A/N: This is the first story that I post and I hope you guys like it... I hope to get a lot of reviews! Have fun!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters related to TMNT and I don't own TMNT itself! I DO own my imagination =) (one of the characters (Mini,, the 'I' person =P) and the story.)

"She's still sleeping?"

I heard nothing, but I think he got a confirmation, because he snorted.

"The kid surely sleeps long,". The same voice, a very low voice.

"Raph, you don't know what she's been through." Another voice, this one was close by.

"Do you?", the voice called 'Raph' said, clearly edgy.

The one close by sighed. "No, I don't."

Then they fell silent. I didn't dare to open my eyes, didn't have the courage to move, to speak, I barely dared to breathe. I heard 'Raph' walk away, because he snorted again and then I heard his footsteps fade away slowly. But the other one stayed. I heard his slow breath and I caught myself almost drifting away to sleep. But I had to stay awake. I didn't know where I was and although this people seemed nice, they could turn out dangerous.

After what seemed a very long time for me, someone came walking into the room and after a while he or she left again. My body started to hurt. I'd laid in the same position for ages and my arms and legs where beginning to get stiff. Still, I didn't dare to move.

"You're awake, aren't you?"

The sudden voice startled me a bit. It took a while to understand he was talking to me.

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you."

I doubted, but decided I couldn't lie here forever playing death. So I openend my eyes slowly. The light in the place was dim, but I could make out some things. "Where am I?" I heard my voice was soft and weak.

At the end of the room was an open door where light came from. There were no windows. There was a closet and an office with a chair pulled away from it.

"You're in the sewers," he answered simply.

I reconised the contours of frames hanging on the walls, together with some other things I reconised as weapons. "I doesn't seem like a sewer to me." No, it didn't.

I saw loads of other things in the room as well, on the office and some stuff on the ground, but anything but poop and pee, although I couldn't say what it actually was. He laughed. "I guess that is a compliment?".

"Yes, it is." I smiled and looked at him. My smile faded away immediately. I felt my eyes grew bigger and I tried hard to not let my mouth fall wide-open. Right beside my bed stood a turtle, straightup, like a human and just as big. He had a blue band around his head and before his eyes and I saw two swords on his shell.

But despite my stare, the big turtle just smiled. I suddenly realized he must have had this reaction oftenly, so I turned my head away as fast as I could and I felt the shame crawl to my cheeks.

My sudden head-turn seemed to startle him. "What's wrong?". He bended forwards to me.

"I'm sorry..."

"For what?", he said not understanding. He stood straight again. "Did you call the police or something? Or is this a trap?", he asked, suddenly turning suspicious.

"No, no!", I said shocked and I looked at him again, "You are...".

"A turtle," he sighed, "Yeah, I know."

"No," I said smiling, "You are just someone I've never met before and all I could do was stare instead of introducing myself. I uhm... sorta found out that that was kinda rude. So, hi! I'm Mini." I offered him my hand.

The turtle started smiling again. "I'm Leonardo, but friends call me Leo." He shook my hand.

I smiled back. "I just... How did I get here? What happend? How did you found me?"

Leonardo lifted his hands defencefully. "Ho, ho! Calm down!" He laughed. "I'll start at the beginning okay?"

I nodded.

"My brothers..."

"Your brothers?"

"Yeah, you'll meet them later, I promise," he said, giving me a reassuring smile, "So my brothers and me were outside..."

"How is it I've never seen you before?"

He sighed. I realized I interupted his story for already two times and I felt again ashamed. "We don't walk on the streets at day, we actually don't walk on the streets at all. We use the sewers, the alley's and the rooftops. We live in the shadows."

I nodded.

"So, we were on the rooftops again and then it suddenly started to storm. We decided to go home, but suddenly the lightning hit in close by. My brothers and I went to check it out and we found you in the alley the lightning struck, that's what we think anyway. We couldn't bring you to a hospital ourselfs and our friends are out of town for a while, so we brought you here. One of my brother checked you and he said you would be alright, though you would need rest. And resting you did, you've slept for four days straight."

My eyes widend. "Four days? My parents are freaking out!" I jumped out of the bed and almost fell, if Leonardo hadn't caught me on time.

"Carefull."

I felt my cheeks getting red again. "Thank you...". I stood up again, more carefull this time.

"You feel alright?"

"Yeah, still a bit weak, but okay," I smiled at him.

"Maybe you have to eat something?", he suggested.

Suddenly I felt my stomach rumble. "Yeah, that'll be great."

He nodded. "Follow me, then."

He walked out of the room and I followed. I first had to get used to the light and when I did, I was amazed.

