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Word Number Seven: Hope

"Ohmygosh I forgot about Casey!" April exclaimed and then immediately ran off.

"That's what she wanted to tell us?" Donatello cocked his head to one side.

"We'll take the Shellraiser back, Donnie. You can go after April if you'd like." Leonardo sighed tiredly as he sheathed his katanas and started walking towards the overturned subway car.

"You mean you guys won't get mad at me for abandoning you again?" The smartest turtle snidely remarked

"Donnie do you want to go or not?!" His older brother cried.

The second youngest mutant lowered his head and shared uneven passing glances with Raph and Mikey as he began to walk away. Once he was a safe distance away from his tired and somewhat peeved off brothers, Donatello took out his T-Phone so he could track April's and see where she had gone since he'd been to busy arguing with Leo to actually see. They just didn't have the foggiest idea about how much that girl meant to him, did they? They treated his crush on the human female like one big and apparently utterly hilarious joke and it made his blood boil up with rage.

A beeping signal from the T-Phone interrupted Donnie's thoughts. He had reached his destination that turned out to be a hockey rink, he guessed this Casey kid either played hockey or liked cold places. Whichever it was, it didn't make Donatello like or hate the punk human any more than he already did.

Not wanting Casey or April to see him walking nonchalantly through the front door, the turtle stealthily climbed up to the top of the roof and removed a air vent, he was used to it anyway. Don was thrilled to see that the many beams stretching from wall to wall around the ceiling could support his weight so he hopped on and made himself comfortable.

He'd seen the boy before, the one fighting the Foot Bots in the middle of the ice rink. April was tutoring him apparently but the turtle knew that there was something more than just trigonometry going on between the two, the way they looked at each other proved it. Even though Donnie wasn't a fan of Casey he did have to admit that he could handle a few enemies, at least on ice, but he would never in a million years admit this out loud. Casey was no ninja.

"GOONGALA!" The hockey player screeched as he smacked a robot with his puck that had recently been lifted off of the ground.

Donatello guessed goongala was Casey's booyakasha.

"Only a few more of you chumps left! Come get some!" He screamed at the three remaining enemies on the rink.

The kid took two of the robots out with one hockey stick and then chucked his remaining one across the rink where it hit the Foot Bot right in his metallic skull.

"And that's how you play hockey." Casey smirked triumphantly, looking down upon his battered opponent.

"Casey, Casey! Are you ok?!" A exasperated voice cried from the entrance to the rink. Donatello's head darted over to see none other than April O'Neil jumping the barrier and proceeding to slip and slide out around the ice, arms and legs flailing wildly. The mutant wanted so much to help her but he knew he couldn't expose himself to the other human who had no knowledge of him or his "relationship" with April.

"Whoah there, Red! It's okay, I gotcha!"

With a deep sigh, April fell into Casey's arms and looked up at him lovingly, he returned her gaze. Donnie watched for a second, wishing the punk boy would just disappear right in front of his very eyes but it could never be so. He knew that he had been stupid this entire time, April would never love him with someone like Casey around who'd apparently protected her from the Foot Bots before. Not wanting to listen to his heart brake anymore, the turtle retreated through the way that he came. The stars watched him and the wind laughed at him all the way to the lair where he decided to slump down in back of his brothers and half-watch their crazy, multicolored TV show.

"Glad you could make it back, Don. How'd things go?" Leonardo asked, his eyes still glued on the TV screen.

"Well I'm no genius, but according to the way yes slumped over like that, I would say things went bad." Raphael predicted.

"Not helping, Raph." Donnie mumbled as his two elder brothers turned away.

"Hey guys..." A gentle voice interrupted them.

"April!" Leo cried.

"Your back!" Raph exclaimed.

"What uuuuuppp!" Mikey greeted.

"It is very good to see you April." Master Splinter smiled as he approached from seemingly nowhere.

"It's good to see you too, Master Splinter. I missed you and I hope that we can start training again." April mumbled. Donnie watched from afar, maybe he'd have the chance to train her.

"Of course. Whenever you wish."

The Sensei responded with a solemn bow, which the girl mirrored before turning back to the four brothers.

"I never got a chance to tell you guys that I'm sorry...for everything." She sounded painfully sincere.

"Your sorry?" Leo asked confusedly. "But we're the ones that screwed up!"

"It was an accident and more importantly, your my friends, and I never want to hold a grudge ever again..." April smiled slightly.

"You da best April!" Mikey popped up in front. "To mark this day, I offer you the slice of eternal reunion."

With a smile and a bow, Michelangelo pulled out a piece of pizza from his shell and held it out proudly in front of his female friend. April bent down to examine it and wrinkled her nose in disgust.

"It's got lint and dead bugs all over it!"

"I know, I found it under my bed. It's eternal..." The youngest mutant smiled as he rubbed it against his face, moments before shoving it hastily into his mouth and swallowing, much to everyone's disgust.

Raphael and Leonardo made a path so April could make her way past them and over to Donatello, who was staring shyly at the floor. He didn't know what to do now that he had seen her with Casey, everything that he thought they had was gone. The scientist decided to listen anyway, the shyness never leaving his face. Everyone's eyes seemed to be boring into the back of April's head, wondering how this emotional scene would play out.

For a second, the human didn't even meet her friend's gaze and they both stared off.

"Thanks Donnie..." She began. "For always being there...even when I didn't want you to be..."

Donatello now looked straight at her but was greeted only with her smaller figure crashing into him and a tight embrace. He was surprised at first, knowing she had already hugged her boyfriend made him cringe, but he wrapped his large arms around her anyway. Maybe he would be fine with just being friends but deep inside he knew it would never be enough. Everything was lost.

As quick as she darted to him, the girl leaned back and planted her lips on his cheek causing his eyes to grow as large as golf balls, his mouth hung open with surprise. Had April O'Neil just kissed him? A hideous mutant creature that lives in the sewers? It didn't seem the foggiest bit possible but for a split second, as the world spun, Donatello forgot about Casey and his brothers and his enemies. It was only him and April, spinning through his mind. As her mouth had touched his skin everything came back and that everything blossomed into something beautiful.

Hope.

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