D isclaimer: I do not own TMNT, Or the characters. All I own is the plot and my OC Violet.

Author's notes: this chapter gets slightly graphic but nothing too nasty. One tiny mention of a past suicide attempt.

Violet stiffened, not quite understanding what was happening. Her mind only just catching up when he suddenly jerked away from her. His eyes wide, realising what he'd done. "I'm sorry- I don' kno-" But she wasn't interested in listening as she yanked him back down to her, kissing him back with force and wrapping her arms around his neck. His hands coming to rest on her hips, thumbs pressing against the warm flesh of her exposed stomach. The darkness of the alley hiding them from view.

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Breaking apart, they both searched for something to say to each other but couldn't seem to get any words to leave their mouths. Just when the silence was starting to turn awkward, a noise from across the street made Violet look way.

"What was that?"

Raph shrugged, "Dunno." His hands still resting on her hips, mind still hazy from the alcohol as he watched her. Violets eyes scanned the street opposite them, trying to find the source of the noise. "Look Vie, I'm sorry if wha' I said 'bout tha boy upset ya. I-"

"You didn't know. It's okay." She sighed looking back at him. "Where..." She chewed on her lip not sure if she really wanted to know the answer to the question she was about to ask. "Where did they find him?"

"Homeless man found him behin' a dumpster in a' alley."

She sighed. "He was only nineteen Raph..." She repeated, looking at the floor, trying to keep her emotions from resurfacing.

"Please stop beatin' ya self-up over somethin' ya couldn' control." He ran a hand clumsily through her hair, trying to comfort her.

She nodded, letting him fiddle with the end of her purple wig absent-mindedly, reminding her that he was still rather intoxicated. Violet cleared her throat, gaining his attention once again. "You need to tell Casey to watch his back."

Raph frowned. "Ya know ya can't really blame him either Vi-"

"No, not me, Oliver. The boy gave up a 'Detective Casey' before he was killed. Casey will need to be careful from now on and stay off Oliver's radar if he values his life-" The sound of breaking glass from across the street made her pause her train of thought. "What is that?" She squinted at the darkness trying to see better, spotting a flashlight through a shop window. "I think someone broke into the jewellery store..." Violet said, eyes wide with surprise.

Raph grunted, also staring at the window in thought. "Wait here, Ima be right back." He said finally letting go of her.

"Hey! Where are you going?" She grabbed hold of Raph's arm as he started to move back into the alley. Alarm raced through her when she noticed him sway slightly.

"I'm gunna take a look." He smirked at her like the answer had been obvious whilst pulling back a drain cover in the floor.

"Like hell you are Raphael! You've had so much to drink that's I'm starting to get drunk of the fumes! Just leave it." Violet tried to reason with him. "The place is insured. They won't lose out on any money and it's passed midnight, no one will be working this late, so nobody is in danger."

Raph grinned at her. "Worried 'bout me hot shot?"

"Yeah. Worried you're going to make a fool of yourself when you fall on your smug, drunk face!" She hissed, just catching his amused chuckle from within the sewer as he pulled the cover back into place. "Shit!" She cursed to the empty alley.

Violet spent the next few minutes debating with herself and chewing a new hole in her lip. When the flashlight had disappeared from the downstairs window of the large jewellery shore and Raph still hadn't returned, she forced herself to make a decision with the feeling she was going to regret it later. Rolling her eyes and taking a deep breath, she crossed the road to the alley beside the jewellers. The clicking of her high heels just audible above the fading hum of the club's music.

Placing an ear to the locked back door of the store, she listened to the muffled sound of a fight before being abruptly thrown backwards. Head ringing from the blow of her skull hitting the brick wall, a small wave of dizziness left her feeling nauseous. She looked up to see Raph stood in the doorway, hovering over the battered man he'd thrown through the, now open, door. A surprised looked crossed his face when he noticed her.

"Wha' are ya doin' here!" He snapped, stepping towards her.

Irritated, she pulled herself upright. "I'm making sure you don't trip over your own feet and break your god damn neck!"

Violet took in his sluggishly movements, noting the alcohol in his system seemed to be affecting him more than she had first realised. This was what she had been worried about. Raph had always been a formidable opponent but he had obviously consumed an excessive amount of god knows what whilst he had been with Casey. Raph had gotten drunk with Violet before, on a few occasions they had even managed to polish off everything in her liquor cupboard and he had rarely been this far gone. Even when she had come back from the hospital after trying to kill herself, Raphael hadn't been this drunk.

"Watch out!"

