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You'd been standing there waiting for maybe ten minutes now and the stench was not getting any more tolerable. To add to the unpleasant setting, your overactive imagination was back at it again as it wondered if there was actually something else down here with you. Swimming close by in the murky sewage. Or maybe it was composed of sewage. A sewage monster!

Was it real? Would it grab you and drag you to the depths of the sewers to drown? Would it eat you? If it did eat you, does that mean it also has a digestive system?? What would that make you when this thing was done digesting?!?

You tried not to think about it and traded your fear of a monster made of crap for a murderer. They would stab and kill you before this monster did.

That thought had an odd amount of comfort to it.

A small roar of an engine pulled you out of your thoughts, making you look all about with a sudden fresh bout of fear climbing up your throat.

The sound died down quickly, so fast that you couldn't be sure if you'd actually heard it or you'd just let the paranoia dig it's long nails too far into your psyche.

Your body froze aside from your pumping heart and racing mind, waiting for the sound to come back. And to your dismay it did, but it started quiet and gradually began to encroach, slowly at first. But as the seconds ticked on the volume increased rapidly.

When the headlights of some type of car became painstakingly visible against the wall opposite of the tunnel around the corner, you bolted the other way without another thought.

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"Uhh.. her phone's signal is moving farther down the next tunnel..." Donnie said, turning his chair in my direction.

"What?" I peered up in the rear view mirror.

"Yeah... I think she might be running away from us?" Donnie said putting a hand to his chin as he squinted at his T-phone.

"Or she's running from something out to get her!" Mikey cried out in a corny, trying to be spooky voice.

Raph rolled his eyes sitting back in his chair. "Which would be us, Mikey."

The younger turtle hummed to himself in thought then laughed. "Ha! Oh yeah!"

I shook my head then locked eyes with Donnie quickly through the mirror. "Did you text her that we were taking the Shell Raiser?" I asked, knowing I'd probably feel a bit panicked at what she could be running from if the answer was yes.

Donnie opened his mouth with a finger up before stopping abruptly and looking down at the phone. "Uh heh..." He quickly held a razor sharp focus on his keyboard, fingers flying across the keys typed before smiling sheepishly at me. "Yes."

I groaned and turned the next corner sharper than usual, making Donnie fall out of his seat.

I spotted Y/n racing down the tunnel frantically looking over her shoulder and doing what I could only imagine was screaming.

It wasn't hard to catch up to her. I slowed down to simply coast beside her while she was losing her mind. I couldn't help but kind of laugh, then immediately feel bad for laughing, then laugh again when looking back at her.

"Could one of you guys get her please?" I asked, over my shoulder while keeping my eyes on her.

Mikey stood up. "I ca-"

"I got her." Raph exclaimed as he quickly stood up, pushing Mikey out the way by his face.

A slight scowl couldn't be helped as I stared up through the mirror at Raph, while he slid the door open to look at Y/n.

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Holy shit! I'm GonNA get KidNnAPPeD and DIE in tHE SEWERS!!

Your racing feet pounded harshly against the concrete as you pushed yourself harder and harder. Fear running it's cold tendrils throughout your body, forcing your legs to move faster.

Tears started to blur your vision as you didn't bother to look behind you again. It felt like whoever it was, was right on your tail, barely missing your heels.

The engine sounded like it was pulling up next to you, slowing down it's revving to a simple putter alongside your set course, like it was mocking the attempted escape.

As the monstrous van pulled up closer, you did your best to avoid looking at it and focus on everything ahead of you instead.

"Going somewhere?"

Your heart leapt into your throat at the sudden voice, instinct compelled you to look for the origin.

With a quick glance over you spotted the short green turtle with an attitude problem, leaning casually against the frame of the vans sliding door. You gaped at him for a second before shaking your head miserably. "Are you fucking serious." You cursed breathlessly then slowed to a panting stop, making you acutely aware of the cold sweat.

You rested your hands on your knees, hunched over while the van slowly came to a full stop beside your breathless frame.

