Yea! My projects are over! Now I just bide my time until finals. Oh, great. Anyways, thank ya'll for the reviews. At first I only had one review, and no others for a long time, so I started to think ya'll didn't like it or something. But then I got a few more, so I felt better. So a big, heartfelt thank you to tsukiryoush, Aaron Smiley, and BubblyShell22. This chapter is one of those necessary yet want to move on chapters, but I promise the next one will answer some of your questions about Renee.
I own nothing except a giddy sense of relief that my projects are over and Renee, who is eating all my Easter candy. Hey! Gimme back my chocolate bunny!
Chapter 5: Wakey-wakey
A deep breath in. "Mm-mmm." as it was let out.
Renee could feel sleep start to leave her as she attempted to recapture it. Her attempts were futile, though, and she slowly felt the sleep leaving her. It didn't matter though. Renee snuggled into her covers, and listened. She knew she'd hear Ma cooking, and trying to listen to the morning news. She also knew she'd hear Pa coming in from early morning chores, bringing some eggs or something, and give Ma a kiss. Then he'd sit down and start reading the morning paper, and, in a few minutes, Ma would come upstairs to wake up Renee.
But Renee didn't hear any of that, nor did she smell her Ma's breakfast. Instead, she heard a TV playing some sort of loud show, what sounded like metal banging together, and someone cooking. She knew it wasn't her ma, though. Ma could sing a whole lot better than that. Actually, some of those rejected contestants on "American Idol" could sing better than that.
The smell was different as well. That wasn't her ma's home-cooked breakfast, but still, it smelled good.
Giving into the inevitable, Renee rolled on her back and stretched. Unfortunately, when she did so, she felt her ankle twinge.
"Owwww!"
she opened her eyes when the pain hit and discovered that she had no
clue where she was. However, when her ankle twinged again, she
remembered what had happen the previous night.
"Oh! That's
right! The turtles and the rat!" she softly exclaimed to herself.
Renee heard a soft 'Mew' and looked to her side to see an orangey-red cat with white on its belly, paws and tail staring at her. Renee smiled. "At least I'm not the only cat here."
She propped herself up on her elbows, and the cat crawled onto her lap. "Well, do you know how I got here?" she said as she scratched behind the cat's ears. It purred contentedly while Renee thought back on the night before. The gang members, her being rescued, the car chase, Karai, the release of her powers, waking up while being carried through the sewers, really good tea-That was it, the tea! "They drugged me." She growled. The cat looked up at her and meowed inquisitively. She smiled back down at the cat and sighed. "No, I'm not mad. I understand. I just wish they didn't do it."
Renee sighed again and concentrated. She could feel the last of the drug still in her body. She closed her eyes and brought her healing factor into play. She knew it would mostly go towards her ankle, but enough of it would work on purging her body of the drug. She wished she could control it. If she could, then she could easily heal her ankle, and resist druggings. Well, this would have to do. She felt the drug leaving her body, and immediately felt a little more clear-headed. She opened her eyes and saw the cat looking at her.
"I'm all right. Just getting rid of the drug your masters gave me. The only problem is that a side effect of it is that I have to go to the bathroom. My ankle hurts enough that I can't get up by myself though." She stopped scratching the cat's ears and looked straight into its eyes. "Can you get your masters' attention for me? I need help getting up."
"Mew!" the cat answered her and ran for the door. It stood right outside and started meowing it's head off.
"That works." Renee said.
The turtle family had started the day like any other. They got up, ate, trained, goofed off, and the other usual stuff. As of now, Don was working on some modifications for the lair, Mikey and Master Splinter were in the kitchen cooking, where Mikey was singing loudly and badly (you could see Splinter's ears twitch and him wince once in a while. Even ninja masters could only handle so much without showing it.) Raph had been watching TV, but had left it on and gone to the dojo when Leo wanted someone to spar with, which is where they both were at the moment.
The clang of metal on metal was clearly heard through out the lair as their weapons met. However, as they smelled the cooking food, they started to wind down. After all, they wanted a little time to relax before they went to eat.
As they put their weapons away, Raph glanced towards the room Renee was in. "Geez, Leo. How much a' that stuff did ya give her? She's slept all day."
"She wanted more Raph. Besides, what was I supposed to tell her? No Renee, you can't have any more tea because we drugged it and don't want you to sleep all of tomorrow. Come on." He sighed and looked towards Renee's door. "She should sleep for at least a few more hours." Leo responded.
"Eh, whatever. But I still think ya coulda done somthin'" Raph said. He walked towards the door of the dojo. "I'm gonna go back to the TV."
He left the dojo and flipped onto the couch. He flipped around for a while until finally landing on an action movie. Leo came out of the dojo and looked at what Raph was watching. "Gone in 60 seconds again, huh?"
"Yeah." Raph said.
Leo shrugged. "I'm going to go see if Master Splinter and Mikey need any help."
"Heh." Raph said as one of Mikey's more interesting notes came out of the kitchen "Your funereal."
Leo left, and Raph got back to his movie. He was really enjoying the chase scenes when a noise broke through his awareness. "Geez, Mike's getting' worse." He tried to get back to his movie, but he couldn't ignore it. "Mike! Would you just Shut Your Beak!"
He heard everything stop in the kitchen, but that sound. "MIKE!"
"That is not Michelangelo, my son." Splinter said from the kitchen.
"And don't yell. Renee's still asleep." Leonardo told him.
Raph ignored Leo and sat up and twisted to look at the kitchen. "Then what is it?"
