"Hey Don." Leonardo said leaning against the lab's doorway, as Donnie looked up from his computer and smiled.

"Hey Leo, what can I do ya for?" He asked as Leo smiled a little walking inside.

"You've been in here a lot lately." Leo said taking notice of the cold coffee near his brother's desk. "You were a bit slow in practice. Are you getting enough sleep?"

"Yeah, I've just been busy." Donnie shrugged taking a sip of another fresh cup of coffee.

"With what?" Leo asked furrowing his brow as he leaned over to look at his brother's work.

"Well, do you remember that formula I was telling you about couple nights ago?" He asked as Leo nodded his head. "Well, I think I figured out something with our DNA. The pattern isn't far off from that of Casey's main gene…"

"When did you get Casey's blood?" Leo asked looking from the computer screen to his brainy brother as Donnie smirked a little.

"Well, April and I have run some tests on him a few times, I just kept files of it. I have Willow and Felicia on here too." He shrugged.

"Willow? From what?"

"Remember the arrow incident?" He asked as Leo sighed nodding his head. "It's from that."

"What about Felicia?"

"She gave it willingly to me in the name of science." Donnie said with a smile on his face as Leo arched a brow for a moment eyeing his smart brother's change in expression and smiled back.

"So, what about this formula?" Leo said as Donnie nodded.

"Well, from what I was able to gather between the two types of blood and forging them together to transform ourselves, and what little DNA we have that is not fathered by mutagenic gene than the possibility of us actually changing and becoming humans if probable." Donnie said with a wide smile as Leo furrowed his brow for a moment.

"Are you serious?"

"As a heart attack." He shrugged as Leo sat back in his seat looking at the screen for a moment. "Of course, this is something that I would have to test and retest to make sure that it was fully capable to turning us all into…"

"You would want to?" Leo asked moving his eyes to his brother as Donnie shrugged.

"Well it sure would help with a lot of things. We'd still be who we are it would just be for a matter of time that we're out in the 'real world." Donnie said turning air quotations. "I mean think about it Leo, you know how you've always wanted to have your own Dojo. You could take kids off the street and instead of them having no other route than to join the Purple Dragons you could prevent it."

"That's true…" He said softly as Donnie smiled.

"I could get a job in a lab, areal lab…"

"You'd probably cure cancer." Leo said with a small smirk.

"See, we can't keep that talent in the shadows any longer." He said with a chuckle as Leo sighed nodding his head.

"Just don't get too excited little brother, you're not even sure if you can actually do this yet."

"It's a work in progress." He shrugged with a smile. "So, are you going to tell Will?"

"What, about this? No, I don't think it would matter. And really, that's the last thing on my mind when it comes to her." He sighed.

"Wanna talk about it?" Donnie asked turning in his seat.

"It's just… Willow and I haven't really talked about the marriage stuff since two nights ago." He shrugged.

"Well it's not as though you two have had a night to yourselves." Don shrugged as Leo sighed nodding his head. "Perhaps you should bring it up?"

"Bring what up?"

"Marriage, if it is bothering you that much?"

"It's not bothering me." He said flatly crossing his arms over his plastron. Donnie arched an eye ridge sitting back in his seat.

"Do you know what she wants? In the terms of marriage? Some girls wait all their life for this, planning it to make it this big…"

"Willow isn't that kind of girl." Leo said in the same flat tone eyeing his brother as Donnie shrugged.

"Do you know that for a fact? Have you talked about what she wants exactly?"

"She told me she wants a traditional Japanese style wedding. At least, that's what I gathered from her rant she went off that night she asked me about it." He shrugged.

"Ok, so…At least you know that much which isn't exactly a whole lot. Like I said, perhaps you should just talk it over with her. Clear the air, that way you're both not stewing in this doubt." Leo raised his eyes to his brother for a moment from the glare he kept on the concrete floor of the lap. Lightening his expression he sighed nodding his head, Donnie smiled leaning forward and clapping a hand on his big brother's shoulder. "It's Will, she'll listen to you. You can talk to her about anything, you know that." He reassured as Leo sighed once more nodding his head.

"You're right. There's not point in me being nervous about asking about it. It's not as though I don't want to marry her." He said standing and walking towards the lab exit. Donnie nodded turning back towards his computer as Leo stopped and turned on a heal. "Do I want to marry her?" He asked mostly to himself as Don turned back towards the eldest.

