Revelations.... Sort of.
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Mike stood half leaning on the doorframe to the infirmary his arms crossed over his plastron Charity knelt at her sister's side by the bed with her back to him. He sighed heavily, Faith's condition was improving, and the poison in her system had all but been eradicated. Mike had to wonder who had poisoned Faith and why. Charity still remained silent even through Raphael's 'interrogations'.
"Must be a real interesting view for you" Charity spat angrily, "Do you get a kick outta staring at women?" She didn't turn to face him.
Mike pushed off of the wall and lowered his arms as he made his way further into the room. "Why are you being so nasty to everyone, can't you see that they are trying to help?"
"Can't you see that we don't want your help?" she retorted raising to her feet and spinning around. Charity stood about an inch from Mike's face, staring coldly into his eyes.
"Who poisoned her?" he said completely unfazed by her movement. His face showed seriousness but his voice was gentle.
"When are you all gonna get it into your thick skulls. I'm not telling you a damn thing" she replied her voice beginning to crack.
"You know, my brothers are out there fighting it out. Leo says you'll talk to us when you're good and ready, Raph thinks you're hiding stuff from us and that you'll stab us in the back first chance you get. Which one of my brothers are right?" Mike asked calmly. Charity stood there, she was being horrible to him and he just stood there acting all calm, after a minute the tears began to flow. She looked into his eyes then broke down.
"I did it.... I poisoned her" she cried then she collapsed into Mike's arms.
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Bella's head snapped up from the microscope when she heard a loud crash, "What was that?" she asked turning around to Don. She was surprised to see him looking totally unfazed by the noise."Sounded like the coffee table" he replied simply refusing to take his attention away from his current project.
"Uh huh, I take it that the coffee table breaking isn't an unusual occurrence?" another crash distracted her and Don still hadn't moved. She was curious, she stood up from her chair and headed for the door. Don glanced up and noticed her heading out.
"Uh, that's not really a good idea" he said as he took her by the arm and pulled her away from the door, "When Leo and Raph are 'debating' they like to be left alone" she pulled her arm away.
"That doesn't sound like they are talking" Bella put her hands on her hips and frowned heavily.
"I didn't say talking I said debating" he replied letting a small smile creep across his face.
"What's the difference?"
CRAASH
"Uh, that would be the difference" he replied. Bella spun around quickly and headed for the door, she was determined to find out what was going on.
"Bella don't" Don pleaded desperately but she was already out of the lab. Don sighed then followed quickly.
Bella walked into the living room to see Raph wrestling with Leo, with Raph gaining the upper hand. He had Leo pinned firmly underneath him. She slowly approached them and stepped back quickly as Leo managed to get his feet onto Raph's plastron and launched him across the room, he landed with a loud thud quite some distance away. She moved over to Raph who rolled onto his hands and knees. They had been fighting for some time now and were both exhausted. She approached cautiously and rested her hand onto Raph's shoulder, unfortunately Raph, in his fury hadn't realised that it was Bella and not Leo, he swung his body around bringing his elbow quickly towards Bella's face.
She squinted her eyes closed waiting for his elbow to impact with her face. After a moment and no blow she chanced opening her eyes. Raph's elbow was being blocked by another green arm, she followed the arm up and looked at the face then smiled.
"Raph, take it easy, huh?" Don spoke in a gentle voice, partly because he spoke in a soft voice naturally, the other part of him not wanting to anger Raph anymore than necessary. He stared intently at his brother, silently asking him to relax. Raph sighed deeply and turned slowly sitting back. He was breathing heavily and he closed his eyes attempting to calm himself down.
Don glanced over to Leo who by now had sat up, his face showed relief. He must have seen what had just happened "You okay Leo?"
"I'm fine" he replied. As he tried to stand his face scrunched up in pain, he dropped back to the floor. Don stood up and took Raph's hand, hauling him to his feet then they made their way over to Leo. Bella stood up and followed closely behind. She decided to stick near to Don in case the fighting started again. Don crouched down next to Leo.
