True Wisdom

Donnie's P.O.V.

As I'm driving home from the dentist, I spot Mikey in the corner of my eye, twisting in his seat to face the back.

I state," Mikey, what are you doing?"

He looks at me like he's been caught doing something wrong, "Uh…I'm recording them."

"Can I ask why?"

He snorts," Dude, they just got their wisdom teeth out. Do you know how many funny videos are out there of this moment? I cannot miss this chance."

I sigh, not wanting to argue with him. I adjust the mirror so I can see my other two brothers. When I see what Raph is doing, I sigh again.

"Raph, stop poking your cheeks."

My brother lazily looks at me, his face bloated. He's poking his inflated cheeks as a bit of bloody gauze sticks out of his mouth. He looks at me, swings his arm back, then forward in a Hitler style, then screams, "YES, SIR SERGEANT RYAN!"

Leo giggles as Raph nearly hits me in the head," Heh, Captain Ryan."

I look at Leo next and say," Leo, get your fingers out of your mouth."

He's poking around in his mouth. "There's gauze in my mouth." He says, frowning.

"Yeah. I know. Keep it there."

"Why is there gauze in my- "

I nearly swerve into oncoming traffic as Leo starts screaming. Mikey jumps, almost dropping his phone. I look back, wanting to scream myself, but don't dare. "Leo, bro, put that back in your mouth. You're going to bleed to death."

Leo does as I say and puts the bloody gauze back in his mouth. I look back to the road, wondering what else will go wrong before we get home.

"Don," Mikey says, "should I say Captain Ryan was- "

"You have a nice smile."

Mike shuts up and I look back again. Raph is looking at Leo and Leo is looking at him. We all stay quite as Raph talks.

"You smile a lot. You're always happy and I'm not. I insult you and you just smile. I hurt you and you still love me. You're nice."

Mikey and I glance at each other. What is happening right now? What is Raph doing?

He just keeps going. "One time, you made me my favorite food. I never made anyone food. You're nice. I'm a jerk. I love you."

Mikey slaps a hand over his mouth to keep from squealing. Raph starts to lean toward Leo like he's gonna kiss him full on. Leo starts to lean forward, too, and I pray to everything that ever was invented that I don't have to turn back there and stop my drugged up brothers from kissing.

Instead, Leo just reaches up and sticks his fingers in Raph's mouth, saying," You got gauze in your mouth, too."

Mikey turns back around, eyes big," I, uh, I ain't recording anymore."

I nod, but say," But you did get that, right?"

He nods, "Yeah, why?"

I smile," I might just use it for leverage someday."

Mikey just laughs.

"…You're nice. I'm a jerk. I love you."

I watch Leo and Raph reactions, trying not to laugh. Leo is staring and I can tell he's in a mixture of laughing, smiling and crying cause he loves it so much. Raph is completely opposite of it, silent, mouth agape and eyes bulging.

At the point where Raph leans forward, he screams, "Please, oh shell, please tell me I didn't kiss him!"

Then Leo starts laughing as he watches himself stick his fingers into Raph's mouth. Raph slumps in relief, then jerks back up.

"Wait a minute. Did I say- "

"You love me." Leo smiles," Yes, you did."

Raph goes red," No! I was drugged! I…I didn't…"

Leo's smile dims, "You didn't mean it."

Mikey looks at me. I shake my head. Let them deal with this.

Raph shakes his head in confusion," No, I mean…I…I don't…ARGH!"

Raph stands and leaves to the kitchen.

I snort, "That was great."

Leo shrugs and goes back to watching his show, a sad look on his face. I bite my lip. No. I won't interfere.

As I predicted, Raph comes back in, a bowl of gyoza's in hand with green tea. He slaps it down into Leo's lap and walks the other way.

Leo stares for a moment, then smiles, puts the food on the floor and runs after Raph. I and Mikey smile and Leo tackles Raph in a hug. I can tell Raph likes it and grabs Leo hands to respond to his hug.

"Love you, Don," Mikey says. I smile and say I love him back.

A/N: This one-shot was based off of The Wisdom Teeth from The Middle which just went off air a month ago. As you can see these one-shots are going to be mostly Raph and Leo one-shots and plots. There will be other occasional differs but it will mostly be Raph and Leo. Go with it. Anyway, enjoy.