Chapter 26

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I gasped as I felt my fingers touch something small and glass on the table behind me, hearing it crashing to the floor.

I tried to let Donnie know, but his lips were on mine again, his hands at my waist as he now picked me up and settled me on the table, hearing more things crashing to the floor.

"Clean it... later" Donnie's husky voice was now in my ear as he moved to plant kisses down my neck, making me shudder a little. His hands were back at my waist, then slid up under my nightshirt and making me mewl a little. All I could do was hold onto the sides of his shell, my head in his shoulder, as his hands slid gently up and down my skin.

It was the middle of the night, and Donnie had managed to convince me to head into his lab, as he said we couldn't be heard as much here. I tended to think differently, but...

Now, he had me in here, door locked and was making my skin come alive with his touch. How I'd let him talk me into this was a mystery all on its own...

Then again, we hadn't been... intimate... since before he got hurt. And I think because of that, this was getting very heated, very fast.

I reached up, trapping his lips with mine, bringing him down towards me, half laying on me as his other hand grabbed my exposed thigh, his fingers sending shivers up the back of my leg as he moved to bring it around his shell, holding onto the underside of my knee as the other arm pulled me towards him. I arched my back, feeling my exposed stomach touch his, hearing him make a strange noise in the back of his throat, his hand moving back down my thigh-

THUMP!

We both jerked, holding onto each other and looking towards the door, where the sound had come from. Then the door handle started to turn a little.

"Dammit, it's locked" Came the half whispered voice from just outside. I recognized the voice instantly as Serahs.

"Well... now what?" Leo's voice now, and Donnie and I both turned to each other, not sure what to do. Donnie looked a little annoyed at another interruption.

"Pick the lock?" Serah suggested, and I heard Donnie let out a low growl.

"Wait... I heard something"

Donnie and I fell silent, neither of us moving. Then a strange gasp, and we both heard the handle shaking a little.

"Serah!" Leo hissed, and I looked back at Donnie, who closed his eyes, sighing a little.

"Why are you two trying to break into my lab in the middle of the night?!" Donnie finally called out, and all the noises outside the door stopped.

"Uh..."

"We uh..."

"Hey, sorry Donnie, we just-"

"If you want some private time I suggest from now on go elsewhere" Donnie snapped a little "This is my lab after all!"

They both fell silent, then we heard muttered apologies before it sounded like they disappeared somewhere else.

"I think I'm going to change that lock into a keypad tomorrow" Donnie muttered, and I smiled up at him, leaning up and kissing the nape of his neck.

"Good idea" I murmured, my hands starting to trail over his now tense shoulders, feeling him relax about a hair.

"I caught Raph and Rachel in here the other day too" He muttered, seeming like he didn't know whether to stop or keep going.

"Hmm... sounds like your lab is a good place to... have private time" My hands trailed over the sensitive skin on his sides, making him jerk back a little. He tried to get away from me, but I made a point of wrapping my legs around his shell, keeping him close as he squirmed a little. I heard a cute little snort, unable to suppress my own little giggle.

"You aint goin no where my special ninja" I smiled up at him, finally ending the tickle torture and watching him take a deep breath in. He moved my legs from around him gently, leaving me on the table as he moved towards the door, looking at it.

"Donnie?" I felt a little rejected as I sat there, pulling down at the hem of my nightshirt and watching him go to another table, surprised when he dragged it in front of the door with a little effort.

"Everyone is going crazy lately" He finally said, standing up and moving back towards me.

"What do you mean?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Just... Raph and Rachel... Leo and Serah... even Amanda and Ithiell seem to be uh-"

My jaw dropped, half slapping his shoulder as his arms now rested back on my waist.

"And hoooow do you know this, my curious little turtle?" I asked, looking up at him and seeing him smile sheepishly at me.

"I uh... accidentally... walked in on them?"

"Where? Here?"

"No" He moved to scratch the back of his head "I uh... went looking for him in the hanger... walked into the fighter..."

Again, my jaw dropped.

"Oh my gawd... what happened?"

He shook his head, closing his eyes a little "What do you think I did? I left and they... I guess they continued..."

I couldn't help but laugh, covering my mouth with my hands a little as I looked up at him, earning me a strange look.

"Well... aren't we all just a whole heap of horny teenagers... what could go wrong?!"

"Uhmm..."

"Rhetorical question bub" I giggled again, earning a smirk from him now.

"Must be something in the air?"

"Must be... now..." I moved to grab his face in my hands, pulling him down a little and planting a gentle kiss on his still smirking lips. I felt his arms slip around me again, holding me close.

"Where were we?"

"Jade, maybe-"

"Oh I know... I think you were doing this" I moved his arms into the positions they were before, looking up at him and seeing indecisiveness in his eyes.

