I swore to protect her, the only person who ever saw me for myself, not as a huge mutant turtle, all muscles and aggression, but as someone who...Wanted to be loved so much. Someone with a heart that was constantly hurt and fighting, I had given up on not finding anyone, on loneliness...Then she came back.

I already knew her, as children, but I had been forced to leave her, and it was one of the worst days for me, maybe the worst because even now I can't think of a worse day than that, maybe only today.

I approached the cage that kept my girlfriend trapped in that tangle of cables that scared me to death. "Princess..." I whispered, running my hand over the glass case that trapped my girlfriend. "Donnie, hurry!" I hissed at my brother. "I'm doing it as fast as I can, but these cables are giving her the substances she needs to stay alive, Raphael! It's not that easy!" Donnie answers me and it's only because of Leonardo that I don't punch this subspecies of a case. "I promised... I broke my promise twice." I whispered looking at her, it's a scary sight but she's still beautiful, my princess.