Later on that evening, I tiptoed my way back to the floor where I saw the guard at the door. I knew that the number panel on the door meant that I would require a number code to gain access into the room. There was no way I could get that code so that meant the only way I could get into the room was by the guard. Luckily for me all my life I have looked so innocent that sometimes it was easy for me to lie to people and to get away with things.

I saw the guard up ahead and I sighed and tried to gather my courage up before I approached him. I walked down to where he was, my sais in my belt that Saki had given me, walking tall and proud so that way he would think that I had business to discuss. The ninja looked over at me and bowed slightly when he saw me. I nodded my head and bowed back, trying to look serious. "Is that where the prisoner is located?" I asked him, still trying to keep a serious tone in my voice.

The ninja looked at me, first kind of uneasy about telling me or not then he nodded his head. "Hai. The turtle and the girl."

I was kind of alarmed when he mentioned the girl. I knew for sure that he must have been talking about Lea. I was now alarmed by the fact that Donatello was right and that Saki had captured Lea. I started to grow worried for her safety, but I tried to keep that feeling hidden. "Will you let me enter? I need to talk with her. Master Saki wants to see if I can persuade her to tell us more about the turtles."

The ninja looked at me, still unsure about the whole situation. "But what about the turtle?"

"Don't worry. He's injured besides I brought my weapons," I said and motioned to my sais on my belt. "Just stay right near the door, I will call upon you if I need help so don't leave." I said sternly to him and held his gaze, still having my serious face.

The ninja bowed gently and turned to enter the number code. Once he did and the door became unlocked, I motioned for him to step inside and I opened the door. "Donatello?" I said gently…calling out for them, but yet not wanting the guard to hear me. I heard a voice calling out for me. I motioned for the guard and then walked inside. Inside I saw Lea crawling over to me. She looked so happy to see me, I was amazed and I couldn't help, but to let myself smile.

Then I looked over and saw Don. He was looking at me, but I almost felt like running away from the room when I saw him. He was bruised and favoring his wrist. He was looking at me too. but the emotion on his face and his eyes was different. I knew he was hurt both physically and emotionally by me. I stood there and remained silent looking at them till I heard the foot ninja close the door.

I felt myself tensing up as they looked at me. I totally forgot on what I was going to say or do! Lea looked at me and then spoke gently, "Melinda…what's going on?" I tried to ignore her question as I approached them. I didn't know on what to tell her on why I was staying with Saki and why I did the things I did. Heck I don't even know why!

I stood there and stared at them, not knowing for sure on what to say. The words simply were not there. I must have looked totally lost and confused. I really hadn't planned on Lea being there with Donatello. I heard Lea let out a sigh then she spoke again, "Look, Melinda, if you don't want to talk to me right now, then will you please tell me why you gave Saki Donatello? The man is evil, Mel! How in the heck could you give him Don when you knew something bad would happen to him! Don't you HAVE any more feelings for Donatello!" She looked at me in shock. I saw Don turn his head and look away painfully. Obviously Lea didn't know about what I said to Don earlier in the lair.

I had no clue on what to say to her! I had no clue on my feelings for Donatello! I cared for him, but for some reason I couldn't feel the same emotions that I had felt for him earlier. I looked over at the door nervously, wishing that Lea would lower her voice. "Listen, Lea. Can we discuss this another time, please?" I begged.

"Why can't we do it now?" She said.

"Because…"I said some, biting my lip. "I am going to get you guys out of here." I looked back at the door. The only thing was I didn't have a plan on how to get us out of there. "There has to be some way I can get the guard's attention and make him think you guys are attacking me." I thought for a second watching Lea look at me and Don get up from the ground.

"I have an idea," Lea smirked. "Give me a sai to stand near the door and let Don have the other. Now, Don hold Melinda to you and hold the sai to her throat. Mel call out for the guard and when he comes in, I'll hit him on the head with this one." She was smirking at me some when she was saying this. I looked at her for a moment, kind of puzzled on why she was but then I saw the gleam in her eye and I groaned some.

I walked over to where she was and took the sai from my belt. As I was handing it to her, I said, "You know I really hate you…," in a low tone so Don wouldn't hear.

