TMNT: The Unexpected Friendship Fanfiction Story
TMNT: The Unexpected Friendship
Chapter 5
(Okay, so I've officially decided to give up on the whole flashback thing, I don't have that kind of effort :P, anyway sorry this is so long, but at least you don't have to wait any longer for an update I hope you like it :D)
Last time we saw our favorite turtles they were running down the sewers with the exhausted and still very wounded Bianca tagging along. Finally when they reached a clearing, Donatello who was in front of the group bent down and put his hand on one of the pipes on the wall. He then twisted it around to reveal a secret door that led to their lair; or as they like to call it, their home.
When they entered their home, the lights were out, and they walked in with caution, hoping not to wake up their master. After about taking ten feet inside their home, the lights immediately flickered on and the boys were blinded by the brightness.
"Ahem," came a voice that sounded very old and wise. The brothers gasped as they saw their father approach them. Their father unlike the turtles was a rat, and like the turtles, he wasn't an ordinary one for that matter. He was standing on his hind legs, using a walking stick for support, and was standing around 4'5. He was wearing a dark brown tunic. And his small eyes looked like they've seen much in his life. But at that moment, his eyes were staring at his adopted sons very suspiciously. Realizing that the unconscious Bianca was clearly visible on Leo's back, Mikey ran to the couch and grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around Leo so that you couldn't see Bianca anymore. Master Splinter raised his eyebrow to this action, luckily not catching Bianca slinging onto Leo's back.
"Where were you my sons? You know very well how dangerous it is for you to be up on the surface." Master Splinter said to his sons.
"But Master Splinter," Raph started. "We had to go topside, cuz The Shredder was up to good for nuthin' tricks; so we did what we do best."
"Leonardo, may I ask why you have that blanket wrapped around yourself?" Master Splinter asked even more suspiciously than the last question.
"Uh, well, you see…" Leonardo stuttered as he tried to think of a reason without revealing the presence of Bianca on his back.
"I was worried that Leo here was going to catch a cold because it was so cold up on the surface and not to mention the rain." Mikey said trying his best not to look guilty. Leo to his response just smiled and nodded along with Mikey who was doing the same to reassure their father.
"My sons, is there something you're forgetting to tell me? Like, why our home now is filled with the strong smell of blood." Master Splinter asked his sons.
"Oh, that?" Donatello asked. "That's, uh, just a cut that Leo got on his arm. Nothing to worry about, I will fix it up right up for him."
"Well if you got hurt, I must see it." Master Splinter said taking a step forward closer to his sons.
"NO!" All four turtles yelled putting their arms up in front of them stopping Master Splinter from coming any closer.
"We mean, there's no need to worry, it's just a little scrape on my arm, no need to look at it. We're just going to head into Don's lab so he can fix it up." Leo said to his father while pushing along the rest of his brothers towards Don's workshop/laboratory. Before Master Splinter could ask any more questions, Mikey, who was the last one to enter the lab shut the door behind him that echoed throughout the lair.
"Hmm, maybe some things are better left unknown." Master Splinter said to himself while walking back to his room.
Meanwhile, while Mikey was helping Don get the area set up for Bianca to lie down and finally get operated properly, Raph was helping Leo get Bianca off of his back. Mikey and Don set up an old hospital bed that they got for whenever someone was injured and needed to lie down. Once the bed was put together, Raph and Leo laid Bianca carefully on the bed on her left side so that Don could get a good look at her wound. All the turtles besides Donny who was unraveling the bandages that he put around Bianca's stomach stepped back to give him some space to operate. Even from where they stood, they quickly felt the smell of dried and fresh blood overcome the air as the more bandages were taken off of Bianca's side. Soon the smell was becoming hard to bear. Mikey even had to leave for a while so he wouldn't start puking from the horrid smell. Since the turtles knew that the procedure was going to take a while, they pulled up some chairs and waited while their brother tried his very best to help the poor girl.
Raph and Mikey being who they are dosed off while waiting since it was getting pretty late; but Leo, who was really worried about Bianca still sat there and waited, asking Don every so often how everything was checking out. Since Leo wasn't doing much and he was still very worried about Bianca, he decided to help get his mind distracted for a bit to bring his brothers back to their rooms so they could get a well-deserved sleep.
After waiting countless of hours, both Don and Leo not getting a wink of sleep was finally done and everything looked fine. Overall, Bianca had received 197 stitches on her side. And Don even re-bandaged the cut that was on Bianca's right arm that she got when fighting the ninja with the knife in the alleyway that he noticed after carefully moving Bianca from her side to her back which surprisingly didn't require stitches.
"Hey Leo, the procedure's done." Don said turning around and then carefully taking off the now blood stained gloves that he was wearing. Leo perked up a bit at the news and quickly got out of his seat and walked over to Don.
"Well, is she going to be okay now?" Leo asked concerned. Don took off his goggles so he could get a better look at Bianca and then wiping some sweat from the place where his eyebrows were meant to be.
"She's going to be fine. I gave her some painkillers so she wouldn't be in too much agony when she woke up. The two gashes that were on her side are now all sewn up and everything seems to be okay. But she did lose a lot of blood, so it might take her a while to heal. But other than that, she'll be back to normal in no time."
"That's good to here. Hey, you should get to sleep; you must be exhausted from working so hard." Leo said putting a comforting hand on his brother's shoulder.