"Oh, I hope I didn't scare you." Raph commented smugly, still standing in place, watching you struggle with your breathing. You glared at him over your shoulder angrily.

Donnie pokes his head out and chuckles sheepishly. "You- Uh, didn't get my text about the vehicle?"

You ran a hand over your hair, getting it out of your face to lock your glare on the nerdy turtle with it's full capacity. "No." You said flatly, making Donnie shrink back into the van, laughing nervously.

"Aw c'mon, Y/n! Don't take it so hard, eh?" Raph crossed his arms over his chest and began to laugh. "On the bright side, you got quite the pace when you're running for your life."

You groaned at him, shaking slightly out of adrenaline, fear and newfound rage.

The van came to a full stop next to you and was quickly followed up by Leo making an appearance through the door. "That's enough Raph." Leo said, brushing his shoulder with Raph's as he walked past.

Leo jumped over the gap to the concrete walk you stood hunched over on. "Y/n, are you okay?"

You couldn't help the sudden warmth crawling up your neck to your ears when Leo placed his concerned touch to your back.

"Y-Yeah, Yeah I'm good." You said looking back down to the ground, letting your hair fall down to cover your face again. You tried your best to avoid tensing under his gentle hand, but it couldn't hide the slight quiver in your voice. Luckily it could easily be passed off as you just being breathless.

You didn't even realize that you'd been trembling until you felt Leo's rock steady hand against you. They'd really scared you badly and as the adrenaline died down an embarrassing amount of tears could be felt wanting to burst out like a pair of high pressured geysers.

"Just... Just outta shape." You huffed, cleverly wiping your eyes with your forearm.

Leo seemed to catch a sentence in his throat before thinking for a moment longer. "..Alright, well let's head back to lair." He lifted his gaze from you to the others standing at the door. "Donnie, can you drive back?"

"Sure thing, Leo." Donnie made his way out of sight and a moment later the decked out van started up again with its intimidating rumbling.

Mikey went back inside to wherever he came from while Raph stood where he was.

Leo leaned over to meet your still hunched over self. "Hey, are you okay?" He asked quieter, his words only for you.

"Yeah, I-I just... I'm good, I just." You couldn't help the slight sniffle in your words, and from the increasingly concerned look on Leo's face next to you made it clear he heard it.

You attempted to laugh it off. "Heh.. Sorry, Leo. You guys just startled me pretty good." You said, the embarrassing feeling of him watching you break down from being scared of a turtle van began to rise and mix with the lingering fear.

He gently moved your hair away with his large finger. This made your face grow ever warmer as you couldn't help but meet his bright eyes, which didn't really improve you being short of breath... like at all.

"Ahem!"

Leo sighed then stood straight up, looking over his shoulder. There stood Raph with an unimpressed look etched across his face. "Are we going or what?"

"Yes Raph, Just give us a second." Leo but back firmly.

Raph rolled his eyes. "Not all of us want to wait on you while you attempt to flirt."

Leo sighed, obviously irritated. "What are you talking about Raph? She just needs a second."

The temperamental turtle laughed cruelly. "Yeah, to recover from your poorly timed flirting."

Mikey's voice then sounded out from behind Raph. "Ooohh! Buuurn!"

Leo's shoulders squared in alarm. "That's not-! I wasn't-! Gah!"

You couldn't help the small laugh that pushed its way out of your trembling throat. It managed to balance out your fear to finally compose yourself enough to power through your shaky mental state.

You stood straight up and ran a hand over your hair a few times. "Yeah, sorry, let's go."

With that you walked over to the van, warily sizing up the meter long gap up to the vehicle. You looked up to Raph as if asking if it would be possible for you to make it. He stared back at you indifferently before rolling his eyes and offering you his hand.

You stared at it for a second before sighing and taking it. Leo hopped up into the van and helped pull you up before leading you to the back of the battle bus thing. Raph seemed pleased with himself.

