#Brightertomyeyes

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(Leo in chapter 7 of BTME)

Leo, in denial: Vic is going to be my new bestie so she should spent the most time with me.

Donnie who already stole her to finance his projects: bet.

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Brighter to my eyes 1

Summary: Leo is good at reading people, it's what makes him a good strategist, but those blue hues of hers elude his sharp intuition.

Perhaps if they didn't he'd realize he didn't have to change himself for her to see him like he wants her to.

A.N. I wrote this fanfic over an idea of Rise! Leo using a cloacking brooch to hide his true self but it evolved into something way bigger, this fic will takes place in ROTTMNT after "Newsworthy" but April is 18 starting college instead of in High School, while the MC and Raph are 17, the twins 16 and Mikey 15.

Pairing: Rise! Leo x OC, Leo x Reader

Warnings: Angst, FLUFF, Sibling shenanigans, MC is a nerd, but a mean nerd in leather.

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April had been born and raised in New York, and she knew the city from top to sewers (quite literally), her part time jobs also took her all around, and she kept keys to every place she'd worked at (Which probably wasn't very legal).

Better yet, she knew about a hidden city underground New York, full of yokai and mystic energy, April had seen everything this city had to offer which includes having four mutant ninja turtles as best friends.

So as a freshman in college looking around for her next class April's ears immediately perked up as she heard a couple of students mention the last name Blanchet.

The Blanchet's were a well known family of politicians that lived in NYC, however, since April was in high school the youngest Blanchet had been a running conversation theme for most people her age.

Victoire Blanchet was the only child of an influential family, she was pretty and the rumour mill said she excelled at everything she tried.

And she'd tried it all.

Ballet, japanese, music, fencing, etcetera, meeting and befriending a lot of people along the way, but most of all art, holding an inconsistent but pretty and professional instagram account for it.

Victoire Blanchet was like a micro celebrity with how popular she was, so people admired and envied her equally.

April was no exception, Donnie was more skeptical.

Donnie and Leo were good at keeping up with trends on social media, which is why more than once had both of them stumbled across the name.

Donnie particularly had heard all about Victoire Blanchet, and he wasn't as excited as April when she found out they were attending the same school.

After a couple of weeks April herself had mostly forgotten about it too, she wasn't going to easily cross paths with Victoire when April was taking journalism and the art faculty was all the way across campus.

Right now she had bigger worries, like her film appreciation elective.

She'd taken the class for an easy A, but had already missed a couple of the movies they had to watch, whenever she sat herself to watch them she'd end up getting distracted or falling asleep, so she tried to watch them at the lair with someone else to force herself into paying attention.

The problem is that since the elective and the chosen movies were in chronological order they had so far only been mute movies in black and white, hence why she had fallen asleep during them.

Leo made a big deal out of it when April started playing Metropolis and he realized nobody spoke, then he paled when he saw how long the movie was.

He practically jumped at Mikey when he popped into the projector room with the Jupiter Jim saves the galaxy DVD and metropolis was forgotten.

But her four long essays were due 12AM, and April was resigned to watch someone explain the summary of the movies to her on YouTube.

As she thought this, someone made a sharp turn around the corner and wasn't fast enought to avoid a collition with her. April fell to the floor on her butt and her phone thankfully fell in the rushing hands of the person who bumped into her.

"I'm sorry! Are you okay?" The voice above April called and as she looked up her breath hitched recognizing features she'd gotten familiar with though the other side of a screen.

Victoire had unmistakeable short white hair that she'd just dyed recently from her natural black, a pale complexion with beauty marks dotting over her face and clear big blue eyes that were looking at April in concern contrasting the common cold gaze common in her pictures.

April soon realized Victoire was offering her hand to help and she took it, standing quickly "Yes! Yes, I'm good, no worries!"

Victoire nodded with a thin smile and glanced at the phone in her hand "Oh, Metropolis, were you watching it?"

April was slow to answer as she wasn't expecting the conversation to continue after the confirmation of her well being.

"Oh, I-well, not really, I did start but I was busy and now the essay is due tonight, so I should really watch it, but I don't have the time to so-" April started rambling, but the smile on Victoire's face while small seemed a bit more genuine.

"Yeah I get that, I can barely ever sit still long enough to watch a movie" Victoire said, saving April from her rant "But I did watch metropolis last year and I loved it, so I could help you with your essay if you want, it'd be hard for you to watch the whole thing and write the essay today"

April's eyes sparkled "You would?!"

"Sure" Victoire shrugged "There's a coffee shop in front of the art faculty we could work at, wanna come?"

April, with a wide elated grin nodded "Yeah, sure! My name is April"

"Victoire" The white haired girl grinned slightly "Come on, I really need a refill for the caffeine in my brain."

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Of course if April had expected anyone to be interested in these movies then the girl in front of her was an excellent candidate, but the way Victoire narrated the story made it seem so interesting April was starting to regret not getting through the first minutes of it.

And then Victoire realized there were another three movies April hadn't seen, she ordered another round of coffee and started ranting to her about the cabinet of Dr. Caligari and how Tim Burton was one of the people influenced by that movie and German expressionism.

Through the middle of the first movie Victoire had pulled out a notebook and started explaining the story through drawings, making little doodles to represent the characters and lines crossing and twisting through her narrative which made it engaging and easy to remember.

But the more Victoire spoke and her rants deviated from the movies to how Tim Burton wasn't the real director for 'A nightmare before Christmas', the more April realized that Victoire was an extremely cool and talented person, the kind you don't expect to look at you twice and yet

She was a HUGE nerd.

And it was AMAZING, at times Victoire would realize she'd strayed too far from the topic and apologize quickly to step back in, but April was excited and asked questions about what she'd said while Victoire's smile grew sincerely before continuing her rant.

They spent a while in the café before April finally finished all four essay's and feeling accomplished they both ordered a couple of muffins and leaned back to chat.

"Ok, no, you are wrong, Jupiter Jim Pluto Vacation 4 is the best JJ movie of ALL times" April claimed and Voctoire snorted.

"Are you for real? I'm not hearing this from the person I just saved from failing film appreciation, I think I know what I'm talking about when I say Jupiter Jim sails the seven galaxies is by far the best JJ movie"

April scoffed "Ugh you're just like my friend Leo, he claims the same thing all the time and the others back him up, only real one is Donnie who actually understands a good piece of art when he sees it"

April pauses, she had been so relaxed the words had just spilled out of her mouth no filter, but well, it's not like Victoire would know she was talking about a bunch of turtles.

"Well, obviously this Leo has good taste, how many are the other ones?"

"Claiming your take? Three, Mikey and Raph are the others"

Victoire squinted at April, like she was processing the information over and over until a light bulb suddenly lighted up and her eyes widened "Now you're just messing with me" she huffed with a smirk.