"Yea, I guess I should. But first I'm going to take a shower and see if I can get rid of the smell of blood off of me." He said sort of chuckling. He put a hand on his brother's shoulder and then walked out of the room. Once Don was gone, Leo took the chair he was sitting in before he walked over and brought it up next to Bianca's bed. He sat down and looked at the sleeping Bianca. He never really got a good look at her before. She had clean, pale skin, long eyelashes, and her lips were a light pink and she had a little stuck up nose. He gently moved some hair out of her face. He then got an idea. He wanted to see if maybe, he could talk to her again. He didn't know exactly what to do because he didn't know what he did last time. And last time she called out to him. He didn't even know if he could even call out to her. But he was willing to give it a shot. He sat back in his seat, closed his eyes and thought to himself
Bianca, Bianca, it's me, Leonardo. Are you there? But nothing happened. He opened his eyes and sighed. He then thought maybe since she was on his back when she called out to him that maybe they had to be in physical contact to talk to each other through their minds. He then slowly went over to touch her hand. He touched it lightly; a bit afraid of what was going to happen. He took a deep breath in, and he placed his hand right on top of hers. He again called out
Bianca, Bianca, answer me if you can. It's Leonardo. Can you hear me? At first nothing happened; but after a slight pause, he felt a shock that again spread out through his whole body starting from the tips of his fingers. His vision once again went black. At first, he was just standing there, in the middle of nowhere, until a bright flash of light came from in front of him. It was so bright that he had to cover his eyes from going completely blind. When the light dimmed down and Leo opened his eyes, he saw Bianca standing in front of him, just like before, except she was closer to him now.
"Hello, Leonardo." Bianca said sort of shyly. She gave him a small smile and in return, so did Leo.
"Hi Bianca; and you can call me Leo, if you want." Leo said in return sort of sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
"Okay, Leo, I'm surprised that you were able to telepathically contact me."
"To tell you the truth, so was I. But I really wanted to check up on you and see how you were doing."
"Well I'm doing much better than I was before. Thanks to your brother, who seems very sweet, all the pain has thankfully subsided. And I'm really grateful that you ran into me, or else, well, you know."
"It's sort of what we do. Mikey calls us the 'heroes of the night'. I'm just shocked you weren't, or aren't, frightened by our appearance."
"Oh, well, after being followed by and then attacked by fully fledged ninjas, and getting cut up by an evil tin man, I think I now can expect the unexpected." She said sort of laughing. "And who was that guy anyway, you called him the what?" Bianca asked more serious this time.
"You mean the Shredder?" Leo asked.
"Yea! That's him, what's his deal, and what does he want with me?"
"We're just as clueless as you are. But what I can tell you is that he is a ruthless man who only seeks to destroy who, or whatever is in his way and has no honor."
"And that creep expected me to join him, yea right!" Bianca said.
"Well that's good, but you know that also means that you're now on his bad side."
"Meaning?" Bianca asked not quite getting the idea.
"Meaning that he's going to hunt you down until you do join him, or worse." Leo said, not wanting to finish his thought.
"Oh great, I thought my only trouble this year was going to be keeping up with all the homework I get."
"Don't worry, I'll-I mean, we'll make sure that the Shredder doesn't lay a hand on you, or even get close to you for that matter." Leo said putting his hands on top of Bianca's shoulders to help comfort her.
"Really? Y-you really mean that?" Bianca asked.
"I promise."
"Oh, thank you so much Leo! You're the best." She said pulling him into a hug. She then realizing what she'd just done quickly let go of him, taking a step back and blushing. "Uh, sorry 'bout that." She said sheepishly. A bit of pink was even starting to show up on Leo's green skin.
"I-it's okay." They both laughed kind of awkwardly after that. They then were silent and all they did was trying not to make eye contact, but as soon as they did, they stared at each other for a moment.
"Are you staring at my 'really pretty eyes' again?" Leo said in a teasing matter. Bianca realizing that he was mimicking her blushed a bit and playfully hit him in the arm.
"Oh, shut up." She said laughing a bit. Leo was laughing too. Then something weird happened, everything was starting to go all fuzzy.
"What's happening?" Leo said.
"Oh no, someone must be trying to wake you up." Bianca said.
"Oh great, my brothers couldn't give me a minute to myself, could they?" Leo said annoyed. Bianca giggled at the remark that made Leo cheer up a bit.
"You should go before one of your brothers think you're dead or something." Bianca said sort of upset that he had to go.
"I'll be back soon. At least, if you don't mind?" Leo shyly asked.
"You can talk to me anytime, and hopefully the next time we talk it'll be in person and not in our heads." She said hoping that would be true.
"That might not happen because I think Donny gave you too much medication, so you might be sleeping for a while." Leo joked and Bianca laughed. His vision was starting to get even fuzzier than before. "That's my cue." Leo said.
"Okay." Bianca moped.
"I'll be back as soon as I can."
"Okay, but before you go," Bianca said before Leo was about to wake up. "Thanks again, for everything." She smiled. Leo smiled back at her and that's when his vision at this point was completely gone. His eyes were slowly opening, returning back to the lab. He lifted his head that was on the bed and looked up to see who was shaking him. It was his brother Michelangelo and he was yelling
"C'mon, get you and your lazy shell up out of that seat and lets go!"
"Where are we going?" Leo asked still a bit drowsy.
"Master Splinter said he wanted to speak to all of us; now." Mikey said sort of afraid of what their father wanted to talk about with them.
"(Sigh), okay, okay I'm getting up. Hey, what time is it?" Leo asked curious to see how long he was out for.
"It's nine o'clock in the morning. Now c'mon, we can't keep Splinter waiting." Mikey said picking Leo out of his seat and dragging him out of the lab. Leo was confused about how he slept for so long. He was only talking to Bianca for a couple of minutes. Before he could think about it anymore, he was on the couch sitting next to Donny and Raph was sitting on the rail of the sofa while Mikey took the lounge chair next to the couch while their father and sensei stood in front of them.
