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Hours later, the fever was still raging on and still the female turtle was unresponsive. A cool cloth on her head and blankets wrapped around her, Jasmine still laid on the floor. She sat by wondering what was going on, but the only person that could give her answers was the one that was sick.
She brushed a red hair out of her eyes, rising to her feet as she heard the door slam. It was Casey, back from a patrol with the guys.
"What the?" He asked, referring to the fact that Jasmine was on the floor instead of the empty couch
She knew she had to come up with something quick, but it couldn't be the truth.
"We had a few drinks and she crashed there" She replied, hoping that he would accept it
He shrugged his shoulders and said "Makes sense, Raph told me that they had gotten into a fight"
She had gotten into a fight with the guys? That was interesting, but it still didn't explain why she was out cold on the floor…
"About what?" She asked
"Dunno, the guys said she just went off on them randomly" Casey replied, setting his dusty bag down
"Help me move her" She said
Casey grunted, obviously tired, in response. He grabbed the turtle's arm, putting it over his shoulder. Good thing he's strong, she thought, as he laid the black haired female on the couch.
"G'night" He said, giving her a kiss before stumbling to bed
"Night" She called in response, before turning back to the person err turtle on the couch
She watched as her green chest rose, each breath seeming more labored than the last. Again she rewet the cloth that had fallen and stuck it back on her burning forehead. Wrapping the blankets around her, she took one last look before slumping into a chair. Casey wouldn't mind if she closed her eyes for a few moments and then came to bed. Her eyelids drooping from a long night, she settled into the chair even more.
Only for a moment, she thought, then I'll get up
Only for a moment…
The chiming of a clock woke her, as the hour of three came and went. She opened her eyes, to see that there was a blankets draped over her.
Casey, what a guy.
She smiled at the thought, before looking around the quite room. The drapes were drawn, only a little moonlight leaking through. Coming to the couch, she looked to see that the female turtle was still there and still not awake. The blanket that had been covering Jasmine was now bundled around her feet, her plastron completely uncovered. Rising to her feet, April set the warm blanket that once covered her in the empty chair.
She walked quietly over to the couch, setting her hand on Jasmine's forehead. Her head was no longer warm, the fever was gone. Relived, the red head reached down to untangle the blanket. When doing so, she found that it was wet. There was a slimy substance on the side next to her skin. Then she felt a bump, buried deep within the tangles. Uncover layer after layer of the covers, she finally reached the center and time froze.
Was that? She thought, looking at what she saw. It explained it all, the fever and possibly the pain that the female had been feeling. Still April couldn't believe it, and yet it was right there…She just stared at the thing before her…
Underground and still awake, as some of the city, was Donatello. Steadily working away on his computer while his brothers slept, he thought he had found an answer. The brainy turtle had been researching various topics…
Turtles…
Turtle behavior…
Female turtle tendencies/characteristics…
Young female turtle psychology/cycles…
Why the hell did she yell at us? Explanation/answer…
Although he didn't actually research that last one, he was kind of wondering if he should of. Everyone had rough days and maybe she had just vented at them, but Don didn't think that was it. For her to be all happy one moment and be scaring them all the next, it was really…well just plain weird. From this he had begun researching, seeing if there was any logical reason why she had just gone crazy like that. After a night of doing so, he had a theory.
After saving hours of work, he shut off the computer before stumbling to bed. He would ask his brothers their opinion on his theory tomorrow. The comfort of sleep came to him, all the information swirling around in his head gone as he sunk into his subconscious.
"YOU DID WHAT!?!"
The voice split the quite quarters of the foot, the ninja still asleep. The yelled words woke most of them, though they stayed in bed. All recognized the voice to be their leader at the moment aka the Shredder's daughter or in all other words, Karai. Most buried their heads underneath their pillows and went back to sleep. But a few, kept awake to hear the conversation through the door…
After yelling at him, Karai glared at the Elite member in complete shock. She didn't care that it was five in the morning and that she had just woken most of the ninja. She didn't care that someone could be listening in on their conversation. All that mattered was the man in front of her, trying to explain why he contacted her sisters.
"Explain yourself" She hissed, waiting for an answer
The cloaked man swallowed before saying "I told them that the foot was not her killer"
"Her killer?" Karai asked, wondering what he meant
"They found the fake body and buried it" He replied
"They think she's dead?" She muttered
"Yes and all three are out for revenge" He explained the problem
"You told them it was not us?" How did that go?" She asked, sarcasm filling her voice
"You!" Tori hissed, pulling out her Sais
"I just want to talk" He said, taking a step towards them
"We have nothing to say to you" The red headed turtle said, holding a defensive position in front of her sisters
"But I…" He started to explain himself
"Leave now" She snarled, telling him a message
I am not afraid of you, leave now or I will attack you
Before he could respond, another one of the turtles spoke up
"Let's just hear what he has to say"
It was the brown headed one, who held her Bo staff leisurely in her hands.