April looked at her questioningly and Victoire numbered with her fingers.

"Leo, Donnie, Mikey and Raph? Don't tell me this  Mikey's second name is Angelo" She huffed and April smirked slowly.

"Okay, I won't tell you" and Victoire gasped

"There's no way that's their real names!"

"My besties names are Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael" April had a shit eating grin that grew when Victoire, cool and collected Victoire laughed loud and disbelievingly.

When she calmed back down Victoire grinned "Well, aside from one they obviously do have a good eye for art, Donatello is the only one not making his namesake proud."

They bickered for a bit before Victoire's eyes brightened up and she reached inside her bag for something "Hey, I'm holding a halloween party this weekend, it's going to be a bonfire party outside a haunted house game, you really should come"

Victoire offered five colorful invites to April who looked at them in awe.

Everyone wanted to be invited to a party by Victoire, but those who were invited waited all year for her halloween party that she was known to go all out for.

April couldn't believe it as she slowly took them and stuttered "Wh- yes! Sure, of course! I'll be there!" she grinned wide and Victoire smiled at her as she had been doing for a while now, a contrast to the first curt smiles she had given April at the beginning and hanging out with Leo helped April notice the difference between her smiles that most probably didn't, these ones were honest.

"Cool, you can bring your friends too! Parties are always better when you have a couple close friends around." April froze at these words.

Victoire expected her to bring along the guys, of course that's why she gave her four extra invites.

"Oh well, I'm not sure they'd be available that day..."

"None of them?" Victoire raised an eyebrow.

"Oh they're siblings, you know normally they're busy together!"

Victoire hummed "Well in case they are free, warn them that it's a costume party" Victoire gave her a small relaxed smile before smirking "If they don't bring a costume we will have to dress them in the white blanket with two holes of shame"

April snorted at that and then an idea started forming in her head "Oh they LOVE costumes, they are very good at dressing up, don't worry about it, you wouldn't even recognize them after they get started on one."

"Really?" Victoire grinned "Cool! There might even be a prize for the best costume so make sure you guys come!"

After that Victoire paid for their bill before April could even say a thing and they both said goodbye before going their own way, the moment Victoire was out of sight April rushed to the first manhole that could take her to the lair.

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They're besties your honor.

A little bit of art for Brighter to my eyes from that scene on the first chapter.

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Brighter to my eyes 2

Summary: Leo is good at reading people, it's what makes him a good strategist, but those blue hues of hers elude his sharp intuition.

Perhaps if they didn't he'd realize he didn't have to change himself for her to see him like he wants her to.

A.N. I wrote this fanfic over an idea of Rise! Leo using a cloacking brooch to hide his true self but it evolved into something way bigger, this fic will takes place in ROTTMNT after "Newsworthy" but April is 18 starting college instead of in High School, while the MC and Raph are 17, the twins 16 and Mikey 15.

Pairing: Rise!Leo x OC, Leo x Reader

Warnings: Angst, FLUFF, Sibling shenanigans, MC is a nerd, but a mean nerd in leather.

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"GUYS GUYS GUYS!"

April rushed into the lair taking Leo by surprise as he stumbled from the top of the ramp on his skateboard with a yelp, colliding against Raph.

"Guys you won't believe this!" April stated excitedly while ignoring the chaos she'd caused.

Mikey grinned at her "Hey April! What's up?" He tilted his head questioningly.

"Victoire Blanchet is what's up" she said looking very proud.

"The girl you said would never even know you existed?" Donnie asked without removing his eyes from his phone screen.

"Well, yes, but I was wrong because she just invited the five of us to her halloween party!" she exclaimed holding up the invites.

"WHAT?!" the four turtles rushed over to her and each took one invite examining them carefully.

"B-but how did you get this?! She only invites her friends to this party! It's like, super exclusive!" Leo asked turning the invite over on his hands with sparkly eyes.

"You guys are looking at Victoire's newest friend who she spent the whole afternoon with" April exclaimed proudly before narrating what had happened.

"Oh but she has terrible taste in Jupiter Jim movies-"

"She likes Jupiter Jim?" Mikey asked with a bright grin and fists clenched in excitement while Leo scoffed and pulled out his phone.

"Yeah-duh she does, and April doesn't know what she's talking about because the JJ highlight on her instagram shows she has incredible taste actually" Leo showed off his phone with a story about Jupiter Jim sails the seven galaxies to which Raph and Mikey 'ooohed' while Donnie and April shook their heads in disapproval.

"Well there clearly had to be something wrong with her" Donnie stated like he knew it was coming "Alas, for an artist bad taste could be fatal, sigh."

"Anyways" April went back on track "I mentioned you guys when we were talking about JJ and when she invited me to her party she invited you guys too!"

"Oh! Oh! what did you mention about me?" Mikey asked

"Did you talk about my dashing good looks?" Leo asked running a hand through his head.

"But surely you didn't mention our whole uh, situation" Raph asked pointing vaguely at himself and his brothers.

"No, BUT it doesn't matter, because this is a costume party and you guys are excellent costume makers" April said pointing to the invitation where in a corner it said 'Be spooky or get droopy'.

"We are? Ow" Donnie asked before getting nudged by April "I mean, we are! Of course!"

"Oh we're going to be the best JJ turtle aliens they've ever seen!" Leo smirked.

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Up until the night of the party they were perfecting details on their Jupiter Jim alien costumes and a space cadet costume to match for April, all of them excited on their way to the haunted house.

Leo was the most excited about it and kept adjusting his fanny pack as he walked.

After reaching the place April tried to surpress her excitement to look cool seeing Victoire at the front greeting some people and guiding them to the backyard.

The house was huge and dark, the yard filled with glowing pumpkins and skeletons looking as if they were crawling out of the ground, one of them hanging from a tree as well as an inflatable black cat with a 'Happy Halloween' poster in its paws, the house itself though it looked old had obviuously been renewed recently, mixing the old with new details that helped the creepy look.

When April got closer she noticed Victoire's costume, she was dressed as Kid Pursuit, a hero sidekick who April only knew from Leo's comic book collection, her hair had been temporarily dyed red and her outfit included a leather jacket and skates the character didn't usually wear.

Victoire looked at them as they neared and a smile grew on her face as she waved at April "Hey, you made it! And these must be your friends, hi!"

April grinned "Yeah! These are Raph, Donnie, Mikey and Leo" She said pointing at each turtle as they all gave a little wave at her, except Leo who was surprisingly quiet "Guys, this is Victoire!"

"Woah" Victoire seemed entranced "Your costumes are stunning! You guys really are artists, how did you make them?! No one who's arrived looks as good!" she said with an attentive gaze that put them a little on edge.

