Donatello shot up in his bed as a huge smiled of realization appeared on his face. Lexine was thrown off his body, as she snuggled close to him in her sleep. She clasped a hand around her face rubbing it from her hand smacking against it not moments before.

"I got it!" Donnie said throwing back the covers and jumping in his computer chair at the end of his bed. He turned on his computer and started clicking wildly on the keyboard. Lexine rubbed away sleep from her eyes as she tried to focus on what he was doing.

"Donnie it's three in the morning, what are you doing?" She asked in a sleep covered voice.

"You're not a morning person huh?" She shook her head slowly as he laid it back down at the foot of his bed. He smiled and returned his attention back to the screen. "If I explain this to you, will you actually listen or fall asleep."

"Yeah baby, I will completely listen to whatever it is you want to tell me with the fast clicking and stuff…" She grumbled into his mattress. He shook his head with a laugh as he brought us his DNA sample of his mutagenic gene.

"Ok, well. The formula Jac gave me wasn't wrong. It's just the parts were scrambled. The only way for that formula to work is if I move the last part and first part together making it fit perfectly back in place as our matching DNA when we first transformed. If I get this right it should turn us back to normal!" He said with excitement rolling through his mouth. She picked her head up slightly as his smiling face as he swung around in his chair.

"You got that in your sleep?"

"Yeah…Sorry about your face." He said rubbing it with his hand. She smiled and took it kissing the top of it softly.

"I'll live." She said sitting up and pulling him on to the bed with her. He fell in between her legs, kissing his lips softly. He held himself up, bracing his arms on either side of her.

Michelangelo woke up, as his neck cracked echoing throughout the living area in the lair. He groaned in pain as he looked down at Fiona on his lap sleeping soundly. He turned his head to work out the last kinks and lifted her head, slowly sliding onto his knees in front of the couch and placing her head softly back on the cushion. He smiled at her soft moans in sleep and kissed her on the forehead. A small smile went to her face as he slowly put his hands under her, pressing her tightly against his body. He lifted her up from the couch and walked to his more comfortable bed in his room.

He walked up the stairs slowly, being sure not to wake her passing his brother's rooms. His ninja technique came in handy because waking Raph up wasn't always a fun thing to experience. He went to his door as he sighed putting his head down seeing that it was closed. He pressed Fiona tighter against him as he tried to turn the doorknob with his "free hand". He felt her grip tighten around his shoulder as her eyes slowly opened. He let out a sigh of relief as she looked about her, noticing she was in his arms.

"What are you doing?" She asked sleepily as he smiled and put her on the floor. She stumbled a bit, holding onto him for support. He opened his door and picked her up again.

"Thanks babe, I was struggling with that for like five minuets." He smiled as he placed her on his bed. She nodded her head with a yawn as she pulled the covers over her snuggling into his soft mattress. He got in next to her putting his arms under his head. She put her head on his shoulder, kissing his cheek softly as she fell back to sleep. He slipped an arm around her, pulling her body as close to his as he could.

Jade tossed and turned in her sleep. She woke up in a breath, sitting up straight in Leonardo's bed. She looked over at him as the only thing that greeted her was the indent of his body in the sheets. She threw the covers from her, leaving his room as the lair was dark, darker than usual. She narrowed her eyes, walking slowly down the stairs as she noticed the television was still on, the main menu for Smokin' Aces ran in repetitive music.

She felt something then saw something move out to her left. It was quick and left a trace of glowing light where it once was. She followed it, down an alcove tracing her finger tips along the cold bricks of the hallway. The light seemed to go on forever, but she was so entranced by it she couldn't help but want to see where it led.

She could feel the cold sewer pipes as she entered the echoing shallow water outside the lair. She held her arms tightly around her body as the splashing in the distance caught her senses. She lifted her head, closing her eyes trying to focus on who it was. She felt him but he wasn't responsive to her. Just, there. She narrowed her eyes and started after the noise. It became faster paced as she pushed herself to move forward, using her powers as best she could to guide herself through the obstacles along the sewer floor.

She smelt the familiarity of incense waft through her senses as she came to a cross roads. She walked slowly towards the separation as she looked down towards a light. She started for it as she felt a steady hand on her shoulder. She turned towards it as Leonardo was behind her. She smiled to him as his face remained straight and showing no emotion that she could read. She removed her happy expression with a worried one as he stepped towards her. Something wasn't right, she stepped back with every one he brought forward.

She bumped into something, thinking it was a wall as hands wrapped around her waist. She turned around as Hun stood behind her wrapping his large hand around her delicate throat. She squirmed looking at Leo for help as he stood there with no remorse or sadness on his face. She went to scream as it was caught off by A Foot Ninja's katana's cold blade pressing against her lips. Her vision was caught off by a figure in black. A dark hood placed over their head as their bright eyes only shown through the darkness. She tried to swallow as Hun's grip only tightened. Her feet started to lift from the ground as she looked back towards Leo who was no longer there, only the figure in black.

She heard a familiar voice as she was turned around by Hun putting her in the direction. She saw Leonardo, her Leonardo being held back with katanas around him in the grasps of dozens of Foot Ninja. She called out for him as her voice vibrated with words but nothing was heard. All that left was silence. He looked scared and tried to break free as they stabbed a katana through his hard chest plate piercing the heart underneath. He fell back, holding the wound as dark crimson dripped from between his green, three fingers. She screamed louder, calling his name as nothing was heard but the echoing splash of his body falling into the sewer water around him. She kicked and squirmed to get free of Hun's hold as his face widened with a smile.

