TMNT: The Unexpected Friendship
Chapter 6
Bianca walked into Donny's lab and saw him looking through a microscope at his desk. She decided to make herself known in the room by 'accidentally slamming the door shut. Donny jumped in his seat and looked up towards the door to see a smirking Bianca.
"Whoa, I didn't hear you come in." Donny said laughing a bit and holding his hand over his heart trying to catch his breath.
"Yea, sorry 'bout that…" Bianca said walking up to him. Bianca leaned over Donny's shoulder and looked at what he was doing. "So watcha lookin' at?" Bianca asked curiously.
"Actually I'm just running a test on your blood." Donny said casually. Bianca was a bit shocked and her eyes widened at the remark.
"My blood? Why…?" Bianca asked with uncertainty.
"I'm just making sure that there wasn't anything transferred in your body when you got your wound; like infection, bacteria, or even poisons. When dealing with the Shredder, you never know what his intentions are."
"Oh, okay, thanks for looking out for me." She said a bit calmer but still sort of nervous, but covered it up by hugging his neck. Donny bought it and laughed.
"No problem. Now if you don't mind, I would like to run a few more tests on you just to make sure everything is okay." Donny asked.
"Alright." Bianca said as she sat on top of the medic table in the middle of the lab with her legs dangling over the edge. Donny did some typical examinations that you would get a regular doctor's checkup. After he finished with the typical doctor's routine, there was a slam that came from the doorway. Donny and Bianca both jumped a bit and turned their attentions towards the door. In the doorframe was Mikey. At first, Bianca smiled because she knew that now he was going to either say he just finished cooking something scrumptious or that he got a new comic book. But then she took a closer look at him and saw that there was no cheeriness in his bright blue eyes. And the sparkle he usually had whenever he was happy was gone. If Mikey was this upset, then this had to mean something was definitely wrong.
"Hey Mikey, what's up?" Donny said, basically ignoring everything that Bianca was just thinking.
"Guys, Master Splinter says that you should join us in the lounge area…" Mikey said not making any eye contact at all with Bianca.
"Uh, okay. What for?" Donny asked again. Mikey at that moment was turning around, trying not to look at the two of them.
"It'd be better if you just saw it for yourselves rather than me having to tell you." He said sullenly. Bianca and Donny looked at each other, finally Donny was seeing his sadness and they both looked worried. When they looked back at the door, the door was wide open but there was no sign of Michelangelo. Bianca and Donny rushed to the door to see that he was already making his way over to the lounge area across the lair. Bianca and Donny then rushed after him to see what happened. By the time they reached the lounge area, everyone was already there and sitting face forward and didn't even seem to notice them enter the room. Bianca saw that Master Splinter was sitting in a beat up brown leather chair, while Raph and Leo were on the blue couch, which was to the right of Master Splinter. Then Bianca's eyes went to the right of the blue couch and noticed that Mikey was sitting up in his lounge chair. Some people wouldn't see anything wrong with that, but as long as she's known Mikey, which hasn't been very long, she has known to be seeing him lying down in his lounge chair like he didn't have a care in the world. Now he was sitting in the chair like he was too spooked to lie down.
"Ms. Henderson," Master Splinter said, "please, sit, we have, some, unsettling news to bring you young one." He said while motioning his hand towards the blue couch. There was a free spot in between Raph and Leo. Bianca didn't know what to say so she nodded and sat down in between the two who now couldn't stop looking at her. Donny sat down on the arm of the couch on Raph's side.
"Okay, I'm not a big fan of surprises, so, could some please just tell me what this is all about?" She asked not liking everyone being all sad and sullen. No one said a thing, all that happened was that Raph leaned forward towards the table and grabbed the remote. He pointed the remote at the televisions and turned the volume back on. On screen was the Channel Six News with a woman reporter in a black suit on screen. In the background there was a lot of noise and all that could be seen were a bunch of red fire-trucks.
"Hello this is Courtney Housten coming back to you live from the most surprising and most unexpected fire down near the Upper East Side on 30 Central Park South broke out on one of the middle sections of a crowded apartment building. The fire department is doing their best to keep the flames from spreading any further. Some firefighters were brave enough to enter the building to look for any survivors. Two firemen found a husband and wife, both unconscious, on the 17th floor room G. They were transported out of the burning building and are now at the hospital, still no results have come about the conditions of these two poor citizens."
"Oh, My, God...that's, that was my building! It's on fire, oh my god, Mom; Dad!" Bianca shrieked now realizing her parents were staying at home tonight probably waiting at the phone terrified to her any news from me.