"Oh this? Well not to gate keep but the methods utilized for the production of our costumes are absolutely classified! Top secret" Donnie claimed quickly, and while he seemed nervous Victoria just chuckled and nodded.

"Alright alright, keep your secrets, so let me make sure I got this right" Victoire pointed at the red wearing turtle "Raph, short for Raphael?" he nodded and smiled at her.

Victoire pointed at the purple turtle eyebrow raised "Donatello?" to wich he curtsied in confirmation, she smiled and pointed at the blue turtle who seemed surprised as she paid attention to him.

"Leonardo, right?" she grinned and Leo visibly swallowed before smiling at her and mustering the best smirk he could.

"At your service, but girls like you can call me Neon Leon" He immediately looked like he regretted his words but calmed slightly as Victoire just chuckled before continuing.

"Okay, Leon then" she said before turning to Mikey, giving Leo the chance to straighten his legs that suddenly felt a little unstable.

"And last but not least Michelangelo? Can I call you Angelo?"

"You got it girl!" Mikey grinned and she nodded happily at them.

"Well welcome! Come on! Everyone is in the back and later we're going to have a test of valour inside the house, whoever goes through the most rooms wins"

As she guided them in the guys all stared in awe at the backyard were the real party was being held.

Despite the house being old, which was perfect for the theme, the backyard had the most work done to it, there was a huge pool decorated with fake frogs with tiny hats, many tables with spiderweb themed tablecloths and cauldrons in the middle with smoke coming out of them, a beautiful garden fully decorated with more pumpkins, bones and gnomes popping out from strange places, there was even a piñata that looked like mothman waiting by the side.

The guys were ecstatic as they admired the place and everyone's costumes, soon a couple approached Mikey telling him they loved his costume and the stickers, Mikey happily started conversing with them about stickers and they all started sharing their art.

April and Raph quickly found the snacks table and started timidly chatting with some people around about how good the food was, slowly starting to look more comfortable.

Donnie was surprised by some Jupiter Jim fans who were talking to him about the series and how realistic his tech looked, to which he started showing off how real it actually was.

Leo however glanced at the girl that was still beside him, listening to his brother's conversation and looking around.

His throat was dry.

He knew she was pretty, anyone with social media in New York had stumbled onto her picture at least once, and yet he now realized she wasn't the photogenic sort, because her pictures weren't close to the real thing, she exuded confidence out of her very being, she walked with purpose, like she owned the world and like everyone else believed she did.

To some it might seem arrogant, but she didn't feel like that, Leo started understanding why April wanted to be her friend so badly.

"So, Kid pursuit the first?" He asked making her turn her attention from his twin to him "Or the third? Because the googles look like the original's but the jacket doesn't, it looks amazing though"

As Leo spoke of the character she was dressed at Victoire's eyes sparkled at him and his stomach turned "I'm dressed as the first, but I just thought I'd need a jacket for the cold and also just because I thought it would look cool" she said "You've read the Hot Pursuit comics?"

He grinned more confidently this time "Yeah! But I'd never met a fan of Kid Pursuit most people pick Hot Pursuit or another sidekick like Nightingale"

She rolled her eyes "Ugh, I know! And most don't even realize the Hot Pursuit they grew up with is Kid Pursuit grown up and taking the mantle."

Leo was elated as their conversation kept going rapidly like a ping pong match between both excited teens about comic books like the pair of nerds they were and he started feeling more comfortable.

"Ok, so, why the turtle aliens from Jupiter Jim?" She asked curiously and he tensed a little.

"Ah well, it was just indubitably such a great arc, you know? My brother's and I were thinking it'd be a challenge."

She hummed in agreement "It's just so realistic, did you use latex for the skin and then make up? Doesn't it stain?" She asked reaching up to his arm and before Leo could panic they heard someone calling her name, allowing him a chance to breathe again.

"Hey, I'm gonna announce the test of valour" Her friend (Scott, Leo thinks he heard) told her and Victoire nodded at him turning back to Leo for a moment.

"I'll be right back Okay? I wanna join you and your brothers on the test" she said before turning back around and meeting some of her friends at the top of the stairs to the house.

Scott called for everyone's attention and the volume of the music was lowered while everyone turned to look, Donnie turned back to his twin and the others joined them right after.

"Okay guys! Who's ready to go into the haunted house?"

There was a chorus of excited calls from the crowd as they all got closer to the entrance, Victoire lifted her arms and told everyone to make a line and groups to go inside.

"You can get a sticker inside every room that proves you went in, whoever has the most stickers at the end of the night wins and gets the trophy!" As Victoire said this one of her friends pulled up a trophy with the shape of a little ghost on it.

The turtles and April were all immediately aiming to win but Mikey looked especially excited at the whole idea and they all got in line to enter the house.

Once it was their turn Victoire approached April asking her if she could join their team "I have a good feeling about you guys going through the whole thing" she smirked and April nodded happily at her.

They all walked through the door being greeted with the dark inside of the house and the loud creaking of the floor as the music resumed outside.

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Brighter to my eyes 3

Summary: Leo is good at reading people, it's what makes him a good strategist, but those blue hues of hers elude his sharp intuition.

Perhaps if they didn't he'd realize he didn't have to change himself for her to see him like he wants her to.

A.N. I wrote this fanfic over an idea of Rise! Leo using a cloacking brooch to hide his true self but it evolved into something way bigger, this fic will takes place in ROTTMNT after "Newsworthy" but April is 18 starting college instead of in High School, while the MC and Raph are 17, the twins 16 and Mikey 15.

Pairing: Rise!Leo x OC, Leo x Reader

Warnings: Angst, FLUFF, Sibling shenanigans, MC is a nerd, but a mean nerd in leather.

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The turtles +2 walked in and immediately heard a bloodcurdling scream from somewhere deep inside, Mikey grabbed onto Raph's arm and Victoire's grin kept getting bigger the further they walked.

As they reached the creaky stairs a group that had entered right before them yelled from above stumbling onto the stairs wide-eyed, some of them giggling nervously and the others looked panicked as they ran down the stairs, the turtles making way for them as the bunch kept yelling like they were running from something.

Donnie looked up to the next floor and his eyes widened, he made a startled sound walking back towards his older brother when a body fell right before them onto the stairs just in front with a loud thud.

Mikey screeched having climbed onto Raph's shell and the others looked on in panic, only increasing as the body started leaking something that under the little bit of moonlight that illuminated the staircase looked red, then they screamed, all except for Leo and Victoire.

Leo recovered quickly from the surprise and walked over to it rolling his eyes "Oh relax guys! It's a test of bravery, nothing is real, see?" Leo reached for the right arm of the person and it popped out, disconnected from the rest of it making Mikey scream again.

