"It's very unique." Frank said as he lifted Jacqueline's arm from her side. "Josh doesn't have this capability." She sat on a cold metal table in a lab as Lexine stood beside her.

"I think it's some kind of defense." Lexie said as she pushed her glassed up the bridge of her nose.

"You could be right; you said it only happens when you're getting struck?" He asked lifting his gaze to Jac. She nodded her head slowly as he rubbed his chin in thought.

"Fiona has her force fields and now you have this, possible something to go along with your counter power." He said putting her arm down to her side.

"So, what I just have an arm of steal now?" Jac asked as Frank smiled.

"No, your arm goes back to normal after a few moments. I believe when the heat of your body builds up so does the strength in your arms and then you have a defense with this arm here. Nothing happened with the other?" He asked taking it and holding it out in front of her shoulder height. She shook her head as he nodded his head.

"I will keep an eye on this. But, all and all you are healthy." He said patting Jac's shoulder as she slid off the metal table. "How did this come about?" He asked as she lifted her head towards Lexine who arched a brow to the question being enticed to know the answer herself.

"Just out, ran into some goons near the docks. Nothin' big." She shrugged as Lexi eyed her older sister carefully. She was lying; she could feel the rush go through Jacqueline's body as if it was her own lie. Jac moved her gaze back towards her sister.

"Don't say a word geek-zilla." She said through her thoughts as Lexi rolled her eyes leaving the lab.

"I believe that is it time for your training my dear." Ms. Albarn said as she intercepted Lexine on her way to find Donatello. She sighed nodding her head as she went to the training room.

She looked around, stretching her arms out a bit as she looked up at the observational room seeing the hint of purple behind the counter. She smiled feeling a little better about herself knowing he was there. She sighed dropping her hands to her sides as she shook them out, taking in a slow breath.

A hologram fell as Lexine was pushed back, leaning up on her elbows she furrowed her brow staring at the person who pushed her down. She used her powers to get to her feet as she was pushed back down again by them as if her quickness wasn't even registering to him. She tired it again and failed as her body was thrown against the wall of the room.

The hologram wasn't of anything but the person before her. The room was the same she could see the observation above but he stood giving her no time to react, moving just as quick as she did.

She shook the dizziness away from her head and got to her feet. She ran towards him, leading with her shoulder as it caught his stomach. Her quick feet had his back slam hard against the wall, having the wind knock out of his lungs as his heavy body limbed against hers for a moment. She took a step back as her vision blurred around her, feeling the sharp pain of her the back of her skull slamming hard against the metal flooring. She opened her eyes slowly as they focused on the bright lights over head with the outline of his large body standing over her. She clenched her eyes shut trying to shake away the spinning vision she had every time her eyes tried to focus.

She needed time to think and the moment she did, he took her by the ankle swinging her body like a rag doll hard against the paneled white walls beside him. She groaned in pain, trying to get to her feet with shaky, weak arms as he kicked her back down on the ground. She looked over towards the center of the room as she noticed Fiona laying there. She called her name but no response came from her twin.

She tired to focus, focus on their connection but got nothing but another kick to the ribs. She coughed in pain, as blood started coming up onto her hand by her head as she tired to push herself back up. Fiona turned her tear soaked face towards her twin with pleading sad eyes. Lexine tired to crawl over towards her as the hand took her ankle, dragging her body back from where she came.

"No…." She said softly as the gut wrenching laugh echoed through the large space. She clenched her eyes slamming her hands down on the metal floor. "I need time to think!" She yelled pushing away the pain and getting slowly to her feet. She turned to face him as his laugh only grew from her broken down, weakened state. She ignored it, pulling the power she had left to run at him.

"If I don't have time to think logically, I'll think like Jackie." She said in her head as she reached for his armored hooked blade attached to his wrist. She bent it back having the glove fall off kicking it into her grasp as she spun back around pointing the shimmering metal at him and falling into a stance. She glared at him as the growl he made echoed under his helmet.

She prepared herself for impact as his large body slammed against hers. She pressed the strong steal into his stomach as his groan in pain was before to give her the remaining strength to kick his limp body away from hers. She fell back, trying to heave breaths back into her lungs as the intercom clicked.

"Very good Lexine." She heard Frank's voice say. She turned her head towards the observation room as her arms dropped the heavy metal in her hands and disappeared with the hologram.

"You're fear is that you can't think?" Fiona's booming voice said over the speakers as Lexine rolled her eyes with a groan. "How lame is that?!"

"Well it fits her. Brainiac always needs reaction time to think out what she's gonna do. What if she doesn't have that, what's left? She freaks out." Jac shrugged as Fiona spun around in her chair.