"Well, I wouldn't see why you wouldn't want to?"

"I love her, a lot. I mean she's basically everything to me besides you guys but, what would we do? Where would we live? I couldn't make her move down here, or me leave here and move in with her topside. I can't live like that. Splinter would need help keeping Raph in line, he's too weak now to do it by himself. I need to be down here for him, making sure he's doing well and keeping healthy. I couldn't just abandon you or this lair. This is my home…"

"Leo." Donnie said standing up and grabbing his brother's shoulders, Leo turned his gazed eyes to his brother's. "Take a breath." Leo did slowly as Donnie nodded his head. "Good, now sit." He guided his older brother to a chair as Leo sat back down placing his head in his hands. "Willow has lived down here before and found nothing wrong with it. You could never just abandon us, you're our brother, our leader you need us just as much as we need you. Raph is always going to be himself and Splinter was dealing with it long before you started to. Also, Splinter's health has been hard to deal with for all of us and I've been trying my best to keep him strong. You leaving would not weaken his state, if anything it would make it stronger knowing that one of his sons was able to find love like you have in Willow." Donnie said keeping a strong hand on Leo's shoulder as he nodded slowly.

"I just…It's a lot to think about…" He sighed rubbing a hand over his face as Donnie nodded.

"Yeah, it is but you'll come to a decision about it and it'll be the right one. Splinter himself has told me many times that nothing in this world could tear you two apart. You were both made for one another. Fate would not allow anything more than for you two to be one with each other, were his words. I have never seen Willow's eyes light up like they do when she looks at you. Or any kind of faultier in her love for you just because of what you are or your family. She's been with you as a lover and with us as a sister and friend every step of the way and has never looked back since." He smiled as Leo did too.

"I think you just wrote your best man speech little brother." Leo said placing his hand on Donnie's shoulder as the smarter brother furrowed his brow for a moment. Leo smiled wider pulling Donnie to his body for a hug.

"Shouldn't you like think about that first Leo, I mean wouldn't Raph get…"

"Don you've always been the one I went to about stuff and helped me through a lot of it. Raph and Mikey are my brother's and friends but you're…" He trailed off for a moment pulling back to look at his brother's face as Donnie had a shy smile on. "You're just, you're my best friend." He shrugged as Don shook his head, his smile widening as Leo tugged him in for another hug.

"So you and Leo talk the big talk yet?" Riley asked as she dropped a box of Oreos into the basket as they walked through the grocery store. Willow smiled pushing it along, leaning against the bars and shrugged.

"A lot of things have happened."

"True story." Riley said tossing a box of Club crackers over her shoulder. Willow watch them fall in as she sighed softly. "So, are you going to?"

"Well, its not as though it ended so well last time. I kind of bombarded him with question and he just looked so…Scared." She said shaking her head with a over exasperated sigh. "God, I wish I could just think before I shot off my mouth."

"Ha, yeah. This comin' from an Italian woman? Doubtful sweetheart." Riley called to her as she walked along another isle putting a bottle of diet Pepsi into the basket.

"It's not just Italian woman. All woman." Willow said in defense. "You shoot off your mouth about your feelings and shit sometimes too, ya Sweed." Willow said as Riley chuckled.

"So, all woman are just doomed to over think their emotions?"

"We think too much, maybe that's the whole problem?"

"Well, we could think like guys." Riley shrugged dropping a few boxes of rice and pasta in. "Nice ass baby, wanna fuck?" She whispered to Willow as the brunette rolled her eyes.

"You're an idiot."

"See! It's workin'!" Riley exclaimed in a chuckle as Willow joined in.

"My guy doesn't think like that."

"That's because your guy is all 'grr I'm Leo looket me brood about something deep and spiritual." She said trying to mock his tone as Willow shoved her shoulder.

"Shut up, ya know he can be funnier than Mikey sometimes." She said as Riley turned towards her friend with her mouth agape.

"No!" She said in a sarcastic tone of seriousness.

"Yes." Willow chuckled. "Where do you think Mikey got it from?"

"Television." Riley shrugged as Willow rolled her eyes again. "So, are you going to try and talk about it again or ignore you said anything at all?"

"Second one." Willow nodded as Riley rolled her eyes now.

"That's stupid. You can't just take it back."

