His True Love

Disclaimer: I deny any ownership of any adult or adolescent transformed shadow warrior chelonians.

Author's Notes: Some Raph fans might not agree with this chapter too much due to the fact that Raph plays the executioner for the family when executions are needed. I figured any of the turtles could probably do the job but looking at the after effects of the task based on personality and decided that of all the turtles Raph would be least bothered by it. Raph is the sort that does what he has to do when it got to be done. While he values Splinter's teaching for him the safety of the family sometimes takes precedent.

I ended up writing something in this chapter I wasn't expecting and I debated about taking it out, however it seemed to read true and I liked it so I left it in.

Reinbeauchaser: I don't mean to give you grey hair. But my mom says she is glad she isn't the only one who gets it from me.

Lenni: Yes last chapter was a bit shorter but I felt I covered all I needed to with it.

Chapter Twenty Eight- The Executioner.

RAPHAEL:

 Shay sat frozen in the bed shaking her head " I won't" she sobbed.

I could sense her fear she had a right to be afraid she knew what was coming and she also had learned from talk while she lived with us who would carry out the sentence on her.

" Then I will take you just the way you are. I don't really give a damn," I snapped at her.

She turned and gave me a cold stare before fumbling the way out of the sheets and starting to dress.

Her guy Randy was dressed all ready being watched constantly by Leo's baleful eye " You have no right…" he began.

But Leo cut him off " Don't talk to me about rights. You had no right to take Ramiela, you had no right to hold her prisoner, you had no right to plan to take her out of New York, You had no right to make her perform like some circus animal for others, and you had no right to inject a drug that might end up killing her."

Leo didn't care for anyone causing harm to his family. Leo could be a real jerk and almost impossible to get along with at times with all his needs to be such a kiss up around Splinter but when some one messed with his family he became quite different all together.

" Shay you got anymore of that drug left?" I asked.

Shay looked at me " Candy only gave me a little bit" Shay replied.

I crossed the room to her side and grabbed her hard pinching a nerve she howled " You of all people should know better then to fuck with me when I'm all ready ticked off with you. Don't lie to me on top of it" I ordered sharply.

Shay trembled " The drawer on the nightstand" she squeaked.

" Better much better."

I went over and opened the nightstand's drawer taking out the syringe filled with a clear yellowish substance. " Leo Donny might need this." I noted the syringe was only about half full.

 " Was this full when you got it Shay?" I barked at her.

 " I know about drugs remember I used to use them. That whole syringe of Buzz is one adult dose."

I bristled so it had been full and Rama had half of this crap in her system. If the executioner in me weren't ready to kill Shay before let me tell you I was sure ready to right here and now.

Even Leo looked like he'd be willing to try it for a change but I knew he held to Splinter's teachings and would end up majorly guilt tripping about it later no matter how necessary it was.

Randy looked at me he must have seen some sort of change in my stance or attitude because all of a sudden the coward looked like he was ready to bolt for the door, he glanced quickly between us as if trying to figure out what his odds might be in doing it too.

Leo smirked at him " Go for it and we will cut you down before you even reach the door" Leo informed him coldly " It might make a mess of the hotel room and we really want to avoid that."

Randy shrugged glanced then towards Shay " Why is the kids family calling you Shay Sandra?"

Oh this guy was a real genius he was!

I gave a dry sarcastic chuckle " Your girlfriend here loves to lie and have her little secrets. Her real name is Cassandra but she goes by aliases like Sandra/Shay whatever she wants when the mood strikes maybe she feels it will make her a better person by doing that" I sneered, " she also loves having her little secrets. Did she tell you she was Ramiela's birth mother and she loved my brother and even me at one time?"

I could tell he wasn't privy to that information and he looked like he was totally repulsed by the idea. Come to think of it I was pretty repulsed by it too but probably for a different reason.

" Shay here is very good at keeping things hidden from people almost as good at it as we are. Either that or she is one of those people who can convince herself that black is white an so can convince others of it" I grinned slightly " But every once in a while I would pick up something from her that didn't seem to mesh with what she was saying." I bounced the syringe in my hand a scowl coming to my face and I crossed my arms over my plastron and glowered hard at Shay.

Leo came over to my side and took the syringe from me " You know something Raph?"

" Maybe Leo, I could be just barking up the wrong tree but sense it out. Under her fear for her own life, in spite of the concern she professes to have for Ramiela can you really pick up any thing that says she is worried?" I asked him.

To my way of thinking if Shay cared for Rama even half as much as she said she did. She ought to feel something for the child who might be fighting for her life. If Shay really cared Rama she would never have drugged her especially as Shay knew that we were different from humans. Some how the two things just didn't connect in my mind.

I arched my eye ridges at Leo waiting to see if he could indeed pick up what I had.

I saw Leo scowl and his features tighten into a hard grim mask I'd seen Leo mad a lot of times, hell I was usually the one to drive him to it, but I had never seen him get this furious with anyone.

I knew then that he had found what I had Shay had no real interest or concern in her daughter. Possibly a part of her despised and rejected the hybrid child she gave birth to. I recalled that when Ramiela had first been born Shay had sort of sat back letting Mike do most of the work, started closing herself off. Finally she left abandoning the sewers.

Four years later perhaps feeling that her only daughter might have taken on more human attributes came back into our lives. She wanted to take Ramiela away saying it was no life for her but her true reason to take Rama away was to hurt Mike.