"Whatever, still lame."

"I just hope she's alright." Donnie asked as he unclenched his hands around the arms of his chair. Watching her body get thrown around the metal room made his stomach twist into knots he'd never image to untie. Having the ability to press a button to stop it and not being able to, going down there and helping her and not being able to. Leo went to help Jade when she was defenseless why couldn't he?

"It was for her own good Don." Leo said as he gripped his brother's tense shoulder. Donnie sighed looking up at his older brother with a slight head nod.

"Still…It was horrible to watch the Shredder do that, hologram or no."

"She is in good hands Donatello, you need not worry." Frank said leaving the room as Donnie stood following him.

"Yeah, and besides she might be the smart one but bitch has some moves." Jac said nudging Donnie with her shoulder as she walked beside him.

Donnie quickened his pace as they came closer to the training room. Frank let him pass as he sung open the door running over to Lexine's body as she still lay unmoving on the floor. She turned her head slowly towards him as a small smile went to her face.

"Can you move anything?" He asked as she nodded her head slowly leaning up on her elbows. "Easy killer, you're gonna harm yourself that way." He said putting his arms around her for support.

"I'm fine Donnie." She said as he helped her too her feet. She hobbled a bit as he let her go, instantly putting his arms back around her body.

"Stop struggling and lean on me." He said as she sighed putting her arm around him and leaning her weight against him. He smiled at her stubborn attitude. "You did good Goldie Locks." He smirked as she smiled brushing her cheek against his.

"Thanks Gadget." She said softly in a chuckle as he smiled from his nickname.

"So…I guess that leaves you." Fiona said looking towards Jade as they stayed back in the observation room with Leonardo and Michelangelo. Jade nodded her head slowly as Leonardo looked at her. Michelangelo moved his graze from his brother towards Jade as he sighed taking Fiona by the hand and leaving the room.

Jade kept her face straight watching her sister and Donnie leave the room below her. Her arms tightly crossed over her chest as she never changed her expression. Fiona could feel the confusion and unsettling feelings rolling through her sister's body as she walked down the hall. Still from down the hall her sister's reactions slammed throughout her as if she was right next to her. She frowned knowing that she had no way to make it better for her.

Out of all her sisters, Jade was the one that needed to prove herself time and time again. She needed to be the one to look out, keep the level head and never have a fear or reason to fear anything. The truth was she knew her sister had dark parts like everyone did. She knew her sister was scared of a lot of things, for one losing all of them. Jade carried the three of them on her shoulders for most of her life and knew there wasn't a way to change that. Jade's fear was going to be the realist fear of them all, and she felt bad that her eldest sister had to face it alone.

"I just have to stand up and face my fears." She said keeping her face towards the observation room, straight and intense as her shoulders slowly rose and fell with her intake of breath.

Everyone made their way back to the lair for the night as Donatello took a hobbling Lexine into his lab. He picked her up, placing her gentle down on his metal table.

"Donnie I told you before, I'm fine."

"Yeah well that bump on your head and bleeding arms are telling me otherwise. Now, sit and just let me care for you." He said in a demand as Lexi shifted in her seat a bit from his voice. She smiled knowing that his aggravation was from the goodness of his heart.

He rolled his chair over holding a handful of gauze and antiseptic placing them beside her on the table. He rolled up her pant leg for the cut on her thigh as she smiled at his nervous disposition from his hand slowly glided across her thick skin. She leaned her hand down gliding her fingers across the soft purple fabric of his bandanna.

"I just want you to be alright." He sighed as she smiled. She leaned back on her hands as he continued to clean her wounds and wrap them. She heard her cell phone ring from the lab desk as they both turned their heads towards the sound. Donnie looked up at her as a warning as she grimaced.

"It-it might be April?" She said sliding off the table as Donnie sighed letting her pass.

"Hello?" She asked as she looked at the unrecognized number.

"Lexine Torino?" The voice asked back as she adjusted her weight on another foot.

"This is she."

"I'm so glad this number still works."

"Um…I'm sorry, who is this?" Lexi asked softening her voice slightly from the gentile one she was getting over the line.

"Oh, yeah right. Sorry, it's Tom, Tom Chaplin. From MIT, remember?"

"Oh my…Yeah! Tom, hi!" Lexine said with a smile as she leaned against the wall feeling a little more relieved. Donnie turned towards the name and furrowed his brow watching her reaction.

"How are you?"

"I'm good, how about yourself? Still doing those mad scientist routines?" She chuckled as he gave one back.

