For just a moment, the look he gave Nico for putting her hand on his elbow like that was pure gratitude. More and more, it was harder to be guarded with her. She just had a way of yanking the sincerity right out of him and the craziest thing about it was now she didn't even need words. She could do it with a look or a touch.

But then Christina conveniently distracted them all.

Raph considered what she'd said and his eyes started to light up in the way only a teenage boy's could at the prospect of getting something ridiculously awesome (like flames!) permanently etched onto his body.

"We can get tattoos." He looked sideways at Nico. "I can get a tattoo."

He could get a tattoo. That wasn't something he could do back home. It wasn't like he could just walk into a tattoo parlor. But right now he looked just like a normal human.