"He is part of the foot!" Tori said, turning away from him for a moment
"He told us of her death and where the body was, he deserves a moment of our time" Alice added, giving him a small smile
Giving her a small smile back, he interrupted the elder two who were bickering.
"I know who the killer is"
Those words out of his mouth, all eyes were on him. The glares were so piercing, so questioning, so frightening that he took an involuntary step back.
Ever felt like you were cornered, and not able to get out? At the moment he knew that feeling, as the three sisters zeroed in on him. One word broke the silence; it was more like a hiss. One word to tell him all their questions…
"Who?"
Tori said this, never taking her eyes off of him.
He took a breath before responding, "I don't know her name, but she's not part the foot"
"How can we trust that it wasn't one of you?" Simone said, it was obvious she didn't trust him
"Because I am the highest ranking foot solider and I know that no one from the foot did it" He replied
"That doesn't mean that you wouldn't protect the killer" Tori snarled
That comment threw him off, because it was true. He was part of the foot which meant that it came first. Each member protected the other, even though they were supposedly heartless ninja.
"I met your sister and let me assure you" He paused for effect "I would have killed the person if I knew who she was"
The three nodded in understanding, the three degree questioning dropped.
"Where then can we find the bitch?" The angry turtle asked
Pulling a paper from his pocket, he stretched to give it to them. Alice leaped forward, snatching it from his hand.
"That is where she is said to be" He explained
The three looked at the paper, before looking back up. But by that time, he was gone and waiting to meet their sister.
"It went well enough" He sheepishly admitted
"You should have asked me first" Karai said, glaring at him
"They were going to meet Jasmine at the location" He told her
"Planning reunions now are we?" She said, with a chuckle
"They deserve to know that she lives" He replied
"So when are we meeting?"
As soon as the question was out of her mouth, he froze.
After a moment he stuttered out "I wasn't able to talk to her"
"You took the time to talk to her sisters, but not to set up a meeting!?!" She hissed at him
"I…" He started to defend himself
"Tell her that I will meet her at DL tomorrow at nine" Karai said walking off, before stopping
Looking over her shoulder, the female said "If she is not there, there will be punishments"
Fear filled him, as she stalked off
A thick cloud of smoke surrounded him, as the barracks went quite once more.
Day approached, the hour of seven awakening the sleeping males. All four were up, ready for practice when their master entered the dojo. Splinter looked over his sons, seeing what effect the fight had had on them.
Michelangelo was hyperactive as usual, although there was a spark missing in his eye as he searched the room for the missing member.
Donatello rubbed his eyes, as though doing so would make the dark circles under his eyes disappear. It was obvious that he had been up late looking for answers and by the look on his face, he had found one.
Raphael was grumpy, as he always was in the morning. Usually he would have snarled at Mikey for being to loud, but today the red bandanna was quite. Other than stealing looks at his brothers, he stood there waiting for something.
Leonardo stood with the confidence he had always had, although there was something off. Like his brother, the eldest stole looks at the purple banded brother.
Splinter knew that ninjutsu was the last thing on their mind, the first being to find out what they had done wrong. He had heard the angry voice of his daughter yell at them, their confusion coming through. The memory of the aftermath she left came to him, as he told his sons to warm up…
His ears twitched at the loud voice outside the door to his room. After a moment, the sound of a door being slammed came to his ears. Without opening his eyes he knew what had happened…
They pushed her too far, he thought, taking a sip of his tea
He knew her anger had been building up and that one day she would snap at them. He felt their confusion as he rose to his feet.
Exiting his room, he saw a shadow disappear out the door. It had been her, but how had she managed to get past them? He chuckled at the thought, walking into the living room.
There was his four sons, all on the couch staring blankly at the television.
The elder three had expressions of confusion, while Michelangelo had a smile.
So that's how she escaped, he thought, as he made his presence known.
"Everything alright my sons?" He asked, seeing if they would notice
"Fine" Raph, Leo, and Don muttered
"Great, even though I'm going to get killed for letting Jasmine out" Mikey said happily, before freezing
My son, he thought, that was not the smartest move. He watched as the other three turned to glare at him.
"You did what?!?" Don asked, as the elder two just stared
"She needed some time, so I let her leave the lair?" The orange banded brother replied nervously
"Mikey…" Raph growled
"Did she say where she was going?" Leo asked, ignoring his irritation that Mikey had done that
"She said she was going to April's" The youngest replied
""April's?" Don asked, skeptically
"That's what she said" Mikey shrugged his shoulders
"That's probably just the story she told you" Raph pointed out "She's not that close to April"
Before Mikey could respond, the lair door opened to reveal the one and only Casey Jones. Throwing his bag of "weapons" to the side, the human moved past him to the couch.
"Sup?" The dark haired human asked, squeezing onto the already full couch
"Casey, don't take this the wrong way, but what are you doing here?"
Leo asked this, all the other mutants including himself wondering the same thing.
