Leonardo placed his hand over Jade's on his shoulder and took it turning towards her. She smiled slightly to his hand on hers but faded as he dropped it.

"We're here. Keep your eyes closed, only for a moment longer I promise." He said turning towards the secret entry way of their lair. He took Jade's hand once again and pulled her into their home. The fresh air was warm and filled with the smell of incense making Jade's shoulders instantly relax. Donnie placed Lexine one the ground closing the lair door behind them.

"Alright, you're free to open them." There was a sigh of relief leaving all the girl's lips as they opened their eyes. Fiona's eyes widened as a huge grin came to her face.

"Oh, my… This place is AWESOME!" She said looking over at Mikey. He smiled back just as excited and walked down the stairs with her. Jade smiled watching her sister. It's the first time in a long time she saw Fiona happy.

Lexine smiled at Don as she followed her younger twin down the stairs, as Donnie showed her around the lair. She peeked her head into the lab they walked by, thinking she wouldn't be interested.

"What's in here?" She asked slipping inside. Donnie smiled and walked in with her, showing her some of his projects he was working on.

Jacqueline kept her arms crossed tightly over her chest as she walked down the stairs, sitting on the couch next to Fiona. Her excited sister jolted back and forth in her seat as she tried to fight Mikey in Mortal Kombat. Jacqueline rolled her eyes putting her feet up on the table that was covered in pizza boxes and empty soda cans.

Jade and Leonardo stood on top of the stairwell watching their younger siblings. Jade, hugged her arms tightly around herself with a smile, as Leo had his arms crossed trying to think of something to say to break the silence between them. He went to offer her something to drink, but was interrupted by Fiona's yell of victory from defeating Mikey in a round.

"Oh! And now I'm taking your head, and throwing it at your body!" She said with amusement, not being able to sit any longer with a victory dance. Mikey's smile never leaving her face.

Leo put his head down letting out a soft laugh as Jade smirked looking over at him.

"I'd love some tea, if you had some." She said trying to catch his eyes. He picked his head up and looked at her in surprise.

"Oh yeah…I think it's going to take me awhile to get used to that whole mind reading thing." He smirked.

Splinter's room was shut off, as the serene quietness filled his senses. He cleared his mind as he meditated waiting for his son's to return from their portal. He broke out of his meditation harshly as Fiona's scream filled the lair. He narrowed his eyes and steadied himself on his walking stick getting to his feet. He slid open his door and looked around the lair at his sons and some unfamiliar faces. The first thought was protection and an explanation to why there were strangers in his home. He saw Leonardo making some tea and walked towards his son.

"Leonardo." He said in a deep, slow voice. Leo turned quickly, burning his hand with hot water remembering the tone from his childhood.

"Master, these are…"

"Hello Sir." Jade said in a smoothing voice. Leo looked at her in surprise as she put her hand out for Splinter to shake it. He did with a questionable look, which faded as he made contact with her.

"These are the girls you were telling me about Leonardo." Splinter said with a grin towards his son. Leo nodded his head, putting his head down to try and hide a faint pink coming to his cheeks.

"So you've been talking about us?" Jade asked with amusement.

"He has told me about your skills against the Foot. It is very impressive."

"Thank you." Jade said with a bow.

"Tell me my child. What powers do you possess?" Splinter said taking a seat at their kitchen table and putting a hand out for Jade to do the same. She smiled as she was about to pull a chair out for herself to sit but Leo stepped in front of her and pulled the chair from the table for her. She smiled at him and sat as he pushed the chair in for her and sat in the next seat.

"Different ones for all of us. Oh, I'm so sorry, my sisters. Jacqueline is the closest in age to myself, she's the red head. Lexine who is the blonde… I can't see where she went off to, but she's the oldest of the twins as Fiona, who is the loud one next to Mikey is the youngest." Splinter smiled and nodded his head. "Our powers were never explained to us, we never understood why we got them or where they came from. We were all around the same age, thirteen through sixteen. Lexine was first, she has the ability to run at a lighting fast pace. Jacqueline was next. She has the ability to create fire within her body. Fiona is able to create force fields and go invisible. Recently she discovered she can also see far distances. As the years went on, she really got in tune with her powers, explaining how she can manage to do more. Myself, I can read minds and control things with it, a form of telekinesis."