"I think its Klunk." Don said. Apparently Raph's yell broken into the brainy turtle's concentration.
"Oh, great. Now the cat's tryin' to sing. Just what we need. Mikey! Come get your stupid cat! It's interfering with my movie!"
Donny frowned. "And she's right outside Renee's door. She might wake Renee up."
"Awww!" Mikey moaned, "but I was just getting' to the good part of my song!"
"My son, Klunk is your responsibility. You must take care of her. Go. I will tend to the food." Splinter said to Mikey.
"All right, Master Splinter. I guess all of you will just have to do without my singing." Mikey said as he turned to go. A look of relief passed over Splinter's face.
Mikey moved towards Renee's room where Klunk was sitting mewling her head off.
"Klunk, come here kitty." Mikey said. Klunk looked at him and mewed at him. Then she ran into Renee's room. "Klu-unk. Come back." He crept into the room "You'll wake up Renee."
"Thank you for the concern, but Renee's already awake." Renee said.
Mikey winced. "Klunk didn't wake you up did she?"
Renee laughed, "Actually, I asked her to go and get someone's attention." She looked down at Klunk. "And she did a good job, yes she did." She scratched behind Klunk's ears and Klunk meowed. "Hmm, a little lower? Okay."
Mikey blinked at her. "You asked her…how?"
"You see, since I'm a cat and she's a cat…tell ya what, I'll explain it later when I can tell all a' ya'll at once, 'kay? Right now, I really need to visit the bathroom and my ankle's not exactly…"
"Say no more, dudette, I totally understand." Mikey reached down and helped Renee of the bed, and then towards the bathroom. Klunk followed close behind.
"Renee's up!" Mikey yelled as they walked out the bedroom door.
"Did your cat wake up?" Leo asked
Mikey stopped. "Naw, actually she-"
"Mikey!" Renee hissed. "Urgency! I've got to get to the bathroom faster a 'possum gets run over."
"Huh." Both Mikey and Leo said.
"Bathroom NOW!"
"Right!" Mikey quickly got Renee to the bathroom and Leo went to tell the rest of the family that Renee was awake.
When Renee came out Mikey was waiting on her. "Okay now?" he asked. She nodded and Mikey said "Good Dudette! Cause the food be ready!"
Renee smiled really big "Good! Cause I'm starvin'. I could eat a horse."
"Well, no horse on the menu, but I can tell you it's gonna be great. After all, I helped make it." He said as they made their way toward the kitchen.
"You cook?" Renee asked
"Sure do." He responded. "I love to cook, even though I love eating it more, and sometimes I enjoy it so much I just have to sing while I'm doing it."
By this time they had reached the doorway to the kitchen.
Renee's eyes widened and her ears flicked back "So you were the one making that awful noi- I mean wonderful, delicious, mouth-watering aroma."
His bothers snickered as Mikey gave Renee a strange look. "Uhhh, yeah. What were you going-"
"Please, my son," Master Splinter said " sit our guest down and let us eat before the food gets cold."
"I can't wait to eat it. I'm sure you're a wonderful cook, Mikey. After all you're a, … what was it you told me in the car? Something with a nexus and a champion…" Renee just trailed off.
Mikey grinned so big it looked like it hurt "The Battle Nexus Champion, Dudette! See, it all started when Leo made us follow…"
The other turtles groaned, but Renee was relieved. Now she didn't have to tell him how bad his singing was. All through supper (although Renee had to find out which meal it was. After all she had been asleep most of the day. And there was that little bit of confusion because they called supper dinner, and she called lunch dinner. It was one of those southern-northern things.) Mikey told her how he became the Battle Nexus Champion. Although Donatello did lean over and tell her that Mikey was exaggerating all over the place, and Renee could hear various comments from the other brothers, mainly Raph, that were escaping Mikey's hearing. It was a quite interesting meal.
After the meal was finished, and the kitchen was cleaned up, they all moved to the living room where Don could examine Renee's ankle.
"It seems a lot better than I thought it would be." He said, "I guess it just seemed worse because of the swelling."
Renee smiled "Actually, Don, it was because of my healing factor. See, it works a little bit all the time anyways, but when I first woke up and realized that I had been drugged, a used my healing ability to purge the drug from my system. Only I can't really control it that well, so most of it went to my ankle and focused there. Enough of the ability remained behind to cleanse my body of the drug though. Anyway, it should be about a week before my ankle's completely back to normal." She shrugged "Give or take."
"Interesting." Donny said. "That's how shorter than I had estimated it would take. I suppose the little bit of healing that takes place each day shortens the amount of time it takes to heal. Still, it is fascinating."
"Miss Finrir," Master Splinter said. "I believe that it is time that we learn about you." His tone left no room for argument, and Renee knew that he was right.
She sighed. "I suppose it's only fair." She leaned herself back into the couch. "Settle yourselves in for the long haul, boys, I've got a lot to explain.
It seems like a good place to stop. Like I said, a necessary but wanna move on chapter. The next one should focus on Renee and her past, and soon I'll work in a little more action and maybe another of my characters. But I won't say if it's a good character or a bad character. (grins evilly) It's author's prerogative. Hey! I'm practically finished with my profile, except for the bunny. I'll get to it later. So drop by and read it. I warn you though, I like to talk, so there is a lot of info there. I do give instructions for a short read, however. Well, Please, Please Please review or I will be forced to beg. You don't wanna see that. I'm pretty good at it.
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