I just had to finish and post this next chapter. I am so excited about what is going to happen. (hmm am I allowed to be excited? Well I am. I want to know what everyone thinks!)

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Chapter 19

Katherine woke up and stretched. Raphael groaned. She smiled. He was really not a morning person at all.

"Good morning." She whispered.

"The only thing good about it is waking up next to you." Raphael said opening his eyes and looking at her.

She smirked. "Nice one." She said rolling off the bed out of his reach.

Raphael groaned. "You are too cruel Kitten." He said to her.

She chuckled softly as Raphael rolled over to go back to sleep. She wondered what the dream had been that had frightened Raphael so much. Raphael didn't seem to be scared of anything, but something in that dream had bothered him. She shrugged. She quickly got dressed, brushed her teeth and headed out of the room to apologize to Donatello and give Leonardo his shirt back. He had undressed her and although she should have been angry at him she knew that they had all already seen her naked, so it was rather a moot point. But still...

She walked down the hallway and heard a moan. She frowned. She walked back a few steps and put her ear to Michelangelo's door. She heard a moan again.

She opened the door and peeked in. Michelangelo was sitting up in bed clutching his head. She smirked.

"I told you not to go for that last bottle of wine Michelangelo." She said as he glared at her.

"Kitten you are talking way too loud." He whispered.

She walked over to the bed and touched his cheek lightly. "Poor poor Michelangelo." She said sympathetically.

"Why aren't you hung-over?" He asked.

She shrugged. She felt fine. "I have no idea, I'm not going to complain though." She looked at his miserable face.

"I'll see if I can wrestle you up a hangover cure alright?" She said to him. "Right now the best thing you can do is start drinking some water." She said walking into the bathroom and grabbing a glass of water for him.

He took the offered glass and began drinking. "I'll be right back." She said gently.

She passed by Donatello's room and decided she would help Michelangelo first and then go check on Donatello.

She ran down to the library as she remembered there was a book called Recipe's and Cure-alls, dated 1811, but she figured it was worth a shot.

She managed to find a hangover cure, found all of the ingredients, mixed it and managed to pour it down Michelangelo's throat all in a relatively short amount of time.

Katherine left Michelangelo to get some more sleep and walked gingerly into Donatello's room.

She looked at his sleeping form suspiciously. She pulled back the curtains letting light stream into the room. "How are you feeling Donatello?" She asked him.

He opened his eyes and looked at her miserably.

"I am so sorry Donatello, I didn't realize you were not up to walking around so much." She said softly sitting on the edge of his bed.

"No, Katherine, don't apologize. Please, please don't apologize." He said desperately.

Katherine frowned at him, but her attention was caught by her laptop which was making an odd noise. She frowned as Donatello looked at the laptop. He grabbed it and opened it up. He began scanning whatever was on the screen. "Someone's broken into the lair." He said with surprise. "But, I can't make out who or what it is." He said with a frown as he began typing frantically.

Donatello looked at her worriedly. She leapt up. "I'll get everyone up." She said as she rushed from the room.

She ran back to her room and woke Raphael up. She told him what was going on and pushed him out of her room as she burst into Leonardo's room.

She heard the scrape of metal on metal as she skidded to a halt before she barrelled into Leonardo. She looked at his swords. "Don't tell me you actually sleep with those." She said in surprise as he looked at her in shock.

Leonardo sheathed his swords. "Oh God, Donny." He said paling.

"No Leonardo, it's the lair, someone's broke in." She said to him touching his arm lightly.

Donatello watched as Leonardo strode into his room followed by Raphael and Michelangelo a few minutes later.

"What do you mean you don't know who it is?" Raphael growled.

"The inner alarm's been tripped but I can't make out who has tripped the alarm. There are just indistinct shapes. The camera can't seem to pick up what it is." Donatello said his fingers flying across the keys.

"Kitten look after Donny, we've got to check this out." Leonardo ordered.

'I'm coming Leo." Donatello said to him.

"Donny, you are in no condition..." Leonardo began.

"I'm the only one who can reset the security system and I can't do it remotely." Donatello said to him insistently.

Leonardo looked like he wanted to argue, but couldn't.

"You had better get moving." Katherine said to them.

Leonardo nodded as he strode from the room to get ready to go.

Katherine looked at Donatello after Raphael and Michelangelo left the room. "Do you need any help?" She asked him.

He shook his head. She nodded as she left him to get dressed.

They were ready within minutes. Katherine walked with them to the front door. Raphael had already pulled the truck out from the garage and it sat idling out front.

"Be careful." She told them.

They all froze and looked at her as if they just realized that they were leaving. "We'll be back Kitten." Michelangelo said happily as he lifted her up of her feet in an exuberant hug.

She laughed. "I'm glad the hangover cure worked Michelangelo." She said to him as he put her down.

