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A/N: Alright sorry for the slow update –coughcough- Kristy had to take her time editing
Kristy: HEY! Well it's not my fault; you took forever to write Chapter Four
Leo: Girls! Girls! Calm down.
-both stick tongues out at one another-
Ninja: Anyway we'll stop talking and let ya read…
Kristy's POV:
The next morning I woke up, I looked down at the floor expecting to see Don sleeping but he wasn't there! I quickly looked at the time and saw that it was 7:00 AM. What was Don doing up at this time?
I swung my legs off the bed and walked out into the lair. It was still dark but I could see light coming from one of the larger doorways so I silently walked towards it.
Once I had made my way over there, I peered inside my ears twitching with curiosity.
My mouth gaped open, what were they doing? I watched each turtle pick up a weapon and wield it against one of their opposing brothers in combat. In other words they were fighting each other, but why? I asked myself curiously. I sat there watching with fascination.
I almost cried out in an attempt to prevent the attack but soon found out it was no serious fight when Leo knocked Raph down and held his sword type thingy to Raph's throat and said quietly, "good job."
"Get off me Leo!" Raph growled.
Leo quietly stepped off and bowed, Raph reluctantly bowed back. I saw Master Splinter nod his approval and then look straight at me!
I gulped thinking that I was in trouble.
"Donatello, I believe Kristina is awake." Splinter told Donnie.
Don immediately looked over in my direction and grinned, "hey Kristy!" He called as he stood up and walked over to me. "How are you feeling?"
I nodded, "good, good, a little tired is all." I smiled faintly. Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump. Quit it you stupid heart! Jeez, why was my heart suddenly pounding?
He grinned at me with a rather awkwardly lopsided grin which I thought was just way cute!
"Ahem…" Raph cleared his throat and crossed his arms over his plastron, "Yo Donnie! We wanna get to the grub!" Raph pushed his way roughly through Don and I.
My keen hearing picked up on a door opening almost silently. My eyes narrowed and I spun around my silver tail flicking with the swift movement.
A human came strolling out of a room, a human! I thought Donnie said that there were no humans down here.
Upon instinct, I bared my teeth, my ears flattened back against my head, and a low growl started to rise from my throat, my narrowed emerald eyes watched the human's every step towards us. My tail bristled and hit the floor angrily in a cat-like way.
What surprised me and angered me even more was when Don walked calmly around me and up to the human.
"How's your arm feeling?" He asked her sincerely.
"It's fine." she snapped angrily.
"Let me see it." Don commanded with surprising authority.
The human rolled their eyes and gave him their arm.
Don took it gently and started lightly running his fingers over it gently after he had taken the splint off it. This made my fur bristle all along my neck and back.
"Come to my room so I can put a better cast on it, it's broken all right." Donnie lightly took her elbow and led her gently to his room. Stiffly, I followed them.
I watched silently but still bristling with frustration and anger as Don bandaged and put a cast on their arm, after Don was finished he led the human back out of his room and into the kitchen. As the human passed me, it looked over at me and glared reproachfully. Don smiled warmly at me, and sent me a silent but obvious message that he would talk to me later, as he escorted the human out of his room.
I slowly relaxed myself and headed for the kitchen as well. Immediately a thought completely off of what had just transpired popped into my head, what's for breakfast?
Sitting myself quietly down at the table directly across from the human, I started to take in their features. I finally realized that this was a female, a very beautiful female, for a human. She had dazzling icy blue eyes and unnaturally pointy ears. She had flowing brown hair that cascaded around her. But what struck me as peculiar and threatening was her wardrobe. It was very strange, a dark presence was about her; giving her a threatening look as if she hunted things, probably animals, this made me dislike her even more.
A big stack of pancakes were sat right in front of me, answering my earlier question about breakfast, "uh… I don't… think I can eat all of this," I said politely and looked up at Mikey smiling.
Mikey shrugged and simply said, "Try to, you may be surprised," he winked and grinned mischievously.
Confused I looked around the table searching for some type of answer, but I received none, all the turtles quickly looked back down at their plates, but I could still see the grins on their turned faces.
