Radical Transformation
(A.N) Sorry for confusing you all, but the reason Simmons said that Raph (and his brothers) won't be staying is becoz they're only there temporary (get me?) They're 'from' LA, and are only 'visiting' their 'aunt' April, so they had to go to school, but not for long . . . get me? Hehe, sorry for confusion, nah, I wouldn't have them expelled, heh. Thanks for reviews; I love you now, hehe.
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It was announced that the school would be temporarily closed for the rest of the day, and for the following, as the library would need to be cleaned up and blocked off. School was to continue the day after tomorrow, when proper precautions would be set. Simmons announced this on the field only a half an hour after Prida and Raph had come out of the building, but he didn't mention names. He used the megaphone to shout through. Kids, and even teachers, were happy there was a sudden break in the week.
Prida, still wrapped in Mai's coat, walked up to Leo and Donnie, who were talking in low voices about something that she couldn't really care about right then. They stopped talking and looked up at her.
"You're moving back, aren't you?" She asked, clutching the sides of the coat as it slipped in a small wind.
Leo frowned. "Where?" He asked.
"To LA, you said you're just here to visit your aunt . . . then you're going back . . ." Prida, though she tried to hide it, was deeply upset about this. She didn't know why, but something about her friends seemed odd, and she had become attached to all of them. She couldn't shake off the feeling that there was something to them.
Leo's face immediately dropped the frown and he glanced quickly at Donnie before he spoke.
"Yeah. Yeah we are . . ." He said, awkwardly.
Prida nodded, and turned around to her sister's calls. Mai was beckoning her to them so they could go home and Prida could get bathed and changed. She was still black, and the sweat on her face had dried uncomfortably.
Prida turned back. "I'll see you guys later . . . I haff to get out of these clothes."
She would have smiled, but she felt no mood to be happy. She frowned to herself as she walked, slowly, to her sister and her brother-in-law. Why is she not happy? She just escaped a burning library, by her best friend - wait a minute . . . best friend? Nah, they couldn't be, she had only known them for less than a week. Yet it seemed like she had known them a lot longer. She felt like she had seen them before, but she would know if she'd seen four identical boys.
Mai put her arms around her sister's shoulders, and frowned at the distant expression she was wearing.
"Hey, Prida sweetie, you okay?" She asked softly, as Korey put a hand on her other shoulder and looked at Mai.
Prida shook her head, clearing her thoughts and smiled at her sister.
"Me? Me - I'm fine . . ." The expression came back, but less noticeably.
Mai steered her little sister to Korey's car, and shut the door after she had got into the backseat. She stood up straight and looked at the two identical boys - well, now three because the other just joined them away from the paramedics. One of them, the one in the blue bandanna and shirt, looked up. She smiled gratefully at him, and mouthed 'thank you'. She saw him smiled back, and she got into the car, which drove off a second later. Prida in the back, head down, face clouded by that expression.
Leo watched it drive off school grounds and around the building, out of sight. Then he turned back to his brothers.
"I gotta see someone before we go," he said. Then he looked over at the mass of people searching out Matt Hill. He saw him with a large group of people, told Donnie and Raph to wait there, and ran down the sloping field to Mikey's friend. He looked up when Leo reached him.
"Hey Leo - Did'ya hear, someone saved someone else from the fire?!" He asked, excited.
Leo rolled his eyes, but quickly stopped. He should guess that they don't get much action in school - well, until him and his brothers came along.
"Yeah, listen, about you coming over to April's - I mean, our house . . . you know, to see Mikey?" He waited for Matt to nod. "Well, Aunt April is a little . . . erm . . . well, she doesn't like people in her house -" he realised this sounded strange. " - I mean she got mugged a few days ago and is a little jumpy," he added quickly, wondering why the hell he just said that. "And, well, it would be better for her to get over it in a few . . . weeks." He grinned awkwardly.
Matt smiled and nodded once. "Okay, yeah, I understand . . . hey, sorry to hear about her nearly getting mugged . . ."
"Yeah, thanks," Leo said. "Well, gotta go, she worries," he laughed nervously and legged it back to his brothers who were watching his conversation.
"What was that about?" Donnie asked.
"Ah, Mikey's message," Leo said. "C'mon, let's get home." They nodded and took off before anyone could crowd them and start asking what happened.