"We have just learned that the two people who were trapped in this terrible fire, and where the fire seemed to originated from are Kenneth and Jennifer Henderson. A husband a wife and have two kids, one named James Henderson who's twenty-five living in Washington; the other being Bianca Henderson, a fifteen year old girl attending Talent Unlimited High School (a real school near the upper east side, public school, small, and has a family-environment)." the woman said on the television. Bianca froze, after the newswoman said her parents names, she couldn't hear another word she said after life. It was like time froze around her. It was like the end of the world.
How could I be so stupid, Bianca thought to herself. I should have checked in with them! I wish I told them I was all right...this is all my fault; I'm so selfish! I cared more about hanging out with the guys than being with my family and worrying about their well-being.
"Oh! We have just received word from the hospital that Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, the couple that was trapped in that fire, are now in surgery and have suffered from severe third degree burns. I'm Courtney Housten, channel six news, and we'll be right back with more news about the fire after these messages." Raph who still had the remote turned of the screen. Everyone was silent. Even Bianca didn't know how to react to the sudden news, she was terrified, furious, sad, angry, so many emotions she didn't know how to express all at once.
"Bianca..." Donny started to say. Everyone wanted to comfort their newly found friend in some way or another, but they were all at a loss for words. Bianca didn't even hear it anyway. She was in complete and utter shock. Leo was about to reach out and put a hand on her hand that was lying on her lap. But when he was an inch away, he hands balled up into fists, she stood up, with an unreadable face and walked off towards Donny's lab. She slammed the door behind her.
A moment passed and you could hear the door of the lab open once more and slam again, which startles everyone. They saw Bianca storm out of the lab and saw her making her way towards the exit. Leo got up from the couch and flipped his way over to the door and stepped in front of it before Bianca could get to the handle.
"Bianca we should talk about this..."
"No! I need to go to the hospital and check in on my parents! And when I find out who did this to my parents, they're going to pay." She tried reaching for the handle again but Leo kept it out of reach.
"No. Revenge is never the answer to anything."
"Then what am I supposed to do? Just go on with life and pretend that this never happened?"
"(Sigh) I know it's hard right now, I been in your position before; I've watched my family be torn apart and my own home was taken away from me. It's best if you just leave the police to finding the thugs who did this." Bianca wanted to protest but couldn't find the words; and she knew deep down that he was right, revenge is never the right path to chose, she just didn't want to admit it.
Oh I hate it when he's right…
"(Sigh) Fine. Can I go now? Please? I need to be with my family." Leo nodded his head and stepped out of the doorframe to let her pass. Before she left, she looked back at Leo. She ran up to him and gave him a small hug before leaving, which he took surprisingly. She smiled at him and telepathically said thanks to him. Then she headed down the sewers, running to find the closest manhole she could find.
Once she found the first manhole in sight, she quickly climbed up the ladder and before jumping out of the manhole; she lifted the cover slightly to see if there was anyone there. When the coast was clear she quietly removed the manhole cover and jumped out, and quietly again replaced it back on top. Once that was done, she sped off as fast as she could to the hospital. But first she had to figure out which part of the city she was at. Once she got to a walkway and saw the street sign, she realized she was only a good two blocks away. Still having high hopes for her parent's survival, she dashed off towards the hospital. She didn't care how much her feet hurt of how the cold air was stinging her lungs; she had to get to that hospital right now!
She saw the hospital in view and that's when the adrenaline started to kick in. This time she sped off like a maniac almost and busted through the front doors and up to the front counter.
"May I help you?" the front desk lady said sort of frightened by Bianca just barging in like this how disgusting she probably looked from running all that way.
"I...need...to see...Mr. and Mrs. …Henderson, right away." Bianca tried saying still trying to catch her breath.
"They're going through surgery as we speak, so you are not permitted to see them right now. And who are you?"
"I'm their daughter and I demand to see them right now!" she said getting angrier with the woman from keeping her away from her parents. They continued to argue for a couple of minutes u till a middle aged man in his late 30's walked up to the desk.
"Excuse me..." he asked politely and trying his best to get their attention.
"What!" Bianca and the lady at the desk exclaimed in unison both really furious at each other.
"I'm presuming you're Bianca Henderson, am I correct?" He asked her.
"Yeah I am but who are you?" she said with an impatient tone.
"I am Dr. Eisenhower, I am your parent's doctor."
"Really?" Bianca said with some joy but then got serious again. "How are they? How bad is it? Did they make it through the surgery? Are they going to-"
"Whoa, whoa, slow down there. Your parents had it pretty hard and they were in surgery for a couple of hours. They're out now and everything seems to be fine now, but we're not sure if their bodies are physically strong enough to survive after something like this. During the fire, some planks from the building fell on the both of them and thy got a good amount of broken bones." Bianca was getting more and more depressed as the doctor went on. The doctor seeing her getting more bummed out decided it would be bet to stop talking and just lead her to her parent's room.
