(BETA) This Story has not been read through thoroughly so there will be some lingering mistakes, apologies! This will be rectified once read though...when I have time... (BETA)

OTHERWISE ENJOY!

This is my second story posted so be gentle, I've not written in a long time...

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Alice overheard what Leo and Raph were talking about. She scowled for a moment thinking what would happen if someone did find this place, because of her.

At that moment there was a knock at the door. Her head snapped up, the noise absorbing her from her thoughts.

"Yo Alice! You good in there?" Raph bellowed form the other side.

Alice wrapped the towel around her self braced herself against the tiled wall to stand. "Yeah! It's all good you can come in."

Raph pushed the door open, steam pouring out until Alice was visible. He saw her standing by the stool bracing her hand against the wall. He scowled moving towards her.

"Don't you think you're overdoing it? You shouldn't be pushing your muscles just yet, it's only been a day or so…" His voice sounded a lot angrier that he wanted.

Alice scowled up at him. "I haven't moved all night, I just needed to stretch them a little." She bit back.

Raph said nothing more as he lifted her arm around his neck and scooped her up to carry her once again. Alice didn't complain, neither did Raph, it had started to just become natural for them. There was silence between them as Raph took her back to his room setting her down on her feet.

Alice looked to the pile of her clothes. "You know, I'm going to need to get fresh clothes eventually…" She mused.

Raph stood up straight and looked down at her suggestive face. He shook his head and waved his hands.

"Oh no no no, you're not going to the surface. It's too dangerous." He scorned before crossing his arms across his chest.

Alice just grinned. "Fine then you go rummage through my drawers and fine me fresh clothes!" She jested.

Raph steamed for a moment before looking away balling his fists. "Fine. But we're all going." He sighed defeated, then smirked darkly.

"I hope you like heights…" He jested, raising a brow.

Alice just tilted her head quizzically at her. "What?"

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They waited until it had gotten dark before heading out to the surface, speeding across the city rooftops heading for Alice's apartment.

"Oh so that's what you meant!" Alice yelled as she clung to Raphs shell as they sped across the rooftops, leaping over the large gaps between the buildings.

Alice was riding piggyback on Raphs shell her arms around his neck and legs hooked over the bulge of his shell; his hands coming back to hook under her knees keeping her steady.

Raph just laughed enjoying Alice's tortured gasps and yelps when they jumped over large gaps and along edges of the buildings.

"Well at least it got us out of the lair, I surprised Splinter let us go!" Donnie yelled back to his brothers.

"He only gave us a couple of hours, so lets just stay focused and get this done before we get noticed." Leo ordered from the front of the pack.

It wasn't long until they reached the fire escape adjacent to the window of her apartment. Leo lifted the glass of the window carefully.

"April doesn't live to far form here…" Donnie said softly.

"Focus Donnie, we're here to get Alice's things not pay a visit to your girlfriend." Leo scolded before leaping through the window followed by his brothers.

"She's not my girlfriend…" Donnie steamed.

Mikey laughed and patted his shell. "Then why is her ringtone personalized with wedding bells?" Mikey jested.

"It is not!" Donnie yelled.

Raph set Alice down on her feet. She steadied herself for a moment before moving to a backpack in the corner of the large room and busied herself with gathering her things.

The turtles couldn't help but look around the apartment. It looked like a studio flat, her bedroom in one corner next to the kitchen and the living room taking up most of the flat; there was a door that led to the bathroom on the other side. In the main room there were half finished sculptures on a large table and a few easels with dramatic paintings on them. Most of them unfinished but one however was; it was of a night sky, a faint cluster of the milky way in the background with a silhouetted hill in the foreground and a girl standing on top of it, the edges of her and the grass on the hill light up by the natural light of the night sky.

"This is amazing, you did all these?" Leo asked still looking at the painting.

Alice turned around from her drawers to see what they were looking at. "Oh yeah, one of my many hobbies to keep me busy." She turned her attention back to her drawers, pulling stuff out and shoving it into the bag.

"You weren't kidding when you said you like being busy…" Donnie said distantly looking at the sculptures. There was one of a faceless couple dancing together and another of a woman hunched over with her hair draping down to her knees her eyes closed and her face calm.

"Is this meant to be you?" Donnie asked.

Alice shook her head from the other side of the room. "No I never use myself as a subject…" She smiled warmly. She went to a desk and picked up her laptop, with it a sketchpad and some pencils.

Throwing the backpack over her shoulders she looked to the others. "I'm done, lets go."

They all nodded and headed for the window, Raph went over to her and bent down in front of her to get on his back. She complied carefully positioning herself over his shell, Raph hooked his hands under the back of her knees and jerked her up slightly higher on his shell before moving towards his brother at the window. As they were about to leave something slammed into the wooden frame of the window.

Raph snapped his head to the side; he saw a shuriken wedged in the frame of the window on the inside. Raph growled and looked behind them seeing a dark figure stood in the center of the apartment. Raph turned around fully to protect Alice.

"I knew you would eventually come back here, though I didn't think you'd be accompanied." The figure walked forwards into the light to reveal a tall female in black leathers.

Alice looked over Raph shoulder at her. "Eris." Her voice filled with bile as she scowled at her.

"Dear sister, you're in such a pathetic state. Clinging to the shell of a giant frog." She laughed darkly.

Alice scowled. "You're not going to stop me from signing those papers Eris, the band will be shut down. Take it like a good girl and stop having a childish fit!" Alice yelled over Raph shoulder.

Eris scowled and pointed her long sword towards her and Raph. "You have no idea what you're doing! It is our legacy!"