"My sons, we have to discuss some very important matters, for instance, why you have revealed yourself to yet another human." Master Splinter said sounding disappointed in his sons because he has warned them countless of times about being careful and sticking to the shadows when up on the surface.
"But, Master Splinter, you have to understand. She was badly injured and-" Leo started trying to not upset his master.
"No, you four were being reckless, and reckless behavior doesn't go without being punished. Early morning training for a month, for everyone; starting tomorrow." Master Splinter said making it very clear. All four of the turtles sighed in unison. "But, for now, where is the girl?"
"She's in my lab, Master Splinter.? Donny said and the five of them headed straight to the lab without another word. Once they entered the lab, the four turtles made a pathway so that Master Splinter could see Bianca on the bed, motionless. Master Splinter then went up to the girl and looked over her wounds and her in general.
"She has a very strong spirit." Master Splinter said somewhat to himself and somewhat to his sons who were now also gathered around the bed.
"You know, Master Splinter, if you wanted to, you could talk to her." Leo said.
"How is this possible when she is unconscious?" Mikey asked.
"Well, she has these weird abilities?" Leo said trying to describe Bianca's telepathic powers as best as he could.
"What abilities my son?" Master Splinter asked.
"Well, she is, telepathic, all you have to do is touch her hand and then call out to her and then, somehow, she answers you in your head." Leo said explaining it as best as he could.
"So that's why you were holding her hand when I came to wake you up before. I thought you were being one of those love sick people like you see on soap operas." Mikey said.
"Yea, wait what?" Leo asked.
"Never mind that." Master Splinter said before Leo could start interrogating Mikey about what he meant. "Are you sure it'll work?" He asked, referring to Bianca being telepathic.
"I'm positive Master Splinter, here," Leo said pulling up a chair up to Master Splinter so he could sit down. "You might want to sit down for this." Leo said. Master Splinter took the seat and looked at Bianca before placing his furry paw on Bianca's hand.
"Now, all you have to do now is concentrate, close your eyes, and reach out to her." Leo said. Master Splinter closed his eyes as Leo said to and concentrated. Not long after, his vision was starting to change from darkness to a gray area with a smoky background. After some of the smoke cleared, the girl appeared in front of Master Splinter with her back turned to him.
"Oh, good, you're back, I was wondering-" She was now facing Master Splinter "—Wait… you're not Leo." Now facing Master Splinter's direction. She was a bit shocked by his appearance but tried not to show it.
"Do not be alarmed, I am here to simply speak with you for a moment. I am Master Splinter."
"And you're their…" Bianca said trying to figure out his relationship to the turtles.
"I am their sensei; as well as their father."
"Oh, okay, that makes, sense." Bianca said, still sounding quite confused.
"And what is your name?"
"Oh, my name is Bianca, Bianca Henderson."
"It is a pleasure to meet you Ms. Henderson." Master Splinter said politely and bowed to her in respect.
"It's and honor to meet you too." Bianca said bowing her head in return.
"And are you feeling alright?"
"Well, I'm feeling much better, thanks to your sons. They've been so kind."
"Then perhaps you are ready to talk." Master Splinter said. Bianca simply nodded her head and Master Splinter then continued. "Miss Bianca, we have something most important to discuss."
"Uh, Okay. What is it?"
"We have never revealed ourselves to the upper world. You have placed us in great danger. I'm afraid we find ourselves in your mercy."
"Is that what you're worried about? Well you don't have to worry another second about it because I wouldn't dare tell anybody. Besides, who would actually believe me?" Bianca said reassuring the rat. Master Splinter walked up to Bianca and looked into her eyes and Bianca stared back at him.
"I believe you." Master Splinter said after a slight pause.
"Wow, you can tell I won't tell anybody just by a simple stare."
"No, it's called trusting your gut."
"Well, now that's settled," Bianca started to say, "can I ask you something?"
"What is it Ms. Henderson?"
"Well, since I know your secret, what exactly is it? Like, how did you come to be?"
"I have memories, memories of when I used to be what you might call, normal. I remember, a day that started out like any other, but ended changing the course of many lives. I witnessed an accident. A young boy carried a glass jar with four pet infant turtles. An old blind man was crossing the street, when he was almost run down by a large truck. As the truck swerved, a metal canister bounced out of the back. It smashed open, releasing a glowing ooze, which covered their bodies. I took pity, gathering them in a coffee can. I took them to my burrow.
"The next morning, I awoke to find that the four have doubled in size; the ooze had affected their growth. It changed me also, making me larger and more intelligent. They followed me everywhere, except above ground. I knew the people of the surface would not understand. We are so, different. I was amazed by their dexterity, but even so, I was not prepared for what had happened one day. They actually spoke, my name.
"Soon they all were speaking. Intelligence followed soon after. Realizing that the world above is sometimes a dangerous place, I started to teach them Ninjutsu, the secret arts of stealth and power and all that I've known of this world. From a battered book on famous renaissance artists I fished out of the storm drain, I chose names for each of them; Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo; together they are…"
"Turtles forever!" The boys cheered as they all of a sudden appeared into their conversation that startled Bianca and caused her to jump while Master Splinter stayed completely calm.
"And so we have remained in secret; and that is our story."
"Wow, that's unbelievable."
"Yup, we're unbelievable." Mikey said posing for Bianca which caused her to laugh and got Mikey a well deserved smack upside the head from no one other than Raph. Mikey groaned in pain while rubbing his head.
"Ignore Mikey, you're life will be a lot easier; trust me on this one." Raph whispered to Bianca. Bianca laughed at first thinking that he was joking but then he saw his expression and it was dead serious. Bianca then nodded and took mental note of that. "I'm Raphael by the way, but Raph for short."
