Raphael, You Made Me Cry.... (Book 1)

T-Phone

As I finally got over the fact that I had voluntarily kissed Raph because I was on some poisonous sugar high, I got up and walked out of my room, going out to the main room.

The guys were sitting on the couch that looked uncomfortable and I sighed, shaking my head and joining them. They welcomed me with nods and uncomfortable mutters. Why...?

They were, once again, watching the Anime show that seemed long outdated, but they seemed pretty into it. I just watched a few minutes to entertain them, even with the weird and jittery silence between us all.

After a while, my stomach growled and I looked at them all, wondering if any of them heard it. Mikey did and he grinned, getting up and going to the kitchen. Everyone watched him go before turning back to the show.

That's when I noticed another one of their number was gone: Donnie. Curious, I got up and walked to a different room with the door cracked. It was connected to the the main room, so I found it relatively easy.

I peaked in and I saw Donnie working on something. The room he was in looked like a giant lab. I blinked in shock. It was like a garage and lab mixed because there was a giant box car with designs sitting on the edge.

Donnie must've noticed I was in there because he looked up, moving his goggles to the top of his head, "Naomi?"

I blinked and looked at him, walking in the lab completely. "Yeah?"

"What're you doing in here?"

"Heard some noise and I realized you were gone. Why?"

He shrugged and put his goggles back over his eyes, looking at the small device he was working on, "Just don't want to ruin your surprise."

Now he got me curious. I took long strides over, not caring if he saw me or not and peered over his shoulder. He chuckled and hid the device from view. I cried out helplessly, nudging him with my elbow to make him move.

"I wanna see...!" I said.

"Not too I'm done," he smirked, his goggles making me want to laugh.

"Whyyyyy?" I whined.

"Because I wanna show you how to us it."

"When will it be done?"

"Soon. You can sit down in that chair until I'm done," he said, gesturing to a spinning chair.

I grinned and ran over to it, jumping and landing on it. I made it glide over the floor, but it was going too fast and I hit something hard. It fell over me and I cried out.

"Naomi! Timothy!" Donnie shouted in shock.

"Donnie!!" I heard another voice snap, coming in the lab as Donnie ran up to me to pull whatever was on me off. Raph came in and over to help. "What're you doing to her?!"

"I didn't!" Donnie snapped, picking the large thing off me. Raph helped me out and I brushed myself off as Donnie continued, "She jumped on the spinning chair while running and she ran into Timothy."

"Who?" I asked, looking up at a frozen monster thing. It was stuck in a canister, but arms and legs were coming out on the possible exit points. I gulped at the brains and organs inside it. It was probably one of the grossest things I've seen...

"Timothy..." Donnie explained as him and Raph tried to raise him back where I had tipped him over at. "Only he liked to be called Pulverizor and Mikey likes to call him Mutagen Man because he drank Mutagen to get like this."

They put Timothy right up again and Donnie put his hand on the frosty glass and sighed. Raph watched him then put his hand on the purple masked Turtle's shoulder and muttered something in his ear. Donnie looked at Raph sideways then smiled softly nodding, before turning to me.

"Can I see my present now?" I asked, my eyes widening innocently. I tilted my head to make myself look cuter.

"You're giving her a present?" Raph glared at Donnie.

"We all have one," Donnie said quickly, putting his hands up. "It's not like she's getting anything new."

My face dropped and I whined softly, "I'm getting a hand-me-down?"

"No, no, no, no, no," Donnie said quickly. "It's new, but each of our group has one."

"Oh," I said, blinking. "Okay."

Raph sighed as Donnie went back to his lab table and me jumping back on the spinning chair. It had surprisingly stayed up even with the heavy weight of Timothy. Looking over at me spinning in the chair, Raph came up and suddenly stopped the spin. I cried out and hung on, breathing heavily in shock.

Laughing, Raph backed up, holding his stomach. I turned and glared at him, sitting up on my knees on the chair before lunging at him. I landed on his back shell with my arms wrapped around his neck, grinning evilly. It was his time to cry out in shock, and his hands raised to try and pull my arms off his neck before he stopped breathing.

Smirking, I loosened my grip, but I stayed on like a piggyback ride. He must've sensed it because he calmed down, and sighed, "Spontaneous..."

"Big word for ya, Raph," Donnie said at his table.

Raph growled at him and I laughed, putting my head on his shell. I knew that I had kissed him earlier in the twenty-four hours, I didn't care what I did right now. I was just waiting for my present. Raph just walked around the lab, even walking in the box car with the designs. He called it the "Shell Raiser" and he explained what they all did in it.

I was listening silently, not interrupting him or anything. Raph went on and on about the lair and their life like he had a dozen times before. It was entertaining because he talked like he spoke to Spike. I looked around, wondering and thinking.

Finally, Donnie spoke up, "Naomi!"

Smiling, I jumped off Raph's back and he grunted, loosing his footing for a second. I ran up to Donnie, putting my hands on the lab table he was working at, waiting patiently.

Donnie made me put out my hand and I did. He put a turtle shell in my hand. I blinked, flipping it over to find a screen. It was glowing and I clicked on the buttons curiously.

"It's a T-Phone," Donnie explained. "I already have all our numbers programmed on their, so you can call us in case anything goes wrong."

"Yet you won't let me go topside," I said, glancing up at him, even though my attention was at the phone. It was a weird shape. Different from other phones, so that made it cooler than normal. I had the urge to toss my old one in the trash.

"Yeah," a new voice said coming in. We all looked over as Leo came in. "About that, you can now. But with our supervision."

"Great..." I muttered, locking the T-Phone and putting it in my pocket. "More parental vision..."

"We're not exactly parents..." Donnie said, blinking curiously.

"Splinter is," I said, pointing at him.

They all paused then nodded slowly. I smirked and left the lab, calling after me, "Thanks, Donnie!"