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Mikey P.O.V
Master Splinter had taken Nicole over to his quarters after we had the 'family dissuasion' thing. Or whatever you want to call it.
I can still hear her sobs from his room, and the faint mumble of Master Splinter attempting to console her. It's been hours since the two of them left that room, and it's already getting late into the evening. Leonardo tried to apologize to me for the way he snapped at Nicole when she was speaking to us, but I told him that I really wasn't the one he should be apologizing to. Donnie keeps telling me to get some sleep since it's going on almost 5 P.M and I haven't slept all day, but I just have no desire. Raph has been training ever since this morning, and Leo has been meditating for a few hours now.
I decided to watch some T.V trying to kill the time, I'm also planning on skating a bit once it gets darker out. Buy some pizza for dinner, watch more T.V until 3 in the morning. Then pass out to wake up sometime late in the afternoon of tomorrow.
The exciting life of every day Michelangelo.
Well, I guess things wouldn't be so boring. I mean now Nicole is here, and we can spend time together. That is if she'd want to, but I don't really think human girls dig giant green turtles.
Fuck, why am I even thinking about this stuff? I hate when my imagination get's the better of me.
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"Who was your father working for?" Splinter asked with a calm and collected attitude.
Nicole was staring at her hands, clenched in tight fists before clearing her throat speaking in a hoarse tone. "My father was an accountant, but I don't know who he was working for exactly."
"Was there anyone who held a grudge over him?" He asked.
"No- I mean. I wouldn't even know." She explained. "Yesterday. I came home from work, and he told me he was going to the store to buy some food. I didn't see him get home, because I passed out not to long after he'd left. I never checked on him in the morning, but I noticed his shoes weren't near the front door when I'd left to work. I thought nothing of it, and just went to work. He called me not even an hour after I got to work, but he said he was still out. He said he had to file something important for his boss, but my Dad's never stayed out so long before for work. He even sounded like something was wrong." She ran her fingers through her hair gripping at fistfuls of it with a violent grip. "I should've known something was wrong!"
Master Splinter gripped onto her fists forcing her to let go, and look at him. "I think we've discussed this long enough, and today you've been through a lot." He began, "So I belive you should relax for now, and rest your mind. Although tomorrow, we will need to continue this conversation. You must understand that we will be doing this to help discover what happened to your father."
"I understand." She whispered.
"My sons are very kind, and gentle, and will treat you well. This is your home, as long as you want to think of it that way. And whatever decision's you want to make, you're completely entitled to."
Nicole had stood up along Master Splinter, and hugged him softly. "Thank you."
Splinter smiled and placed his paw on her check, "You're welcome my child." He said, and lead her out of his room into the lair.
Michelangelo's head popped from over the couch to stare at her, as she nervously walked over to the entertainment center sitting beside him. "Everything O.K?" He mumbled, crossing his legs on the sofa. Her eyes wandered over to the T.V remote and she asked, "Are you watching this?"
He stared at her with an annoyed expression at the fact that she wouldn't answer his question. This became apparent to her, and she sunk into her seat pulling her knees to her face in an awkward position. "It's fine." She whispered, "Everything is just fine."
Michelangelo, looked at her with a bleak expression, turning his eyes towards to T.V as Nicole flicked through many channels. Never stopping long enough to register what show had come on, just aimlessly flicking through the screens.
"Do you skate?" Mikey suddenly asked.
"I roller bladed in high school, but If you're asking about skateboarding. Then, no."
"You like pizza?"
Nicole looked up from having her face huddled between her knees, and stopped flicking through channels."I do." She stated.
Michelangelo stretched and yawned softly before speaking. "What do you like on your pizza, because I'm gonna go out in a few to get some."
"Anything, I'm not very picky." She mumbled, and stood up walking over to an old battered PlayStation2, before gently picking up one of the controllers. "What games do you have? Any Silent Hill?" She asked sitting down on the floor.
Michelangelo smiled brightly, "Yeah, I do. I have a xbox too, if you want to play some Halo together when I get back. All my games are in that C.D case." He said pointing to a small case on the floor before standing up, and walking over to the front door.
Nicole looked at him, "Where are you going?" She asked.
Michelangelo scratched the back of his head. "To go get some pizza."
"Can I come with you?" She quickly said, standing up beside him.
Michelangelo walked over into the direction of the front door, "Sure, but always stick by me, and always stick to the shadows until we get to the rooftops." He said opening the door, and grabbing his nunchucks of a small rack next to the door.
Nicole ran over to Donnie's laboratory grabbing her boots slipping them on quickly, and then went back over to the front door where Mikey stood waiting. "Why do you and your brothers carry weapons?" She asked zipping on her boots, as Mikey opened the front door.
"For self-defense. They're pretty cool, right?" He said happily, spinning his nunchucks quickly before attaching them snuggly against his leather belt. Nicole returned the gesture and walked along him. "Pretty impressive."
