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Word Number Four: Diamond

"Mikey all this sewer junk has no value to me whatsoever so get it off my desk!"

"But Donnie! Maybe you can turn it into some supercool robot ninja fighting device that would take out an entire fleet of enemies in one foul swoop! Or you could make a flame retardant toaster so Leo could actually make breakfast for once without making the entire lair blow up!

"Oh the possibilities." Donatello said as blandly as possible.

Young and imaginative Michelangelo had gone sewer searching earlier with a reluctant Raphael and he had come home with a trash can full of random items he'd collected along the way. While Raph was searching for discarded mutagen canisters, Mikey had been trailing behind his older brother collecting everything that caught his eye. Along the way, he'd found a trash can to tote all the "treasures" back to Don so he could possibly make a weapon of some sort with all the stuff he'd found.

"Mikey, get out of my lab! Your trash is not my number one priority right now!" The purple clad turtle huffed.

"Yeah, I get it, inventions and April, that's all it ever is with you." The younger mutant muttered as he wandered out and shut the large door.

Donatello decided to ignore the whiny comment and go back to studying a supposed new way to fix the Shellraiser quicker and faster whenever Leo managed to wreck it somehow. Donnie wished he could drive, but nobody else had the brains to work his station and Leonardo was the next best choice.

The turtle wanted to finish his work before April showed up later on for movies and pizza so he decided to get back on track yet a faint glimmer in the midst of all of Mikey's junk caught his eye. Curiosity was more for his little brother but it got the best of Don as he began to rummage through the can for the shimmery object.

After groping around in the smelly and sewage riddled things the inventor finally came up with something he'd never expect to see in a pile of trash.

A large and shiny diamond ring.

It was at least seven karats, if not more, the beautiful gold band was engraved with cursive etchings. It was proudly addressed "To My Love" and the on the other side of the band the initials "D and A" were as clear as day.

Donatello picked off a small piece of paper attached to the jewel and read it carefully, it was once again written in beautiful cursive.

"To my beloved Alice, from your beloved Daniel: I hope this ring that I now discard helps me forget the things that are hard. Your death was an untimely one and to this day I drown my spirits in rum. I hope some day we come back together and our love blossoms newer, but until then this ring will lie motionless and dead in the sewer."

The precious jewel dropped to the floor with a clink as the baffled turtle attempted to read the letter out loud. It was written awhile ago, back in 1974, and Donnie wondered how on earth it ended up here. Flipping the paper over, the boy read a small passage that was no more than a sentence.

"We are renewed. Claim this as yours. - David and Alice"

"Hey guys! I brought the movies!" A happy voice came into earshot from the other room alerting the boys that April had arrived.

Without thinking, the mutant boy ran out of his lair, tripped over his feet, recovered, and held the ring out to the auburn haired girl in an uncomfortable looking position from the ground.

"Donnie? Are you okay, what this?" She asked.

"Something from the sewers...I thought you may like it."

April took a second to carefully examine the diamond, becoming more enchanted with every inch. The beauty of it took her by storm and her emotions welled up inside. She bent down to her turtle friend with a genuinely joyous smile.

"It's beautiful Donnie, thank you very much."

The blue eye beauty then slipped it on her delicate finger and proceeded to show the movies to Leo and Raph who were arguing over the adventure and horror genres respectively.

"Sewer junk, eh?" A small voice interrupted a lovestruck Donnie's thoughts.

"Can it, Mikey."

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