"And I'm Mikey!" Mikey said excitedly running up to Bianca and shoved Raph out of the way so that he was standing next to her. "And we would have talked to you sooner, except a certain blue bandana wearing turtle forgot to mention that we could. *Cough*, Leo, *Cough*" Mikey added on coughing towards Leo. Leo pushed him away from him. Bianca just laughed.
Raph then got up since the shove caused him to fall and then tackled his orange bandana-wearing brother. While they were tussling the purple clad turtle decided it was his turn to introduce himself.
"I am Donatello, buy most people call me-"
"Donny, I remember you from last night, you were putting bandages on my side, right?"
"Yup, that was me." He said bashfully rubbing the back of his neck.
"My sons, I think it's time for us to get back. It's time for your training. And since we missed the early morning training today, we're adding an extra hour and a ½ to today's lesson." Mikey and Raph got up from one another and went over to their master. "Ms. Henderson, if you would do the honors." Master Splinter said.
"Alright, see you guys later, have fun." She said winking and with a wave of her hand, everyone's vision was returning back to normal and they were back in Donny's lab.
"Now, let us begin today's lesson." Master Splinter said getting up from his seat while walking out of the room.
"Wow, that was, totally awesome dudes!" Mikey exclaimed.
"Oh, shut up you chuckle head and let's go." Raph said to Mikey while shoving him out the door. Don was following suit when he realized that his eldest brother had not followed them out yet. He turned around to see him still looking down at the sleeping Bianca with caring and worried eyes.
"Come on Leo," Donny said putting a gentle hand onto Leo's shoulder which caused Leo to look at Donny. "I promise, she is going to be just fine. We'll check up on her as soon as our lesson is over. Okay?" Donny said putting on a smile to reassure his brother not to be worried. Leo half smiled at his brother. He took one last look at Bianca before turning around and walking out of the lad with Donny. He sighed to himself and closed the door quietly.
While the boys were still being punished with vigorous hours of training, several hours went by and on the other side of the lair where the lab was, the sleeping Bianca was starting to shuffle in her bed. She was furiously turning in her bed. She was having a nightmare.
"No," Bianca was mumbling in her sleep. "Get away, help! Somebody, help, please. NO!" Bianca said yelling and sitting up in her bed panting and sweating now awakened from her dream. She had a dream about her encounter with the Shredder.
"Man, what a dream." Bianca said to herself. Before she could focus on anything else, she started to feel a sharp pain that started from her side and spread throughout her whole body like a tidal wave that caused her to lie down again. She starts to moan quietly in pain and holding her side. After the pain subsided after a couple of moments, she looked at her hands and lifted up her shirt a bit to reveal two black, stitched up, parallel lines running along her side. She gently touched the rims of the stitches trying to not cause her anymore pain.
I wish it was a dream, Bianca thought to herself; but then the memory of the turtles came to her head and their kind father. Well, some of it anyway. Bianca looked up from her stitches and took in her surroundings. She was in a small lab on a small yet comfy fold up bed. Even though the room wasn't completely lit, she could see a bunch of tools, mini gadgets, and many unfinished projects scattered around the room. She tried to sit up again this time holding her side to see if would prevent some pain. After successfully sitting up in the bed, she wanted to look around, found out exactly where she was. She carefully swung her legs over the side the bed without too much pain to her side and tried to get up. When she first tried, she almost fell over but sat back down on the bed.
She held onto the table that was next to the bed for balance and got up. Receiving some pain for getting up too quickly she put her hand on her side. She caught her breath since just moving was sort of taking a lot of out her she slowly made her way to the door. When she was half way there, she realized that there were some clothes laid out on the table. There was a white V-neck with a pair of black sweat pants neatly laid out. On top of them was a note. She took the note off the table and read it.
Dear Bianca,
Just in case at this time you're up; we laid out some clothes for you if you wanted to get out of you clothes you have on now, since, you know, they're kind of stained with blood. Sorry if they're a bit big. :)
From,
Leo
P.S. It would be best if you stayed in bed, so you can get better.
Bianca couldn't help but laugh at Leo's kindness.
He's such a gentleman. She thought to herself. So she decided to put on the clothes since she didn't like smelling like blood and slipped on the sweat pants without too much pain and carefully pulled on the top over her head. They were a bit big, but they were comfy.
Completely ignoring the P.S. part of the letter, she makes her way out of the lab carefully and making sure not to make any noise whatsoever. When she wanders out of the lab, she is now exposed to a bright and open room. It took her eyes a moment to adjust to all the lights but when they finally did, she was absolutely amazed. The whole place was one big dome with two layers. From what she could see, she saw a lounging area with a beat up, blue couch that was in front of about fourteen televisions all stacked up. To the left of the lounging area, she could see a doorway that led into a small kitchen. To the right of the lounging area, there was a doorway that was closed off with old-fashioned, Japanese sliding doors. To the far right of the dome shaped home, there was a weird looking door that looked so ancient, but for some when she looked at the markings on the front of the door, they gave her a weird headache. Taking her mind off that side of the home, she saw to the far left side of the area, there was yet another doorway that led to another part of the mysterious home.
She started to hear some shuffling of feet heading towards her way. She panicked and as quickly ash she could without causing herself too much pain, she headed towards a pole that was holding up the second floor of the home and hid behind it. She could feel the presence of two people coming their way. They were very loud and they sounded like they were arguing. The two male voices were very different from one another; one of the voices had a surfer dude's accent while the other voice had a Brooklyn accent. Bianca knew that she recognized the voices but she doesn't remember where. She couldn't quite make out what they were saying since they were talking in slightly hushed tones. But one of the last things they said is what she actually could make out.
