Chapter 6: Problems
A/N: Hello everyone! This chapter is kissey-full, as always expected from yours truly ;) If any of you are Van Helsing fans, maybe you could read my new story I'm posting? Hello? Oh, and one more thing. If anybody seems very out-of-character in this chapter, tell me PLEASE!
Don: Monica, I would NOT freak out over such a little-
Me: Shush! Yes, yes you would, trust me. Now don't give it away!
Don: -- Whatever...
My Poll: It looks like most of you are going for Mikey OO
Review replys-
In The Clouds: No, Pen Name hasn't always been Donny's girl. Hehe, it used to be Leo's Girl but my favorite turtle recently changed from Leo to Don, so... Yeah. OMG, that was me who reviewed like that! Cool:) I know, isn't it so irritating how some people will only write about ONE character ALL the time? It's so annyoing:) But no offense to you people who do! Your storys ROCK!
A/N: Guess what? I think I'm going to do poll's through out the entire story. Just because I like to know what people think, so when I write all my other centrics, I'll think of them! News update, Monica has a new favorite turtle! Thanks to a conversation I had with Raphangela(wink wink) I love Donny! Yay! Ok, enjoy the chapter now!
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Raphael woke up the next morning, blinking and frowning, He hoped it wasn't all a dream, the date, the kisses, Katie, it couldn't have all been such a wonderful dream... He turned over to be sure. He was confirmed by Katie's sleeping body that it all had not been a dream, and he was over joyed. He pulled Katie's body closer to his, and kissed her head tenderly. Katie blinked and yawned, then looked up at Raph, smiling. "Good Morning." Raph whispered in her ear. "Morning." she said back, and kissed him gently(oo lala).
Once the two had gotten up, and Katie had fixed her hair so she was satisfied, they walked out into the living room. He saw Leo sitting in there with his head in his hands. "Oh my god he's not with your sister!" Raph joked to Katie, and Katie smiled. But, Raph caught the look on Leo's face, and thought something must be up. "Hang on a sec, babe." Katie stared at Raph as he went to go talk to Leo.
Raphael approached his brother, and knelt down in front of him. "Hey bro. Somethin' up?" Leo nodded. "Yeah, it's Victoria, she had another dream last night... but this time it was about... her getting captured...and taken to the zoo." Raph's eyes widened. "Why would she dream that?" Leo shrugged. "I don't know, that's why I'm worried... Remember when Jeniffer was 12, and she had that dream about... me getting tortured by Shredder? That happened Raph.".
FLASH BACK
Fifteen year old Raphael jolted awake when he heard his sister screaming. He ran into Jeniffer's room, and saw her flailing and screaching on the bed. Raphael ran to her, and grabbed her shoulders. "Jen, Jenny Wake up!" Jeniffer's eyes shot open, and she started crying. "What is it,sweetie?" Raph asked. "L-Leo! Raph, w-we have to help Leo!" Raph shook his head. "Leo's fine, babe, he's in his room-" "N-NO! RAPH WE G-GOTTA HELP HIM!"
Just then, Raph heard a scream from Leo's room. "Shit." He muttered, and ran in there, Jen behind him. Raph nearly threw up when he entered the room. There was blood everywhere, on the floor, on the walls, and on the bed. Shredder was in there, holding sixteen year old Leonardo by his kneck. Leo was very battered. His legs had huge gashes in them. His plastron had been sliced open, blood gushing out of his wound, and his kneck had claw marks. Raph heard thundering footsteps behind him, and 13 year old Mike and Linda came running in. Linda started crying, and Mike ran back out, yelling," Master Splinter!" Raph jumped at Shredder and kicked him hard in the chest. Instead, he just hurt his foot, because Shredder's armor was too hard.
Raph saw a gray blur shoot past him and knock Shredder clean off his feet, and release Leo. Linda ran over to him, and yelled for Don. "I'm coming! Just getting some supplys!" Don yelled hurriedly. Soon, he came running in too, took one look at Leo, and turned white. He knelt down, but more like fell on his knees, and got right to work. He pulled Leo into a safe corner, and started to clean out his cuts. Raph and Mikey lept and Shredder, helping their Master kick his metal ass. Pretty soon, Shredder chickened out and ran, and Jen walked in. "Is Leo okay?" She asked Donny. Don thought, and nodded. "He'll be fine." Jen nodded, smiling. Raph grabbed her around her waist. "He wouldn't have been without you, Jen. You saved him." Jen smiled, and hugged her brother around his kneck, silently crying.
END OF FLASHBACK
Raph shuddered as he remebered that night, two years before. "Well, yeah, but Leo... Victoria captured? She's with SOMEBODY everywhere she goes! How could she get caught?" Leo shrugged, shaking his head in frustration. "I don't know, Raph. But we should monitor her dreams... just to be sure..." Raph wasn't through though. "And, that was Jen. This is Vicky." Leo nodded. 'Yes, but, Victoria may have picked it up from her." Raph felt his eyes go round. "Maybe..." He gasped, and glanced in the direction of Victoria's room. "Let's keep an eye on her." He mumbled worriedly, and Katie walked in then. She knelt down and put a hand on Raph's shoulder. "What is it, Raph?" Raph sighed. "Ah, sister just had a nightmare. Nothing really...serious..." Katie bobbed her head, slightly hesitantly. "Ok..." Raph jumped as a door slammed, and he turned to see Donettello stomping away from Mikey's bedroom door. Raph cocked his head. "What's wrong Don?" "Shut up." Don fumed at him, and stomped off, to the door, grabbed his jacket, and stormed out. "Ok..." Raph said, staring at Leo. Then, they heard a door open and close, then Mikey came out into the living room. His eyes were red, and he was sniffing slightly. Leo frowned. "Mikey, what's wrong, bud?" Mike shook his head. He looked like he was on the verge of crying. "Mike, what did Don do to you?" Raph asked, slightly angry that Don made Mikey so upset. Mikey drew in a shuddering breath. "We... um... we were fighting..." "Well, that's obvious, Mike, what did he SAY to you?" Leo said, looking like he was slightly angry as well. "He said... well, we were just kind of talking and stuff. He was doing... an experiment and... I knocked something over. He got really mad, and I told him to not have a cow. And just... I don't know he just started yelling at me, it's likehe's been bottling it up forever or something... I don't know..." Mike broke down crying then, and Raph put his arm around him to comfort him.
They heard the pitter patter of little feet behind them, and Hannah appeared next to Mikey, who wiped his eyes best he could. He really didn't want his little sister to see him crying like that. Hannah looked up at Mikey with a concerned face. "What's wrong, Mikey?" Raph smiled. "I think Donny needs to go cool off." "What did Donny do?" "He... got mad at Mike." Hannah stared at him. "Why would anyone do that?" she asked, as though Mikey was completly immune to anger twords himself. Raph smiled, and Mike grimaced slightly, and sat down on the couch. "I don't know, Hanny. I think Donny just needs to... let off a bit of steam, I guess..." Raph explained, sort of suprised at what he was saying. Now he knew how HE acted all the time. He shook his head, and sat on the couch next to Mike, who was pretty much calmed down, and was staring at the floor. Hannah still had questions. "Did he curse at you, Mikey?" Leo and Raph looked at Mikey too, wanting the answer to this question as much as Hannah did. Mikey nodded hesitantly, and waited for Raph to start yelling and swearing about Donny. But Raph didn't. He decided swearing was not going to help anything.
A few hours later, after breakfast and a while until training started, Don finally returned home. He walked through the living room, where Mike and Raph were watching TV. Raph watched worriedly as Don passed in front of the couch. Mike stared determidly at Raph's hand, until he could hear Don's bedroom door close. "Mike, you have to sort this out. You can't keep avoiding him forever..." Mike shook his head. "I can, and I will." He stated, and turned the channel. Leonardo and Nicole had left a while after Don had stormed out, and now returned. Katie was still there. She had tried to contact Kurai to see where their new hide out was, but Kurai wasn't answering her phone. So Katie just had to stay with them until Kurai called her back. Katie smiled as Nicole came in with four flowers in her hands. "Awwwwwwww!" Raph, Mike, and Katie said to Leo, and he blushed slightly, and slapped Mike on the head lightly. Raphael grinned, and winked at Nicole, who smiled and winked back at him. He laughed, and Nicole tickled his face with the flowers. "Shut it, Baldy." she said, and walked off with Leo, Raph grinning and shaking his head while looking after her. Katie stared from one to the other. Raph caught her look, and laughed in spite of himself. "Babe, me and your sis are the best friends in the world! It's nothin like that! I could never two-time on you, babe." The two kissed gently, and Mikey pretended to barf over the back of the couch.
