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The meaning of family	By : selfless1978 Category: +S through Z > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Views: 4215 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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"MIKEEEEEEY!!!" Raph yelled.
'Now what', Leo wondered as he looked up from where he was reading sitting in the easychair. Raph was standing in the middle of the room, his face was wet and he was glareing at his little brother. Leo then turned his gaze to Mikey. "Uh ooooh" the orange masked turtle whispered. Then he took off running and Raph took off after him. Mikey tried to get away in Donnie's lab but was tackled before he made it half way there. Then they started to roll around the floor, Raph's grumbling and Mikey's screams filling the air.
Donnie stuck his head out of the lab and looked at his rolling brothers. Then looked at Leo. "What is going on now?"
Leo sighed and looked at Donnie. "Dr. Prankenstain made an appearence."
"Waterballoon?"
"Yup."
It had been a few days now since they brought Vicky and her kids to the lair. She was getting better with each day and was now able to move around a bit. April had stopped by and brought her and the children some clothes and also came by regularly to help Vicky shower, for obvious reasons. Overall she was looking much better and Leo had a hard time keeping his eyes off of her. Right now she was laying propped up in the couch with pillows, watching with amusement in her eyes. Her children were sitting on the floor in front of her laughing. She looked at Leo with a half smile and an arched eyebrow. "Dr. Prankenstain?" She asked.
"You don't want to know....."
She laughed and turned back to the fiasco. "Do they do this alot?"
"Not as much as they used to. Mikey was worse when we were teenagers. But every once in a while he gets that urge to pester someone. Usually it's Raph. And this is usually the outcome." He looked at his brothers again.
"Ow! I give, I give!" Mikey cried.
"I'll give you something!" Raph said "I'll give you a freaking headache!"
She laughed again. It was a soft gentle sound. Leo loved to her her laugh, hearing it always sent a chill down his spine.
Suddenly there was a loud crash as Raph and Mikey smashed into an endtable next to the couch. The lamp on the table hit the floor and shattered.
"GUYS! Knock it-" Leo was cut short as Amy started crying. He looked down at her and saw that she had a lamp shard stuck in her arm and he was next to her in an instant. Donnie was right there almost as fast as he was. Leo held out the arm and Donnie told Mikey to get his first aid kit. Leo held the arm steady as Donnie pulled out the shard. "It will be ok, swee-" again Leo was cut off but this time in astonishment. Right before his eyes the cut ws healing. The bleeding stopped, then the wound started to close.
Leo and Donnie exchanged stunned looks. "Whoa...." came from Mikey who made it back with the first aid kit. By now the wound had closed and there was barely a scar where it had been. The four brothers exchanged glances then looked as one towards Vicky. Her face had gone pale as she was watching them.
"Donnie, go get Amy cleaned up. Mikey, Raph I'm sure you can find something to entertain Dennis for abit."
"Come on Dennis. I'll let you browse through my comic books." Mikey said. Dennis smiled and went with Mikey and Raph. Donnie took Amy to the bathroom to wash the blood off of her arm.
Leo looked at Vicky. "It's time we had a talk."
She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and nodded.
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Vicky sat there for a minute with her eyes closed trying to gather her thoughts. She knew they deserved answers but she always managed to dodge the questions. She hated it but she also didn't want to get anyone involved. She had tried before to disasterous results........ She felt herself tear up as she struggled with herself. 'Damn it!' she thought 'Will I ever stop crying?'
Suddenly she knew he was next to her. He took her hand in his. "It's ok." he said softly "Please, let us help."
She opened her eyes again and looked at him. He had moved to kneel by the couch next to her. He was close, but she wanted him closer. There was something about him she felt so drawn to. She felt so alive when he was near her and she felt empty and lost when he and his brothers had to go out on patrol. Over the last few days she had been watching him. She saw how much he loved, honored and respected the master that raised them and the love he had for his brothers. They had something that she lost long ago, something she had tried to show Dennis and Amy and failed to do. They had a strong family. She didn't know what to to. She didn't want to jepordize their lives, but at the same time she wanted to tell him everything. He sat there not demanding her to speak but rather waited patiently for her to open up. She felt him slightly tighning his grip on her hand, letting her know he was there and it was alright. She took another deep breath. 'The fear ends now' she thought. Looking into his reassuring blue eyes, she began her story.
