"I can't believe we just let her go." Ralph stated angrily as he paced the floor. "Why didn't we try and stop her? Shredder isn't going to welcome her with open arms. "He will kill her." Ralph stated.

"Ralph, we don't know that. Catherine made her choice and we must accept it." Leo replied.

"Yeah well, I don't and I won't. I won't lose her! I won't let the Shredder corrupt her I'm going after her!" Ralph replied.

"Raphael." Came the stern voice of Splinter. "Leo is right. As much as it pains us we must honor her decision. Regardless of weather or not we think it's wrong."

"Oh yeah? Would you just walk away from the situation if it were Karai?" Ralph demanded.

"Yes." Splinter replied sadly. "I would honor my daughter's decision as you must honor Catherine's." Splinter replied.

"But sensai, I. I love her." Ralph replied.

"We all do but we must honor her choice." Leo replied placing his hand on Raph's shoulder.

"You don't understand, I love her and it's not the same as the love I have for you or for Master Splinter. I mean, I really love her." Raph replied.

"Then you must let her go." Splinter replied.

"But why?" Raphael demanded.

"If you truly love someone you must set them free. They must be free to make their own choices. Give Catherine some time she needs to come to terms with who she is and what she wants to do with her life." Splinter replied.

"I have to talk to her, I have to see her to at least make sure she's ok." Raphael replied.

Splinter sighed " you must do what you feel is right. What your heart is telling you to do. You need to ask yourself why are you doing this? Is it truly for Catherine or is it for more selfish reasons?" Shredder replied Raph sighed and did not reply.

"I'm sorry Master but this is something that I must do." With that Raphael turned and rushed out of the lair and made his way towards the last known location for the foot clan headquarters.

"Well,well,well. What do we have here?" Laughed bebop and rocksteady spotting Raphael. "If it isn't one of the turtles. What brings you here?"

"Catherine." Raphael replied.

"Catherine doesn't want anything to do with the likes of you." Bebop replied.

"I don't believe that for a minute. If the Shredder wasn't blackmailing her Catherine wouldn't have turned her back on us. We are her family. We care about her. We..." Raphael paused not wanting to admit his feelings. "We love her."'

"We is it? If you all care about Catherine then why are you the only one here?"

"That doesn't matter. All that matters is that I am here. I had to make sure that she's ok. I was worried about her. I, I mean we really do care about her." Raph's voice trailed off his embarrassment clearly showing.

"Awe isn't that cute. The little turtle is in love with the Master's daughter. That's pathetic and kind of sad really. After all, she doesn't feel the same way about you. If she did she wouldn't have returned to us." Bebop replied.

"Enough with the girly chitchat already. Let's crush this turtle!" Rocksteady replied.

Upon hearing the commotion I frowned. "Would you idiots keep it down I'm trying to get some sleep!" I yelled but this only resulted in the fighting getting louder.

"Baxster!"

"Yezzz princesszzz how can I help you?"

"What's with all the noise? I'm trying to sleep."

"Sorry Princesszzz. The otherszzz can be obnoxious sssometimezzz. However, tonightzzz noise is becauszzz we've captured one of the Masterszzz biggest enemies. We've captured one of the turtles."