Regrets

Under Pressure

The next morning, Leo was in the kitchen making breakfast while Yuki was push and pulling her toy vacuum across the floor.

Normally Leo wouldn't mind, but that toy made a very loud noise.

"Sweetie please, you're gonna wake Daddy up." Leo sighed; just as Raph walked out the bedroom with a tired smile on his face.

He had been working most of the night so Leo let him have the bed.

"It's fine babe, I'm awake." He grinned as he scooped his daughter up and walked over to Leo in the kitchen.

"So how was ya day with Catherine?" He asked as he took some toast out the toaster.

"It was fun, we had a great time, sorry you weren't here."

"Yeah, we need ta have some time ta ourselves."

"We've both got the day off, so we can spend some time together, just the two of use." Leo smiled as she took Yuki back off him so he could get his breakfast.

"What about Yuki?" He frowned.

"It's all been arranged, she's going out with her Nana."

"Yer Mom?"

"No, Catherine." She glared before turning to Yuki with a smiled. "You like Nana Catherine don't you? Does she buy you things?" She cooed as Yuki giggled.

Raph just smiled...

******

That afternoon Yuki was all dressed up with her coat and scarf as Catherine came around to pick her up.

"It was really nice of you to take her out." Leo smiled.

"It's my pleasure, she's such a lovely child." Catherine replied. "She a credit to the both of you; you can take her anywhere and she's always well behaved."

"So, where ya goin'?" Raph asked.

"Oh well we'll have to see, won't we Yuki?" She smiled as she knelt to the toddler's height. "We might go to the park and feed the duckies."

Yuki squealed in delight at that.

"Oh that reminds me, the last time you took her out she was saying something about seeing her Granny, do you know anything about that?" Leo asked.

"She must of meant my photographs of Eroina." Catherine smiled.

"Ah that's what it was." Leo chuckled as she buttoned Yuki's coat up. "Right young lady, be a good girl for Nana."

"She's always good." Catherine reassured before they left...

******

Catherine sighed as she and Yuki walked hand in hand with her carrying a bouquet of flowers and Yuki carrying her teddy bear.

They had just entered the cemetery.

"Now Yuki, put your flowers down for Granny and next time we'll bring a little vase to put them in." She smiled as she handed the toddler the flowers.

Yuki smiled and gently placed the flowers on Eroina's grave.

"Your Granny will be so pleased you're bring flowers to give her, but your Granny's not here, this is just where we come to think about her; your Granny's gone to a beautiful place now and she knows you care about her." Catherine explained.

Yuki just stood there, smiling.

"We'll all go and see her one day in another life, in a better place than this one and that's called Heaven; it's where all the people who've been good go to live. But the bad people don't go there; adultery and whores don't go there, oh no, people like your Great-Grandfather who left your Granny and me, he'll go to a bad place where they punish people like him." She hissed.

But her expression softened when she saw Yuki staring at her.

"Why don't we go get an ice cream?" She smiled as she took Yuki's hand and they left the cemetery...

******

That night Leo and Raph were laughing as they entered the apartment. They had spent the whole day out enjoying themselves.

"I'll make dinner." He smiled as he went into the kitchen.

"You? Cook?" She laughed.

"Come on, I've seen you and my parents do it, how hard can it be?" He asked and Leo just rolled her eyes before she sat down, waiting for Yuki and Catherine to return.

"Ya ain't worried about them are ya?" He asked.

"No, they love spending time together." She smiled before going into the bathroom...

******

The next morning Leona walked out of the bedroom and saw Raphael in the kitchen, reading a letter.

Yuki was still asleep in bed.

"What's wrong?" She asked when she saw the expression on her boyfriend's face.

"It's from that son of a bitch landlord." The green eyed turtle snarled. "Says he's puttin' up our rent again!"

"What?! We can barely make the rent as it is! Maybe it's a mistake." Leo exclaimed.

"It ain't a mistake, it's just tha way things go fer us!" Raph shouted. "When tha hell are we gonna get a break! Every time we think thing's are goin' well someone has ta drop bricks on us!"

Leo just sighed...