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Chapter 10: The Sweetest Song Ever Heard

Things moved back in to their original normal routine over the next few days. Kaylin and Peter seemed oddly quiet; they kept insisting that they just had nothing to say. Madison knew they were lying because when it came to those two, if they were quiet for that long it meant one of two things; either they had done something or they were going to. Madison chuckled to herself, hoping that they weren't plotting something for her birthday tomorrow. Madison didn't need anything; everything she had strived to get was already in the palm of her hand. She attempted to get them to talk but they wouldn't so she just gave them their space, hoping that if something really was wrong that maybe they would at least confide in one of the guys if nothing else. Madison was bustling around again in her usual fashion. Brian had caught a cold so she had been up with him the night before. She had moved Molly into her and Kaylin's room for the time being. Mikey wanted to help so he took Brian during the day so Madison could get some sleep.

She also noticed that Mikey had been acting a tad on the odd side since Monday. She had needed to go to the store to get some baby cough medicine and he had insisted that he go with her and that she wear a trench coat and hat as well. Madison was a little bemused by this sudden change in the usually playful individual but agreed to wear the hat at least. Then there was Kaylin. She by far had been acting very strangely. She would be laughing happily one minute then trying to rip someone's head off the next. Then she would storm away for about twenty minutes, come back, apologize, and start the whole process over again. It was about the fifth time this had happened when Madison finally followed her in to their room where Kaylin had gone to pout.

"Alright, you," Madison said, sitting on the edge of Kay's bed. "What's up?"

"Nothing," Kaylin muttered.

"Nothing, eh?" Madison said, leaning back on her hands. "Nothing is biting Leo's head off for correcting your posture?"

"There was nothing wrong with it, he's just overly picky."

"He just wants you to learn it right."

"You're not helping, Maddy," Kaylin snorted.

"Come on, Kay-Kay," Madison said, slinging her arms around Kaylin's shoulders. Kaylin tensed up for a moment but eventually leaned into her sister's embrace. "Tell big sis what's on your mind."

"I seriously don't know, Maddy," Kaylin said. "I just feel weird."

"Are you getting sick?" Madison said, feeling the girl's fore head.

"It's not that I don't feel good, I just feel like… Ug!"

Madison chuckled, "Yeah I get like that too sometimes."

"Can I just go to bed?"

Madison looked concerned, "If you want, it's only 8 o'clock though."

"I don't care," Kaylin said, sitting up out of Madison's arms and walking over to her dresser. She pulled out a long night shirt and threw it on the edge of the bed before shucking her other cloths off. Donning the night shirt she threw a glance at her sister's worried expression. "I'm fine, Maddy, I'm just tired."

"Alright, alright," Madison got up off the bed and turned down the covers. Kaylin hopped into bed and scooted down underneath the sheets. Madison tucked her in and kissed her good night. "Do you want me to bring you anything?"

"No, I'm fine."

"Ok," Madison switched off the light and walked out of the room, closing the door with a soft click. She returned to the kitchen where Mikey was playing with Brian and Molly was coloring a picture. She had started washing dishes when Leo and the others walked in.

"Did I do something wrong?" Leo asked Madison as he straddled a chair.

"No," she replied. "I don't know what's wrong but she just not feeling herself tonight."

"Where is she?" Peter asked.

"She went to bed."

"She what?"

"Yeah, I know." Kaylin was always the one complaining that they had to go to bed early as it was. For her to go to bed an hour earlier than their actual bed time something was up. Peter was hoping it wasn't because of Him. "Actually," Madison's voice interrupted his pondering. "Maybe we should all go to bed early. It's been a long week." No one put up a reasonable argument so Raph swung the pouting Molly over his shoulder and left with Peter to get the child ready for bed. Donny picked up the crayons and drawn on sheets of paper. He picked up one and chuckled.

"Hey, look what Molly drew," he said, raising the picture for everyone to see. Madison couldn't help but smile. The picture of course was a child's art work but it was a wonderful portrait none the less. Four green stick figures and a gray one stood on what looked like it was supposed to be grass with a sun over head. Next to them were five more stick figures. On the top of the page, scribbled in child's hand writing was Féminin. Madison took the picture and taped it to the fridge.

"Congratulations, Boys," she smiled at them. "You have officially become part of our family."

The turtles smiled and Donny and Leo left. Mikey stood up with Brian in his arms, "You sure you wanna stay up with Bri again. You look dead on your feet."

"No I'll be ok," she said, taking the coughing infant from him. "He likes a special song when he sleeps so if I just sing him that he'll go right to sleep. Although…" she picked up a small bottle on the table and the strange looking baby medicine spoon next to it. "If you wouldn't mind terribly, helping me out getting him to take his medicine that would be great." Mikey was more than happy to oblige. They finally got Brian to take his medicine and she set off for the nursery.