They ran most of the way home, ignoring the fact that everyone they passed was staring, wondering why the boys were out of school, staring because they were identical, and frowning because Raph was still black. They made it back to April's house puffing and panting, out of breath.
Donnie rapped on the apartment door and waited for it to be opened, which it was, by April, who had said earlier that she would be home before she usually is.
"What happened?" She asked, frowning at Raph's black face and clothes, and at them puffing and sweaty.
"Well let us in and we might tell ya," Raph panted sarcastically.
April moved aside and let them in, shutting the door, but before she did, she glanced out into the hallway, and saw an old face peering out of another door further along, frowning.
Mikey, who was laying comfortably on the couch with a bowl full of popcorn, frowned and lifted himself up at the sight of them. He crunched his popcorn thoughtfully then said:
"Right . . . well, you didn't go through THAT much trouble to bring me homework, did'ya?" He smiled.
Leo, Donnie and Raph groaned, and they all looked up as a door slammed softly and Splinter was standing outside the guest room door. He took in their appearance, gave a quizzical look at Raph's clothes, and walked into the middle of the room, still looking at them.
"Please explain, my sons," he said, seating himself down in his armchair and sitting back, arms on the arms of the chair.
Raph turned to Leo and Donnie. "You explain, I'm taking a shower." And he disappeared upstairs.
Splinter turned his attention, once more, on Leo and Donnie. They both took off their trainers and sat down on the floor. More like collapsed on the floor. April walked from the door to the couch next to Mikey.
Leo, who usually did the explanations (unless it was something complicated and complex, then Donnie spoke) began to tell them what happened; the fire started, Prida was in there, trapped, Raph saved her, blah de blah. He was talking for fifteen minutes, and had so far managed to keep the Foot member as a 'man in the library'. But as Raph came down from upstairs, cleaned, in fresh clothes, clean bandanna and rubbing his hair with a towel, Leo looked Splinter in the eyes and told him what Prida had said to him about the man.
"It was definitely one of the Foot," Leo said nodding. Donnie was as well. "But what I don't get is, if start a fire, what is it's purpose? I mean, I can see it was to get us all out of school, but it couldn't have been to kill Prida. She has no bad history with the Foot. They're not known to anyone but us. I think it was to get us out, so maybe he could do something while we were confused. But why didn't he? I didn't see anything at all."
The phone rang and April picked it up, taking it away from the conversation so she could speak without anything being heard over the other end.
"Me neither," Donnie said as April put the phone down and turned on the TV. "It was pretty pointless, starting a fire for one reason, and not carrying out the main task. Maybe he HAD hoped that someone would be in the library, and when the teachers say that someone is missing, hoped that one of us - or all of us - would go in and save them . . ."
"Good theory, Donatello," Splinter spoke up. "But I do not believe that to be the case. Yes, one girl was trapped, but to get all four of you, as he would have thought, in a burning library, and have you all trapped would not be possible, and he would know it."
"Guys," April said, directing their attention to her, and then to the TV she was staring at.
Vinilla High was on TV, in the background. A female reporter was explaining what had happened today. She had finished her summary of the day's action, and was motioning for the camera to turn and look at something. It was a stretcher, and on it was a covered body. It was burnt, and black.
"Police have said that this body was of the man who was described by one of the survivors as the fire-starter. In his rush to get away from the fire, it appears he must had stumbled, or tripped, falling into his own disaster. The body appears to be that of a young man . . ." The reporter died off into the background as everyone turned and looked at each other.
"We seem to be doing this often," Donnie said, half a smile on his face.
"Man, I'm off for one day and in that time, Raph becomes a hero, school's out for however long and we're one Foot member short!" Mikey said as though this was exactly what they wanted to happen.
His brothers, including April, threw pillows at him.
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Since the rest of the school day was cancelled, they had nothing to do except stay at home and hear Raph explain what went off in the library. Leo and Donnie made themselves heard that they tried to join him but were cut off my that idiotic teacher who thought their brother had left something inside and they wanted to risk their lives to save it. Mikey laughed at that bit.
"Hey, we wouldn't have known Raph went in if it hadn't of been for Tooks," Donnie said, snapping his Crunchie chocolate bar and popping it in his mouth. He was sat on the couch with Mikey, Leo was sat on the floor with Raph, leaning against the couch. They were watching a movie April had dug out of her bookcase upstairs.