"Come on Shell-Fo'-Brains," the Brooklyn accented teenager said to the other teenager. "If we don't hurry up, Master Splinter will have our shells if we're late, again."
"Yea, I don't think my head could take another hit from that walking stick of his." Said the surfer dude voice. They then quickened there pace and out of the open area and into the doorway that led to the other part of the home. When the coast was finally clear, Bianca peeked her head out of her hiding spot.
Okay, that was a bit too close, I'll have to be more careful. I wonder where they were headed? Bianca thought to herself. She now came completely out of her hiding spot she quietly walked over to the doorway, still sticking to the shadows a bit just in case anyone else came passing through. She entered in a dark room, there was an eerie glow to the room but from what she could make out, it had a lower ceiling than the last room, and it seemed to be some sort of dojo. She then saw from where the small light was coming from giving the room the weird glow, it was from a small candle in the middle of the room. She could see a dark hand holding it, and then when her eyes were adjusting better to the room, she saw the hand was gray and it had a lot of fur on it.
Fur? How could someone have so much hair on his or her hands? Wait a sec… She though but then looked more closely to the mysterious hand. It seemed like the hand had claws as well. The hand then led to an arm that was covered in a brown and black tunic. From there she saw the person's face; or should she say, rat's face. It was Master Splinter. She then remembered meeting him through her telepathic powers. He was sitting on his legs and she could see his serious and wise eyes through all the fur covering his face.
"Remember, to be a true ninja, you must become one with the shadows. Darkness gives the ninja power, while light reveals the ninja's presence. Now, can you extinguish this flame without revealing yourselves?" Splinter closed his eyes and held out the flickering candle on his walking stick. He moved the candle out of the way as one of his sons sailed over him and crashed into the wall.
"Too noisy, Donatello," the rat commented to the purple clad turtle who wielded the Bo staff. Another turtle except wearing an orange mask and wielded the nunchakus went for the candle, but Splinter dodged him which caused him to go flying into Donatello. The brothers moaned from the impact.
"Too clumsy, Michelangelo." A red-masked turtle tiptoed up behind the Ninjutsu master. Splinter ducked and the figure flew over him. However, he quickly regained his balance. With a spin of his Sais, the figure ran at full speed towards Splinter. Master splinter took the candle off the walking stick as he knelt down and held his walking stick out to the side. A startled cry and a crash later, the three turtles were piled up against the wall.
"Poor choice, Raphael," Splinter told his son. Bianca was so distracted by the intense training she didn't realize that one of the turtles was missing. From the shadows lurked the last and eldest. The blue clad turtle was lurking in the shadows right behind where Bianca was hiding.
"Ahem," he said from behind her now revealing his whereabouts. Bianca jumped and landed face planted on the ground while she was trying to run out of her hiding spot. Master Splinter ran to flip the light switch on. When the lights were on, there was poor Bianca lying on the stone floor. Bianca could feel her face heating up with embarrassment and pain. She rubbed her face and sat up moaning in pain and frustration.
"Ugh, what was that for? You scared me half to death," she complained to the blue masked turtle that just stood there with his arms crossed with a slight frown on his face.
"I thought I, we, told you to stay in bed, you still need your rest." he said annoyed but with a hint of concern in his voice.
"Thanks for the concern but I feel fine now. And, I wanted to see the place and what you were doing. Excuse me for being a bit curious."
"Well now that you've seen everything its time for you to go back." he said as he started to push her out the door. She slipped right past him and turned around to face him with her hands on her hips.
"Yeah, sounds great, but I don't want to go back. I'm perfectly fine. Watch." she stepped back, did a back bend and from there went into a back walkover and finished off with a split. The boys stood there flabbergasted with their mouths hanging open while Master Splinter looked rather impressed. "See, no pain at all." she then pulled the end of her shirt a bit so that the stitches on the left side of her stomach were visible. "And look at that, no blood." Leo finally started to snap himself back into reality. He tried to stay angry but for some reason with her it was hard. "Can someone help me up? I can never get up by myself." she said sort of embarrassed. Don and Raph came from behind her and each took one of Bianca's arms and pulled her up nice and slow. "Ah, that's better, thank you." she said turning to both Raph and Donny and did a little bow. When she was turned around, Leo came up behind her.
"Ok, time's up." he said while he picked her up and hung her over his shoulder.
"Hey!" Bianca whined while she kicking and hitting Leo's shell. "Put-me-down!" still struggling to break free. Before Leo could leave the room with Bianca, Master Splinter stepped in.
"My son," Master Splinter was about to argue with his son actions until there was a large gurgling noise it was loud and it rang throughout the whole lair. Leo put down Bianca who was rubbing her neck and turning a slight shade of pink. Leo cocked an eye ridge at Bianca until the strange noise again. Bianca turning more pink and held her stomach.
"Was that your stomach?" Leo questioned Bianca causing all eyes to land on her. Before Bianca could deny it, her stomach moaned in hunger again. She held her stomach and shushed it.
"Uh, I guess being asleep for so long can really work an appetite." she said before she started to nervously laugh.
"Do not fear, Ma Cherie," Mikey said holding out his arm to her so they could link arms. "Chef Mikey is here!" Bianca took his arm with a giggle and was immediately being pulled out of the dojo almost like she was flying. Everyone else sweat-dropped and casually left the dojo following the trail of toppled things that led to the kitchen where a wondrous smell was starting to fill the air. As soon as they entered the kitchen they saw food everywhere, some on the cabinets and some on the floor and some surprisingly ended up on plates that were all placed in front of Bianca who was seated in a chair at the island in the middle of the kitchen. Mikey was zipping around the kitchen preparing everything. Once he heard a sharp loud ding, he rushed over to the toaster to take out a toasted bagel. Forgetting that it was hot he started to toss it in the air like it was a hot potato. He quickly got a plate and blew on his hand to stop the pain. He got butter and cream cheese and put it on the halves of the bagel (cream cheese on one and butter on the other). He then placed the plate next to the other food that was laid out in front of Bianca. He stood next to her and said
"Ta Da!"
