"Wh-Why do w-we have t-to watch a-a scary m-movie?" Jazz asked, watching as Ben and Theo set everything up.
"'Cause there's nothin' betta' ta do!" Rose answered.
"Come on! It won't really be scary! Just…surprising." Joss counseled, smiling reassuringly.
Jackie was on the couch, giggling in her sleep, and her older sister made sure she didn't fall.
Violet came in with the popcorn, but stopped, feeling a chill race up her shell like fingers.
"Vi?"
She snapped out of it, looking at Rose.
"What?"
"Ya zoned out on me. What's up?"
Violet smiled slightly.
"It's nothing. Let's start that movie!"
With the adults, except Splinter, out on patrol, it left a perfect chance for a movie.
They turned off the lights, and settled on the couch and armchairs for a good scare.
Jazz jumped, feeling a cold wind on her shoulder, like fingers trailing across her skin, and clutched Joss's arm.
"Jazz?"
"BOO!!!!!!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Ben and Theo fell over, rolling in laughter, when they were met with Violet's red/purple eyes.
"Will you two grow up and stop scaring her?! Isn't it bad enough she's scared of the movie?!"
She stopped when she thought she saw a white figure next to the twins, looking like it was made of mist, but when she blinked, it was gone.
'…Weird…'
Joss gave her a questioning look, noticing her eyes shift from red to purple again.
'What's UP with people today?'
Jackie opened her eyes, and seemed to be staring at something nearby.
Violet stood up, moving past the two boys on the floor, and felt that freezing air, though now it trailed along her neck, putting pressure.
She choked, moving back, and tripped over Ben.
"Vi?!"
Rose jumped over the back of the couch, worried for her sister, and saw bruises forming on the elder turtle's lighter toned skin.
"Bruises…" She muttered.
A chill raced up her shell.
"…Shaped like fingers…"
Violet winced when the small fingers trailed the dark bruises, and she grabbed her wrist.
"Don't…it hurts…"
Jazz was there in a moment, looking worriedly at the bruises.
"Someone pressed pretty hard…"
Joss held her sister close, worried.
"…But who?"
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When Cat came home, she expected the six kids to be scared by a movie, but that's not what the eight were greeted with when they stepped through the front door.
The kids tackled their respective parents, shaking, and panic in their eyes. Cat noticed the bruises first…
"Violet! Who tried to choke you?"
She looked up at her mother.
"I don't know! I felt this weird chill, and it grabbed me around the throat! I backed up and tripped over Ben, and it let go, but now I have these weird bruises!"
Cat never stopped being astounded that her eldest daughter could say so much in one breath…
"…So what hurt you?"
"Mommy, don't lose me on this…I think it was a ghost…"
Silence…
"Pipsqueak, are ya sure?" Raph asked, lifting her up carefully.
Sure enough, the marks were too large and long to be any of the kids, and it wasn't theirs.
This hand print had five fingers, after all.
"Tell me what happened."
Their eyes locked, and she nodded.
"I was getting popcorn for the movie, and came out when this weird chill went up my shell, like weird fingers…but it went away, so I went to watch the movie. Jazz got freaked out by something, and Ben and Theo scared her. I yelled at them and then saw this weird person standing by them…like someone wearing a robe, but they looked like they were made of smoke or somethin'…but they were gone when I blinked, so I tried to see if they were still there. I felt my hand touch cold air, and then the fingers closed over my throat…I moved back and tripped…well, ya know…"
She buried her face in his shoulder.
"…D-Daddy…I-I think I-I'm seeing gh-ghosts…"