Thank you so much for the reviews! I decided to continue with this story! I love writing it and most of all I like to see that other people are enjoying it as much as I am! I really love your reviews! You guys are the best.

I forgot to mention this is set in the 2003 Universe

Enjoy Chapter 2! And thanks again for the support!

Chapter 2:

The night dragged on and the air was getting colder by the hour. New York City was farther away than she thought. Perhaps leaving at an earlier time would have been a smarter Idea. Austria struggled to keep her body warm as she walked down the busy streets of Brooklyn. It's been 2 hours since she had run away from home and every step she took was a shot through the heart and a guilt trip about leaving her mother against her wishes. But she had to, Right? What if her father came to find her? What if her mom called the cops? What if…What if… Those words trailed on in her mind

"What if I succeed" She accidently said aloud. She looked around to see if anyone had noticed her. She saw nothing but an old man nestled up in the corner of a building and a few teenage girls in short skirts and fish net tights standing at the corner of the street. They stopped talking and looked at the oncoming Austria.

They pointed and laughed as she stood by the edge of the street and waited for the light to say "Walk" and allow her to cross safely.

"You aint ganna get any work lookin like that doll face" one of them said. Austria just looked at them and shook her head, rather embarrassed.

Suddenly, a dark car pulled up to the edge and stopped right in front of her. The dark tinted window rolled down to reveal a middle aged man smoking a cigar and wearing dark sunglasses. He looked at the other girls, then at Austria.

"How much "He said in a deep tone. The other girls giggled as Austria's jaw dropped

"Excuse me!?" she finally said "I aint no prostitute you good for nothing son of a bitch!"

The man was taken aback and the other girls laughed at her hysterically. "Feisty, Just how I like em" the man said with a grin. Austria scuffed her feet and took off across the street but not before flipping the man, and the girls, a good look at her middle finger.

:At the Turtle's Lair:

Leo took a deep breath, held it in, and then exhaled slowly. He's been doing this for the last hour in the dojo in an awkward position on the floor while his father Master Splinter, a wise, old mutant rat that rescued him and his brothers when they were just turtle tots, sat across from him and held a candle in his palms.

"You are not focused Leonardo" he scolded. "Sorry Sensei, my meditation has been a little… off lately" Leo calmly stated

"I understand your brothers have been most hard to deal with these days, but you must try and remember you are their leader, and you must be improving on your training everyday" Splinter said. Suddenly the fire on the tip of the candle moved slightly to the left, then centered again.

"Good" Splinter praised. Leo was practicing one of his favorite skills taught by his sensei. The ability to manipulate the elements which was said to be an old Japanese folk tale until Splinter had tested it for himself. The training was a hard and long, exhausting process and required extreme concentration and only a mastered ninja warrior could deliver the technique with ease which was why Leo was so grumpy lately.

"Hey, I think I've finally…." Leo was cut off when a screaming Michelangelo and a furious Raphael burst into the dojo. Mike of course, was running away from his older brother. The fire on the candle bent back and forth violently until it burnt out completely. Leo growled and slammed his fists on his knees.

"Can't I get a moments peace!" Leo stood up and brought his brothers to attention.

"Your brother is trying to train and you two are not helping!" Splinter was also in a standing position scolding his two other sons.

"But Raph…" Splinter silenced the small orange masked turtle.

"You two will conduct tonight's patrol! ALONE! Now go!" He commanded them

Raph and Mikey sighed, bowed to their sensei, and then left the dojo.

:Later that evening:

"This is all yah fault Mikey!" Raph and his brother were running across the downtown cities roof tops listening to the car horns, yelling pedestrians and angry store owners below. They stopped at the corner of a building and looked out across the city. It was dark, and when you looked up at the sky you could see a million stars which were rare in such an air polluted place.

"Well you had to make the Mountain Dew flat by shaking it like your money maker!" Mikey grunted

"I'm about to make YOU flat in a minute!" Raph crunched his fist into a ball and threatened him. Mike shrieked and covered his face with his hands. Raph sighed and calmed down which was also rare.

"So...Where yah wanna go Mikey? We've already patrolled the entire city in less than 2 hours" Raph sat down on the edge of the roof and began to throw small rocks into the air.

"Well…" Mikey looked around to find a point of interest. "We haven't been to the brook bridge in a while!" He exclaimed.

"The what now?"

"I thought you were a New Yorker! The Brook Bridge, Big Ben, the Gates to Heaven…."