"Yeah I know," She smirked big at me. I couldn't help, but to smile back at her. I walked back over and handed Don my other sai. I stood in front of him and with his uninjured wrist, he held the sai to my neck, his other arm around my waist, holding me close to him. I shivered some feeling him so close to me. I felt myself longing for him again but I tried to hold in my emotions.

Lea walked over and got in position by the door, she then looked back at us. "Aww that looks cute, you two."

I glared at her and I felt Don shifting some uneasily. "Ok ready?" I asked, Lea nodded her head. I then took in a deep breath and then shouted, "Guard! Help me, please!" My heart was pounding fast. I heard the punch code being put in so I knew that my scream got the guard's attention.

The door slid open and the guard walked in. "Huh?" He asked when he saw Don holding the sai to my throat. Lea walked out behind him and hit him hard on the back of the head with the blunt end of the sai. The guard let out a soft groan and then he fell to the floor unconscious. I smiled some, letting myself breathe again.

"That was kind of fun!" Lea smirked. Don let go of me and I got my sai back from him and her. I put them back in my belt and walked out of the room first to make sure that there was no one nearby, when I saw that the place was clear, I motioned for them to walk out. Fortunately Don's bag and weapon were lying on the floor near the door. I picked them up and handed them to Don. I stood there, I knew we had to hurry up but I couldn't think of what to do.

I heard Don rummaging through his bag. "I have a grappling hook in here, I think it's long enough for us to use it to scale down the building to safety," He said as he took out the grappling hook.

"Will your wrist be okay?" Lea asked him.

"Yeah, I'll try to use my other wrist as much as possible." Don replied and then looked over at me. "You know where the nearest window may be?"

I looked at him for a moment, I felt so bad knowing that he was in pain. I wanted to stop Saki, but what I could have done? "Yeah, it's not far. It should be good enough for you guys to get out of."

"Wait a minute," Lea snapped and looked at me. "Melinda, you ARE coming with us." She said sternly. I looked at her for a moment, kind of unsure on what to reply, I took a small glance over at Don and he just looked at me.

"Come on! It's not far!" I said as I tried to avoid the question. I led them to an empty room and pointed to the window. Don ran over and opened the window and looked down.

"Hmm…that's not too far. 15 stories at the least. Luckily our ropes can scale 20 stories," He said as he attached to the grappling hook to the end of the windowsill and threw the rope down along the side. "Lea, you go first." Lea looked over at me for a moment and then turned around and climbed out the window down the rope.

"Luckily I was training to be a cop," I heard her grumble as she climbed down.

Don looked down and saw that she was far enough down for the next person to go down. He looked over at me. "You want to go next?"

"No, Don. You go next. I'll go down after you." I said gently. I felt kind of uneasy. I never did like heights. I always had a fear about climbing ropes or ladders but I didn't want to tell them and make them waste their time with me and get in trouble. I never could get myself to climb ropes up or down in gym classes. Plus I felt bad for going with them. I felt like I didn't belong anymore. Lea seemed hurt by me and Don was hurt physically by what I have done. I can't go back to them after all the trouble I caused them. I knew that the breakup had to be now. I looked out down from the window and saw Lea nearly at the bottom with Don about halfway.

"Okay! Melinda, you can go ahead now!" He said up to me.

I looked at him kind of scared. I couldn't climb down! I was scared of climbing down! It looked too high! Plus I couldn't go to them just yet! I stood there and looked at them. Don looked up at me and saw that I was still standing there, Lea was already at the ground, looking up at us. "Melinda!" He called up at me, he was looking right at me with fright in his eyes. He knew I wasn't going to go. "Melinda! NO! Come on!"

I looked at him one more time then backed away from the window and started to walk away from the window towards the door of the room. I could hear Don calling for me outside and the faint voice of Lea down below on the ground.

I ran quickly as hard as I could up to my room. I knew that it wouldn't be long till someone found out that Don and Lea had escaped so I had to pretend that I had been asleep the entire time. I stripped down from my normal clothes and put on my nightclothes and climbed into my bed. I shut my eyes, but I didn't go to sleep, I was too afraid to go to sleep. All I could hear was Lea's and Don's pleading voice in my head.