"Training!" Leo called several minutes later, and Raph groaned and stood, then trudged off to the dojo, Katie beside him. He slammed his fist on Linda's bedroom door. She didn't seem to want to wake up. "Leo, wake yur sister up." Raph mumbled but Leo shook his head. 'Before training, she's YOUR sister." Raph sighed. "Mike, go wake your twin." Mike nodded, and Raph smiled at Leo. "See, Mike listens to me." "Well, Mike isn't older than you, now is he?" Leo said, and ran into the dojo before Raph could grab him.
"Raph!" Victoria greeted, and ran to him, and he caught her before she fell to the floor. "Hey, girlie!" Raph smiled, and kissed Vic's head. "Raph, I wanna show ya' somethin! I can do a ninja kick!" Vicky exclaimed, and Raph widened his eyes. 'Baby, you're not a ninja..." Vic pouted. "Well, I wanna be a Kuochi. Geisha is boring." Raph smiled. She did have quite a point. "Listen, hun. LINDA is trying to convince Splinter to let you girls be Kuochi. What makes you think a four year old could do any better with convincing him?" Vic shrugged. "Can't blame me for trying, can you?" Raph laughed. "Nope." "Well, anyway, watch this." Vicky attempted a split kick, but fell down on her itty bitty booty instead. Splinter entered the dojo, next to him Leo, who was talking to him in low whispers. Splinters was nodding and keeping a calm face, yet his eyes blazed with anger and dissapointment. As the two walked by, Raph heard a bit of what Leo was saying. "I don't know Sensei, I think Don has gone off the deep end, he just started yelling..." Raph shook his head sadly. He was worried that this little thing could change Don and Mike's relationship forever.
Kurai entered soon, behind her Emily, Kristin, Josh, Derik, Gary, and Chris. Mike and Don both rushed up to the two girls at the same time, avoiding each other's eyes. The two pulled their own girl to the side, and started whispering to them. Raph shook his head as his two younger brothers picked Emily and Kristin up like a snap. Both girls flung their arms around their respective boy's kneck, screaming," Thank you, Thank you!" Raph chuckled slightly, and Leo shook his head. "Little brothers." The two said in unition. Training started then, and Splinter and Kuria decided to mix the two clans together for sparring. Kurai said it would be good for both groups of boys to fight different people with different techniques once in a while. Leo and Josh were paired up, as were Don and Derik, Mike and Gary, and Chris and Raph.
Chris grinned as Raph unsheated his sais, the weapons glinting in the light of the dojo. Chris withdrew his own weapons. Raph smiled. "Sais, huh?" He said, and Chris nodded. "Well, this outta be pretty fair." Raph said, shifting into a defensive stance, then lifting one hand a signaling for Chris to bring it on. "Try and hit me, Chris." Raph mocked, and Chris smirked, then yelled and ran twords Raph. Raph flung two arms up and blocked the blow before he could be hit. "Hehehe, pretty good. Not good enough." Raph grunted, and Chris glared slightly with determination. The two yelled and sprinted twords each other, sparring pretty good for what time it was in the morning. Normally Raph was all tired and not wanting to do training, today he was as happy as ever. He noticed Katie was watching him intentelly, which encouraged him to do better and be stronger than usual.
After these spars were through, they paired up different. Splinter announced the pairings. "Leonardo, you will spar with Raphael." "Yes." Raph hissed. He wanted to hit somebody real good, but he didn't really know why. Leo seemed like a good target. "Michaelangelo, you will spar with Donettello." "WHAT?!" Mike yelled, and Don glared furiously. Splinter look confused. " You used to love sparring with Donettello, my son." "Yeah, that was when he didn't want to KILL ME!" Mike cried, desperate to get a different pairing. Splinter shook his head. "I do not know why Donettello would wish to do such a thing, Michaelangelo, but I will not assign you a diffrent partner." Mike looked so scared, it was as if Don was The Shredder. "But-!" "No buts Michaelangelo! Defensive stance NOW!" Mikey whimpered, and faced Donettello in his defensive postion. Donny yelled and ran at Mike, Bo in the air. Mike tried hard as he could not to scream, and blocked Donny just in time. He wrapped his Nun-Chuku around Don's Bo Staff, dis-arming the turtle in purple, and then side kicked him in the chest, sending Donny into a wall, smacking his shell hard on the wall. Raph winced slightly. This could get ugly...
And it did. Raph was so suprised. Don had acted nearly exactly like HIM. After Mike had sent him into the wall, Don had lept up and attacked Mike with such force it was kind of scary to watch. Nobody ever knew Donettello to be so strong, or so willing to hurt Mike. He'd kicked and punched Michaelangelo countless times, nobody really paying attention for they had their own spars to concentrate on. Mikey had recived a bloody lip, and had surrendered, but Donettello had not. He kept kicking, poor Mikey yelling, screaming, begging him to stop. Raph had finally looked up when he heard screams, and had rushed over to pull Donny off of his littler brother. Mikey had a black eye and his lip was bleeding more now, and Kurai had ran over and checked him over. Splinter had left. Now, Mike was in Don's lab, getting patched up by Leo. It had taken a lot to get Mike in the lab without Don knowing, but Leo had managed to help Mike in without detection. Raph was in the bathroom, digging around for their ointment for bruises. "I can't believe you did that, Don." Raph whispered. He heard the door open, and he looked up, smacking his head on the corner of the table. "AH!" He yelled, and rubbed his furiously as he looked to see who it was. "Ah, hey Kate." he said, grimacing. Katie smiled, and kissed his head. "You get scared easily don't you?" she whispered. Rph shook his head, making her laugh. "What's wrong with Donny, baby?" She asked, sitting down on the floor with Raph, and he wrapped his arms around her shoulders. "Ah, nobody knows. Same thing that's wrong with me, I guess... Just decided to turn up now..." Katie frowned at him. "And what's wrong with you?" she asked. Raph shook his head. "Get angry... reeeeal easy. I just never knew Don picked it up from me... and this late in his life, you'd think around five, not... sixteen." Katie shook her head. 'Well, I hope he... and Mike don't lose anyhting between each other. " Raph sniffed in spite of himself, and stared off into space with watery eyes. "I think they already have."
Raphael visited the lab much later. Mike was just going to get out, and Leo was still in there talking to him. Raph smiled "I hope I'm... not intterupting anything?" Leo shook his head, and beckoned Raph over. Raph knelt next to Mike, and Mikey gave him a smile. "Hey, bud. You ok?" "Yeah, Don didn't hurt anything that much." Raph shook his head, and sighed, closing his eyes. "Ah, Mike. What's happening wiht him? I really hope... he doesn't pick up, the anger fom me. There isn't anyhting worng with HIM..." Leo frowned. "There's nothing wrong wiht YOU either Raph." Raph smiled, and hung his head. Mikey started whimpering a bit. "Leo... do you think Don hates me?" Leo shook his head. 'No, Mike, none of us can hate you. None of us can hate anyone who is family. That's what we are Mike. Family. Don will get over it, you'll see. Then we'll be that happy family we were before. Me and Raph have stopped fighting, that's good, right?" Leo and Raph knew they were talking to Mike like he was five, but it did seem to be helping. Mike nodded, and sighed. Raph nodded too. If they could jsut fix whatever was wrong with Don, they could be happy. "I'm glad you and Raph stopped fighting. It was getting kind of scary to hear you guys yelling, and hitting each other..." Mike said, and Raph could tell his eyes had softened. Here was his baby brother, telling him that him and Leo had scared him because of some ridiculous fighting. "Sorry Mike..." Leo whispered. Mike smiled, and shook his head. "Nah, it's over now..." Mike stared off into space.
All three of them jumped when a knock could be heard. "Come in." The door opened and Kristin walked in. Her smile faded. 'Am I intruding on something?" Mike shook his head, shooting her his winning smile. She grinned, and knelt down, putting a hand on his knee. "Well, I was wondering if you and Donny wanted to do a double date?" Mike's eyes widened, and Raph grimaced. Kris and the others hadn't been there to see the incidnet. "Uh, sorry, babe. But me and Don are going through stuff right now." Krisitn frowned. "Well, Mikey, the only way me and Emily are allowed to go out is if we're together. I need to keep an eye on the little ditz." Mike looked to Raph for support, but Raph shrugged. He didn't know what to do. Mikey look back at Kristin, and hesitantly nodded. "Alright. But if Don kills me, you stay away from my funeral." Mike said, and Kristin smiled. "Okay."
Much later, Raph was looking around for his CD player in his room. "Dah, where is it?' he mumbled, upturning everything in his room. He ran out into the hall way and into Don's room. "Donettello, where's my-?" He stopped when he saw Don's computer on. There was a little window. It looked like a recording window. Raph grinned sneakily, took a look around to see if he was being watched, then tiptoed twords the computer. He laughed quietly, and pushed the play button. Raph's eyes widened when he heard it:
"Mike watch it! crash! Ah, Mike! Look what you did!"
