A year in

3rd person P.O.V

You were absolutely in love with the life you were growing to have.

During normal days, like Monday to Friday that type of thing, you were just on slight autopilot. You went to school, did your homework, went to work and went back home to your parents.
The weekends were a completely different story, though.
You'd tell your parents that you were going over to a friend's house for the weekend, and in reality you were telling the truth, but not the whole of it.

Your parents had let you leave every weekend, because they knew how hard it was for you to keep friends. They just wanted you happy, and told you to be responsible and not get into trouble. You'd always done so, but it eased their nerves.
So, you'd head out with a packed bag and walk down a block to meet Raph at the manhole cover that you'd come to memorize. Every weekend went just like this, like clockwork.
Raph would wait restlessly for you, slightly pacing and twirling his sai's at the back of the alleyway, still needing to stay out of sight. He'd constantly check the time on his phone, and start to worry if you were late by anything over ten minutes.
Yes yes, it sounds ridiculous, but he had to admit, Raph was still slightly afraid the Kraang still had you on watch. It had been over a year since he'd first met you and the Kraang had attacked you, but they were unpredictable at times. He didn't know if they'd try to attack you again, and it killed him to think that they'd take you because he wasn't there.
But, each time he started to really worry, you'd turn the corner and ease his nerves completely, with that bright smile you'd always greet him with.

"Hey Raph!" You'd say, jogging to get over to him faster. He'd immediately loosen up, seeing you safe, and a smile would grace his own features. He'd wrap an arm around your shoulders and pull you to his side, lightly shaking your arm.

"Hey doll face, you doin' okay?"

And that's where we leave off.

.

"Ugh, Raphie you've got no idea how badly classes make me wanna scream! I've got a project due in science next week, an essay in English on Wednesday, and a test in math on Tuesday. There is NO way in hell I'm gonna sleep next week." You say, rubbing your forehead. Just thinking of everything you had to do gave you anxiety, and the hand you had at your side started to twitch because of it.

Seeing you stressed out, Raph took your free hand and tightly held it in his own, making you look up at him.
He had definitely grown over the past year and a bit. Instead of being eye level with you like he used to be, you now had to look up at him. He was nearing five foot ten.
"Well for th' next two nights an' three days ya don't gotta worry about that. Loosen up doll face."

You smiled and lowered your head for a second before looking back up straight ahead.
"Yeah yeah, I know. I'm just overreacting. Always do. So what's been going on with you guys? Anything exciting?" You asked, slightly swinging your connected hands as the two of you walked.

He shrugged, lightly rubbing his thumb across the back of your hand.
"Other than Don nearly blowin' up th' Lair for th' third time this week, not much."

You couldn't help but laugh, shaking your head as you did.
"Third? Seriously? I was expecting fifth. Disappointed." Now it was Raph's turn to laugh, and good Lord did you absolutely love it.
He didn't really do it often, so you'd savour the moment and stay quiet to just hear it. Pretty soon it died down, and in perfect timing too, since the two of you were coming up on the Lair entrance.

It hasn't changed overly much over the past year, but there were the subtle things, like a new poster on the pole in the back, or a small artwork done in spray paint by Mikey on the far wall. You'd come to know this place as your second home, and you loved it.
"Hey guys!" You called out, seeing the other three sitting in the main dugout arguing over something that you couldn't quite hear. Your voice caused them all to turn their heads and send a small smile in your direction.

"Hi (Y/N!)" Donnie answered back, slightly waving.

"Hey (N/N)." Leo smiled, giving a small salute.

"(Y/N)! Mah dude! How've ya been?!" Mikey shouted, falling back on the couch.

You smiled and slightly laughed, letting go of Raph's hand to push your hair back.
"Mentally dying!" You shouted back, tossing your bag next to the couch and out of the way so no one would trip over it if they walked past.

