Me: Hellooooo everybodyyy! I am super sorry for the long wait, it was the end of the quarter this week and everybody was giving us tons of homework! Also, this was a hard chapter to write, so I hope you like it.

Mikey: Helloooo everybodyyy!

Raph: Are you guys drunk?

Me: Nooooo, I'm on a sugar high! **twirls around Raph and pokes him on his shell**

Raph: Ugh, stop it.

Me: Fineeee. BTW, hi Catilin, if you're reading this. SHOUTOUT! Woo hoo! Darn, now I bet that since I said that, you're not gonna read it...

Andi POV

My eyelashes slowly flutter open. Where am I? I try to sit up, but I feel really heavy and slow. Did someone give me a repressive?

I grunt, using all my strength to sit up and try to get rid of the repressing drug's effect. I checked my surroundings, I was on some sort of operating table. My waist was all bandaged up tightly. Confused, I began to unpeel it.

The white gauze was covered in dried blood. Yuck. I tossed it into what I assumed to be a trash can. Then, I inspected my stomach. Funny, there was no wound, except for a faint scar where the bandage was.

What happened? I pry into my memory, tracing back to what happened. Okay, I was going out to get food, and then I fell asleep, then... NINJAS! Oh my gosh! Green ninja dudes!

I try to even out my breathing and persuade myself not to start screaming and run right out of there.

Alright, deep breath. In, out. In, out. Calm. Whooo.

Okay, now, step one of calmly escaping. I silently hop off of the white table and walk over to the door. I peer through the tiny crack. I faintly hear a TV playing, some sort of video game. Someone was making tough hi-yah noises in the other direction. I decided to walk down the hall toward the TV, since it seemed less intimidating.

As I approached the corner, I see what looked like a main door. First, though, I had to get past the couch, which held two ninja-guys. I paused for a moment to take in the sight. They both had green skin, a sort of shell-like armor, and masks. The taller one had a blue mask, and the smaller one had an orange one.

I smooth my hair to calm myself. How do I get past these guys?

Suddenly, I realize two things: One, my weapons are missing, two, they're sitting on the table right next to the blue guy. Third, (didn't I mention this option?) I would have to use the element of surprise. Following my instincts, this is what I did:

"FOR NARNIA!" I scream at the top of my lungs.

"AHHH!" yell blue and orange ninja dudes. I sprint right past them and grab my weapons. Right as I run out of the main door, I end up in an extremely smelly place. Am I in the sewers? I think to myself. No time to be disgusted now.

"It's the girl! Follow her!" I hear someone yell from behind me. I sprint blindly into a tunnel. Trying to lose my, um, people-that-are-chasing-me, I take a turn into another tunnel every few minutes. Suddenly, I trip on a rock and sprawl on the ground, cutting my hand on the stone. Perfect timing, I tell myself. I quickly jump up, trying to regain my balance. I feel strong, three-fingered hands wrap around my arms.

"AH!" I shriek, kicking backwards, hard, hitting the guy's knee. He drops me, and I sprint off in the opposite direction. Looking behind me for a quick second, I see the blue-masked ninja rubbing his knee, glaring at me. I face forward again, only to have a big yellow plastron (A/N: You thought I was gonna say stop light, didn't you?) in my face. I hit it head on and drop to the ground in a daze. I feel arms wrap around my torso, pinning my arms to my sides.

"Damn, girl," I hear a voice growl. "You sure are light."

I wiggle around in his grip, determined to free myself. I swing my legs, but they only hit air. I try to bite the arm nearest to my neck, but the ninja jerks his arm away and then tosses me over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. I'm carried back through the sewers, my stomach getting dug into by a hard shell every step of the way. Finally, we are back in the house-in-the-sewers, in the room with the TV. It's still playing the video-game, buzzing in an irritating way. I smack the shell that is in front of my face with my hands. When that doesn't work, I begin to pound it with my fists.

Suddenly, I'm yanked back to his front, and now I'm dangling by my feet, upside down.

"Let me go," I demand, my voice sounding high and strange from the blood rushing to my head. I frantically tug my shirt back down, not ready (A/N: Yet... hehe) to be showing these random people my ... parts.

"No," says the turtle.

"Leo, Mikey, Donnie! I got her!" he yells. Three turtles come through the door and observe me, upside down, my face turning red. The blue-masked one walks up to me and smirks down at me.

"Ha ha, we got you," he says. I scowl.

"Not you, I kicked you, remember? Then you let me go," I remind him snarkily, smirking. He bends down, almost face to face with me.

"You aren't really in the position to insult me, you know," he says, poking my nose. I glare at him, and in one quick movement, jerk forward and bite his finger.

"Owww," he howls.

"Now let me go! At least get me upright! I won't run, I promise." I shout, using momentum to swing my body back and forth.

"Fine."

Red-mask sits me on the couch, all four turtles watching me suspiciously. I clutch my head in my hands and shake it back and forth, trying to drain it of most of the blood.

