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Shadows in the night	By : selfless1978 Category: +S through Z > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Views: 2281 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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They arrived back at the lair and quietly slipped in. They said their goodnights and started to head off to their rooms to settle down for the night. Leo didn't quite make it to his when he heard a little voice coming from down the hall. The noise had it's usual effect on him, he smiled. He bypassed his room that he now shared with Vicky and the rooms belonging to Dennis and Amy. He stopped into the doorway of the nursery and looked in. In the crib on the far side of the room was something that Leo still couldn't believe he had, his daughter Miracle. She was six months old now but Leo still felt that sense of amazment when he looked at her. He smiled again as she was trying really hard to get that foot in her mouth.
He walked over and picked her up. "What are you doing awake, Mir?" She looked at him and blew raspberries. "Oh, I get back home after a long night and that's the hello I get?"
"Og-bah." came the reply. Leo laughed. "Right back at ya kiddo. Come on, let's get you in a clean diaper." After he got her cleaned up and changed he sat with her in the rocking chair and rocked with her for awhile. He enjoyed these quiet moments with his daughter, content to just sit with her as he rocked her back to sleep. He looked at the tiny green form in his arms and she returned his calm gaze with one of her own. Her blue eyes, so much like his own, starting to close with sleep. After the child drifted back off to sleep he quietly got up and placed her back into her crib then he just stood there and watched her sleep for a few minutes. Then he softly kissed her head, turned and quietly left the nursery.
He softly closed the door behind him after he went to his room and looked at his bed. There lay the woman who had givin him the child in the nursery. Vicky was sleeping on her side facing him, her long brown hair spread out on the bed behind her. He was so grateful to have her in his life, and also her two children. They had filled something in Leo that he never knew he was missing and he gladly took in Dennis and Amy as his own. The poor kids, and their mother, had only known hate and fear from their biological father, Nicholas, Vicky's now deceased husband. That monster of a man had died the last time they fought Shredder. Nicholas had been about to kill her when Leo nailed him with a flying kick and he had been impaled on a piece of wood he landed on. Leo had vowed he would step up and take care of the children as his own. He spends as much time as he can with them and he loves to train them. They always managed to brighten up his day.
Quietly he slipped out of his gear and slid into bed. His attempt not to wake her failed however. "How was your patrol?"
"It was quiet."
"I take it that it didn't stay that way."
"No it didn't. We ran into something just before we came home. You really don't want to know the gory detailes."
"That bad?"
"Yeah, and we have no idea what happened. All we know is that someone broke into a building and came out and...well...let's just say there is going to be some funerals."
"Well, isn't this wonderful pillow talk..."
Leo sighed. "Sorry. But you did ask you know."
"I know." She snuggled up next to him and he wrapped his arms around her. "And I also know that you will stay up all night thinking about it. So I think I'll just take your mind off of it." She pulled his head to her and kissed him. God she knew him so well. And she was right, he was already forgetting the events of the night, his attention firmly fixed on his lover.
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Donnie was in his lab trying to inspect the fur sample they had picked up last night when now 8 year old Dennis came in. "Mommy said it was time for breakfast, Uncle Donnie."
"I'll be there in a minute."
"She also told me you would say that. She told me to tell you come now or she will show you how good her pressure point training is going...the hard way."
Donnie sighed and looked at the boy. He was obviously trying not to laugh. "Your Mom is a bully."
"She told me you would say that too and said she isn't a bully. Your just stubborn." the boy was grinning now.
"Alright already. I'm coming." Donnie said laughing then got up out of his chair. He walked with the boy to the kitchen area and noticed the rest of them already gathered there and he sat down to join them. Donnie was glad for this change in the family. He loved Vicky like a sister and she fit right in with them. And of course Dennis and Amy were great kids. And then there was little Mir. Because of an accident that happened to Vicky when she was a child her reproduction system changed. Her genecticaly altered egg cells somehow could bond with Leo's sperm. The best theory he could come up with was that the regenertave properties in the new DNA code inside her made it possible to filter out any uncompatible DNA on Leo's end. So only DNA that wouldn't harm the child to be were filtered through and a new compatable DNA string was formed. The result was sitting in the highchair throwing her scrambled eggs on the floor. He was only guessing though. The only way to know for sure he would have to run tests on her, and he loved her to much to do that. He was just happy she was here and he was willing to leave it at that.