After walking down a couple of corridors, they finally came to her parents' room. She saw her parents on their white beds; their hair was charred a bit and covered in sot. They had some bad burns on their faces and besides that Bianca couldn't see anything because they were bundled up under their sheets. Bianca started to feel tears starting to gather up in her eyes, threatening to spill out at any moment.
"I'll leave you alone with them…" The doctor said and he tried to put a comforting hand on her shoulder to be nice. She looked back up at him and nodded her head. He stepped out of the room and closed the door behind him. At first, Bianca didn't move, she was still so crushed to see her parents look so defenseless and weak. She could tell that inside they were suffering.
She noticed a lone chair off to the side next to the window revealing the city as the sun started to set. She dragged the chair between her mom's and her dad's bed and just sat there, staring at her parents. She then reached out her hands, her right going over to her dad's hand under the covers; and her left hand reaching to find her mom's covered hand. Once she found both, she held them and gave them a soft squeeze. She just sat there, holding on to the most important people on her life. She dropped her head and she began to cry softly.
She tried opening her eyes but her eyes were so blurry, all she could see was darkness. But after she calmed down and her eyes started to dry, she realized that se still only saw darkness. She realized that she was using her telepathic powers without herself knowing to enter both her parent's minds.
"MOM! DAD!" Bianca called out to the darkness. A dim light then appeared in front of her, her parents then looking like their usual selves stepped into the light. They were wearing all white, they were a bit paler than usual, and they were holding hands. When they saw Bianca, they smiled.
"Bianca..." they both mused together. Bianca was so happy to see her parents, she ran right to them and gave them both a huge hug. Her parents hugged her too and caressed her hair as she started to cry of happiness.
"I'm...I'm...I'm s-so sorry...I wish I was there...Th-This is all my fault. I..." Bianca tried to apologize between her sniffles.
"Shhhh...It's all right; we now understand why you were gone. And there's no need to be sorry." Her mother said to her soothingly.
"Your mother's right. Things happen for a reason. We're going to miss you so." Her father said.
"What? What do you mean you're going to miss me...?"
"Honey, I think you know what we mean, you knew all along...you even knew when you were in the care of those unique friends of yours."
"Wait, you know about them?"
"We do now, and we're happy to know even when we're gone, you will still have people there for you to lean on and to help you move on."
"But I don't want to move on! I want to stay here with you!" Bianca protested as new tears threatened to start pouring out.
"I know it'll be hard to do but you must move on. Your destiny is about to begin, and you will need to be completely focused when the time comes." Bianca's mother said.
"What? What are you-"
"Bianca," Her father started. "I know it may be confusing now, but someday soon, everything will make sense."
"But-" Bianca was going to ask more questions but her mother's finger was placed on her lips to silence her.
"We will be fine, Bianca, we're going to be watching over you, always. We love you sweetie." She said and she lightly kissed her cheek as a tear fell down both her and Bianca's faces.
"We'll always love you, and don't ever forget that." Her father said as he kissed her forehead.
"I won't...I love you." She said as they all shared one last hug goodbye. When they let go of each other, her parents started to glow a bright white as they then grew angel wings. They turned around a started to fly off. Bianca tried to run after them and reach for them but it was to no avail. She stopped when her parents looked back with tear stained faces, smiling at her. And just like that, they vanished. Bianca fell to her knees in the darkness and started to sob. Then in the silence, a familiar tune started to play. It was a lullaby her mother used to sing to her when she was little and was upset.
Constant as the stars above
Always know that you are loved
And our love shining in you
Will help you make your dreams come true
Will help your dreams come true
As soon as the song ended, Bianca's eyes flew open. She looked outside to see it was completely pitch black outside, except for city lights. She then turned her attention to her parents. Their lifeless bodies were now pale and their faces had no emotion to them at all.
The door opened and Dr. Eisenhower walked in. Bianca looked at him with her tear filled eyes and he came over and knelt down to her.
"Their bodies weren't string enough. I'm sorry, but not all life was made to last forever. Life goes on, and so shall you." Bianca stood up with her eyes completely hidden by her hair.
"Life may not live forever, but their souls will." Bianca said to the doctor with a wise tone without even looking at him. She then walked out of the room, silently closing the door behind her.
