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Leah hadn't seen the turtles in what seemed like forever. She had been busy graduating from high school, and signing up online for the local community college. Things seemed to be going uphill for her all except she still had no clue what was wrong with her. Her hair continued to lose its color becoming a mixture of brown and white. She didn't know what she was going to do. All she wanted to do was to forget any of this was even happening.
"Andrea," her brother called shaking her from her thoughts, "You coming or what?"
Leah nodded. They were going out into the city for some much needed r and r. The twin's grandmother was funding their time out insisting they be normal teenagers for the night. It would be the first time in months since she and her brother wasn't going into the city looking for a fight.
The girl smiled at her brother's uplifted mood, "Yes, brother," she replied flashing him a grin.
They took the subway in order to avoid Saturday night traffic. The siblings were on their way to see a movie and explore the many shops and restaurants good old New York City had to offer. It was just a packed as Leah had thought it would be.
Leo sat on top of one of the many movie theaters in New York. This had been the meeting point for his brothers to report back to him. Foot activity seemed to be low tonight, and he wondered why. Recently, they had been mobilizing as if searching for something. He sighed as he released his stress induced thoughts and looked at the mass of teenagers gathering around for a movie ticket.
Suddenly his eyes locked on someone. He had to do a double take to make sure it was her, but there was no doubt it was her. His heart took off and his body got the jitters. Yep, no doubt in his mind it was her. Leah's hair seemed whiter than it last did and he frowned. There was still something unusual about the girl other than his intense feelings for her.
He noticed she was with her brother causing him to relax knowing she wasn't alone. Leo shook his head. He didn't even realize how anxious he had gotten. The turtle sighed and saw her laugh filling him with happiness. She was having a good time. It was then he saw a guy come up to her and he nearly exploded.
In the next moment Leo felt his nose flair. The boy had put an arm around her waist a little too low, and the turtle felt every bone in his body threaten to tear the guy's limb off. Leo was about to assist this man with removing his arm from her body when Leah's brother knocked the guy square in the jaw.
Leo's eyes widened. He couldn't believe what he had been about to do. His body shook from the rage and tension was thick in his muscles. The turtle fell back onto the concrete and breathed. He felt ridiculous, and wished he had never met her. If he had never met her-. His thoughts stopped as his heart gave a shot of pain up his throat. Leo shook his head. What had this girl done to him? How was he going to react now that there was nothing keeping her away from him?
"Hey, babe," a low male voice said from behind Leah.
Leah nearly jumped out of her shoes when the random boy wrapped his arm around her waist. She had her fair share of being hit on, but no guy had every gone as far as to touch her. Her thoughts took off on how to handle to situation, when she saw Lee's fist come out of nowhere and hit the guy straight in the jaw.
"I would suggest you find yourself another 'babe' besides my sister," Lee growled furiously, his face in a fit of rage.
The man clutched his face and swung blindly at Leah's twin, who simply twisted the guys arm behind his back.
"You also would fare better just leaving us alone," he told the guy calmly.
The stranger didn't listen and came at Lee again, but Lee didn't go easy this time. Leah's brother flipped him easily, and he landed out of breath on the concrete. The rude man coughed getting up angrily. Giving Lee one last heated glance, he left with his shoulders hunched over in embarrassment.
"Andrea? Are you okay?" Lee asked the girl studying her.
Leah nodded, "I could have taken care of him myself," she replied as Lee shook his head.
"I know, but I just got so worked up," her brother replied, "its men like him that give gentlemen like me a bad name."
Leah smiled at her brother, "You have nothing to worry about. A handsome young man like you, who had every girl in high school chasing him, will easily find a girl," she stated sarcastically.
He chuckled, "You're right," he complied going along with her joke.
"You get the tickets?" she asked.
Lee nodded flashing the tickets.
"Thank God, I think I would rather fight than go back to that line," Leah sighed in relief.
