Before he could react, laila pulled the gator into a hug, well, she did as much as she could. After a minute she let go and looked up at him smiling.

"You're an idiot leatherhead. Thanks though." He merely nodded and laila noticed the gash, making her feel even guiltier about leaving Leatherhead. He noticed that she saw it and tried to hide it. Laila hid a small smile, after all, raph did this as well..she always had to convince him to let her treat it.

"Leatherhead, I saw it, now let me treat it." Laila's voice was firm, and straight to the point. He sighed and defeat and revealed his gash and sat down against the sewer wall as laila sat beside him, snatching the rubbing alcohol she stashed in her belt. She would just heal him like she normally did, but she didn't have enough energy.

"Lai, thank you." She blinked in surprise at the sudden nickname. She hadn't used that nickname in years, so it struck her as odd that he knew it.

"if you don't mind me askin, how do you know my old nickname?" Leatherhead then pulled out a necklace, well, half of one. Her eyes widened, as she grabbed her half and put two and two together(no she didn't get fish)..

"Wait, you-"

"Remember what I promised you laila?"

"to always be there when I needed you..wait, there's no way you can be him..."

"alright, ask me things only he would know." She was surprised, but quickly thought of one.

"Where's one place I would go to get away from my family?"

"You'd go on your own to the top of Sacks estate.."Laila was someone who loved to get straight to the point..so she only needed one question.

"when did I leave the foot clan?"

"When your were 10, the day before your 11th birhday."

"Wh-?"

"You were sick of being protected all the time, so you left to be on your own." Laila's eyes were widened..she had only told one person any of that, especially leaving the foot clan.

"Liam?!"

Okay, I know people have questions about the end of this chapter so let me explain it. It's for a AU story that we're working on(back when laila was in the foot clan) and Liam was Laila's right-hand man. But when laila was four, he was mutated into Leatherhead and forced to leave. Her father had told her that he was dead, and she believed him, but she always snuck out to find him, becoming secret friends with a gator, not knowing that gator was her right-hand man mutated by her father.