She grins and thinks, Heh, I guess it's my turn to watch you sleep.
Now that she has a chance to really look at one of the guys, she's amazed that she's actually there, with them.
She smiles gently, and softly stokes Raph's cheek.
She looks up as she hears a soft chuckle. Splinter is standing there.
"Ah, now I see it is your turn to be watching another sleep," Splinter chuckles again, voicing her previous thought.
She smiles at him, "Hello, Splinter. Yes, I suppose it is. I'm sorry for waking you and everyone else up before," she winces in embarrassment, "I didn't mean to."
Splinter comes over and pats her on the shoulder. "Do not worry about it, Diana. Anyway, it was not your fault."
She rises an eyebrow, "It's not? But I had those nightmares, I was the one who was crying and I was the one who screamed when I felt that pain, whatever THAT was," she looks at him questioningly, and cracks a grin. "Inquiring minds do want to know."
Splinter chuckles and responds, "All will be explained when the others awaken."
Just then, Raph yawns and stretches. Midstreach, he sits up, wraps an arm around Diana's waist and pulls her down next to him.
She chuckles and gives him a.
"Thanks for putting up with me last night, I doubt I would have been able to get back to sleep without you."
Raph smiles and gives her a squeeze, "Hey, don't worry about it."
Then he sees Splinter. He smiles at him, "Mornin', Master."
Splinter smiles at Raph, "Good morning, my son."
Leo steps into the room and chuckles, "Looks like I'll have to start getting up earlier if I want to be the first up. Good morning, all."
Mikey bounces into the room and, upon seeing Raph and Diana, starts singing, "Raph and Diana sittin' in a tree..." He's cut off by a pillow to the face, thrown by Raph. The others all chuckle at the face Mikey makes.
Mike throws the pillow back at Raph, but Diana catches it before it hits him, averting a pillow fight. She puts it on the couch.
Leo and Splinter applaud, and Leo comments, "Excellent job on averting an early morning pillow fight."
Diana chuckles, "Thank you, thank you. My friends and I used to get into them all the time..." She trails off, and Raph gives her shoulders a squeeze.
Leo comes over and squats down in front of her, looking into her eyes. He says, "Don't worry, you will see them again."
Diana smiles, "Thanks, Leo."
Then Donnie shuffles into the room, looking very sleepy.
Now that they're all there, Splinter takes them to train. After the spar, and everyone's showered, they all sit down to breakfast.
As they eat, Splinter brings up what had happened the night before.
Diana blushes, "I'm really sorry about that. I had a bad dream and overreacted."
Splinter looks her strait in the eyes, he holds her eyes on his. "Dreams tell us things that we may not know we know, and sometimes they can be influenced by others," he says soberly.
A chill goes down Diana's spine as she remembers her dreams and combine them with what Splinter had just said. She's learned, from all the media that she had taken in about the turtles before, that Splinter is seldom wrong about these things.
Splinter sees the fear creep into her eyes. He pats her hand and suggests, "Why don't you tell us about your dreams?"
She shudders, but is reassured by Raph's gentle squeeze on the shoulder.
"To start with, I guess I need to tell you guys about the day I first found my dojo, unless you told them already?" she asks Splinter.
He nods, and says, "My sons know."
She continues on, "Well, I found it was that day and I was a kid again.
Everything went as it had when it really happened, but when I turned, after I was cut, I recognized the guy as the one who'd shot me with that thing in school.
Then, before anything else happened, I was the way I am now, but wearing this really long dress with a really low neckline, it kida reminded me of a night gown.
Anyway, I was standing in front of this huge person thing. He was totally black and around eight feet tall. He was just...big!
He reached down and touched my face with his...hand, I guess. I couldn't move, for some reason the swat it away. Then he ran the hand down my neck and rested it on my collar bone. Then it..it started to move the hand to the neckline of my dress, and suddenly I could move again, and I slapped his hand away.
After I did that, he said in this horrible voice, 'You will be mine!' His...his touch was colder than ice."
She looks down, her hair curtaining her face, and wipes the tears away with shaking hands, ashamed of her lack of control.
She feels Raph slip an arm back around her shoulders and give her a one armed hug. She takes a shuddering breath and pulls herself together.
She looks up and sees everyone looking at her.
"Sorry about that," she says sheepishly.
"Hey, don't worry about it, babe," Raph sayes gently.
Mikey rolls his eyes, "You've filled your apology quota for the day."
Don shoots a wicked grin at Mikey, "'Quota'? Mikey, are you getting into the big words now?"
Mike makes a face at Don and continues eating his breakfast.
"Anyway," Leo says, shooting Mike and Don a Look, "what was the scream we heard?"
Di shrugs, "That I don't know. I was trying to get a grip on things, when I felt an incredible pull and almost as soon as it started, there was a searing pain, like I was having a body part cut off, or something."
"That I can explain, it's connected to that creature that you encountered in your dream, Di," Splinter speaks up.
They all look at him, expectantly.
"First, though, I must get something to give to Diana," he stands and goes into his room.
The rest just sit and look at each other, wondering what Splinter is up to.
Splinter returns with the blade that he'd cut Diana from the blood the evil one had. He gives it to her, and she, with a rather confused look on her face, takes it.
They all look at him with questions in their yes.
Diana says, "Uh...thanks, Splinter," not quite sure of why what just happened, happened.
She looks at the sword and pulls it out of its sheath to examine the blade. It's curved like a katana, and has sharp edges on both sides. It also has a mix of Japanese characters and Celtic runes up the middle of the blade, between the sharp edges on both flat sides.
The hilt is a true work of art. Down at the end of it there are carvings of fire, earth, air, water and spirit, all in perfect balance. There are five jewels imbedded in the hilt, too. Jewels of a type she's never seed before. When she looks at one, she can see fire flickering, another and she can see the peace of a calm lake or sea. She looks into a third, and she can hear and feel the wind, the forth, bare face mountains, in all their majesty and beauty. Finally, the fifth, she can feel the spirits preasent, and hear far off thoughts.
"Wow," she whispers, "it feels like this is a part of me. Thank you again, Splinter."
She resheathes it and looks at the others with wonder in her eyes. Then she remembers that Splinter is about to explain what was up with the intense pain she was in last night.
Splinter smiles then sighes and starts speaking. "There are some that believe that every thing that was once a part of you is always tied to you, and if someone gets ahold of it, they can control the person who it came from, using the right spells."
Diana and Raph both narrow their eyes. Splinter almost laughs.
And Raph doesn't see how similar they are?
Leo catches this, too, and shares a secret grin with Splinter.
"So...someone wants to get ahold of me, but already has a piece of me?" Di asks.
Splinter nods.
Don speaks up, "What about the pain Di felt? And how is it connected to her dream?"
"One question at a time Donatello," Splinter chuckles, and Don blushes. Mikey chuckles and gives Don a bear hug.
Splinter grins at Don and Mike, "To answer your questions, the pain that Di felt was me cutting Di from what was used to pull her."
After a few minutes of contemplative silence, Di asks, "What about my dream?"
"Whoever wants you is very powerful, I am certain that they went into your subconscious and tried to do something to you, Splinter replies.
Diana shivers. Freaky...
Leo stands behind Diana and puts his hand on her shoulders, and says with determination in his voice, "We have to get this guy."
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