"Sorry Don..."
"Michaelangelo, that stuff is going to burn through the floor!"
"I said I was sorry, Donny, geez, don't have a cow! It's no big deal."
Raph gasped as Don's recorded voice got louder and louder until the speaker started buzzing, and he had to turn the volume down.
"MIKE! NOTHING IS EVER A BIG DEAl TO YOU! YOU THINK THAT NOTHING F MATTERS, NOTHING AT ALL, MIKE! WELL, Y'KNOW WHAT? NEWS FLASH! SOME DAMN THINGS OTHER THAN COMIC BOOKS AND TV MATTER YOU KNOW! NOW GET YOUR HEAD OUTTA YOUR ASS AND START ACTING SENSIBLE!
"Geez, Don. You don't have to swear-"
"SHUT IT, MIKEY! JUST SHUT UP AND GO BE USELESS SOMEWHERE ELSE!"
The recording ended. Raph's jaw dropped. That could NOT have been Don who said all that to Mikey. And all over a spilt experiment? Something else must have happened, or... Raph shook his head. He looked up when he heard happy yells from the living room. He walked in, the recording pushed to the back of his mind. He grinned whenn he entered the living room. April was back! She'd been on some business trip because she'd gotten a job offer in Lansing, and they hadn't seen her for weeks. "Leo!" she yelled, hugged him round the kneck. Raph laughed. "I swear, you two should get married." Leo and April looked at him with disgusted looks. He shrugged. "What?" Then, he heard the little thunder of footsteps behind him, then Victoria rna in out of nowhere. "APRIL!" "Hey, Vicky!" April gasped as though she suddenly relised something. "Oh, Leo, get your father in here!" Leo raised an eye ridge, and ran off to get Splinter. Raph looked at April, who was being babbled to by Vicky. He chuckled, and looked away from them when Splinter called to April from the hall way. "Ah, nice to see you again, Miss O'Neal..." He gave her a friendly smile, and she smiled back. "It's great to see all YOU guys again." she said, grinning at them all. "Except, Mike and Don. Where're they?" Raph and Leo looked uncomfortably at each other. April frowned. "What? What is it?" "Uh... well, Don is going through... hormones I guess. Mike and Don got into a fight, earlier today." April's eyes got as big as a dinner plate. "Mike and... DON?" Leo nodded, and Raph grimaced. April shook her head. "Wow..."
Splinter cleared his throat, obviously trying to change the ubject. "So, Miss O'Neal, you wish to talk to me about something?" April jumped and grinned. "Oh yeah!" She set Vicky down next to Raph so she could give her arms and back a little break. "Um, Splinter, I was wondeirng if you would allow me to take Vicky with me for a while. She's been begging me and begging me to ask if she could have a little sleep over with me, so, how about it?" Splinter thought for a second. 'I do not know, Miss O'Neal. The surface is not a very safe place for her to be... especially at her age." April nodded, but still had plenty room for argument. "But Splinter, I think it would be a good oppurtinity for her to get to know the surface world a little better. Just so she isn't suprised when she is older." Splinter frowned, but turned to Leo and Raph. "What do you two think?" Leo's face explained what Raph felt. Splinter was asking their opinion? Raph, not really thinking about this, answered straight forward. "Yeah, sure... what harm could there be?" Leo looked worried though, and whispered in his ear," Remember her dream, Raph." Raph widened his eyes, but shook it out of his head. "Yes, but I think April is right! Do you really think she needs to be just finding out that humans exist when she is fourteen?" "Raph, she'll know about them before then!" Leo and Raph argued immaturilly for a few more minutes, when they finnally came up with a decision, which Raph announced. 'We think the idea is wonderful, Master Splinter." Vicky smiled, and Raph winked at her, and showed her his glinting Sai, pointed to Leo, then ran his hand horizantilly across his kneck. Vicky giggled.
Splinter nodded. "Miss O'Neal, you may take Victoria with you. But I do wish for her to stay for dinner, after which you may leave. You are more than welcome to eat with us." Raph and Leo nodded violantly. April laughed. 'Okay! Like I have much a choice anyway! Y'both have swords, If I said no you'd threaten me!" Leo and Raph nodded again, and Victoria laughed loudly. Splinter nodded smiling slightly, and looked at Leo. "Leo, please call your siblings for dinner." Leo bowed. "Yes, Sensei." Leo ran off to the hall way, and yelled for the others to "Get their butts out here or he'd cut their heads off." Everyone came out, all of them giving Leo a good shove, all except Linda, who stepped painfully on his foot. "Hm hm hm." she laughed quietly, as Leo glared after her.
The large family sat down for dinner much much later, and Victoria just did not seem to be able to stop moving. She kept hopping up and down in her seat, or fidgeting with her fork. And when she wasn't moving, she was talking non-stop. She seemed very excited to be going to the surface for the first time in her life. Raph only wished he could be there with her. Oh well, he thought, she doesn't need me everywhere she goes.
Later that night, Don, Mike, and Raph were all in the living room, waiting for Kristin and Emily. Mike was sitting on the couch, and Don was in Splinter's chair, both of which were across the room from one another. Raph was in between the two, looking nervously at them both. Then, the leigher door opened. Kristin and Emily entered together. They were both wearing jean jackets and pants. Emily had on a shirt that said, "I Love Turtles", and Kristin had on a shirt that said 'Mike' on the pocket. Raph snorted when he saw THAT. Krisitn must have just gotten it or something. Mike stood up, staring at Kristin, and Raph doubled over in an attempt to controll his fit of laughing. "H-Hey Kris." Mike stuttered, oblivious of Raph having a fit behind him. 'Hi Mikey. Are we ready to go?" She asked, smiling at Donny. Mike shook his head. 'Have t' wait a bit. My sis is leavin' tonight and I wanna say 'bye to her." Kristin smiled. "Okay." Mike and Kristin sat down on the couch, and Em and Don sat on the floor.
"So..." Kristin started," How old did you say you were, Mikey?" "I'm fifteen. Why?" "Just wondering. I'm fifteen too." Mike nodded. NERVOUSNESS! He just had this feeling like he was gunna say something really stupid, crack a bad joke, or SOMETHING! Raph was looking at Mikey, sort of feeling sorry for him. RAPH had been nervous, he couldn't imagine how Mikey felt... Then he looked up when he heard Victoria skipping into the room. "I'm goin' to da' surface! I goin' to da' surface!" April was behind her, talking with Splinter. "And I do not want her out after 9:00-" "I got it-" "And no sweets before dinner-" "I know-" "And absolutly no being seen by humans-" "SPLINTER! Calm down, please! Victoria will be fine! Now stop playing over protective father and say 'bye!" Raph giggled. April ALWAYS spoke her mind, especially when it came to Splinter. She didn't really think Splinter was the best parent in the world. Especially for such a large family. April spotted Emily, and smiled at her. "You must be Don's girlfriend. Thank god for you, I was starting to think he was gunna propose to me any day now..." Emily laughed, and Donny blushed bright red.
Victoria, with her special teddy bear from Raph in her hand, ran to Splinter. "Bye daddy." "Goodbye Victoria." "I will miss you!" Vicky called, and she ran over to hug her brothers goodbye. "Bye Raphie." she whispered. "Buh-bye, Vic. You be good for April, okay?" "I will, Raphie. I pwomise." She toddled off with April. "Bye everyone!" April called, and the elevator door closed. Raph sighed and leaned back. "Well, that's one less thing to take care of." he mumbled, and Mike laughed. 'Yeah, but now you get double duty with Natalie!" Raph's eyes widened, and he groaned, falling side ways in his despair. "No, no no no no....." he whined, his voice muffled because his face was smashed on the couch.
Mike stood up, sighing slightly. "Well, time to hit the road, gals!" Don, Emily, and Kristin all stood up, and the four walked twords the elevator. "Bye guys!" Raph called, and Donny and Mike turned and waved bye. They kept waving until the door closed. (Shifting to Mikey centric) The floor jolted as the elevator started to move, at which time both girls yelped in unition. Mikey laughed and shook his head. "You okay, babes?" They both nodded, and Kristin giggled. 'Ok, Kris, I have to know." Mike said," What is WITH the shirt?" Kristin looked down at her self. "What about it?" "It has my name on it!" Mike exclaimed, pointing to Krisitn's right breast. Kristin slapped his hand away from the spot where it shouldn't be, and turned red. 'So..." she mumbled, and Mike chuckled, and put his arm around her shoulders. "I'm just kiddin' ya', girl." Kristin blushed. Mike had his arm around her! She stared at Emily, who gave her the thumbs up.Mike sighed. 'I love girls.' he thought, and chuckled inwardly.