As you were led to a seat closer to the back you made sure you had everything ready to say to the turtles, but the majority of your mental rehearsal was trying to find a way to not sound dumb in front of Donnie. Afterall you had to present information to him and you couldn't help but want him to think you weren't wasting their time.

So you sat down on the floor of the back of the van, holding your bag tightly on your lap.

As the van stared up and stared to move, the aura inside seemed to put everyone in somewhat of an awkwardly quiet ride back. The turtles all got to their seat while Donnie started off at a gently increasing speed.

Leo checked a couple things before making his way to the back, sat himself down about a foot to the right of you.

You couldn't help but notice all the not to subtle glance the others were casting towards you both, especially from Mikey.

Leo cleared his throat stiffly, very aware of the onlookers. "So, what was it you had to show us?" He asked as casually as possible.

You couldn't help but nervously flash a forced smile. "I uh, well, I-"

Not off to a great start there buddy.

It took a moment to compose yourself. However that moment did pretty much the opposite. Instead this time let you realize you were going to present the findings of The Conspiracy Club (just Roy really) and it was going to be a dead giveaway that the Club still knew about the turtles and were active participants in this entire purple-goo-and-Leo-DNA thing.

"Ehhhhhh eheh..."

That was all you could really get out at the moment.

Leo looked toward his brothers who quickly busied their gazes with something else. He sighed a bit awkwardly then looked down, shifting uncomfortably where he sat. "Y/n, what was it that was so important?"

Neither of you seemed comfortable with onlookers.

You forced a timid smile onto your unsure face as to attempt to make Leo less antsy. "I— Uh.. caught some activity of the purple goo on a bit of your DNA." You said while pulling out the tablet.

Donnie threw his attempted subtleness to the wind as he turn around in his —Drivers— seat suddenly. "Really?!" He exclaimed, making the entire van veer sharply to the side, sending everyone inside flinging across the van.

Raph held on for dear life, fighting the force, while Mikey seemed to go with it almost willingly accompanied by a big smile on his face. You took a strong tumble towards Leo, and Leo towards the cool metal siding.

And just to spice things up to his body being crushed by you and G-force combined, the tablet that was in your hand swung out to loudly slap Leo in the face.

"Donnie!" Raph hollered out with a mix of anger and shock. However the purple clad turtle was already halfway fixing his mistake, hurriedly twisting the wheel the other way, over correcting and sending everyone the other way.

"Sorry! Sorry!" He cried out, obviously panicking.

Mikey rolled passed us across the floor, cheering at Donnie's poor driving skills.

Leo thumped into you making you tip over and almost lose the tablet to momentum. It most definitely would have been a pile of worthless scrap if Leo wasn't as slick as he was and jeered himself over you to grab it midair.

He'd cleared over you and formed a protective body ball around the tablet before slamming his back against the opposite wall, with his head against the floor.

Donnie finally managed to straighten out the van and Leo's upside down body slumped more onto his neck, before slipping fully down onto his back. He groaned slightly as he slid up next to you, his head by your left arm, propping up your upper body.

You briefly wondered if he'd be able to get back up from his back. But of course he could, and did.

Not only was he a ninja and defied many normal human limitations, he could also defy turtle limitations as well. Amazing.

"Here." He groaned now on his knees next to you, holding the perfectly safe tablet towards you.

Just as you were about to grab it, the tablet lit up and showed the lock screen loud and proud.

You felt your butt clench like a clam, as if preparing to be royally fucked. Your heart stopped for a moment and you quickly stole a look at Leo who was, of course, staring at the screen's picture with confused eyes, still holding onto the tablet.

"Uh—!" You pulled the tablet roughly out of his grasp and pulled it safely to your chest. But the damage was already done.

Leo's expression was unreadable as he calmly asked. "Who's tablet is this?"

You laughed nervously and looked down at the lock screen.

It boasted a picture of you and all the guys. It was a rather crowded photo filled with chaos. Whose standing behind the messy table (in order of left it right) were Shane, David, You and Frankie.

