"It's fine," he says...though he knows it's not really fine. It's not the end of the starter stretch of the imagination, but this is a hack job of a hotwire and Raph knows it. He's mentally kicking himself both for thinking he could do this and because he let his skills get this rusty in the first place.

stupid stupid stupid...

He tries to center himself the way his Shang master taught him. He closes his mind, takes in a deep breath, slowly letting it out during a ten count.

But it doesn't help.

What also doesn't help is that when he opens his eyes Grace's head near his lap, and her hand is on his knee.

The intrusion into his personal space without so much as a warning is just too much and one fluid motion the driver's side door is open and Raph is leaping out of the car.

Only...the bucket seat which was far easier to climb into is not so easy to jump out of, and so it's less a leap than a lunge.