After breakfast Donnie helped Vicky clean up. After they were finished he looked at her. "Do I have your permission to go back to what I was doing now?"
She laughed. "Go play with your toys Donnie. Thank you for helping."
"You welcome." He replied then went back to his lab to finally get started on the fur sample. He didn't get far when he was interruppted again.
"Uncle Donnie?"
"Yes Dennis?"
"Can I help?"
"You want to help me with this? It might be a little boring for you."
"No. I think it's cool how you always do this stuff."
"Sure Dennis." Donnie smiled "You can help me if you want. I would enjoy the company."
They worked through the morning, Donnie showing Dennis how all the machines worked and answering the boy's questions. Finally he was starting to get the results on the hair. He looked over the information on his computer screen. What he saw there took him by surprise."What in the world... Dennis, please go get your dad and uncles for me. I need to talk to them."

"Would you like one lump or two with your tea?" Amy asked him.
"Two please." Raph replied. He was sitting in her room on the floor next to her little table she had set up for a tea party. She had been bored and fidgity getting into all kinds of trouble this morning. Raph sensed a scolding coming from Vicky soon so he figured he would try and keep her occupied. That somehow resulted him being in here having a tea party with her and her dolls and of course she wanted the whole deal with dress up clothes and all. She didn't have any clothes to fit him but she did come up with a large white and pink hat for him to wear. So here he was sitting on the floor drinking pretend tea with a bunch of dolls in a girly hat...and he was having fun.
"Nice hat." Damn it...he got busted. He turned his head to the door and saw Leo leaning on the frame grinning at him. "It goes with the color of your eyes quite nicely."
"Ha ha. Very funny."
He laughed. "Amy, I need to borrow you uncle for a little bit."
"OK, Daddy."
Raph got up, took off the hat and placed it on her dresser. "Keep that tea warm for me. I'll be back soon."
"I will, Uncle Raphie."
"What's up, Leo?" He asked as they walked out of the room.
"Donnie wants to talk to us."
"Oh, is it nap time?" Raph loved Donnie just as the rest of his brothers but sometimes he put Raph to sleep.
"I think it's about that fur sample you found last night. He and Dennis were working on it all morning."
"Oh, really..." That got his attention. The whole escapade last night still bothered him. He knew Leo well enough that it was probably still in his mind also. "Well lets go see what smartypants and his new sidekick found out for us."
They walked into the lab. Mikey was already there, sitting in the chair, tilted dangerously back, with his feet on Donnie's desk.
"OK, braniac. Make it quick, I have a tea party to get back to." Raph told his brother.
There was a loud crash as Mikey fell backwards. They knew he was allright because he was laughing hilariously. He finally was able to get himself under control. "Dude, I never figured you liked tea." He said when he got up.
"You should have seen him in the hat he was wearing. He looked adorable in it." Leo told him.
Raph just glared at Leo as Mikey burst out in laughter again. Leo grinned back at him in amusement. He was hoping his brother understood the 'I'm going to hurt you' message in his eyes. Honestly Raph really wasn't upset about it but they had played this game between each other so many times and it never got old. He wasn't even sure if he even could take Leo on anymore even if he wanted too. Something had happened to Leo in the last fight they had with Shredder. Something had unlocked in him and he was on a higher fighting level than his brothers. The old teenage Raph would have been jealous and angry about it and probably would have resented the change in his leader. The Raph of today was actually proud of his big brother for achiving it.
"Are you guys done now?" Donnie asked annoyed then he glared at Mikey who was still laughing.
Mikey got him self under control. "Yeah bro. I'm OK now."
"What's up Donnie?" Leo asked.
"Well, I ran test on the fur sample and I got the results not to long ago."
"Well what is it?" Raph spoke up.
"That's just it...I don't know." They all stared at him. Raph broke the silence. "You don't know? What do you mean you don't know?"
"I don't know because it's not coming back as any hair sample to match any specific animal. But it has the make up similar to a couple of different animals."