When the four of them reached the ladder under the man hole, Mike climbed up first. Don followed him, leaving the two girls below them, staring disgustedly at the ladder, just as their sister had done. "Oh, c'mon!" Mike said, urging the two Geisha to follow him. Kristin grimaced, then followed after Donny, grabbing her sister's wrist and dragging her along as well. Mike shoved the sewer lid off off the man hole, and climbed out. Don climbed out too, and the two boys helped the girls of out the sewer. Kirsitn was brushing herself off, and Emily was tapping the dirt off of her shoes. Mike rolled his eyes, and put his arm around Krisitn's shoulders. He had to hand it to himself, he sure knew how to pick up babes! Kristin, a bit hesitantly leaned her head against Mike's shoulder. When Mike squeezed her, she leaned her head on him with complete confidence. Don and Emily, on the other hand, were having a bit of trouble. They wouldn't even hold hands! They were just walking beside each other, which Mike noticed as he glanced over at them, and staring straight ahead.
Then, Donny traveled away from Emily. "Hey Mike...." "Hey." Mike siad, looking worriedly to the side in case he had done something else to make Don mad. "Uh... I just wanted to say, I'm really sorry I yelled at you earlier. I didn't mean to swear, either... And I'm SO sorry I beat you up in the dojo. I was really, REALLY angry... You do forgive me, right?" Mike glanced at Donny beside him. Don's eyes were full of pleading, and his face was straight. Mike smiled. "Of course I do, Don-San." Don smiled, and punched Mike affectionantly in the arm. "So.... what d' you chicks wanna do?" Mike asked,. Kristin shrugged. "How bout a movie?" Don grinned, nodding. "Yeah, how bout the drive-in, Mikey?" "Yay!!!!!! I haven't been there in a long time!" Kristin laughed. "Hehe, alright boys, and Emily, it's settled." When the four of them got to the out-door drive in theater, Mike and Don put up their hoods and Mike shoved his thumbs into his pockets. "I hope it's Linda's shift...." Don whispered, and Emily frowned. "Your sister?" "Oh, yeah, she works here as a waitress slash ticket lady." Mikey said, and stood on his toes to see over the gate. "Sweet, no line.... No people! The place is empty. Boo Yah, it's Linda's shift! Yay! Linda!" The kids all jogged up to the ticket stand, and Mike and Don took off their hoods. Linda was turned around, counting money. She had on a white and red striped shirt on, tight blue jeans, and a name tag that said, 'Linda'. "Hey Lin." Mike said, and Linda jumped and turned. "Oh, hey guys!" Linda grinned and leaned on her elbows on the counter. She spotted Em and Kris standing timidly in the back ground. "Who're the babes, Mike?" Linda asked. "Girlfriends." Mikey said proudly, and Linda, looking impressed stared at Don. "Wow, Donny! YOU'VE got a girlfirend?" Don blushed deeply and nodded, and Emily giggled quietly. "Great job, Don. She's quite a fox." Linda joked, and Emily blushed slightly. "So, what's your name?" "I'm Emily...." "Wow, that name's pretty. I'm Linda." Emily smiled. "Thanks. Your name is pretty too." Linda grinned. "And you are?" "I'm Kristin." "I love that name! I was going to name my daughter that when I grow up. No joke." Linda said, and Kristin grinned widely.
"So, how bout some tickets, sis?" Mike said, and Linda jumped. 'Oh, sure. What for?" "Well, what's playin'?" "Uh.... Cinderella Story...... Shark Tail......... and First Daughter." "Only three!? Well, are you guys okay with Shark Tail?" Mike asked and everyone nodded, and he grinned. "Great! Alrighty, four tickets fo' Shark Tail, Lin." Linda nodded, and pressed the red button on her ticket machine four times. "That's four bucks Mikey." "Aw, c'mon, I'm your brother! Can't you just let me off free?" "Sorry, no can do. Cough up the money, Michael." Mike grumbled, and dug into the pockets of his jeans, and took out a five dollar bill. "I want the change, Linda." Mike said, and Linda smiled, put the money in the cash register, and took out a dollar. "Here ya' go, enjoy. Mind you, I'm watching you, and I'll tell Leo everything that goes on." Mike widened his eyes. "Please, no Linda. Let's just call this a Twin-To-Twin Secret?" Linda nodded. "Alright, but feel lucky you aren't Raph or I'd have said otherwise." "I know it." The four teenagers all made their way down the isle of wooden benches, and Mike finnally found an empty one. "Alright, file in, soldiers." Mike said, immitating a general's voice. Kristin smiled, and squeezed into the isle. To do so, she had to press her body against Mike, and he grinned evily, and sat down next to her. "Mike, you are so sick." Don hissed at him, and Mikey winked mischieviously at him. As the movie started, Mike kept looking over at Kristin. 'Hm... how to start a conversation....uh.....' But Kristin saved him this pressure. "So..... aren't you Linda's twin?" she aksed him, and Mike nodded, grinning. "Yup, and proud of it. Linda rules." Don laughed. "Yeah, to you. Us three think she's an evil little witch." "Really, Donny?" Linda called from the concession stand, and Don smiled weakly. Kristin giggled. "Do you like having a big family, Mike?" Mike smiled slightly. "Yeah, sure, I love my sisters and brothers a lot, but sometimes everyone is all nutty and all over the place. Like one night, when Leo was baby sitting, we all got sugar high, and started running aorund, knocking everything that wasn't bolted to the floor over. Hehehe, my chocolate cake always does the trick. But Leo got in so much trouble when Splinter got home!" Kristin laughed and nodded. "I know what you mean. Sure I don't have as big a family as you, but I still have a big one. And do you think it's easy being the youngest?" Mike giggled and shook his head. "No way! I used to be the youngest, Linda's two minutes older. But yeah, then came Sasha, and then they all came along." Mike grimaced, and Kristin giggled again. Mikey was very funny, and she liked that. "Hey uh, want somethin' t' eat?" "Of course YOU do, Mikey." Don whispered, and Kristin smiled, and nodded. "Sure." They got up, and squeezed out of the isle. Mike approached the still vaccant concession stand, and tapped Linda on the shoulder. "You again? Hehe, what'll it be, Mike?" "Uh... how 'bout two medium pocorns, and four Pepsis?" Linda nodded. "Yeah sure..... that'll be... eight bucks." Mike's jaw dropped. "EIGHT?! Aw, c'mon sis, can't ya' just let me off free?" "Do you want me fired, Michael? Now c'mon...." Mike muttered something about evil bitches as he took out eight dollars, and handed them to Linda. "Thanks, bud." Linda said, got his order, and then Mike tried to carry everything at once. Krisitin looked at him with a concerned look. "Hey Mikey, why dontcha let me carry some of that?" "Nah, I got-" Mike dropped one of the popcorns, and some of it spilled over the pavement. Both of them knelt down quickly to pick it up. While they were hastily picking up the little kernels, Krisitn accidently touched Mikey's hand, and he looked up at her. She was beat red, and blushing like mad(Raphangela:NOT WITH THE BLUSHING!) Mike flashed her one of those winning smiles, and she blushed so furiously she was almost completly red. "Why do you have to be so hott, Michael....?" Kristin whispered, and Mike laughed. "Runs in the family I guess."
He looked up at Don and Emily, who were making out at the bench. Mikey stood up and whistled. "WHOOHOOO!!!! GO DONNY!" "ALRIGHT EM!" Don gave Mike the thumbs up, and pulled Emily deeper into the kiss. "DON, YOU'RE DISGUSTING!" Mike yelled, and laughed. "Alright, I think we can leave them alone." "Speaking of alone..." Krisitn said, took Mike's shoulders, and shoved him into the shadows, his back making a soft thud on the side wall of the concession stand. Then, she pressed her lips on Mike's before the young mutant could do anything. Even his eyes were still open, but he slowly closed them and wrapped his arms around Kristin's waist. "C'mon, no fair. I'm supposed to be the sly ass here." Mike muttered, and Krisitn smirked. But, Don and Emily came rushing to them, completly out of breath. "What?" Mike asked, but Don shook his head, breathing heavily, and handed him a shell cell. "Hello?" "Mikey, it's Raph!" "Hey Raphie-Boy! What's up?" "Mike, April just called...!" "What is it, what's wrong?" Mike asked, shouting at the cell phone and panicking. Raph's voice was shaky, he could hear yelling in the back ground, and the screeching of tires. Raph hesitated before answering. "V-Vick's been taken away by the zoo."
TBC Poll: Do you think Don's gay, like some people do?