"Why not? He's probably forgotten about it by now anyways." She shrugged. "He's got all that other crap going on now, it's most likely the last thing on his mind."

"So then what? You're just going to forever wonder if he will or won't ask you?"

"Better than knowing that he absolutely won't."

"Well good for Leo. Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?" Riley said as Willow shoved her again.

"It's not like I'm going anywhere anytime soon, and I doubt he is. So…" Willow said going to a isle and grabbing a packet of hamburger.

"How do you know though?" Riley asked quietly as Willow furrowed her brow turning towards her blonde friend, holding a bag of bread and dropping it into the basket.

"What's the supposed to mean?"

"Well, what if Leo doesn't want to be with you for the rest of his life? What if he thinks that down the road, like that you can't deal with everything forever?" She shrugged. "Like I mean think 'bout it Will…" Riley said moving closer to her friend, hooking their arm's together as Willow walked along with a confused expression. "He being what he is, how can you marry into that?"

"I've loved that for five years of my fuckin' life." Willow said in a harsh whisper as Riley sighed.

"I know, I don't want to get you upset but…"

"Too late for that." Willow said taking her arm back as Riley walked along side her.

"I'm just sayin' I mean, Will this is a big thing. I know you love 'em but, think of all the things you want. A life in the suburbs, white picket fence and all that. Is Leo able to give you that?"

"I don't need all that. Just him."

"You really believe that?"

"I really do." Willow said in sureness looking towards her friend as Riley smiled for a moment nodding her head.

"You said that?" Felicia asked looking at Riley on her bed as Willow was in the other room cooking up some food they had just brought home.

"Yeah, well think 'bout it Fee. She might be makin' a huge mistake." Riley said in a hushed tone, getting from her bed and closing her door.

"You've seen them together, they're happy." Felicia shrugged as Riley sighed.

"I know, and I have nothing against the guy, he's great. But, he's not…Good enough for Willow."

"How so?" Felicia asked crossing her arms and sitting next to her friend on her bed.

"Well, the one big thing he's not human." Riley said looking over at Felicia as if she was pointing out the obvious. Felicia rolled her eyes.

"Will doesn't have a problem with it, so why should we?"

"You don't think she deserves better?"

"I don't think you can get better than Leo or any of those boys as a matter of fact. They're like hearts of gold. Yeah, he's not human, so what? He's amazing and makes Willow happy. In these short years knowing Leo, I have never seen Willow more happy than I have my whole life with her."

"You're her best friend Licia, you have to say something."

"Why me? I'm not the one with the problem with it!" Felicia said getting from the bed as Riley shushed her.

"Just can you talk to her 'bout it tonight?" Riley said getting from her bed and grabbing a bag. She put some clothing into it as Felicia moved aside.

"Why, where are you going?"

"Billy's." Riley said in a small smile as Felicia rolled her eyes.

"Maybe you should take your own advice about the subject of love." Felicia said going towards the door as Riley furrowed her brow turning around.

"What's the supposed to mean?"

"Well for starters, Billy's an idiot."

"He just didn't graduate high school he still got his GED, that doesn't make him an idiot." Riley said rolling her eyes.

"He quit to start a band, which has gone no where." Felicia pointed out as Riley shook her head.

"Whatever, I'm happy."

"Are you really happy?"

"Yes." Riley said going for the door as Felicia stood in her way.

"How come we haven't met him yet?"

"Willow has."

"Once and that was by mistake." Felicia said shaking her head. "If you're embarrassed by him I can underst…"

"I'm not embarrassed by my boyfriend." Riley said glaring at Felicia as she reached for her door handle. Felicia pushed the door back shut.

"Then bring him by." She shrugged. "Willow was strong enough to show us what Leo really was and even before hand she talked about him like crazy, you've yet to mention anything about Billy unless we drag it out of you."

"I don't love like Willow loves."

"So it's love now?" Felicia asked in disbelief.

"Ah, just please move Fee." She sighed as Felicia shrugged and moved aside. She grabbed her friends arm before she left the room and pulled her close to her body in a hug. Riley smirked for a moment hugging her back. "You're a pain in my ass." She mumbled into Felicia's hair as the dark haired young woman smiled and nodded her head.

"I'm a curious creature." She shrugged.