"Noooooo, my human!!" Mikey darted right up and ran over to you, tightly hugging you around the waist and nearly lifting you off the ground with the strength of it. You shrieked in laughter, kicking your legs until he put you down. He pushed your hair back from your forehead to feel it for a temperature and put two fingers on your neck to feel for a pulse.
"No dying on me! Not allowed!!" He shouted, and you just laughed harder, trying to shove his arms away.

"You're a huge dork Mikey!" You breathed out, putting a hand over your abdomen to try and ease the small pain that was growing there due to all your laughing.

He just smiled and stood proudly, looking off into the distance.
"I know. I take pride in that!" He said, putting his hands on his hips.

"Hey super-Mikey," Leo called from the couch, "mind bringing the two love birds over? We gotta decide on movies here!"
How many times has he said that since he's known you? Way to damn many to count that's for sure.
Honestly, you and Raph had grown nearly immune to his slight teasing, but it still brought back your shy tendencies every once and a while.

Like now.

You bit the inside of your lip and tensed your shoulders, looking down and trying to hide your face with your hair.
Mikey skipped over to his two older brothers, sitting back down on the couch next to Donnie and picking up three DVD cases, tossing them on the floor and picking up three other ones. You stood kind of frozen at the bottom of the entrance steps, just staring at the three from behind.
You slightly jumped when you felt a hand on your lower back, relaxing when you realized it was just Raph.

"Love birds, huh?" He commented, leaning down so his face was right next to yours.
"Kinda like that."
Okay, he was SO not helping your situation!
You turned your head to the other side to try and hide, but all Raph did was chuckle and kiss your cheek, walking over to his brothers and sitting on the ground in front of them to leave you to calm down before you joined.
Took you a good five minutes before you did.
You walked over from behind and smacked Leo upside the head, walking around and sitting on the floor right against the couch by said leaders legs.

"You two are absolute asses, Leonardo and Raphael."
Raph just smiled and continued sifting through DVD's, while Leo lightly laughed at you and nudged you with his leg.

"Yeah I know, now get looking."
You rolled your eyes and hit his leg back, sliding over a pile of DVD's from the pile on the floor and started looking through.
It took you all nearly half an hour to find a movie you all agreed on, which ended up being James Bond; one of the newer ones. You volunteered to set it up while Donnie went to get two giant bowls of popcorn for all of you to share, which Mikey piped up about.

"You kidding? I'm gonna have one all to myself!" He said, falling back over the arm of the couch and landing in Leo and Raph's lap.
Raph huffed and shoved his brothers shoulder.

"Like hell ya will, shell for brains." Mikey shoved him back, which nearly ended up in Mikey shoving himself onto the ground. Raph started laughing, which quickly turned into a shrill "Ow!" When Leo flicked the side of his head.

"Be nice Raph, he's just kidding around. Plus, if he does eat a whole bowl he'll have to go make another and we won't pause the movie."
Mikey dramatically gasped, placing a hand over his heart.

"You. Wouldn't. Dare!"
Leo smiled, resting his chin in the palm of his hand.

"Oh but I would, baby brother."
Mikey huffed and crossed his arms, staring up at the ceiling.

"Fiiiiiiine. You wiiiiiin."
Mikey rolled off of their laps and onto the floor where he caught himself and just lied back down, pulling down two pillows to lay his head on to make himself comfortable. You sat by the TV, waiting for Donnie to come back so you could hit play and start the movie. No sooner than you thought that, said genius returned with two big bowls of popcorn. As he sat down you pressed play and crawled back over to the couch, sitting on the ground next to Miley's feet and against Raph's legs. As soon as the music started though, you gasped and sat up straight, immediately recognizing the artist.

"Adele!" You shrieked, smiling and slightly bouncing. You absolutely loved her and her music, so this just made your day ten times better. And you recognized the song, too! So you wouldn't disturb anyone else anymore than you already did, you only mouthed along with the lyrics instead of singing them. You slightly swayed side to side to the time of the music. You might not've known all the lyrics, but you sure as hell tried.

