Okay, first off, sorry it took forever for me to update. I only get a computer with the internet every two weeks and that's when I go to my dad's house. Second, this chapter is long and sorry about that. Third, I hope you enjoy this chapter and just to worn you there is a bit of violence towards the end. And crying.

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Fight and Flight

"Wait." Raven shouted. Samuel stopped just short of the door and turned to face Raven just in time to catch her as she jumped back into his arms. "I'm coming with you."

"Meet two." said Danielle as she took a step forward.

"I'd like to stay back and help with Jessica." Maria said. Lolla raised her hand right after Maria finished talking to show that she'd like to stay behind as well.

"My son's will join you, Samuel. They would be honored to help a friend of a friend." Master Splinter came walking into the room with his usual stern look on his face. His sons nodded their heads in response and followed Sam, Raven, and Danielle outside.

"I hope they'll all be okay." Maria said as she turned to head back into the infirmary. " I wouldn't want to come in here to visit two friends."

" I here ya. " Lolla agreed. She walked into the kitchen to grab a snack to help settle her nerves. She searched around until she found a pile of apples. She grabbed three of them and turned to shut the door when she ran into a short old rat. She jumped from surprise and dropped an apple. Master Splinter caught it before it hit the ground and handed it back to Lolla. "It's alright. I was bringing enough for all of us since we're up."

"Thank you, Lolla." Master Splinter took a bite of the apple and swallowed it before continuing. "I since that your trouble my dear. Is something wrong?"

"It's my husband. Well actually we broke up about a year ago but I still can't get him to stay away. Anyway I broke up with him because he wasn't very nice to me and he always acted as though Rebecca wasn't his daughter. He'd leave about a week before her birthday and not return until three days after and then on my birthday he'd just talk about how much he hated me and why I shouldn't have been born. Around Christmas he would destroy all the gifts under our small tree and storm out. He's just not a good man and I just want him gone but I don't want Rebecca to be without a father."

"Have you ever told him that you didn't want him around yet you still wanted him to be involved in your daughter's life?"

"Yes but he's just …like.. 'challenged' in that area. He thinks that he can't see his daughter without dating me and when he is around me then he just feels that he's got to destroy everything."

"Lolla?" Maria asked as she popped her head in the kitchen. " Is everything alright?"

"Ya." Lolla lied as she wiped a tear from her left eye.

"Are you sure. You look like you've been cryin'."

"I….well." Lolla was cut off by a knock at the door. Maria glanced over her shoulder and walked up to the door.

"Hello? Jeremy!" Maria screamed with delight.

"Maria. I've been so worried." came a male's voice. Master Splinter looked up at Lolla to see some terror in her eyes along with a little bit of joy.

She calmly set the apples on the table and walked out into the living room. Splinter followed them out, still holding his apple with one bite from it.

In the living room three new turtles stood among Splinter's sons, their four guests and Samuel. One had purple eyes and his left arm wrapped in bandages and was currently holding Maria in his arms. Another had green eyes and a black shell with his right arm wrapped firmly around Danielle's shoulders. Sam was still standing nest to Raven and a strange turtle with yellow eyes and a black and red spotted shell stood behind them all.

When the yellow eyed turtle saw Lolla, he walked over to her and tried to hug her but Lolla just pushed him away. He seemed a little shocked for a moment and then tried to hug again but she just walked away. She walked outside into the tunnels and disappeared around the corner. The male turtle followed her and Splinter could sense that he was upset.

Splinter looked away from where the two turtles had disappeared and walked over to welcome the new turtles.

"Master Splinter," Danielle called. He calmly walked over to her and the turtle next to her. "This is my fiancé, Charlie." Charlie stuck his hand out in a greeting and smiled at him.

"Hello. Thank you so much for taking care of Danielle and her friends. I was really starting to worry about them." Charlie said as his green eyes sparkled with thankfulness.

For the next ten minutes Splinter and his sons all talked and got to know Charlie, Samuel, and Jeremy, who was Maria's boyfriend. Raph was busy talking to Samuel when a voice yelled out from the tunnels.