"YOU RIPPED THEIR ARM OFF!!!" The orange turtle screeched at his blue coded brother while Raph, Donnie and April relaxed.

"It's plastic Mikey, come on!" Leo chuckled walking up faster while Victoire laughed openly and mischievously at the others reaction before following Leo, Mikey sighing in relief but not letting go of Raph as they continued.

They entered various rooms, Donnie happily explaining the holograms of ghosts that had succesfully terrified Raph and complimenting Victoire on their quality, all of them running out of one room when a piano sprouted teeth and followed them, jumping with a strenuous sound as they fled the room with their stickers.

Another room was filled to the brim with huge spiders that immediately poured out towards them, making even Leo yelp in disgust before realizing they were robotic when crushing one to Donnie's delight.

They were all laughing about to open another door, the halls of the house were gigantic and Mikey asked to stay close to where they could see the staircase when they heard a crash at the end of the hall close to the them, when they all turned Victoire tilted her head at one of her friends.

"What's up Rox?" She asked realizing she couldn't really hear much from outside except a song she didn't recognize playing on the speakers.

Rox didn't answer, she just walked closer to them, footsteps creaked from the stairs and Victoire walked closer before stopping as she saw a whole bunch of party goers walking upstairs in silence with vacant eyes.

"What the-"

Rox rushed at her trying to grab Victoire but she managed to dodge before Raph took her by the arm and shielded her with his body.

"What's going on?!" He asked when the other party goers started rushing at them, the mad dogs and Victoire running down the hall.

"I don't know!" Donnie yelled "They appear to be in a trance!"

Something flew by Raph's head and Victoire recognized the object as a ratarang from one of her friend's Ratman costume.

They reached a fork of halls and ran down the left one, entering one of the rooms.

Leo shushed them all as they stilled hearing the running footsteps still outside.

"Oh Victoire!" They heard someone call from outside "Come on out! We miss you outside at the party!"

"Are you okay Victoire?" Another voice, her best friend, Victoire recognized, called out sounding worried "I could call your parents if you're not feeling well, I still have their number."

Victoire's hands tightened into fists "That's not Scott at all" she whispered "They're all acting like they're mind controlled."

"Mind controlled of course!" Donnie whisper yelled "Just like hypno! The song outside has been playing in repeat for a while, he must have used that to control everyone!"

"But what would he want Victoire for?" Leo asked before the door started rattling as someone tried to open it from outside, they all stilled and looked around for an escape.

Mikey was about to reach for the window when Donnie stopped him "No! If we go outside we'll be exposed to the music! Our safest bet is to stay inside the building."

"Uh, Donald, I don't want to alarm you but there's a bunch of dressed up people waiting to attack INSIDE the building!" April exclaimed.

"Hold on, hold on! Who is this hypno guy in the first place?!" Victoire asked glancing from them to the door.

Donnie looked up at Leo trying to communicate something as they heard the lock of the door being messed with, Leo looked from him to the door to Victoire and then took his sword from his hilt.

There was a click on the lock and Leo quickly made a portal open with his sword, Victoire's eyes widened at it as she was pulled through the blue light by Raph during her shock, the rest of them following just fast enough to avoid the mass of people rushing through the door right after.

They had appeared in the third floor of the building, furthest from the crowd and they all sighed in relief at the portal opening right, except for Victoire whose eyes were still wide open like dinner plates for a moment longer before she squinted at Leo and reached out to pinch his arm making him yelp.

"What was that?!" he asked and she squinted her eyes further while looking at her fingers with which she had just pinched him.

"What was that? What was it that you just did?! Leon, I'm not used to seeing someone pull out a magic portal out of thin air with a sword that I personally thought was just a prop three minutes ago!"

Leo tried to speak but Victoire lifted a finger to stop him, breathing in for a second "Let's ignore for a second that there's no green paint on my fingers so you guys aren't wearing costumes and are actual turtles" she said to which Raph winced and Leo rubbed where she had pinched him.

Donnie mumbled 'mutant ninja turtles actually'.

"Who is Hypno?" Victoire asked, eyes bouncing from one to another.

The turtles looked at each other and April walked over to Victoire with hunched shulders "Hypno-potamus is a magician who got mutated recently, his DNA mixed with that of his pet hippopotamus and now he has psychic abilitie-"

"Wait" Victoire interrupted looking like she was putting together puzzle pieces "Isn't that Mezmer-ron? The guy who was stealing animal companions from other magicians?"

Donnie looked at her in shock "How do YOU know that? The news never made the connection between the two" Victoire scoffed.

"I'm not stupid, unlike the news outlets, the same day this guy Ron and his hippo disappeared Hypno's attacks started, it's easier to believe too when that chef guy transformed into a giant pig on live TV."

"You mean Rupert Swaggart?!" Mikey asked forgetting the situation for a moment but Victoire nodded.

April was surprised as Victoire took things in stride, no yelling or outburst, just looking at them seriously as she processed.

She heard Donnie go near Victoire and ask in a lower voice "Are you in shock?"

Victoire looked thoughtful and responded seriously with a small nod, "Might be, I'm just compartmentalizing."

Donnie nodded at her answer and Raph raised an eyebrow looking at her "Alright, so we cleared that up, but why would Hypno be targetting you?"

Mikey joined in nodding quickly "The crowd was looking for her, not us!"

Victoire's eyes widened and then she frowned "Okay yeah, that makes more sense than Scott wanting to speak to my parents" she mumbled receiving questioning looks "My parents are extremely influential politicians, he must be trying to use me as a hostage to get something from them."

"Then what do we do?" April asked

"We protect Victoire, and find out how hypno is controlling so many people at once"

"But we were all down there, some of us ate the food, had the drinks, listened to the same music-" Donnie started and then gasped "The music! It changed while we were inside I remember because I was mad that it kept playing on loop but let it go because we could barely hear it anyway"

"So we need to stop the music? But when they attacked us they probably couldn't hear it anymore either" Leo replied with an eyebrow lifted.

"Then what could snap them out of it?" Victoire asked and Donnie grinned.

"If I can reach into their neural pathways with a coordinated harmony of-"

"English Dontron" Leo groaned and Donnie huffed glaring at him.

"I play loud funky music to make their brains go brr, BUT we need them to be distracted long enough for the music to have any effect on their psyche."

"I'll let them capture me" Victoire said "In between that and whatever Hypno wants to demand from my parents you got enough time to use your music and get rid of him."

"Are you sure?" April asked "We can find another way to-"

"It's fine" Victoire waved her off "I don't have a weapon anyways, I wouldn't be as useful with you guys."

