Chapter 15 Confronting Mindy in Prison
After the baby shower Raphael and Mona along with the other turtles and Master Splinter helped the soon to be parents build a nursery. Since the gender of the child was unknown the colors of the bedroom was neutral. Donatello and Leonardo helped put together the crib and the changing table. Splinter helped set up the toys and the diaper dispenser. Within a short period of time the nursery was ready for the baby when it was time for he or she to be born. When Mona was around eight and half pregnant she was relaxing at home looking through a family album and she came across the last picture of herself along with her cousin Mindy before she went to prison. Mindy glared at the picture and Raphael noticed Mona glaring at the picture of herself and Mindy. "Um Mona are you ok?" asked Raphael as he became concern about his wife. "I'm fine Raphael I was just relaxing while looking through these pictures when I came across this picture" answered Mona as she showed the picture to Raphael.
"It's understandable that you don't want to see Mindy's face after what happened but haven't you wondered how Mindy is doing? She's been in jail since before we found out that you're pregnant" Raphael said to Mona. "To be honest Raphael I haven't spoken to Mindy since that horrible incident. I refuse to write or visit her because I haven't been able to forgive her and I don't think I ever will. I could have died that night along with our unborn child. All because of the fact that she couldn't accept my life choices and her crazy ex boyfriend wanted to do whatever it took to make his mutant army for his own purpose" Mona pointed out. Raphael thought about for a moment about what Mona just told him and knew his wife was right. He recalled how scare he was for Mona's life and thought that he would never see his beloved wife ever again. After that Raphael said, "I understand how you feel and believe me I was scared too. However I was shocked when Mindy actually stopped Captain Filch from hurting you anymore and helped out to defeat him."
"There is something I've wanted to do for a real long time that I've been thinking a lot about and that is confronting my cousin" Mona exclaimed. "I need to tell her what she has put me through emotionally and the nightmares I had because of what happened." Raphael was shocked when Mona said what she wanted to do and said, "If you really want to do this so you can finally have closure then I got your back. If you want I'll go with you." "Thanks Raphael I would like that. Plus this little one could pop out any day now and who knows maybe our baby will be born on Christmas since it's the holiday season. If that does happen I'm going to need you to either rush me to the hospital or somewhere safe for me to deliver our bundle of joy" said Mona as she placed her hand on her stomach. Raphael placed his hand on Mona's stomach assuring her it was going to be ok. Two days before Christmas Mona and Raphael bundled themselves up and headed to the prison where Mindy was serving her time thanks to Donatello looking up where Mindy was. "Are you sure you guys don't need us to come along? What if something happens?" Leonardo asked as he was concerned for the well being of his sister in law and the baby. "We'll be fine thank you. Besides I have Raphael so I won't be alone. I wouldn't dare go alone anyway. However if anything happens I promise either Raphael or I will call you right away" Mona said to assure her family.
Donatello, Leonardo and Master Splinter felt a bit better knowing that Mona would keep her promise to call if anything would happen and the fact that Raphael was going with her. Mona and Raphael left the lair today and headed up to the lair. Raphael drove the turtle tank with Mona sitting next to him all the way to the prison where Mindy was serving her time along with her ex boyfriend Captain Filch and a couple of the other bad guys that they helped put away. Mona along with her husband Raphael wore long trench coats and hats to disguise themselves by her side went inside the prison, told the guard at the door who they were visiting and lead the couple into a room where prisoners and their visitors spoke to each other through a phone and there was a glass barrier between them. Mindy was shocked to see Raphael and Mona but was more surprised to see Mona pregnant. "Mona is it really you? I thought I would never see you again and you're here and pregnant?!" Mindy asked quite shocked to see her cousin again and about to become a mother. "Yes Mindy I'm pregnant but I didn't come here to tell you about the baby" said Mona.
Mindy began to wonder why was her cousin and husband here if it wasn't to tell her that she was pregnant. "Mindy we're here because Mona wants to confront you about what happened earlier this year" Raphael said all of a sudden causing Mindy to have a shocked but sad look on her face. "I believed one day this would happen and at first I thought it would never happened after what I did including getting wrapped up my crazy ex boyfriend's plan to hurt you when all I wanted was to have my cousin back" Mindy said to the couple sadly. "I regret what I did to you and I'm deeply sorry. Our parents if they were alive would be beyond disappointed in me for my horrible actions." "I'm not sure if horrible begins to cover what you did. After Raphael and the others rescue me I had dreadful nightmares about Captain Filch coming after me and top of that when I was strapped down and being zapped I thought I was going to die along with my child which Donatello helped me and Raphael keep a very close eye on just to make sure the baby was still alive. I just hope that my baby boy or girl comes into this world ok because I keep thinking will my child be ok?" Mona angrily shouted to Mindy with tears in her eyes. Mindy started crying not just because Mona's words hurt her but knew that her cousin was right. "You're absolutely right Mona. What I did was wrong. My reasons were selfish and cruel. After I came to this prison I started getting help from the prison therapist and she made me see a long time ago my actions were wrong including being involved with a criminal both for my reasons and romantically wasn't the best choice since he used me to get to you. I just wish I could do something to make it up to you" Mindy stated through her tears.
Raphael and Mona weren't sure what to say and before they could say anything else there was a loud explosion that came from one of the cells. Everybody wondered what or who caused the explosion when all of a sudden a familiar foe along with some of the prisoners that Raphael and Mona were familiar with such as Baxter Stockman, Rocksteady and Bebop. The rest were just a couple of prison thugs. The ringleader of the prison riot was none other than Captain Filch who started laughing as he said, "People of this prison I Captain Filch along with my crew will be taking over the prison!" "Riot!" screamed the group of prisoners along with a couple of the other prisoners who wanted to cause trouble in the prison as a way to try to escape. Mona was frozen with fear as she saw Captain Filch. "Mona snap out of it. I'm not going to let that knock off excuse of a pirate get you ever" declared Raphael. "Same here" Mindy exclaimed because she wanted to make amends for her actions. All of the cops were trying to stop the riot as fast as possible. "We have to call the others!" Mona shouted and without hesitation Raphael got a hold of Donatello, Leonardo and Master Splinter. "I couldn't get a hold of Michelangelo and Kala" said Raphael. "That's because he and Kala are visiting Kala's parents in Dimension X so phone calls between Earth and Dimension X are hard to get through" exclaimed Mona. Raphael knew Mona was right and requested for the guards to keep her safe. The other turtles and Splinter arrived quickly in the turtle blimp and sprung into action. "Raphael we're here" Splinter shouted as he got Raphael's attention. The turtles were ready to spring into action to help stop the prison riot and Captain Filch along with the other prisoners who sided along with him while the other prisoners didn't want anything to do with what was going on and cooperated with the cops and went back to their cells. "Guys let's stop this prison riot before it's gets more out of control turtle power!" said Leonardo and with that said the turtles and Splinter were ready to fight!
Author's Note: Hey everyone here is chapter 15. If you're wondering why I mention Christmas in this chapter well originally i intended to finish this story about the holidays. However I was very busy celebrating the holidays with my family. So think of this as a belated Christmas update or something. Also still debating if the baby should be a boy or a girl. What do you think? Wait for surprises and other fun things in my next update. Peace out from Princesspeach102!