I'm sorry it's a week late. *sigh* Oh school, why do you hate me.
So I'm sorry if this chapter gets a bit too OOC, I wrote half of it at like 2 in the morning.
And here's a brief little description of what everyone, just in case you're confused.
Raphael-
Raphael Hamato has choppy black hair that spikes up in a few places on the top of his head. Two small strands of hair fall out of place and onto his forehead. He has two deep brown eyes that are complimented with a shard of red, which is barely visible. Raph is the tallest of the four. He wesars a bland white t-shirt and a black leather collared jacket. This outfit is continued with dark blue, slightly ripped jeans and crimson red Vans. He's hot headed and majorly pessimistic. He still cares for his brothers, but doesn't always show it. Raphael is the most loyal brother, he considers being closest to Mikey. He plays electric guitar.
Donatello-
Donnie is the 'nerd/geek/hipster' of the group. He has brown hair, quite similar to Andrew Garfield, but Donatello's hair is flat and messy. His brown eyes are hidden behind by thin black glasses, which he only wears when he isn't training. The teenage genius wears a purple V-neck sweater and light blue jeans. His feet clothed by black TOMS. Donnie could possibly be Leo's twin, they're the same height and have very similar features. Donatello has the highest IQ of the four, which makes him the smartest. Donnie and Raphael bicker almost as much as Raphael and Leo, but they still have their good moments. Donatello is quite witty and enjoys joking around with Michelangelo, as long as it doesn't make him look like a fool. He plays piano.
Leonardo-
Leonardo is the eldest of the four. He has dark brown hair that looks black from far away, it is longer then Raph's but shorter then Mikey's. His eyes are a shade of deep hazel. Leo wears a blue Polo and khaki cargo capris on a normal basis. He is the most skilled and advanced student of Splinter's, this causes him to gain nicknames such as 'Teacher's Pet' from Mikey. Donnie and Leo have a close bond, but Leo has no favorite brother. He has a secret talent of singing.
Michelangelo-
Michelangelo looka younger then he really is. He has wavy blonde hair that falls right above his shoulders. His eyes are big and innocently blue. In fact, he himself just has 'innocent' written all over his features. Mikey normally wears a Star Wars: IV shirt, jeans, and orange All-Star Converse. He loves to make people smile. Mikey is the youngest brother, which causes the other brothers to feel the need to protect him from the world. He's the jokester of the group, Donatello normally being his partner in crime. He plays drums.
I hope that clears up any confusion :) I'm really happy with this story and guess what?
I FINALLY FIGURED OUT THE PLOT, THE CLIMAX, THE FALLING ACTION, EVERYTHING. YESSSS. MAJOR HAPPINESS.
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"Well, it's nice…for a sewer." April shrugged and Donnie grinned down at her.
"Thanks," he rubbed the back of his neck. "So you're playing along nicely."
"What?"
"You seriously believe we live here?"
"Heck no. I believe that this is all a dream or that creep chasing me knocked me out and now I'm having an out of body experience. Am I right?" She looked around, still observing the sewer.
Donnie sighed and rubbed his temple. "We'll build…we'll build." He patted her on the back and she shrugged. "Why don't we head back to the-"
"Man cave, yeah I got it." April smirked and Donnie turned a slight shade of red as they walked back to the main room.
When they entered, the scene was normal. Mikey was sprawled across one of the couches watching a romantic comedy. Splinter was in the kitchen (which was somewhat part of the living room) making tea. Donatello acted as if it was all completely normal to them. April winced at the though of living in a sewer.
"So what would make you believe that you're not dreaming?" Donatello asked as they stood behind the couch Mikey was sitting on.
April laughed, but stopped when she realized he was serious. "Well uh, I don't know." She looked around and then focused back on Donnie. "Can I go home?"
Donnie felt a wave of disappointment wash over him. He couldn't refuse her though, so he looked into her warm, green, eyes. "If you're sure, then I'll walk you there."
April nodded and followed her new imaginary friend out; she winced when they got into the tunnel system. Donatello noticed and turned to her with a raised eyebrow.
"Sewer. No. Gross." April crossed her arms. Donatello sighed, knowing her attitude would be immutable.
"Trust me?" he took a step toward her.
"What?"
"Do you trust me?
April paused for a minute, "Sure, you're only my subconscious…right?"
"That's up for debate," he gently picked up April bridal style and began walking towards the nearest manhole.
April secretly wished this were real. She knew it was crazy, I mean a family living in a sewer? That sounded like some crazy comic book or something.