"Alright team" Raph started "Mikey and I will go downstairs and hide from the party goers, that way we'll be there to avoid anything else happening, Donnie, April, set up your trap and keep an eye out for Hypno, Leo, you go with Victoire, stay around hidden after she's captured to make sure she's safe."

"Only for a box of Scooby-snacks Fred" Leo joked and Victoire snorted, covering her mouth to hide the chuckle that tried to escape her mouth making Leo turn to her in surprise before grinning at her while everyone else rolled their eyes.

"Okay! Let's go Mad dogs!" Raph stated before leaving followed by the others.

"Mad dogs?" Victoire asked.

"It's our team name" Leo stated making her look more confused.

"Okay...But you're mutant ninja turtles, that doesn't have anything to do with it" she wondered and Leo raised his arms.

"That's what I said!"

The both of the started walking down the hallway to the staircase.

"Okay, so you never actually explained where that magical blue portal came from though" Victoire broke the silence looking at Leo's ōdachi on his hands.

"Oh we found these mystical weapons a bit ago, they all have different powers we can activate with them, my ōdachi of course is the coolest one, it can make a portal to wherever I want" He explained proudly as Victoire looked in awe, after a moment he looked away from her and asked.

"So, why aren't you more freaked out? You seem pretty calm for everything that's happened today."

Victoire made a humming sound as they kept wandering through the hall "I don't know, I mean I am still a little in shock, it probably hasn't set in completely yet but realizing mutants were a thing and one was going after me was scary, but Raph immediately shielded me when I was in danger, Donnie kept me on the loop of what was happening as he processed it, Mikey asked for my safety what they could want from me and you took us all out of there, plus now you're acting as my bodyguard too."

She paused for a second looking back at him.

"When I met April she spoke very fondly about you guys, that's why I invited you to my party, wether you're all turtles or not you seem more genuine than most people who try to hang around me."

Leo looked at her in surprise at this but before she could say anything else they heard a sound coming from down the stairs, a group of people coming up.

Leo turned to her with a reassuring smile "I'm right here for anything, just call for me if you feel like you're in danger" She nodded at him and Leo disappeared behind a curtain.

"Vic, are you up here?" Scott's voice called from down the stairs and Victoire steeled herself for the crowd that started walking her way.

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Brighter to my eyes 7

Summary: Leo is good at reading people, it's what makes him a good strategist, but those blue hues of hers elude his sharp intuition.

Perhaps if they didn't he'd realize he didn't have to change himself for her to see him like he wants her to.

A.N. I wrote this fanfic over an idea of Rise! Leo using a cloacking brooch to hide his true self but it evolved into something way bigger, this fic will takes place in ROTTMNT after "Newsworthy" but April is 18 starting college instead of in High School, while the MC and Raph are 17, the twins 16 and Mikey 15.

Pairing: Rise! Leo x OC, Leo x reader

Warnings: Angst, FLUFF, Sibling shenanigans, MC is a nerd, but a mean nerd in leather.

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Troya: Hey Tello

Purple rain: Yes, my magnanimous friend?

Troya: How much would your plans for the tank improve if you added control from your phone or wristband to your augmented reality dashboards, like a remote-control ignition key?

Purple rain: I knew there was a reason I decided to share the process of this beautiful project with you!

“Ooh, is it the drill?” Leo asked and you leaned a bit closer to Donnie asking ‘drill?’ in a quiet voice before Leo continued “Is it that drill you made when we were fighting those silverfish.”

“Brethren,” Donnie spoke to his siblings in front of a dramatic curtain while you stood right beside him “alongside my sponsor I am proud to present my masterpiece, the culmination of my merit skills united in one glorious enterprise. Gentlemen behold the—”

“Uh, no, no, that- that’s still in beta.”

“Lame!” Raph exclaimed.

“But this is better! Much much better, I give you the—”

“Is it gonna be a cooler even bigger drill?” Mikey asked grinning and Donnie frowned.

“No, not a drill!” He pointed, making a final gesture with his arm before Leo interrupted again.

“Wait, sponsor? Why is Vic sponsoring your projects now?” he asked with an eyebrow raised.

“It’s an investment in Donnie’s genius that I expect to pay me back greatly in the long run” Vic nodded confidently to which Donnie’s smile returned as he nodded too.

“Yes, yes, now, THIS is the big surprise!” Donnie finally pulled the rope on the curtain, exposing to everyone an empty sewer much to Vic and Donnie’s ignorance since they were looking at the rest of Donnie’s siblings “Tah-stinking-dah!”

“Yay! A sewer tube full of nothing!” Donnie ‘Ah?!’ed in confusion when Mikey said that, both him and Vic turning around fast to look at the lack of tank behind them “I’m so proud of you.”

 The five of them were now on top of a rooftop looking down at the city streets in search of the turtle tank.

“Hey this is a real problem Donnie” Raph stated, “Not only did they steal your tank thing—”

“Now you can finish the drill!” Mikey noted happily.

“What? Where did it go?!” Donnie asked, “I built us an amazing vehicle out of the moon buggy!” He exclaimed hitting the floor on his knees with Vic reaching down to pat his battle shell, still looking around as if the tank would appear again where they had left it “Who stole our turtle tank?!”

“But they also must know where our lair is” Raph continued “It must be somebody who penetrated our inner circle.

 Victoire tried to stop them once they had all reached April’s apartment but the turtles were faster and she face-palmed as they broke down the door to her apartment “Couldn’t we just KNOCK guys?!” She asked exasperated but Donnie spoke right after making his entrance.

“Maybe even someone we’ve known for years” Donnie said with a frown full of suspicion on his face.

“Hi Donnie” April’s calm grin and sickly-sweet tone was worrying “You have nine seconds to explain why you just broke down my door.”

“Someone stole Donnie’s turtle tank” Leo explained from behind and Vic started to back up as she saw April’s expression, she didn’t want to be in her line of fire.

“Alright you! Where’s our turtle tank?!”

“She gets it” Mikey said.

“Ah hohoh, I see, so as your best friend you naturally suspect me?” April asked with the fakest grin, Victoire was out the door by now.

“Oh hoh, don’t get me that, you’re the only one who could’ve taken it.”

“You what?” April asked glaring at Vic who stepped backward again with a wide innocent grin.

“April, I swear I told them it was ridiculous, the only reason they don’t suspect me is because I was there with Tello and sponsored the thing” Vic exclaimed.

The screams of pain from the guys could be heard through the whole neighborhood and Vic winced before looking out the window where they had been thrown from, she could hear Donnie speaking about their inner circle being secured and Mikey yelled out an apology to April “Movie night later?” He asked.

“Your treat” April agreed, blowing them a kiss before closing the window and turning to Vic, the latter was about to say goodbye but the expression on April’s face screamed ‘really?’ and Vic groaned “I thought we’d talked about buying them things?”