"What? Tooks?" Mikey and Raph both said.
"Yeah," Leo nodded. "Of course he didn't tell us in the manner we would have liked to have known. He asked us what it felt like to be triplets now, and we thought he was on about Mikey, ya know . . . idiot . . ."
All brothers nodded, and eyes returned to the TV screen where Godzilla was trashing buildings.
"What're we gunna do for tomorra?" Mikey asked, crunching more popcorn and handing the bowl to Raph.
Donnie shrugged. "I wanted to go back to those shops we first came by. There was a good gadget shop, and I wanted to have a look at the Internet magazines in there."
"I say we go find some good butts to kick," Raph said through a mouth full of popcorn.
"What, tomorrow?"
"Nah, today."
"You're not keeping up with the conversation, Raph." Leo shook his head, but his brother threw two bits of popcorn at him.
"Hey! Not in my house!" April suddenly came from downstairs, having cleaned the bathtub because it was dirty. She made her way into the kitchen and asked who wanted tea.
"Me," they all said, then as one, all turned their heads to the TV.
April grinned and put the kettle on the boil, bringing out six mugs, as no doubt Splinter, who was in the peaceful silence of the guest room, would want one too.
"Got any plans for your free day tomorrow?" April asked, raising her voice because of the loud kettle.
"I thought we could go see a movie," Leo said, to April and his brothers.
"Yeah, a movie!" Mikey said, trying to wrestle the popcorn bowl away from Raph, who handed it to Donnie, who grinned and took it out of his reach.
"Cool," April smiled, filling the mugs with milk. Mikey liked his tea with half milk and half tea, so basically it was just warm milk.
"What's on?" Raph asked.
"Find out tomorrow," April called; now taking the kettle off the boil and pouring it into the teapot. "You can go and find out and Donnie can go to his gadget shop at the same time."
They agreed then, and all settled back down to watch the rest of their movie. But a few seconds later, Leo frowned about something, and turned to his brother who was sat next to him on the floor.
"Raph," he said slowly, thinking. His brother stopped chomping his apple and looked at him. Leo said, "How did you know Prida was in the library?"
Donnie and Mikey ceased their crunching to listen better. The movie ignored.
Raph shrugged and continued to watch it. "I saw her out of class."
"Yeah, but how did you know she was heading to the library?" Donnie leaned forward, trapping Mikey's foot in- between his stomach and lap as it was resting on his knees. Mikey made a noise and Donnie sat back again.
"She said so."
"When?" Leo asked.
"In Chemistry."
"We don't have Chemistry with her," Donnie said, frowning.
"Nah, I saw her through the glass in the door, and she said she was off to the library."
His brothers all mouthed an 'Oooh'. Even Mikey who tried to be part of the action.
"Oh right, that's why you asked Tyson where his class was," Donnie pointed out. "Prida was in his Chemistry group."
"Yeah, jeeze Don, I should give you a medal for alla this."
"So, what else happed, before the fire?" Mikey sudden spoke up. His brother looked at him. "Hey, I was here all day, with no one to talk to, nothing to do!"
He folded his arms and stuck out his lip. They groaned at him and turned back to the TV, so he unfolded his arms and grinned.
"I missed you guys!" He joked, and threw his arms around Raph's head, who was the closest, covering his eyes.
"Hey! Gerroff me Mikey!" Raph prised his brother's arms off his head, and Mikey giggled and sat back, looking totally comfortable with his injured foot on Donnie's lap, and the other, he now put, on Leo's shoulder with his foot in his face. Leo slapped it away, smiling.
April, who was bringing their teas in, grinned and shook her head. She handed Leo and Raph their tea, went back for Donnie and Mikey's, handed those out and went back for Splinter's. While she knocked on the door, waiting for Splinter, Mikey turned to Leo.
"Did'ya tell Matt about . . . ?" He asked, keeping his voice low. Donnie and Raph frowned.
"Yeah, I er, hadda make up something, though," Leo said.
"What did you say?" Mikey asked, ignoring the other two's looks.
"I said that she had been mugged and that April - "
April, who was walking back, having just given Splinter's his tea, looked up and said, "what?"
"Oh, not you Ape, I meant something's happening at the school in April some time," Leo said quickly.