But Donnie was really affable and… erudite. He was seriously sweet and cute. Very cute. Mikey was funny, Raph was just indescribable, and Leo was obviously the only normal one.
"It's too bad I'm not real, I'm only your subconscious." Donnie said, breaking the silence.
April bit her lip and nodded. Donnie shook his head, trying to get this girl out of his head.
She was probably the most amazing girl he had ever met.
And the only.
Donnie was quiet the rest of the way, letting her down once they got to a ladder. April let Donatello go first, she didn't have the strength to push the cover off.
"Aren't we below a street?"
"No, an alley. C'mere. Is this anywhere close to where you live?" Donnie leaped out and helped the girl up.
"Oh right! You're my subconscious; of course you know where I live. Duh, April." She hit her head and turned towards Donnie.
"So I take it you live somewhere close by?"
April pointed to an apartment complex a block over. "Right there. I think I can make it by myself."
Donnie gave her a concerned, insecure look. "I promise I'll be fine. Thanks…Donatello." She smiled and Donnie smiled back.
"Donnie, actually."
"So I'll be meeting my subconscious again?" she asked hopefully.
"Only if you can deal with Mikey's pretentious self."
"Big word."
"Vocabulary book."
"Of course you would."
"Of course."
Donatello paused, realizing they had both been drawing closer. He took a step back and gave her one last grin.
"Sewer sweet sewer," then he disappeared.
~Roof, New York City~
"Paranoid, aren't we?"
"That would explain why you're here." Donnie rolled his eyes.
Raphael smirked and stood next to his brother.
"You're way too worried 'bout her."
"Says the guy who has saved her how many times? Plus all the hours you've spend stalking her…"
"I'm not stalking nobody but those stupid creeps who have been following her."
"Anybody."
"Ehem?"
"The word you're looking for is 'Anybody'. Seriously Raph. Bad grammar is just repulsive."
Raphael had a look of murder in his eyes. "So please tell me then, professor. Why are you up here?"
"I was just about to ask you the same thing."
"I swear-"
"I'm not exactly sure that those guys who went after her are done tracking her. If they've been continually trying to get her, then she is obviously wanted by whoever hired them." Donnie crossed his arms and directed his vision to her apartment building.
"Not the only guy who wants her…" Raph mumbled under his breath, loud enough for Donnie to hear.
If Donatello were a cartoon, he'd be in-between blushing and having smoke file out of his ears.
"Referring to yourself, now aren't you?" he tried to attack him back.
"Actually I was referring to how you followed her 'round like a lovesick puppy!" Raph spat, getting irritated.
"Jealous?" Donnie cleverly raised an eyebrow.
"Why the shell would I be jealous?!" Mikey had started using the word 'shell' after Splinter punished him harshly after cursing; so 'shell' was pretty popular.
Raphael was fuming in anger. He was annoyed that Donnatello would taunt him about something like this. Raphael obviously had no feelings for April.
Donnie liked this. He liked having higher ground above Raphael. "Because somebody has a little crush on a certain girl? Oh wait. Never mind, I'm sorry. I forgot you had no capability of those feelings." His tone was sarcastically contrite.
Raph took out his sai and deathly glared at his brother.
"Nice bonding time, see you later. Have fun not stalking anybody." Donatello mocked as he flipped off the building in his own special ninja way.
Raphael clenched his fists and replaced his sai back on his belt. He stood in silence one more moment, before furtively jumping off the building.
~O'Neil Apartment, New York City~
April quickly slammed her fist into her 'Hello Kitty' alarm clock. She took a peak at the time, 6:30 AM.
The teenager sat up and groaned. It was too early to get up. She grabbed her phone off her bedside table and walked into the dinning room to make breakfast.
She quickly drifted off into the dream she had dreamt last night. Raph…Donnie…Mikey and Leo and Splinter… the sewer.
April snapped herself out.
"Dad? Dr. O'Neil? Dad?" she called to him, but the apartment was quiet. 'He must be working late.' She thought to herself as she began scrolling through her contacts on her phone just so she could make sure.
'Casey Jones, Devi, Donnie, Don't Ca-Donnie?' her mind raced as she quickly pressed her finger onto his name.
A picture of him. His phone number. His last name.
'Holy Cow, it was real?' Her finger loomed over the bright 'Call' button. She pressed down on it.
Ringing…ringing….ringing.
"The number you are trying to reach is uh…" an irritated, familiar voice answered. Could it be? "…Invalid. Please hang up and don't call ag-"
"Raphael?"
"…Who are you?"
