Disclaimer: If I did own TMNT, which I don't, I wouldn't be here, now would I?
It was only a few minutes ago that the S.S. Nenet left the docks of Manhattan and left for its destination. The turtles, Splinter, April, and Casey were excited about exploring the cruise ship and were dazzled already from what they saw when trying to find their suites.
After getting their way around, they managed to find the First Class floor. Upon finding them, they came upon the leisure room. It was quite a sight for them. There were fancy paintings on the wall, a bar in the corner, and wealthy-looking individuals were talking amongst themselves while drinking alcoholic beverages on the fancy furniture.
"Sweet digs." Mikey whispered.
However, Raphael was feeling uncomfortable with all of the rich associates. He began to notice all of them were staring at him and his family and friends. "Don," he whispered to his brother, "Why do these people keep staring at us? Is your MCM thingy really working?"
"Don't mind these rich snobs, Raph." Casey unfortunately said out loud, leaving a lot of angry whispers between the affluent individuals. " They're just staring at us because we don't look "classy". They're all just a bunch of -"
But before he could finish, April shoved her elbow right into his arm to get him to shut up.
"Ow!" he cried. "April, whatcha do that for?"
"Casey Jones, you just don't know when to keep your mouth shut, do you?" she growled at him.
Splinter and his sons sighed. Here they go again.
"I was just being honest." Casey argued back.
"Well, sometimes people don't want to hear some one's opinion!" April yelled, drawing more attention. " You can be so rude."
The turtles and their master decided to leave their friends to find their suite room. There was no point watching them fight all of the time and they wanted to get away from all of the wealthy-looking individuals. Then, just as they were about to leave, a young man with wearing a navy-blue two-piece suit was walking their way with a few beautiful looking women. The man had a clean, bald forehead, but the rest of his shiny blond hair was down all the way to his hips. The women gazed at his handsomeness as he talked of random business discussions; but even if they had the intelligence of mayonnaise (Mikey being more accurate, according to Raph), the brothers could tell the man was flirting with the women. After hearing their giggles, April ended her argument with Casey and looked at the man who was flirting with them. She gasped in shocked as the memory of the man returned to her; and for that reason was why she hid behind everyone. Unfortunately, he already spotted her and walked over to them.
"Well, April O'Neil, I never thought I'd see you again on such a lovely cruise" he said to her.
"And you are?" Raph asked.
The man bowed his head. "Matthias D. Sorel, at your service."
April mumbled something under her breath, apparently swearing as well. Everyone pretended not to notice. They could tell April knew Matthias before, but didn't want to see him.
Only because she had to, April came out and shook his hand, giving him a stronger grip than usual. "It's… good to see you again, Matthias." she lied. "Fancy meeting you here."
"How exactly do you know each other?" Splinter asked.
Matthias bent down on one knee and took April's hand. "You see, back in high school, Miss O'Neil and I had a strong relationship. She was, how you say in French, moi copine tres belle."
Just as he was about to kiss her hand, April's temper snap like a twig and pulled it out of his grasp. "That's ex-girlfriend to you!"
Before anyone else could move, April slapped Matthias across the face as hard as she could with the hand he attempted to kiss, leaving quite a nasty bruise. Everyone gasped at the sigh of April slapping him. Matthias was able to get up and moved closer than ever to April, still rubbing his cheek.
"I see you still have the same fire burning in you eyes." He said with grace. "It was that same spirit that made me fall madly in love with you."
"And it was that same attitude that made me break up with up you, you pervert!" she snapped at him.
Casey was getting furious with this act Matthias was putting on. Then, he saw why he came so close to her in the first place. He could see the rich "gentleman" moving his hand towards her posterior. He was planning to hit on her! That's when Casey had to take action. Before Matthias got any closer to April, he pulled April away from and punched him in the face. Matthias stepped back and buried his face in his hand to relive the pain he received from the brute.
"Keep your hands off of April, you perv, or you'll have to mess with me!" Casey growled.
"Who exactly do you think you are?" Matthias asked bitterly.
"The name is Casey Jones. And I –"
April couldn't believe what she was about to say next for the plan she just thought of. She didn't want to use Casey, but she needed protection from Matthias. So regretting the words she spoke, she went out and released them from her mouth. "-Um…he's my husband!"
April wasn't the only one surprised by what she said. The turtles were shocked enough that someone tried to hit on April, and now this? It seemed too much to bear. That was until they guessed it was some sort of plan to make the well-mannered pervert to leave her alone.
" Uh… yep, Casey's my husband." April continued to lie. "It's our anniversary and, out of love, Casey let us travel first-class. You'll have to excuse him about the punch in the face. He's very over-protective of me. Isn't that right, dear"
"April, what in the hey are you talking ab- Ow!" Once again, April had to nudge Casey in the arm to make him shut up. "Um-I mean…Yep, just us, the loving couple."
"Hmm…" Matthias thought. "Well, how can that be if you have no ring on your fingers?" he asked.
April just thought about that. She had to make up something, fast! "Um… we didn't want anyone stealing them when we came in. We'll put them back on when we feel more comfortable."
"I see…. Nothing personal, my dear, but I do find it a bit awkward that you would bring a family member of yours and your four sons with you on your anniversary."
The turtles and Splinter were trying very hard to resist bursting out in laughter while Casey and April looked like they swallowed a bar of soap.
"They're not ours!" Casey was forced to burst out. "They're just… family friends who we were very surprised to see." He finished with a little nervous laughing.
"Oh, forgive me then." Matthias said. "I'd love to talk, but I must be on my way." He then walked out to the room and into the main hall, the women following him out. The gang just decided to enter their room and leave the awkward mess, once April explained to them what was going on.