Alrighty all, for everyone curious on who the girls are...well this chapter doesn't really help, but I thought it was rather funny anyway! Please enjoy and thank you, thank you to Forgottenforever, MidnightRaine and rinpup14 for your reviews! You all inspire me to write faster! LOL

Chapter 20

Leonardo looked at the little girl in his lap.

Michelangelo burst out laughing. "You should see the look on your faces." He said barely able to talk through his laughter.

The little girl looked at him. "Daddy we didn't mean to." Both girls said in unison. "We know Daddy Donny said not to play with Magi but we weren't it was all Trick and Treat's fault and then we were lost and we didn't know where we were and it smells funny and we were so scared!" They wailed. "Can we go home now?" They whimpered.

He looked at Raphael who looked as confused as he did. The little girl looked to be about 4 or 5 years old with long white blonde hair, pale delicate skin and big green eyes framed by dark lashes. He looked at the little girl in Raphael's lap who looked identical but her eyes were a rich honey brown. They both wore matching purple floral patterned yukata with tabi socks.

"Um...I'm not your father." He said gently to the little girl. "But we will try to get you and your sister? Home as soon as we can, okay?"

The little girl looked at him as if he was crazy. But she frowned as she studied his face. She grabbed his face in two tiny hands and looked at him. "Daddy how'd you get your eye back?" She questioned. "And where are all your scars?" She asked him. "And your wrinkles?" She asked him.

"Mommy says they aren't wrinkles, they are just experience lines." The girl sitting in Raphael's lap said to her.

"Yeah but daddy doesn't have them." The girl sitting in his lap told her.

The other girl frowned. She lifted up Raphael's shirt. "Daddy doesn't have his scars either. And look, mommy's mark isn't there." She said tapping Raphael's plastron right over his heart.

The little girls stood up and looked at Donatello. They walked over to him. They grabbed the sleeves of his shirt pulling them up. "Daddy Donny's not all scarred up either." They frowned at each other.

"Daddy what's going on?" The green eyed girl asked him. He stood up slowly and looked at his brothers in shock.

"Do you have any idea what's going on Leo?" Raphael asked him getting to his feet.

Leonardo shook his head. He was completely lost. "What are your names?" Leonardo said as he knelt down again.

"Daddy." The green eyed girl said to him.

"Just humour me." He said to her.

She rolled her eyes. "Starbright." She said to him.

"Okay...um... Starbright." He said in surprise. "And what's your name?" He asked the brown eyed girl.

"Starlight." She said quietly. She seemed like the more quiet of the two.

"Sounds like some sort of hippy names." Raphael mumbled. Leonardo frowned at his brother.

"Starlight and Starbright." They nodded. "Okay." He said. "Can you tell me your daddy's name?" He asked hoping they would actually be able to supply him with a name. He was trying to ignore what Starbright had said moments ago about their physical appearance.

"Daddy." Starbright said with a whine. She huffed out a breath. Starlight had inched her way back to Raphael and was now pressed against his leg hiding behind it. "My daddy is Leonardo." She said crossing her arms.

Leonardo swallowed, he could feel himself paling. "And my daddy is Raphael." Starlight said from the security of Raphael's leg.

Leonardo frowned in confusion. "We're twins." They announced together.

"Um, Donny?" Leonardo looked at his brother in confusion.

"You're not mad at us are you Daddy Donny?" They asked Donatello. "We're really sorry, but we were only playing hide and seek. It was Trick and Treat who were playing with Magi." They said to him. They turned their attention to Michelangelo. "Daddy Mikey are Trick and Treat in trouble? They should be in trouble." They said to him.

Michelangelo blinked in shock. "Huh?" He said.

Donatello knelt down. "Why are you calling Mikey and me daddy as well?" He asked them.

"Cause you are all our daddies." They said together. They looked at each other. "Mommy says that my real daddy is Leonardo. Daddy Donny says that I'm bio...bio something-ly Daddy Leonardo's daughter and Starlight is bio somthing-ly, Daddy Raphael's daughter. But then mommy tells Daddy Donny to stop confusing us with big words. " Starbright said with a shrug.

"But you're twins." Leonardo pointed out. They looked at him as if wondering why this mattered so much. "Right okay...umm." Leonardo was at a loss.