I narrowed my eyes as I observed Don watching the human carefully, as if expecting her to do something. What was he doing any way? I always thought that I had been beautiful for a mutant fox, but now that I looked over at this other female, I began to notice her nicely formed body. No nicely isn't the correct word, her perfectly formed body. As I recall my memory from earlier, she had perfect hips, perfect curves, perfect everything! I was starting to wonder, was Don just being her doctor, or was he actually…
Immediately I shook the thought from my head, no, that can't be it, what could he see in her? I glanced in her direction and sighed, my ears drooping a little, everything.
Don's POV:
I watched Cara with a critical eye; mostly I was just watching that broken arm of hers. I did realize that anybody who was watching me would be thinking that I liked her or something. But, my brothers should know that I just being my over protective self, like I usually am to my patients.
Just like that one time when Casey got seriously hurt. All of my brothers wanted to take him to the hospital, but I had insisted that he stay here until he was healed and that it was better for him. Or like that one time when April got hurt but it wasn't too serious but I still insisted that she'd stay here.
My senses perked up when I felt what was at first anger dissipating, but now, it had turned from curiosity to sadness. I looked over at Kristy and saw her ears droop slightly as she looked down at her food and continued eating it.
It was then that I began to worry. What was wrong with her, what was making her so sad? Didn't she like it here, or was she missing somebody above? Of course, I was completely oblivious to what was really going on inside her head. I decided that I would talk with her about it later.
Breakfast ended and we all walked out with full stomachs, all except for Kristy, she was holding on to her stomach with a pained look on her face. I laughed; she had eaten all of the pancakes, which were way too much for her.
There was something about the pancakes that just kept you eating them and eating them! Raph once guessed that Mikey had somehow gotten a hold of marijuana or something and put it in the pancakes so that we were all hooked.
I laughed at the mere thought of that. Upon hearing my laughing, Kristy quickly glanced my way and stuck her tongue out and muttered, "Shut up…" This, made me laugh even harder, in fact, all of us were laughing. And even though Cara had been trying to keep a straight and offensive look on her face, I saw her lips upturn a little at the corners. Even Cara knew better than to eat the whole stack.
Grinning and grasping Kristy's hand, I told her that we could go get some pills to subside the swelling of the pancakes in her belly a little. She eagerly complied.
While we were in the kitchen I decided to ask her what was wrong.
"Nothing's wrong Don." She stated quietly.
I raised my eyebrows, "then tell me, why your ears were drooping at the table and I could feel sudden sadness overwhelm you?"
She looked up at me warily and said again, "Nothing's wrong. Just don't worry about it anymore, okay?"
After finishing the drink and taking the pill she walked out of the kitchen leaving me standing there feeling very confused. What was really going on with her? Then it hit me, I had told her earlier that there were no humans down here and then the next morning there is! Smiling, I strolled to Kristy and said, "Kristy, Cara was found in the sewers last night, that's why she's here. It's not everyday that a human is down here, I don't want you thinking that I've been lying to you."
Kristy furrowed her brows and then exclaimed, "Donnie! There's nothing wrong!" She stood up and stiffly but quickly walked over to my room her tail thrashing angrily; she entered and slammed the door behind her.
I was dumbstruck, this was the one time I felt helpless, I didn't know what to do for the first time in a very long time.
"Don, don't worry about it, she's a girl, they're always emotional." Leo stated grinning wickedly at my predicament.
"What's so complicated about girls anyway?" I asked. "Why don't they just tell us when something's wrong, why do they always keep it stored up and make us try to guess?" My brothers just shrugged and turned back to the television, Ceridwen sat in her seat and grinned. No, it wasn't a grin of friendliness; it was a grin that seemed to say, "Haha, you deserve all the horrible things that are happening to you". Geez, what is with girls?
Kristy's POV:
I lay on the bed in Don's room; I wanted that female human gone! Now! Don was clearly paying more attention to her, her, her, curves than anything else! I fumed in frustration. I suddenly realized what I was saying.
Why am I feeling this way? It's not like I like Donnie or anything… But, if I didn't like Don, I wouldn't be thinking about all this stuff, and acting all these weird ways that I've never acted like before. What is wrong with me! I don't like him!