"Impressive." Splinter said trying to hide the shock in his voice. "And the Foot, how did they come across you and your sisters?"

"They've been watching us for some time and wanted us to join them. It didn't feel right with me and I couldn't put my sisters through something I wasn't sure of. So I denied them. They fought us and almost won, but thanks to your sons we were able to survive." Jade said with a smile towards Leo.

"Well my child you are welcome here for as long as you want. You safety is an important thing to you."

"Not so much mine, but theirs." Splinter nodded.

"Understandable. It's a hard and uncertain path to be the oldest. So much to discover and learn, so much to protect and care for. You're sisters should be grateful to have such a sister as yourself, with such a warm and caring heart." Jade smiled as Splinter furry hand pattered hers.

Splinter got from the table and Jade did as well, bowing towards him as he left. Leo smiled as the girl showed his father such respect. His heart felt like it was going to burst out of his chest, but he swallowed it down and smiled.

"You've had a long emotional day. Maybe you should call it a night. We'll get back to your place early tomorrow." Jade nodded and got up from the chair.

"Yeah. You're right." She stretched walking towards the couch. "You guys should get some sleep too." She said towards her sisters. Jacqueline didn't even bother to look up as Fiona did from playing her game.

"Aw, c'mon mom! Just five more minuets!" She joked as only Mikey laughed.

"I'm just warning you, if I have to drag your butts out of bed tomorrow, I'll do it."

"I'll make sure they get some sleep." Donnie said nudging Mikey's head.

"Thanks Don." Jade smiled.

"You can take my room. I'll sleep down here." Leonardo said as she was about to sit down.

"Oh, no! You shouldn't, you've had a long day too Leo. I can sleep on the couch, or even on the floor to watch them."

"We'll take care of them." Mikey winked. Jade rolled her eyes about to protest to Leonardo.

"I insist."

"Yeah, but believe I'm used to sleeping on the floor after years and years of sleepovers…"

"I have a shell, I win." He said crossing his arms. She smiled and nodded her head.

"Ok, fine."

He brought her upstairs to his room, opening the door for her. Her eyes widened to the beauty of his room. The faint smell of incense still lingering as wax from candles hardened on the brick walls. Japanese art hung on his walls as his bed looked warm and comforting in the flickering candle light.

"It's beautiful." She said walking in.

"Thanks." He said walking behind her. "Um…The bathroom is down the hall. You know where the kitchen is…There's not much in there besides pizza and soda." She smiled nodding her head as she turned down his sheets, sliding in between them. "I'll wake you up tomorrow so we can head back and get some things for you girls." He smiled heading for the door.

"Leo…" He turned around towards her at his name. "Would you mind staying with me? For the company, at least until I fall asleep?" He hesitated. Her eyes seemed lost and lonely. He pushed the door closed with a sigh and got into his bed next to her. It felt warmer than usual. He swallowed hard as he looked up at his ceiling, stiff, scared to move. She watched his reaction and smiled. She placed her head on his shoulder and her hand on to his plastron. His body tension relaxed as she tried to sooth over his thoughts, without him realizing.

"So…" She said in the darkness of his room. "How do you know of Saki, the Shredder."

"Long history." He sighed.

"I'm not going anywhere, if you're comfortable with telling me." She said leaning up to look at his face. He turned towards her.

"It's probably better that I let it out not healthy to keep it in after all these years."

"Yeah, keeping things in…isn't good." She said as they caught eyes. They laid in silence for a moment as their eyes never left one another's. Finally she cleared her throat and looked away. "So…" Leonardo let out a long heavy sigh.

