The Shadow's Secret│TMNT

06 || A Bourne Marathon

"How'd it go?" Olivia called when I walked into the apartment.

I tossed my shoes off and walked into the kitchen, following her voice. "He didn't show up."

Liv stood at the stove, stirring a pot of what smelled like pasta.

She looked up as I walked in. "What happened?"

I took over cooking the pasta for her, stirring and occasionally taste testing as I recounted my experience.

"...So I murdered his dick and ran," I finished. Olivia clapped a hand over her mouth in an attempt to contain her violent bout of laughter. I grinned and waited for her to calm her breathing.

"You have the worst potty mouth but it's so funny," she managed. I laughed and picked a spaghetti noodle from the boiling water to test it. I nodded, it's ready.

I drained the water from the pot and turned the heat off, then began to work on the sauce as Liv pulled out a bag of lettuce to start a salad. She peeled the bad leaves off the lettuce heads and was about to toss them into the garbage bin when I thrust my hand out,

"Hand them over."

"Raiy, I'm throwing them out for a reason," I raised my eyebrows,

"Okay, we both know that I'm basically immune to anything and everything bad lettuce can possibly carry around."

Defeated, she dropped the leaves into my palm, which I ate as I mixed spices into the tomato sauce. With both of us working, everything was ready in no time and we had an early Italian dinner.

••• 影の秘密 •••

I looked up from the bin of movie selections sitting in front of me,

"Alright, we can watch Madagascar, Terminator, The Exorcist, Jurassic Park, Bourne, Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman, Scary Movie, Hunger Games, Ice Age, or literally any of the Marvel superheroes." Olivia sat on the couch, scrolling through her phone and picking through a bowl of popcorn. She looked up from the glowing screen in her hand and wrinkled her nose.

"Raiy, come on. You know I can't handle horror movies." I groaned and placed the boxed sets of scary movies back into the bin, ruling them out, then looked back over at her. "Not Hunger Games, or else I'll have to track down Jennifer Lawrence and strangle her. I'm too tired to try and comprehend Terminator today. Batman is just boring, how does it qualify as an option? And Jurassic Park is a no, the second one is just too awful to handle. But, we haven't seen Bourne in a while, and whatshisname is in the last one, the really cute one." She looked to me expectantly for an answer.

"Jason Bourne," I said dryly. She rolled her eyes.

"No, I'm not that stupid. I'm talking about that guy with the...the thing." She mimed nocking an arrow to a bow.

"Hawkeye?"

She got really excited. "Yeah! Jeremy Renner! That's his name! I like him!"

I stood to insert the first disc. "Bourne it is then." I hopped onto the couch beside her and grabbed a handful of popcorn, then picked up the remote and played the movie.

After the third movie, I started to drift off. But I managed to catch bits and pieces of Jeremy Renner wrestling with a wolf, in an airport and running around a factory full of Asian women before completely falling asleep.

••• 影の秘密 •••

I woke up to an incessant ringing.

I groaned and rolled over to slap my alarm clock off, but it wasn't there. I rubbed the sleep from my eyes. I'd fallen asleep on the couch last night. Again. I groaned and got up, running to grab my phone and answer it before it went to voicemail.

"Hello?" I yawned.

"You just woke up, didn't you?" Olivia asked.

I nodded. "Mmhmmm."

"It's basically noon, you need to get a summer job."

I put my phone on speaker and went into the fridge to look for a quick breakfast. "Top of my to-do list," I muttered, grabbing a container of lemon yogurt.

"hmv would be a good place, you like movies."

I wrinkled my nose. "I don't like talking to people." There was a short pause that I assumed was due to an eye roll,

"Well then you can be a garbage truck driver."

I grabbed a spoon and dug into my yogurt. "That sounds fun."

She huffed. "I don't appreciate your sarcasm."

"That was genuine," I argued half-heartedly.

"Raiy."

"Hmm?" I hummed past the yogurt in my mouth.

"Promise me you'll look for a job today."

"Okay, I will right after I eat something."

"Thank you. You need to start earning some money too."

"You earn enough for both of us," I argued.

"We've been getting by. But you need to do something, and having the extra money would be nice."

I rolled my eyes, a nurse definitely earns enough money to have extra. "Alright, I'll look for garbage truck driver jobs. Or hey! I can be one of those guys that rips around on those things at ice rinks and makes the ice all pretty!"

"They drive Zambonis and earn like five bucks an hour. You'd be better off walking dogs."

I nodded thoughtfully. "I'll look into that too."

"I have to go. I'm working late so I'll see you late tonight."

"'Kay, bye." I tapped my phone screen and ended the call, then cut up an assortment of fruits that I took to my room as a snack while I searched for jobs on my computer.

I didn't want to put up with grumpy people or talk a lot on a daily basis, so that ruled out restaurants. Not something too boring, so no bookstores or clothing stores. An art store wouldn't be too bad but the only people that shop at those places are really weird. hmv wouldn't be too bad. Maybe like a Starbucks or a Booster Juice. Or I could work at the aquarium or the zoo. Oh, the zoo might be okay.

I went onto the Central Park Zoo website and emailed the manager, asking if there were any job openings, then did the same with Starbucks and hmv. If all else fails, I'll walk dogs.

AN: I have no idea how much nurses earn lol

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