A/N: DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN! So, what do YOU think is going to happen? OO Nobody knows.... except me! AH HA HA HA HA! Please R) LYLF Monica
A/N: Hello everyone! This chapter is kissey-full, as always expected from yours truly ;) If any of you are Van Helsing fans, maybe you could read my new story I'm posting? Hello? Oh, and one more thing. If anybody seems very out-of-character in this chapter, tell me PLEASE!
Don: Monica, I would NOT freak out over such a little-
Me: Shush! Yes, yes you would, trust me. Now don't give it away!
Don: -- Whatever...
My Poll: It looks like most of you are going for Mikey OO
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In The Clouds: No, Pen Name hasn't always been Donny's girl. Hehe, it used to be Leo's Girl but my favorite turtle recently changed from Leo to Don, so... Yeah. OMG, that was me who reviewed like that! Cool:) I know, isn't it so irritating how some people will only write about ONE character ALL the time? It's so annyoing:) But no offense to you people who do! Your storys ROCK!
A/N: Guess what? I think I'm going to do poll's through out the entire story. Just because I like to know what people think, so when I write all my other centrics, I'll think of them! News update, Monica has a new favorite turtle! Thanks to a conversation I had with Raphangela(wink wink) I love Donny! Yay! Ok, enjoy the chapter now!
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Raphael woke up the next morning, blinking and frowning, He hoped it wasn't all a dream, the date, the kisses, Katie, it couldn't have all been such a wonderful dream... He turned over to be sure. He was confirmed by Katie's sleeping body that it all had not been a dream, and he was over joyed. He pulled Katie's body closer to his, and kissed her head tenderly. Katie blinked and yawned, then looked up at Raph, smiling. "Good Morning." Raph whispered in her ear. "Morning." she said back, and kissed him gently(oo lala).
Once the two had gotten up, and Katie had fixed her hair so she was satisfied, they walked out into the living room. He saw Leo sitting in there with his head in his hands. "Oh my god he's not with your sister!" Raph joked to Katie, and Katie smiled. But, Raph caught the look on Leo's face, and thought something must be up. "Hang on a sec, babe." Katie stared at Raph as he went to go talk to Leo.
Raphael approached his brother, and knelt down in front of him. "Hey bro. Somethin' up?" Leo nodded. "Yeah, it's Victoria, she had another dream last night... but this time it was about... her getting captured...and taken to the zoo." Raph's eyes widened. "Why would she dream that?" Leo shrugged. "I don't know, that's why I'm worried... Remember when Jeniffer was 12, and she had that dream about... me getting tortured by Shredder? That happened Raph.".
FLASH BACK
Fifteen year old Raphael jolted awake when he heard his sister screaming. He ran into Jeniffer's room, and saw her flailing and screaching on the bed. Raphael ran to her, and grabbed her shoulders. "Jen, Jenny Wake up!" Jeniffer's eyes shot open, and she started crying. "What is it,sweetie?" Raph asked. "L-Leo! Raph, w-we have to help Leo!" Raph shook his head. "Leo's fine, babe, he's in his room-" "N-NO! RAPH WE G-GOTTA HELP HIM!"
Just then, Raph heard a scream from Leo's room. "Shit." He muttered, and ran in there, Jen behind him. Raph nearly threw up when he entered the room. There was blood everywhere, on the floor, on the walls, and on the bed. Shredder was in there, holding sixteen year old Leonardo by his kneck. Leo was very battered. His legs had huge gashes in them. His plastron had been sliced open, blood gushing out of his wound, and his kneck had claw marks. Raph heard thundering footsteps behind him, and 13 year old Mike and Linda came running in. Linda started crying, and Mike ran back out, yelling," Master Splinter!" Raph jumped at Shredder and kicked him hard in the chest. Instead, he just hurt his foot, because Shredder's armor was too hard.
Raph saw a gray blur shoot past him and knock Shredder clean off his feet, and release Leo. Linda ran over to him, and yelled for Don. "I'm coming! Just getting some supplys!" Don yelled hurriedly. Soon, he came running in too, took one look at Leo, and turned white. He knelt down, but more like fell on his knees, and got right to work. He pulled Leo into a safe corner, and started to clean out his cuts. Raph and Mikey lept and Shredder, helping their Master kick his metal ass. Pretty soon, Shredder chickened out and ran, and Jen walked in. "Is Leo okay?" She asked Donny. Don thought, and nodded. "He'll be fine." Jen nodded, smiling. Raph grabbed her around her waist. "He wouldn't have been without you, Jen. You saved him." Jen smiled, and hugged her brother around his kneck, silently crying.
END OF FLASHBACK
Raph shuddered as he remebered that night, two years before. "Well, yeah, but Leo... Victoria captured? She's with SOMEBODY everywhere she goes! How could she get caught?" Leo shrugged, shaking his head in frustration. "I don't know, Raph. But we should monitor her dreams... just to be sure..." Raph wasn't through though. "And, that was Jen. This is Vicky." Leo nodded. 'Yes, but, Victoria may have picked it up from her." Raph felt his eyes go round. "Maybe..." He gasped, and glanced in the direction of Victoria's room. "Let's keep an eye on her." He mumbled worriedly, and Katie walked in then. She knelt down and put a hand on Raph's shoulder. "What is it, Raph?" Raph sighed. "Ah, sister just had a nightmare. Nothing really...serious..." Katie bobbed her head, slightly hesitantly. "Ok..." Raph jumped as a door slammed, and he turned to see Donettello stomping away from Mikey's bedroom door. Raph cocked his head. "What's wrong Don?" "Shut up." Don fumed at him, and stomped off, to the door, grabbed his jacket, and stormed out. "Ok..." Raph said, staring at Leo. Then, they heard a door open and close, then Mikey came out into the living room. His eyes were red, and he was sniffing slightly. Leo frowned. "Mikey, what's wrong, bud?" Mike shook his head. He looked like he was on the verge of crying. "Mike, what did Don do to you?" Raph asked, slightly angry that Don made Mikey so upset. Mikey drew in a shuddering breath. "We... um... we were fighting..." "Well, that's obvious, Mike, what did he SAY to you?" Leo said, looking like he was slightly angry as well. "He said... well, we were just kind of talking and stuff. He was doing... an experiment and... I knocked something over. He got really mad, and I told him to not have a cow. And just... I don't know he just started yelling at me, it's likehe's been bottling it up forever or something... I don't know..." Mike broke down crying then, and Raph put his arm around him to comfort him.
They heard the pitter patter of little feet behind them, and Hannah appeared next to Mikey, who wiped his eyes best he could. He really didn't want his little sister to see him crying like that. Hannah looked up at Mikey with a concerned face. "What's wrong, Mikey?" Raph smiled. "I think Donny needs to go cool off." "What did Donny do?" "He... got mad at Mike." Hannah stared at him. "Why would anyone do that?" she asked, as though Mikey was completly immune to anger twords himself. Raph smiled, and Mike grimaced slightly, and sat down on the couch. "I don't know, Hanny. I think Donny just needs to... let off a bit of steam, I guess..." Raph explained, sort of suprised at what he was saying. Now he knew how HE acted all the time. He shook his head, and sat on the couch next to Mike, who was pretty much calmed down, and was staring at the floor. Hannah still had questions. "Did he curse at you, Mikey?" Leo and Raph looked at Mikey too, wanting the answer to this question as much as Hannah did. Mikey nodded hesitantly, and waited for Raph to start yelling and swearing about Donny. But Raph didn't. He decided swearing was not going to help anything.
A few hours later, after breakfast and a while until training started, Don finally returned home. He walked through the living room, where Mike and Raph were watching TV. Raph watched worriedly as Don passed in front of the couch. Mike stared determidly at Raph's hand, until he could hear Don's bedroom door close. "Mike, you have to sort this out. You can't keep avoiding him forever..." Mike shook his head. "I can, and I will." He stated, and turned the channel. Leonardo and Nicole had left a while after Don had stormed out, and now returned. Katie was still there. She had tried to contact Kurai to see where their new hide out was, but Kurai wasn't answering her phone. So Katie just had to stay with them until Kurai called her back. Katie smiled as Nicole came in with four flowers in her hands. "Awwwwwwww!" Raph, Mike, and Katie said to Leo, and he blushed slightly, and slapped Mike on the head lightly. Raphael grinned, and winked at Nicole, who smiled and winked back at him. He laughed, and Nicole tickled his face with the flowers. "Shut it, Baldy." she said, and walked off with Leo, Raph grinning and shaking his head while looking after her. Katie stared from one to the other. Raph caught her look, and laughed in spite of himself. "Babe, me and your sis are the best friends in the world! It's nothin like that! I could never two-time on you, babe." The two kissed gently, and Mikey pretended to barf over the back of the couch.