Unbeknownst to you, Raph was watching you with a small smile on his face as he noticed you trying to sing along. As much as he loved how you acted when he first met you; all shy and quiet and reserved, he loved this side of you even more. The side that spoke to everyone, laughed and enjoyed so much more openly.

He just loved you.

Feeling a light nudge on his arm, Raph looked to his right to face his brother. He had a sort of knowing smile on his face, slightly gesturing to you sitting against his legs.
'Ask her out already.' He mouthed to him, not wanting to say anything in front of you so you could hear.

Raph rolled his eyes and elbowed his brother, but he couldn't stop smiling now. With the way the both of you behaved around each other, Raph didn't really think he needed to ask you. You already behaved like a couple, but at the same time you might not've thought of it like that.

That and he wanted to be able to call you his girlfriend.

'I will, relax Cupid.' Raph mouthed back to his brother, leaning back and resting his arms behind his head.

~Small time skip~

The movie was nearly two hours long, and if anyone thought that the five of you could stay still for that time, MAN were they funny!

Oh hell no.

Mikey started right against the front of the couch and ended up sprawled in the middle of the floor with an empty popcorn bowl on his head.

Donnie and Leo were sitting next to each other nicely with the second popcorn bowl sitting in his lap.
Donnie ended up with his legs draped over the arm of the couch with an arm hanging over the back of it, and Leo ended up shell to shell with Donnie, completely knocked out with the half empty popcorn bowl still in his lap.

You and Raph started out with him siting on the couch and you on the floor against his legs.
Now, he was sitting on the floor with his shell against the couch, and you were sitting with your back to him between his legs with his arms wrapped around your waist, the both of you slightly nodding off every now and again.

"My children-"
You nearly jumped five feet in the air at the sound of Splinter's voice coming out of nowhere.
You, Donnie, Raph and Mikey looked up to the rat, Leo still passed out cold. He lightly chuckled at your reaction and you slightly looked down to hide your reddening face.
"I believe you should all head to bed. It is becoming late at you are all falling asleep out here."

"Hai, sensei." The four of you answered, fighting back the urge to yawn.
Mikey slid the bowl off of his head and stood up stretching and scratching the back of his head.
"Night dudes and dudette." He yawned, slightly waving to all of you before trudging off to his room.

Donnie and Raph tried their best to wake up Leo, but nothing they did worked. He must've been overworking himself again with training and patrols again.
The three of you decided it be best to just let him sleep out here for the night, but you put the two pillows underneath his head so that he'd at least be comfortable and wouldn't wake up so sore.
You and Raph bid Donnie goodnight, to which he just raised his hand to, trying not to yawn and walking off to his room as well.

That just left you, Raph and the sleeping leader in the main area.
And honestly, you didn't want to move at all. You were extremely comfortable with where you were and felt no desire in moving what-so-ever.
"C'mon doll face, let's go."
You groaned and lied your head back against his plastron, closing your eyes.

"Nooooo, I don't wanna move Raphie." You mumbled, not raising your voice in fear of waking the sleeping others. Raph just smiled and rested his chin on your shoulder.

"One, I've told ya t' stop callin' me that. Two, I don't wanna either but we're both tired an' gotta get some sleep." You huffed and crossed your arms, keeping your eyes closed.

"Fiiine. Buzzkill." You mumbled, sitting up and half opening your eyes. Again, Raph just smiled and stood, lifting you into his arms and carrying you off to his room.
Even though the two of you were close, you and Raph drew the line at sharing a room constantly. Yeah, you two loved spending time together, but you drew the line at rooms. The couch was your territory for the nights you stayed unless it was being occupied by someone else. Those were the only nights you spent in Raph's room.
He walked in and sit you down on his bed, going back out and grabbing your bag so you could get changed into your pyjamas. You made a circle motion with your finger telling him to turn around, which he complied with.
You tossed your day clothes into the bag with everything else and closed it back up, kicking his shell as you lied down on the far side of his bed.

