The Girl From Another World ( TMNT 2007 Universe )

Chapter 52 - Forever Is Ours

Raphael

My body felt a lot better. Once I got some food in me, courtesy of Rogue, I was able to relax and the swolleness of my limbs numbed when I was given painkillers. I almost felt normal. But every time I went to do something with my injured arm, the bandage caught my eye and I remembered that if I pushed myself now I would only pay later when the medicine wore off. Other than that, I could move like before and my mind didn't register any difficulties.

But my heart did.

Jazmin was acting strange. It hurt since my unconscious state had put enough distance between us. I longed for her. I wanted to remind her of how much she meant to me. I wanted to be alone with her and love her. But she felt so far away, and she was keeping herself that way.

I didn't like it. At all.

I rolled over in the bed I was currently in and pushed myself up. I'd left Jazmin hours ago to go to sleep and she'd told me she would be in soon. Well she still wasn't with me. Looked like I wasn't the only one who couldn't get any sleep because my brain was working overtime. I set out in search of her.

It didn't take me very long to find my girl. She was in the first place I checked. The living room of the mansion that was about probably ten times the size of ours back in the sewer. She sat on the silk couch and stared into the glowing fireplace. She didn't even react when I sat down next to her. The darkness of the room covered most of her face but I could definitely tell something wasn't right.

"Babe?" She continued to stare down at the immaculate white carpeted floor and ignored me. "Babe?" I called again. Nothing.

"Hey, Jaz?" I rested my good hand on her shoulder but she didn't turn towards me. The only sound she made was a deep breath.

"You're not going to want to talk to me tonight, Red. Or any other night. You won't want to talk to me at all."

I was stunned by her sudden response. What did she mean? I didn't have a clue.

"What?" I questioned. "I don't know what you're talking about, Baby."

"You will in a minute." She lifted her gaze from the floor and stared into the slowly burning fire again. "And you won't want to call me Baby anymore."

I couldn't imagine what could possibly make me want to do that but Jazmin was being serious. Her tone was all business so I knew she wasn't just out of it. This was serious.

"Just tell me."

She turned and looked right at me and that's when I saw that her face was streaked with tears. "Promise you won't hate me?"

My heart melted. Regardless of what she was about to say and what it would mean for us, I would never stop loving her. I cupped her face with my hand and brushed the tears away with my thumb. "I promise."

She took a deep breath and wrapped her hand around mine. "I have to break up with you."

Tesh's blade hadn't inflicted as much pain on me as those words. Those words held the most pain. "W-What?"

"I have to break up with you, Red. Because I have to stay here and you have to go home. I have to be here to lead Earth 6 and you have to protect your world. We can't be together."

Nothing had prepared me for this. I hadn't really put any thought into what happens now. Tesh was dead and Earth 6 was free. I had automatically assumed that Jaz and I would stay together. But how could I have foolishly thought that would be the case when she was a girl from another world? I was not from hers but she was mine. And I didn't know how to let that go. How was I supposed to let her go?