"It's me, April! You're actually real, I can't believe it! Which means that I wasn't dreaming. That all seriously happened! Oh my gosh, this is just so-"
"April. Calm down. You're fangirling." Raph interrupted her, his voice was dry.
"What? Oh sorry." She smiled. "So where's Donnie?"
"Off doing whatever nerds like him do. Probably sleeping because that's the last thing he would ever do at night." Raphael replied with a hint of annoyance towards his brother.
"So you don't know?"
"Or care."
April facepalmed. She would never understand guys.
"Well when you see him, please tell him I called?"
Raph hesitated, "Sure." He then left April with the sweet sound of dial tone.
~Donatello's Room, Sewer, New York City~
Donnie groaned as he rolled out of bed. 'Note to self, sleep is not the enemy.' He criticized himself for not doing his body justice.
He seriously needed to stop staying up till four in the morning doing…whatever. But once he started a new project, he had to finish it. He liked researching things. He liked learning.
Just as Donatello's eyes started adjusting to the light, his door was thrown open. An annoyed Raphael stomped into his room.
"You gave her your phone number?" he asked through clenched teeth.
Donnie raised an eyebrow "What?" he asked groggily. Then he smirked, realizing what Raph was talking about. "Is that a problem? You look a little…"
"Don't say it." Raphael challenged.
"You look a little jealous." Donnie ducked as Raph threw a harmless punch towards Donatello's head.
"Alright, alright! Back to topic. Yes, April has my phone number and Mikey's and Leo's and yours."
Raph gave him a quizzical look. Donnie shrugged, "Mikey kinda took her phone while I walked her around… He added all of us as contacts in case of emergency."
Raphael gave a sarcastic thumbs up and tossed Donnie his phone. "She called," was all he said as he jerked the door closed behind him.
Donnie picked up his phone and sighed, falling back into his bed.
"April? Hey."
"Donnie! It wasn't a dream!" April's giddy voice flowed through the small device.
Donnie grinned, "Told you so."
"Haha, well so now that I know you're real… can I come over?"
"What about school?"
"Nobody will care if I skip, Donnie."
"But school is…fun and educational. Okay so do you know where I dropped you off yesterday? I'll pick you up there after school."
"Bu-"
"I'm a freaking teenage genius living in a sewer. Your argument in invalid."
And with that, Donatello hung up.
The rest of the day was like any other, homeschooling with Splinter then training. After the last training session, Donnie did something he hadn't done in while. He pulled his keyboard out of his closet and set it up on a stand. Then, he played.
Raph walked past Donnie's room at this exact moment. He hesitated, but knocked on Donnie's door.
"Come in."
Raphael pushed the door open and slowly observed what was going on. Donnie shrugged at his expression and went back to playing 'Sail' by AWOLNATION.
Raph left without a word and returned a minute later with his electric. The two brothers eventually caught the attention of Mikey and Leo, and before they knew it they were in the training room playing together.
It was just them messing around, playing octaves or 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'. They all still harmonized so well.
"Crap, uh be right back." Donnie quickly ran out of the room after checking his watch. Raph and Leo gave each other a confused look then Raph rolled his eyes and turned his attention back on his guitar. Mikey was too busy doing tricks with his drum sticks.
~Sewer Tunnels, New York City~
"You're late!" was the first thing out of April's mouth as soon as Donnie pushed off the manhole cover.
"Nice to see you too," he extended his hand to help her down. April took it and Donnie pulled her down while trying to keep his balance on the ladder. April hesitated as she got to the last step, Donnie jumped down and started walking. She started at the murky water...or whatever it was below her. She sighed and sucked in her breath as she slowly stepped down into it and ran to catch up to Donnie.
"This is so gross. Why did your father have to choose a sewer to settle in?" April glared at Donnie.
Donnie smirked for a second but a wave of annoyance washed over his face. "I wondered that too, the day I had to set up cable and wifi connections." He must of been re-living a bad memory because he looked like he was about to murder. April laughed, he was cute when he was annoyed.
"Anyway, to celebrate being real, I have a surprise." Donnie shook the frown off his face and grinned down at April.
She giggled, "Honestly, nothing would surprise me at this point."
"Touche," Donnie laughed. "So how was school?" They discussed April's day as they walked. Donnie scowled when April mentioned how a guy named Casey had asked her to homecoming. Donatello smiled when she told him she had refused Casey's offer. They talked like old friends, and April liked it. Donnie was one of her first friends and she enjoyed hanging out with him.
"And here we are, sewer sweet sewer. Okay so anyway, the surprise. Close your eyes and give me your hand." Donnie grabbed April's hand and she reluctantly closed her eyes.