April shrugged and said she was going to have a bath. She disappeared upstairs, saying it was late so she would go to bed afterwards.
"What are you two on about?" Donnie asked, deciding to voice out his and Raph's question.
"Oh, nothing," Leo said. "Just Mike's friend, Matt, knew where we live and suggested he might come round one time. So I told him . . . a little lie to stop him . . ."
"What lie?" Raph grinned. His perfect brother, lie?
"Oh, just a quick little white lie," Leo smiled. "Just said April didn't like strangers, heh, and, er, she was mugged and is a little edgy around people."
Donnie, Raph and Mikey both burst out laughing. Leo grinned, though he kept his eyes on the TV.
"Leo, have you thought about how odd that is?" Donnie grinned at him. "April is a reporter! She has to be around people, strangers, to do her report!"
"Hey, it just came out," Leo smiled.
After his brothers had calmed down, in which time they joked and imitated what April might do to people on her next report, the film ended and Mikey dropped to sleep as soon as the light from the TV was turned off.
Leo and Raph stood up while Donnie gently moved Mikey's foot off his knees, then he stood.
"Movie tomorrow," Donnie said, smiling, though they couldn't' really tell in the dark apartment. "We can grab some grub from the shops after I've been in the gadget store."
Leo yawned and stretched his muscular arms. "Yeah, 'kay Don," he said sleepily.
All three left Mikey sleeping on the couch, and trudged upstairs, quietly, and into the small room they all shared. It seemed small, but there was enough space for them to curl up on the floor, on top of their little floor-beds. Raph collapsed in his with his towel still on his shoulders. Leo and Donnie talked before they drifted off. Mostly about the Foot member, and if they were acting on Tatsu's orders or someone else . . . It couldn't be the Shredder . . . he was dead. A few minutes after they had settled down and stopped talking, both Leo and Donnie closed their eyes and fell sleep.
Okay, SFAM, thanks for reading. No idea what to call this chapter, but thanks to tmnt_luver for it, lol. Thanks 2 u all! Hehe, hey I gat a drawing up on my side7 account, it's my character, holding Mikey's weapons, in an outfit designed by tmnt_luver. Don't it luk great? Lol, thanks, hehe. More story coming . . .
(A.N) Sorry for confusing you all, but the reason Simmons said that Raph (and his brothers) won't be staying is becoz they're only there temporary (get me?) They're 'from' LA, and are only 'visiting' their 'aunt' April, so they had to go to school, but not for long . . . get me? Hehe, sorry for confusion, nah, I wouldn't have them expelled, heh. Thanks for reviews; I love you now, hehe.
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It was announced that the school would be temporarily closed for the rest of the day, and for the following, as the library would need to be cleaned up and blocked off. School was to continue the day after tomorrow, when proper precautions would be set. Simmons announced this on the field only a half an hour after Prida and Raph had come out of the building, but he didn't mention names. He used the megaphone to shout through. Kids, and even teachers, were happy there was a sudden break in the week.
Prida, still wrapped in Mai's coat, walked up to Leo and Donnie, who were talking in low voices about something that she couldn't really care about right then. They stopped talking and looked up at her.
"You're moving back, aren't you?" She asked, clutching the sides of the coat as it slipped in a small wind.
Leo frowned. "Where?" He asked.
"To LA, you said you're just here to visit your aunt . . . then you're going back . . ." Prida, though she tried to hide it, was deeply upset about this. She didn't know why, but something about her friends seemed odd, and she had become attached to all of them. She couldn't shake off the feeling that there was something to them.
Leo's face immediately dropped the frown and he glanced quickly at Donnie before he spoke.
"Yeah. Yeah we are . . ." He said, awkwardly.
Prida nodded, and turned around to her sister's calls. Mai was beckoning her to them so they could go home and Prida could get bathed and changed. She was still black, and the sweat on her face had dried uncomfortably.
Prida turned back. "I'll see you guys later . . . I haff to get out of these clothes."
She would have smiled, but she felt no mood to be happy. She frowned to herself as she walked, slowly, to her sister and her brother-in-law. Why is she not happy? She just escaped a burning library, by her best friend - wait a minute . . . best friend? Nah, they couldn't be, she had only known them for less than a week. Yet it seemed like she had known them a lot longer. She felt like she had seen them before, but she would know if she'd seen four identical boys.
