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6.

Greetings friends, I apologize it took me so long to post a new chapter. I don't have anything to say in my defense except that I didn't have any motivation to write. Also I'm pretty sure my school is trying to make me kill myself. From now on I will try my best to post every week since you guys seem to actually enjoy my story.

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April's pov

I never meant to drag her into this mess. When I met the turtle brothers I have immediately realized something. From that point on my life is going to be a lot different then before and most likely dangerous. I thought I could keep it a secret from everyone. Because their existence, that I was trying to reveal to the world, suddenly became my secret to bear as well. I made the mistake to think that Y/n was not an exception.

When I heard she will be returning to New York, I knew it was going to be a problem. Not that I didn't want her to move in with me, not at all. I just couldn't keep any secrets from her. She could always sniff them out. Like a lousy dog or something. But I was hoping for this to settle in place under different circumstances.

It was amazing and worrying at the same time that she decided to live with me. Keeping secrets from someone who lives in the same apartment is simply impossible. So I decided to tell her. I had it all planned out for some time. Unfortunately it took too many unexpected turns and the circumstances weren't ideal at all.

And maybe that wasn't the case at all. Maybe I wanted this just for myself. Some part of me wanted this secret to be just mine. I didn't even realize it before. Just maybe this selfishness was what put her in danger. If I told her what was going on from the very beginning we could've worked this out together.

I was drowning in regret and self pity all day. It was pathetic really. Leo, Donnie and Mikey reassured me that everything was going to be okay and I shouldn't blame myself. Raph didn't say anything, he showed his support by just being there. However sweet their reassurance was, it didn't really help.

They didn't know her but they were all grateful that she took care of their father. I was shocked that she helped us without even questioning it.

I was sitting by her bed and watching her chest rise and fall. It was already getting dark outside and the hospital got quieter with every passing minute. I had to pull the rich parents card to convince them to let me stay with her after visiting hours. I was quite sure that the nurse would strangle me in my sleep after I put my adoptive mother on the phone for her.

I shut my eyes tightly while playing on repeat everything that has happened in the past 48 hours. It was insane. I almost died at least four times. I could never mention this to Y/n though. She would most likely kill me herself if she found out.

When I called her back then to come and help Splinter I couldn't even begin to imagine how she would react. But seeing her in the lab and then later on the roof, she didn't freak out at all. She took it almost too well.

That of course didn't change the fact that when the foot soldiers appeared behind her, it looked bad. I was so scared for her. How the hell did she manage to get away? And help with distracting Shredder and even swap out the mutagen containers–

I always knew she was smart but this was on a completely different level. Outsmarting trained killers is pretty damn impressive. I should have put more trust into her.

I remember that as soon as the tower fell and we, by some crazy miracle, survived, Leo and Raph ran back to the building. They went to help Y/n, because the last thing we saw was the commander of the foot soldiers holding a blade to her throat.