"𝓑𝓵𝓾𝓮, 𝓸𝓱 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓫𝓵𝓾𝓮. 𝓛𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓼𝓮𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮."

It had only been a few minutes after Mikey cheered you up, but you heard Raphael screeching at the top of his lungs again. You wondered what upset him this time.

"I DON'T BELIEVE THIS! What have you guys done?!" Raphael was fuming, and so far, Leonardo and Donatello were the only ones you saw. "What world do you live in, that it's ok to bring the Princess of the Foot Clan to our secret lair?!"

Leonardo promptly ignored Raphael. "What happened to Casey?"

To which it only angered him more. "Tigerclaw threw him off a building. And you just brought his partner in crime home for dinner!" Mikey quickly left your side to tend to Casey as the two of you stepped out into the open.

"Shredder lied to me! I didn't know!" Just as you heard her voice, your heart dropped into your stomach.

Oh. That was why Raphael was so angry. Karai's eyes locked onto you and you froze up. "(Y/N)?" She barely whispered your name under her breath, but then there was a look in her eyes that you'd seen before. The one that was usually accompanied by a confident smirk or - or a plan B. She thought you'd been captured - oh God she thought you were still on her side. What did she have planned?

It was then when frozen in nervousness and anxiety that Leonardo noticed you were here too, despite the commotion. "(Y/N)! What are you doing here-" Leonardo realized his slip up and his voice caught in his throat.

Karai's eyes widened and they drifted from Leonardo to you. You felt your veins run cold with fear and you saw Karai narrow her eyes at you. She was an enemy. She was an enemy!

"Leo - Leonardo! What is she doing here!?" Your voice came out desperate and much louder than you intended it to.

"She's Splinter's daughter! His real daughter! She-"

"(Y/N). I didn't expect to see you here." Karai interrupted him, glaring daggers at you. "So you betrayed Shredder, as well?"

Firstly, you were surprised that she remembered your name, because she's hardly ever spoken it at all. Secondly, you didn't know how to bring up that you knew that she was planning something - mainly because you were interrupted mid-panic-attack.

"ENOUGH!" Splinter's voice boomed from the entrance of the dojo, causing most of you to flinch. "Miwa..."

Splinter turned gentle in a split second, but it didn't stop from your veins running cold as she pulled her hands away from behind her back. She'd done something - something part of her plan B that would surely get you all killed. But you could do nothing but watch as Splinter led her inside the dojo; Leonardo and his brothers following behind.

You grabbed ahold of the closest one - Raphael, just your luck.

"Raph - Raphael she's up to something - on my way here - I - I-"

"I know." Raph wrenched his arm away from you and crossed them. "Leo's the only one here stupid enough to think that she's not planning something."

"No! But I think I know what it is!" You pleaded, desperation lacing  your voice.

"What?" He asked curtly.

You fumbled with your words for a moment, genuinely surprised that he was listening to you. "She's leading Tigerclaw here, and they're going to annihilate us all."

Raphael nodded, uninterested. "I figured as much. Anything new to add?" His disinterested tone hurt. "Ya'know, like what you were doing being all buddy-buddy with Tigerclaw, or why you haven't told us their plans yet?"

You couldn't even begin to say how hurt you were by his words before he walked back into the dojo with the rest of his brothers. Well, that was it. Raphael totally hated you, and nothing Mikey or anyone could say could convince you otherwise.

It was quite literally only a minute after they entered the dojo that they were running out again, and you couldn't even catch Leonardo for an explanation of the situation before they ditched you. Today was just not your day.

"(Y/N)." Splinter laid a hand on your shoulder as you stared at the exit they had taken.

"Yes?" Your reply was barely over a whisper.

"Do not take Raphael's words too harshly. He has been hurt by a friend he has held very deeply before. He struggles to trust again. I hope you will give him leeway when speaking to you."

"Yes, Master Splinter."

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"What am I supposed to do now..?" You muttered pitifully.

You were holed up in Donatello's lab with April by your side. Donatello stood by his desk awkwardly as she consoled you and Mikey was swiveling around in Donatello's chair. "Umm... You could pretend to be kidnapped by us." Donatello spoke up.

You and April gave him a skeptical look before he waved his arms around. "Wait, let me explain-"

"Oh, I know! You just have to not show up to work!" Mikey chipped in with a large smile. "If you don't show up, then they'll just assume you got captured! Tigerclaw saw you get dragged along with us, so it's fine right?"

"No Mikey, she works there on an internship they can just go to her house to see if she's home! And if her host parents say that she's home, then they're all doomed!" Donatello scolded him.

"Oh." Mikey deflated as he realized this.

"Wait - what if I snuck in?" You asked. "We could convince my host parents that I was kidnapped as well. It would be a really bad rep for them, but they'd be alive."

"That's fine, but who would let you into the house every night at 12 in the morning? Surely you don't want to keep picking their lock? Or worse, just waltz right in?" Donatello frowned.

"Well, there is someone..." You trailed off.

"No, (Y/N)." April said firmly. "You are not asking Alaric for help."

"Why not?" You turned to her.

"You mean other than he punched you in the face?" She asked deadpanned.

"He didn't mean to!" You protested. "And besides, ever since Leonardo walked me home, he's been a lot... nicer..?"

"Nicer? Really? How?" She narrowed her eyes in suspicion.

"Well, he's stopped bugging me... Like - stopped talking to me at all - but he's also not been complaining about how I should keep my nose out of his business. That and he suddenly asked for help with homework the other day."

"Help?" April's eyes went wide. "He asked for help with homework?"

"Yeah."

She looked at you hesitantly. "... But you're sure it's ok to ask him for help?"

"Hey, I'm not the first one to ask for help with sneaking in and out of the house." You crossed your arms. "Once, he told me to open the window for him when he snuck back inside the house after his curfew. He was all beat up too."

"He asked you to help him with that?!"

"Well it was less of ask and more of ordered. I couldn't just let him sit outside all bloody though."

"Did you not ask why he was in such a state?" Donatello jumped in. "And I'm also not sure if it's a good idea for you to be asking someone like him for help..."

"See! Donnie agrees with me!" April cried.

"Well then how else am I gonna keep living at the Lan's house? I can't possibly stay with the turtles, Raphael thoroughly hates me. I can't stay with you or Casey, I might endanger their families more than you already do."

There was a long pause from everyone in the room until Mikey spoke up. "Dudette, you do you." He gave you thumbs up.

"Thanks Mikey, and I will. I'm going to ask Alaric for help."