"Are you sure they are our daddies, they seem very...lost." Starlight said to Starbright.

"They have to be." She said. "They look like our daddies, well 'cept for the scars, and they smell like our daddies and they have the same light." Starbright said.

"But they dress funny." Starlight pointed out.

"But they have the same masks and the same weapons as our daddies." Starbright pointed out. They looked at each other and it looked as if they began having a private conversation that only they could hear.

Starbright nodded. "You're right." She said and then yawned.

They looked at Leonardo as if expecting something of him. "Well, how about you and Starlight go with um...Daddy Mikey and Daddy Raph and go to the living room and we'll be right there."

Leonardo said ushering them out of Donatello's work room.

He looked at Donatello desperately. "Okay Donny any theories you want to give?"

Donatello shook his head. "Honestly I think they are just two very lost very frightened, very confused little girls. Most of what they said didn't even make sense." He walked over to his computer and began typing. "I'm going to check all of the police data bases for any missing children matching their description. Also, maybe I had better check international ones too, they talk with an accent I've never heard before." He said with a frown.

"But Donny." Leonardo said to him.

"I know Leo, I know, they know our names and they are very insistent, but...it's just not possible Leo. Those two little girls would have had to have come from where, the future?" Donatello shook his head. "The mechanics and physics alone would be almost impossible to gather and to formulate, not to mention the ethics of creating such a device." Donatello said with a wave of his hand."The whole time travel possibility aside, there is no way we can reproduce. And even if we could, the only way those little girls could be born twins with two separate fathers is if they were fraternal not maternal twins, which I will admit, is most likely due to the difference in their eye colour. So if they are indeed fraternal twins it would mean that the fathers would both have had to have been with their mother either at the same time or within hours of each other. How likely do you suppose that event would be?" Donatello asked him. "And besides all that, those little girls are human. There is no way that we would be able to father human children, if we were even able to father children, which we aren't." Donatello sighed. "When they calm down they will be able to tell us the name of their parents, or maybe they could tell us where they live, like a landmark or something, and somehow we will get them home." He said returning his attention to the screen.

Leonardo nodded and walked to the living room where Starlight was curled up and sleeping on Raphael's lap, while Strabright was curled up and sleeping on Michelangelo's.

"They must have been exhausted." Leonardo said quietly looking at Raphael's face which was a mixture of horror, confusion and some other emotion Leonardo couldn't identify. Michelangelo was having a hard time not laughing at Raphael's uncomfortable look.

"Let's move them to my room, we'll put them there until they wake up." He said.

Raphael nodded and tried to move but Starlight opened her eyes with a frown. Raphael froze. She looked at Raphael in relief and smiled at him contentedly. "I love you daddy." She said softly as she snuggled into Raphael's shoulder.

Want mixed with need, mixed with despair passed over Raphael's face so quickly Leonardo wasn't even sure he actually saw the emotions, but Michelangelo wasn't laughing anymore, he was looking at the sleeping girl in his arms.

Michelangelo stood up and gently gave Starbright to him. He blinked in shock. She opened her eyes and looked at him. She yawned. "Morning daddy." She said as she fell back asleep. He closed his eyes.

"Don't worry, we'll get you home and back to your daddy." He promised her.

Leonardo sat down on the couch beside Raphael. He looked at his brother. "Think we'll be able to find their parents?" Raphael asked.

"I hope so." Leonardo said to him. The problem was that the little girls obviously adored their father. He didn't really think that they had two separate fathers. They had each probably picked one of them to attach themselves to and had just chosen Raphael and himself since they were the ones standing closest to the cabinet doors. He and Raphael did look alike, they all did. To the human eye they probably all looked the same. Leonardo frowned wondering if Katherine would be able to tell them apart without their masks on. But then he remembered that she had known each of them before she had even set eyes on them. She remembered what each of them had smelled like and sounded like. Leonardo closed his eyes.

Leonardo wasn't sure when he had fallen asleep but he was woken up by two voices complaining that they were hungry.

"Daddy we're hungry." Starlight and Starbright complained to Leonardo and Raphael.

The little girls had grabbed their hands and were pulling them off the couch. "Okay, okay, I'm up, I'm up." Leonardo said as they all walked into the kitchen.

