A Sense of Belonging

Chapter XIV: Who to Blame?

By: Michelle

"GET AWAY FROM ME." Venus cried. "ALL OF YOU."

They all watched as Venus ran out of the lair.

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"Nice going RAPH." Leonardo accused.

"Yeah Raph." Donatello folded his arms.

"Yeha." Michaelangelo began. "Ummm."

Raphael gave them all a hard glare. "How is this my fault?"

"You're the one who left the toilet seat up."

"Listen to yourself, Leo." Raphael defended. "She's bitchin' 'bout a toilet seat. A TOILET SEAT."

"That you left up." Donatello reminded.

"I swear Raph, if you weren't so cruel to her all the time."

"What?"

"She wouldn't have stormed out the door."

"Don't talk." Raphael walked around them. "Ya'll are just as guilty of pissin' her off as I am."

Leonardo shook his head.

"Oh yes MR. PERFECT. You get on her nerves too."

"HOW?"

"Venus are you alright? Do you need some help? That might be dangerous. Are you sure you are alright? If you need me, I'll be here." Raphael imitated.

Michaelangelo began laughing as he saw Leonardo turn a bright shade of red.

"What are you laughing at? MICHAELANGELO." Leonardo said with an attitude. "Every five seconds you are hitting on her like she's a piece of meat."

"That's not true." Michaelangelo defended.

"Excuse me. Four seconds."

"But."

Donatello nodded his head. "It's true Mikey."

"Oh bite me Don." Michaelangelo said. "You poke at her everyday taking blood and urine samples and shit like she's a rat in an experiment."

"I don't poke at her." Donatello defended. "Besides, if I didn't take all those samples, I would have never been able to see if she is compatible with any of us."

There was an awkward silence among them.

"So is she?" Leonardo asked knowing everyone else was curious as well.

"Yeah, she could be a mate to any of us and successfully produce offspring." Donatello admitted.

"We met one female turtle." Raphael began saying.

Michaelangelo sighed. "And we drove her away."

"Guess we are all guilty."

"Indeed you all are." Splinter said as he came out of the shadows. "I was wondering how long it would take for the four of you to realize how hard it has been for Venus to live here."

"If we are so unbearable to live with." Raphael said to him. "Why the hell did she stay?"

"Venus has no one in China to go back to." Splinter replied. "Her father Chung I was killed by Dragon Lord. She was an only child, unlike you four."

"She stayed because she wanted to be part of a family again." Leonardo concluded.

Splinter nodded. "That she did."

"But she is part of this family." Donatello pointed out.

"Not any more." Raphael said. "She doesn't anything to do with us."

"That is not true." Splinter smiled. "She's angry, no doubt about that. She needs to 'vent' a little."

"So she's going to come back home?" Michaelangelo smiled. He couldn't imagine them without her in their lives.

"She will." Splinter said. "When you give her a sense of belonging."

"What's that suppose to mean?"

They all looked at Splinter confused.

"That's what you need to figure out." Splinter replied and went back to bed.

The turtles looked around at each other. What was that suppose to mean?

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"April." Venus began banging on April's door. "Come on April please open the door."

'Damnit Raph." April whispered to herself. April got up and walked to the door. She unlocked it and cracked the door to see what he wanted.

"April."

"Venus." April was surprised to see her standing at the door. "What's wrong?