The boys had some how found a very nice rocking chair so she set herself down in that and rocked the child for awhile. After she had sung him about a thousand lullabies (because for some reason he chose tonight of all nights to not fall asleep at the first one) Brian had finally dozed off. Laying him down gently in the crib, Madison smiled down at the sleeping child. So peaceful; she was glad he wouldn't ever know the nightmares she and the others did. One of them deserved to be untainted by their father. Madison ran a finger down the infant's soft cheek and kissed him good night before sitting back in the rocking chair. She had tried last night to sleep in Molly's mini bed but it just wasn't possible. She rocked back and forth until her eyes closed and she drifted off into a peaceful dream…

She wasn't sure when exactly she heard the screaming but she couldn't tell whether or not it was a dream until she heard Brian crying and someone shaking her shoulders. Her eyes fluttered open and she discovered she was face to face with a panicked looking Mikey.

" Madison! Wake up!" he exclaimed. 'There's something wrong with Kay!"

Madison's eyes shot open all the way, "What! What happened!"

"We don't know!" he said. "She's won't let us touch her."

She flew from the chair out of the room, calling over her shoulder to Mikey something about getting Brian. She burst into the other room and shoved her way through the crowd of worried on lookers. Master Splinter looked rather harassed as he tried to get Kaylin to let him see what was wrong but she wouldn't. She thrashed around in her bed and screamed when ever he tried to touch her.

"Thank God," Donny breathed a sigh of relief when Madison pushed her way past him. "We don't know what's wrong."

"Kay!" Madison said, unintentionally practically shoving Splinter out of the way. "Kay, what's wrong? Look at me, honey."

"Maddy!" she exclaimed grabbing Madison's arms. "I… I don't know what happened! It… it just started and I don't know why! It only happened when he… Maddy make it stop!"

"Make what stop, Baby?" Maddy asked, stroking her little sister's tear stain face.

Kaylin didn't say anything; she hiccupped and pulled the covers back so that only Madison could see. Madison looked, and had if she didn't know what Kaylin had meant when she said that it had only happened once before, that being thanks to their father, she would have chuckled at the situation. Instead she tucked the covers back under her little sister and kissed her head; assuring her non-verbally that it was ok and that big sister would take care of everything.

"Out," Madison said over her shoulder to the concerned group behind them.

"What?" Leo said what everyone was thinking.

"You heard me," Madison said turning around. "All of you. Rodents, reptiles and anyone under 15 who isn't Kaylin, out!"

"But what about…" Peter was cut off when Madison turned him around and gave him a soft shove in the direction of the door.

"I said out! All of you come on!" Madison started pushing the group out the door. "Out, out, out!"

"But…!"

"But nothing," Madison cut Donny off. "Mikey, try and get Brian back to sleep, Raph tuck Molly in her bed, Peter, as long as you aren't in here I don't care but all of you are leaving and leaving now!" When she had finally shoved the last one of them out and locked the door, she returned to Kaylin's side. The young girl looked positively terrified.

"Maddy, what's wrong with me?" she asked, meekly.

"Nothing is wrong with you," Madison said, sitting on the bed again. She wrapped her arms around Kaylin for the second time that night but this time her sister didn't resist at all.

"But than why I am…"

"It's…uh…" Madison mentally laughed at and kicked herself for having not anticipated this moment. It had never really dawned on her until just now how little she had taught Kaylin about what it meant to be a girl. "Well, Sweetie, you see…"

"Did he do this to me?" she asked, her blue eyes filling with tears.

"No, no, Honey, he didn't do this," Madison said, rocking her little sister back and forth a bit. "I guess in a way this is kinda my fault."

"What?" Kaylin looked bewildered.

"I never really talked to you about this kinda thing," still getting a puzzled stare Madison chuckled at her self aloud and ran a hand through her hair. "I should probably explain a few things…" Madison launched herself into a feeble but well attempted try at enlightening Kaylin about what happens to a girl's body when she reached a certain age and what was happening to her. "So pretty much that is what is happening to you. This in particular really doesn't have anything to do with him. It's just something that happens to us girls when we hit this age."

Kaylin stared at her blankly, trying to soak up all the information. She finally wrinkled her nose and said "Ewwww!"

Madison laughed loudly, and hugged her little sister, "Now that's the Kaylin I know."

"And this'll happen for a week!"

"Yeah pretty much. Sucks don't it?" Madison chuckled at the annoyed glare Kay gave her.

"So is this why I've been all… acting weird lately?"

"Must be," Madison said. "They're called mood swings."

"Ooook…" Kaylin still looked grossed out by the whole idea of "being a woman" but she shrugged her shoulders and said. "So what do I do now?"

Madison got up and grabbed a robe and handed it to her, "Take off those clothes, and leave them on the bed; I will take care of them. Put this on and go take a shower. You don't have to explain anything to anyone, just go straight to the shower and wash. When you're done I come tell you what to do."

Kaylin obeyed, and after putting on the robe, she swiftly opened the door and marched right past Leo and Donny with out a word. Madison heard a far off door slam shut and the water start running.

"What the heck was that all about?" Donny asked, poking his head in the door.