The two girls walked into the kitchen as Felicia smiled to the smell of Willow's chicken cutlets. The sound of the batter sizzling in the pan came into range as they rounded the corner. Riley grabbed her black purse with a picture of a white cassette tape on either side and tossed it over her shoulder. Willow smiled at her and turned around seeing the bag over her shoulder.

"Going to Bill's?" She asked as Riley nodded. "You stayin'?" She asked looking over at Felicia as she nodded.

"For a little."

"I think the guys are coming after their patrol." Willow said turning back towards her chicken, Riley looked towards Felicia. They exchanged glances for a moment as Felicia sighed nodding her head. Riley smiled and walked over to Willow giving her a hug.

"Have a good night with ya man." Riley said bumping her hip with Willow's as she smiled.

"You too." She said forcing another smile towards her friend as Riley nodded and went through the door. Willow sighed as soon as the door clicked shut and turned to Felicia. "Want a drink?"

"Wine?"

"Red or white?"

"Either."

"Red it is." Willow said opening the bottle and pouring some into her large wine glasses she was given from her grandmother with large fruit and grapes in the glass. "So what's with the secrecy?" She asked taking a sip of the dry, smooth liquid as Felicia sighed.

"She doesn't think Leo is good for you." Willow looked at her friend's solemn face for a moment before sipping her drink again.

"She, or we?" Willow asked arching her brow as Felicia shook her head.

"She, definitely she. I have no problem with Leo, or his brother's."

"You've been around them long enough to get used to them." She sighed sitting at the table. "She said something earlier that has just been eating away at me all night." Willow said shaking her head.

"What?"

"That down the road if Leo and I do get married, he'll leave me because he doesn't think himself good enough. That I would deserve better than what he can give me." She shrugged. "Which, we've talked about and I've always said the same thing. It doesn't matter where I go or what I do as long as I'm with him I'll be more than happy." She said twirling the wine glass against the table as Felicia nodded her head.

"I know that."

"Izzy feels the same way." Willow said shaking her head.

"No, Izzy is more…"

"She's just as freaked out about it. I thought out of all of you Riley would be the one totally ok with it. Then you'd take some time but sooner or later you'd be happy that I'm happy…"

"I am."

"Yeah, but they're not."

"What does that matter? Leo loves you and makes you happy, when it comes down to everything it comes down to you and him. No one else. Not your mother, father, brothers, or us. Just you and him. Do you love him."

"More than words."

"Than you're fine."

"Yeah but, is he?"

"What?"

"What Rye said. She has a point. He brings that stuff up a lot. Not in the talk of forever, but still he drops hints. I don't want to live through that. Have him just up and leave because he thinks that I can't take it."

"Prove to him that you can."

"I have. For five years, and he still…" She sighed taking another sip of her wine as Felicia leaned forward.

"Listen, this is all in your head because of something that someone said. He never said anything to that nature recently right?"

"No…Not for a couple months now and the last time he did he had a fight with Raph and Splinter's health wasn't going all that well. He told me he was just waiting for something worse to happen." She sighed shaking her head.

"See, then you're just making something out of nothing. I know you and you'll stew in this anger until you lash out at him and you two have a huge fight because you were mad at him for something he didn't even do."

"Yeah…" She sighed rubbing her hands over her face.

"So, this is what you do. Forget about what Riley said and focus on you and him. Have a romantic dinner with the guy you love tonight and think of nothing else. Not marriage or forever, or anything to do years down the line. Just right then in that moment." She said in calm words and a smile as Willow sighed happily for a moment nodding her head.

"I can do that."

"Good girl. Now, I have to go. That video I have to do it due tomorrow morning and I want it to be perfect."

"It already is perfect." Willow said rolling her eyes as she watched her friend, push up her cat eye glasses back up the bridge of her nose and toss her large messenger bag over her shoulder.

"Yes by your standards." She chuckled leaning over and kissing Willow on the cheek. "Bye love." She said closing the door as Willow waved, turning back towards her glass with a sigh.

"In the moment." She sighed to herself. "In this moment I'm going crazy thinking about the future." She muttered to herself getting from the table and shaking her head going back to fixing her chicken.

"I got your message, is everything alright?" Leonardo asked as Willow opened her window for him. She nodded her head with a smile wrapping her arms tightly around his shoulders. He furrowed his brow for a moment, letting it fade as he leaned into her neck taking in her sweet scent. "What's that for?" He asked against her neck as she smiled pulling her head back so her cheek brushed against his and looked into his eyes.

