Closed Doors

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"Karai?" I ask, my voice craking from the lack of water.
"What are you doing?"
"I wish to speak with you. Without the Shredder listening in."
I think a little. What could she want? She opens my cell door with a key that I didn't realize she was holding. She is also holding a tray of actual food and a large cup of water, along with some bandages. She shuts the door behind her and unlocks my wrists from thier cuffs and I collapse on my face in the puddle of sweat and blood that has built up, thankful for the rest that I can now give my weary body.
Karai pushes the tray and cup next to my head and sits down next to me.
I sit up and look at the food. It's an actual meal of bread and cheese and a piece of meat that I don't recognize. It looks a little like left-over steak.
I look at her.
This could be poisoned. Do I trust it?
She looks innocent. I look at the food. I don't see anything wrong with it. And I'm so hungry that I'm about to dig in, but I take precautions.
"Go on, Rapheal. Eat." Karai says, playing with the clean bandages in her hands. They must be ment for me. My still bleeding wounds are stuff and very painful. I'm weak from the blood loss, along with the hunger and dehydration.
I can't resist any longer, I pick up the cup and begin to drink. The water is cold and refreshing. I almost drink the whole glass, but I save some for after the meal. I pick up the piece of bread and take a bite. It is freshly baked. Something that Sensei would make for me and my brothers. I savor the bread, but it is hard as I am starving. I soon finish it and move on to the cheese.
As I eat I don't break eye contact with Karai. She just sits there, staring at me.
The cheese is a large piece of smokey cheddar, something Mikey loves.
I soon finish. I had forgotten to savor it, and now it's gone. I was lost in the thoughts of my brothers. How I wish they would just save me already. They must be trying. No way they couldn't. They couldn't have just left me here to rot.
I move onto the meat. It is tender and full of flavor. It melts in my mouth and I wish that I could eat it all day long. I soon finish and I wish that I had more. That was probably my last good meal. I slide the tray back to Karai.
"Thank you." I say as I down the rest of the water. I slide the cup back to her as well.
"Why are you helping me?" I ask.
"I want to ask you something Raphael." she says.
Why would Karai want to ask a prisoner like me a question?
"Is what Leonardo said true? About Splinter being my true father?"
I've heard this story many times. I decide to tell her again.
"Hamato Yoshi, my father. Your father. He loved a woman named Tang Shen, your mother. They had a child, you, and named her Miwa. Oroku Saki, the Shredder, also loved Tang Shen. He and Hamato Yoshi fought for the love of Tang Shen, and she was lost in the battle. Oroku Saki took the baby and raised her as his own. Now do you believe?"
Karai looks at me. The look is a mix of compassion and realization and rage. She closes her eyes and then opens them.
"I will believe that Shredder is my father, but I do not know at the moment who I can trust. A prisoner, or Shredder. Shredder has threatened to kill me before, but it was for the good of the clan. I'm so confused. I feel as though, if Shredder could get away with it, he would kill me now." Karai says.
I think for a while. I don't know what to respond with. She looks as though she, wants me as a friend. No, needs me. All she has ever known was that Splinter was the enemy and that she must kill him. She had been taught that at a very young age. Now she is having independent thoughts on her own life, and is confused.
"I understand." I say and she smiles at me. She crawls over to me and takes my wounded arm in her hands. I let out a little cry of pain.
"I'm sorry." she says. She begins to wrap the bandages around my arm gently, careful not to cause me any pain.
"This will stop the bleeding." she says. Karai takes out a tune of ointment from her pocket and moves to the slice on my forehead. It is already scabbed over, but is incredibly sensitive. I still have the dried blood on my face. She rubs the ointment across the slice on my forehead gently. I try not to back away, but her compassion is not something I expected, and I am still weary of her. She could have a knife in her hand, ready to slice my throat at any given time. It wouldn't surprise me. I just want to be saved from this place. I actually wouldn't care if she killed me know. At least I would be safe.
"You're going to be okay." she says after she has treated my wounds.
"Can you let me go? You can come and live with me and my brothers. And our father."
She sat back on her heels.
"I'm sorry. My loyalty is still with the Shredder. I can't."
"Why? Please just let me go! Please." I'm begging now.
"Please! I just want to go home!"
"Raphael. I'm sorry, but I can't let you leave. But I swear to you, I will never hurt you and I will sneak you food and medical treatment whenever I can. You won't die."
"Maybe I would rather die than to live here." I snarled. She puts her hand on my shoulder.
"Don't say that. You want to live. I know you do."
"No!" I yell, startling myself. I didn't know that I had the strength to yell like that. Karai jumps back a bit.
"I would rather die than suffer at the hands of Shredder like a dog." I spit.
Karai then does something that suprises me. And maybe even her a little. She hugs me.
"You are not a dog, brother." she says.
Brother. She believes me. She believes me! I throw my good arm around her.
"You won't die. I will make your life easier to live. I'm sorry, but Shredder will kill me if I help you. You won't die." she says and she let go of me.
She gathers the cup and tray and sneaks out of the cell, closing it and locking it behind her.
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