Mai put her arms around her sister's shoulders, and frowned at the distant expression she was wearing.
"Hey, Prida sweetie, you okay?" She asked softly, as Korey put a hand on her other shoulder and looked at Mai.
Prida shook her head, clearing her thoughts and smiled at her sister.
"Me? Me - I'm fine . . ." The expression came back, but less noticeably.
Mai steered her little sister to Korey's car, and shut the door after she had got into the backseat. She stood up straight and looked at the two identical boys - well, now three because the other just joined them away from the paramedics. One of them, the one in the blue bandanna and shirt, looked up. She smiled gratefully at him, and mouthed 'thank you'. She saw him smiled back, and she got into the car, which drove off a second later. Prida in the back, head down, face clouded by that expression.
Leo watched it drive off school grounds and around the building, out of sight. Then he turned back to his brothers.
"I gotta see someone before we go," he said. Then he looked over at the mass of people searching out Matt Hill. He saw him with a large group of people, told Donnie and Raph to wait there, and ran down the sloping field to Mikey's friend. He looked up when Leo reached him.
"Hey Leo - Did'ya hear, someone saved someone else from the fire?!" He asked, excited.
Leo rolled his eyes, but quickly stopped. He should guess that they don't get much action in school - well, until him and his brothers came along.
"Yeah, listen, about you coming over to April's - I mean, our house . . . you know, to see Mikey?" He waited for Matt to nod. "Well, Aunt April is a little . . . erm . . . well, she doesn't like people in her house -" he realised this sounded strange. " - I mean she got mugged a few days ago and is a little jumpy," he added quickly, wondering why the hell he just said that. "And, well, it would be better for her to get over it in a few . . . weeks." He grinned awkwardly.
Matt smiled and nodded once. "Okay, yeah, I understand . . . hey, sorry to hear about her nearly getting mugged . . ."
"Yeah, thanks," Leo said. "Well, gotta go, she worries," he laughed nervously and legged it back to his brothers who were watching his conversation.
"What was that about?" Donnie asked.
"Ah, Mikey's message," Leo said. "C'mon, let's get home." They nodded and took off before anyone could crowd them and start asking what happened.
They ran most of the way home, ignoring the fact that everyone they passed was staring, wondering why the boys were out of school, staring because they were identical, and frowning because Raph was still black. They made it back to April's house puffing and panting, out of breath.
Donnie rapped on the apartment door and waited for it to be opened, which it was, by April, who had said earlier that she would be home before she usually is.
"What happened?" She asked, frowning at Raph's black face and clothes, and at them puffing and sweaty.
"Well let us in and we might tell ya," Raph panted sarcastically.
April moved aside and let them in, shutting the door, but before she did, she glanced out into the hallway, and saw an old face peering out of another door further along, frowning.
Mikey, who was laying comfortably on the couch with a bowl full of popcorn, frowned and lifted himself up at the sight of them. He crunched his popcorn thoughtfully then said:
"Right . . . well, you didn't go through THAT much trouble to bring me homework, did'ya?" He smiled.
Leo, Donnie and Raph groaned, and they all looked up as a door slammed softly and Splinter was standing outside the guest room door. He took in their appearance, gave a quizzical look at Raph's clothes, and walked into the middle of the room, still looking at them.
"Please explain, my sons," he said, seating himself down in his armchair and sitting back, arms on the arms of the chair.
Raph turned to Leo and Donnie. "You explain, I'm taking a shower." And he disappeared upstairs.
Splinter turned his attention, once more, on Leo and Donnie. They both took off their trainers and sat down on the floor. More like collapsed on the floor. April walked from the door to the couch next to Mikey.
Leo, who usually did the explanations (unless it was something complicated and complex, then Donnie spoke) began to tell them what happened; the fire started, Prida was in there, trapped, Raph saved her, blah de blah. He was talking for fifteen minutes, and had so far managed to keep the Foot member as a 'man in the library'. But as Raph came down from upstairs, cleaned, in fresh clothes, clean bandanna and rubbing his hair with a towel, Leo looked Splinter in the eyes and told him what Prida had said to him about the man.
"It was definitely one of the Foot," Leo said nodding. Donnie was as well. "But what I don't get is, if start a fire, what is it's purpose? I mean, I can see it was to get us all out of school, but it couldn't have been to kill Prida. She has no bad history with the Foot. They're not known to anyone but us. I think it was to get us out, so maybe he could do something while we were confused. But why didn't he? I didn't see anything at all."