She found her way back to the front door of the hospital. As she stepped out, it was starting to rain lightly; but that didn't stop Bianca. She continued to leave the hospital, walking down the loud streets of the city. She didn't have a place in mind to go, she didn't want to face the turtles at the moment, and so she wasn't going to go to the sewers. She just let her heart be her guide. And when she stopped, she realized she was standing in front of the entrance to central park. She walked in and again didn't care where she strolled. But to no surprise, she found herself walking to her favorite place; the Alice in Wonderland statue. This time she didn't climb it, and not just because she was worried she was going to slip due to the rain. She just couldn't find the energy to do anything but plop herself down on the cold wet steps right before the statue. She brought her legs to her chest laid her head on her knees and started to cry. She didn't know how long she stayed like that for, minutes, hours, but she didn't care, it's not like she had anywhere to go.
What am I to do? I don't have a home, my parents are gone, and my brother's all the way across the country...Wait; I have the turtles. But, I've already been such a bother, and I mean they probably don't have room for me...and even if I did live with them, what about my friends, school even, what am I going to do? I have, nobody... And with that thought, she continued to cry.
While she was crying, she heard footsteps coming from the distance. The steps seemed to be coming closer to her. She looked up, she didn't know what to expect.
Who would be out here, almost half past eight on a rainy, Wednesday night? Could it be the Foot again after me, or maybe a couple of low life purple dragons in need of a good whooping; or maybe one of the turtles, most likely Leo because so far he's always seen me cry. Great, he probably thinks I'm a crybaby. I don't want to be known for that. She thought to herself. From the distance, she saw a shadow. It was tall, muscular looking, had something bulky on his back, and holding an umbrella.
Oh great, it's Leo...I cannot believe he found me way out here? Wait, how he'd find me. But nonetheless I can't show him I'm some stupid crybaby; I gotta be tough.
"Oh great, what do you want?" Bianca said sounding annoyed putting her head back down on her knees just wanting to be left alone now.
"Wow, are you really that mad at me for not keeping in touch?" Bianca's head then shot up; it wasn't Leo, that wasn't his voice.
Wait, if that's not Leo...then... Bianca thought as she squinted her eyes to try to get a better look at the man. As he walked closer, a tan-ish face with soft caring brown eyes with shaggy dark brown almost black hair could be seen. Bianca gasped at who it was.
"J-James?" She exclaimed.
"What, I mean I know I've been gone awhile but is that the kind of greeting you give to your older brother?" he said jokingly pretending to be hurt. Bianca actually smiled and got up and ran straight for her brother. She wrapped him in a tight hug, so happy to see him. He of course hugged her back and even twirled her around in the air while holding her.
"I can't believe you're here...I've missed you so much! But why are you here? Why didn't you say anything?"
"Whoa squirt calm down. God I keep forgetting you're now a teenager, and that means that you're going to be even more impatient than you were before." He teased her. She made a face at him and they both laughed. "Anyway, I wanted to surprise everyone. I'm on break and I was just about to head home when I decided to make a quick visit to the park and our favorite spot. And that's when I saw you. What are you doing out here anyway, especially in the rain? Do mom and dad know you're out here?" When James said that, that's when everything that happened today came flooding back to Bianca and she began to cry again.
"Hey, hey, why are you crying? What's wrong?" James said holding her close and stroking her head.
"It's...it's mom an-and dad. They, they're gone." She cried through her tears.
"What? What do you mean gone?"
"Th-there was a fire at, at the apartment an-and mom and d-dad got really hurt. They we-were at the hospital, an-and they..." Bianca trailed off, she couldn't finish the sentence but James immediately knew what she meant.
"Oh no...When did this happen?"
"It happened earlier today."
"Where were you during all of this? Are you hurt?"
"Well, I, was, at one of my friend's houses for a couple of days."
"A couple of days? Why?"
"Ryan..."
"What? That jerk's back? What did he do to you?"
"He jumped me during school."
"Oh lord...Are you okay now though, are you hurt? I swear when I fins that little punk I'm gunna..."
"As much as I'd love for you to teach him a well-deserved lesson, can we just talk about mom and dad, please?"
"Right; sorry, you know how much I care for you and worry for you, and whenever I her that guy's name I just think of what he did to you and I just get so angry."
"It's okay, thanks for caring." Bianca said hugging him again. "I just, I don't know what to do now? I feel so lost and confused. I mean, what are we going to do? Our home's completely destroyed, mom and dad are gone, and you live all the way across the country and I wouldn't want you to move here because I know how much you love your job and I wouldn't want to take that away from you and I can't possibly move to Washington, I mean I have so many great friends here; I just can't leave..."
Especially now that I met Leo and the others, no one can take me away from here even if I wanted to. She thought to herself.
"Hey, I know life seems to be pushing you around right now, but things do get better, and life goes on."
