Author's Notes:

I bring you chapter eight of this fic. I'm not really thrilled with this chapter but oh well... I couldn't think of any other way to put the following storyline for the fic. Also, around chapter ten, I'll probably go back to Sunnydale so you can see what the characters on Buffy are doing with out her. Until then...

A message to danceingfae: I forgot about Buffy running away in third season. It's been so long since I've seen Buffy but thank god for tapes. LOL!

Chapter Eight: Aftermath:

Raph walked slowly back to the den. He had just finished beating the crap out of three punk thugs who were about to attack a young woman. When the fighting was done, the young woman, who was named Sydney asked that he stepped into the light, and when he did she didn't run a way screaming like most people did. In fact, she had introduced herself. The Raph shocked himself when he offered to walk her home, just to be on the safe side.

As he continued to walk, he thought to himself: 'I hope Sydney is doing okay.'

Back up top, Buffy rushed inside her apartment building. She had to tell someone about what had just happened to her. Not only did she almost get attacked by three thugs but she just met a human like turtle who called himself Raphael.

Buffy was now on her floor but she wasn't heading to her new apartment, but to her two friends that she had just met: April and Casey Jones. She found their apartment and started pounding on the door. Buffy hoped they weren't all ready asleep.

"All right! All right! I'm coming!" she heard Casey yell from the other side of the door.

Buffy stopped pounding on the door and a few seconds later, Casey opened the door. "Sydney, what's going on?"

"Can I please come in?" asked Buffy. "Please?"

Casey study her face and could see something was wrong, so he let her in. When she was in he shut the door behind her. "So, what's going on?"

"Oh, you're not going to believe it but first, is April here?" she asked.

"No, she had to work late tonight." answered Casey.

"Oh, well then I guess I'll have to tell you." Buffy replied. "Just promise me that you won't think I'm crazy."

Casey raised an eyebrow at her. "Okay, so why don't you seat down and tell me what happened?" he asked. "You like something to drink."

"Yeah, water would be great." she answered as she went to sit on the sofa that was something in the living room.

A few moments later, Casey came back with a class of water, and handed it to Buffy. Then he sat down with her. Buffy then told him what had happened.

Below, Raph made it back to the den. Splinter was the only one who was waiting up for him. Great, he thought. Get ready to be lectured.

"Leonardo told me what happened between you two before you left." Splinter said to his son.

Raph sighed. He had to get out of this lecture. "Can't this wait till morning?"

"No," answered Splinter. "I want to talk to you about the fight that you and Leo had before you left."

Oh boy, here we go, thought Raph. He knew where this was going. "Okay, how about we make this short so I can go to bed? I'm the bad guy in this while Leo is the great one."

Splinter shook his head and let out a sigh. "You and Leonardo need to learn not to fight with other. You're brothers..." he paused before he continued. "Now, he told me that you made fun of his feelings towards Venus. Is that what really happened Raphael?"

"Is that all he said?" asked Raph.

"Yes, it is."

Raph couldn't help but let out a laugh. Splinter didn't find this matter funny. "Why are you laughing?"

"Because he forgot to what else happened!" Raph answered. "He didn't mention the fact that he crossed the line about..." he paused and lowered his voice as he continued. "About my feelings for April."

Splinter looked in his son's eye to see if he was telling the truth. He saw that he was. Splinter knew that Raph had feelings for April. Raph had come to him first, telling how he felt about their human friend. "Then I shall talk to him tomorrow." said Splinter. "He had no right to do that."

Raph bowed to Splinter. Then he asked to leave and Splinter finally let him go to bed. As Raph claimed into bed, he thought: I'm just glad he didn't ask me if anything happened up top. He would have killed me since I let Sydney see who I am. Then he feel asleep.

Up top, Buffy just finished telling Casey about Raphael. When she was done she took a breath and asked: "So, do you think I'm crazy?"

Casey couldn't believe what he was hearing, actually he could since he knew the turtles but he didn't think that Raph would be dumb enough to show himself. He knew it was Raph because of the way Buffy described him. Casey didn't know how to answer her because he didn't know how Splinter would react knowing that another human knew who they were. Finally, he answered her: "No, you're not crazy. I mean hey, it's New York. Anything is possible here."

"I know but come on! Human like turtles here!" she continued. She shook her head. "Oh well... at least he was nice."

"Nice?" asked Casey with a Raph. Oh, if only she knew the real Raph, he thought.

"What?" Buffy asked.

"Nothing. Never mind."

"I guess I better go since it's getting late." she said getting up. "I'm sorry I bugged you about this but I needed to tell someone."

"Don't worry about it." Casey assured, getting up and showing her to the door. "I told you, you can to us for anything."

"Okay, thanks again." said Buffy. "When April comes home tell her I would like to talk to tomorrow."

"All right, no problem."

"In fact, tell her to meet me at Pizza Palace whenever she can."

"No problem."

Finally, Buffy and Casey said "Goodbye," to one another, and Buffy took her leave. She went to her own apartment and went to bed. That night her dreams were of Raphael. She couldn't get him out of her mind. She wanted to know his story.

To Be Continued...