He said we were in the sewers, but I never thought it would be so big. We were in a huge room with different floors and many, many chambers. I looked down and saw we were on the 1st floor, with underneath us a small pond in the middle. From where I stood I could see a kitchen with a round dining table and a little futher to the right a big bench with a couple of seats and a big tv-wall. I also saw two other turtles, one in the kitchen and one on the couch. The one in the kitchen wore a red headband and had two weapons in his belt. He was drinking a bottle of water and stood with his back towards us. The other one sat on the bench, screaming and moving. I couldn't see what he was doing, but he wore a oranje headband.

"Are you coming?"

I almost jumped in the air from fright. He'd startled me again. I'd been so fascinated by the whole new world I'd been brought to I forgot that someone waited for me. I held my heart and tried to calm it down. "Yeah, yeah, I'm coming..."

We walked down the stairs and walked to the kitchen. The other turtle, the one with the red band, turned around by hearing our footsteps.

"Finally awake?", he asked. I reconized his voice. He was the one that was in my room earlier.

"Yes, she is," Leo nodded, "She's hungry, so I'm making her some food."

"As long as she doesn't eat it all," he growled softly, but just hard enough for us to hear.

"Raph!", Leo yelled.

"What?", 'Raph' yelled back, "It's my house!"

"It's OUR house! And besides, you're the one that found her!"

'Raph' felt silent. They were trying to stare eachother down. I looked at them, scared. Where they always that way? Would his other brothers fight with him too? Would they fight me? I slowly started to walk backwards; I needed to find a way out of here. My parents would be worried and if they were going to fight me too...

Suddenly I bumped into something. I turned around slowly and saw another turtle, the one with the orange band. "I heard yelling?", he said smiling. Then he looked down, like he hadn't noticed me before. He brought his head really close to mine with great speed and asked something. But I didn't pay attention anymore. He'd scared the shell out of me and I ran to the stairs again.

"Heey! Wait!", I heard Leo yell. But I didn't stop. I looked around me, wildly, but saw no way out. Then I heard footsteps behind me. I didn't hestitate and rushed into one of the rooms at high speed.

I hugged my knees. My cellphone in my hand. I had no use, but I held unto it as if it could save my life. Maybe it would, but my hope slowly faded away.

After I'd run into the room yesterday, I'd slided some heavy stuff in front of the door. Like a heavy punchbag and some weights. Then I'd crawl into the corner that had the most distant from the door. And that was where I still was now. I'd tried to block out their tries to get in. They'd banged the door, they'd tried to talk to me, but I didn't give in. I knew I had to try to think of a plan. I already tried to call my parents, my home, my friends, but nothing worked. At least they gave up trying to get in, so I had time to think without all the whining in my ears. I knew they were probably thinking of a plan too, but I had to be the first one to find an answer.

I sighed. The best thing was to go through all the possibilities, again.

No windows, one door. My cellphone didn't work, so no help from the outside. I was in a lair, somewhere in the sewers. There was at least one of the three big turtles in front of the door, I knew two of the three had weapons and I didn't. Pretending to give in wouldn't help, because they would have me watched 24/7 and pretending to get unwell would probably mean the same thing. I sighed again, no way out.

"Kid?"

I could scream, was the whole circus beginning again? Couldn't they leave me alone?

"Hello? Are you there?"

But this voice was different. It was a female's voice.

"Kid? Are you okay?"

"I'm... I'm fine," my voice was breaking down, 5 days without any food or drink, I should be death.

"Great. I'm April, who are you?"

"I'm... why do you wanna know?"

It went silent. She was surely lost for words. And suddenly it struck me, was she captured too? "Are you okay?"

"Yes,". It seemed that she sounded surprised. "Why do you ask?"

"Are you captured too?"

"What... You are not captured! Me neither! I'm a friend of the turtles... they don't want to hurt you! I promise!"

I felt some suspicion. Was it a trap?

"Please, we all want to help you... You're probably tired, hungry, thirsty..."

She was right. I was tired. When I thought it over, I didn't think I could stand any longer without food or water. I would probably regret it later, but I had to give in, I had no choice. So I stood up, wobbling slightly. I walked through the door and with more effort than the last time I moved them, I moved all the stuff aside. I heard mumbling on the other side of the door, they probably heard the movement.

"Kid? What are you doing?", Leo asked.

When everything was out of the way, I openend the door carefully. I saw their shocked faces, I figured I probably looked like a mess.

"Come on,", April said and offered me her hand, "We're getting you something to eat..."

I nodded and took her hand. I felt like a little girl again, ledded through the lair, hand in hand, but I indeed was tired, I was drained. I didn't care anymore. She made me sit down on the dining table and after a couple of minutes I heard the sound of baking eggs and bacon. Then I smelled it. Immediatly I felt my stomach rumble hard.

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