"Should we take it back into the bed-"

"Hell no... you're right, this is your lab. And..." I kissed him again "I think it's been long enough, don't you think?"

His hot breath was now on my cheek as his forehead rested on mine, finally nodding a little.

"Yeah... I think... you're right" I felt him pull me close again, hands slipping under the fabric once more.

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After all was said and done, I realised Donnie was right. Sure, Splinter as well as Rtaia, were here and there from time to time, but... well...

The other turtles and the girls, I now realised, were all very... active, in a sense. I half wondered if we should be worried.

Especially about Serah and Leo. It felt like we couldn't turn around without almost running into them, if it was late enough at night. Even Kristiana and Mikey were hard to avoid sometimes...

And now, finding out about Ithiell and Amanda getting into it... well...it kind of made me worry.

Robert and Mihra had decided to join Marco and Tobias at the valley for now, helping there where they could. There were still a few things to do there, while the rest of us focused on strategic attacks against the remaining Pool Ships. We had to make sure we had a fallback plan for each time, just in case the Yeerks invented something new to mess us over with.

For the most part, our strategies had paid off. We'd managed to take back a fair portion of the world, and now the humans who had survived all this were starting to band together and fight back with us, which was making things a little easier. We now had half the world at our backs, and some even knew and spoke about who we were... from what we saw in news reports.

I guess it helped, knowing some of the pressure was taken off us, and I wondered if that was part of the reason the others were behaving like this.

Sure, Donnie and I got into it too sometimes, but... well...

At least we weren't being intimate in not so intimate places. Well... besides the lab.

Speaking of... I was watching from one of the couches as he did what he said he would do, installing a small keypad and taking away the doorknob, watching as he messed with the wires and such. I enjoyed watching him work. The focus on his face, the way he sometimes stuck out his tongue, or made weird motions with his mouth... the way he hummed...

"Whaaaat's he doing?" Serah asked as she came and sat beside me. I gave her a sidelong glance.

"Making sure no one else can get into his lab from now on... especially no... active... people... in the middle of the night, looking for a private place"

Her eyes widened a little and she looked at me, before blushing a little.

"Oh so you... uh..."

"You guys need to settle down a little, I think. You really have been going at it alot lately... and its starting to bug me"

"Well... sorry" She looked away a little.

"You know we're surrounded by miles and miles of forest. Why cant you go be... intimate... out there"

"The lab is usually- I mean-" She looked at me, almost ashamed, her face bright red.

"Well why can't you?" Rachel was there as well, and I looked at both of them, rolling my eyes.

"I think the words 'Donnie's lab' speaks for itself. It's his... and he deserves to do whatever he wants in it"

"Like you?"

I froze at Amanda's words, biting my lip and feeling my cheeks start to burn. I avoided looking at the girls, instead keeping my focus on Donnie, who I was grateful hadn't heard... or didn't seem to hear... the conversation.

"That's... kiiiinda not what I meant" I got out slowly.

"Suuure its not" Serah grabbed my shoulders, shaking me a little and making me look at her. I looked around-

"Hey, where's Kristiana?"

"Sick" Rachel sat beside me on the floor beside the couch, and Amanda sat on the other side of Serah on the arm of the couch.

"Yeah... been in the bathroom for the past half hour" Serah muttered, leaning back a little.

"Is... she okay? Should we go check on her?"

"Yeah, we both think we ate some bad pizza that Mikey left in the fridge for too long" Serah grumbled "I haven't been throwing up, but the nausea is getting to me a little. Been trying to ignore it, but-"

"It wasn't that old" Mikey made all of us jump, and we looked at him. He looked a little upset as he plonked on the floor in front of us, his sad face almost making me want to give him a big cuddle "It was only three days old, and the ingredients were fresh"

"You girls going to be all right for tomorrow?" I asked Serah as Amanda did what I was thinking of doing, seeing him smile a little at the comfort.

"Could probably just ask Rtaia for something to settle it down" Rachel suggested, and another noise made all of us turn to see Kristiana walk into the room, looking a little pale. Instantly Mikey was up and away from Amanda, going to take care of her.

We shuffled around, so us girls were now sitting or standing around the couch, and Kristiana and Mikey were sitting beside each other, Mikey holding Kristiana as close as he dared.

"I actually feel a bit better after all that" She said, her head on Mikey's chest.

"Oh god" I saw Serah cover her mouth, running off to the bathroom and hearing the door slam.

"I was afraid of that" Leo was suddenly in the room, beside Raph and Splinter, all of them looking to where Serah had run off to.

"Afraid of what?" I raised an eyebrow, and he sighed.

"I was hoping she wouldn't... be sick..."

"Don't worry, she might feel better" Kristiana was hopeful "I mean, I do"

"Babe?" Mikey now looked hopeful.

