Within time

Warning there will be yaoi in aka slash, if you don't like this please don't read the story this means male X male.

This means, "talk" and this means 'thought'

Once again please give constructive criticism or a half a compliment. The pairing's are Leonardo X Raphael

April X Casey and Donatello X Michelangelo

This is the prequel to Hidden love its about the how raph and Leo became a couple and how the mutants rights started. The turtle's will be a semi out of character and a year older than the TV show says. And I thank all those people who review Hidden love. Thanks.

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Leonardo ran across the rooftop and jumped to the next one. He gently landed on his feet and ran through the shadows. He stopped at an empty rooftop and sat in the shadows. "Why can't I stop thinking about him in that way?" he mumbled dejectedly. Leo looked up at the sky unhappily. He sighed as he rubbed his forehead. Stared at sky for a few moments before he heard footsteps. He stood up and pulled out his katan's. "Whoa Leo Its me!" "Oh Hi raph" said Leo with a small blush on his cheeks. "Sorry about that." "Its okay, I was wondering what you were doing" said raph with a shrug. "Your that bored aren't you?" Asked Leo. "That and mikey is talking about his dumb comics again" said raph indifferently as he sat down. "It's good you're here, otherwise you'd have to do 32 flips for attacking mikey." Said Leo as he sat next to raph. "So what were you doing before I came?" asked raph. "Looking at the stars." Said Leo. The brothers sat in silence looking at the stars. Leo yawned and stood up and said "We better get home before master splinter notices we're gone" said Leo. Raph nodded with a frown. "I wish we could stay here for a bit longer." Leo smiled. They ran home to the scolding of a lifetime from master splinter.

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Raph walked down the stairs to the kitchen. He yawned and dug through the fridge. "Did mikey eat all the dam pizza again?" He mumbled angrily. He stopped and listened to soft footsteps coming down the stairs. Leo entered the kitchen. "Hey Leo couldn't sleep? " asked raph. "I couldn't sleep, so I came down for some tea." Said Leo. He pulled out a mug and put it under the tab and turned the knob. He turned the knob again and pulled his mug back and selected a tea bag from a box. He headed toward the microwave. Raph watched for a moment and dug through the fridge and found cold pizza. "Good mikey didn't eat all the pizza" he pulled out a plate and put the pizza on it. He waited for the ding of the microwave so he could put his pizza in. Leo yawned as he pulled out his mug and moved out of the way for raph. Unnoticed by ether one of them Leo had spilt some of the water. Leo lost his footing and grabbed for the nearest thing he could to support himself, which was raph. Leo landed on his shell and raph landed on top of him their lip's inches apart. Leo blushed furiously so did raph. He leaned forward and captured raph's lips. Raph was stunned for a moment and started kissing back. Raph broke the kiss blushing. They laid there for a couple seconds before raph got off of Leo. Leo blushed and sat up and started cleaning up the broken glass. "Umm leo can we pretend this never happened?" Leo's heart broke instantly. "Sure, we'll pretend it never happed." said Leo sadly. He and raph cleaned up the mess.

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"Guys I think we have a problem" said Donnie unhappily as he turned up the volume of the TV. "In other news the authorities have found 3 mutant creatures in the country side this morning. The mutants seem to be intelligent and will be studied; some believe these creatures are related to the alien incident a year ago, stay tuned for further reports of on these creatures." Said the newsman. The picture on screen changed to show 3 mutants one was a cat, the second was a monkey and the third was a large raven. They were in cages with heavy shackles on their wrists and legs. They looked tired and thin. They wore baggy brown potato bags disguising their genders. The cat mutant looked at the camera and started crying. The bird mutant look worried and tried to comfort the cat. The monkey tried to comfort the cat too. The police yelled and used a stun gun on the monkey and the bird. They screamed out in pain and collapsed in their cages. The cat cried out and reached toward her friends and received a stun to it's back. It cried out in pain and crumpled on to the bottom of the cage. Donnie clicked the off button. Raph growled angrily and made his hands in to fists. "That's horrible." mumbled mikey as he looked at the ground. Leo stared at the ceiling shock still on his face. Master splinter frowned. "We have to save them," said raph. "First we need a plan my sons," said master splinter. They nodded.