"Huh?" came, unsurprisingly, from Mikey.
"In other words, Mikey." Donnie looked at him "It's an animal scramble mix. It's not natural. Which means-"
"Someone made it and we have no idea what it is." Leo cut in.
Raph considered something. "Those men that got tore up last night. You think maybe they were trying to catch it?"
Leo looked at him. "I was thinking the same thing too."
"So, now what?"
His older brother narrowed his eyes. "We go look for it."
"When?"
"We'll go out tonight. Donnie, have you checked the police reports yet from last night?"
"Not yet."
Leo looked lost in thought. "Do me a favor, Donnie. While your at it, look up any and all pharmacy thefts for the last few weeks. It went into that one last night looking for something. Maybe it hit some other ones before that and we can find some kind of perimeter or roaming pattern for it."
"That might take me a bit, Leo."
"Good." Raph said "Then I can finish my tea party first."
Once again Mikey's laughter filled the lab. Followed by a smack as Raph slapped him on the back of the head.

Three nights later they were once again out looking for whatever it was. Mikey hated this, they were out looking for something that tore ten men to pieces and they had no clue what it looked like. This did not qualify as a good time in his book. Donnie had indeed found more than that one break in they stumbled across. They were now roaming the area where most of the break ins have been happening but it seemed that once again they were going to end up empty handed. Leo called a halt on the rooftop they were currently on.
"We are getting nowhere quick with this, Leo." Raph said.
"You got a better idea?"
"Unfortunately, no."
"I know what we can do." Mikey said. He really wanted to go home. This whole thing gave him the creeps.
"We are not going home Mikey." Leo told him without even turning around. He was scanning the surrounding area.
Donnie put a hand on his shoulder. "What's the matter, Mikey?"
"I just don't like this, guys. Trying to find something and you don't even know what it is. Major creepy factor."
Raph looked at him. "Been watching cheesy horror movies again?"
Before Mikey could answer they heard gun fire again.
"Let's move!" Leo snapped and they took off. The sounds were closer this time but they still got there to late, once again they arrived only to find bodies laying on the street. This time there were only six and they weren't as messed up as the last group. Well at least they still had all their limbs attached but something definitely left it's mark.
"Damn it." Leo spat. Then he took a deep breath. "All right, lets go down and see what we can find."
They climbed down and once again Donnie was looking over the bodies as Mikey and his brothers spread out. This time it was Mikey who found something. He was searching near an ally when he saw something white laying on the ground near a body just a bit inside the ally entrance. "Eew. I gotta go near that mess?" he mumbled to himself. He walked in the ally, trying not to step in the blood on the ground, and went to go see what it was. He bent down and picked it up. It looked like some kind of key card.
Suddenly he felt something behind him and he turned around. There was a huge shadowy figure in front of him. Before he could cry out he felt himself be lifted off the ground and them it threw him into the ally wall. He was thrown so hard he was knocked out before he had started to slide down the wall and crash into some trash cans under him.
Leo heard the noise and turned to yell at Mikey to be quiet. Then the scolding died on his lips when he saw his little brother's still form lying on the ground in the middle of knocked over garbage cans. "Mikey!" As he ran to his fallen brother he noticed a large figure run toward the back of the ally. He couldn't get a good look, it was to dark in the ally and honestly he was more worried about the now still form of Mikey. Leo reached him with Raph and Donnie close behind.
"Don't move him. Let me check him over real quick." Donnie said and knelt down next to Mikey. Leo watched as Donnie did a quick evaluation. "What's this? He has something in his hand. Here hold onto this, Leo." Donnie gave him the object. It was a key card. Leo flipped it over to read the printing on it, Bachman Bio Lab.
"What the hell was that Leo?" Raph asked him.
"I don't know. I didn't get a good look. Whatever it was, it was large." Leo looked into the shadows of the ally where the thing disappeared to but it was nowhere to be seen.
"He'll be OK I think." Donnie told them "Lets get him home."
Leo nodded and together they started to carry the limp form of their little brother away from the area. Once they were away from the area Raph called Casey to come pick them up. As they waited Leo looked again at the card in his hand. What in the hell was going on?
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