"Wow, this looks amazing." Bianca said in amazement. "Oh, god," she said putting her hand to her mouth. "I think I'm drooling." everyone including her was laughing. "Thank you so much Mikey. You're too sweet." Bianca said hugging the orange clad turtle that was a bit shocked by the hug and even blushed a bit. She let go and saw his face and giggled. She then turned back to her food.
"Goodness, where to start..." Bianca thought aloud. There was a plate of scrambled eggs with ketchup on the side, a bowl of cereal, a plate with sizzling bacon and tater tots, the plate with the 2 halves of a bagel, a glass of orange juice, and to finish it off, a big plate of strawberry pancakes with whipped cream and syrup. Since she loved strawberry pancakes, she started with those; she took a small bite and immediately fell in love.
"Mikey, these are the best strawberry pancakes ever!" Bianca squealed.
"I'm glad you like them." Mikey said in return.
"And when you're done I would like to run a couple of tests on you, just to make sure you're alright." Bianca looked up.
"Thanks Donny, but I'm pretty sure ill be fine. I mean I've gotten plenty of stitches before and probably from far worse situations." Bianca said casually.
"More worse than being attacked by highly advanced and skilled foot ninjas and the Shredder himself?" Leo said with some disbelief.
"Oh yea, I've gotten so many stitches over my life. This is definitely up on the list, but it's not too major."
"Not too maja'? Ya got a huge gash on ya arm and even bigger slashes on ya side. How's dat not too maja'?"
"Well I'll show you." she said. She put her left foot on the stool next to her and lifted up the bottom of the sweatpants to reveal a somewhat noticeable streak down her leg.
"This is from when I was scaling a mountain with my family on one of our hiking trips. A huge and very sharp rock shattered my shin and it was in there for 5 1/2 hrs, it was pretty deep. That was 86 stitches."
"Pfft, that's nuthin'..." Raph spat.
"Now who said I was done." Bianca smirked. She stood up and moved her hair to one side of her neck to reveal small but noticeable scratches on her neck.
"Glass vase fell from a high shelf and knocked me out. 41 stitches." she still had her back to them but started to lift up the back of her shirt a bit, just far enough to see three curved lines going down the middle of her back. "Attacked by a wolf in my backyard who was trying to hurt my dog. 109 stitches." she let down her shirt and pushed her hair back and turned on he heel so that she faced the turtles and rat again. She lifted up the right bottom part if her sweats all the way up to her thigh. There was a visible straight line that went half way around it.
"Cut by some purple dragon thugs in the city. 77 stitches."
"You were attacked by purple dragons?" they all exclaimed.
"Yea, a couple of times, but this is the only major victory they got. But every time after that, I gave them a little 1, 2 and since the 3rd time I beat them up, they stopped bothering me. Now anyway," she said rolling down her pant leg.
"This I got from babysitting a eight year old boy." she said pointing to a small line on her pointer finger. " I told him it was time for bed but he wanted to keep watching TV, so I tried taking the remote from him, but while we were playing tug of war with it, he bit me really hard; so hard that his barely loose tooth came out and that bite broke my finger and the tooth was in my finger. 13 stitches I know that's not a lot to complain about, but how about you get a tooth extracted from your finger. Let me tell you, not, pleasant."
"Wow, dat's a pretty impressive collection ya got dere..." Raph said.
"There's still one more." Bianca said sort of quietly, they looked at her and watched as she rolled up her left sleeve to reveal a cut that was very noticeable on her arm that looked like a lightning bolt.
"Whoa," Mikey said in amazement looking at the scar closely, "Awesome..."
"Yea, it may look cool, but trust me, getting it, that wasn't awesome, quite the opposite really."
"Well, how'd you get it?" he asked curiously. Bianca looked away from him to stare at her scar. She frowned at the scar and then slowly covered it trying her best not to touch it with her fingers or sleeve. Leo wondered how she could've gotten a scar like that. But he knew by the look on her face, she didn't want to answer Mikey's question. Master splinter seemed to notice this as well and broke the silence by saying.
"My sons, we should leave miss Henderson alone for the time being." Bianca looked up at Master Splinter in relief giving him a small smile as if saying thank you. "If you need anything, we'll be in the next room." master splinter said pointing with his thumb to the room to the left. Bianca took a hard swallow since she stuffed so much food into her mouth.
"Okay, and thank you for your wonderful hospitality." Bianca said standing up from her seat and respectfully bowed to master splinter. Master splinter smiled and returned the bow and then he and the turtles left the kitchen and that led to Bianca going back to her breakfast Buffett.
Meanwhile with the turtles, they were sitting in the lounge area with their sensei. Leo and Donny were sitting on the old blue couch, Raph was sitting in a brown reclining chair that was to the right of the couch, and Mikey was in a lawn chair to the left of the couch.
"But Master Splinter," Mikey moaned in a whiny tone.
"No buts." Master Splinter said quickly, "I do approve of her and trust her to keep our existence a secret, but we must send her home, to the upper world where she belongs. It would be best if she left a soon as she is able to. I am sorry my sons." the four turtles bowed their heads in disappointment. They didn't want her to leave just yet.
"Master Splinter, if I may," Leo started to say. "Bianca is in a lot of danger, the shredder for some reason is after her, and we have to protect her."