He led her down to the basement, AKA Training Room. "Don't laugh, we know it's cliché," Donnie grinned as April opened her eyes.
"April!" Mikey grinned as April came into the room. "It is April, right?" He leaned over to Raphael and whispered. Raph rolled his eyes, at Mikey and walked over to Donnie and April.
"Nice shirt," Raph gestured to April's dark red and black striped shirt. She smiled, "Thanks, Raphael."
Raphael resisted his argue to smirk. Not only was she wearing his favorite color, she also remembered his name. Donnie also noticed this and bit his lip, annoyed at how Raph must be enjoying this. April walked past the two to greet Mikey and Leo and Raph took this as an opportunity to push Donnie farther.
"Now who's the jealous one?" he whispered into Donnie's ear.
Donnie shot daggers at Raphael, that's how cold his eyes were. Raphael smirked happily, proud of himself.
"So you all formed a band? That's actually...kinda cool! What do you call yourselves?"
"Michelangelo and Mikey-ettes!" Mikey stepped in front of April and smiled giddily.
Raphael came over and pushed him. "You shouldn't even joke about that, it's so wrong." He directed his attention back to April, "We never really came up with one."
April shrugged, "We'll work on that later, what songs can you play?"
Leo started counting on his figners. "Uh, Sail, Demons, New Divide, Closer," Leo turned to face Raph and smiled "Enchanted, and Innocent by Taylor Swift. She's Raph's favorite singer. And we've been trying to play How Far We've Come by Matchbox Twenty."
"The only problem is that we need a..." Donnie cut himself off and stared at April.
"Um...a what?" April shifted her weight onto her other foot.
Mikey crossed his arms over his chest and smiled, "A female singer. It's a duet."
"You up to the challenge, April?" Leo grinned.
"Um what? I don't know the song...I don't-" April was interrupted by Mikey shoving paper into her hands.
"This is the sheet music, I have it memorized. Just sing the words and you're good to go!" Mikey explained and then ran to his drum set, ready to go.
"Donnie, why don't you sing with April? You're better for the voice range then I am." Leo passed a microphone to Donnie and April. Leonardo was also a master of the piano. He and Donnie switched between singing and playing often.
Donatello turned to April as the other brothers took out their music and prepared to play. "You okay?"
"I've never really sang in public," she shook her head.
"We're not in public. We're in a basement in a sewer." he paused. "I feel like we're pressuring you to do this."
April gave him a small smile, "It's fine. If you need me then sure, I'll help."
"Okay guys! One two...a one two three four!" Mikey called and then began the intro of the song.
Raphael and Leonardo joined him and pretty soon, Donnie was singing.
"I'm wakin' up at the start of the end of the world
But it's feeling just like every other morning before
Now I wonder what my life is gonna mean if it's gone.''
April was surprised, Donnie was actually really good. His voice was warm and nice. It fit him. The band was pretty good too, they might not get along too well, but they all worked well together.
"The cars are moving like a half a mile an hour
and I Started staring at the passengers and waving goodbye
Can you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time?"
April happily danced along to the music since she didn't sing during verses.
"But I believe the world is burning to the ground
Oh well, I guess we're gonna find out.
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come
Well I believe it all is coming to an end
Oh well, I guess we're gonna pretend
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come"
Donnie glanced over to April and caught her eye; they exchanged smiles.
"I think you turn, turn the clock, but I don't really know
And I can't remember caring for an hour or so
Started crying and I couldn't stop myself
I started running but there's nowhere to run to
I sat down on the street, took a look at myself
Said, "Where you going man, you know the world is headed for hell?"
Say your goodbyes if you got someone you can say goodbye to"
Donnie offered April his free hand as he started singing the chorus. She took it and he spun her around.
"I believe the world is burning to the ground
Oh well, I guess we're gonna find out
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come"
April took one last breath of air, this is where she was supposed to come in.
"Well I believe it all is coming to an end
Oh well, I guess we're gonna pretend
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come"
Donnie placed a hand on her shoulder to get her attention. April spun around and smiled. Donnie gave her a grin and quickly whispered "You're great," in her ear before singing again.
The rest of the day was pretty much that. April loved it. She loved how they accepted her. She loved how much fun she was having. She just loved all of this.
How could life ever get worse?
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Okay, yeah. I'm kinda obsessing over that song.
AHHHH THE NEW NICK SERIESSS ITS NOT AS BAD AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE.
It was potential. My new catch phrase is "Booyakasha" by the way. :)
-BTL