"Training!" Leo called several minutes later, and Raph groaned and stood, then trudged off to the dojo, Katie beside him. He slammed his fist on Linda's bedroom door. She didn't seem to want to wake up. "Leo, wake yur sister up." Raph mumbled but Leo shook his head. 'Before training, she's YOUR sister." Raph sighed. "Mike, go wake your twin." Mike nodded, and Raph smiled at Leo. "See, Mike listens to me." "Well, Mike isn't older than you, now is he?" Leo said, and ran into the dojo before Raph could grab him.
"Raph!" Victoria greeted, and ran to him, and he caught her before she fell to the floor. "Hey, girlie!" Raph smiled, and kissed Vic's head. "Raph, I wanna show ya' somethin! I can do a ninja kick!" Vicky exclaimed, and Raph widened his eyes. 'Baby, you're not a ninja..." Vic pouted. "Well, I wanna be a Kuochi. Geisha is boring." Raph smiled. She did have quite a point. "Listen, hun. LINDA is trying to convince Splinter to let you girls be Kuochi. What makes you think a four year old could do any better with convincing him?" Vic shrugged. "Can't blame me for trying, can you?" Raph laughed. "Nope." "Well, anyway, watch this." Vicky attempted a split kick, but fell down on her itty bitty booty instead. Splinter entered the dojo, next to him Leo, who was talking to him in low whispers. Splinters was nodding and keeping a calm face, yet his eyes blazed with anger and dissapointment. As the two walked by, Raph heard a bit of what Leo was saying. "I don't know Sensei, I think Don has gone off the deep end, he just started yelling..." Raph shook his head sadly. He was worried that this little thing could change Don and Mike's relationship forever.
Kurai entered soon, behind her Emily, Kristin, Josh, Derik, Gary, and Chris. Mike and Don both rushed up to the two girls at the same time, avoiding each other's eyes. The two pulled their own girl to the side, and started whispering to them. Raph shook his head as his two younger brothers picked Emily and Kristin up like a snap. Both girls flung their arms around their respective boy's kneck, screaming," Thank you, Thank you!" Raph chuckled slightly, and Leo shook his head. "Little brothers." The two said in unition. Training started then, and Splinter and Kuria decided to mix the two clans together for sparring. Kurai said it would be good for both groups of boys to fight different people with different techniques once in a while. Leo and Josh were paired up, as were Don and Derik, Mike and Gary, and Chris and Raph.
Chris grinned as Raph unsheated his sais, the weapons glinting in the light of the dojo. Chris withdrew his own weapons. Raph smiled. "Sais, huh?" He said, and Chris nodded. "Well, this outta be pretty fair." Raph said, shifting into a defensive stance, then lifting one hand a signaling for Chris to bring it on. "Try and hit me, Chris." Raph mocked, and Chris smirked, then yelled and ran twords Raph. Raph flung two arms up and blocked the blow before he could be hit. "Hehehe, pretty good. Not good enough." Raph grunted, and Chris glared slightly with determination. The two yelled and sprinted twords each other, sparring pretty good for what time it was in the morning. Normally Raph was all tired and not wanting to do training, today he was as happy as ever. He noticed Katie was watching him intentelly, which encouraged him to do better and be stronger than usual.
After these spars were through, they paired up different. Splinter announced the pairings. "Leonardo, you will spar with Raphael." "Yes." Raph hissed. He wanted to hit somebody real good, but he didn't really know why. Leo seemed like a good target. "Michaelangelo, you will spar with Donettello." "WHAT?!" Mike yelled, and Don glared furiously. Splinter look confused. " You used to love sparring with Donettello, my son." "Yeah, that was when he didn't want to KILL ME!" Mike cried, desperate to get a different pairing. Splinter shook his head. "I do not know why Donettello would wish to do such a thing, Michaelangelo, but I will not assign you a diffrent partner." Mike looked so scared, it was as if Don was The Shredder. "But-!" "No buts Michaelangelo! Defensive stance NOW!" Mikey whimpered, and faced Donettello in his defensive postion. Donny yelled and ran at Mike, Bo in the air. Mike tried hard as he could not to scream, and blocked Donny just in time. He wrapped his Nun-Chuku around Don's Bo Staff, dis-arming the turtle in purple, and then side kicked him in the chest, sending Donny into a wall, smacking his shell hard on the wall. Raph winced slightly. This could get ugly...
And it did. Raph was so suprised. Don had acted nearly exactly like HIM. After Mike had sent him into the wall, Don had lept up and attacked Mike with such force it was kind of scary to watch. Nobody ever knew Donettello to be so strong, or so willing to hurt Mike. He'd kicked and punched Michaelangelo countless times, nobody really paying attention for they had their own spars to concentrate on. Mikey had recived a bloody lip, and had surrendered, but Donettello had not. He kept kicking, poor Mikey yelling, screaming, begging him to stop. Raph had finally looked up when he heard screams, and had rushed over to pull Donny off of his littler brother. Mikey had a black eye and his lip was bleeding more now, and Kurai had ran over and checked him over. Splinter had left. Now, Mike was in Don's lab, getting patched up by Leo. It had taken a lot to get Mike in the lab without Don knowing, but Leo had managed to help Mike in without detection. Raph was in the bathroom, digging around for their ointment for bruises. "I can't believe you did that, Don." Raph whispered. He heard the door open, and he looked up, smacking his head on the corner of the table. "AH!" He yelled, and rubbed his furiously as he looked to see who it was. "Ah, hey Kate." he said, grimacing. Katie smiled, and kissed his head. "You get scared easily don't you?" she whispered. Rph shook his head, making her laugh. "What's wrong with Donny, baby?" She asked, sitting down on the floor with Raph, and he wrapped his arms around her shoulders. "Ah, nobody knows. Same thing that's wrong with me, I guess... Just decided to turn up now..." Katie frowned at him. "And what's wrong with you?" she asked. Raph shook his head. "Get angry... reeeeal easy. I just never knew Don picked it up from me... and this late in his life, you'd think around five, not... sixteen." Katie shook her head. 'Well, I hope he... and Mike don't lose anyhting between each other. " Raph sniffed in spite of himself, and stared off into space with watery eyes. "I think they already have."
Raphael visited the lab much later. Mike was just going to get out, and Leo was still in there talking to him. Raph smiled "I hope I'm... not intterupting anything?" Leo shook his head, and beckoned Raph over. Raph knelt next to Mike, and Mikey gave him a smile. "Hey, bud. You ok?" "Yeah, Don didn't hurt anything that much." Raph shook his head, and sighed, closing his eyes. "Ah, Mike. What's happening wiht him? I really hope... he doesn't pick up, the anger fom me. There isn't anyhting worng with HIM..." Leo frowned. "There's nothing wrong wiht YOU either Raph." Raph smiled, and hung his head. Mikey started whimpering a bit. "Leo... do you think Don hates me?" Leo shook his head. 'No, Mike, none of us can hate you. None of us can hate anyone who is family. That's what we are Mike. Family. Don will get over it, you'll see. Then we'll be that happy family we were before. Me and Raph have stopped fighting, that's good, right?" Leo and Raph knew they were talking to Mike like he was five, but it did seem to be helping. Mike nodded, and sighed. Raph nodded too. If they could jsut fix whatever was wrong with Don, they could be happy. "I'm glad you and Raph stopped fighting. It was getting kind of scary to hear you guys yelling, and hitting each other..." Mike said, and Raph could tell his eyes had softened. Here was his baby brother, telling him that him and Leo had scared him because of some ridiculous fighting. "Sorry Mike..." Leo whispered. Mike smiled, and shook his head. "Nah, it's over now..." Mike stared off into space.
All three of them jumped when a knock could be heard. "Come in." The door opened and Kristin walked in. Her smile faded. 'Am I intruding on something?" Mike shook his head, shooting her his winning smile. She grinned, and knelt down, putting a hand on his knee. "Well, I was wondering if you and Donny wanted to do a double date?" Mike's eyes widened, and Raph grimaced. Kris and the others hadn't been there to see the incidnet. "Uh, sorry, babe. But me and Don are going through stuff right now." Krisitn frowned. "Well, Mikey, the only way me and Emily are allowed to go out is if we're together. I need to keep an eye on the little ditz." Mike looked to Raph for support, but Raph shrugged. He didn't know what to do. Mikey look back at Kristin, and hesitantly nodded. "Alright. But if Don kills me, you stay away from my funeral." Mike said, and Kristin smiled. "Okay."
Much later, Raph was looking around for his CD player in his room. "Dah, where is it?' he mumbled, upturning everything in his room. He ran out into the hall way and into Don's room. "Donettello, where's my-?" He stopped when he saw Don's computer on. There was a little window. It looked like a recording window. Raph grinned sneakily, took a look around to see if he was being watched, then tiptoed twords the computer. He laughed quietly, and pushed the play button. Raph's eyes widened when he heard it:
"Mike watch it! crash! Ah, Mike! Look what you did!"