I knew it then and I wanted to kill her for it but Mike had let her off with a warning. He didn't sense what I had or if he did pick it up he still loved or cared enough about Shay to spare her life.

Mike was like that. Course when he spared her pathetic life he didn't know the problems Rama was about to suffer from what Shay had put her through.

Now she was back again bent on getting revenge on Mike as if she blamed him entirely for her pregnancy, and making her give birth when Mike had told Shay that it was her choice and he was willing to stand by whatever decision she came to.

I could sense her anger towards Mike but the feelings she had about Ramiela were more connected to greed and how she could use the child to hurt Mike the most. If she had any true feeling or concern about her daughter's well being it was very low priority with her.

Leo inhaled sharply " After all this time you figured you made a mistake in giving birth to her."

I nodded so I wasn't off base he had picked it up too.

" I did make a mistake Leo. You were right all along she should have been aborted from the first!" Shay hissed in fury.

I don't think she cared that we found her out.

" All the problems I had while I was pregnant with her, how hard it was for me to give birth to her when I was barely fourteen ruined me. I can't have another normal child Leo" shay smirked a bit " If Rama is going be the only child I ever have I have the right to have her and use her to compensate me for all I have lost. With her I can gain the life I want for myself."

" What about Mike?" Leo asked.

" What about him Leo? If I can't have another child my own daughter for myself why should Mike be permitted to keep his daughter?" Shay snapped, " I am owed Leo!"

Leo sneered, " Death is too good for you Shay however allowing you to continue to live would be the real crime."

He turned to Randy " Get the key the hotel key."

Shay seemed puzzled by that order.

I laughed, " So when your bodies are found they can trace you." I told her coldly my eyes gleaming with eager anticipation it was time to get to work.

Randy took up the keys and headed towards the front door but Leo stopped him " We are leaving the way we came in. I suggest that you don't struggle during our trip you might fall."

I gave a wicked grin " Yeah if we were going to drop you from a height we would want you to die of it at least. But I think for this trip we ought to tie them it would make it easier Leo." I suggested.

" It is fair they did have Rama tied" Leo snorted a bit and gave a sad shake of his head " I was going start Ramiela on escape artist techniques soon after her experience here I might have trouble convincing her it is a game" he muttered reflectively.

We tied the two of them up and left the hotel by now night was closing in.

Leo looked at me to lead the way this time as the executioner it was part of my job to decide where the killing was to be done and what sort of scene to set for those who would find the bodies.

Yeah there had been a few executions in my time where we didn't want the bodies found and I had to make sure they were well hidden but this was not going be one of those times.

I headed out towards the river and the warehouse district it was a fairly quiet section of town at night not a lot going on there, which suited my purpose. Not only that it wasn't that far from the hotel itself.

Once there I interrogated Randy just a little to see if he would confirm what we had all ready learned from Candy and he did fess up to everything, funny how willing people were willing to talk when they thought they would be killed by a sharp and deadly weapon.

Randy admitted he had amassed a large gambling debt, he was in the hole big time and some people were awaiting his return to Las Vegas. He said that Shay had shown them pictures of Rama and told them the creature lived in New York and if they could catch her and bring her back alive they could have an interesting show worth big money to them. According to Randy Shay had said that she didn't mention the adults to these people.

That was good enough for me. We wanted to send a bit of a message of our own just in case but we had to set a scene as well for the police to investigate. I could do both with one shot.

Money problems could cause arguments even between the most loving of relationships. The police would be able to learn of the debts easily and write it off as an argument about money, which got out of hand.

I had all ready determined this was going to be a murder/suicide scenario. Since Randy liked to watch things, like Shay drugging Rama I figured he'd enjoy watching me beat the crap out of his girlfriend. She was going to be my murder victim and she was dying first.

He was to be a suicide quick and painless but not without witnessing what I did to Shay and knowing that his turn was coming.

The police would be able to determine the scene well enough.

He would be worried about money and the large debt and it got to be too much for him. A fight broke out and Shay left the hotel he caught up with her somewhere between the hotel and here. Beat her up. She escaped again get down by the river and onto the rooftop of one of the warehouses. He follows and lets into her again this time killing her with a knife, which I would provide. Realizing what he had done after the fact he opts to kill himself instead of facing his problems and time in jail.

He had to die last so the evidence would stand up.

Leo looked at me " They are all yours Raph. I'm going back to their hotel and remove all evidence of Ramiela having been there before going home. I'll see you there." He said before leaving me.

My brothers didn't care to hang around for executions they didn't want to see it done they didn't care to do it themselves. Mike and Don were far too good natured and friendly to be able to handle this job.

For me it wasn't that I disregarded our Master's teachings but I knew that there were times that the family's safety took precedents. Sometimes it was necessary to kill to protect the family from future trouble and danger.

Executions sometimes were a necessity.

No body hurt those I loved and got away with it. Shay should have remembered that and stayed away. She should have valued her life more. I cut the ropes loose from her.

" Ready to come play with me Shay? And Shay you are going have to do a few things for me too. Don't hesitate to do them." I warned her sharply "It won't spare your life but it might make your death a little easier" I mocked as I closed in on her.

It was time to get started providing what could be believable evidence of her untimely death.

Far as I was concerned it couldn't happen to a nicer person.

TBC