She managed to shove Raph back and leap out of the way just as a something hit the wall, missing her face by inches. Several men piled out through the open doorway as she stared in disbelief at the item that had bounced of the wall and landed at her feet. Pissed, she rounded on the group who were surprised to see her. "You threw a fucking machete at my head! Who the fuck carries a machete around!"

"They're members of tha Purple Dragon gang. Think tha they own tha streets."

Her shove had taken him by surprise, that mixed with the alcohol had almost ended with him on his arse, something he knew Violet would never had let go if it had happened. However, his thoughts were preoccupied else where at the moment. When he'd left Violet to go take a look at who was robbing the store, he hadn't expected to find over a dozen gang members. As per usual, he hadn't thought twice before diving in headfirst. But he quickly found out that his body wasn't responsive and he was struggling to coordinate his attacks.

Normally he wouldn't have a problem taking down the gang members by himself, but he was starting to think that his 'supportive drinking session' with Casey had been a bad idea. Most of them had cuts or bruises from the encounter but he'd only managed to knock out five of them before Violet had showed up.

She studied the mixed group in front of her, there was eleven of them all together. Other than the symbol of a purple dragon on their clothes and tattooed on their skin, it looked like someone had thrown the group together in a rush. They were all varying in build and height and carrying a colourful mixture of weapons, from sledgehammers to meat cleavers. Some of them already looked rather battered, no doubt the courtesy of Raphael. It was obvious that they couldn't walk away at this point, they weren't going to let Raph and her leave without a fight.

"Aw look! What's the matter big guy? Everyone keeps running away so you have to hire someone to keep you company. Where did you get the money to afford one like this?" One of men called out laughing. "We can double whatever he's offered, so why don't you come over here and have a little fun with us instead hmm?" He winked at her as he eyed up her outfit.

Raph snarled but Violet held up a hand to stop him from lunging at the man. The smirk that crept up her face was enough to make Raph's skin crawl, but the man seemed oblivious to the danger his insults had caused.

Violet's hips swayed provocatively, heels clicking as she walked towards the man but stopped, forcing him to step out of the safety of his group and met her halfway. His eyes trailed over her toned body; he followed the chains from her thick choker down to where they rested between the pale skin of her exposed cleavage. She heard Raphael growl behind her, but she ignored him as she gently placed her hands on the man's shoulder.

"Oh, honey." She cooed, her hands running over his chest teasingly. "You don't have to pay me anything to see what I can do." In one fluid motion, she spun, dropping to the floor and swept his legs out from under him before standing up with her foot on his throat. "After all we both like a bit of fun, don't we tough love?" She laughed as Raph grinned at her.

He tried to yell at the men just stood there in shock. "Someone get the-!" The man gasped trying to breathe as her heel dug into his neck. "Are you stupid or something! There's two of you and eleven of us left!" Violet tilted her face as if she was thinking about it.

She removed her foot before slamming it into the side of his head, effectively knocking him out. "Ten." She corrected.

She stepped back towards Raph who was pulling out his Sais as the gang descended upon them. Raph and Violet weren't doing too bad considering Raphael was a clumsy drunk and she was unarmed and still wearing high heels. It was when there were only five purple dragons left that everything went to hell. Violet slammed her fist into one guy's nose, turning around just in time to see another one of them leap on Raph's back and jam a needle into his neck.

Ripping the needle out in surprise, Raph crushed the man between him and the wall making it one less for them to deal with. He started to panic when he began losing the feeling in his legs, whatever that was in that was powerful. Although he was confident with the hard work that Violet had put into learning the techniques he had taught her. They had only ever trained, and she'd never been in an actual fight since she'd started training, let alone against four guys at once. It wasn't that he doubted her skill, she was exceptionally good and a quick learner, it's just he knew what these people were capable of. Nothing was beneath them; they were thugs and murderers. If it came down to killing them to ensure her own survival, he knew Violet wouldn't be able to do it.

He dropped to his knees, legs no longer able to hold his weight, struggling to keep his eyes in focus. He felt repulsed by the thoughts of what might happen to her if she lost. Violet tried to reach him but one of them grabbed hold of her arm, dragging her back. Raph knew he didn't have much time as he clumsily pulled his T-phone out trying to pull up his contacts. He watched Violets elbow connect with her captor's jaw making him release her. She lunged toward him just as his eyes rolled back and be finally collapsed.

"Raphael!" Violet yelled terrified as she watched him fall.

She attempted slapping him a few times, but he didn't respond. Violet picked up his phone that he had dropped but one of the men slapped it out of her hand before she had a chance to see what he had been trying to do.