Her brother groaned, "You're telling me. Come on! I want a chocolate ice cream cone. I haven't had one of those since Dad died," he nearly shouted excitedly grabbing his twin's wrist pulling her to a local ice cream shop.
The siblings were enthralled in everything from the arcade to just plain out shopping. They ate dessert before dinner and found a weapons store that turned out to be quite disappointing. The movie the two saw was a comedy which they enjoyed more than they thought they would. Finally, the twins noticed it was almost midnight and knew they should be heading home, but Lee insisted on stopping by a hat shop.
He picked up a navy hat, "Like my new look, Andrea?" he joked as she rolled her eyes and shoved the bill into his face.
"That one works even better for you," she laughed as he jokingly glared at her.
The muscle bound boy put the hat back, "We should do this more often," he said with a smile.
"We should," Leah sighed, "But as long as the Foot still remain we probably won't."
"You're right," Lee replied his voice sad, "I will say though I'll never go as long as I did without ice cream again."
Leah shoved him lightly, "Agreed," she concurred when instantly she froze.
A scream rang through the air, and it was like a switch had been turned on in her brain. She went from relaxed to rigid, and her smile was replaced with a frown. She knew the scream belonged to Raphael. Her brother noticed her change of mood and nearly panicked.
"Andrea?" he questioned his voice a whisper.
"Did you hear that?" she questioned her head facing the direction of the scream.
"No, what's going on?" he asked following her gaze.
"The four allies need our help," Leah stated looking for the nearest fire escape with Lee close behind her.
Leah followed the faint nose of a fight so quick that Lee had a hard time keeping up. Finally, she saw Don and Raph locked in combat with what seemed fifteen Foot ninja and all four elite. Her mind briefly wondered where Leo and Mikey were, but shook her head. It didn't matter. All that mattered was helping them. The siblings went into the battle with old fashioned fists.
Raph nearly exploded with relief when Leah and her brother showed up. The fight didn't seem so hopeless anymore. He and Don had been having a hard time since the elite had shown up. The brothers had been out on patrol not thinking they would get into the mess they were in now. They had been ambushed without warning.
"Look out!" Raph exclaimed as Don barely dodged a critical hit by a katana.
Raph relaxed when a loud masculine yell tore through the air. He looked over seeing Leah's brother had been hit, and was on the ground down for the count when out of nowhere Leah blocked the killing blow with her own arm. Raph grunted feeling the pain as the blood spattered all over Leah's poor brother. The kunoichi's high-pitched scream lit up the night.
"Leah! Dear Lord!" her brother yelled his eyes wide.
Don was over there seconds later keeping the elite at bay the humans had been fighting. Leah's face was distorted with pain, but waved off anyone trying to help her. Raph frowned deeply wanting to help, but couldn't get through the thicket of ninja between them. He had no choice but to continue fighting.
Raph noticed her brother had gotten up with a new found fury. The man picked up a fallen Foot ninja's bo and ran at the elite Don had been fighting. The boy killed the ninja with two hard blows directly to the head. The ninja fought valiantly to protect his sister.
Finally Raph got close enough to speak to Leah, "Hey, Leah! You okay ovah there?" he questioned the girl worriedly.
He saw her cradle her broken, limp arm her face revealing the pain she was in
It didn't take long when Leo and Mikey showed up to the fight. Leo's face turned anxious when he caught of sight of Leah. His first instance was to rush to her side, but right now she needed protection. The leader jumped into the battle quickly going to work on the Foot close to Leah. He noticed Don and Raph were close as well, and her brother was on a rampage like nothing he had ever seen before. The human's face was a mask of hate.
Leah's suddenly released her arm, and to Raph's amazement it didn't seem broken anymore. She was moving it back and forth as if testing it. Blood still gushed out of it, yet not as much as it had been before. Raph thought he must have imagined how bad her wound really was. He noticed her go into battle next to her brother as they spoke quietly to one another. The turtles all wondered what was going on.
"Raph," Don called pulling him from his thoughts, "How is your thigh?"
Before Raph could answer Leo interrupted him, "What happened to your thigh?"