"I grabbed some pizza." Michelangelo said putting four boxes of pizza on the table. "We are going to need to get to April's shop and grab any groceries the delivery guy has left, cause we are out of food." He said opening a pizza box.

The girls looked at the pizza. "Pizza!" They said happily.

Michelangelo dished out some pizza for the girls. They happily ate and were just finishing their slices when Donatello walked in.

He walked over to the table. "Girls I was wondering if maybe you could tell me where you live. Do you remember the name of the city you are from?" He asked gently.

The girls frowned in thought then shook their heads. "You are dressed in Japanese clothes, did you travel here with your parents from somewhere else and then get lost, or were you in a festival of some sort?" He asked them.

"We wear what the daddies wear." Starbright said with a shrug. "And mommy isn't here, but you are." She said taking a bite of pizza. "And of course we came from somewhere else, we don't live here, we live in a Castle."

"A castle?" Leonardo asked in surprise.

They nodded. "It's really, really big and it has lots of rooms, and a throne room, and a weapons room and it even has a dungeon with a torture chamber and everything!" Starlight said with excitement.

"A torture chamber?" Raphael asked in surprise.

Starlight nodded. "Yup, but we aren't supposed to go in there. The daddies always worry that we are going to get lost, or get hurt playing with all of the torture devices." Starlight said to Raphael.

Starbright nodded. "And then daddy and mommy fight about getting rid of the torture chamber, and mommy says she isn't getting rid of the torture chamber cause that will just make the ghosts mad and that it is already bad enough when Trick and Treat rile the ghosts up." She said finishing off her pizza.

Starlight nodded. "But then mommy tells us not to go into the dungeon at all cause we can get lost, but Trick and Treat go into the dungeon all the time and dig up the bones in the cemetery and hide them around the Castle and mommy gets mad at them." Starlight said with a laugh.

Leonardo nodded figuring that Trick and Treat must be dogs.

"A cemetery and ghosts?" Raphael asked in shock.

"Uh-huh." Starlight said. "Mommy doesn't like it when the ghosts get all stirred up. Daddy Donny thinks mommy should just get Auntie Mon to get rid of all the ghosts, but Auntie Mon says she can't get rid of them if they don't want to go."

Starbright smiled. "Auntie Mon is funny. She babysits us sometimes cause mommy and the daddies are all really busy. Uncle Azzy babysits lots too."

Leonardo blinked. "What does your mom do?" Leonardo asked hoping to find some clue as to where the girls were from. If their mother was an important official of some sort, she may be some sort of visiting dignitary.

"Do?" They asked in confusion. They shrugged.

"Everyone is scared of mommy. Daddy told us that mommy has to make sure that everyone plays nice together." Starbright told him.

"What is your mom's name?" Donatello asked the question that should have been asked from the beginning, but one which Leonardo was oddly reluctant to ask.

"Mommy is Darkness." They said together.

Leonardo frowned and looked at Donatello. Donatello tried again. "What does your dad call your mom?"

"Darkness." Starbright answered.

"What does Auntie Mon call your mom?" Donatello asked them.

"Lady Darkness." They answered again.

Donatello closed his eyes in frustration. "Mommy does have a title though." Starlight said softly.

Donatello brightened. "What's her title?" He asked her.

"Marwolaeth Yn Annwyl." She said to him. Donatello blinked in confusion.

"Auntie Mon says that mommy's title means Death's Beloved." Starbright said.

Starlight nodded. "But Auntie Mon said that it is a hard name to say, so everyone just calls mommy The Destroyer."

Silence greeted the pronouncement. "But Auntie Mon says Mommy hasn't killed anyone since before we were born." Starbright put in helpfully as if this would make her sister's pronouncement better.

Starlight nodded. "But Auntie Mon says that the man mommy killed was a bastard. Then mommy got mad at Auntie Mon for telling us about killing the bad man and for using bad language. Then Auntie Mon said he was a literal bastard. Whatever that means." Starlight said with a shrug. "Then mommy said it wasn't nice talking about someone like that just because his parents weren't married. Then Auntie Mon said he was still a bastard either way. Then Auntie Mon ran away cause mommy got angry, and mommy is scary when she is angry."