"I love you." She said letting her fingers glide through the stands of his bandana as he nodded his head.

"I love you too. You sure you're alright?" He asked furrowing his brow again as she smiled and nodded.

"I made food." She said pulling him with her into the kitchen. He stopped her, pulling her body into his as she turned placing her hands back on his shoulders. He leaned down pressing his lips to hers as she smiled against them.

"So there wasn't any real reason why you wanted me to come here without the guys?" He asked softly their faces still close to one another as their eyes kept closed. She licked her lips slowly.

"Yeah, I just wanted to have a night with you." She shrugged as he smiled kissing her softly.

"So, no real reasoning?" He asked as shook her head.

"Nope, just to be with you. Alone." She said with a growing smile tracing her finger slowly down his bicep. He smiled back, taking her hands in his as he sat her down on the couch. She went willingly watching him carefully as he sat next to her rubbing his hands together for a moment before leaning forward, his elbows on his knee pads.

"Will, I…" He took in a slow breath and tried to relax a bit as he felt her hands on his thigh. Looking down at it, he looked back at her as she smiled. "Will, about the other night…" He sighed as she furrowed her brow for a moment turning her body towards him and perching her knee on the couch. "When you asked me if I was ever going to ask you to marry me." She nodded her head as he sighed again. "I was a little taken aback by it, and I've been doing some thinking…"

"Tiger really we don't have to…"

"Please Will, I just, I have to get this out." He sighed holding up a hand as she nodded pressing her lips together. "I've been thinking and, well, what do you want?"

"What do you mean?" She asked with a confused expression as he looked over his shoulder at her and turned to face her.

"What do you want from me, are you willing to get into a life like mine and…"

"Tiger, I've been doing it for five years already and haven't gone anywhere." She said in a smile as he nodded his head keeping his serious expression.

"I know, but you've never thought of something more, for yourself?"

"I've never needed to…" She said placing her hands over his. "I have everything I need."

"Have you thought about it?"

"Marriage?"

"Yeah." He said in a shrug as she smiled nodding her head. "What have you pictured?"

"I always had a picture in my head of a big wedding when I was younger." She shrugged a little as his face dropped. She smiled grasping her hands around his larger ones. "However…" She said trying to catch his gaze as it drifted from their hands. "All that stuff doesn't matter now. I have wanted it before because I never knew where my life would go. I wasn't aware of who my husband would be and I wouldn't dream of picking someone else for something so ridiculous. I don't need a big wedding with my extended family, and friends, or a reception in a big fancy hall. I just need you."

"But, you've wanted those things?" He asked slowly as she nodded her head.

"Once. But, like I said Tiger I have you and I don't want anything else."

"You still want to get married then?" He asked softly as she smiled nodding her head. "Are you sure?"

"Leonardo, I've never felt like this in all my life. I've loved before and I've been through heart break but with you it's different. With you, everything seems…" She trailed off thinking of the right word as she smiled grasping one. "Right." She said simply as he leaned forward and kissed her softly. "I would never leave you, no matter what happens Leo. I'm yours till my last breath." She said softly, cupping her hand around his face as he smiled into it kissing her lips again. "Are you, I mean…Do you feel the same?" She asked after pulling her lips slowly from his. He opened his eyes on hers as they danced curiously over his, searching for any doubt within them.

"I couldn't have said it better myself." He shrugged as she smile, giggling lightly. He smiled leaning forward and kissing her neck. "I'm going to marry you." He whispered softly. "I just have to do something first." He said standing from the couch as she furrowed her brow watching his hand slip from hers.

"What? Where are you going?" She asked as he walked towards the window.

"I'll be back tomorrow." He said lifting the window and turning towards her with a kiss. She returned it, still confused as he smiled rubbing his thumb over her cheek. "I love you."

"Leo, what do you have to do?"

"Just need to talk to Don about something." He smiled as she kept a furrowed brow nodding her head.

"Ok, is it about the Foot?" She asked as he smiled shaking his head. "Then wha…" He cut her off with another kiss as he stepped out onto the fire escape.

"Get some sleep Will."

"Well, ok. What about…" She said turning towards the kitchen for a moment and looking back at the dark skyline and empty fire escape. "Dinner…" She sighed at the empty space before her. "Ninja…" She growled to herself shutting her window.