"Yes, she may be the Shredder's target, but she shouldn't have to be anymore involved in our world as she already is. It is too dangerous for her to be seen with us, especially now that the Shredder is aware of allying herself with us. She will now be in more danger than ever." before Leo could protest anymore, Bianca walked into the room.
"Oh, I'm sorry, was I interrupting something? I can-"
"No," Master Splinter said. "We just finished talking, was there something you wanted."
"Well, no, I just wanted to say I was done, and I wanted to give my props to the chef. It was delicious and I cleaned the dishes as well."
"Miss Henderson you didn't-"
"No, no, don't worry about it, I wanted to. I mean I wanted to repay you guys in some way, and so far I thought it would be a good start." she chuckled a bit. Master splinter smiled.
"Thank you, Miss Henderson." he bowed his head. She bowed in return.
"Since you're not busy, would you'd be up for a grand tour of the lair?" Leo asked Bianca who immediately lit up at the idea.
"Would I ever!" she said in excitement. Leo laughed while getting off the couch to join Bianca's side.
"Is that alright master splinter?" Leo asked his father. Master Splinter didn't answer for a moment but then he nodded his head in approval, Leo smiled and gave a small bow to his father and then led Bianca and himself out of the lounge area.
"Master splinter?" Donny questioned his father.
"It's all right my sons." he said reassuring his sons. "Let them go." master splinter finished. But in the back of his mind he was questioning if he did the right thing.
"Wow! This place, it's amazing!" Bianca said while Leo was showing her around. They were on the upper levels of the lair. She was in awe and Leo just smiled at her excitement. "And you guys built this place all on your own."
"Well, sort of. Well we added some things to make it more like our old home, but our father found this place completely abandoned before we arrived."
"What happened to your old home?"
"It was destroyed thanks to the mousers…"
"Oh, I'm-wait, mousers?"
"Little mechanical monsters created by Baxter Stockman that can eat through anything."
"The, Baxter Stockman?"
"You've heard of him I presume?"
"Well, duh! He's one of the greatest scientists out there. He's always on the news. Why did he destroy your home?"
"He has allied himself with the Shredder." Leo said with some distaste.
"What! That's definitely not a good thing."
"You're telling me..." Leo said as the two of them kept on walking. They passed by a room with the door closed.
"Hey, what's in that room?" Bianca asked Leo right before they passed it. Leo stopped in front of it, as did Bianca.
"Oh, this..." he said opening the door and flickering a light on to reveal what was in the room. "This is our music room." there was a piano, lots of guitars, a drum set, amps, speakers, keyboard, and plenty other musical equipment.
"You guys play instruments?"
"Yea, but we haven't had a lot of time lately to play our instruments."
"Yea I can tell," she said touching the keyboard that was picking up a lot of dust.
"Well we've been pretty occupied with the whole shredder and his foot ninjas hunting us down thing. So we've been training nonstop."
"What do you play?"
"I play the base, Raph is awesome at the electric guitar, Mikey loves the drums, and Donny is amazing on the piano or keyboard."
"That's so cool." she said looking around the room in amazement.
"What about you?" Leo asked Bianca.
"Hmm?" Bianca questioned him as she looked back at him confused from being so distracted by the beautiful instruments.
"What do you play?"
"Hmm?" Bianca asked totally not hearing what he asked since she was so focused on the beautiful instruments.
"Oh, well, I sorta play the guitar and a bit of the piano, but I haven't in such a long time..." Bianca said shyly tucking some loose hair out of her face.
"When was the last time you played?"
"I don't know, well, really it's been seven years, but I had a little phase when I went back to it; but that didn't last; and even that was two years ago."
"And why's that?"
"The real reason why I stopped was because of my brother."
"You have a brother?"
"Yea, his name's James. He's going to be turning twenty-six in three months. He and I are-were really close."
"What happened?"
"Well, my brother was the one who introduced music to me in the first place. I was always surrounded by it. He would sing all the time; from a country club with his band, or just to me when I had trouble going to sleep when I was little. He taught me everything to know about music, how to play instruments, how to sing, and even how to write my own music and lyrics. But the one thing that he taught me that I would never forget is what a song really means. Really listening to the song and what the story is behind it. Once you realize that, you can see the real colors of the song and even who the artist is."
"It seems like you really loved music." Leo said.
"I still do, I never stopped loving music. It's just, things changed."
"What sort of things?'
"James."
"I don't understand."
"When I was around eight years old or a bit younger, my brother got a full scholarship in science. He was really smart and always found space and technology so interesting."
"What school?"
"Washington University."
"Washington, that's across the country."
"To me it feels like he's across the galaxy. And when he left, so did music. So, I stopped."
"Even though your brother my not be here with you in New York, he's still in your heart and loves you either way. I mean you and your brother keep in touch," Leo was about to go on until he saw Bianca's head fall in sadness. "Right?" he finished already knowing the answer.
"I haven't heard from him in 3 months, a week, and four days. I have no idea what's going on with him, he could be in trouble and I don't know about it. Or worse…" Bianca said trailing off a bit not wanting to bring up any more bad thoughts. She took a slight glance up at Leonardo's face. He saw his sympathetic eyes on his caring and kind face. That face, right there reminded her of how James would look at her. Feeling tears staring to well up in her eyes, Bianca quickly turned away from Leo, not wanting to see her cry. While turned around, she couldn't help but let a few tears trickle down her face.
