Authors Note: This particular event does not take place at three o'clock in the morning but during later evening. However, most of the stories will take place around three o'clock in the morning. The title comes mostly from me and a friend. For some reason, really weird stuff happens to us on three in the morning when I stay at her place.
So anyway, since English is not my first language so there might be mistakes in it. If you find any, just tell me pleas.
Disclaimer: I do not own the TMNT, April or anything else besides the plot.
A lot of weird things had happened to April since she befriend four teenage mutant Ninja Turtles (and an old mutated ninja master rat). And after having them live in her apartment for a while, she seriously doubted that she would see something she found totally out of order so soon again.
She really had no idea why the guys (or the fate for that matter) always had to prove her wrong.
Living with the turtles in the lair was a far different story. Slowly but surely they were driving her crazy. Don't get her wrong, she loved the guys, she loved spending time with them and would do almost everything for them. She wouldn't give the friendship to this family away for anything.
But eventually, she was a mostly normal adult, mild-mannered, single living woman. And living with four teenage boys and their father was a whole different kind of life. Especially since all of them barely made a difference between her and the other three turtles.
It was impossible to miss that they had a men only household the last 15 years.
Sometimes it saddened April a little when she thought it. Master Splinter did an incredible job on raising these four boys, but sometimes they eventually needed a mother. But they simply never have had one.
Sometimes it was really driving her crazy down here and occasionally it was frustrating. But it also was hilarious and it could be very cozy sometimes.
And there were a lot of out of order moments.
Considering with who, where and how she was living lately, 'out of order' had a far different meaning than normally.
Those moments appeared as out of order to April even in a family of mutated turtles. Those were moments when she found herself unable to put a name on what on earth actually was going on. Mostly they happened during the night, but sometime also during the day.
It was late evening and April just came back to the sewer. She had been out just to pick a few things up when she happened to bump into an old friend from high school she hadn't seen in years. And well, they ended up in a café and talking for hours.
But the sight that April granted as she came in the door was sort of weird.
Michelangelo way lying on his carapace just mere meters away from the entrance. Raphael sat on top of him, close enough to Mikeys head so he could held his younger brothers arms in place with his knees.
That alone looked rather… weird. Mikey and Raph sure scrambled a lot but this particular position looked really, really weird.
Especially since Raph tried to force Mikeys mouth open with one hand while holding a suspicious red bottle in the other hand. Mikey of course struggled under his brother and tried to keep his trap shut for a chance.
April blinked multiple times. She was pretty sure that the bottle held extra hot chili sauce.
"Uhm, guys? What are you doing?", she asked finally, though she wasn't to sure if she really wanted to know. "Huh? Oh, hi Ape", Raph just said, barely taking his attention from Mikey. "Just returnin' a favour."
Apparently, the red clad turtle wasn't thinking that this looked sort of strange at all.
"Ah! Help! April! He's tryi-ieks!" Mikey stupidly opened his mouth to beg for help, but his brother took the opportunity with a malicious grin. Or at least he tried. Mikey reacted quick by simply biting down on Raphs finger, hard. The older yelped in pain and Mikey finally managed to free one arm. But he still was far from free. Raph growled loudly, now holding an even stronger struggling Mikey in place more forceful. "Ya gonna regret this ya miserable wretch!"
April, still standing at the door, was soon forgotten. She opened the mouth to say something but just in this moment Donatello came from his lab. He gave his brawling siblings a mere glance but then his attention was all Aprils. "Hey April, you came back just right", he greeted her with his usual gentle smile. "Leo and I wanted to watch a special show on the Discovery Channel. Want to join us?"
"Uhm… sure", April answered slowly, glancing at the lump of limbs that were Mikey and Raph.
"Great" Don smiled a bit more before and headed towards the living area. April was left behind, confused that Don wasn't bothered by his siblings now rather violent and loud brawl at all.
From the living area Leonardos voice was to be heard. "What's that noise, Don?", he asked. April turned to watch the two more matured turtles but to her surprise Don only waved his brother of. "Raph is assailing Mikey with chili sauce. But I guess he deserves it. By the way, April just came back. She wants to join us on the show so how about we make some popcorn?"
Donatello sounds casual but when she heard a deep sigh from Leo, she assumed (and sort of hoped) he would go and take the two squabbles apart. Think again.
"Well, it's Raph who has cleaning duty this week so he at least can't duck from cleaning the mess."
Aprils gaze returned to the two fighting brothers. Raphael had Mikey almost back in the awkward position from the beginning and the orange clad turtle was screaming girlish and desperately. This time she shook her head quickly and hurried to Don and Leo.
Suddenly she felt like she was back in middle school where all she thought about boys was that they were rude, gross, stupid, a bit violent and pervert at times.
You don't hang around ninjas and don't get influenced by it. Neither can you live with four teenage boys and not be influenced by it.
Well, hope you enjoyed this.
I already can tell you that the next chapter will take place at three in the morning. It will be about Donnie, Mikey, the bathroom, popcorn gotten out of hands, some hot chocolate and a lot of tissues. And of course April in the middle of it.