"What?" The man laughed. "You think we wouldn't have come prepared after all the times we've run into these fucking freaks?"

"What did you give him?"

The men just shrugged. "Some concoction that Mr. Oliver Lee sold us. Said that it would take care of anyone we might have trouble with and what do you know? He was right! Looks like we might become repeat customers!" The remaining four chuckled among themselves.

Violet felt a chill run up her spin. Take care of? Does that mean on a temporary or permanent basis?

"Guess he's the type of man who would be willing to pay a pretty penny for something like him hmm? Now you." He pointed at her. "You're a mystery. Where on earth did you come from and how did you manage to befriend something like that?" He jabbed his machete at her.

"Now where would the fun be in telling you?" She spat, picking up Raph's Sais, twirling and flipping them between her fingers.

To them, it might look like she was being cocky. But the truth was, she was testing the feeling of the weapons in her hands. Raph had been training her with the practise Sais, they hadn't progressed onto the real thing yet, but she couldn't keep fighting them without a weapon. A sledgehammer was one thing, blunt, heavy and slow, she could outmanoeuvre it, but blades? She couldn't block a blade with her body unless she was willing to lose a few fingers, maybe a limb. That left her no choice, it had to be his Sais.

"How long will the sedative last? Do you think Mr. Lee will care if the mutants dead or alive?"

"You won't fucking touch him!" She snarled, crouched protectively in front of Raph prone form.

They chuckled again. "Oh aggressive. Feisty thing, isn't she? I think the whore wants to play. We're warning you now, we like to play rough." One slashed his blades through the air. "Think you can take it girl?"

The beatings she had received from Oliver and her stepfather sprung to mind. "I guarantee I've had worse. Anything you can do will be no more annoying than a wasp sting. The lot of you are children throwing a tantrum because someone stopped you stealing someone else's shiny new toy. You couldn't even handle a fight against one turtle and had to resort to drugging them. It's pathetic really."

"Fuck you bitch!" They flew at her angrily. Good, anger left openings for mistakes and she needed every advantage se could get.

She brought the Sais up, blocking the blade and landing a hard, swift kick to the first one's groin making them double over on the floor in pain. The second one came at her from the side. She ducked, twisting around to drive the end of the Sais through his thigh, he howled in pain as she yanked it free. Just because she wouldn't kill them didn't mean she wouldn't harm them and she was going to keep her word, they wouldn't lay a hand on Raphael if she could help it.

Being preoccupied with the first two, she didn't notice she'd turned her back the third one. She muffled a scream as he wrenched her back by her hair. Flipping a Sai around, she drove it backwards forcing him to let her go to avoid being impaled. Violet spun, smashing the butt of the Sai into his head, leaving him down for the count. One down, three to go. She sighed seeing the first one had recovered from the blow to the groin. Correction, two and a half. She eyed the second one who was unable to stand on his leg.

The second one made a grab for her, but his leg failed him, she darted forward, pulling him down as she brought her knee up to meet his face. He too fell limp to the floor unmoving, leaving her with just the first guy and the fourth. The first one seemed to be more wary of her now whilst the fourth had just stood there watching her this whole time, like he was studying her.

Suddenly they both attacked her at once. She flipped the Sai down to protect her forearm as she lifted it above her head to block his machete before hurling him back with blow to his chest from her shoulder. The fourth landed a kick to the back of her knees making her legs buckle. She rolled across the ground to avoid a meat cleaver to the face but earning a painful kick to her ribs before leaping back to her feet. The first one was on her instantly, swiping and slashing at her in a relentless manner. She trapped the machete with a twist of Raph's Sai but the fourth one attacked her again, knocking the second Sai from her hand. The first man took this opportunity to use his free hand to punch her in the face making her stumble backwards.

A low groan distracted them all momentarily as Raph stirred slightly. They couldn't afford to let Raph wake up. She saw the men exchange a look as she spat out a mouthful of blood. They had a chance at being able to overpower her now that they weren't going to underestimate her again, however the likely hood of them beating Raphael if he got back up, whether he was drugged, drunk or not, was slim. In horror, she realised what they planned to do, managing to throw the remaining Sai just in time to knock the machete out of the first mans hand before it could make contact with Raph's neck.

Violet threw herself at the first man, both of them now unarmed as they exchanged rapid blows. He managed to get her in a choke hold, but she raked her heel down his shin before driving it into his foot. He tried to keep his grasp on her, but she reached back, yanking hard on his ear whilst hammering her elbow into his ribs, a motion that ended with a nice crack. She turned, using the palm of her hand on his face to smash his head back against the wall and let him slide to the floor.

