The Ripple Effect | By : tmntwriter Category: Comics > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Views: 2724 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Thanks for the reviews!!!! I've finally managed to complete a piece of art work for this series. Anyone who is interested can check it out on my webpage, there are also profiles up for some of my O/C characters. anywho on with the story , Pls read and review.
The next few weeks were a haze for Julie. She hardly slept due to the increasingly violent nightmares, in the last few days they had become reoccurring as if her mind was stuck , tethered to one spot unable reach out any further.
She sat on the couch alone, Mikey had gone out on patrol with his brothers, there had been a major jump in gang violence in her old neighborhood .
She had managed to excuse away her unusual sleeping patterns as herself adjusting to a new home and so far everyone was buying it but she really didn’t know how much longer she could keep it up. She had taken to meditating in the hopes that a dream would come to her but so far she had been unsuccessful.
She lay back on the couch and closed her eyes, if she dreamt at least there wouldn’t be anyone around to hear her scream. She relaxed her body and focused her mind stretching it out as far as she could while she drifted off.
She knew what they looked like , she saw them standing on the street corners all the time, sometimes high some times not but always with that telltale boniness that smacked of malnourishment and abuse, it was horrifying to see it on herself.
But there she stood thin frail her hair sprayed up into an overly dramatic style, she wore beads around her neck, she hated beads.
She felt altered , disconnected from reality as she starred into the mirror. The room behind her vanished and was replaced by color , color and shape and texture. She was high, she knew she was despite never actually doing drugs herself, on what she could not say.
“Hey baby” A familiar voice called out to her “ What’cha doin?” It was Michelangelo, not her Michelangelo, not the one armed Michelangelo of the future……… a Mikey from somewhere in between.
“Nothing baby” She heard herself answer “Just have a headache” She continued. It was easy to lie to the people who trusted you.
“You want anything” He asked coming up behind her forcing the colors away.
“Um… yeah I could use a Pepsi” She heard herself reply, she wasn’t sure how but she knew she was asking for it because they didn’t have any.
“Pepsi eh?” She said brushing a string of beads aside to kiss her neck “I think were out, lemme go topside and I’ll bring some back for you” He said smiling at her and leaving the room.
She felt weak, her legs were slowing turning to jelly on her. She leaned back against the wall and sunk to the floor feeling sicker by the second.
“Jules” A voice called out to her “Jules look at me”
She tried but couldn’t reality had been replaced by thousands of butterflies flapping against the blazing orange of something she couldn’t name.
Tear began to fall from her eyes and she sobbed loudly.
“It’s ok baby I got you” A deep voice soothed in her ear, she didn’t need to see to know it was him. His voice was deeper, arms bigger, her head rested better on his shoulders.
“Raph” She heard herself sob “Help me”.
For the first time there was no shock, no jolt from the dream world back to reality she simply opened her eyes and was awake. She lay there for moment in horror, she had seen her future self before , a strong powerful ninja everything she secretly hoped she could be but this time her reflection in the mirror had made her sick.
“ Jules” A voice called from the kitchen “ Babe you up?”
Reflexively she hid her fear “ Well I am now” She said in a sarcastic tone sitting up on the couch and making room for him. She looked at him , he looked good young and vibrant much like he had in her dream.
“How was patrol?” She asked trying to act casual.
“Eh….. April’s place got broken into “ He said , then seeing the look of concern on her face he quickly added “ She wasn’t home and they didn’t take anything”.
“Weird” She mumbled absently .
After a minute or two of silence Mikey let out a long dramatic yawn “m’beat…. I’m gonna hit the sack…… you wanna tuck me in?” He asked wagging his eye ridge suggestively.
She forced a small laugh “Maybe later” she said standing and stretching, she needed to get out , get some air, clear her head.
“I’m gonna take a quick run to the store” She said ignoring the pout Mikey was making at her. “ And if you lucky” She continued leaning in the kiss him “ I’ll un-tuck you when I get back”.
The night air felt good, cold and crisp and refreshing. She walked along shuffling her feet , headed in the direction of a near by drug store. She couldn’t dream that again, the whole thing had made her feel cheap and dirty, she had been high and lied to Mikey just to get rid of him.
In all honesty that wasn’t the part that bothered her most, Raph had bothered her most. She knew that the version of herself in that dream loved them both , she knew it like she knew her nose was in the middle of her face, she also knew that that version of her loved Raph just a little more.
She shook her head, it made her sick, she didn’t need to see anymore to know exact what was going in. She had seen herself sleep with Raph and lie to Mikey, She stopped for a minute her stomach turning over at the realization that Mikey probably never knew, if he had he hadn’t let on during her short stint in the future.
She pushed open the glass door and made her way into the florescent lit store. She stood in the aisle for a long time, she had never taken these before and she wasn’t really sure what brand to buy. Sleep-eeze, that seemed like a good enough choice she thought as she flipped over the box to read the directions.
She sighed inwardly, she couldn’t concentrate for the first time since the explosion she found herself consumed with thoughts of the cursed future. She walked to the conter and made her purchase before escaping back out into the cold night air.
She walked along absently her mind consumed with her predicament. She could almost picture him telling her that story, the hurt in his voice at the loss of her , it all stung more knowing she had betrayed him.
She kicked an empty can out of her way as she walked on. She pushed the image of his sorrow back and retold the story in her head. She stopped as she reached a part in the story so important she was amazed the connection hadn’t hit her earlier.
The thoughts swirled in her head so fact she could barely process them, her stomach turned over and over, she didn’t notice the sky growing dark and angry.
She knew that that her had loved Raph just a little more…… the beads of sweat rolling down him ….. .. your dead….. if it was’t fer her Donnie wouldn’t na…..Raph blamed you.
It was all to much , a searing pain erupted behind her eyes as a clamp of thunder shook the ground under her feet. And then the pain exploded like a blinding light making her sink to her knees in the street screaming in pain as a second flash exploded bright blue over the New York skyline and everything went black.
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