"Now," I tell them all. "We got off to a bad start. My name is Andi."

The orange-masked one bounds up to me, sitting beside me on the couch.

"HI! I'm Mikey! And this is Donnie, Raph, and Leo," he says cheerfully, pointing to each turtle.

"Hello," I say.

"Why were you stealing from the stores?" asked Leo pointedly.

"Well, I was hungry and I needed some food." I say, raising my hands in a 'duh' motion. Leo huffed in annoyance.

"Why are you living all alone?" asks Donnie.

"I bet she had some supposed 'tragedy' in her life and ran away like another crazy teen," said Leo ruthlessly. I stare up at him, trying not to let the pain show in my eyes. I bite my lip, hard, until blood forms.

"Whoa... you're bleeding..." observes Raph.

"Touchy subject, huh?" smirks Leo.

"Leo, leave her alone," says Raph. Leo looks at him in surprise, then leaves the room. I pinch my leg, willing myself not to cry. Too late – I feel a tear slip down my cheek.

"Hey," says Raph gently, kneeling down beside me, and pulling my hand away from my leg, where a red mark has already formed. I stare at him, for a moment, and then lean forward and wrap my arms around him. I feel him tense up, and I pull away, ashamed. I mean, I just met these guys!

I'm not really a hug-type person, it's just the subject of Jay really peels my exterior away (A/N: Jay, way, rhymes!). Also, Raph really seemed like a person that I could trust.

"Sorry," I mutter. I feel a slight tug on my foot, and I'm lifted into the air again.

"Did you just hug me?" Raph asked teasingly.

"The big, bad, Raph?" adds Mikey in an undertone. Raph turns and glares at Mikey, and then turns back to me.

"Sooo. I don't think Leo would be happy about this, but, since you have no home, wanna stay with us?" he asks.

"Please say yes, please say yes!" chants Mikey excitedly. I think for a moment.

"Do you have running water?" I ask.

"Yep!" says Mikey.

"Enough food?" I say.

"Uh huh." Mikey chirps.

"Nice, comfy place to sleep?"

Mikey skips over to the room next to his and opens the door.

"Well," I pretend to think it over for a moment. "I guess..."

Mikey sprints over to me, hanging upside down, and tackles me out of Raph's grip.

"C'mon, c'mon!" he squeals. "You get the room next to mine."

**LINE BREAK**

A half hour later, I am snuggled into a warm, cozy bed. I bury my face into the soft pillow, breathing in the faint smell of clove and ginger.

"Mmmmm." I mumble, drifting off to sleep.

Hours later, I am woken by my pillow being jerked out from beneath me.

"Pillow," I grumble, reaching out blindly.

"It's mine," I hear someone say.

I open one eye to gaze up at Leo, clutching his pillow possesively.

"Nooooo. Minee," I whine sleepily. I get up, squinting against the light. I walk up to Leo and wrap my arms around the pillow, which is pulled tightly to his plastron. Annoyed, he tries to push me away, but I only hold on tighter. He pushes me onto the bed where I curl up in the fatal position around the pillow, wrapping my arms and legs tightly around it.

"Go 'way," I mumble.

Leo grabs my arm tightly with one hand and the pillow with the other and tries to pull it away from me.

"Let go," he orders when I don't move.

"Nuh uh," I say, trying to release my arm from his grip.

He pauses for a moment, and then he pinches my cheek. I bury my face into the pillow, hiding it from him.

"That's my pillow you're humping..." he says, trying to get me off still. I grin inside the pillow and start to roll around on the bed. He shoves me off the bed and onto the ground. I hit my head on the wall.

Standing up straight, now fully awake, I say, "Get out."

"No," Leo taunts, leaning leisurely up against the wall. I toss the pillow onto the bed and march up to him, ready to hit him. Suddenly, my awesome mind comes up with a solution that will be WAY more fun to carry out.

Standing on tiptoe, I lean in close, my lips right near my ear. My hand snakes up his neck, cupping his opposite cheek. I tilt his head toward me, and with my other hand gently tracing up his arm, I whisper seductively, "So you want to stay here all night and sleep with me?"

Cheeks impossibly red, Leo shoves me away and leaves the room, slamming the door behind him. Smirking, I lock it, and crawl back into bed, clutching the pillow. So this is Leo's pillow? I think to myself sleepily. Jerk face he may be, I love clove and ginger.

Me: Clove and ginger... yum! Smell those two together, they're delicious. **starts to eat Leo's pillow**

Leo: Uhm, Izzy...

Me: **grins sheepishly** Oh, right, sorry.

Raph: So... why am I acting all weird in this chapter?

Me: Oh, yeah, about that. Sorry, readers, if Raph is acting all caring and OOC! It was really hard to write this, like I said before... sooo...

Raph: You think that is a sufficient apology?

Me: Yep! R&R!