"Nothing," Madison said, starting to strip the bed. She bundled up the blankets, sheets and clothing and breezed past the two confused turtles, making her way to the laundry room. "Peter," she barked over her shoulder. "It's almost midnight, get back to bed." She heard him grumble but knew he would obey her. By the time she had put the bedding in the washer and retrieved some more clothes for Kay, along with a certain necessary product, she heard the young girl switch off the shower. "Kay?" she knocked on the door, "Open up, Honey, it's me." She heard the lock on the door click open and Madison entered the steam filled room. Handing the new things to Kaylin she said, "Need anything else?"

"Um yeah…" Kaylin looked rather embarrassed as she held up the square item in her hand. "How do I…?"

Madison herself blushed. She wondered how awkward this event had been for her mother to go through with her. She showed her what to do with the object and left Kaylin alone in the bathroom to give her some privacy. She started walking down the hall back to the nursery to check on Brian and Molly when she was stopped by a very agitated Raphael.

"What the heck was that!" he demanded.

"It is none of your business and don't even think about asking Kaylin," Madison said lightly, moving around him. "She will probably sock your lights out. And you can quote that to your brothers." Leaving him standing there looking very confused, Madison approached the nursery. She went to grab the handle of the door to push it open but her ears perked up at an unfamiliar voice inside. At first she almost thought it was Mikey but it couldn't of been. The voice was higher, and more… childlike…

Madison opened the door just a crack and heard a clear child's voice attempting to sing a familiar song. The words were jumbled together and they didn't make sense but that didn't matter. She pushed the door open all the way almost not daring to believe what she was hearing or seeing. Mikey was flopped in the rocking chair dead asleep, a line of drool trickling out of his mouth, but that is not was she was staring in disbelief at. Brian was standing up his crib, making all sorts of baby like coos, gurgles and laughs at what Madison was actually staring at. She was staring at a child. A beautiful child whom she had watched a demon destroy with cruelty. A child she had seen lock her words away. A child who had buried herself deep under a protective blanket of snow but had finally let spring come.

Madison's eyes filled with tears of joy as she watched Molly sing in her child's voice "Little Bunny Foo-Foo" to Brian as she made Raphael's old rabbit dance on the crib. Brian grabbed the rabbit, much to Molly's disliking and pulled it close to him as he feel back in his crib; Molly look very displeased when he started drooling on the stuffed animal's ear, "Hey!" her long awaited voice exclaimed. "Briiiiannnnn! Give 'im back!". Madison gasped slightly and covered her mouth with her hand, not sure how much longer she could remain silent. Molly seemed to suddenly notice the presence of her sister in the room and she turned her head and looked at Madison, "Maddy," she pouted. "Brian won't give Mr. Puffy back!"

The tears came pouring out of Madison's eyes just then. She couldn't stop them nor did she want to. Madison threw herself on the ground and wrapped Molly in a bone crushing hug, kissing every part of her face before sobbing hysterically into the little girl's baby soft hair, "Oh, Molly… Molly, Molly, Molly…" Madison wept tears of joy, holding the little girl tight. Mikey was startled by the sound and jolted awake in the chair.

"I didn't do it..." he exclaimed sleepily, having to take a moment to realize what was going on. He became fully alert when he saw Madison crying. "What's wrong?"

"Maddy's acttin' all funny and stuffs," Molly said from underneath Madison's arms.

Mikey's jaw dropped and he sprinted from the room yelling for everyone to come here. In seconds everyone was in the nursery.

"Where is she!" Raph exclaimed, skidding into the room. "What's wrong with Molly!"

"Raphy, make Brian give me back Mr. Puffy!" the little girl demanded. "He'll get spit and stuff all over 'im."

The room went dead silent. Leo, Raph, Donny and the twins stood there with their mouths open, while Mikey jumped up and down exclaiming 'I told you so!' Master Splinter stood there with his walking stick with a joyous smile spread across his face. Peter and Kaylin suddenly lunged themselves at Madison and Molly; all four of them ended up in a massive laughing pile on the floor. Peter and Kaylin kissed and hugged their baby sister, who looked rather startled by all of the sudden attention.

"Ewwww cooties!" she exclaimed, wiping her cheeks, causing everyone to laugh. "Have you guys gone nuts or somethin'?"

"No, Honey, no," Madison said holding her tightly again. "We're just so happy."

"How come?"

"We didn't think you would ever talk again, Baby."

"How come?'

"Because you haven't in such a long time, Honey."

"How come?"

Madison just laughed and hugged the child again, stopping line of 'how come' responses. She felt Peter's hand on her shoulder, "Hey Madison."

"Hm?"

"Happy Birthday," Peter nodded his head in the direction on a wall clock that read 12:05am.

"How's that for a birthday present?" Kaylin laughed.

Madison just smiled again and refused to let Molly go. She was wrong before; NOW she had everything she ever wanted.

"Maddy!" she heard the child's muffled voice. "Yer crushing me!"

"Oh sorry," Madison loosened her grip on Molly's small frame. The little girl sat in her lap and looked up at her older sister.

"Ummm, Maddy?" she said, slightly twiddling her thumbs. "Can…can I ask ya somethin'?"

"Anything you want, Honey," Madison said, kissing Molly on the head.

"Can I have Mr. Puffy now?"