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The sound of sobbing filled the cave like cage the three mutants sat in. "Its okay sally I'm here" said the bird mutant softly and it held the cat mutant. "Drake I'm scared." Whimpered sally. Drake wiped the tears from sally's face with his large black wing. "Drake's right sally we'll be okay, we'll get out of here." Said the monkey softly as he patted her back. Sally bit her lip. "Maybe we can get out of here somehow." She mumbled, "Why don't you get some sleep, you look tired." Said the monkey. "Kay" she said as she lay on the ground and curled up in a ball. Drake glared at the monkey angrily. "Don't give her false hope Marco," he snapped angrily. "I was just trying to help her unlike you, I actually care what sally thinks." Said Marco. Drake's raven black feathers puffed up. "Marco, I understand sally just fine, you're the one who ruins her life and breaks her heart every single dam time." Drake hissed icily at the monkey. They stopped glaring at one another to hear footsteps approach. Two guards came through the cage door with stun guns in hand. "Come on freaks time to go," said one of the guards "frank I'll wake up the cat you take these two to the test center." Said the other guard. Frank nodded and took drake and Marco out through the door. The other guard gently shook sally's shoulder. She stirred lightly. "Wake up kitty it's time to go." Sally finally opened her eyes. The guard helped her up and led her out of the barred door. "I'm Jacob," said the guard as he led her through the corridor. "I'm sally, it's nice to meet you Jacob. But do you know what the other humans will do to us?" she asked. "They wish to test your knowledge, but I can see you're much smarter than they estimated." Said Jacob. Sally blushed. "Oh were here already," Jacob opened the metal door and led sally through it. Marco and drake both sat apart from each other with a two humans showing them flash cards and scribbling answers down on a clipboard. 'I hope Marco doesn't do anything stupid' she thought as she sat down at a desk.

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Sally opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling. Her purple eyes searched for anyway to escape the cell that contained her and her family. She sighed and rolled over on her side, all of her life she was taught that humans were evil creatures and killed anything they feared, but these humans treated them kindly and gave them clothes and food, and helped them with their stun gun wounds, this confused sally to no end. She had asked drake about this and he said they were playing mind games with them, and started ranting and raving about humans. Then she asked Marco he said he was still deciding on what the humans were doing. Sally looked at the large raven she loved, he was a bit pompous, loud and bossy, but under all that he had a good heart and a good mind. The large raven was the third in command in their tribe, he acted tough, and rarely showed any emotions expt for anger, as the tribe leader said he hurts those he loved, he had hurt sally many a time. She looked at the sleeping Marco, sally also loved him, and sally could not decide on which man she loved. Marco was a happy go lucky goofball, but he was a strong warrior and also second in command. Sally once again sighed as she thought about her tribe, they lived in a large forest 1000,00 miles away from New York eating what the humans threw away wearing what the humans tossed out, living on what they could find. They made every available male to hunt for food and goods. Only a few females volunteered to hunt and sally was one of them and also the strongest huntress and as the men said amongst themselves 'a worthy prize to wed and mate.' Sally stopped musing and listened to footsteps coming toward the barred door.

She pretended to be asleep, as the door opened. The guard frank entered and tapped sally on the shoulder. She opened her eyes and looked at the man. "Come on freak you have to come with Me." he whispered as he helped her up. "What about the others?" she asked softly. "We just need a blood sample from you freak, we already have their blood, and we just need yours." Said frank flatly. Sally nodded and went with him to another room and entered. A female doctor sat waiting with a needle and gauze in hand. Sally sat on the stool and waited for the doctor. The doctor pricked the needle in to sally's arm making her hiss and claw at the doctor's arm. Frank instantly pulled out his stun gun and zapped sally on the back. She hissed louder and tried to claw out but quickly collapsed in a heap on the floor. The female doctor glared at frank and said angrily "idiot why do you do that! Your not supposed to hurt her! Now we have to clean another wound, and the mutants won't trust us!" "We'll it was attacking you!" snapped frank. "She didn't like the feel of the needle in her skin nimrod." Frank snorted and picked up the sleeping cat in his arms. "See you at the meeting Janet." Said frank as he left the room-carrying sally.

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Several voices argued loudly amounts themselves. A burnet woman with caramel colored skin entered the room and the arguing people quieted. "By the blood samples we collected, we have confirmed that the mutants are around 16 through 18, and can be mated for further study, we will lock the female and one of the males in a special environment together. " said the woman as she sat in a chair. Some of the scientists nodded and mumbled their agreements. "And if the birth fails we will ask one of our own to take up the females job as the birth mother" said the woman. The female scientists frown and disagreed with this notion. She glared at the other women quieting them instantly. "We need to reconvene these mutants we are 'harmless' to them, and restore their trust to us, and tell us where the other mutants are." She said evenly. "Susie, these creatures have minds and personalities all their own, we can't make them mate when we tell them to! This is being unfair to them!" said a tall tan brunette woman in the back of the meeting room. Susie scoffed and said flatly "June I know you and your mutant love'n friends care for these freaks, but I really don't, I see this as a chance to widen my research field and get everyone a bigger paycheck from the government" Susie pulled her glassed from the tip of her nose and looked June in the eye and smirked. "My dear June your naïve to the possibility's of these freaks, the money, the fame, the knowledge we can gain." She stated. "Ms s-sundun maybe you should reconsider y-your plan ms, it's a bit inhumane." Said a timid looking 17-year-old female lab assistant. Susie scoffed and pointed at the girl and said angrily "You better stay quite or you'll lose your job faster than hell." The girl eeped and backed away. "Tim, remember to fire this back talking girl for me, oh and meeting has ended." She said as she stood and looked over all of the people. "Talk to Tim if you want your jobs to remain in tact." Susie said as she left the room.