Vic thought those were Donnie’s last words, because April stood up then, baseball bat on her hands and a warning on her tongue “3, 2, 1…”

“Look, Aps, I know it’s just that Donnie’s project was so cool and by this point, it was more of an investment? I get my own seat on the tank and made some suggestions too, it wasn’t just giving him the stuff out of nowhere” Vic defended herself and April sighed nodding, Vic mentally celebrated having convinced her before she said goodbye to go meet the guys back in the street.

Once she reached the alley where they’d fallen she heard the last of their conversation “It’s gotta be another mutant, and I know where we can find a mutant, the mutant pizza place!” Leo said.

“I’m sorry, what? A mutant pizza place?” Vic questioned quickly “Well how many people can have been mutated? I thought that was like, a recent thing? With the oozequitoes and that?” Her voice dripped with confusion and Leo’s arm was suddenly around her shoulders.

 They all ended up at a different alley, Leo helped her down as they all had been parkouring from the rooftops, it was good that she had a good physical condition but she still needed to rely on one of them when doing that, it was insane how resistant the four were “Stand back” Raph said, once you’d reached it, saying he had this before making a gesture with his hands and suddenly Vic’s mouth formed a small ‘o’ as she saw a magical entrance form through the graffiti on the wall.

“Oh my dear human friend, there is so much you don’t know about us yet, but don’t worry! We’re gonna show you all you’ve been missing, Leo’s got you!” He said with his thumb pointing to himself.

“Say, bone-man! Yo, you seem like you have your ear holed to the ground, what do you know about a certain missing turtle tank?” Leo asked dropping a paper on the skeleton’s hands, it turned out to be a teddy bear town voucher.

“Ah, the old smooth urban cop digging for info in a restaurant routine. Watch and learn baby” He winked at Vic who didn’t really notice since she was still looking at the pizzeria and the customers in awe, Donnie did seem to notice though, and rolled his eyes while Leo made his way to the owner.

Vic ran her hands down her cheeks in dismay as she realized this.

“Okay Leo, do your thing” Raph said and Leo separated himself from Vic, clearly trying to show off.

“Enough with your stupid routine, Leo!” Donnie exclaimed exasperated pushing past him.

Vic noticed the small shift on Leo’s expression and her step stuttered immediately, Leo was always so bright, it was weird to see him lack confidence like that, she decided to settle herself at his side, bumping her arm with his and hoping it would make him feel better, she felt him stiffen before looking down at her in surprise.

Leo kept going through different people before a baby with a really big set of teeth growled in his face “Oh come on!” He backed up.

“I’m finding out which of you wise guys took our tank or I’m smashing everything in this dump!” Donnie stated loudly making some people in the establishment look worried, he tried to lift a table to throw it but was struggling with it, the bone-mas lifted a hand to stop him.

“Eh, hey, Pepino…” Vic almost snorted at the nickname but managed to stop herself in time “Your bad cop routine leaves something to be desired.”

“Oh, no, nonono, hahah! We’re not the police” Mikey spoke, Vic wondered why she’d stayed silent throughout the whole endeavor because right after they were kicked out and this time she was thrown into the alley with them, thankfully landing on Mikey’s legs instead of the garbage or his plastron.

“Oh man,” Leo was rubbing his back “Why can’t anyone throw us into a nice soft pile of trash?”

“Ugh, hey Donnie” Raph lifted himself up “Why didn’t you just put a tracking device in the turtle tank? You put a tracker device in salami paper” Victoire mumbled a small ‘Do I really want to know?’ while sliding off Mikey’s legs.

 “Okay, we should find the tank if we just track the perimeter of the shopping cart protocol’s limit” Donnie explained glancing at the image on his tech bo.

“Oh I was getting to that” Donnie explained “But then he realized he did install the shopping cart protocol! Hah hah!” When Donnie narrated his life like that it made Vic look at everything more dramatically, any day now she’ll start hearing Donnie’s voice narrate the most mundane things of her life and will be unable to stop it, his brothers looked less amused.

“Woah! Are we gonna need a protractor?” Mikey asked.

“No.”

“Guys? Look!” Vic interrupted them pointing down to where the tank was parked, the guys all looked amazed.

“Woah! Donnie, nice work”

“An abacus?”

“She’s big AND beautiful” Raph joined in.

“We are gonna get a lot of parking tickets in that thing” Leo grinned before making a double take “Uh, hey guys? What’s dad doing down there?”

“Oooh, I SHOULD have known HE took it” Donnie groaned “You just can’t trust adults these days. You leave the keys to your brainchild lying around and the next thing you know—”

“Meat Sweats? Oh that’s bad news” Raph grunted “Hey, we gotta move or dad’ll be toast to spread on toast, let’s go”

They started following but Splinter and Meat Sweats were driving fast down the street “They’re getting away!” Raph yelled.

Vic looked confused “Who’s Meat Sweats?” She asked no one in particular, but snickered at the ‘toast to spread on toast’ comment and Leo pouted at her while Mikey explained it was Rupert Swagger whom she’d seen transform on live TV.

“Oh come on, I’ve said funnier things.” He moaned.

Donnie turned around with a grin “Turtle tank time!”

They all got in the tank and Donnie immediately started following Meat Sweats “Now that autopilot is engaged” He said walking away from the controls “Allow me to show you around my state of the art Turtle Tank! Over there is navigation, down here is a, wait for it: Bowling ball launcher, strike! And there is the—”

“Ooh, good one, rainbow and chocolate” they all grunted as they hit a wall but the tank kept going without issue.

“Donnie, watch the road!” Raph glared.

“Soft serve ice cream machine?!” Mikey asked with sparkly eyes “Tell me there’s a sprinkles cannon?”

“I wouldn’t need to if you would just take your seat” Donnie smugly pointed out to a seat that came from the ceiling “It’s the giant red one with your name and your exact lumbar settings!”

“It’s beautiful” Raph said with excitement as Donnie patted his back.

“Captain, the con is yours.” They both shared a fist bump and Raph took over the driving stick.

Victoire strode right next to Leo who looked at her curiously while she expertly pulled down on a lever, a door opened beneath and a new seat appeared right there, Vic taking it happily while Leo looked in wonder.

“Wait, how much did you actually work on this thing?” he asked curiously and Vic shrugged.

“I mostly just hung around while Donnie explained or asked me for help with simple things, told me how to do some small tasks or had me pass over tools” If he was being honest with himself, which Leo hadn’t been much since meeting Victoire, Leo would have probably considered the bitterness he felt at realizing she had been hanging out at the lair with Donnie for a while without him even knowing, but since he WASN’T being honest he just grinned at her at that.

