"Leo really I got it."
"Will you just let me…"
"Leonardo, I can handle it. I promise." Jade protested as she lifted a large metal statue onto April's antique shop moving van.
"Will you two stop fighting." April said as she carried a box around the side of the van.
"If you think that's fighting you don't wanna see Raph and Jac going on it." Fiona chuckled as she took the statue from Jade and placed it in the bed of the van.
"I don't think anyone wants to see that." April said with a raised eyebrow.
"Gross…Not what I…"
"We know Fe." Jade said shaking her head walking away from her little sister. Fiona pouted and jumped out of the back of the van following Jade back into the store.
"Thanks a lot for helping out guys, I don't know what we could have done." April said as Donatello and Raphael carried a large wooden chest out of the door.
"No sweat April." Donnie said with a smile.
"Yeah, I don't think a buncha girls would…Whoa…What the!" Raph said dodging his head to the side from a fireball getting thrown at him. Jacqueline stood behind the counter with her arms crossed in a glare as Lexine smirked.
"After all this time Raph, you still haven't learned have you?" Lexine said as she flipped through a binder of April's profits. Raph scoffed as he backed out of the doorway with Don pushing, outside to the van.
"How long has it been now?" April asked as she leaned against the glass counter.
"Um…six months, two days, five hours and….thirty five minuets." Lexine said looking at her watch.
"Sorry you asked huh?" Jac said with a smile as she came out from behind the counter grabbing a trash bag of old clothes and tossing it over her shoulder.
She walked towards the door as Raph and Donnie walked back in. She lit a flame to her finger pointing it at Raph as they eyed each other in passing. She left with a small smile as one slowly crept over his face as well.
"So where are you going with all this stuff anyways?" Raph asked as he helped Donnie pick up a wooden table. April smiled grabbing a chair as Lexine grabbed another.
"Hey, shell for brains you wanna come help us?" Raph called over his shoulder as Mikey and Fiona pretended to fight with swords from a mid-evil statue guard. Fiona stopped putting the sword down as Mikey threw his behind him as if he wasn't touching it. April winced to the crash.
"Sorry April." He said grabbing a chair and following the others. She rolled her eyes with a chuckle.
"To answer your question, some guy upstate bought all this stuff for double the price. Said he wanted to find some old fashion furniture for his cabin he's moved into." April said with a shrug as she followed the guys to the van. Fiona jumped in the bed as she and Jade pulled the table up.
"What's his name?" Jade asked as she pulled a chair up from Mikey handing it to Fiona. April thought for a minuet as she passed another one to Mikey as he passed it to Jade.
"Smith, I think?"
"How can you forget a name like Smith?" Donnie chuckled as April crossed her arms.
"Easy."
"Yeah, you can like think of something that rhymes with Smith!" Fiona said.
"Yeah! Like Mith, Dith, Bith, Sith…Ow…" Mikey said as he rubbed his head from Raph smacking him.
"Anyway." Jade said rolling her eyes. "We'll be back later tonight." She said looking at Leonardo. He nodded his head with a small smile as Jac leaned against the bumper.
"Since when do you hafta check in with Leo?" She asked as Jade shot her a look.
"I'm not. I'm telling him where I am going to be in case he gets worried."
"Sounds like checkin' in ta me." She said with a shrug. Jade ignored the statement shaking her head as the roar of a motorcycle came up from the side of the van.
"Hey losers." Casey said as he took off his skullcap. Jade smile towards him as Leo helped her down from the back of the van. Fiona jumped down with an enthusiastic wave as her and Mikey made their way back into the shop. Jac gave a head nod as Raph dabbed his hand with his fist.
"You're late." April said crossing her arms.
"Oh…yeah…Uh…Sorry babe. Got caught up with some um…"
"Save it Jones." April said holding up her hand and walking away. Casey followed her with more apologized as Raph snickered. Jac looked toward him pointing a finger as the tip of it started to glow red.
"Don't you laugh, you know why he's late."
"I do not." Raph said narrowing his eyes and walking back to the store. Jade and Leo looked at each other before following their feuding siblings. He slipped his arm around her back pulling her body against him as she smiled placing her hand over his.
"Be careful."
"We're just going to drop off some…" He stopped her turning her body to look towards him as she sighed knowing his concerned face. She kissed his lips softly, sliding her hands slowly up his biceps, over his shoulder muscles pulling her body closer to his.. "I will." She said softly, kissing him again.
Jacqueline drove up to a huge cabin from a long driveway from the road as April and Jade sat beside her. The cabin sat next to a large pristine lake that the moonlight shimmered from. Jac parked as all the girls followed up the side of the house, moving forward to see the length of it all with wide eyes.
"Whoa…" they all said in unison as they got out.
An older man in a grey sweater and dark jeans walked down the stairs leading to the driveway with a warming smile.
"You must be Ms. O'Neil?" He said walking over towards April as she held out her hand.
"Yes, hello. These are my partners Jade and Jacqueline."
"Jac." She said holding up her hand.
"Well, it's very nice to meet you all. Please, come in sit for a bit. My sons can unload the van. I won't be having you girls do anymore than you must. Please, come, come." He said waving them to follow. April and Jac looked towards Jade as she shrugged following the man.
"Boston huh? We actually just moved here from there. What part?"
"North end." Jac replied taking a sip of her water that was given out moments before. Mr. Smith walked around the table until he sat at the end with a smile watching the girls.