Starbright nodded. "Everyone is scared of mommy cause she is the best most powerful fighter ever. Not even all of the daddies can beat mommy when they all fight her at once."

They all looked at each other in silence. "Girls, umm, we're just going to go into the living room for a minute to discuss some grown-up stuff, have another piece of pizza." Leonardo said putting another slice of pizza on the girl's plates before striding from the kitchen.

"Okay is anyone else extremely freaked out?" Michelangelo asked.

Donatello shook his head. "They must have gone through something really traumatic to have invented such a fantastic tale." He said to them. "I think they are telling the truth somehow, but they have overlaid the reality with a fantasy that they can relate to."

Leonardo frowned. "But what if they aren't lying Donny? What if what they are telling us is true, all of it?" He questioned.

"A castle, four inhuman fathers, a mother who has no name, only a title." Donatello shook his head. "Face it Leo, those kids are scared and lost and have grabbed onto the first thing they found, which was us. We need to find their parents. I haven't found any reports of any missing children yet. The best thing we can do for those two girls is take them to the nearest police station and let the police track their parents down."

"I've got to agree with Donny on this one Leo." Raphael said to him. "Thing is we can't exactly walk into a police station." He said with a frown.

"Kitten could take them in." Michelangelo said to them.

"Mikey, Kitten's two hours away. You want her to drive all the way here so she can take the girls into a police station?" Leonardo growled.

Donatello paled. Raphael put a comforting hand on his brother's shoulder. "Thing is, even if Kitten were to drive out here, she wouldn't be able to find the place, those vehicles of hers aren't equipped with GPS and she doesn't know her way around New York." Raphael said.

"So we take the kids to Kitten." Michelangelo said with a shrug.

"Mikey." Leonardo said with a shake of his head. 'We just got home."

"Then why doesn't this place feel like home anymore? Home for me is wherever Kitten is." Michelangelo said softly. "Besides, if the girls are in trouble then we can't just hand them over to the police, and we can't keep two little girls in a sewer. I say we go to Kitten's and see if we can find anything more out about their parents. Watch for any Amber alerts, start working with the names of the aunt and uncle they mentioned, and see if we can't get any hits on them."

"But how can I face her?" Donatello whispered.

They looked at their brother in silence. "Donny..." Leonardo closed his eyes against the agony he saw in his brother's eyes. They needed to go back, just to give their brother some piece of mind. "You need to talk to Kitten." He said softly.

"Who's Kitten?" Starbright asked walking into the living room holding Starlight's hand.

"A friend." Leonardo said to her as they sat down on the couch.

They nodded. "Mommy has kitty ears and a big fluffy kitty tail." Starbright said. "Mommy's the most beautiful mommy ever." She said happily. Leonardo smiled at their excitement over what had to be a Halloween costume.

"Hitsuzen also has kitty ears, but she doesn't have a tail." Starlight said. Starbright nodded.

"Who is Hitsuzen?" Donatello asked.

"Our baby sister." They said in unison.

"You have a sister?" Leonardo asked in shock.

Starlight nodded. "And two brothers." She grumbled. "Can Kitten get us home?" She asked Leonardo.

"We hope she'll be able to help us get you home." Leonardo said to her. Starlight seemed to have gotten over her earlier shyness of him.

"Is she powerful?" Starbright asked him.

He looked at her in confusion. "I don't..." He began, confused on how to answer the question.

Starbright frowned and then shrugged.

"Well what are we waiting for, let's go." Raphael said to him.

"We aren't going to go tonight Raph, we'll leave in the morning." Leonardo said to him.

Raphael froze and closed his eyes and then opened them. "We should go now Leo."

"Raph, we can't be dragging the girls out in the middle of the night." Leonardo said to him. "It is probably close to their bedtime." He told his brother who was beginning to look worried and angry.

"Our bedtime is sunrise." Starbright put in helpfully.

He looked at her. "I'm sure it is." He said with a half smile. "It's nearly 8 o'clock, I think you girls need to go to bed." Leonardo told them.

"But Daddy, we just woke up! We aren't tired!" Starbright whined.

"Daddy we don't really have to go to bed do we?" Starlight asked Raphael.