"I feel much better." He said happily leaning in for a kiss. Raphael pushed Michelangelo out of the way.

"Raph!" Michelangelo complained.

"Shell for brains is right, we ain't done yet, we'll be back."

"I know, a week before Christmas." She said to him as he stood close to her. He looked at her and frowned.

"We're spending Christmas here!"Michelangelo said with excitement. "There's going to be decorations and a tree and dinner and presents!" Michelangelo said excitedly.

"Michelangelo." Leonardo growled.

"Already said yes Leo, can't back out now." Michelangelo said to Leonardo

"He's right Leo." Raphael said over his shoulder. "We haven't had a Christmas in two years. I think it's time, besides, we can't let Kitten spend Christmas alone." He said lifting her chin slightly with his fingers. He leaned in and kissed her.

She pulled back and looked at him in shock. He grinned down at her. "I know, there is some sort of 'but' hanging around, but I still wanted to kiss you." He said softly to her.

"Raph." Michelangelo complained.

"Hey Mikey you snooze you lose. Be careful Kitten." He said to her as she nodded.

Donatello looked away from his brother kissing Katherine. He felt miserable.

She walked over to him and gave him a hug. "Take care of yourself." She said to him softly.

He nodded. "You too." He whispered as a feeling of wrongness rode over him.

She looked at Leonardo. "Leonardo?" She questioned. He grabbed her arm in a grip of steel. She looked up at him in shock. Leonardo was furious. He could see the anger rolling around in his brother's eyes making his already dark brown eyes darker, almost black. "Be careful." She said to him. Leonardo closed his eyes and gave a curt nod letting her arm go.

Donatello looked at the door. He wanted to get away as fast as he could but each step he took towards the open door felt like he was dragging lead weights instead of his feet.

He stopped at the door's threshold and felt as if he actually couldn't step through the doorway. He looked at the door in shock and confusion. It felt as if he had hit a barrier of some sort, something he couldn't see.

"Come on Donny, we gotta go." Raphael said as he pushed him through the doorway.

Donatello walked towards the truck and it felt as if he was walking through molasses. He looked back at the house and Katherine standing in the doorway. He wasn't supposed to leave. He knew this with a certainty but he couldn't even begin to explain why.

He and his brothers got into their truck and as they drove away Donatello felt as if a cord that was attached to him was being pulled too tight and stretched too thin. It didn't hurt, but it was not a comfortable sensation. But that was okay, it just added to the misery he was experiencing at the moment.

Katherine watched as the brothers got into the truck and drove away. She closed the door and walked to the library. She picked up the card that lay on the desk, the one that had been tossed into the fire. "So once I can finally see you clearly, does my carriage turn back into a pumpkin?" She asked the dark figure standing beside her. He remained silent, not like she was expecting an answer anyway. She looked at the laptop that now sat on the desk and looked back at the card in her hand.

Raphael frowned. "I don't like this Leo." Raphael said to his older brother who was silently fuming in the passenger seat while he sat in back with Donatello, Michelangelo was driving. Raphael didn't like the thought of leaving Katherine alone. He worried, even though she hadn't had a nightmare since the night Donatello woke up. But something was bothering him. He had had a dream last night but he couldn't for the life of him remember what it had been about except Katherine had been in it, it had been a nightmare and there had been a card, but not the one that followed Katherine around the house. This one was different.

"We are going to protect our home Raph, or have you forgotten that we don't live with Katherine." Leonardo spat out.

"Hey if you weren't such a stick in the mud you could have been the one to kiss her." Raphael pointed out just to piss his brother off even more.

Leonardo turned in his seat to glare at him. "We aren't going back." He told them.

"Yes we are Leo."Michelangelo said angrily. "I promised Kitten that we would be spending Christmas with her. If you want, you can stay home if it is that hard for you."

They looked in shock at Michelangelo who never got angry.

"Miky's right, we should spend as much time with Kitten as we can." Donatello said softly.

"Donny..." Leonardo began, but the look of absolute and total misery on Donatello's face stopped him. "Donny are you..." He began.

"I'm fine." Donatello told him.

"Donny." Leonardo tried again gently.

"I'm fine Leo, that's the problem. I AM FINE!" He shouted in agony.

He pulled off his jacket and threw it to the floor. He then ripped off his shirt.

"Donny, Donny, you need to calm down bro." Raphael said to him in worry.

He looked at them desperatley, Michelangelo looking at him in the rear-view mirror. He ripped the bandages off his shoulder and chest. "How many decades off her life, how much damage did she do to her soul to do this?" He said pointing to his shoulder.

Raphael looked in shock at Donatello's shoulder. There was a scar that ran from where the bullet had struck the flesh just above the center of his body, across his chest to his left shoulder where the scar was large and jagged, but completely healed.