"Yeah, you know me. Hey listen, I was just calling because I'm in the city and I was just wondering, did you wanna grab like a cup of coffee or something?" She felt her cheeks warm up as she turned her face away from Donnie slightly. She had known him for years now and saw him on random run ins on the street. She looked back over at Donnie with a sigh as he kept his glare on her.

"I uh…Can't. I just have a work load…You know how it is, Doctor Chaplin." She chuckled as he gave a nervous one back.

"Uh, yeah. I get it. I just um…Well maybe I can stop by? Where are you working now?"

"Oh, I…" Lexi stopped and looked around Donnie's advanced lab and chewed on her bottom lip. "A lab. In the city."

"Maybe I can see what you're…"

"Oh, well my boss is kind of strict with visitors." She said softly turning towards the desk.

"Oh well that's fine. It was nice hearing from you, maybe we'll see each other soon." He said as his voice went slightly lower. Lexi furrowed her brow feeling a slight ping in her stomach from his tone as she cleared her throat.

"Y-yeah…Maybe? Bye Tom."

"Good-bye, Lexine." She heard the click on the other line as she kept her expression taking another look at the number. She turned around as Donnie was standing now, his arms crossed over his chest as his glance was locked in narrowed eyes. She shifted, putting on a smile as she limped back over to him sitting on the table. Donnie moved his body with her as she sat back in front of him.

"Who was that?" He asked as she looked up at him with a sheepish grin.

"Uh…Old friend from MIT. Just wanted to get some coffee, turned him down." She shrugged.

"Why?" He asked taking his seat back in front of her. She furrowed her brow shrugging again.

"Don't have a need to see him."

"Oh, I thought he was a friend?"

"He is…However, I have no interest in seeing him. Old friend or not I have more matters at hand as of right now than seeing an old friend for a Latte. My sister's are in the middle of something that we all have to focus on. I don't need distractions." She said crossing her arms as her voice rose with a slight irritation. "I thought you'd be happy?"

"Why would I be happy of you turning down a date with a friend?" He said cocking his head to the side as he examined her wound. She snatched her leg away from him as he looked up at her. "What?"

"It wouldn't have been a date, and it doesn't even matter. This is just mundane non-sense that you are using to mask the fact that you are jealous or another man in my life besides yourself." She said crooking her brow as he rolled his eyes.

"You said he was just a friend, I trust you."

"This disposition doesn't seem as though you trust me Donatello." She said sliding off the table and crossing her arms. He sat up and sighed removing her arms from over her chest and taking her hands.

"I do trust you and the fact that you…Uh…well, you might call it, having some form of emotional feelings towards me and the feeling would be mutual if I knew for sure that there was actual said emotions being shared between…" She put her hand to his beak clasping it shut as he looked up at her from their hands.

"I love you too Donnie." She said with a smile slowly putting her hand down as he let a smile come to his face, wrapping his arm around her tightly. "Ow…Ok Donnie. I'm fragile as of late, remember?" She said as he let her go.

"Oh yeah, sorry." He said putting her back on the table. She smiled leaning down and kissing his lips.

"You are certain?" Karai asked as she stood from lotus position as Dr. Chaplin came into her room with a piece of paper.

"Yes Mistress Karai. The tracking was the easy part, just navigating around this city is going to be hard."

"Leave the finding to my Foot Ninja." She said with narrowed eyes. Chaplin shifted nervously as he handed her the piece of paper.

"I wasn't able to get her exact location as I talked with her over the phone, however I was able to get an address. It's not far from their old building, along with Ms. O'Neil's." He said with a grin as Karai arched her brow.

"Excellent."

"Jade you have to just focus." Leo said as the wind slowly blew through the grassy null they sat on in Leonardo's placid mind. The clean fresh air opening her senses as she took another breath in trying to focus on the calm around her.

Leonardo closed his eyes slowly entering the outskirts of her mind as he was pushed back from another wall she forced up. She clenched her eyes slamming her fists onto the soil around her.

"This is never going to work!" She said opening her eyes and standing. Leo sighed looking up at her.

"Not if you don't let it, now sit." He said opening his hand to the crushed grass where she left her imprint. She started pacing back and forth ignoring his order as he sighed again putting his hand back on his lap. "Jade, I know you want to do this but we're never going to break new ground if you give up on the first try. Please, just sit." He said with a soft voice as Jade sighed taking her seat back on the grass. "Now, close your eyes." He said softly as she followed orders. He moved closer to her as his hands brushed against the soft fabric of her blue dress along her bare knees. He smiled to the feel of her soft skin, slowly gliding his knuckle along it. "Breathe with me." He said as she stopped her breath, listening carefully over the wind to his. His chest rose as her did, letting it out at the same time.