A faint knocking was sounded on the door, "what do you want?" I snapped glaring at the door.
The door opened and Splinter stepped inside. I instantly felt sorry for the disrespect I just gave him. "Sorry, I didn't know it was you."
He smiled, "Kristina, you should know that you can tell us anything you desire, and if you need some space once in a while, we'll let you have it. But right now, we are very concerned for you, is there anything you wish to tell me my child?"
I opened my mouth about to say something, but I closed it, and then again opened it but with a different answer, "um… no, I don't." I looked back down at the floor suddenly finding the cracks in it interesting.
He nodded and opened the door again but looked back and said, "You can always consult me for advice if you need some, but be warned, I may not have all the answers all the time." Splinter smiled warmly and left the room.
Soon after, I heard another soft knock. "Come in." I mumbled. The door creaked open a little and Donnie poked his head inside.
"Er… can I come in?" He asked dumbly.
I rolled my eyes, "well duh, I just said come in, plus, this is your room."
"Right…sorry," he slipped in and shut the door behind him.
"What do you want Donatello?" I asked obviously irritated.
"Um, I just want to say that, well…"
"Just spit it out! I'm not going to bite…maybe…"
"Well, I want you to know that you can tell me anything, anything at all! And that I really am concerned for you. I want to know if I can help." Donnie said sincerely and I almost was about to tell him, but the stubborn part of my personality stopped me.
"Don, I don't need your help! I can handle this myself!" I snapped.
Don looked so hurt by the way I snapped at him that I seriously considered going back on what I had just said, but instead I apologized, "Donnie, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you like that."
He nodded, "it's alright, and I understand if this is just like, you know, a girl problem." Don smiled seemingly proud of himself about figuring it all out.
I stared at him blankly, and his smile faded as he saw my blank stare. "Well, um, uh, I think I'll be going now, er, bye!" Donnie rushed out of the room slamming the door behind him.
Giggling I thought about how I was going to get his attention, for some reason my body desperately wanted his attention and that's just what I was going to get.
Finally I came up with a conclusion, Don was always concerned and paid a lot of attention to anyone that's hurt, whether it's a broken bone or scuffed up knee. I grinned, that was just what I needed to do, but, how was I going to do it? I may need one of the other turtles' help. Someone I could trust that wouldn't blab it off to anyone, tell Don, or worst, tell Master Splinter.
Raph was the answer, Raph isn't one to blab to everyone like Mikey likes to do, he isn't a perfectionist like Leo so he wouldn't tell Master Splinter, and he would just love to deceive or taunt any of his brothers, so he wouldn't tell Don. Perfect, I'll ask him in the morning. I had figured all of this out by my careful observing, plus, I had a natural instinct of how people are, it's a canine.
The next morning I woke up a little later than I had yesterday so when I walked out of Don's room, everyone was already in the kitchen eating, even Cara. As I passed her I sneered, clearly showing that I did not like her one bit. Note to self: tell Raph not to tell Cara either, she might try to spoil my plans.
After eating I met Raph outside of the kitchen and asked to have a word with him. I followed him into the dojo.
"What gives?" He asked as he started to hit the punching bag with the handle of some type of three pronged weapon.
"Well, I was sort of hoping you would help me with something…"
"Like a favor?"
"Well, sort of…yeah."
"Depends, what is it?"
"Well…" I started, but paused as the strange feeling of warmth crept up to my cheeks I knew I was blushing. "Don't ask me why, but for some reason, I, er, have been craving Donnie's attention but, he has been giving all his attention to that retched human Cara." I knew I gave everything, but how else was I supposed word it?
No comment.
I continued, "So, I thought that the best way to get his attention was by getting hurt, so he has to tend to me, since he obviously gives a lot of attention to people that are hurt…"
No comment.
"But, I don't want just some silly scrape or anything; I want to actually be hurt, like a sprained ankle or something. Do you think you could help me with that?"
He shrugged, "sure."
"Thanks! But, you cannot tell Leo, Master Splinter, Mikey, Cara and least of all Don! This has to be just between me and you; got it?"