"Don't you get it, not only did she drag me back from the brink of death, but she managed to make me heal at an extraordinary rate. This past week my shoulder has been excruciatingly itchy. I figured it was healing, which it was, but I wasn't expecting this! I didn't notice until yesterday. Kitten scared the crap out of me when she tried to 'kidnap' me. I didn't think, I just reacted. I grabbed her and threw her down. I used both arms, and I didn't even realize it until you asked me in the kitchen how I was. When I went to my room I checked the wound and discovered this." He said softly. "This wound," He moved his shoulder around. "I shouldn't even be able to move my shoulder." He said quietly. "And I'm not just talking about the rate of healing, I'm talking about at all, as in ever again. Judging by the scars, I had extensive muscle damage. I should have completely lost the use of this arm. For life." He said miserably. "But I am fine, I have healed perfectly with only a scar to show that anything happened." Donatello finished as everyone in the truck fell into a dread filled silence.

Raphael felt the blood drain from his face as he looked at his brothers who all wore the same expression of shocked devastation. Raphael closed his eyes. How long did she have left? He wondered.

Raphael put a comforting hand on Donatello's shoulder. "It's not your fault Donny." Raphael whispered. "I don't think she did anything she couldn't handle. I don't know what's going on, and I hate supernatural crap, but Kitten seems to be buried up to her neck in it."

Donatello nodded slowly, but was obviously not comforted.

They nodded as they sat in silence for the rest of the drive to the lair.

Leonardo looked at his brothers."Okay, I want you all to remain focused. Whoever it is, may or may not still be in there, and whatever it is, it isn't being picked up by Donny's security cameras" Leonardo said to his brothers as they slowly drove and parked just outside the lair.

He glanced at Raphael and felt jealous anger roll through him. He tried to ignore it, but refused to be silenced. They were all in love with her, but she seemed to prefer Raphael. Of course she would prefer Raphael to himself. All he had done was avoid her and yell at her. He grimaced. He had hoped he would be able to convince his brothers to leave Katherine alone, but now they were roped into spending Christmas with her. He wouldn't be able to stand a week of having to watch Raphael touch the woman he loved. But he had ignored April's advice just to talk to her, instead he yelled at her...again. And then the one moment when he had grabbed her arm after Raphael had kissed her, he could have asked her to be with him, but he couldn't speak through the jealous anger that had choked him.

But Katherine's look of shock when Raphael had kissed her gave him pause. He took it to mean that either it was the first time he had ever kissed her, or if he had kissed her before, nothing had been settled between them. "Raph, you're with me, Mikey and Donny go left, be silent, be alert." He said as Michelangelo entered first.

"Is she your girlfriend Raph?" Leonardo quietly asked Raphael before they entered to begin their sweep.

Raphael looked at him in surprise. "I'm not sure Leo, but we're something." His brother said softly. Leonardo nodded because he didn't trust himself to speak. He motioned for his brother to follow him. They slowly began checking each room thoroughly. They met up at Donatello's lab. They all looked at each other giving negative shakes of thier heads.

"Didn't find anything." Raphael said shaking his head.

Donatello frowned. "The lair seems to be empty and I can't find anything disturbed. So perhaps the sensor was tripped due to a mechanical failure?" Donatello said typing at his computer. "After all, the outer perimeter alarms weren't tripped."

Something hit the floor and rolled, there was a muffled noise and the sound of closing doors. They went silent as they looked at a piece of scrap metal that had fallen to the floor and a large storage cabinet. Leonardo put his finger to his lips and motioned for his brothers to surround the cabinet.

Leonardo sheathed a sword and reached out pulling the door of the cabinet open quickly. He raised his sword but lowered it as he saw two small figures huddled in the corner clutching each other and crying silently. He couldn't tell much about them other than both little girls were so blonde their hair looked almost white, both faces being buried into each other.

"Holy crap it's a couple of kids." Raphael said in surprise.

Leonardo quickly sheathed his weapon and knelt down. "It's okay we won't hurt you." He said gently.

He heard a sniff. "Daddy?" A small frightened voice asked as she lifted her head and looked at him.

"Sorry, I'm not your..." He began waiting for terror to fill her eyes, but instead, absolute relief filled the child's eyes and she leapt at him.

"Daddy!" She yelled with joy as she hit him in the chest in a ferocious hug that knocked him down.

He looked at the small figure that had latched onto him with relief.

"Whoa, that kid needs to get her eyes checked or something." Raphael said with a surprised shake of his head.

"Daddy?" The other girl asked. Her face lit up. "Daddy!" She shouted in joy.

"Incoming Leo." Raphael said with a smirk as the other girl launched herself at Raphael. He stumbled back as she hit him in the legs. They fell to the ground in a heap.

Raphael looked at him in shock and Leonardo had no doubt that the same look of shock was on his face as well.

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