The phone rang and April picked it up, taking it away from the conversation so she could speak without anything being heard over the other end.
"Me neither," Donnie said as April put the phone down and turned on the TV. "It was pretty pointless, starting a fire for one reason, and not carrying out the main task. Maybe he HAD hoped that someone would be in the library, and when the teachers say that someone is missing, hoped that one of us - or all of us - would go in and save them . . ."
"Good theory, Donatello," Splinter spoke up. "But I do not believe that to be the case. Yes, one girl was trapped, but to get all four of you, as he would have thought, in a burning library, and have you all trapped would not be possible, and he would know it."
"Guys," April said, directing their attention to her, and then to the TV she was staring at.
Vinilla High was on TV, in the background. A female reporter was explaining what had happened today. She had finished her summary of the day's action, and was motioning for the camera to turn and look at something. It was a stretcher, and on it was a covered body. It was burnt, and black.
"Police have said that this body was of the man who was described by one of the survivors as the fire-starter. In his rush to get away from the fire, it appears he must had stumbled, or tripped, falling into his own disaster. The body appears to be that of a young man . . ." The reporter died off into the background as everyone turned and looked at each other.
"We seem to be doing this often," Donnie said, half a smile on his face.
"Man, I'm off for one day and in that time, Raph becomes a hero, school's out for however long and we're one Foot member short!" Mikey said as though this was exactly what they wanted to happen.
His brothers, including April, threw pillows at him.
()()()()
Since the rest of the school day was cancelled, they had nothing to do except stay at home and hear Raph explain what went off in the library. Leo and Donnie made themselves heard that they tried to join him but were cut off my that idiotic teacher who thought their brother had left something inside and they wanted to risk their lives to save it. Mikey laughed at that bit.
"Hey, we wouldn't have known Raph went in if it hadn't of been for Tooks," Donnie said, snapping his Crunchie chocolate bar and popping it in his mouth. He was sat on the couch with Mikey, Leo was sat on the floor with Raph, leaning against the couch. They were watching a movie April had dug out of her bookcase upstairs.
"What? Tooks?" Mikey and Raph both said.
"Yeah," Leo nodded. "Of course he didn't tell us in the manner we would have liked to have known. He asked us what it felt like to be triplets now, and we thought he was on about Mikey, ya know . . . idiot . . ."
All brothers nodded, and eyes returned to the TV screen where Godzilla was trashing buildings.
"What're we gunna do for tomorra?" Mikey asked, crunching more popcorn and handing the bowl to Raph.
Donnie shrugged. "I wanted to go back to those shops we first came by. There was a good gadget shop, and I wanted to have a look at the Internet magazines in there."
"I say we go find some good butts to kick," Raph said through a mouth full of popcorn.
"What, tomorrow?"
"Nah, today."
"You're not keeping up with the conversation, Raph." Leo shook his head, but his brother threw two bits of popcorn at him.
"Hey! Not in my house!" April suddenly came from downstairs, having cleaned the bathtub because it was dirty. She made her way into the kitchen and asked who wanted tea.
"Me," they all said, then as one, all turned their heads to the TV.
April grinned and put the kettle on the boil, bringing out six mugs, as no doubt Splinter, who was in the peaceful silence of the guest room, would want one too.
"Got any plans for your free day tomorrow?" April asked, raising her voice because of the loud kettle.
"I thought we could go see a movie," Leo said, to April and his brothers.
"Yeah, a movie!" Mikey said, trying to wrestle the popcorn bowl away from Raph, who handed it to Donnie, who grinned and took it out of his reach.
"Cool," April smiled, filling the mugs with milk. Mikey liked his tea with half milk and half tea, so basically it was just warm milk.
"What's on?" Raph asked.
"Find out tomorrow," April called; now taking the kettle off the boil and pouring it into the teapot. "You can go and find out and Donnie can go to his gadget shop at the same time."
They agreed then, and all settled back down to watch the rest of their movie. But a few seconds later, Leo frowned about something, and turned to his brother who was sat next to him on the floor.
"Raph," he said slowly, thinking. His brother stopped chomping his apple and looked at him. Leo said, "How did you know Prida was in the library?"