"How do you know?"
"Because when life gives you lemons, you gotta make some lemonade." Bianca ridged her eyebrow at his remark. James just smiled at her and said "Come on." He said pulling her back to where she was sitting before.
They sat down and James removed the bulky thing that was on his back, it turned out to be a guitar that only Bianca noticed now.
"You have your guitar with you?"
"Yup, something told me I was going to need it, and now I know this is why." he said as he handed her the umbrella as he unzipped the case and carefully took out his Fender guitar.
"Oh no." Bianca said as she realized what he was about to do.
"Oh yes, here comes another one of my cheering up songs."
"James..."
"Now Bianca, don't you start doubting my cheer-up songs, you know they always work."
"I don't think a song is going to lift my mood anytime soon."
"Oh, but I think this one will." James said as he was positioning his fingers on the right chords to begin. Bianca sighed in defeat as he began to play a familiar tune.
You feel like a candle in a hurricane
Just like a picture with a broken frame
Alone and helpless, like you've lost your fight
But you'll be alright, you'll be alright
'Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you're made of
You might bend 'til you break
'Cause it's all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand
Life's like a novel with the end ripped out
The edge of a canyon with only one way down
Take what you're given before it's gone
And start holdin' on, keep holdin' on
'Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you're made of
You might bend 'til you break
'Cause it's all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you stand, yeah, then you stand
Every time you get up
And get back in the race
One more small piece of you
Starts to fall into place, yeah
James looks over at Bianca who has been trying to ignore his words. But she knew that he was right, so she sighed, faced him and smiled and then even started to sing along with him this time.
'Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you're made of
You might bend 'til you break
'Cause it's all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand
Yeah, then you stand
Yeah, baby
Woo hoo, woo hoo
Woo hoo, woo hoo
Then you stand, yeah, yeah
"See, what did I tell you? Whenever we sing together, a smile always finds a way to creep across your face."
"That may be true, and as much as I loved that song, it's not going to solve our problems..."
"Oh, I knew forgot to tell you something..."
"What?" Bianca asked halfheartedly. He just kept on smirking at her. "What?" She said getting impatient.
"I got transferred to New York."
"What?"
"You heard me, and that's the real reason why I'm here; and I missed you. But anyway, I got a new apartment not far from our old home and it's a penthouse."
"You got a penthouse? In New York?" Bianca said excitedly.
"Yup. And so now, all we got to do is move all your stuff into my new place..."
"And we'll be together again!" Bianca now squealed overfilled with joy. She couldn't believe it. It was too good to be true. Although her parents are gone, she got her brother back. And at that moment, nothing else mattered.
"So, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Bianca said standing up and trying but failing to pull her brother up.
"Whoa, I guess someone's feeling a bit better. So let's go to the old apartment and-"
"What for? It's not like I have anything to pack up. And also, I don't feel like I can even look at it without feeling like I'm going to break down crying."
"Well alright then; let's check out the new apartment."
"Okay. I'm so happy you came back!" Bianca said hugging his waist.
"Me too Bianca, me too." He said hugging her back as they walked back out the way they came from; whistled for a taxi; and they were on their way towards their new home.
TA DAHHHHH!
I FINALLY UPDATED! I'M SOOO SORRY I TOOK SO LONG, I HAD A REALLY HARD TROUBLE WITH THIS ONE, I DIDN'T KNOW IF I SHOULD HAVE KILLED HER PARENTS OR NOT AND I ASKED A LOT PEOPLE ABOUT IT AND THEY JUST KEPT ON SAYING, DO WHATEVER YOU WANT BECAUSE IT'LL TURN OUT GREAT ANYWAY...SO YEA...I KILLED THEM OFF...BUT I BROUGHT BAK JAMES! :D YAY! AND YOU'RE PROBABLY CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON...LIKE, HOW DID JAMES FIND BIANCA? HOW DID HE KNOW THAT SHE WAS GOING TO BE THERE? AND WHO THE HELL IS RYAN? I PROMISE, I'LL TALK A LOT MORE ABOUT RYAN LATER ON, THERE'S A LOT OF BACK STORY TO THAT...AND SINCE BREAKS COMING UP SOON, I'LL BE ABLE TO UPDATE MORE :D YAY! SO I HOPE YOU GUYS AREN'T TOO MAD AT ME! PLZ FORGIVE ME AND I HOPE THAT THIS CHAPTER MAKES UP FOR IT...AND SORRY FOR THE LACK OF ACTION IN THIS, I PROMISE THAT'LL DEFINITELY COME...BUT FIRST I HAD TO GO THROUGH SOME DEPRESSING STUFF WITH BIANCA FIRST...
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