might wake his brothers but he didn't care. He hasn't felt this good in a long time. Hannah looked back to see where Raphael was and ran into someone. Craig grabbed Hannah's arms to stop her from falling and Raphael stopped the chase.
"Whoa girl, easy there," Craig said. Hannah smiled at him but pulled out of his hold. Craig eyes darkened for a minute as he watched Hannah walk back to her computer, Raphael noticed and raised his eye at Craig. When Craig saw Raphael watching he gave Raphael a polite smile and walked over to Hannah.
"Can I talk to you for a minute?" Craig asked Hannah.
"Sure," Hannah sat down in the chair.
"I mean outside," Craig said.
"Oh," Hannah said. "Be right back Raph," Hannah said tugging on Raphael's shirt. He looked down, feeling the pull of the material but not seeing it. This was all still weird to him. Not caring for the TV Raphael flipped it off and noticed he could hear Hannah and Craig's conversation. He was about to slip into the kitchen when he heard Craig mention something about him. Raphael edged closer to the window they went out by.
"I mean, you don't know these guys Hannah, and you're in the house all by yourself," Craig said.
"Craig I know you're just trying to look out for me, but I feel that I can trust them," Hannah objected.
"That's just it Hannah, you're too trusting," Craig said and sighed. "Look, if you want to invite them to stay the night, why don't you at least stay at my house so.."
"No, I'm staying here," Hannah said her voice raising.
"Then at least let me crash on the couch," Craig said. Hannah sighed.
"Fine, fine, if I let you crash on the couch will you then leave me alone about the guys," Hannah begged. "They are not going to hurt me."
"I just want to be sure of that," Craig said. Recognizing that the conversation was over, Raphael went into the kitchen minutes before Hannah came back in. She went in and found Raphael in the kitchen.
"What are you doing?" Hannah asked.
"Giving you and Craig privacy," Raphael replied.
"Oh, don't worry about him," Hannah said. "He's an overprotective teddy bear."
"Does he mean anything to you," Raphael asked.
"Are you jealous?" Hannah was surprised.
"What no I mean I," Raphael murmured then got a cup of water. Hannah just looked at him when Michelangelo wandered into the kitchen.
"Got any food, dudette?" Michelangelo asked sleepily. Hannah nodded and pulled out some frozen pizza, perking Michelangelo right up.
"Awesome!" Michelangelo exclaimed taking the pizza from Hannah and taking over the kitchen. Hannah and Raphael went out to see Leonardo and Donatello in the living room rubbing the sleep out of their eyes.
"Have a good nap, guys?" Hannah asked. Both nodded and said thank you. "Good, oh, and to let you know, Craig is giving me a big fuss because I was going to invite you all over to stay here tonight, I really don't want to sleep in this house alone, so Craig is going to crash on the couch." When the pizza was ready, Michelangelo brought it in and devoured in minutes. Hannah went back to the kitchen with Michelangelo and pulled the last two out of the freezer. Once the pizza's were all eaten up, Craig came over with a bag and they watched a movie. Not taking a nap, Raphael was the first to go to bed, shortly followed by his brothers. Hannah flipped off the TV and said goodnight to Craig.
"Just a second Hannah, I want to talk to you," Craig patted the couch. Sitting next to him Hannah waited. Craig dug into his bag and pulled out a notebook. "Remember those murders that were happening, that I told you about?" Hannah nodded.
"Here's clippings from the newspaper about them," Craig pushed the notebook over to Hannah. She looked over them for a second then gave the notebook back to Craig.
"Why are you showing me this?" Hannah asked.
"Because I want to show you this," Craig pulled out several trinkets from the back of the notebook. There was a bracelet, two necklaces, and some articles of clothing.
"Craig," Hannah was started to get alarmed. She tried to get up but stopped when Craig grabbed her arm. The notebook fell to the floor, as Craig pulled a knife and held it to Hannah's throat.
"Now why couldn't you come to my house Hannah," Craig asked. "Or made those guys leave? We could have had a whole house to our self and I would have had all night to do what I wanted."
"Did you rape those women?" Hannah asked in a small voice.
"No," Craig petted Hannah's cheek. " I just changed their body until it no longer resembled a woman."
Raphael shot up in bed, sweat drenched all over. He looked around not sure what had woken him. His brothers were all still sound asleep, a smile in Michelangelo's face.
"Pizza," Michelangelo murmured smacking his lips. Raphael smiled shaking his head when a noise attracted his attention. He woke his brothers up saying that he had an uneasy feeling in his stomach.
"Are you sure it's not gas," Donatello asked. Raphael gave him a look that said give me a break when Leonardo snapped his head up.
"I heard something, come on." Leonardo whispered. Edging out the turtles made their way to the living room. Leonardo stopped so fast his brothers almost knocked him over. Peeking around, they all could see, Craig had a knife to Hannah's throat and that he was whispering something to her, making her cry. They came up with a plan, when they heard what Craig was going to do next.
"Let's go get rid of the guest so we can take our time," Craig said pulling Hannah up. Walking over to the bedrooms, Craig walked into the guest bedroom. "Now first, hey! Where did they go?"
"Right here, butt wipe." Craig turned taking the knife away from Hannah's throat and received a fist in the nose, breaking it. Raphael cracked his knuckles and advanced Craig.
"Mikey, take Hannah out of here," Raphael said pulling out his sai's. "I'm going to mess this guy up."
"No," Hannah cried. "We have to call the police, he's the Manhattan murderer." When Raphael turned to look at Hannah, Craig knocked the guys aside running past them. Taking chase they saw Craig go into his house.
"Hannah, call the police we'll get Craig," Leonardo said. Numbly Hannah nodded and dialed. The turtles went into Craig's house and split up. Donatello took the living room and kitchen, Raphael and Michelangelo the bedrooms and Leonardo the garage. Michelangelo went into what looked like Craig's room while Raphael went into the master. As he got close to the bathroom, he noticed a weird smell. Looking in the bathroom, Raphael almost lost dinner and went to get Michelangelo.
"Mikey," Raphael stumbled into Craig's room, where Michelangelo had found Craig and tied him up with the bed sheets.
"I got him, it's okay," Michelangelo said. Raphael shook his head and called for his other brothers who rushed in.
"His parents never left town," Raphael said. "In fact I don't think they have left this house for two months."
"What do you mean Raph?" Donatello asked.
"I mean, his parents are in the shower stall," Raphael said feeling sick.
"You mean they're," Leonardo paused as Raphael nodded his head. Sirens pulled up moments later and took Craig away. They questioned the turtles for a few minutes and Hannah. They left saying that Craig would be shipped off to the US for court once they were done with him here. Hannah had called her parents and they were on the way home. Raphael sat on the couch with an arm around Hannah as she leaned onto him for strength. Her breathing evened as she fell asleep.
"Why couldn't we have stopped him from hurting all those other people?" Raphael said quietly.
"I don't know Raph," Leonardo said. "At least we were able to stop him."
"I don't think they would have caught him as soon as they did if ever," Donatello said. "He left the police very little to go on.
"It's sick how someone can do that, I mean his own parents," Michelangelo said.
"He loved the power he felt from it," Donatello said. "It gave him a higher sense of being." The turtles all shuddered at that thought. Hannah woke up as Raphael shifted.
"It was real, wasn't it?" Hannah asked. Raphael nodded as Hannah parents came in the front door. Hannah looked at the door then back to Raphael. Thinking she saw a turtle she shook her head and got up running over to get her parents. While her mother and father held her Hannah cried until her father commented.
"What was that flash?" Hannah rushed back to the living room with her parents behind her. The turtles were gone. The computer beeped as it booted back up.