"Let me see" Don took Leo's arm and Leo breathed in sharply through gritted teeth. "You've dislocated it again" Don sighed heavily, "When are you two going to learn, this is the fifth time this month that Leo's dislocated this arm" he spun around to Raph, "And you, I've hand to bandage more cuts from you two fighting than when you go solo" he turned back to Leo and took his arm again. "Raph, hold him"
Raph trudged around behind Leo and took him by the carapace. Don raised Leo's arm and looked at him, "You ready?" Leo closed his eyes and took a couple of deep breaths then opened his eyes again. He looked to Don and nodded. He was ready. Don and Raph exchanged looks.
"Okay, on three" Don changed his grip on Leo's wrist.
"One" Raph tightened his grasp on Leo as Don placed his other hand on Leo's upper arm.
"Two"
Leo cried out as he felt his arm jolt back into place he looked up into Don's mildly grinning face and scowled. "You said three"
"I lied" he replied simply. The sound of Raph chuckling made Don look to him, "If you think this is funny Raph, it's your turn" he pointed to a nasty gash on Raph's thigh, Raph glanced down then back up, "Kitchen. Now" Raph groaned then headed to the kitchen with Don close behind him. Bella looked at Leo and held out her hand, he took it and slowly stood. Leo chuckled lightly.
"Don's bedside manner isn't the best around here" he joked with a small smile.
"What do you expect, you both beat each other up and expect him to patch up the broken pieces" she replied sharply, Leo could tell that she wasn't amused.
"Did he tell you that?" Leo asked slightly shocked. He absentmindedly rubbed his arm it was still a little tender.
"He didn't need to" she sighed and looked at Leo's arm, "Here, sit down"
Leo sat down in the armchair and watched as Bella moved behind him and she put her hands onto his shoulder and began to gently massage it. "What were you two fighting about?"
"Raph doesn't like Charity being here, he thinks she's trouble" Leo shoulder was already beginning to feel better.
"And that's not how you feel?" she frowned a little, if Raph wasn't happy about Charity being here how does he feel about Faith or even herself being in their home.
"She's not dangerous just confused and scared." He pulled forward away from Bella's grasp and stood up swinging his arm full circle, "Hmm, that's better. Thanks"
Bella smiled, "No problem, it is what doctors do"
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"What's that supposed to mean?" Mike frowned hard. Did he just hear that?
"It means I poisoned my own sister" Charity cried, she held onto Mike like a lifeline. Her nails were digging into the rim of his carapace, as if she was afraid that if she'd let him go he would disappear.
"Why?" Mike didn't feel comfortable talking about this. The usually talkative turtle was beginning to struggle for words.
"It was an accident, I didn't mean for it to happen, she shouldn't have been at home then. She came home early" Charity let go of Mike and dropped back down on her knees to her sister's side again, "Faith, I'm sorry please forgive me, I love you, please sweetie I need you"
Mike dropped down next to her and put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Don says she's gonna be fine" Charity rubbed her eyes furiously, "I shouldn't have been so untidy, if only I had tidied the room up before she came home"
"What happened?" Mike was pushing her gently, she was finally opening up and Mike wanted to keep her talking.
"Faith came home early from her evening class, she must've been thirsty because she picked up the glass that I laced with poison and drank from it, our mother always said she was the worst one out of all of us for being messy. If she'd cleaned the glass properly it wouldn't have happened" she was rambling, Mike decided that now was the best time to question her.
Mike cupped Charity's chin with his hand "What were you using the poison for?" she slowly looked up into Mike's eyes.
"Revenge"
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AN: Another chapter finished.
Thanks to Pretender Fanatic for the review. I promise that if there's not enough 'meat' in this chapter for you already, all will be revealed in the next chapter. I'm not really too sure where I'll be going with this after that so any suggestions would be welcome :o)
