A Special Birthday Present

Chapter 11 of Teenage Mutants

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"Close your eyes," Leo said to Mikey as he put one arm behind Mikey's back and one behind her knees and swept her off her feet.

She giggled and buried her face into his neck, "I promise. I won't look." He kissed her forehead and opened the door to the hotel suite he rented for the night.

It had been almost three years since the gang had taken the trip to the lake. They hadn't seen a trace of the Foot Clan since before they left. At first it had baffled him, but now Leo was finally starting to feel like he was a normal 20 year old man. All of them had graduated from high school and gotten jobs. Leo worked as a mechanic at a local shop, Raph got a job at a warehouse, and Don started worked managing the computer system at an accounting firm. With all of them working, they could afford a modest house and Mikey stayed home with Devon. It scared him to admit it, but he was happy with the way his life was going. Everything seemed so perfect. For the first time he was content and he felt safe. He felt as if he could finally put all of the Foot Clan and the fighting and the pain behind him. But a voice in the back of his mind kept telling him that something bad was going to happen. It always seemed that as soon as he was truly happy, the other foot would fall and his life would take an amazing turn for the worse.

"Happy 18th Birthday, Sweetie. Open your eyes," he said as he set her onto her feet.

As Mikey looked around the room tears immediately sprang into her eyes. There was a huge bed against the wall to their left that looked as comfortable as any bed she had ever seen. Across from the bed was a huge TV and DVD player. Then, in the corner was a Jacuzzi with candles lit all around it. The entire room was covered with red and white rose petals.

Mikey threw her arms around Leo's neck and whispered, "I love you so much. You're all I could ever ask for." As she pulled away from the embrace she looked into his eyes and saw his love and desire for her.

"I love you, too." He put his hand to the back of her neck and puller her lips to his. He kissed her tenderly then pulled away to kiss her cheek, her forehead, her eyelids, and then he moved down over her neck. He felt her smile as he trailed his tongue across her neck and moved down to her collar bones.

Both of them were breathing heavy as she pulled his shirt over his head and backed toward the bed. Grinning like a little boy, Leo unbuttoned Mikey's white collared shirt and pulled it away from her before letting it fall to the ground. They stepped on it as they continued on their slow walk to the bed. Moments later, her bra hit the ground near her shirt. His hand came to her breast and she let out a moan against his lips.

The walk to the bed seemed almost unbearably slow to Mikey but finally she felt the mattress brush against the back of her leg. She laid down on her back and Leo unbuttoned her pants and pulled them off of her. Laying in front of him completely naked she couldn't have felt more vulnerable and more comfortable all at the same time. With Leo she didn't know how to explain what she felt other than by saying that with him everything felt right somehow and she was truly happy. At that moment she had no inhibitions, no fears, no sadness, no obligations. All she had at that moment was the deep passion and love that she shared with Leo. She held nothing back, she opened her heart to him.

Leo took of his own pants and threw them in the heap with the rest of their clothes. He stretched over her and lowered his head to kiss her deeply. When he pulled away and looked down at her he could feel his own hands shaking with the sight of her beneath him completely naked. She was all he could ask for in a woman and he trusted her with everything. Looking down at her, he gave her all of himself. All of his sorrow, his rage, and his joy were wrapped up in her. She smiled at him and he thought his heart would swell over with the ecstasy of her smile. He kissed her again and with the length of him pressed up against her body he could feel her every curve. He let his hand slide between her legs as he kissed her neck. Her breath quickened to a quick gasp and she let out a moan. He could feel her heart pounding against his chest.

Mikey rolled Leo over onto his back and straddled him. She let her hands explore his taught muscles while she teasingly licked his lips and got unbearably close to a kiss before pulling away. Teasing him only quickened his breathing and sent his heart rate soaring. She moved to his neck and he put his hands on her back, pulling her close to his increasingly warm body. She moved to suck on his earlobes and when his hand found her breast she breathed heavily in his ear.

Her teasing was more than he could take; she could feel his body shaking as he put his hands on her hips. He gasped, "Please Mikey, I want you." Mikey kissed him softly on the lips before giving him what he wanted.

Leo decided that his life was perfect and he would do anything to keep it that way.

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Becca walked out of the kitchen with a big pot of spaghetti and meatballs and set it on the table. She smiled at Don and Raph sitting at the table.

After Becca had returned from the Middle East, she and Raph had continued their relationship with even more certainty than before. It was obvious that they were soul mates. All he could do while she was gone was worry over her. He hoped that she was eating enough, that she was happy, that she was safe. He wanted to be able to make her feel safe, but from half a world away his promises in writing did little to protect her from harm. At least Becca knew what Raph was up against: the Foot Clan, but with Becca it was different. It was impossible to know where danger could be hiding and in what form. It drove him almost to the brink of madness with fear. Raph had counted the days to her return. Starting the day she left.

For the time they spent away from each other Becca stayed up countless nights worrying over Raph's safety as well. No matter how many times he swore to her in a letter that things were different, that they had money and that the Foot Clan was gone, she couldn't fight the fear that he was going hungry and being jumped in the streets. After spending so much time unable to protect the other from harm, when Becca got home they had trouble leaving each other. Most nights, Becca stayed with Raph as late as she could but had yet to move into the house with him. Both of them knew it was only a matter of time until she did. The result, though, was that both of them knew after being apart for so long, they could never live their lives that way. They were soul mates.