She was the only child of 2 wonderful parents Jeff and Carole Baker. Her father worked in a genetics lab on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Her mother was a homemaker. She never got to see her father much but she knew he loved her and her mother very much. He had important work to do and they understood that. He was working on a project that would help regenerateing cell growth speed up. "Imagine a world where if you cut yourself a doctor could just wipe it away." was how he explained it to her as a child not much older than Dennis. It was meant to be a topical treatment, he never wanted to actually change the genetic make up of humans. That was to immoral for him. He just wanted to help humans, not change them. "I'm not God." He would often say.
Jeff was also known to bring his work home with him, including samples. She would often sit in his lab with him while he worked. Sitting and listing as he tried to explain to a child how advanced science works. Vicky never did really understand it but she enjoyed her fathers company. He didn't mind her being there either. She could roam as she pleased and the only thing he asked of her was not to bring food and drink in the lab. A rule, as simple as it was, that she never followed...and honestly he never enforced it. Until the day that he accidentally tipped over his specimen vials and they spilled all over the place. Some of it landing in his daughter's drink she had placed on his desk. Jeff cursed softly and went to get some rags to clean up the mess. When he returned he found, to his horror, that his daughter had drained the glass. "What?" she asked him. Her father took her to the hospital and they held her for observation for a few days but she checked out fine. Nothing seemed to be wrong. From then on he refused to let her bring anything else into the lab.
Everything thing went well for the next few years. Jeff felt that he was getting close to what he was trying to do. Until that fateful day shortly before Vicky turned 15 when her parents died in a car accident while they were on the way home from a medical convention. Because she had no other family she was placed into foster care. This was hard on her, the constant bouncing around from family to family. She lashed out in anger at everyone and fell in with the wrong crowd. Getting into trouble was normal now for the once well behaved girl. To this day she didn't know how she graduated high school, just squeezing by.
She ended up in Las Vegas as a stripper shortly after graduating school. She figured the money would be good and she could support herself just fine. She worked there for a few months until she noticed that one certain customer, Nicholas Dalton, was paying her extra attention. He sent her flowers and kept asking her out. At first she refused but his charm slowly pulled her in and they went on their first date. He was older than her by twenty years but she still had a wonderful time and that didn't matter to her. And once he told her that her was the owner of a genetics lab, like the one her father worked for, called Genco she fell for him hard. They married two months after their first date and three months after that she was pregnant with Dennis. She was in heaven once he was born. She had everything she ever wanted. A stable loving family. Nothing could have made it better until she found out when Dennis was six months old that she was expecting Amy. That joy slowly started to fade though when she noticed that her husband started to change. She forgot to tell him about a doctors appointment she had during the late stages of the pregnancy and when she got home he was waiting for her. "Where were you?"
"I had a doctors appointment today."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I'm sorry Nicky. I must have forgot"
He grabbed her wrist and slammed her against the wall. "Don't ever let that happen again"
Stunned she nodded her agreement and he walked away without another word. She just pushed it off as stress on his part. He did work a lot. He was trying to set up another lab in New York and she figured something wasn't going right. A few weeks later she gave birth to Amy. They then moved to New York so her husband could supervise the construction of the new lab. Not long after the move she noticed that he was bringing strange men into her home at odd times. "Nicky, I don't feel right with all these men coming and going." He promptly slapped her across the face. "I didn't ask you for your opinion, did I?"
After that she learned not to get involved anymore. She just did her best to raise her children. But the abuse kept getting worse. Beatings, verbal abuse and even rape if she wasn't a willing partner. Degrading her was his favorite past time. She never did regain her slim figure she had before the kids, and he let her know that. "Fat Bitch" was about the nicest thing he would say. The only real friend she had was the cook, Jenny. Talking to her and the love for her children were the only things that held her together. Jenny always let her talk and gave her support the best she could. They became like sisters.
One night, about 4 months ago, she went to go check on Dennis. He wasn't feeling good and had been sent home from school with a fever. She was walking down the hallway to her son's room, as she was passing her Husbands office she heard him talking to someone "I don't care what his reason is. If he don't do as he is told then kill him. How hard is that to understand?"
"Ok Boss. We will take care of it."
Vicky gasped. What on earth did she marry? This wasn't the Nicky she married was it? Where did it all go wrong... She was so upset that she didn't hear him come out of the office. "So, bitch, listing in on my conversations are we now?"
"No Nicky please I wasn't. I was trying to go check on Dennis." He slapped her. "Liar" he said. Then he hit her some more.
