Back to New York! (2nd)

Hawkins at the park

Raph was squatting on the floor as Kylee picked the bullets out of his shell with tweezers. After picking up Don’s gear they went back to Kylee’s place where she had some medical gear to patch the turtle up. Mikey and Becca came over to get the story, which was kind of annoying. They kept giving each other that look, not the I love you look, but the they’re so stubborn why don’t they just admit it and kiss already, kind of look.

“Will you quit squirming? It’s hard to work with you squirming.” Kylee said

“Well gee, sorry, It ain’t any more pleasant from this side either.” Raph spat

“Quit being a hatchling Raph, this is what you get for being an idiot and taking those bullets for me”

“If I hadn’t done that, doctors would be pullin’ bullets out of you while you were on the critical table.”

“That wouldn’t have happened, and I can take care of myself ya know.”

“No you can’t. Yer not strong enough to go it alone…OUCH! WHAT THE HELL!?”

“Sorry, my hand must have slipped.”

“You did that on purpose”

“Raph, I’m hurt. You think I abuse my patients?”

“If they say somthun you don’t like? Hell yeah.”

“My patients don’t talk, like I wish you didn’t talk.”

“Yer the one who chose to hang with talking turtles. OW! HEY WILL YOU QUIT DOIN’ THAT!!”

“Doing what Raphael?”

Becca and Mikey started laughing. These two were so blind not to see how perfect they were for each other. The way they fought, the way they argued, the way they bickered, the way they agreed with each other, the way they protected each other, the way the made up, the way they fought as a team-why couldn’t they see that? Why’d they have to be so incredibly stubborn? Becca silently promised to Kylee that she’d find a way to get the two passed their stubbornness and get them together.

“so Don really told this chick he was a turtle?” Becca asked

“MmHm, Don said it was the only way to get his supplies from her since she was terrified of humans.” Kylee said pulling the last of the bullets out of Raphs shell and moving to the one in his shoulder.

“He’s lucky she didn’t go out with that news to get popular.”

“Na, she’s terrified of people. And she looked trustworthy enough” Kylee started stitching Raph up. He tried to stay relaxed like she told him to and not tighten up, he looked at her focused eyes as a distraction.

“You can’t go on looks all the time ya know…when did you become so trusting?”

“I trust Don knows what he’s doing, has a smart guy. I’ll trust whoever he puts his trust into.” Kylee tugged at the wire, making Raph wince, and bit it making it break into a tight little knot. She looked down at Raph who was starring at her and gave him the ‘what?’ look. She moved on to other wounds on him and he sat back and scowled.

“What if Don put his trust in the wrong person?”

“What’s with the twenty questions Raph?”

Mikey and Becca were eating this up, total lover bounding. They snickered at each other and watched on. This was entertaining anyway.

“Then he made a mistake. Even brainiacs do that on occasion. We always recover though.”

“And if we didn’t? What if someone found us turtles and decided to dissect us?”

“Then Becca and I would come and get you…even if don had to end up giving you a robotic limb. No matter what, us girls would make sure we got our guys back, we’re family now, that’s our job-to look out for one another, right?”