"Sorry Don..."
"Michaelangelo, that stuff is going to burn through the floor!"
"I said I was sorry, Donny, geez, don't have a cow! It's no big deal."
Raph gasped as Don's recorded voice got louder and louder until the speaker started buzzing, and he had to turn the volume down.
"MIKE! NOTHING IS EVER A BIG DEAl TO YOU! YOU THINK THAT NOTHING F MATTERS, NOTHING AT ALL, MIKE! WELL, Y'KNOW WHAT? NEWS FLASH! SOME DAMN THINGS OTHER THAN COMIC BOOKS AND TV MATTER YOU KNOW! NOW GET YOUR HEAD OUTTA YOUR ASS AND START ACTING SENSIBLE!
"Geez, Don. You don't have to swear-"
"SHUT IT, MIKEY! JUST SHUT UP AND GO BE USELESS SOMEWHERE ELSE!"
The recording ended. Raph's jaw dropped. That could NOT have been Don who said all that to Mikey. And all over a spilt experiment? Something else must have happened, or... Raph shook his head. He looked up when he heard happy yells from the living room. He walked in, the recording pushed to the back of his mind. He grinned whenn he entered the living room. April was back! She'd been on some business trip because she'd gotten a job offer in Lansing, and they hadn't seen her for weeks. "Leo!" she yelled, hugged him round the kneck. Raph laughed. "I swear, you two should get married." Leo and April looked at him with disgusted looks. He shrugged. "What?" Then, he heard the little thunder of footsteps behind him, then Victoria rna in out of nowhere. "APRIL!" "Hey, Vicky!" April gasped as though she suddenly relised something. "Oh, Leo, get your father in here!" Leo raised an eye ridge, and ran off to get Splinter. Raph looked at April, who was being babbled to by Vicky. He chuckled, and looked away from them when Splinter called to April from the hall way. "Ah, nice to see you again, Miss O'Neal..." He gave her a friendly smile, and she smiled back. "It's great to see all YOU guys again." she said, grinning at them all. "Except, Mike and Don. Where're they?" Raph and Leo looked uncomfortably at each other. April frowned. "What? What is it?" "Uh... well, Don is going through... hormones I guess. Mike and Don got into a fight, earlier today." April's eyes got as big as a dinner plate. "Mike and... DON?" Leo nodded, and Raph grimaced. April shook her head. "Wow..."
Splinter cleared his throat, obviously trying to change the ubject. "So, Miss O'Neal, you wish to talk to me about something?" April jumped and grinned. "Oh yeah!" She set Vicky down next to Raph so she could give her arms and back a little break. "Um, Splinter, I was wondeirng if you would allow me to take Vicky with me for a while. She's been begging me and begging me to ask if she could have a little sleep over with me, so, how about it?" Splinter thought for a second. 'I do not know, Miss O'Neal. The surface is not a very safe place for her to be... especially at her age." April nodded, but still had plenty room for argument. "But Splinter, I think it would be a good oppurtinity for her to get to know the surface world a little better. Just so she isn't suprised when she is older." Splinter frowned, but turned to Leo and Raph. "What do you two think?" Leo's face explained what Raph felt. Splinter was asking their opinion? Raph, not really thinking about this, answered straight forward. "Yeah, sure... what harm could there be?" Leo looked worried though, and whispered in his ear," Remember her dream, Raph." Raph widened his eyes, but shook it out of his head. "Yes, but I think April is right! Do you really think she needs to be just finding out that humans exist when she is fourteen?" "Raph, she'll know about them before then!" Leo and Raph argued immaturilly for a few more minutes, when they finnally came up with a decision, which Raph announced. 'We think the idea is wonderful, Master Splinter." Vicky smiled, and Raph winked at her, and showed her his glinting Sai, pointed to Leo, then ran his hand horizantilly across his kneck. Vicky giggled.
Splinter nodded. "Miss O'Neal, you may take Victoria with you. But I do wish for her to stay for dinner, after which you may leave. You are more than welcome to eat with us." Raph and Leo nodded violantly. April laughed. 'Okay! Like I have much a choice anyway! Y'both have swords, If I said no you'd threaten me!" Leo and Raph nodded again, and Victoria laughed loudly. Splinter nodded smiling slightly, and looked at Leo. "Leo, please call your siblings for dinner." Leo bowed. "Yes, Sensei." Leo ran off to the hall way, and yelled for the others to "Get their butts out here or he'd cut their heads off." Everyone came out, all of them giving Leo a good shove, all except Linda, who stepped painfully on his foot. "Hm hm hm." she laughed quietly, as Leo glared after her.
The large family sat down for dinner much much later, and Victoria just did not seem to be able to stop moving. She kept hopping up and down in her seat, or fidgeting with her fork. And when she wasn't moving, she was talking non-stop. She seemed very excited to be going to the surface for the first time in her life. Raph only wished he could be there with her. Oh well, he thought, she doesn't need me everywhere she goes.
Later that night, Don, Mike, and Raph were all in the living room, waiting for Kristin and Emily. Mike was sitting on the couch, and Don was in Splinter's chair, both of which were across the room from one another. Raph was in between the two, looking nervously at them both. Then, the leigher door opened. Kristin and Emily entered together. They were both wearing jean jackets and pants. Emily had on a shirt that said, "I Love Turtles", and Kristin had on a shirt that said 'Mike' on the pocket. Raph snorted when he saw THAT. Krisitn must have just gotten it or something. Mike stood up, staring at Kristin, and Raph doubled over in an attempt to controll his fit of laughing. "H-Hey Kris." Mike stuttered, oblivious of Raph having a fit behind him. 'Hi Mikey. Are we ready to go?" She asked, smiling at Donny. Mike shook his head. 'Have t' wait a bit. My sis is leavin' tonight and I wanna say 'bye to her." Kristin smiled. "Okay." Mike and Kristin sat down on the couch, and Em and Don sat on the floor.
"So..." Kristin started," How old did you say you were, Mikey?" "I'm fifteen. Why?" "Just wondering. I'm fifteen too." Mike nodded. NERVOUSNESS! He just had this feeling like he was gunna say something really stupid, crack a bad joke, or SOMETHING! Raph was looking at Mikey, sort of feeling sorry for him. RAPH had been nervous, he couldn't imagine how Mikey felt... Then he looked up when he heard Victoria skipping into the room. "I'm goin' to da' surface! I goin' to da' surface!" April was behind her, talking with Splinter. "And I do not want her out after 9:00-" "I got it-" "And no sweets before dinner-" "I know-" "And absolutly no being seen by humans-" "SPLINTER! Calm down, please! Victoria will be fine! Now stop playing over protective father and say 'bye!" Raph giggled. April ALWAYS spoke her mind, especially when it came to Splinter. She didn't really think Splinter was the best parent in the world. Especially for such a large family. April spotted Emily, and smiled at her. "You must be Don's girlfriend. Thank god for you, I was starting to think he was gunna propose to me any day now..." Emily laughed, and Donny blushed bright red.
Victoria, with her special teddy bear from Raph in her hand, ran to Splinter. "Bye daddy." "Goodbye Victoria." "I will miss you!" Vicky called, and she ran over to hug her brothers goodbye. "Bye Raphie." she whispered. "Buh-bye, Vic. You be good for April, okay?" "I will, Raphie. I pwomise." She toddled off with April. "Bye everyone!" April called, and the elevator door closed. Raph sighed and leaned back. "Well, that's one less thing to take care of." he mumbled, and Mike laughed. 'Yeah, but now you get double duty with Natalie!" Raph's eyes widened, and he groaned, falling side ways in his despair. "No, no no no no....." he whined, his voice muffled because his face was smashed on the couch.
Mike stood up, sighing slightly. "Well, time to hit the road, gals!" Don, Emily, and Kristin all stood up, and the four walked twords the elevator. "Bye guys!" Raph called, and Donny and Mike turned and waved bye. They kept waving until the door closed. (Shifting to Mikey centric) The floor jolted as the elevator started to move, at which time both girls yelped in unition. Mikey laughed and shook his head. "You okay, babes?" They both nodded, and Kristin giggled. 'Ok, Kris, I have to know." Mike said," What is WITH the shirt?" Kristin looked down at her self. "What about it?" "It has my name on it!" Mike exclaimed, pointing to Krisitn's right breast. Kristin slapped his hand away from the spot where it shouldn't be, and turned red. 'So..." she mumbled, and Mike chuckled, and put his arm around her shoulders. "I'm just kiddin' ya', girl." Kristin blushed. Mike had his arm around her! She stared at Emily, who gave her the thumbs up.Mike sighed. 'I love girls.' he thought, and chuckled inwardly.
