Hello! Thanks for all the quick reviews and here's that chapter I promised earlier! I don't own the song The Monster by Eminem and Rihanna or TMNT.
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"I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed..."
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The Monster
Chapter 1: Time and Place
Summer break was April's favorite time of the year for many reasons.
The warm air made for easy travel and considering that she didn't have to walk made it all the more relaxing for her.
"You comfortable back there, April?" Donatello asked.
She was being toted by the turtle as we walked and jumped across the rooftops. He held is Bō Staff behind himself which made a makeshift seat for the girl who had her arms wrapped around his neck so she wouldn't fall.
"Yeah, Donnie." She responded contently.
"I bet it feels good not having school to worry about. Not having that weight over your head."
"Yeah! Also I get to spend more time with you guys."
Donnie blushed at this statement.
He hoped that April enjoyed spending time with him. The lair was so much brighter when she came around.
"We'll always have a weight over our heads though." April sighed.
"What?" The purple clad mutant asked, to caught up in his crush's voice to think straight.
"The Kraang, Foot Clan, Slash, every other enemy we've made. They don't take summer vacation like me, Donnie." The girl explained.
"You don't have to worry about that, April. You enjoy your summer vacation because I won't let any of them ruin it for you." The ninja smiled slightly.
"Thanks, Donnie. I'm probably gonna spend most of break with you guys at the lair, like sleeping over, because my Aunt Leslie is out on business in Florida and I have my phone to keep in touch with Abigail." April relayed all the information at once but the boy didn't mind.
"Wow this'll be great! We can have movie nights and dance parties! I can't wait!" The scientist smiled his famous gapped tooth grin.
Just for fun, he swiftly lifted his staff higher making April bounce up in the air and laugh a sweet honey laugh. She hugged his neck tighter upon landing.
Donatello ran atop the houses underneath the orangey sunset as he made his way towards the secret place he had prepared for his brothers and April.
He had decided that he would only take April the first time.
The special place was enclosed on the outskirts of the city, backing up to a smaller abandoned shop that nobody dared step near. He had planted a few plants and wired some lights around a small swing set and some park benches.
Now him and his brothers could actually come up to the surface at sundown and feel like a part of a normal family visiting the park or at least, that was Donnie's goal.
"Okay April, close your eyes."
The girl did what she was told as the mutant jumped down into his newest safe haven.
Donnie lifted April carefully onto the ground and slipped his Bō into it's quiver on the back of his shell. He carefully took the blue eyed beauty's hands and removed them from her eyes.
"You can look now."
Her eyelids fluttered open and a smile crept it's way onto her surprised face as she slowly walked around, touching the items as if she thought they were just images projected by a screen.
"Donnie this is amazing! How'd you get all this stuff here?!" April exclaimed.
"I have my ways." The ninja replied smoothly as he leaned against the pole that held up the swing set.
"Push me!" She laughed, jumping on a swing.
Donatello chuckled along and ran behind her, starting off gentle so he wouldn't push her so hard as for the swing to go over the top bar.
"Am I hurting you?" The mutant cautiously asked, ceasing his pushing for a moment.
April slowly turned her head as the swing rocked in short distances.
"Why would you be hurting me?"
Donnie folded his three fingers together behind his back.
"We'll since I'm...stronger than most people and my fingers are kneading into your back I was just wondering if you felt any...sort of...pain..."
April looked at her friend with somewhat of a mix between disbelief and sadness plastered on her face. Did he really feel this way? Did he think he was hurting her when he carried her across New York?
"No Donnie...it actually felt kind of nice, like a massage. It didn't even feel like your a mutant it felt like you were Abigail pushing me or something. Like you were a human."
She stared into his deep chocolate eyes as weight fell onto her smile, she didn't want to see her friend, especially Donnie who risks ever until for her, feel this way.
"Do you want to go back to the lair?" The mutant solemnly asked.
"No." April fired back, taking Donatello by surprise.
"I want I stay right here and I want you to push me and laugh with me and talk with me." The girl said with a lighter tone, gripping the rusty chains of the swing tightly.
"Your not going to move, are you?" Donnie playfully mumbled.
April smiled and raised an eyebrow which was quickly reduced to a giggle of her own.
Without further warning, the ninja jumped forward and pushed the swing with every ounce of strength he could muster, now full of confidence.
The auburn haired girl cried out in happiness as she rose and fell into the air. She was having much more fun with a mutant than she would any human.
The turtles and Splinter filled the endless void in April's heart from losing her mother to death, and now her father to mutagen. She wouldn't be alive without them and she constantly worried that they were under appreciated.