"Wh- hey." He turned around with a small smirk on his face.
"Did you just kick me?" He asked, full well knowing the answer. He lied next to you and extended an arm out to you, so you rolled over and curled up against his side.

"Yup. And I don't regret any of it." You replied, stifling a yawn so it wouldn't interfere with your speech.

"Hmm, sure you don't doll face." You didn't really answer him, so he looked down to see you struggling to keep your eyes open.
Man did he ever want to kiss you right now.
And y'know what, that's exactly what he asked for.
"(Y/N), can I kiss you?"

Your P.O.V

Did I hear him right?

Like seriously?

Wait did he just-

I looked up at Raph with wide eyes, completely stunned at what he asked so nonchalantly.
"Uh.... I-I uh.. Wh- did-"
And he frickin' laughed at me.

"Okay, you know you're adorable when you turn red like that, right?"
Again, he was SO not helping!

I groaned and hid my face with my arm in an attempt to get away from his teasing, but he just lifted my head back up to look at him.
"You didn't answer me. Can I kiss you?"
He was getting slightly more impatient the longer I took to answer, but I wasn't trying to take long, I-I was just shocked!

"Yeah." I finally answered, barely using my voice and yet he still heard me. He tilted my head up a bit more and leaned down towards me, connecting our lips in a quick and soft kiss.
My face completely burned and my hands were starting to shake, but I ignored that and focused on Raph, and only Raph.
The arm that was around me tightened its grip and pulled me closer to his chest, so I reached up and held both sides of his face.
Slowly the hand that was gently holding my chin left and held the back of my head, tugging ever so slightly at my hair. The action was enough to catch me off guard, and because of that he took it as a chance to deepen the kiss, tilting his head slightly to the side and sliding his tongue into my mouth.

I had to pull back.

The both of us were slightly out of breath, having kissed for so long without taking a break to breathe.
"I'm sorry (Y/N)-"

"N-no, no Raph it's okay... it's okay."
I smiled a bit and loosely moved my hands to rest on his shoulders.
"I've... actually wanted that to happen for a while."
Jesus, I just loved his smile, it was amazing. Everything about him was.

"Believe me, I have too-"
He cut himself off by kissing me again, and I couldn't help but laugh a bit to myself and kiss him back. He wrapped both of his arms around me and lifted me onto his chest, holding me by the waist and close to him.
I snaked my arms around his neck and tugged at his mask tails, and I could feel him smile as I did so.
Only God knows how long we stayed like this, getting more heated every minute that went by.
Long story short his mask ended up somewhere on the floor and my shirt was nearly pulled off multiple times and I struggled to make sure Raph didn't take it off.

My lips were sore yet I still kissed him with all I had.

My jaw was aching but I still held it open so we could kiss as deeply as we could.

I could barely breathe but I didn't pull back.

Every couple seconds we'd let out little sighs or moans of pleasure, ones that we couldn't help.

I guess we both really did want this for a long time.

Slowly but surely we stopped moving around so much, so we'd have a chance to catch our breath, because Jesus we were panting like crazy.
Our faces stayed close together, and our lips never parted, but we had stopped for now.

"Kinda pointless," Raph breathed out, still trying to catch his breath, "but do you wanna be my girlfriend?"

I sighed out a small laugh and nodded, smiling like a damn idiot.
"'Course I will ya stupid turtle."
He laughed to himself and slid a hand up the back of my shirt, tightly gripping my side and pinning me to his chest as he kissed me again, more rough than he had last time.

Lord our faces are gonna be sore in the morning.

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GUIS.
I.
LOVE.
THIS.
SHIT.
SO.
FUCKING.
MUCH.

SHOULD I MAKE IT LIEK ITS OWN MINI SERIES?!

ALSO PS THIS WAS WRITTEN AT 2-4 IN THE MORNING SO HAAAAAAA