Raphael blinked down at her, obviously still thinking about Katherine. "Sorry, Leo's right, time for bed."

They ushered the girls into Leonardo's room. They didn't have anything they could change into so they had to sleep in their clothes. They turned to leave the room. "Daddy you forgot." Starbright said to him.

"Forgot what?" He asked.

"Our song." She said. "You always say the wishing rhyme and then daddy Raph sings Twinkle, Twinkle."

"Why do I have to sing?" Raphael complained.

"Raph." Leonardo said to him. He heard his brother blow out a frustrated breath.

"What is the wishing rhyme?" He asked.

"The one about us." Starlight told him."Starlight, Starbright first stars we see tonight, I wish I may I wish I might have this wish I wish tonight." She said happily.

"You try." Starbright told him. So he repeated what she had said, even changing the few words Starlight had changed.

They turned their attention to Raphael who was standing arms crossed close to the door. He grumbled and took his place near the bed. He sang Twinkle, Twinkle and even Leonardo was hard pressed to restrain a snicker since Michelangelo was already in whoops just outside the door.

"Hugs daddy." Starlight said holding out her arms to Raphael. Raphael leaned over and gave her an awkward hug. Starbright wanted hugs next, Raphael gave her a hug then it was Leonardo's turn. They were finally able to leave only after Donatello and Michelangelo had also hugged the girls goodnight.

"We love you daddies." They said in unison as they left the room.

They walked into the kitchen. Michelangelo burst out laughing. "Just wait till I tell Kitten." He said wiping a tear from his eye. Then he paused. "Well maybe I won't, she just might find you singing Twinkle, Twinkle cute or something and you are too many steps ahead of me already." He said with an arch look at Raphael.

"Back off Mikey." Raphael growled.

"She's not yours Raph."Michelangelo pointed out to him. "You have no idea what's going on in her head." He said with a smug smile.

"Oh, and I suppose you do?" Raphael said crossing his arms and looking angrily at his baby brother.

Michelangelo smiled and shrugged. "Just saying Raph." Michelangelo walked away with a wave of his hand, Raphael following behind him.

Leonardo frowned after him. Leonardo didn't like the look of worry on Raphael's face. He wished that his brother would just tell them what had happened, but he supposed he couldn't force him to tell against Katherine's wishes.

He looked over at Donatello. "I'm going to go see if there have been any hits on the computer from the missing children database." Donatello said walking to the door.

"Donny, are you okay?" He asked gently.

Donatello's fists clenched together . "No I'm not okay Leo." Donatello growled. "I drained, I don't know how many years, off the life of the woman I love, at the very least. So either I drained her, which makes me wonder, how long does she have left , years, months, weeks, days? Or, I managed to somehow damage her very soul." He shook his head angrily. "I have this pit of dread sitting in my stomach Leo. I feel like I shouldn't have left that house. I feel like I need to go back." He said softly. "I need her Leo, I need her so badly it almost hurts, but I have no idea who it is she loves, because if it's me I can't accept her. I need her more than anything and I...I've probably given her a death sentence." Donatello whispered his voice breaking with emotion.

"Donny..." He began, but he didn't know what to say. He needed her too, he loved her so much his heart hurt when he wasn't around her. "She...she's chosen Raph Donny." Leonardo said his voice nearly breaking with his attempt to suppress his emotions.

Donatello froze. "He needs her." He said softly. "She's made him a better person Leo, but we all need her. We all love her, and..." Donatello was cut off as Michelangelo entered the kitchen looking at them with a shake of his head.

"You guys really have no clue do you?" Michelangelo said to them as he riffled through the cupboards. "She loves us all. She is IN love with ALL of us, even if she doesn't realize it, or will even admit it to herself. " He turned around looking at them. He leaned against the counter, opened a bag of chips and grabbed a handful and stuck it in his mouth.

"Mikey..." Leonardo began.

"Told me herself Leo. Not directly but..." He said to him grabbing a single chip from the bag, studying it intently.

"Mikey she was drunk." Donatello said to him.

Michelangelo looked at him in confusion. "That's why she got drunk. She's trying to figure out who she loves more, but I don't think we should make her decide." He said shoving the chip in his mouth.

"What are you talking about Mikey?" Leonardo asked him.