"It's okay June, I'm here now." She kept hearing Hun's voice say. He repeated it as it seemed to be lifting away from her. Slowly turning more familiar and warm. She held her throat as her eyes went back into her head. She kept hearing the voice echo through her mind as she felt arms around her biceps. "It's okay June I'm here now, I'm here. I'm right here."

"Jade… Jade! I'm right here!" She woke up gasping for air as Leonardo shook her arms to wake her. She had been moaning his name in an uncomfortable sleep, as her hands were cold as ice. She blinked wildly as she acted like she had just awoken from a comma. She put her hands on his arms as she looked back into his worried eyes.

"L-Leo…" She said softly as he nodded his head. She pulled his arms around her, as she held him close. She could feel his heart beating as she listening closely with him near. She gripped onto his warm body, pulling away and looking back into his life filled eyes.

"I'm right here, I didn't go anywhere." He said softly as a reassuring smile went to his face. He lowered his eyes to look directly into hers as she slowly nodded her head.

"I-It's was just a bad dream." She stammered as she put her head down.

"Usually these dreams of yours aren't just dreams." He said as she lifted her head slowly.

"It couldn't be anything but. I wouldn't let that happen to you."

"What happened to me?"

"You were killed by a figure in black. Their katana piercing your heart just as yours did with the Shredder." She said as her body started to shake with chills from the thought.

"The Shredder is dead."

"Hun isn't. The Foot aren't. Leo, we still have to finish this. Just because we killed one part doesn't mean the whole operation goes down with him. He wasn't the only person there. Hun was there, he helped. You said it yourself Saki was the brains but Hun was the brute strength. I mean, what if they get new brains. Stockman! He's still alive too! We have so many…." Leo grasped her face, pulling her rambling lips onto his as he kissed her deeply and filled with passion. As much as he could muster with all the swelling denial and anger raging through his body at the idea of it. He knew she was partly right, but he didn't want to believe it. Not yet, not now. He needed her to be calm.

He clasped his hands tightly around her back, pulling her body onto his as she straddled his lap. She moved her hands up his arms to the back of his head as his short choppy dirty blonde hair ran through her fingers. She stopped and pulled back away from his as she remembered her dream. This Leo stood and did nothing. She slid off his lap slowly as he looked at her confused.

"What…, are you…"

"Leo, you would protect me right?"

"Jade, forever. I promised you that…" He said moving closer to her as she tried not to cower away from his touch. "I would never let anything bad happen to you." She looked at him unsure as the candle light flicked across his beautiful face.

It was beautiful but not the face she wanted. She wanted the one she fell in love with back, her Leo. She wanted him back. She sighed looking down at his hands slowly moving across his bedding as she hesitated to reach towards him. She looked back up at him as his face was closer, close enough for her to see his eyes other than the shadows of them. He looked back into hers with so much emotional distress running through them, it made her heart break. She clenched her eyes shut as she put her hand over his. She felt their strong connection ripple through her senses as she let a soft sigh escape from her lips with relief. She opened her eyes slowly looking back into his eyes. Her Leo's eyes. She smiled closing her eyes once more and leaning forward with a soft kiss against his lips.

"Do you believe me?" He asked softly as she pulled away from his lips, her eyes remaining closed as her forehead rested against his strong shoulder. His voice was filled with so much warmth and love, familiarity and safety she smiled to herself. His stern, yet soft beautiful voice that slowly started to fade into her memory forever like an imprint. She clenched her eyes tightly trying to hold onto the feeling consuming her body. "Please tell me you do Jade." His voice quivered slightly to her name as she felt his head rest against hers.

"I believe you Leonardo." She said matching his pitch as she felt his chest give under hers with a breath. He wrapped his arms around her, sliding her body closer to his as she went willingly. He laid back on the mattress as she followed, laying in between his legs. She shifted, holding herself up so she could look down at him. He smiled looking up at her as he moved a piece of her hair out of her face tucking it behind her ear.

He glided his hand down her bare shoulder, along her arm as goose bumps covered her skin from his rough palm sliding down her side, resting at her waist. The only thing covering them from one another was a thin sheet that wasn't tossed aside like his comforter. Her bare chest and upper body exposed as his abdomen and left leg were. She smiled, gliding her finger along the cut of his stomach, opening her palm and moving back up to his chest laying her head over his heart. He put his hand over hers as she put her head down with a sigh.

"Nothing is going to happen to me." He said softly as she didn't look back at him. He leaned onto his elbows, cupping her face in his hand to move her face to focus on his. A small tear rolled down her cheek as he wiped it away. She looked into his eyes as they danced back and forth across hers. His sincere brown eyes that saw into every last inch of her soul as they impaled through hers.

She moved down pressing her lips into his forgetting all her pain and misery and falling deeply into him. His kiss leaving the sensation to cover her body with an unbelievable feeling she could only experience with him. She knew he wouldn't harm her, or let anyone cause harm to her. She would do the same for him, always. He pulled her body closer, rolling his on top of hers as they landed at the foot of his bed, their lips still clinging to one another's. The sheet ripped between them as he reached down for it from her moving her soft leg along his waist. Never again would she second guess him and his protection towards her.