Shane wore an devilishly innocent grin has his arm over David's shoulder, only to be grabbing your hair, ending up with you mid yelp. This caught David between you both, standing stalk still with his hands in his pockets, thoroughly unimpressed. All the while Frankie looked like he was turning at least twenty five shades redder than his normal caramel complexion, but had an ecstatic looking grin stretched across his freckled face with his arm over your shoulder.

Jamie was posing rather suggestively on the table; both his legs were up in the shape of a 'V' while his pale, smiling noggin poked up between them. Then there was Roy, caught mid-run from failing to set up the timer on the tablets camera, so only his blurry back and flying hair were in the corner of the photo, blocking a good amount of Frankie's bottom half.

Lastly, sealing your fate in bold letters across Jamie's crotch, it read;

'This tablet is the property of the Conspiracy Club!'

You began to sweat, badly. "Uh—! I uh—!" Your eyes darted all about, landing at least twice on each of the brothers.

Mikey poked up next to you seemingly out of nowhere. "The Conspiracy Club?" He said questioningly over your shoulder, while pointing at the tablet.

You yelped and shut off the screen, pulling it to your chest and ducking away from the youngest turtle.

"I— they're—" your eyes darted around the boys, and it was obvious that Raph was getting a kick out of your reaction however, the novelty was wearing off quick because his smirk began to form into a frown.

Holy fuck, I'm toast.

"Th-They're my friends! They like investigating stuff that's unbelievable!—" You forced out hurriedly.

Donnie and Raph shared a look, but you couldn't focus exactly what they looked like as your bravery was dwindling rapidly. The fear of them realizing that people knew they existed and were actively invested in this pressing situation was aggressively climbing up your throat.

Leo looked like he was about to say something but your panic-hazed mind forced out a confession, they didn't even have to try.

"—And they know about you! All of you!" You choked out, now keeping your teeth clamped shut as to stop your flailing tongue.

Before they could even breathe you jumped to defend them. "But they haven't told anyone! They won't!"

Raph laughed seemingly right as it registered that you were defending them.

This made you give an immediate scowl until your brain pulled you back into your seemingly endless, fearful state. This made you cower slightly, hoping that he didn't see your glare.

"Ahh Chickpea, you are not the brightest bulb of the bunch are you?" He said, wiping a fake tear from his eye.

Leo sent him a harsh glance as if telling him to shut up, while you were adding confusion to the list of emotions running rampant through you.

"Erm—" Your eyes snapped towards the turtle clearing his throat, hyperaware of everything that was going on around you. "What Raph means to say is that we already know..." Donnie says through an awkward chuckle meeting your eyes momentarily through the rear view mirror.

"Wha—?" You looked to Leo with a puzzled frown.

The tiniest of amused smiles quirk his lips at the sight of your lost expression. "We tracked down the person we found from your texts, y'know, just to make sure you convinced them we weren't real." He says before scratching the side of his neck.

"But it was pretty obvious that you didn't." Raph chimed in.

"You should've seen it dudette, he had all kinds of searches on his computer involving 'giant turtle things', 'mutated turtles', 'giant mutated turtles' and my personal favourite..." Mikey paused, for dramatic effect I'm assuming. "The dreaded 'Human-turtle babies!'"

You couldn't help the groan that left you as you plopped your head into your hand. "Oh Roy..." You grimaced.

Leo chuckled gently. "Don't worry, he wasn't going to tell anyone because he didn't really talk to anyone outside of this group here." He said, pointing to the tablet in your grasp.

"The rest of them don't really seem to want to tell anyone that they're a part of that group anyway." Raph chuckle, malice in his teasing words.

"Hey! Stop being such a tool!" You snapped at the gruff turtle. Leo's eyes widened at you as an admiring smile spread across his face.

Raph on the other hand frowned, ready to engage in an intense argument until Mikey jumped up in front of Raph. "Yeah Raph! Don't be such a tool!" He said laughing in his brothers face.

