Disclaimer still stands. Well, I initially intended for that chapter to be the one and only…but sdarkfire "commanded" me to write more. I'm not one to stop typing when asked to type more…it means more sleep for me. So, sdarkfire, this is for you, hope you like it.

FYI: This ties into a few of my stories, and part of this story will be revealed in "Till Death Kill Us All".

Thoughts

Raph jolted up in his bed. He was currently sitting up and covered in sweat. The dreams of the woman's death had started to become scare, but lately, they were showing up with a vengeance. The dreams would slightly change every night, but for the worse. Raph swung his legs out of his bed and walked to his door. It had been months since the incident, but Raph felt that the images would be in his mind for the rest of Eternity. Raph unlocked his door and walked out of his room. All of the doors were closed, giving the Lair an eerie look in the dark. She won't appear. I'm awake. She can't appear. Calm down…breathe, Raph thought to himself as he slowly walked to the kitchen.

"How could you do that to me!" Raph heard her scream behind him. Raph's eyes widened and he spun around. Upon turning around, Raph saw that no one was there. Oh damn. Calm down. I' was all in ya head. Breathe…just breathe…ya'll be fine if ya breathe! Raph breathed in heavily, after trying to breath for the past thirty seconds. Raph was breathing heavily as he turned around and began to walk to the kitchen. What was I going here for…damn it! 'Kay, think back…woke up, left room…

Raph's thoughts were caught off as he felt someone breathing heavily down his neck. Raph froze in his tracks as he felt cold hands touch his shoulders. Raph looked at the hands and realized whom they belonged to immediately. "Thought you could get away!" Raph heard her whisper with a malicious, venomous, cold, hateful voice. Raph felt her hands lightly wrap around his throat. "Don't worry Raph, you'll soon pay for my death…in blood." Raph felt his blood run cold and he thought that his heart had stopped for a few minutes. "How long do you think you have left to live? Better yet…how lucky do you think you are?"

I'm gonna be killed. Ya think tha' they would'ave heard her by now. Or at least came out ta help. Raph felt her hands lightly tighten around his neck. "Don't worry…death isn't all that bad. You just feel like you are slowly being suffocated. Do you would like the feeling?" Raph felt her hands tighten enough so he could no longer breathe. Raph felt her hands twist as he watched her body come into view. Raph noticed that she looked exactly like she did after she was killed. Blood covered most of her body, her eyes were dull and glazed over, and her hair messed up, her clothes torn and dirty.

"Don't fear Raphael. I know a lot more since I died. And I know that your time is coming up soon. Enjoy your life…for you wont have it much longer. But the best part is, you die out of revenge…and you are on the receiving side of it." Raph knew that if he did not breathe soon, he was going to suffocate. "Then we can spend the rest of Eternity… talking, like we did before I was raped and murdered." Raph noticed a bit of sorrow in her voice as she said this. Raph felt he let go of his neck. She looked him in the eyes and Raph saw that she was crying, but there was also rage in her eyes. "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE DEAD! …TO FEEL NOTHING BUT SORROW AND RAGE! …TO WANT REVENGE AND NEVER TASTE IT! YOU NEVER SEE YOU'RE FAMILY AGAIN! NEVER HUG THEM! NEVER HOLD A CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUR DAY! …ALL YOU DO IS SUFFOCATE IN THE DARK…AND FIND OUT THAT YOU'RE DEATH COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED! …BUT YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING! NO ONE EVEN NOTICES YOUR DEATH UNLESS THEY WERE THERE TO WITNESS IT! YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED, NOT ME! …THEY WERE AFTER YOU! But it doesn't matter now… All that matter's is that you'll get yours in the end. Everyone does. I will be back." Raph watched as she turned around and walked away.

Her words cut into Raph like a knife. He was going to die, and he was going to be with her forever. Raph heard a distant pounding to his upper right. What the fuck? "Raph…Raph? …Raph get up!" Raph saw the area around him flicker and the voices got louder. "Raph! Come on! Get up!" This time Raph opened his eyes and saw that he was soaked in his sweat. Raph also saw that he was in his room, lying on his plastron with his face smothered in his pillow.

Raph slowly got to his feet. Raph nearly fell a few times. One reason was that he was not seeing straight from his headache, another was from tiredness, yet another due to the dream, and finally, a reason because of the different things lying on his floor. Raph tried to open the door but noticed that it would not budge. What the fuck? Oh, yeah…I locked 'cause a tha last incident. Raph remembered as he unlocked the door. Raph opened the door and saw Mikey standing there.

"Raph, it's two in the afternoon on Sunday…ya gotta get up, dude," Mikey said. Raph tried to focus, but it was pretty difficult when there are three forms of Mikey's standing in front of you…and even harder when they turn into one and then back into three repeatedly. Raph blinked, trying to clear his sight and also trying to make there be only one Mikey. "Raph?" Mikey saw that Raph was almost lighter than Donnie, which is bad seeing how Raph was the darkest out of all of them. "Are you alright?" Mikey waved his hand in front of Raph's face, only to find that it wasn't swatted away.

"Fine," Raph muttered in a low voice.

"I'm gonna go get Don," Mikey said, not falling for Raph's answer. One clue that gave it away was the fact that Raph was lightly swaying from side to side. Raph watched as the blurry, green figure ran out of his sight. Raph felt the room spin as he fell to the ground. Mikey returned in a few seconds with Donnie, only to find that Raph was lying on the floor, dazed.

"Let's get him into his bed," Donnie said. Mikey agreed after making sure that Raph was unarmed. After all, it was only a few months since they were skewered. Mikey and Donnie put Raph on his bed, where Donnie found out that Raph was fine in his health. "No fever, nothing."

"So, whatta we do now?" Mikey asked, not liking the silence.

"Make lunch?" Donnie suggested as he shrugged. Mikey agree, on the condition that he cooked.

Raph realized what was going on around him, but couldn't react in any way. After a few minutes, after Mikey and Donnie left, Raph began to move. A few try's later, Raph was able to leave his bed. Raph walked into the living room, where he sat down on the couch. Raph heard the sounds of Leo and Master Splinter sparring in the next room over. Mikey was cooking while Donnie was reading the directions from the cookbook out loud. Raph yawned as he turned on the television. The first thing that showed up was a soap opera. Looks like Leo was tha last one ta watch the TV. Raph switched it over to the news, just to find out that Oroku Saki had been given a metal for his services to the state of New York.

Raph was about to change the channel when he spotted something. The Shredder was telling the reporter that he was building a lab to find the cure for cancer, but the "scientists" behind him were carrying boxes with saws in them. Oh shit. Those probably concern us. Right then, Raph remembered her words, "And I know that your time is coming up soon. Enjoy your life…for you wont have it much longer. But the best part is, you die out of revenge…and you are on the receiving side of it". Holy-fucking-shit! Raph tried to calm his breathing as tried to think of a way to tell them.

Raph felt his mind go blank, and all he remembered was the words "saws" and "Oroku Saki". What was I just thinking of? "LUNCH!" Mikey called from the kitchen. Raph shrugged it off as he entered the kitchen. After lunch, Raph tried to remember what it was, but hey, if it were important, he would have remembered it. The only problem was that, after seeing that, and forgetting that, the dreams intensified. Every time, she would yell at him so he would remember. After another week, Raph was told that if he did not remember…his demise would begin. And so it did…

End. If you want to find out what happens after this, go read "Till Death Kill Us All". Review to tell me what you think.