Michelangelo walked down the dark alleyway of the sewer over to a ladder, and climbed up it pushing open the manhole cover. He proceeded into a dim-lit alleyway up above, and helped Nicole to the surface. They both walked over to a fire escape, climbing up it to the top of a rooftop. Both sat next to the edge of the building, and Mikey called the pizza place next to the building they were on. He placed the order, and the man over the phone explained about a 30 minute wait.
After a quick discussion with the employee at the pizza shop, Mikey hung up and sighed heavily to look over at Nicole who was preoccupied with the ends of her hair.
"We gotta wait 30 minutes." He mumbled, and she looked up at him, then over to the skyline of New York.
"Alright." She said softly, and Mikey started at his lap.
"What kind of music do you listen too?" She asked.
Michelangelo looked at her, lifting one leg up to rest his head on his knee. "Honestly, anything. I mean anything, except country. Lately, I've been really into Nirvana, and Johnny Cash." He said clearing his throat.
"Nirvana?" She said with a smile. "They're one of my favorite bands."
Michelangelo looked at her, and laughed softly. "Now I know a little something more about ya."
"Well, I'm not that interesting." She sighed. "Honestly, I just sit in my room, read comics, watch movies, and work. I enrolled in college for two years, but it just wasn't my thing. I thought about starting my own business, but I didn't know what I wanted to do."
"You like reading comics?" Michelangelo said with a delighted expression, and Nicole smiled awkwardly. "It's really just my nerdy little secret. Do you read comics too?"
"Me? Of course!" He laughed, and she laughed lightly as well. "Comic's are my life. My bro's always make fun of me for it, but- It's just my nerdy little secret." He looked up at her with an alluring smirk.
Nicole stared at him, and felt her face get a bit hot and flushed. She turned her gaze over to the skyline, and ran her fingers into her hair. "Tell me more about your family." She asked.
Michelangelo stretched his legs over the building, and looked down at the pizza shops front door.
"Donnie's very smart. It's a miracle if I can get him from out of his lab. He's always buildin' something new, or fixin' something old. His head's like a giant encyclopedia, and he's always thinking about something new to add to every chapter. Raph, he's a hot head. A strong brute, who's always looking to be the leader. But he's just not there yet. Leo is a fierce warrior, and a very peaceful soul. Whenever things get distant, I can always go to him for guidance."
Mikey looked at his hands with a blissful grin.
"Best brother's a turtle could ever ask for."
Nicole shifted herself closer to him, and crossed one of her legs under her thigh, letting the other hang from the building. "I'm a bit jealous. You make me wish I was turtle too." She said, with a smirk.
Mikey chuckled quietly, and they both talked to each other about things they enjoyed, or past secrets. Twenty minutes had passed, and they both were laughing about embarrassing things they did as little kids before the door of the pizza shop slowly opened letting out a small chime from the bell attached to the door hinge. Michelangelo stood up and explained to Nicole to stay here until he got back, and with that jumped of the building to the alleys below. She went to reach out for him when he was going to jump, but he disappeared in a matter of seconds.
How did he do that?
She stood up looking over the edge of the building, and then sat down near the fire escape he disappeared from. After a few moments of staring aimlessly at the dark alley way below Michelangelo jumped onto the roof top with two large boxes of pizza.
"Alright, lets head back to the lair."
Her eyes were wide with an astonished gaze, as she slowly stood up. "You're just full of surprises." She whispered.
"Naw." He mumbled. "Just a lot of training."
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Reaching the lair, everyone in the household ran to the two large boxes of pizza like a flock of birds attracted to bread. Nicole found it amusing as how the four turtles ate their meal barbarically, and Master Splinter was always so calm and collected.
Leonardo was the first to finish, and excused himself from the table to go rest for the night. Nicole ate two slices of pizza, before laying down onto the couch, and Michelangelo shortly followed after.
She had found an old copy of Jak & Daxter, begging Michelangelo to play with her, and that soon slowly consume their night. Yelling in unison at the T.V every once and while when a monster would come from out of nowhere. Laughing hysterically at the dumbest things, enjoying the presence of one another.
"They're getting along quite well." Splinter said softly, sipping his tea. Raphael and Master Splinter had sat at the table with each other for some time after dinner. Chatting with one another about miscellaneous things. Donatello was with them as well, but left explaining he needed to be studying more about Nicole's father's whereabouts.
"The best thing she needs is someone lookin' afta' her." Raphael mumbled chowing down on his now fourth slice of pizza.
Master Splinter sighed heavily, and stood up grabbing his cane smiling at Nicole laughing over a corny joke Mikey had made.
"I need to speak with you two." Donatello rushed clenching onto a handful of paper emerging from his room.
Raphael looked up a bit startled, dropped his crust from his pizza onto his paper plate and stood up. "What's da matta'?"
"Both of you please join me in the laboratory." He whispered, and glanced over to Michelangelo who was staring dead at him. "Now." Donnie demanded.
Master Splinter, and Raphael nodded walking over into Donatello laboratory with him. He shut the door behind him, and sat down in his desk chair with a exasperated sigh.
"I found out who Nicole's father was working with."
Raphael leaned against the door and crossed his arms. "O.K. Who was he working for?" He questioned, with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"Her father was working for Bishop."
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Oooo, the suspense.
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