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Thanny is now 10 and the boys are 13.
who's the outsider now?
today she and Splinter went shopping above, well he gave her money and she went inside the store to buy the food. He kept a close eye on her the entire time she was out. She had found it great to be outside when she was allowed. She got the things she had to get and got out without problems. But when they got home the real problem started named Raphaël.
"guys, guys! i got the food all alone" she yelled, she was so proud of herself.
"that's great dudette! come give those bags, you didn't forget the pizza's didn't you?"
"no I got everything!" she beamed and gave the groceries bags to her youngest brother. her other brothers, came to see what all the commotion was about.
"hey, Thanny why are you so happy?" Leo asked.
"I've gone to the shop and bought all the food by myself!"
"that's great little sister" Donny rubbed his hand through her hair.
"so what, big deal" Raph said, she was kind of shocked by this reaction, normally he was always on her side, but now he seemed angry at her.
"why are you mad at me?"
he threw her an angry look and ignored her "why does she get to go outside anyways? we have to stay inside"
"Raph!" Leo pushed him.
"what? i just don't think it's fair that she can go outside and we have to stay in the stupid smelly sewers!"
"Raphaël enough!"
"and what's so special about going to the store anyway? If I was a stupid little human like you, I could do it too" he took a step in the direction of Thanny , she baked up. why was he acting like this? she started to become a little scared of him.
"Raphaël, I said enough!" Splinter yelled now.
He seemed to have woken up from his angry frenzy and looked at the result of his sudden outburst. The eyes of his little sister were filled with fear and tears. she pushed Raph out of the way and ran to the safety of her room.
"Thanny ... are you happy now?" Mikey said.
"Yeah, you crossed the line Raph" Donny added.
"I'm sorry" he said quietly when he lowered his head in shame.
"we're not the ones who you should be apologizing to"
"I'm very disappointed in you Raphaël, I'm going to talk to her, you make sure the groceries are unpacked and I'll deal with you later"
he got to the closed door of his youngest child he knocked a couple of times before going in, he found her sitting on her bed, she quickly wiped away a couple of tears.
"Theng Sjen are you alright?" she sat next to her on her bed.
"sensei does Raph hate me?"
"He doesn't hate you my daughter"
"but..."
"Raphaël is angry because he can't go outside like you can, he's jealous of you"
"I don't understand master"
"see my daughter, we are different then you, you can go outside and when people see you they won't be afraid of you, you don't have to hide, while we have to conceal ourselves in the shadows and we will never be part of the world above"
she nodded at this and seemed to be over thinking the matter.
"Just remember my daughter we love you, all of us"
"even Raph?"
"especially Raphaël" they hugged and he stroke her long black hair "do you feel better now?"
"a little, could I stay in my room for a little while?"
"sure" he walked out and saw his sons waiting outside Theng Sjen's room.
"master can we go inside now? some of us want to tell her something important" Leo explained
"yeah ..."
"you don't have to ask me" he said and walked downstairs.
Mikey knocked on the door and waited for answer, the door slid open just enough to see the face of their sister, her eyes were puffy and red, she must have cried more when Splinter had left.
"euh hye little dudette, can we enter?"
"sure" she opened the door and walked back to the spot on her bed.
"Thanny I just wanted to say that I'm sorry and I didn't mean to scare ya"
"it's okay"
"you sure you still seem sad" Donny asked when he placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I'm fine"
"come on you can tell us, we're your brothers" Leo said and sat next to her.
"no you're not"
"what?" they all screamed together.
"I'm a human and you're not so I don't belong with you" everyone rushed to her side.
"don't you ever say that we are a family, I was pissed but I didn't mean to say that"
"but I can go outside and you guys can't"
"why is that bad? we are the outsiders not you" Mikey explained.
"but if all of you are outsiders, and I'm the only one on the inside, then aren't I the real outsider"
"man that's deep" Mikey said they all looked at each other.
"you know that's not a bad thing, you're still a valuable member of our team" Leo said.
"yeah, just because you're different then us doesn't mean your not one of us" Donny added.
"hey, we are doomed without you, who else is going to get food and stuff, and when you're older you could be like our inside man ... euh women, you know infiltrate in our archenemies lair and get us inside information and stuff" she had to laugh at that.
"really?"
"totally, you're the best sister we could ever wish for" Raph said at his turn, everyone looked shocked at that.
"wow Raph don't get to friendly it's almost scary"
"yeah... don't get used to it"
"come here you big wuss, group hug" Mikey hugged Raph, in any other situation he would be risking his life but now the coast was clear. everyone joined in.
"you're the best brothers ever! I love you guys"
"auuw we love you to, come here you" Mikey picked her up and started tickling her.
"yeah we all love you don't we Raph" Don said and elbowed him.
"yeah, yeah you're alright"
"is that the best you can do?" Leo said.
"come on Leo, to much affection could probably kill him" MIkey joked when he was finished tickling his little sister.