The door bell rang and Don shot to his feet. "Okay guys be nice, I like her." Both Becca and Raph smiled devious smiles as they crossed their hearts. Don could only shake his head and laugh.

When he opened the door his date, Lisa, walked in. She was almost as tall as Don with long dark hair and dark eyes. Raph and Becca exchanged glances and smiled both understanding what the other was trying to say. Lisa was beautiful in an exotic kind of way. By the way she was blushing it was obvious that she was very shy but not in the kind of way that kept her hidden all the time. She was a modest kind of shy.

She smiled at Don, "Hello, thank you for having me over."

He took her coat, "I'm just glad you could make it. Dinner's ready."

She smiled a beautiful smile and said hello to Becca and Raph. "Becca it looks great, thank you."

"No problem, honey, dig in," Becca smiled and started eating. "So how did you and Don meet?" she asked Lisa.

"Well he works on the computer system at the Daniel Accounting Firm and I am Mr. Daniel's secretary."

"Yeah and it's pretty hard to get any work done when she calls me over every ten minutes to bail her out of some new technological problem. It's amazing the way this woman can mess up a computer sometimes." He looked over at her and winked and she started laughing.

"I do it on purpose because I love the way he rubs up against me when he's trying to get it straightened out. It's so cute because he thinks he's being sneaky about it but he is so obvious."

All of them laughed at the exchange between Don and Lisa.

"So where did you grow up, Lisa?" Becca asked.

"I live about 20 miles west of here with my parents. They're great to me. My mom is a dentist and my dad is a police officer. I have two sisters who are already married and moved out."

Becca smiled, "Do you get along well?"

Lisa shrugged, "Yeah, better now than we did when we were young. You know, three teenage girls living in a house together can get difficult at times."

Becca chuckled at that, "Yeah, I guess you're right."

"So are you in school?" Raph asked her

"Actually, I'm in an 18 month program at Western to learn how to do ultrasounds and EKGs. I've got 6 months to go."

"Wow, do you like that?" Becca asked.

"I like anything better than typing up schedules and making appointments all day. Plus all that time I spend with Don can really wear me down." Everyone laughed at that.

For hours they sat at the table talking, even after all of them had finished eating. They laughed together and told each other stories of their lives. Lisa listened attentively to their stories, trying make sure she didn't miss a detail. Becca was surprised at how much she seemed interested in what each of them had to say.

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Mikey fought to open her eyes. It seemed as if she had been drugged as she fought the sleep away and willed the fog in her mind to clear. She tried to bring her hand to rub her face but something stopped her short. "Leo," she mumbled. He didn't answer. She felt someone touch her face and she sighed in comfort before letting the sleepiness take over her again.

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Raph and Leo walked the girls out to their cars at 3 in the morning. They waved as they watched the taillights disappear around a bend in the road. The two of them walked back into the couch and grabbed a beer and sat on the couch flipping channels on TV. "I really like her," Raph said to Don.

Don smiled lightly, "That means a lot to me, man. I really like her, too."

They stopped on the local news when a headline caught their attention. It was about a shooting and rape somewhere on the north side of town. It sounded a little too much like the Foot Clan for comfort. They sat unable to look away from the television as if it would reach out an touch them. The implications were frightening. Just the idea of the foot clan coming back made the hair on the back of Raph's neck stand on end and Don's stomach drop.

When the report ended Raph looked over and in a shaky voice said, "Hey man, tomorrow night, do you want to go scout out the north side with me? I'd rather just clear this up and maybe stop this all before it gets going again. I don't want to go back to the way things were."

"Yeah that sounds good . I completely agree that I don't want to go back, but I'm sure it's nothing. We'll figure it out tomorrow. It's probably some drunken teenager making trouble."

Raph's last thought before he fell asleep was the haunting idea that with as quiet as the Foot Clan had been, maybe they were neglecting to see the signs of their return, making themselves vulnerable to an attack. Their quiet had made the Turtles comfortable and cocky. If so, they were in for the fight of their lives. Raph sighed and dismissed the idea. If something was up, they would know about it. He was sure that he and don would go the next day to find that the crime had nothing to do with Foot Clan at all. Then he would be able to breathe a little easier.

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At 6:00 AM Leo threw open the door to the house waking Don and Raph from their sleep on the couch.

"Guys, get up right now. There's something wrong, Mikey's gone."

Both of them rubbed their eyes trying to understand what he was saying. "What the fuck are you talking about man?" Raph said angrily.

"I'm talking about Mikey. I fell asleep with her last night right next to me in the hotel room. Then, I woke up this morning and she was gone. I can't find her anywhere and I have a very bad feeling." His voice wavered, "This feels way too much like the last time she disappeared."

"Alright, Leo, we'll figure this out. Don't get worked up until we know what's going on. We can all split up and try to find her."

"Do me a favor," Leo said quietly to his friends.

"Anything," Don said.

"You were with Becca and Lisa last night, right?"

"Yeah," they both said skeptically.

"Call them and be sure they're safe," Leo said quietly.

Raph and Don both felt their heart fall into their stomach at the thought. After three years of peace it seemed their world was about to crash down. It all became clear to them that this had been the Foot Clan's plan after all and because they had wanted so badly for it to be true, they had fallen for it.