Raph growled and redirected his fury to his younger brother. "We'll see who the real tool is!" He fumed, barring his grit teeth before he went to hit Mikey upside the head, only for the young turtle to bend back, letting the hand sweep passed his face.

This began a small, furious chase within the even smaller, more furious sounding van. All the while Donnie was yelling out at them like a mother with absolutely no control over her children.

Leo sighed and turned to you. "We know that they won't tell anybody, I mean who would even believe them right?" He said with a weak chuckle before looking away for a moment. "It's just that... you told me you'd convince them we weren't real." He chewed the inside of his cheek. "Honestly, I've been a bit pissed about it." He said with a firm voice with a tinge of anger.

Him swearing took you aback, but you knew he had every right to feel this way. You were in no place to blame him.

Your head lowered, ashamed that you barely tried to convince them otherwise, you simply let them believe it after one attempt. "I guess I didn't want to let go of the only people that didn't think I was going crazy." You peeked over at his firmly set jaw before looking down again with a gut curdling feeling. Excuses weren't going to cut it, and you knew it. "I'm sorry, Leo. I was being selfish."

"Yeah, you were." He agreed, looking forward with a small frown donning expression.

You looked back down at your fingers.

"But... you know." He said, capturing your full attention easily. "I don't think you're crazy." He said, letting his endless blue eyes crash onto you.

You stated up at him, the tiniest of smiles lifted your face. "Thanks."

He allowed the faintest of smiles on his face before looking down at the now, slackly held tablet in your arms.

He seemed to be assessing the lock screen thoroughly now that he had a clear view.

"So.." He glanced briefly to the other brothers who were still loudly shouting amongst each other. "Are you and the brown haired dude...?" He trailed off awkwardly, trying to find the right words before he looked at the tablet again.

You looked down to meet Frankie's flushing face. After a moment your a tiny voice suggested he was asking if you and Frankie were an item. You attempted to wave it away. After all you didn't want to assume what he meant, especially about something like this. "Are we what?..."

He avoided eye contact, looking everywhere but you. "..er... y'know..." He scratched his arm slightly. It took a moment before he finally, timidly, linked his fingers together and met your eyes. "...together?..."

Although you were kind of expecting this, it still sent a sudden surge of shock through your heart and stomach. "Oh! Uh no, heh..." you looked back to the picture. "No, Frankie and I are buds. He's just not very good at keeping it together around girls." You said with a gentle smile.

Leo looked a bit less uncomfortable. "Ah, I see." A little smile relaxed his face.

You on the other hand had a mischievous smirk crossing yours. "What? You want me to put in a good word for you?"

His face warmed up a bit and he laughed nervously. "Uh heh, no thanks, I'm good."

You couldn't help but chuckle along with him. However the ruckus before you both had silenced and everyone was in their seats, shamelessly watching... again.

But this time there was an air of confirmation around them.

Donnie and Mikey glance at each other while Raphael sat himself down with an amused (and slightly condescending) smirk.

You cleared your throat and looked at everything and anything else aside from the brothers.

After a painfully quiet seven minutes had passed Donnie stared to shift the gear in the van down, making everyone jerk forward slightly.

This made you finally turn your eyes back to the rest as Donnie spoke. "We're home."

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Yeet,,, I had to cut this chapter short because it just kept going on and I wasn't about to take another gaggle of months to fully complete it. (Next chapter getting crazy)
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So, I know this is extremely off topic but,,, between Catwoman and Harley Quinn, who do you prefer??

My gay ass is in love with Selina, like,,, I get why Bruce is falling for her every second Earth lol, but it seems that people also love Harley and would like to know how many Stan her more than my girl Selina Kyle.

Personally I think Harley is pretty cool too, but not my main y'know? Except Harley and Ivy,,, together??? Fuuuuuccck they have the cutest relationship I've ever seen!! So why would anyone in their right mind ship Harley with the Joker??? He's horrible to her, that relationship is extremely unhealthy!

Okay I need to stop before I go off about more DC opinions lol

See you in another six months lol

>Rain<