“I know you’re in there Dad! I can see your tail!” Donnie yelled from a window “Oh papa~! If you surrender now there shan’t be any consequences!”

“You’re with a very dangerous mutant pops! Meat Sweats just wants to eat you!”

The truck hit them a couple times and Vic finally put on her seat belt “We gotta stop that truck!” Raph exclaimed.

“I’ll blast it with the boom cannon!” Donnie said happily and Vic looked at Leo with worry.

“Uh, burnt to a crisp isn’t the way I was planning on meeting your father” She said while Leo used his control panel to talk to Donnie.

“Donnie, dad’s in that thing” He glared at his brother through the screen.

“Can I at least go semi-lethal?” Donnie asked and the figures of his brothers on his screen grunted while Victoire shook her head “You never let me shine!” he complained sadly “Harpoon hooks it is” he finished and Vic took it as her cue, pulling out the controls for the harpoon and pointing at the truck, they stuck tight for Leo and Mikey to climb over the chains.

“Okay Sweaty Spaghetti, give us our dad back!” Mikey said.

“Yeah, hand over the fugitive” Donnie agreed with a mean grin.

Vic watched as Meat Sweat’s truck opened up showing him and a lot of mutants in cages, but she couldn’t hear what he was threatening them with, she COULD have started the outside audio from her screen but decided she was already grossed out enough just watching the pig use his powers on that cobra.

“Hey watch out! It’s a spitting cobra!” Raph yelled and Donnie barked “Hey! Watch the paint bucko!”

“Donnie, what else you got in this thing?” At Raph’s question, Donnie got excited to use the bowling balls, it didn’t take long after that for Mikey and Leo to bother Meat Sweats enough for him to be done with trying to eat Splinter, at one point Vic got worried for them both since they were just um, HANGING FROM A CHAIN but Okay, they did it and now Splinter sat in front of them on the street, an angry Donnie glaring down at his father.

“You, you reckless, irresponsible! You are watching the science of chairs channel for a month young man! Followed by the long division channel and the memorizing Pi channel! Spoiler alert, the 99th digit is seven!” Donnie kept berating his father and Vic whistled from behind just watching, if she EVER spoke to either of her parents like that, she would have been kissing her freedom bye-bye.

It was only after Donnie finished his rant that Splinter’s eyes stumbled upon her and Victoire suddenly had returned to her most popular grin, the one Leo had mostly seen on her Instagram pics, it kind of weirded him out, he’d gotten used to her casual small upturn of lips which wasn’t quite a smile but felt more real than whatever she was doing right now, she looked like a doll.

“Hello, sir! I’m Victoire Blanchet, a friend of your sons, it’s nice to finally meet you regardless of circumstances” she extended her hand to the man/rat for a firm handshake which he took, his pout from before suddenly gone as he looked at her.

“Ah yes, I did hear a bit about you, I apologize for my son’s manners, they should have introduced us before” Donnie crossed his arms “and you may call me Splinter, it’s a pleasure to meet you” he smiled gently at her, Victoire blinked, her face didn’t twitch in the slightest but she felt like the glint in his eye looked at her knowingly.

They all went back inside the tank to go to the lair, Mikey having invited Victoire back to watch movies like he’d done with April which she agreed to, Leo started rambling to her about how there was no way she hadn’t seen Jupiter Jim’s last trip to the moon 32.

“We can watch that, but I have read the comic” she said proudly when Leo’s eyes sparkled.

“No way! I couldn’t even find it, it was a limited print!” He jumped on the edge of his seat while she nodded at him.

“If you want you can come over to my apartment tomorrow” she said and Leo’s cheeks darkened at the idea “then I can finally show you around and you can check out my collection”

He was about to agree in a burst of excitement when Mikey jumped in between the both of them “Oh really!? We’d love to go over Vic! I’m so excited to see your place, then we can visit you when you can’t come down to the lair!”

Vic looked at Mikey in surprise but chuckled and nodded telling him they were all welcome while Leo bristled behind his brother.

From one turn after the other Leo was starting to crave more time with Vic and he promised himself he would get it soon without his siblings.

He still refused to acknowledge the reasons for why he wanted this.

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Brighter to my eyes 6

Summary: Leo is good at reading people, it's what makes him a good strategist, but those blue hues of hers elude his sharp intuition.

Perhaps if they didn't he'd realize he didn't have to change himself for her to see him like he wants her to.

A.N. I wrote this fanfic over an idea of Rise! Leo using a cloacking brooch to hide his true self but it evolved into something way bigger, this fic will takes place in ROTTMNT after "Newsworthy" but April is 18 starting college instead of in High School, while the MC and Raph are 17, the twins 16 and Mikey 15.

Pairing: Rise! Leo x OC, Leo x reader

Warnings: Angst, FLUFF, Sibling shenanigans, MC is a nerd, but a mean nerd in leather.

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It was a few days after team DMV (Name still up for debate) had acquired the buggy and she’d finally gotten a tour of the lair when Vic, sitting on her art history class and smiling politely at a couple of classmates that’d wanted to work with her for a project, thought back to the turtles, who’d been so excited to show her the place they lived in, which she thought was the teenage dream despite its location.

She barely listened to one of her new friends, Andrew?, While he said they should write about Picasso’s blue period for their project.

She hated Picasso.

Once the class was over and she’d said goodbye while agreeing to finalize details over text with her team, she debated in between messaging Donnie or Leo.

She chose Leo and shot him a short text asking if it’d be cool for her to pop up for a bit.

She got a text back saying she was always welcome and that they’d be at the arcade in the lair, Vic smiled subconsciously and started making her way to where April had one of her classes.

Once she found her Vic waved at April and they both made their way to the café they’d worked at during their first meeting while Vic asked April what the boys would like.

“Oh, you’re getting them drinks? Let me help!” April told her while sending her a list of the turtles’ usual orders but Vic waved her off walking through the door of the shop and being received with the heavenly aroma, she fiddled with her phone while they stood in line.

“Nah, I’m buying, also, what’s their favorite pizza?” Vic asked and April glanced up to see she was placing a pickup order through uber eats.

“Um, well, Donnie has this weird specific order of, wait, let me get my phone to check the message with it” April fumbled for a moment “Aha! So, large thick crust, sprinkled with, get ready for it: Pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, sausage, green peppers, black olives and NO anchovies” April made a face while reading the order while Vic just hummed and picked all the toppings, they advanced slightly in line.

“Raph is more a meat lovers kinda deal, both Leo and Mikey like Hawaiian” Vic made a face and April chuckled seeing it while Vic mumbled something about ‘thinking they had good taste’ while April continued “But Leo has a weird order too, onions, black olives, green peppers, and mushrooms, but really you can make them all happy with just a pepperoni or meat lovers.”

