Red is for Revenge

Chapter 11

Raphael and I arrived back at the lair exhausted. The boys had already returned and had brought all of the evidence as well as my stuff with it. I sighed and crashed into the couch. "So tired," I sighed. "Did you all get all the stuff?" I looked at Leo as Raph sat down next to me. I leaned against him we were covered in sweat from our recent fight.

"Yes we got all of the evidence you could need. Donnie and Mikey did most of it." Leo looked at the two of us bemused. "You two should probably clean up."

"I will go back tomorrow and examine it again. Did you put everything in my bag?"

"Yes we did. You need to quit worrying. Donnie was very thorough. Now go get cleaned up both of you. We got pizza for dinner."

"Fine," I stood up wearily before pulling Raph up off the couch. "Let's go then before Leo yells at us for not doing what he says."

He smiled and let me pull him down the hallway before he pushed me against the wall. "Well he said the two of us need to clean up but I think you have something else in mind.

"Me, miss innocent have something else in mind," I looked at him playfully bewildered. "If anything you're the one who's got something else in mind."

"Yes because you're definitely innocent. Especially after you masterminded getting into the club while being underage."

"It wasn't that hard. I kind of think they were expecting me anyway. Luciano is a master planner when it comes to luring people into traps, or at least he thinks he is. Do you know how easy it is to make your siblings flustered?"

"You made my siblings flustered? How'd you manage that?"

"With a power only a female can possess that works on straight men and apparently male mutant turtles."

"I see let me guess you just asked them about the dress and they got all red faced," he moved a tiny bit closer whispering in her ear. "That's not being truly flustered though. I bet I could show you what being truly flustered is like Ellie." He kept his voice low his breathing was hot on my ear. My heart beat heavily in my chest, but I kept myself in check.

"Could you now," I exhaled I hadn't realized I was holding my breath. "Well if you plan to do that I suggest we get out of this hallway before someone sees us." I was scared that when he moved away that my legs would be so shaky I would collapse. I managed to stay upright and he picked me up and carried me down the hall and into my room.

He set me down carefully in front of him. I reached up and removed his mask from his head. He was busy pulling my hair out of its messy ponytail. We both paused at the same time and stared each other in the eyes. We read the same thing nervousness and instincts fighting logic. Yet, what we saw the most was fire, vengeful fire. We both stepped back quickly tearing our eyes away from each other.

"I," I trailed off filling the silence between us. It was more uncomfortable than I was used to. The tension was thick in the air but it wasn't angry tension and luckily it was slowly removing itself from the room.

He nodded in understanding he stepped forward and kissed my forehead, "I understand completely. I agree that we should wait." He turned around leaving his mask where it lay on my bed.

I smiled and looked at the ground for a moment sighing. I reached up tentatively and turned him to face me. Standing up on my tippy toes I brought my lips to his. The kiss was soft and genuine. Time seemed to slow and a bright light lit up the room, blinding me even with my eyes closed. The light soon receded and Raph stood in front of me transformed. He was human with dark red hair. He was dressed in a green and yellow shirt with matching green pants. His green eyes stared at me. His belt was now holding up his pants and his Sais were still attached to his belt.
I looked at him shocked, "Red I think I might have just done something that I don't know how to fix."

He looked at me perplexed. I grabbed his hands and moved them up in front of his face. His eyes widened and an undignified girly shriek erupted from him. I placed my hand over his mouth, "Move, we have to get out of my room."

We ran out into the hall just as Mikey appeared around the corner and stopped dead. His brothers and Splinter skidded to a stop in front of us as well.

Leonardo looked at me, "What the hell did you do to my brother?"