When the four of them reached the ladder under the man hole, Mike climbed up first. Don followed him, leaving the two girls below them, staring disgustedly at the ladder, just as their sister had done. "Oh, c'mon!" Mike said, urging the two Geisha to follow him. Kristin grimaced, then followed after Donny, grabbing her sister's wrist and dragging her along as well. Mike shoved the sewer lid off off the man hole, and climbed out. Don climbed out too, and the two boys helped the girls of out the sewer. Kirsitn was brushing herself off, and Emily was tapping the dirt off of her shoes. Mike rolled his eyes, and put his arm around Krisitn's shoulders. He had to hand it to himself, he sure knew how to pick up babes! Kristin, a bit hesitantly leaned her head against Mike's shoulder. When Mike squeezed her, she leaned her head on him with complete confidence. Don and Emily, on the other hand, were having a bit of trouble. They wouldn't even hold hands! They were just walking beside each other, which Mike noticed as he glanced over at them, and staring straight ahead.
Then, Donny traveled away from Emily. "Hey Mike...." "Hey." Mike siad, looking worriedly to the side in case he had done something else to make Don mad. "Uh... I just wanted to say, I'm really sorry I yelled at you earlier. I didn't mean to swear, either... And I'm SO sorry I beat you up in the dojo. I was really, REALLY angry... You do forgive me, right?" Mike glanced at Donny beside him. Don's eyes were full of pleading, and his face was straight. Mike smiled. "Of course I do, Don-San." Don smiled, and punched Mike affectionantly in the arm. "So.... what d' you chicks wanna do?" Mike asked,. Kristin shrugged. "How bout a movie?" Don grinned, nodding. "Yeah, how bout the drive-in, Mikey?" "Yay!!!!!! I haven't been there in a long time!" Kristin laughed. "Hehe, alright boys, and Emily, it's settled." When the four of them got to the out-door drive in theater, Mike and Don put up their hoods and Mike shoved his thumbs into his pockets. "I hope it's Linda's shift...." Don whispered, and Emily frowned. "Your sister?" "Oh, yeah, she works here as a waitress slash ticket lady." Mikey said, and stood on his toes to see over the gate. "Sweet, no line.... No people! The place is empty. Boo Yah, it's Linda's shift! Yay! Linda!" The kids all jogged up to the ticket stand, and Mike and Don took off their hoods. Linda was turned around, counting money. She had on a white and red striped shirt on, tight blue jeans, and a name tag that said, 'Linda'. "Hey Lin." Mike said, and Linda jumped and turned. "Oh, hey guys!" Linda grinned and leaned on her elbows on the counter. She spotted Em and Kris standing timidly in the back ground. "Who're the babes, Mike?" Linda asked. "Girlfriends." Mikey said proudly, and Linda, looking impressed stared at Don. "Wow, Donny! YOU'VE got a girlfirend?" Don blushed deeply and nodded, and Emily giggled quietly. "Great job, Don. She's quite a fox." Linda joked, and Emily blushed slightly. "So, what's your name?" "I'm Emily...." "Wow, that name's pretty. I'm Linda." Emily smiled. "Thanks. Your name is pretty too." Linda grinned. "And you are?" "I'm Kristin." "I love that name! I was going to name my daughter that when I grow up. No joke." Linda said, and Kristin grinned widely.
"So, how bout some tickets, sis?" Mike said, and Linda jumped. 'Oh, sure. What for?" "Well, what's playin'?" "Uh.... Cinderella Story...... Shark Tail......... and First Daughter." "Only three!? Well, are you guys okay with Shark Tail?" Mike asked and everyone nodded, and he grinned. "Great! Alrighty, four tickets fo' Shark Tail, Lin." Linda nodded, and pressed the red button on her ticket machine four times. "That's four bucks Mikey." "Aw, c'mon, I'm your brother! Can't you just let me off free?" "Sorry, no can do. Cough up the money, Michael." Mike grumbled, and dug into the pockets of his jeans, and took out a five dollar bill. "I want the change, Linda." Mike said, and Linda smiled, put the money in the cash register, and took out a dollar. "Here ya' go, enjoy. Mind you, I'm watching you, and I'll tell Leo everything that goes on." Mike widened his eyes. "Please, no Linda. Let's just call this a Twin-To-Twin Secret?" Linda nodded. "Alright, but feel lucky you aren't Raph or I'd have said otherwise." "I know it." The four teenagers all made their way down the isle of wooden benches, and Mike finnally found an empty one. "Alright, file in, soldiers." Mike said, immitating a general's voice. Kristin smiled, and squeezed into the isle. To do so, she had to press her body against Mike, and he grinned evily, and sat down next to her. "Mike, you are so sick." Don hissed at him, and Mikey winked mischieviously at him. As the movie started, Mike kept looking over at Kristin. 'Hm... how to start a conversation....uh.....' But Kristin saved him this pressure. "So..... aren't you Linda's twin?" she aksed him, and Mike nodded, grinning. "Yup, and proud of it. Linda rules." Don laughed. "Yeah, to you. Us three think she's an evil little witch." "Really, Donny?" Linda called from the concession stand, and Don smiled weakly. Kristin giggled. "Do you like having a big family, Mike?" Mike smiled slightly. "Yeah, sure, I love my sisters and brothers a lot, but sometimes everyone is all nutty and all over the place. Like one night, when Leo was baby sitting, we all got sugar high, and started running aorund, knocking everything that wasn't bolted to the floor over. Hehehe, my chocolate cake always does the trick. But Leo got in so much trouble when Splinter got home!" Kristin laughed and nodded. "I know what you mean. Sure I don't have as big a family as you, but I still have a big one. And do you think it's easy being the youngest?" Mike giggled and shook his head. "No way! I used to be the youngest, Linda's two minutes older. But yeah, then came Sasha, and then they all came along." Mike grimaced, and Kristin giggled again. Mikey was very funny, and she liked that. "Hey uh, want somethin' t' eat?" "Of course YOU do, Mikey." Don whispered, and Kristin smiled, and nodded. "Sure." They got up, and squeezed out of the isle. Mike approached the still vaccant concession stand, and tapped Linda on the shoulder. "You again? Hehe, what'll it be, Mike?" "Uh... how 'bout two medium pocorns, and four Pepsis?" Linda nodded. "Yeah sure..... that'll be... eight bucks." Mike's jaw dropped. "EIGHT?! Aw, c'mon sis, can't ya' just let me off free?" "Do you want me fired, Michael? Now c'mon...." Mike muttered something about evil bitches as he took out eight dollars, and handed them to Linda. "Thanks, bud." Linda said, got his order, and then Mike tried to carry everything at once. Krisitin looked at him with a concerned look. "Hey Mikey, why dontcha let me carry some of that?" "Nah, I got-" Mike dropped one of the popcorns, and some of it spilled over the pavement. Both of them knelt down quickly to pick it up. While they were hastily picking up the little kernels, Krisitn accidently touched Mikey's hand, and he looked up at her. She was beat red, and blushing like mad(Raphangela:NOT WITH THE BLUSHING!) Mike flashed her one of those winning smiles, and she blushed so furiously she was almost completly red. "Why do you have to be so hott, Michael....?" Kristin whispered, and Mike laughed. "Runs in the family I guess."
He looked up at Don and Emily, who were making out at the bench. Mikey stood up and whistled. "WHOOHOOO!!!! GO DONNY!" "ALRIGHT EM!" Don gave Mike the thumbs up, and pulled Emily deeper into the kiss. "DON, YOU'RE DISGUSTING!" Mike yelled, and laughed. "Alright, I think we can leave them alone." "Speaking of alone..." Krisitn said, took Mike's shoulders, and shoved him into the shadows, his back making a soft thud on the side wall of the concession stand. Then, she pressed her lips on Mike's before the young mutant could do anything. Even his eyes were still open, but he slowly closed them and wrapped his arms around Kristin's waist. "C'mon, no fair. I'm supposed to be the sly ass here." Mike muttered, and Krisitn smirked. But, Don and Emily came rushing to them, completly out of breath. "What?" Mike asked, but Don shook his head, breathing heavily, and handed him a shell cell. "Hello?" "Mikey, it's Raph!" "Hey Raphie-Boy! What's up?" "Mike, April just called...!" "What is it, what's wrong?" Mike asked, shouting at the cell phone and panicking. Raph's voice was shaky, he could hear yelling in the back ground, and the screeching of tires. Raph hesitated before answering. "V-Vick's been taken away by the zoo."
TBC Poll: Do you think Don's gay, like some people do?
A/N: DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN! So, what do YOU think is going to happen? OO Nobody knows.... except me! AH HA HA HA HA! Please R) LYLF Monica