Vic hummed as they reached the end of the line before saying “No worries, I already ordered” Before April could say anything, Vic had turned to the barista.

They walked out of the shop with a full tray and made their way to the pizzeria to pick up, Vic’s phone suddenly buzzed with a message from Leo.

Neon Leon: Hey so…ur totally welcome anytime, except maybe rn

Neon Leon: dad’s really sick and it gets ugly real fast

Troya: Oh no, what does he have?

Neon Leon: a flu so bad we never make it ‘til the end of it

Troya: Wait, April is explaining

Troya: 7 stages?? She's explaining some of them and it sounds excessive, don’t you want me to pick you guys something from the pharmacy?

Neon Leon: dw! We totally got this and no way I’m getting infected before the end of the flu

April snorted besides Vic reading over her shoulder.

She wished Leo luck and took the pizzas before walking out of the restaurant, April following her.

“Sooo, what’s the plan? Since the lair is totes off bounds.” April asked making Vic hum again while she looked around, finding what she was looking for Vic changed routes, April noticed she was going towards a drugstore.

“We can just drop this off, and by your reaction I’m getting them stuff to deal with their flu when they inevitably get sick.”

April watched her pick the stuff and take out her credit card for the third time in what had been probably less than an hour.

“You know you don’t have to do all of that you know?” She asked while they both walked out and towards a manhole close to the boys “They’d be totally cool with anything you got them, no need for so many things”

Vic rolled her eyes “Ah don’t worry, I got it because I wanted to, can you open the manhole? I don’t know how we’ll get in without dropping anything…Oh I’ll text Leo!”

April didn’t get a chance to explain her point to Vic who already had her phone back in her hand while the other held onto the tray with coffee and pharmacy bag.

Troya: Knock knock, special delivery for the Neon Leon.

Neon Leon: What

Neon Leon: r u outside??

Troya: Yes, just dropping stuff off

Neon Leon: omw

The manhole opened and a pair of eyes looked back at her before Leo pulled out his whole body making the warm coat he was wearing visible.

“Well, hello ladies, what brings you to such a dangerous place?” Leo asked but his eyes widened throughout as he saw the various boxes of pizza, coffee, and bag in their hands.

“Well, we were already on our way and I’m sure you guys will really appreciate all of this when you’re bed-ridden” Vic smiled offering him the things, which he had a much easier time taking in his grasp, balancing the tray over the pizza’s and the bag over his shoulder before he knew what was happening.

“Me? Sick? No way, I’m already better prepared than the other guys, but really, Vee you didn’t have to” April nodded at Leo’s comment but was stopped by Vic waving her hand dismissively.

“It’s nothing, also, you should probably take some of these drops when you can to avoid the flu, your brothers too, and if you start feeling symptoms take one of these pills, only one every 6 hours by the way” Vic kept explaining some of the many things in the bag to Leo who was overwhelmed by how much she cared, once she finished he grinned a bit sheepishly.

“Ok, sure, got it, don’t even worry your pretty head about this, when this is over it’ll all be worth it, pops can’t say no to anything during what I call: The must say yes stage, we’re totally getting there this time”

April snorted “Sure you are, do you guys even know what you’ll ask for? You’ve only got one shot.”

“Well, I for one got the perfect idea, if I can convince Raph we’re totally getting unicorn onesies.”

Vic thought that was adorable “What do the others want?”

Leo rolled his eyes “Oh Donnie was totally raving about getting uranium, Mikey wants a pizza oven and Raph, our dear leader, has absolutely no idea what to ask for” he groaned.

Vic made a mental note and nodded “Well good luck Leon! Update me later Okay?”

Leo grinned and nodded stepping back to the manhole “I’ll totally update you when we beat this flu, and with all of these things there is no way I’m going down with the sickne—” His foot went directly through the uncovered manhole and Leo went down like Wile E. Coyote, April and Vic rushed to the manhole.

“Leon?!”

“I’m fine! It’s all good!” He yelled somehow managing to hold onto the things during his fall, Vic sighed in relief, impressed with how he managed that.

They finally said bye to Leo and once he disappeared down to the sewers they both started walking away with their own coffees and box of pizza in hand.

“We can go eat at the park” April said and Vic nodded already walking that way.

“Where do they sell those unicorn onesies?” Vic asked and April raised an eyebrow.

“Oh nuh-uh, you ain’t thinking of getting the guys all those things, are you?”

Vic shrugged sitting down at a park bench and setting the coffee down “Well, they can only choose one thing for their dad to get them, wouldn’t it be cool if I just got them the other stuff? It’s just material stuff anyway, I can do that.”

April frowned “Girl, not to be rude, I know your parents are loaded, but I mean it when I say that they don’t need all that stuff from you”

Vic tried to speak but April stopped her with a raised finger before continuing “Look, ever since you got tangled up in all of this the guys have been raving about you, they are all excited to have you as a friend, even Donnie who to be honest, wasn’t impressed with your online presence before, they all just want to hang around you, not what you have.”

It made sense that April wanted to clear that up, only a fool wouldn’t have noticed the kind of environment Vic had grown up in, it wasn’t that everyone was fake or only interested in the material for her, but the guys had already given her life more excitement than she’d ever had.

It was just, her love language, she wasn’t used to physical affection, and compliments had started feeling a little too superficial to her, but she also didn’t know the boys that well, and learning about those things they liked was nice to her.

Vic smiled at April “Yeah, you’re right” and that was it.

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Neon Leon: im trapped against my will

Troya: Were you quarantined?

Neon Leon: it's not even that bad

Troya: Take some Tamiflu, it should help a bit

Neon Leon: already did also, how’d u know my fav pizza?

Troya: I asked April, you guys got some weird taste, I can’t believe you like pineapple on pizza

Neon Leon: no way are u one of those haters too?!

Neon Leon: ugh u got no taste

Neon Leon: I just saw don get quarantined too

Neon Leon: I bet raph still doesn’t know what he’ll ask for

Troya: what stage is your dad at?

Neon Leon: The fanfiction stage

Troya: No. way. That’s real? I thought April was messing with me.

Neon Leon: oh it’s very real, but tbh his lou jitsu meets jupiter jim story is pretty good

Troya: I’d love to hear that omigosh

Neon Leon: I’d share my little quarantine room with u bestie

Troya: Awe, bestie?

Neon Leon: totally, bestest of friends, I mean I was the first turtle you hung out with, I called dibs

Victoire laughed at the text, maybe it was the sickness talking and Leo was on the affectionate stage, but if he wanted both of them to be closer, why couldn’t she indulge him?

Troya: Get some rest bestie, get well soon.

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