"What's that last one supposed to mean!?" Raph stated

"uh…well the bridge tends to be a popular….uh...how can I make this turtle friendly… uhh…" Mikey paused and scratched his head

"Yeah, Yeah I get it, you could have just said the east side of the city instead of making my head hurt" Raph jumped up and flipped off the side of the building with extreme grace and his little brother swiftly followed.

:Austria:

"There it is!" Austria held her breath as the beautiful city engulfed her line of vision. Now the only thing keeping her from freedom…was the East River. She could just take the Brooklyn Bridge over but she had a terrible fear of bridges. A lot of people are afraid of bridges and maybe that was why they built the underwater tunnels instead right? Of course, that would be just as terrifying…

"Ok Aus, you got this…just…take the bridge over then your home free. Don't be a chicken…you can do this" Austria encouraged herself as much as she could and after a long mental debate, she found herself at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. People were riding across the separated walkways on bikes which she found rather strange. It had to have been at least 11:00pm by now! But this is New York City…and sleep is underrated.

She took her first step, then her second, until she was slowly crossing the noisy trestle. It was so much colder up here. The wind hit her face like 1,000 needles piercing her skin at the same time. She had no jacket on either. Just a pair of ripped shorts and a worn T-Shirt was all she had against the icy blast. All her clothes were hand-me-downs that she inherited from her family, if she even dared to call them that.

"Holy Shit its freezing up here!" She finally yelled at the top of her lungs. She was now halfway across, halfway there. Nothing could stop her now…not even…

A car horn blasted in her ear. She swore under her breath and looked to see what Idiot had the audacity to…

Her jaw dropped as she stared right into the heartless, spiteful eyes of her father.

"NO!" she screamed as loud as she could and began to run across the remainder of the bridge hoping and praying to a God she didn't believe in, that somehow someway she could escape the evil man she was forced to call her dad. If she could just get to the other side she could take cover in an alley way.

"AUSTRIA!" the fat, Ill looking man screamed out his window and kept blasting his horn. Cars crossing from the other direction honked back having no idea what he was doing and no idea why he was holding up the traffic.

Austria ran and ran and even when she became out of breath and wearisome she kept running. She wouldn't let her future slip into the sinister claws of her abusive father. He would kill her for sure for pulling such a stunt. Maybe not kill her, but bring her quite close.

The wind smacked her face and froze the tears that began to lapse from her eyes. Almost there, she could see the other side! "Just a few more steps and it will be all over, you'll be safe!" she told herself to try and encourage her tiresome legs that began to wobble. Suddenly, she heard a turbulent sound and at the same time, her upper left thigh became unusually cold. She didn't think much of it and she didn't really care. She made it across the bridge and that's all that mattered. She took cover into the nearest shop she could find that was open. It happened to be a pizza parlor and when she burst through the door out of breath, the owner nearly pissed his pants.

"We are closing" the man said in an Italian accent. "Oh my" he cupped his hand over his mouth and walked quickly over to her. He spoke some strange words she couldn't understand and then a second worker came from behind the counter.

"I'm sorry I was just trying to get away from the cold for a quick sec" Aus said out of breath as she fixed her wind-blown hair. The man came unusually close to her and put a hand on her shoulder.

"You are hurt?" he asked

"No, I'm not hurt. It's was just some wind that's all" she protested

"Your leg" he began to display a tone of worry in his voice

"My…" Austria looked down at her feet. She saw the long red stained trail running down her left thigh and then that's when she felt the pain. It shot through her back like a bullet and she was forced to drop to the floor in agony. The smell of blood swamped her nose and made her retch the little contents in her stomach.

She tried not to believe it, she tried so hard to throw the idea away but it invaded her mind like a virus. Her father had shot her. she knew he owned a gun and he carried the damn thing everywhere. That was the cold feeling in her thigh she had felt earlier and it made up for the sound she had heard as well. She began to cry and not at the pain that slowly was creeping through her body, but the fact that everything she had hoped for herself, was washed away by her idiot father's pride. She would die here, she could finally escape her troubles. This was her last resort...the very thought made her smile. Her eyes slowly shut, and she crept into a deep sleep that she hoped she would never wake from.

I know I used a few advanced words but I needed to widen the vocabulary a bit to make it more interesting xD

Chapter 3 COMING SOON. I will try and upload one chapter each night maybe two on the weekends!