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It had been what 10 hours of driving to reach a large building in the middle of nowhere. And in those 10 hours took an unpleasant effect on Raphael. He had became testy and fidgety and moody. For mikey this was bad, very bad because he was sitting next to Raphael through most of those hours and mikey was afraid of saying anything, or doing anything to aggravate his older brother especially when master splinter was a taking a small nap in the back of the battle shell. Raph was angrily staring at the ceiling of the van waiting for mikey to say one wrong word. Leonardo on the other hand was fast asleep in an uncomfortable position. Raph looked over his sleeping brother. He gave a half smile and closed his eyes and started to relax. When the battle shell hit a rather large bump knocking everyone off their seats. "Donny!" Growled Raphael angrily. "Sorry" said Donny. "Ouch" mumbled Leo as he winced unhappily and sat on his knees. "Ditto" said mikey sitting up slowly rubbing the back of his head. Raph stood up and offered his hand to Leonardo. Leo smiled and accepted it. "Thanks raph" said Leo blushing lightly. "Your welcome" said raph as he sat down. "Leo why don't you sit next to raph for a while, I need a break" said mikey as he sat across from Raphael. Leo nodded and sat next to raph. Leo yawned and started to go to sleep. Raph looked at his older brother finally starting to relax. 'He looks cute when he's sleeping' he thought with a half smile. He yawned and closed his eyes. Mikey smiled as his brothers cuddled in there sleep. 'Their so meant to be' he thought. He grinned happily to himself. 'How do I seduce Donny?'

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The battle shell came to a slow stop near an old dirty looking building. "Guys were here!" said Donny. He turned and looked to see his brothers and father were fast asleep. He smiled and shook his head. He walked toward Leo and shook his shoulders gently. "Come on leo wake up." said Donny. Leo opened his eyes and sat up slowly yawning. Donny woke mikey and master splinter. Leo tried to wake up raph. Raph growled. Leo shook raph's shoulders. "Come on raph time to get up, were here." Said Leo. Raph opened his eyes and sat up and glared mildly at his older brother. They exited the battle shell and Donny led them through the building. "This place is a bit uncared for but we'll be here shortly so it won't matter much, the building's been abandoned for years now so don't worry about people coming over here, they all think it's haunted so were safe." Said Donatello as he stood in the middle of the large room. " Mikey and I will bring in the cots for us to sleep on," said Donny. Mikey groaned and slapped his forehead and mumbled "why me Donny!" "Because I said so," said Donny crossly as he and mikey left the building together. Master splinter chuckled lightly. Raph rolled his eyes and sat down on the ground tiredly. Leo stretched his legs and arms trying to pull the kincks out of his stiff body. Master splinter smiled and left the building to help his other son's. Leo sat down next to raph and yawned. "You tired too?" asked raph. "Yeah, trying to stay awake most of the trip wasn't my best idea. " Raph smiled and nodded and said, "I have to agree on that, I'm totally amazed Donny stayed awake almost the whole time, but traded off with you and mikey." "The reason he didn't let you drive is that he's afraid of your driving, like the rest of us," said Leo wryly. Raph smiled playfully as he sat on top of Leo's waist. Leo blushed and tried to push raph off of him. Soon they started play wrestling. Raph smiled evilly as he started tickling Leo. Between laughter Leo begged raph to stop tickling him.

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Donny yawned and stretched out his arms, they were num and stiff from the long drive. He rubbed his right arm tenderly. He yawned again and looked at the building his family was staying at, he saw windows with broken glass, and long jagged cracks on the walls. He couldn't find any other building in a hundred miles from the research building with the three mutants. He had dug up different files on the mutants, one of a large male raven the second was a male monkey and the third was a female cat, all of them were in their late teens, and the scientists were planning to mate them. The scientists kept the mutants in cages. Donny frowned and glared at the ceiling. "What did the ceiling do to ya Donny?" asked mikey. Donny blushed and answered "Nothing, just thinking" "well you think to much for your own good" teased mikey with a playful smile. Donny rolled his eyes and smiled. "So how's everybody handling the move?" he asked at he tapped the keyboard on the computer in the battle shell. "Master splinter is meditating, Leo is practicing with his katan, and raph is practicing with his sai's. Donny smiled and turned to face mikey. "Looks like no matter where we go were still on the same routine all the time." Said Donny. "Expt you lock yourself in your lab most of the time." Said mikey Donny sighed and opened his mouth to reply but to have mikey lean forward and capture Donatello's lips. Donny kissed back. After a seconds mikey broke the kiss and said "I'm happy you're here with us, me and not locked in your lab." He hugged Donny. Mikey stood up and left the battle shell. Donny stared at the spot where his brother stood a moment ago. "Dam you mikey"

To be continued in next chapter….

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