"Your not leaving me!"

"I already did! I left you last year!"

"Why? Why? Is it because I don't spoil you and your brat child? Is that it? I'm not made of money. And I can't just walk up to the surface to get anything that you want."

"I never asked much of you! I only asked that you'd be a good father for Becca! And you can't even to that!"

"I'm more of a father for that brat than anyone else could ever be! You're not even fit to be a mother for that child! I should just take her away and leave you now!"

"You will NOT take my child FROM ME!"

"I CAN AND I WILL!"

" Don't you touch her! Now listen to me! I'm leaving you for good and you are not to come near me or my daughter, you got that?"

"You don't tell me what to do. I tell you what to do because I'm the man of the house."

"YOU NEVER WERE A MAN! YOU'RE TOO BUSY BEING CHILDISH TO BECOME ONE!"

By now Splinter could see that everyone was looking at the door, listening to Lolla and her ex-husband argue. Splinter could tell that Danielle, Maria, Raven, and Leonardo were ready to run out to help Lolla but for some reason they stayed back.

"Don't you yell at me like that, woman!"

"I can yell at you however I wan…….ah!" There came a sound of something being smacked against skin and Danielle was the first one out the door. Quickly followed by Maria, Raven, Leo, Charlie, Jeremy, Samuel, and everyone else.

Lolla's POV

"Don't you yell at me like that, woman!" Brian shouted at me. We both were shaking with anger and couldn't tear our eyes from each other.

"I can yell at you however I wan…" That's when I noticed something strange about his eyes. They were showing an emotion that I had never seen in him before. He reached around his side and dug into a bag that he always kept strapped to his waist for things unknown to me. He pulled out an old rusty hand knife that was about an inch and a half high and was about 6 inches long. He swung his arm back and brought it back around in the blink of an eye.

He was holding the knife wrong so when it had hit me across my left cheek, the blade barely sank into my skin. It stung horribly as it slid across my skin and set free some of my blood. It cut from a few millimeters from my ear down to my chin. I screamed in pain as I slumped back against the wall, staring at him in shock and disbelief.

Instinctively I covered the cut with my left hand but the oil from the sweat that stuck to my hand made the pain worse.

"Lolla!" I heard Danielle scream. I was thankful that they were coming to check on me but I stupidly took Brian and me down several tunnels to insure that we were indeed alone and that the others didn't hear us fighting. Apparently that didn't work so well and right now I was glad. I heard the others call my name but I was too much in shock to yell back at them.

Brian brought his rusty hand knife back around, this time holding it so that the blade would hit me correctly. I brought my arms up to cover my head as it came closer. It made contact with the back of my lower arms, just above my elbows. The sheer force cause me to fall sideways. I hit the ground hard and screamed in pain when I noticed that a pile of broken beer bottles was under me and a large chunk of one of them had pierced my right thigh. The pain was so intense that I couldn't bear to move.

I looked up to see Brian getting ready to stab me, his eyes full of hate and concentration. He raised it up above his head and stared into my eyes.

A splashing noise echoed close-by and Brian turned to see a shadow running down the tunnel towards us. He quickly dropped the knife and ran off in the other direction. I felt my insides jump with joy as he disappeared farther down the tunnel.

I tried hard to push myself off the ground and used the wall to help steady myself. I looked down at my right thigh and pulled out the large brown glass. More blood made itself from the cut down my leg and onto the concrete. I dropped the glass and stared at the blood that covered my hands.

"Lolla!" I looked up and saw with great relief, Leo. I stared up at him as he came running over to me as he yelled to the others that he had found me. He bent down to help me up and I immediately flung my arms around him. I started to cry uncontrollably on his shoulder and he just held me close. I could hear the others running towards us but I just kept crying. Crying from fear and joy. Joy that Leonardo had found me in time.

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So what did you all think of this chapter? I think the next chapter will be the last so please enjoy!