"It's a mess of blood right now, and I was injured about ten minutes ago," Raph replied then chuckled, "The guy didn't even mean ta do it."
"Is it just me or is the Foot just getting more and more untalented?" Mikey said smiled as he proved his point by bashing his chucks against one.
Suddenly a deep male voice replied, "They do not train them the way they used to. Since you guys came around they have been losing experienced ninjas, and are doing anything for new recruits."
The four looked over to see Leah and her brother locked in combat with a few Foot ninja. Leah seemed fine now and a closer look at her arm revealed to Raph he must have an over active imagination because that wound was not looking at all as bad as he had remembered. Raph frowned also remembered her leg and neck cuts were gone without even a scar to remember them by, which couldn't be right.
Suddenly a loud feminine, "Retreat!" was heard.
The head elite rushed all her fighters back towards the Foot headquarters, but took the time to turn back and look at Leah and her brother with an almost loving look. She left last after all of her troops were out of harm's way.
Don shook his head seeing Leah and her brother's wounds. Humans were so defenseless. No shell to protect them from the hard blows their lifestyle threw at them. A close look at Leah's brother would be all he needed to prove how defenseless they really were judging by all the scars he had, and not just the tiny marks that were smooth with the skin. They were the deep bumpy scars that protruded out of the skin.
Leah and her brother proceeded to check each other out after the fight. Leah looked over her brother as she saw the huge gash in his side from where she had saved him. She frowned, worried.
"It's nothing, don't worry. How is your arm? Not chopped off is it?" he asked as he pulled away from her and reached for her arm.
"It's fine now," she said softly as her brother's face hardened.
The turtles could tell something was up by their facial expressions. Something unknown had passed through the two human siblings that the turtle brothers didn't know. They watched as the two studied each other making sure the other was safe. Her brother then took off his shirt and was preparing it to be a sling for Leah. It was then the full extent of his side was shown. It was pretty deep. Leah refused the sling.
"Lee, no, you use it for your side. I'm fine," she told him.
Lee frowned, "Leah, I'm okay. I can deal with this, but for now your arm needs this. Take it," he demanded her.
She sighed, "I would rather you use it," she said as he fixed the sling on her. She hissed as he fixed her arm into the sling. After she was used to the sling Leah began to approach them.
Her brother had been deeply upset with her for not telling him about the turtles, but to her surprise he knew about them. Lee had heard conversations about the turtles from various Foot ninja and had even gotten to see them from time to time. Leah was blown away, but he had never met them.
The cut had nearly lost her a limb, and she had no clue if her healing powers worked on dismembered limbs. Luckily, the bone had taken a while, but was almost done mending itself back together. The muscle was being worked on now and she could feel her fingers again. She noticed her blood was different, like there was a charge to it. Her brother had noticed it to which must have been the reasoning for him giving her the sling.
Her first priority was making sure Raph was fine since it was his scream that brought her here, "Raph! Are you okay?" she asked.
Raph flushed a little, "It's nothin' compared ta that blow you took," he replied respectfully.
Leo suddenly came up to her and looked her straight in the eye, "How is your arm?" Leo asked as his eyes skimmed her body stopping at the sling as the blood began to soak through it.
She stared into his eyes frozen for a minute as her heart pounded in her chest, "It'll be fine, but I'm worried about Lee. He's hurting more than he is letting on," she replied finally.
"I wish I had brought my bag with you to help out," Don said apologetically.
Leah shook her head, "It's nothing. We're used to it," she explained with a smile as she turned to her brother.
"Do you need help getting home?" Leo called after her.
"No, we'll be fine, thanks," Leah answered.
"What if the Foot attacks you?" he argued, "You guys don't exactly look like you'd stand a chance."
Leah frowned, "I can take care of both of us if that happens," she replied.
Leo looked unconvinced as he shook his head, "All right. Just be careful," he gave up with a sigh.
Leah smiled at him, "Don't worry. We will," she promised.
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