Raphs pov.
Yes I love Leo. I always have. But I hadn't realized how much I did until he went missing.
See we had been dating for about four months before one night he disappeared. At first it seemed normal, I mean Leo likes disappearing for an hour or two just for the sake of solitude but after about 5 hours I got worried. After about 19 hours we started looking for him. After two days all hope we had seemed lost. I couldn't believe he was gone, no warning, no reason and the scary part was he had left his Katanas.
Don had taken to his lab using every ounce of power he had to look for his older brother. He never sleeps anymore, that or eats. He never talks much either. He drinks enough coffee to fill the Atlantic Ocean.
Mikey on the other hand has almost turned into me. He trains 24/7 and almost never leaves the dojo. He has no sense of humor anymore and I can hardly remember the last prank he pulled.
I on the other hand have calmed down. A bit. I'm still the hot head but I've taken to reading Leos books. He seems to like darker stories and poetry. There's also a lot of Japanese science fiction. He also loved the raven by edger Allan Poe. He has it book marked in several of his poetry books.
I've also become leader. Master Splinter went to Japan for a while, for his health and left me as leader.
Leos been gone for 14 months and 23 days but it seems like forever.
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I had finally gotten some food into Don and had gotten Mikey to go to bed. I needed a break but Don needed to go to sleep and that was gonna take forever.
"Don would you please go to bed" I asked.
"I can't, I'm so close to finding him" don mumbled to his computer.
"No yer not you've said that every day since he left." I grabbed his hand and pulled him away from his computer, "come on you're going to bed."
Don groaned in protest but allowed me to drag him up to his bedroom and put him to bed. He grumbled something about hooking up a camera system throughout the city as I turned out the lights.
I headed downstairs, quickly checking on mikey to make sure he was still asleep and he was. I then went to the kitchen and started cleaning up. He hated cleaning but someone had to do it. On the counter amongst a bunch of cereal bowls and pizza boxes sat a teal green tea cup with a used green tea. It was the last cup of tea Leo had had before he went missing, no one had touched it.
I quickly washed the dished, dried them then put them away. I heard the door open and close, it was April.
"Hey," she said carrying a bag of groceries into the kitchen.
"Hey," I said back as I put the last of the plates away.
"So any luck in finding Leo?" she asked sitting down at the table.
"No, tea?" I asked. She nodded
I stood and started making a pot of tea. It wasn't my favorite drink in the world but Leo loved it. I poured two cup and brought them to the table. He sat down opposite from April and handed her one of the cups.
"Thanks, hey I have a question."
"Yeah"
"Did you… um… love Leo?" she asked. I knew what she meant by love but I played ignorant.
"Of cores he was my brother after all."
"That's not what I meant"
"Oh?"
"I meant where you two together? Like, where you lovers?"
"Oh that… yeah, I guess." I paused "you WILL NOT tell anyone this right?"
"No! No I won't tell, I promise."
"What about you and Don?" I laughed. She smirked.
"I wish."
"Really?"
"Please don't tell him"
"Okay I won't."
We talked for an hour about stuff like the weather and politics for about an hour or two. After a while we heard a door open and close gently.
"What was that?" April asked.
"Probably don." I stood up and walked to the door of the kitchen.
"Don, go to bed!"
There was no reply.
Odd.
"That's weird." I said.
There came a thump, the kind you get when someone falls down. I looked at April, she shared my worried look. We quickly ran out to the living room.
April gasped. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
A/n sweet a new fanfic :P more for me to work on thank god for spring break
R&R please - darkangle out
