Chapter 3: Always Watching

A/N: I was originally going to have this be a one shot, but I figured it would work well in Secrets and Lies since this particular story is a series of one shots pertaining to the Truth and Lies series. I want to thank everyone who has read and reviewed thus far and want to apologize for the delay. Other stories got in the way and writer's block was another hindrance. I hope that you enjoy this chapter as it's a look inside Robyn's head.

Disclaimer: TMNT and all related characters belong to Nickelodeon. I only own the plot and nothing more.

She is so happy to be home and not in that horrible place. She looks around at the familiar landscape of the home that was once hers. Her father comes in behind her, shuffling along with her suitcase. He's happy to see her, and she can't help but feel glad at that. He settles her into the room that was once her sister's as the room that had been hers had been used for storage. Kirby leaves her to get settled, and she sits on her sister's bed, sighing in contentment.

She then notices that the bed seems different. She reaches under the mattress and unearths a journal. She opens the journal and sees her sister's handwriting. Smiling, she reads what her sister has written and realizes her sister has been keeping a lot of secrets from everybody. As she reads about her sister's mutant friends, she wonders if her father even knows about them. Maybe he does, but if that's so, why hasn't he told her about them? She continues to read until her father calls her for dinner which turns out to be pizza of all things.

"Are you settling in well?" her father asks her.

She nods. "Yes, I love it here," she replies. "Thanks for letting me come home."

"You've done so well, and I think the doctors are pleased with your progress," he says.

"Are there any more leads on April's disappearance?" she asks.

"No, no one has any leads," he replies. "It's been so long, and I can't see why they still haven't found anything."

"Am I going to go to school?" she asks. She wants to see if she can talk to April's friends and see if they know anything about her.

"No, I think it's best if you stay home," he answers. "No one knows about you, and it needs to stay that way."

"When are you going to tell people?" she whines. "You can't keep me here forever."

"I know, honey, but I want to wait until April's killer is caught first so that they don't go for you next," he says.

Robyn rolls her eyes. If only he knew that April's killer was sitting right in front of him. But if he found that out, he'd send her away again or possibly put her in jail. That couldn't happen.

The two of them finish their food and go to the living room to watch a game show on TV. They don't talk about anything else, and Robyn doesn't want to. When the show's over, Robyn heads to bed. She snuggles under the covers and continues to read her sister's journal until she's too tired to keep her eyes open. As she falls asleep, a plan forms in her mind and she feels nothing but excitement over it. It's a way to get April's friends back and to make them go crazy. After all, anyone who's friends with April is the enemy as well, and they need to suffer just as much as she has.

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She wakes up to a nice day. Her father cooks her breakfast and leaves for work. He's so self-absorbed and doesn't notice the expression on her face, which is good for her. Everything will be going according to plan.

She flips through the channels but doesn't find anything interesting on TV. Sighing, she heads to her sister's room and brings the journal downstairs along with her phone. After reading something in her sister's journal, she smiles and composes a text and sends it to the number her sister so stupidly put down in her journal, making sure to sign it with an A. Yeah, that ought to get them riled up, thinking that April is back. The perfect plan is going just great.

She reads more of the journal and giggles when she sees what April writes about Donnie. Oh, how Donnie pines for her and loves her! Yes, he'll be easy to lure into her trap if her father talks about them and introduces her to them. Later that day, she composes an e-mail and sends it to him. Yes, that'll get him going. He'll be going nuts trying to figure out who's sending him these messages. He'll probably try and trace them, but she's too smart for that.

She continues her diabolical streak on the others and smiles. Yes, this will work perfectly. She puts away the journal and watches some television before her father comes home and makes dinner. She tells him her day went fine and asks about his own where he proceeds to talk about work and how everyone is so happy to have him back. She still resents him for leaving her to move to California, but the offer was there and he had to take it. Yeah, right. He just wanted to get away from his crazy daughter.

Then an idea comes to her. "Dad, when am I going to meet April's friends?" she asks.

"Pardon?" he asks.

"When am I going to meet April's friends?" she repeats. "You know, the ones she always told me about?"

"Which friends?" he asks her.

"Leo, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey," she answers.

"I don't know, Robyn," he answers. "We have to plan this carefully."

"Did she ever tell them about me?" she asks him.

He shakes his head. "No, I told her not to, and she kept her word."

"You shouldn't have done that," she mutters.

"I had to," he replies.

She rolls her eyes and says no more. How could her father do that to her? Why did he feel it was better for everyone to not know who she was? Oh well, she'd get back at him someday. He would pay for trying to shove her under the rug.

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Time passes, and Robyn continues to text her sister's friends. Then April's body is discovered. Robyn is nervous, thinking that it will be linked to her, but it's not. She is safe, and she is relieved. She attends the memorial service, and she's relieved that she'll be able to be seen out in public, though no one looks twice at her. Then she goes home with her father and he tells her more about her sister's friends and how they are mutant turtles who have hidden away because of being mutants. She knows this now, but she pretends to be surprised by the news so her father won't suspect a thing. Luckily it works.

"You'll meet them tomorrow night," he says.

"Great," she replies. "I can't wait."

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The night arrives, and she's excited. She'll finally get to really put her plan into motion and manipulate these mutants. She meets them, and they're everything her sister has described. She smiles at them and talks to them about how sorry she is that they had to go through that and how she can't wait to be friends with them. She sees Mikey's eyes light up and knows that she has him right where she wants him. Raphael is harder to read and looks as though he doesn't trust her. He'll be harder to win over, but she can do it. She just has to be subtle about it.

The Turtles leave her, and Kirby turns to her, an expectant look on his face.

"What do you think?" he asks.

"They seem nice," she says. "I can't wait to really get to know them and be friends with them."

"I'm glad you like them," he says. "They've done a lot for us, and we owe them a great debt."

She nods and waits until her father has left her room. Then she laughs really hard. Yeah, right. Those freaks are so going to pay, and she'll make sure they suffer.

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The plan moves along and she manipulates each of the Turtles with her charm. Then comes the day where the plan will really come into motion. She lures them into the antique shop, claiming that she's going to move in there and wants to have a slumber party. They fall for it just as she figures they would and follow her into the shop and to the apartment above it. She then wonders about meditation, and Leo offers to teach it to her. She does just as he asks her and closes her eyes, pretending to concentrate on her breathing. Then she notices the others are doing it, too. With a smile, she tiptoes away from them and closes the door, slipping an envelope beneath it. Soon their demise will be swift.

She pours the gasoline and lights the match. She smiles as the flame ignites. She can hear the freaks screaming and trying to break the door down. They manage to escape, and she's furious about it. One of them struggles with her and the floor collapses. She dangles Leo above the flames, ready to drop him in, but the others interfere and foil her plot. She can't remember everything that happens as it's a blur, but the Turtles manage to escape and so does she. She sees them huddled together, happy that they have escaped. She sneers, feeling mad that her plan didn't work. But no matter. She still has time to get rid of them. They can't escape from her.

"Enjoy your freedom while you can, freaks," she whispers. "You can't hide from me. I'm always watching."

Then she flees into the night before anyone can see her to concoct her next plan of revenge.

A/N: So that's the end of another chapter I love writing for this universe and have missed doing so. I hope that you enjoyed this chapter as it's one I've wanted to write for a long time. Feel free to leave a review and have a shelltastic day.