Raph shrugged, "whateva', like I would tell anyone, especially Leo. How do you want to go about it?"
"Well first of all, if we do it in here, I want it to look like I was working out and hurt myself. Which won't be hard to do because I'm a klutz."
"I can see why he likes ya." Raph randomly commented.
"What?" I asked confused.
"And I can see why you like him."
I blushed, "what? I don't like him I just…" I began, assuming that he was talking about Don.
"Just what?" Raph grinned, "you already guessed what I was gonna' say, so that's pretty obvious that ya like him since yer tryin' ta cover it up. Just look, I know the way you two were lookin' at each other, ya like him. I bet anythin' that he likes ya just as much as you like him, if not more. You are the first female mutant we've met; and ya just so happen to be smart, so of course Don likes ya" he stated matter-of-factly.
I blushed even deeper, "well uh, thanks, but, um, let's get on with this." I replied in an attempt to cover up what all Raphael had just said.
Raph nodded and instructed me to start hitting the punching bag, and when I start to really feel it he'll do something that will get Don's attention big time.
Of course, I was nervous, I wouldn't know when Raph would actually hit me, or whatever he was going to do, but I had to do this, for Don."
Don's POV:
"Yo, Donnie! Kristy's hurt!" I heard Raph yell.
My head immediately snapped up from re-bandaging Cara's arm. "What?"
"Kristy's hurt! So get yer fat shell ova' here!"
I quickly finished my work and ran over to the dojo. Seeing Kristy on the ground clutching her leg with her eyes tightly shut, small tears squeezing out, and her tail puffed up and stiff with agony, it was a shocking sight, I knew, in the least bit what she might have done, somehow, she had probably hurt her leg.
Kneeling next to her I softly whispered; "let go of your leg slowly and set it down." After she had done so, I gently lifted up her loose pant leg and ran my fingers over her soft silver fur in search of any bumps that would reveal what condition her leg was in. After feeling nothing, I instructed, "Now slowly, try to extend your leg out to full length."
She didn't even get close to extending it all the way, which confirmed what I had suspected, she had sprained her leg, and pretty bad too.
"Ok, now turn over on your back and relax your leg." With my help, she was soon on her back facing the ceiling and looking up at me with tearful green eyes.
Being careful not to touch the back of her knee on her left leg, I picked her up off of the ground and carried her out of the dojo and into my room.
Once there I set her softly down on my bed, "I'll be right back," I whispered.
I ran over to a cupboard in my lab and grabbed a brace and some bandages. Walking quickly over to her, I wrapped one of the bandages around her bent knee, so it would keep her knee bent. Then I slipped the brace over her foot, ankle and on her knee, then I wrapped more bandages over that to keep it in place. I gently lowered her leg on the bed.
Smiling I said, "I have good and bad news, which do you want first?"
"Bad first," she said calmly but still gritting her teeth from the recent pain.
"The bad news is that you will be in bed for a couple of days before you'll even be able to walk around with crutches, and then you'll be on crutches for about a month, at the longest. The good news is that it's not broken, it's just sprained pretty bad."
She nodded and smiled slightly.
"So what happened to make you do that?" I asked.
"Well, I uh, I wanted to see what sparring was, so I asked Raph to do it with me. He was really gentle but since I'm no ninja, I kind of hit the wall at one point and hit my head, so I had my eyes closed when I came forward, I couldn't see where I was going. And I uh… tripped over some stuff; hit my leg on something really hard and then when I tried to catch myself I landed hard on the leg I had just hurt so I hurt it even more." She replied sincerely.
I nodded, "okay, sorry about that, Raph can get pretty rough sometimes."
She smiled, "no, it wasn't his fault, he was probably going as soft as he could."
I just smiled warmly and excused myself, saying that I'll be right back again.
Kristy's POV:
Once he left I sighed, thanks Raph, you did a perfect job, now he'll really have to pay attention to me. I hated lying to him, but it was the only thing I could do. And I was really glad that he had bought what I said because I had to make that up on the spot since I hadn't really thought about him asking me.
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