"Daddy Please stop!" Vicky gasped. It was Dennis and he was hanging on his father's arm.
Nicky looked down at the boy in annoyance and slapped him hard enough to split the boy's lip and slam him against the wall. She rushed to her son ripping a piece of cloth off of her night gown to clean the blood off of his face. Then stopped in astonishment as she saw the split in his lip heal itself.
"Well now... What was that?" she heard her husband whisper. She looked at him and saw something in his eyes. "We are going to have to investigate that my boy." Then he turned to the office again and closed the door. Suddenly Vicky was afraid. Not for her but for her son. This fear awakened a desperate plan in her mind. She had to get out with the kids, now. She went back to the bedroom and opened the safe and pulled out the cash Nicky kept there. Then she went and got the kids and quietly led them to Jenny's room. After her friend let her in she looked at her "I need to get the kids out of here. Now. I think he's going to do something to them..." Jenny looked back at her friend and nodded. "Let's go". They took the staff entrance and got into her car and pulled out of the compound. "Where are you going to go?"
"I don't know."
"OK. I'll drive to to a motel and then I'll see about getting you some clothes to hold you over for a few days."
Jenny found them a hotel and got them settled in. "Don't go back there Jenny. I'm scared he will do something to you." Her friend nodded and started to leave. Before she went out the door Vicky placed some money in her hands. "To buy clothes." Then Jenny left. Vicky thought about what had just happened to her son. She thought about that tiny lab accident years ago in her father's lab. Could that have something to do with it? It seemed so harmless at the time... Whatever happens now, she had to keep them safe. Somehow.
Over the next few weeks Jenny came regularly and brought her things they needed. Then one day she just stopped coming. Vicky felt dread growing in her. A fear that was confirmed when she turned the TV on and saw the missing person report of her friend. "No" she whispered. She still had hope until a few days after that when she again turned on the TV. "The body of 24 yr old missing person Jenny Pearson was found today at..." Vicky couldn't listen to it any more. Tears for her lost friend flowed down her face. She tried telling to the police by calling them from her hotel room. Once she told them who she was the other voice on the phone cut in. "Ah yes. Your husband is looking for you. I'd advise you to go back. He might even let you live." She slammed the phone down and fled with the children. She made her way to the nearest train station and bought tickets in her and the children's names but never boarded the train. Hoping to throw him off. She didn't want to leave the city. She felt it was big enough to hide her. Vicky did OK for the next three months. She had snatched a fair size amount of money from her husband but it was starting to dwindle now. Soon she was going to have to figure something out. She was lost in thought about what to do next as she was, once again, moving to another motel when a van pulled up next to her. She looked into the open window and she saw recognition on the face of the passenger. He turned to the driver and said something she couldn't quite make out. Then the van stopped and all the doors opened. "Found you." the passenger said with an evil grin...
"Well, you know the rest." she whispered to Leo. Tears once again filling her eyes.
"You have been through a lot." He said quietly.
"A life time of bad choices more like it." she replied bitterly.
Leo put his hand on her cheek and gently turned her head to face him. "You did the best you could and you made choices you thought were right. There is no need to beat yourself up about it now. All you will do is turn bitter over it." He looked into her eyes "Trust me, I speak from experience."
She nodded and wiped the tears from her eyes.
"So what are your plans now?" he asked.
"I don't know. I still have some money left. Maybe leave the city. I should have done that in the first place....."
"Or you can stay here."
She looked at him in shock. "I couldn't impose on you like that. I've caused you enough problems."
Leo smiled at her. "Not nearly enough as my brothers have managed to cause over the years. You three will be safe here. I talked to the others about it already. They are Ok with it, for the most part.......Raph got a little vocal about it. And there was something I'd like to ask your permission to do."
"And what would that be?"
Leo took a deep breath. "I'd like to give you and your children some training. If you do decide to move on at least I know you will able to take care of yourselves."
She looked quietly at him. His concern for them touched her. After years of abuse this was unusual for her but it was a welcome feeling. "I would be honored and grateful." she smiled.
"YAAAAAY! WE ARE GOING TO BE NINJAS!!!"
Vicky and Leo flinched at the noise and they both looked up to see the others standing there, watching them.
"Does privacy mean anything to you guys?" Leo asked.
"Nope." said three voices in return.
Vicky couldn't help it. She started to laugh. This was going to be fun......She needed some fun.
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