She heard the last one coming, just managing to dodge the meat cleaver as she twisted but he kept slashing at her, not giving her time to recover or retrieve Raph's Sais. He managed to skim her ribs, shredding the material and ruining the fabric as blood trickled down her side. She continued to try and dodge as she waited for an opening, gaining small nicks and cuts over her arms and legs. He finally reached too far and she grabbed hold of his wrist. Pulling his arm straight, she aimed a violent punch at his elbow, forcing it inwards and breaking his arm. Using the same broken arm, she pulled herself onto his shoulders, ignoring his screams of protest. Throwing herself forward, the ground came barrelling up to meet them as her weight rammed his face into the floor.

She sighed heavily as the adrenaline wore off, leaving her body to protest as she picked up the Sais and she hauled herself over to Raphael. Violet helped him to sit up, the drug was wearing off, but it looked like he still wasn't able to move or talk yet. At least he is conscious, she thought as she crouched next to him. But she didn't have time to chastise his actions because before she could blink three large shadows dropped out of nowhere and she found her-self, once again, thrown backwards.

"God damn it!" She yelled in frustration.

Gritting her teeth as her ribs tried to tell her that she was not a ball and it wasn't natural for her to be tossed around. She quickly brought the Sais up in surprise when she realised that her attacker was a very angry, blue clad, turtle trying to remove her head from her shoulders with a Katana!

Violet panted, she was already tried from fighting and was currently finding it hard to breathe with her damaged ribs, but it was taking all of her strengths to stop the katana from inching towards her throat. As if her night couldn't get any worse! First, she had to deal with Oliver getting high and murdering someone in front of her, followed by having to save the ass of her drunk, adrenaline junkie turtle, only to have his brother try to killer her afterwards!

Her arms were starting to shake as her strength started to fail. She heard concerned yelling off to her side, but she couldn't look away from Leo. Suddenly someone staggered into them, knocking Leo and his katana back as they push themselves in between the two of them, wrapping an arm around her protectively. To her relief, it was Raphael who was snarling at Leo in a warning manner.

She realised that he probably still wasn't able to talk when his legs gave out and he pulled her down the wall with him, the two of them now sat leaning against the alley. She hissed from the pressure he put on her ribs, but Raph wasn't willing to let her go yet just in case. It was a miracle that he'd even been able to make it over here. However, Violet's relief was short lived as her angry flared to the surface. She wriggled in his arms, turning to face him.

"What the hell is wrong with you Raphael!" She yelled furiously. "I told you to leave it! The fucking place was insured, it wasn't worth risking your life over! Do you have any idea how close you came to dying tonight?" Violet hissed. "Your god damn lucky I don't kill you myself because I'm seriously considering it right now! But then it would waste the time and effort I put into saving your ass!"

Raph's brothers were looking at the pair of them with confusion. Their tough hided brother was sat on the floor of an alley, protecting a random girl. Both of them were covered in blood, most of which wasn't their own. It must have been whatever they drugged him with because the most surprising thing was Raphael was letting this girl savagely tell him off in front of them whilst he just grinned at her like it was the most amusing thing in the world.

She shook trying to get herself under control and Raphael ignored his brothers as he pressed his forehead against Violets, openly showing affection and attachment for the girl as he tried to get her to calm down. It was working because Violet could feel the will to fight start to leave her body and she slumped against him.

Leo and Donnie just stood there slacked jawed watching the interaction between the two like they though that the rest of the world didn't exist. Mikey had realised that the girl was Violet some time ago and was now stood feeling awkward. He hadn't recognised her to start with in the wig, makeup and clothes, he'd only seen her when she was at home, never at work. They had mistaken her as one of the Dragons in her purple outfit and hair and when they had seen her with Raph's weapons whilst their brother wasn't moving, they had automatically thought the worst. Mikey had realised it was violet when Raphael had thrown himself between her and Leo.

"I was right anyway." She huffed before grinning at Raph. "You did make a fool of yourself when you fell on your smug, drunk face." Leo, Donnie and Mikey did a double take when Raphael started to genuinely laugh.

Leo snapped. "Am I having a stroke or something? Can someone please tell me what the fuck is going on?"

Chapter 25 people! I think this is the longest chapter I've done for this story. It a lil bit different but I hope you enjoyed it regardless. Thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter or sent me a message. And big thank you to matt marvel and his help in this chapter. Ill started working on the next chapter soon so that should be out next week. Please remember to review and tell me what you think or if you have any ideas you think might be good to add into this story x