Leonardo felt the gentle touch of the wind cut from his skin as he opened his eyes slowly. He looked around the room he was in, dark and only had a small light coming from the middle. He stood slowly starting to walk towards it as he noticed the silhouette of a small child huddled close to the ground. Their back hunched as their hands clung to their knees, pressed tightly to their chest. He moved closer as he noticed the hint of honey coloring to the soft hair going down the center of their back.

"Jade?" He said as his voice echoed through the small space. Their body shuttered as he kneeled down next to her. He reached towards her as she cowered away, still hiding her face. "Jade, I'm not going to hurt you."

"Daddy said he was coming home." She said softly, with a sniffle. He furrowed his brow as she started turning towards him. Her head stayed down as she tucked her long hair behind her ear. "He said that I have special powers, like him. That they need to be watched for my own good." She said rubbing her tears as her cheeks were soaked with tears. Leo dropped his expression as she picked up her face to him. "He said that if I don't train and get better that I could hurt them, I don't want to hurt them…Or mommy." She said clenching her knees tighter to her body. Leo placed a hand on her shoulder as she looked up at his eyes and smiled. "You have pretty eyes." She said as he smirked.

"Thanks. You do too." She blushed putting her head down as he moved a bit closer to her. "Where did your daddy go?" He asked as she shrugged picking her head back up and looking in another direction.

"He said he'd be home. He promised he'd come back so he could help. I don't want to be alone in this. I want my daddy to help me." She said as a frown went back to her face. Leo ran his hand slowly over her cheek as she nuzzled her face into his large palm.

"Do you think that if your daddy doesn't help you, you're alone? What about your sisters?"

"They don't have the same powers as me. I am powerful, I have a powerful mind. He says that if I don't learn how to control it I can hurt my sisters." She said looking at him at her eyes grew with worry. Leo shook his head.

"You'll protect your sisters. I know you will." He said with a smile as she shook her head.

"No, no. Daddy said…"

"You're dad is wrong. You're not going to harm anymore Jade, I promise."

"I did. I killed someone, and I didn't even know about it!" She said as her voice rose with anxiety.

"Who, who did you kill?"

"He was mean to me, I should have never let him in. He did bad things to me. He shouldn't have been the one, he had no right to…My mommy always used to say that no one should use your body against you, it's yours, no one else's. He used mine against me, made me sick to even look at myself. Then, I killed him. He deserved it, and I still feel guilt and pain and…" She covered her face as her shoulders started to shake with tears.

Leo pulled her small body closer to his as he positioned her on his lap. She buried her face in the nape of his neck as tears seeped out through the cracks in her fingers onto his skin. He held her body closer, clenching his eyes shut as he started to rock her softly on his lap, trying to sooth the small girl.

"He's the reason I can't let you in." She said softly as her voice changed back to her deeper adult tone. He picked his head up looking at her as he felt the slight difference in weight on his lap, looking at Jade. She shook her head wiping her eyes as she went to get off his lap. He held her close as she pressed her lips together trying to hold back tears. "Leonardo, I know my fears. I've confronted them time and time again. They torment me and haunt my dreams and you're the only light that is able to seep it's way back in." She said gliding her hand slowly down his face. "You're the only person I've ever known that has used everything they had to fight for me, protect me, be there for me and love me."

"You're sisters would…" She smiled leaning against him as her lips went against his. She pulled back slowly gripping the back of his neck as her hands slowly slid down to the back of his shoulders.

"You're the only person, that isn't family who would do those things for me. I trust you. I know you, and I know with everything inside of me that you would never harm me." She smiled looking at him as her smile turned into a soft chuckle. "I'm in love with you." She threw her arms around his shoulders in a hug as he fell back, landing on his shell as they both opened their eyes lying on the bamboo matt of the dojo floor. She smirked pushing herself off of him as he rubbed his shoulder muscle with a smirk.

Jade jumped to her feet with a sigh as she turned back towards Leo as he got to his feet, tightening his bandanna. She put her arms around his shoulder as he smiled placing his hands around her back.

"I love you too." He said softly as she leaned up towards his face nudging her cheek against his as she closed her eyes, finding his lips and pressing them tightly to her own. He pulled her body closer as her hands tightened around his shoulders, tilting her head to the side as her lips opened slowly against his.

He pulled back as she opened her eyes slowly. He looked into them as he saw the brightness returned to them. The tired, black circles around them slowly disappeared as her body seemed rejuvenated and glowing. The realization she had been fighting with since knowing him, the doubt of loving him and letting another male in was gone. She knew she could trust him and to do nothing more was stupid. He knew no other way to be than honest and protective, loyal and strong, passionate and loving. She smiled sliding his blue bandanna along her fingers.