Jade watched him carefully as she felt a shiver crawl up her spin from his smile that crept slowly across his face as she made eye contact. Her eyes darted from his to his hands that were laced together to in front of him on the table. She thought she saw his fingers tighten as she looked back up at his smiling face. Something ran through her body that made her feel uneasy and familiarity all at once. He picked his head up from Jade's stare and looked towards the entryway as the girls turned their heads to the noise of two boys coming in from outside.
"All unloaded dad." One dark haired one said to his father. His voice a thick, deep Boston accent that made Jacqueline pick her head up in interest. She eyed him carefully, turning her attention away and back on her hands as he looked towards her with a cocky smile. The other had dirty blonde hair and eyes of intense blue, with a sweeter, gentler smile than his brother.
"Girls, these are my knuckle headed sons." Mr. Smith said with a smile as he rose from his seat. April smiled towards them as Jade bowed her head. Jac leaned back in her chair, throwing her elbow on the back of it nodding her head up. "Boys this is Jade, Jacqueli…Sorry, Jac and April." He said with a smile motioning towards the girls.
"Nice to meet you." The blonde headed boy said looking at Jade. She felt her stomach twist up as he flashed his bright smile with his sparkling blue eyes landing on hers, returning her bowed head jester. He lifted his head back slowly as his gaze caught onto Jade's, making her stomach twist upwards again from those eyes. She must have made a movement or changed her facial expression as his straight expression faded back into his soft smile.
"It was very nice to meet you. Thank you for unloading." April said standing up as Jade and Jac followed. "We really must be going, long way back to the city."
"It is, and it's late. Here, your check." He said handing April the check of what everything was worth.
"Thank you." She smiled trying to not show the excitement run over her body as she looked at all the zeros. Jac looked over her shoulder as she sucked air back from the sight of it.
"Jesus…" She whispered. April smiled and thanked them again as the girls walked out before her. They walked down the stairs as Mr. Smith and his boys waved in the bay window towards the driveway.
"Whoa Ape, that's some check." Jacqueline said climbing in the van.
"Yeah, guess you guys get a raise!" April said with a smile starting the engine.
"Aw April, you don't hafta…" Jade started as Jac elbowed her.
"Unless you want to!" Jac finished with a smile. Jade rolled her eyes.
"She means well." Jade shrugged as Jac lit a flame to her finger. Jade extinguished it without looking toward her sister, sitting back against the seat. Jac glared at her and crossed her arms sitting back as well.
"How was it?" Lexine called out from the computer room as she heard their apartment door open. Jade smiled placing her bag on the coat rack as Jac and April followed with their jackets.
"It was good. Got a lot of money." April called back.
"Oh, hi April." Lexine said with a smile coming out of the room and sliding her thick rimmed glassed up her blonde hair. "How much were you expecting?" She asked as April held out the check. Lexi walked toward her taking it. She slid her glasses back down as her eyes slowly widened. "Holy shit…" She breathed as Jac smirked towards her sister's use of language.
"Yeah, that's exactly what I said in my head when I looked at it. I think he gave me too much. There must be some kind of mistake? He said double not quadruple." April said looking back at the check.
"Maybe he's just generous?" Jac shrugged walking into their kitchenette.
"Well, there is generous and a little too generous Jac." Lexi said sitting at the island counter, April following. Jac got a beer from the fridge.
"I did feel something, like an uneasiness about him when he smiled at me." Jade said looking towards her red headed sister. She twisted the cap off her beer as she tried to recall the smile that had appeared on the man's face. His son's seemed vaguely familiar to her as well. She shrugged.
"I didn't feel anything."
"You're powers have been lacking lately." Jade said arching her brow. Jac narrowed her eyes.
"No they haven't. Just because I don't train like a fuckin' maniac like you do doesn't mean my powers are shit." Jac said rolling her eyes and taking a seat on a stool.
"Maybe what you felt was uncomfortable." Lexine offered. "He was an older gentlemen he might have just found you to be pretty and the smile he gave you, you thought to be unsettling. With Leo around, and you knowing him better than he probably knows himself you'd know if Leo saw that smile he'd have the guy cut into pieces."
"Leo isn't the jealous type." Jade said stuck in thought of the smile and the feeling. "Something different, they felt familiar somehow?"
"They did say they lived in Boston, maybe you knew them?" April asked.
"Possible." Jade said.
"I don't remember any Smith family." Jac said taking a swig of her beer.
"Me neither, however we were younger and I didn't know our neighbor's names did you?" Lexi asked as her sister's shook their heads. "So, that is a possibility. I wouldn't worry too much about it." Lexi smiled patting her sister's back. Fiona jogged down the spiral stair case as she picked her head with a smile seeing April and her sisters home.
"Hey April." She said walking into the kitchen and leaning against the end of the counter. April smiled as Jac mussed her hair around. "The guys back yet?" She asked looking towards Lexi as she shrugged.
"You know them, they won't be back till late."
"Yeah…" Fiona said as a smile grew on her face. "Sometimes Mikey comes in through my window and wakes me." April smirked as Fiona looked up and smiled more skipping towards the fridge.
"They're so cute." April said as Jade nodded.
"It's gross sometimes." Jac added taking another swig of her beer.
"Aw…you and Raph are just as cute sometimes." April said as Jac tired to hide a smile by looking down.
"Yeah well, he has his moments." She shrugged walking over towards the couch.
I just wanted a follow up of the girl's lives since the last story. It's been a few months and they girls are trying to fall back into a normal life style. Just how normal will it get is the problem. Believe me there will be more steaming hot, adventrous, raw passionate love and fighting to come. I promise.