"Perhaps Rtaia could help with your illness" Splinter suggested, and we all half nodded to him.

"Take her to Rtaia, Michelangelo" He instructed, and Mikey nodded, helping Kristiana off the couch and keeping an arm around her waist as he walked her towards the medical bay.

"Gee, whatever Mikey put in that pizza really affected them, didn't it?" Raph scratched his head a little, looking at the rest of us.

"Well... did anyone else have it?" Rachel asked, looking at all of us. A snort from the lab door caught all our attention.

"Only Mikey had that pizza, he was scarfing it down when I saw him in the kitchen last" Came Donnie's response, even as he worked away. I blushed a little, realising he must have heard-

"That turtle has an iron stomach" Leo shook his head, scrunching his face up a little as he said it.

"Do you remember what was on it Donnie?" Raph asked, seeing Donnie shake his head a little, finally stopping what he was doing to look at the rest of us.

"Possibly marshmallows, but I can't be sure"

"Marshmallows?!" Amanda echoed in disbelief, sighing and shaking her head a little.

"Why in the world would the girls eat a pizza with marshmallows on it?" I just happened to look at Leo then, who shrugged.

"I don't know. As far as I was aware Serah didn't eat any pizza that Mikey made"

A groan from the bathroom made us all look in that direction, and I saw Rachel start to move, grabbing Leo by the arm and dragging him over to the bathroom door.

I took that time to go over to Donnie, who had gone back to his task.

"How's it going my ninja nerd?" I asked as I sat beside him, hearing the others in the background muttering about Mikey's strange taste in pizzas lately, seeing him start to place the keypad onto the door, moving to grab something from his toolbox.

"Just need to fix the keypad on, then program it" He responded as he worked.

"So you uh-"

"I heard every word"

"Oh" I blushed a little, scooching a little closer to him and watching as his tongue slid out of his mouth a little, his eyes trained on the keypad as he worked.

"I told you they've all gone nuts" He muttered so no one else could hear, hearing something click and seeing him pull his hands away from the door. From what I could see, the keypad was now fixed to the door.

"And we haven't?" I asked, seeing him finally look at me, fixing his glasses.

"Well... I'd like to think we're a little more..." He trailed off as his focus now turned to the keypad, using his blue screen and tapping away on that, then moving to tap away on the keypad, moving from the screen to that.

I giggled at him, moving to kiss his cheek as he worked, then taking a quick look over at where the others were. No one was looking this way.

I slowly moved my arms around him, resting my hands on his sensitive sides, feeling him jerk a little and nipping at his neck a little when he did.

"Jade" He muttered, his breaths now coming out short as I nipped again, then moved away, taking in his posture.

He still had his arms up, and the blue screen was there, but his eyes looked a little clouded over, and I saw his body had tensed. His face held a disapproving look as he stared at me. I grinned, unable to help myself.

"Looks like we're no better"

He rolled his eyes, slowly starting to move again. As he did, his body relaxed into the motions that he was used to.

"Now you're just being-"

We both stopped as a loud groan came from the bathroom, turning to see Rachel standing at the now open door, hearing Leo saying something to what I guessed was Serah.

"I hope Rtaia can help them before tomorrow, otherwise we'll be short two" I frowned, knowing those two had now become very important in our fights. Kristiana was slowly building up her strength and the length of time she could use her powers, and Serah, we'd found, could be quick and calculating when she was in action. She knew who to attack first, and what were the best places to hit. Must have been her Chanaiben side coming out...

"I'm sure she will" Was Donnie's response and I half noticed out of the corner of my eye him getting back to what he was doing. My attention was now on the bathroom door, seeing Leo and Serah appear, Leo holding onto a very unsteady looking Serah as he led her to the medical bay as well.

"Poor girls" I frowned "I wonder what possessed them to eat some of that pizza?"

"Told you.. they're... we're... all going crazy"

"Glad you finally admit it" I grinned at him, suddenly feeling a rush of butterflies in my stomach as I thought back to the other night. The thought of marrying Donnie after all this was over...

I let out a strange little sigh without meaning to, seeing him half look at me, his eyes narrowing a little.

"Jade?"

"What?"

"Something is going through that head of yours..."

"Oh.. um... nothing" I blushed again "Just uh... thinking of how... crazy... we all are"

To my surprise, he let out a hearty chuckle, shaking his head a little as he finally moved his arms down, his blue screen flashing and disappearing again.

"And that's why I love you"

I saw him take a glance at the others, before moving to kiss just under my ear, giving me goosebumps, then "Meet you at midnight for some... experiments... in my lab?"

"Oh Donnie" Was all I could think to say as he moved back, putting his tools away. He stood up, grabbing his toolbox, then offering a hand for me to take and helping me up.

He was right about one thing at least. There was definitely something weird happening in the base, but not even we were immune to it's effects.

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