Donnie and Mikey ceased their crunching to listen better. The movie ignored.
Raph shrugged and continued to watch it. "I saw her out of class."
"Yeah, but how did you know she was heading to the library?" Donnie leaned forward, trapping Mikey's foot in- between his stomach and lap as it was resting on his knees. Mikey made a noise and Donnie sat back again.
"She said so."
"When?" Leo asked.
"In Chemistry."
"We don't have Chemistry with her," Donnie said, frowning.
"Nah, I saw her through the glass in the door, and she said she was off to the library."
His brothers all mouthed an 'Oooh'. Even Mikey who tried to be part of the action.
"Oh right, that's why you asked Tyson where his class was," Donnie pointed out. "Prida was in his Chemistry group."
"Yeah, jeeze Don, I should give you a medal for alla this."
"So, what else happed, before the fire?" Mikey sudden spoke up. His brother looked at him. "Hey, I was here all day, with no one to talk to, nothing to do!"
He folded his arms and stuck out his lip. They groaned at him and turned back to the TV, so he unfolded his arms and grinned.
"I missed you guys!" He joked, and threw his arms around Raph's head, who was the closest, covering his eyes.
"Hey! Gerroff me Mikey!" Raph prised his brother's arms off his head, and Mikey giggled and sat back, looking totally comfortable with his injured foot on Donnie's lap, and the other, he now put, on Leo's shoulder with his foot in his face. Leo slapped it away, smiling.
April, who was bringing their teas in, grinned and shook her head. She handed Leo and Raph their tea, went back for Donnie and Mikey's, handed those out and went back for Splinter's. While she knocked on the door, waiting for Splinter, Mikey turned to Leo.
"Did'ya tell Matt about . . . ?" He asked, keeping his voice low. Donnie and Raph frowned.
"Yeah, I er, hadda make up something, though," Leo said.
"What did you say?" Mikey asked, ignoring the other two's looks.
"I said that she had been mugged and that April - "
April, who was walking back, having just given Splinter's his tea, looked up and said, "what?"
"Oh, not you Ape, I meant something's happening at the school in April some time," Leo said quickly.
April shrugged and said she was going to have a bath. She disappeared upstairs, saying it was late so she would go to bed afterwards.
"What are you two on about?" Donnie asked, deciding to voice out his and Raph's question.
"Oh, nothing," Leo said. "Just Mike's friend, Matt, knew where we live and suggested he might come round one time. So I told him . . . a little lie to stop him . . ."
"What lie?" Raph grinned. His perfect brother, lie?
"Oh, just a quick little white lie," Leo smiled. "Just said April didn't like strangers, heh, and, er, she was mugged and is a little edgy around people."
Donnie, Raph and Mikey both burst out laughing. Leo grinned, though he kept his eyes on the TV.
"Leo, have you thought about how odd that is?" Donnie grinned at him. "April is a reporter! She has to be around people, strangers, to do her report!"
"Hey, it just came out," Leo smiled.
After his brothers had calmed down, in which time they joked and imitated what April might do to people on her next report, the film ended and Mikey dropped to sleep as soon as the light from the TV was turned off.
Leo and Raph stood up while Donnie gently moved Mikey's foot off his knees, then he stood.
"Movie tomorrow," Donnie said, smiling, though they couldn't' really tell in the dark apartment. "We can grab some grub from the shops after I've been in the gadget store."
Leo yawned and stretched his muscular arms. "Yeah, 'kay Don," he said sleepily.
All three left Mikey sleeping on the couch, and trudged upstairs, quietly, and into the small room they all shared. It seemed small, but there was enough space for them to curl up on the floor, on top of their little floor-beds. Raph collapsed in his with his towel still on his shoulders. Leo and Donnie talked before they drifted off. Mostly about the Foot member, and if they were acting on Tatsu's orders or someone else . . . It couldn't be the Shredder . . . he was dead. A few minutes after they had settled down and stopped talking, both Leo and Donnie closed their eyes and fell sleep.
Okay, SFAM, thanks for reading. No idea what to call this chapter, but thanks to tmnt_luver for it, lol. Thanks 2 u all! Hehe, hey I gat a drawing up on my side7 account, it's my character, holding Mikey's weapons, in an outfit designed by tmnt_luver. Don't it luk great? Lol, thanks, hehe. More story coming . . .