"She loves us, we love her, I don't see the problem." He said with a shrug.

"How can you not see a problem?" Leonardo asked him in shock.

Michelangelo studied him. "I think we should all date her." Michelangelo said bluntly.

"What!" Leonardo said in surprise.

Michelangelo shrugged pushing himself away from the counter. "Thing is Leo we don't exactly meet many women, the ones we do meet are either in the gangs, or leading the gangs, or affiliated with the gangs. What do you suppose our chances are of actually finding another woman who is for one, not our enemy, and for two, actually looks at us as if we aren't freaks of nature?" He asked angrily.

"Mikey..." Leonardo began gently.

"I love her Leo." Michelangelo continued softly. "Thing is, we are all practically dating her at the moment anyway." He said with a shrug. "Probably the only one who hasn't kissed her is you." Michelangelo pointed out. "Probably because you can't stop yelling at her and being snarky long enough to have tried."

Leonardo felt his mouth drop open in shock. He looked at Donatello who was blushing."Donny?" He asked.

Donatello shrugged. "I wanted to kiss her Leo, so I did."

"And you Mikey?" He asked.

Michelangelo grinned. "I wanted to see if her lips were as soft as they looked. They are by the way." He put the bag of chips back in the cupboard.

"So she's been kissing all of you?" Leonardo asked, anger replacing his shock.

"Well, I know I kissed her. I initiated it." Michelangelo said with a shrug.

"I kissed her." Donatello said softly.

"And we know Raph kissed her, which means we have all been kissing her. Thing is Leo, she's starting to get that hunted look around her eyes. She knows we are all in love with her, which means we are all pursuing her. I say we all just date her and see what happens." He said with a shrug. Michelangelo looked at him seriously them. "It's either that or three of us step back, stop pursuing her and stop confusing her. You want to step back Leo?" Michelangelo asked. Leonardo opened his mouth but closed it with a snap. "That's what I thought. I'm goin' to bed, catch you guys in the morning." Michelangelo said turning and leaving the room.

"Mikey!" Leonardo called after him.

"Night Leo." Donatello said walking past him in the direction of his lab.

Leonardo looked after his brothers in confusion. What just happened? He wondered. He sighed. He went and made himself comfortable on the couch. He had slept most of the afternoon, but he was still exhausted. He turned Michelangelo's words around in his head. Did Michelangelo really expect them to...share? He wondered. He grimaced at the idea. It pissed him off too much just watching Raphael touch her. He blew out a frustrated breath.

"See, you don't sleep during the night either. You never sleep at night." A soft voice said from beside him. He jumped in surprise. Starbright was looking at him.

He frowned at her. He hadn't even noticed when she had climbed up beside him. "You are supposed to be in bed." He said to her.

She shook her head. "It's too early, astronomical twilight was only 3 hours and 12 minutes ago." She complained.

He looked at her in surprise. "When did you say your bedtime was again?" He asked her.

"Sometimes mommy lets us see sunrise, but usually morning twilight." She said to him.

He frowned, but put this information aside. "Is your sister sleeping?" He asked her.

She shook her head. "She's with Daddy Raph." She said as Raphael walked into the room holding Starlight's hand.

"Back to bed, both of you." He said sternly.

Leonardo blinked in surprise at his brother's tone. He wasn't angry, just being firm.

They sighed, but trudged reluctantly back to his room. Raphael watched them go, turned and walked back to the training room. He watched his brother's retreating back thoughtfully.

Twenty minutes later Donatello came out of his lab holding Starlight and Starbright's hands.

Leonardo groaned standing up and walking over to his brother. "They aren't tired Leo." Donatello said to him. "If their parent's just arrived here from another country, it's possible that they are half a day or more ahead and that they really would be awake right now." He said with a shrug.

Leonardo sighed.

"Go to bed Leo." Raphael said coming into the room. "You look like hell and I'm not going to be sleeping anyway." He took the girls from Donatello and took them to the couch. "There has got to be something they can watch on TV. They have kid channels that run cartoons all the time." Raphael said as he settled between the children.

"You'd be a good father Raph." He whispered quietly, sadness rippling through him. He walked to his bedroom, and collapsed onto his bed.

Hmmm confused yet? Thoughts? =)