Yes, the freckled human knew that she couldn't go telling their stories to random New Yorkers but it ate at her heart all the time that her friends saved the lives of millions everyday and nobody but her knew. Though there was also the possibility of when people found out about them, if they ever did, they would be tranquilized, tested, tortured, interrogated, and maybe even killed. April would never risk a few people knowing about her friends for that horrible display that had recently crossed her mind.
Night colors splashed the sky as minuets turned to hours and Donatello had taken the liberty of turning on the gold Christmas lights that he'd strung around the swing set and the benches. A string of lights also hung above the two, the scientist had attached the clips on the edge of the wires to the buildings that encased the special place.
Each time the seat on the old metal contraption rose up, April would attempt to touch the luminous objects around her and Donnie couldn't believe that she'd been swinging or mostly that he'd been able to push her for about two hours.
Anything for April.
"Donnie I think the guys expected us home by now. Should we go back?" The human asked, twisting her neck around to face the mutant behind her.
"It's up to you, I can handle my brothers and Sensei. You can stay out here as long as you want!" He smiled his his gapped smile.
"We'll I'm sorta getting nauseas from going up and down constantly and I think that my lack of sleep is finally catching up with me as well." April smiled as she dug her feet into the asphalt below to slow the movement of the swing.
"Your nauseas? Here, let's go." The braniac tried to keep his initial panic under wraps as he picked up April and unsheathed his staff so she could sit on it.
After the girl was secure, he used his strength to hold his Bō with one hand and finger the electrical box on the wall nearby to turn off the lights.
Using his ninja agility and strength, Donnie catapulted himself with his large feet onto the lowest roof and then began home.
On the way back, April and him decided to stargaze since the tiny lights were very prominent in the sky that particular night.
"You know every single constellation, don't you?" The auburn haired girl smirked.
"Well I don't mean to brag, but I am an expert." The purple masked turtle joked along.
"I see the Little Dipper and the Big Dipper!"
Donnie playfully sneered at the amateur constellations.
"Oh yes, but have you ever seen the rare and rather large constellation Ophiuchus before?"
"What the shell is that a name or a disease!?" April yelled confusedly.
"Ophiuchus is one of the rarest and largest star formations ever. He is a man or in more detail, a serpent bearer located beneath Hercules and above Scorpius. Oh and Boötes is to his right and the Summer Triangle to his left!"
"...were all those names of stars?" The auburn haired girl asked after Donatello finished his Ophiuchus rant.
"Yes they were. Would you like to hear about Boötes next?" The turtle asked.
April glanced down and saw the manhole closest to the lair's entrance on the street.
"Oh dang it to bad we're already home and you don't have time to tell me! What a shame..."
"Young lady I can detect that sarcasm." Donnie said with a knowing feel.
"Young lady? I'm older than you!" The headstrong girl exclaimed.
"Your 16 I'm 15 it's not that big of a difference." The mutant retaliated.
Landing silently on the road, Donatello lifted the manhole and swiftly jumped inside, both human and turtle reaching the safety of the sewers unscathed.
In the dark they made their way to the lair which had a blue glow from what they suspected to Leo, Mikey, and Raph watching their new favorite TV show that evidently "paradoxes Donnie's life" according to the youngest turtle.
"We're back!" April called as her and Donnie entered the lair.
"Hey." All three of the other turtles responded in unison. All three were caught up in the colorful images on the TV screen which they were only inches away from.
"Didn't Sensei ever tell you not to sit that close to a TV?" Donatello asked, sounding very proper.
"No." All three said together, again.
The scientist rolled his eyes as he walked to the dojo to put his staff away.
Once he returned he decided to bid his crush goodnight since she had already retired to her 'bedroom' which was an old empty room modified specially for her once she had been living in the lair part and full time.
"May I come in?" He asked as he knocked three times.
"Yeah!" Her voice was muffled through the door.
Donnie pushed in open to see April brushing out her hair in her pajamas, preparing for slumber.
"Just wanted to say goodnight." The mutant smiled nervously.
"Thank you, I had a lot of fun today. It was like you were human!" The girl responded happily.
"Yeah it was...see you tomorrow."
"Night"
Donatello closed the door slowly, making sure it was all the way shut so any noises from the living room wouldn't wake April up.
"It was like you were human!"
The words replayed in his mind.
But he wasn't human and he never would be.
He was a hideous mutant.
Without another word, the purple clad mutant retreated to his room for sleep, a very rare occurrence considering he usually stayed up late working on inventions.
Humans need their sleep though.
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Ahh the fluffyness I love it. The first chapter is always a drag, it'll pick up, I promise! And yes, Ophiuchus is a real star! As for now, please review! ~PurpleKittyFangirl