"April kicked me out, said that Jasmine was coming over for some "girl time" Casey responded
"Told you!" Mikey shouted, hands raised in the fact that he was right
He smiled, wondering how his sons would react to this news
"Girl time?" Raph snorted
"Go figure" Casey shrugged
"That's interesting" Don muttered
"She sounded kind of upset on the phone, did anything happen?" The human asked, obviously curios
Yes, he thought, sinking into a chair, what did happen?
Not that he hadn't heard the loud voices; but he wondered what had been the trigger to her explosive anger had been.
The boys froze at the question, like they really didn't know how to explain it.
"Um…well she…out of nowhere…" Don started to explain, before running out of words
Leo tried then to pick up where he left of "…really angry…yelling…fiery eyes…"
"…very scary…scarier than shredder…" Raph added, shuddering
"…door slammed…back away slowly…" Mikey finished
He struggled to hold back his laughter, as they all looked at Casey to see if he understood.
"Mr. Jones, did you get all of that?" He asked
"Yeah, I am very fluent in scared mumbling idiot speak" Casey replied, before translating the broken words
"So Jasmine randomly went off and she was like Shredder only ten times worse. Am I on the right track here?"
His sons nodded their heads, yep he was right
"She gave you death glares before slamming the door in your faces. You got the hell out of there and ended up where you are now. You also have no idea how this happened or why she went off?"
After saying this, Casey turned to look at the guys. By the way they were shaking their heads, it sounded as if he was straight on.
"Well then you better apologize" The human told them
"But we have no idea what we did to upset her!" Don spat out
"Then your screwed" Casey said
"Why are we screwed?" Mikey asked
"Because if you don't apologize then she will hold a grudge and if you do apologize, but for the wrong reason she will think you don't care"
They all looked at Mr. Jones after he said this.
"What?" Casey snapped "April makes me watch all these girly movies and I pick up on stuff"
"Okay…" Raph ran off
"So how are we going to handle this?" Leo paused, taking the leader role "We've taken on the Shredder, Purple Dragons, and the Foot…so it should be easy to apologize right?"
"Nope, it's much harder" Casey said
"Thanks for the encouragement!" Mikey said sarcastically
"May I suggest identifying the problem first?" He said, causing them all to turn
"Anybody got an idea?" Raph asked
The unanimous answer was no…the boys hung their head in defeat
"Perhaps we should just ask her" Don suggested
"No, then she will get even madder" Casey countered
"What if we just let her cool down? Perhaps she'll forget" Mikey commented
"Like that will ever happen" Leo replied
"Let's just go on patrol and talk about this later" Raph said, standing up
"Good idea" Mikey agreed
"Sure" Leo commented
"Fresh air would be good" Don said
"You do know that sooner or later you will have to face this" Casey warned them
"I choose later" Mikey replied
"Your funeral" Mr. Jones shrugged his shoulders, before grabbing his bag
"She won't kill us" Raph stated
"Nice knowing you" The human replied, as the four walked out the door
Even from his place in the chair, he heard them bickering as they walked in the sewer. He wondered how they would handle the challenge they had created…
A light tap on the shoulder brought Splinter from the flashback. He looked to see that it was Leonardo, his eldest.
"We are ready" Leo said, telling him that they had completed the warm up
They all desperately want to talk to Donatello, the rat thought, as he walked over to them.
"Sit, my sons" He softly ordered
They all obeyed, kneeling in front of him.
"There will be no training today, instead I wish for you four to resolve the problem that you have caused" Splinter said
Not one of the turtles spoke; they knew what he was talking about. He continued…
"Whenever she does come home, I want you to be ready to apologize"
"Yes sensei" The turtles replied at once
"I leave you with that task"
With those words, he retired to his room. Sinking into lotus position, he entered mediation. His mind calm, the old rat considered the problem that his sons faced.
As the world outside the room vanished, he smiled, because he had faith that whatever happened, his sons would complete the task and the family be whole once more.
Above ground, April stared at her female patient.
"…" Jasmine mumbled something, same as she had done the last few hours
Although she was relived that the turtle was stirring, her mind wandered back to what she had seen earlier that morning.
She lifted from its blanket cocoon, after wiping the wet residue off. It was large, but yet small enough to fit in her cupped hands.
It was an egg.
No doubt about it, it was an egg. Its shell was white, but darker than you would expect. Her first instinct was to keep it warm, but then she realized it was already cold.
It's unfertilized, she thought, turning it over in her hands. There was no warmth coming from it, it wasn't alive. After studying it a moment more, she set it back down in the covers. Then she sat back in her chair, considering what she had just seen.
Still she sat there, where she had for hours. She had no idea what to do with the egg, so she left it where she had found it. But now her focus was on Jasmine not the round object. Many question swirled in her head, but none could be answered in till she woke up.
Casey was still asleep, much to her relief. Not that she didn't want her hubby around, but April wasn't sure if she could handle seeing him without blurting out what she had seen.
On another point, she was surprised that Jasmine had come to her. She wouldn't have wanted just anyone to look over her when laying an egg, but why her?
It was just another question that she would ask, when she woke up. And by the way she was stirring, that time was soon…
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