"So, the Shred…Oroku Saki and my family have had a long, painful history together. We've tried on several occasions to kill him, but he just keeps coming back and with more Foot than before, along with Hun and his Purple Dragons. Making it almost impossible for my brothers and I to walk away from a fight unharmed."

"Purple dragons?"

"Oh, you haven't run into them yet? Good. At least you'll be with us when that happens." Jade smiled a little hearing the overprotection in his voice. "They're a group of guys who work for Saki just as the Foot do, except their methods of fighting aren't exactly the same. The Foot are Ninjas, there some honor there. Very little mind you, but its there. The Dragons are basically a bunch of Neanderthals who like to wave around blunt objects and kill anything in their path. Hun is their leader. He's a huge beast of a man and him and Saki have been partners for years, Saki being the brains and Hun being the brute strength."

"So, why do they have sucha problem with you and your brothers?" She said watching him intently as he spoke.

"My Father was owned by a man named Hamato Yoshi. He was a great fighter and skilled Ninja. My father leaned this skill by watching Yoshi as he trained. Oroku Nagi was Saki's older brother, who was killed by Yoshi in a fight about his lover. Yoshi and his lover fled to New York from Saki who tried to avenge his brother's death. Saki came to New York as well, moving up in rank in the Foot, soon becoming their leader and killing Yoshi right in front of my Father. My Father tried to save him, explaining the slice in his ear but failed. He than found us in a sewer, mutating from ooze that TGRI tried to dispose of. He trained us in Ninjutsu, and ever since than Saki, the Shredder has been our nemesis."

"Wow…" She sighed finally. She was in suspense the entire time he explains his life to her.

"What about you? How did you get yourself involved with him?"

"Well, my story isn't quite as exciting as yours…But, I moved here to go to college. I was always really interest in Asian history so I became a history major. I think it's a beautiful culture, the spiritual aspect of it and self discipline is amazing and it's just always been fascinating to me. Anyways…after a year or so I got an internship here in New York. Oroku Saki owned the building I worked at taking me under his wing. He showed me his artifacts telling me I was a very smart girl. I moved up very quickly and was soon head of my department. He paid my extremely well, a little too well explaining my apartment. That's when my sister's came to live with me. We started to train with our powers again since when we lived in Boston we were kinda the savors of our City. We'd take care of it, kinda like we did tonight." She smiled and Leo couldn't help himself but to smile back. "Apparently as we trained Saki kept an eye on me and my sisters. One night while I was leaving the office I kept feeling this dark presence around me. I tried to lose it, but it was coming from everywhere. I was cornered. They stopped me, five Foot Ninja and Saki. He told me that I was special and he could help me and my sisters if I joined him. I couldn't help but feel this incredible dark sensation roll off of him and denied it. I didn't trust him and something told me my sister's would be in danger. I cared nothing about myself. They were the only concern going through my head. He threatened me, saying that if I didn't join him he'd dissect my sisters in front of me, one by one until they found out what exactly made us what we are. He said I had three days to decided, and then was gone. I ran home and held onto Fiona and Lexine for as long as they let me."

She rolled onto her back with a sigh of letting out so much that she held so deep to someone she barely knew. His connection with her was soothing and caring and she couldn't help but let everything out. "I didn't understand it, for what? For some more power he's going to do this to someone he doesn't even know. A family he doesn't even care about other than their abilities? It's not fair, just because we're different. It's just…not fair." A tear graced down her cheek on to Leo's pillow as her hand slid on top of Leo's. He looked over at her pained face noticing the shimmer of wetness from a tear along her skin. The feeling in his stomach was too familiar. He remembers having this conversation before with April as she comforted him when one of his brothers fallen ill to Saki's hand.

"It's better that you're here." Leo said softly. She kept her stare on his ceiling. He slid his arm around her shoulders, moving his body closer to hers. She felt her heart speed up, as he caught her eyes in his again. She felt herself move self consciously closer to his lips and stopped putting her head back down on the pillow.

"Thank you, for everything Leo." She said clenching her eyes shut in embarrassment in the darkness.

"Don't mention it."