Leo darted out in front of Raph drawing his swords. "Go Raph we'll hold her!" He called back to him, Mikey and Donnie stepping in next to Leo.

Eris smirked. "Oh no, the giant froggy has a sword, whatever will I do?" Her tone sarcastic, tapping his swords with hers.

Leo growled lowly. "We're not frogs we're turtles!" Leo lunged forward crashing his blade with hers.

Raph turned and leapt out of the window with Alice on his shell.

"We can't just leave them with her!" She yelled form behind him.

"My brothers can take care of themselves!" He called back darting across the rooftops.

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Eris called a few of her men from the shadows. Three shadowed mercenaries surrounded her. Leo watched as they moved towards them, making their advance, the first lunged at Leo, he blocked with his blade before rolling out of the way looking up to see him coming back. Mikey threw his nun chuck at his feet tripping him over, he was caught off guard when he was kicked by a second merc in his shell knocking him forward, he rolled over and leapt up. Donnie was occupied with the third, whirling his staff around to distract him until her crouched extending a leg and knocked him over.

Eris made her move to the window whilst the others were distracted darting forward across the rooftops just seeing the back of Alice ahead.

Leo noticed her absence in the room suddenly. "She's gone after Alice and Raph!"

The brothers rolled towards Leo before he threw a smoke bomb to the floor clouding them in purple smog. After seconds they were gone from the mercenaries sight. They headed out of the window to follow Eris.

"This isn't good…" Leo said out loud.

"No kidding!" Donnie called looking back to see the mercenaries following them.

"What do we do now?!" Mikey called.

Leo thought for a moment. "Can you two stall the thugs behind us, I'll go ahead a stop Eris before she reaches Raph and Alice.

Mikey and Donnie nodded before parting from Leo's side heading backwards towards the mercs.

Leo could see Eris up ahead. He threw a couple shuriken at her back. He watched as she dodged to the side, the shuriken flying past her. She turned on the ball of her foot and flung two kunai in his direction. Leo blocked them with the blade of his sword and finally leapt up and came crashing down his sword slicing against hers.

"Why would you protect a pitiful little girl like Alice? You skills would go to better use, making a fortune!" She smirked.

Leo's eyes narrowed. "I would rather protect the innocent then make money from killing people!" He pushed against her blade and launched backwards before lunging at her again avoiding her reach as he ducked under her sword to her back and kicked her forward. She came at him whirling her sword around before letting it come down on his again. Sparks flew as their blades collided continuously.

"Ha! You thin Alice is innocent! She's the reason our parents dies!" Eris spat.

Leo was caught of guard and threw back. Wiping his mouth he stood. "That's not what she told us! She knows it was you Eris!" Leo argued standing himself up.

"Haha! How naïve! I was sparing them of their failure! It was her fault that they had to die!" She lunged at him again.

"You kill your own parents and blame it on your own sister!? Does she mean nothing to you!"

"They were going to hand everything to her, EVERYTHING! But she turned it down, she wanted an education, she wanted a 'real' job! Their mistake was leaving everything to her!" She all but screamed before colliding her sword with his, they danced across the rooftop avoiding each other's movements, blades crashing on the odd occasion.

Leo grunted as he was shoved back with the hilt of her sword. He grabbed his arm and scowled at her.

"Leo!" He heard his brothers call after him, he turned to see them and grabbed a smoke bomb waiting for them to get close enough before throwing it down and disappearing off the rooftop.

Eris scowled before sheathing her blade and heading back into the darkness.

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Raph and made it to the manhole cover, bending down to slide it open he leapt down to the ladder and waited for Alice to close it again. When it was slide shut he slide off the ladder and landed in the shallow sewer water. He started running again, sound splashes echoing in the tunnel.

"Raph calm down, I think we lost them…" Alice said calmly. She tightened her arms around his neck, trying to calm him. He eventually calmed to a steady walk, threw the tunnel panting heavily.

"Let me down Raph I can walk from here, you're exhausted." She waited for him to stop but he didn't he kept going. She scowled trying to wriggle free but his grasp was too strong.

"So that was your, freak sister huh?" He got out between heavy breaths.

Alice said nothing. "Not much of a family reunion was it?" she smiled weakly jesting.

"Heh! You could say that…" Raph laughed.

There was more silence whilst Raph caught his breath.

"You're lucky to have your brothers…" She said slowly.

Raph looked back at her for a moment before smirking. "Yeah well give it time, they'll get on your nerves eventually…"

Alice smiled. They finally reached back to the lair; Splinter was awaiting them in the main room. "What happened? Where are your brothers?"

Raph set Alice down on the sofa before turning to him to explain before he could open his mouth, his brothers walked in through the terminals. Raph noticed Leo was a little beaten up.

"Heh! Looks like I missed out on all the fun!" Raph called to them crossing his arms.

Leo smirked. "You have no idea…" He looked to Alice seeing she was unharmed.

"You guys alright? We weren't sure whether you got this far or not, we thought more mercenaries might have headed you off." Leo walked closer.

"Nah! No trouble, unfortunately…" Raph yelped when Master splinter hit up upside the head from behind.

"Do not wish for conflict Raphael!" Splinter said sternly.

"Ow! Hai Sensei…" He grumbled.

Alice just rolled her eyes and pushed herself off the couch. Leo noticed and looked sadly at her. "Alice, I'm…your sister, she's…"

"Insane…I know." She had her back to the others. "If you manage to bump into her again, just do me a favour." She paused looking at them over her shoulder. "Don't hold back." She started for the stairs to put her things in Raphs room. The turtles watching as she disappeared behind the door.

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I hope you enjoyed more to come!

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