Although Leo couldn't see Bianca's face, he could feel her sorrow and pain. He hated seeing such a bright and cheerful girl such as herself so sad. Without Bianca knowing, he started to walk towards her. He stood there for a moment just standing there, and then he put his arms around Bianca. His sudden actions startled Bianca at first, but she didn't move or push him away. Something about his touch just made her feel so safe and secure. She turned around to face him. When she looked up and their eyes connected, she couldn't hold back her tears anymore. Her tears started to come out like a waterfall as she cried onto Leo's plastron. Leo stood there looking down at Bianca and brought her into a tighter hug and stroked her head in a comforting way.
They stood there, just like that, for a couple of minutes until Bianca's breathing started to return to normal and the crying had started to stop. Bianca looked up at Leo with her tear stained face. Leo looked at her with his kind eyes, gently put his hand on her face, and slowly dried her face full of salty tears.
"I'm sorry," she started to say. "I have no idea what-"
"No, don't apologize, it's okay." He said finishing wiping her face off as best as he could. He reached out his hand that was on Bianca's face and grabbed a near by tissue box and held it for Bianca. She laughed a bit at how kind he was being and took a tissue and started to wipe her eyes and face a bit more.
"Thank you." She said; and she didn't mean just for the tissue.
"You're welcome." Leo said, knowing that she meant more than just the tissue as well.
"You know, I think you were right before, maybe I should get some rest, I am kind of tired." She said with a small smile on her face. Leo then positioned himself so that they were now arm length apart, but he still kept his hands on her shoulders.
"All right. Do you want me to walk you back?"
"No, I think I'll be alright. And besides," she said smiling "I think I've put you through enough for me in the past couple of days." She giggled, Leo laughed along too, feeling better that Bianca was getting back to her normal self.
"Okay then, then let's go." He said taking his hands off her shoulders and leading the way back out of the music room. Bianca shortly followed.
"So is there a chance I'll be seeing you later?" Bianca asked as Leo turned off the lights and closed the door to the music room.
"Maybe, unless Master Splinter decides to work us to death." Leo laughed, causing Bianca to laugh as well.
"Well, hopefully it'll be sooner than later." She said as she smiled and started to walk away towards the way Leo and Bianca first came. Before she turned the corner, she gave one more smile and walked off out of sight. Leo stood there and sighed
"Yea, me too." He then walked in the opposite direction towards his room a couple of doors down. Once he was out of sight, a quiet click could be heard that came from the closing of his bedroom door.
Once the coast the clear, out from the corner closest to the stairs was Bianca's head. It peered around the corner to make sure that no one was there. She tiptoed towards the music room as quietly as she could. She then reached for the handle of the music room door. Before she did, she double-checked to make sure no one was watching her. She didn't seem to sense anybody coming near her. So she put her hand on the handle and twisted it until she heard it unlock, she silently opened the door thankfully without any creeks. She then entered the dark room and closed the door behind her. She scanned the walls with her hand until she found the light switch that immediately brightened up the whole room. Bianca took a breath and then headed towards the piano. She stopped in front of it and hesitated before she flung the cover off the piano, which produced a lot of dust to form in the air that caused her to have a bit of a coughing fit. Bianca waved her hand around the room to move the dust away from her. Once that was done, she sat down at the stool that was placed in front of the piano. She looked at the piano; she touched it and felt how cold it was. It hasn't been used in a while. She then placed her hand over the lid that was covering the keys and carefully lifted it up to reveal the shiny black and white keys. The piano was surprisingly in good shape. Bianca lightly placed her hands over the keys and ran her hand from the left side of the keys all the way to the right. She was a bit hesitant about the piano. She hasn't played in so long. She didn't know if she could do it.
Bianca shook off her feeling and then positioned her hands and pressed down on the keys to create a wondrous sound. She stopped there and composed herself. It felt weird to be playing the piano again, but it also felt refreshing. Bianca then played the note again, but this time she didn't stop; she kept going and before she knew it, the lyrics to the song were starting to build up in her throat until she couldn't keep them in any longer.
I've been roaming around; I was looking down, and all I see.
Painted faces fill the places I can't reach.
You know that I could use somebody, ohhhhh
You know that I could use somebody, ohhhhh
Someone like you and all you know and all you speak;
Countless lovers under cover of the streets.
You know that I could use somebody, ohhhhh
You know that I could use somebody, ohhhhh
Some one like you (oh whoa, oh whoa)
Someone like you (oh whoa, oh whoa)
Someone like you.
She stopped playing the piano but the notes still flowed in the air because she was pressing on the petals. She took a breath and released the petal, stopping the echo of the notes. It felt amazing to play again. It was like she was reborn and all the memories of that feeling she got came rushing back. Bianca felt like her heart was flying. She really missed music.
Thank you, Leonardo. Bianca thought to herself.
What Bianca didn't know that right outside the door and in the hall listening to her play was Leonardo. He was happy that Bianca finally got the courage to play again.
It's like she never stopped. Leo thought. But what snapped him out of his thoughts was the closing of the lid of the piano and a chair being pushed back. Leo had to get out of here, but if he ran, she would know he was eves dropping. Bianca's footsteps were getting closer and closer to door until the handle started to jiggle. Leo froze
Bianca stepped out of the music room casually as if nothing happened and turned out the lights and closed the door quietly. She then made sure that no one was there and started to make her way back down towards the stairs to actually go to Donny's lab. Once she turned the corner, Leo dropped from the ceiling and landed elegantly without a single sound. He saw her from the upper level make her way towards Donny's lab. He sighed in satisfaction and walked back to his room and actually went inside his room and closed the door.
TA DAH! YAY! wow this took me forever! and i was really upset because i was working on it on my Iphone but then i accidentally deleted half of it off of my Iphone and i was really upset, so hopefully that you like it because the first one that i wrote was really good and i hope that this goes just as well :) please review, i would really appreciate it :D xoxo 3