(A/N: I'm taking out that old goal… I'm probably not going to even update Only the Night Can Hear Me Screaming (Let alone post multiple chapters) until AFTER New Year's… And this story is four chapters long and had pretty short chapters. Have a nice time reading it, and please review. The POVs are the chapter names…)

You can always be close to success…

My family has been acting strange for a while now. No one really hangs out anymore. Well, we do, but in our own groups. It's been Don and I as a group and Raph and Mike as a group ever since Master Splinter died all that time ago. Raph and Mike spend every second of every day together. Don and I? I don't know if it's possible to spend more than every second of the day together, but Don and I are doing it. If he wants to invent something, I am at his side as his assistant. If I want to practice, he is there with me, sparring. At night, both of us are too scared to sleep alone because of the nightmares… So we sleep in the same bed. We are closer than ever.

Yet, it still feels strange without Mike and Raph around us. We are not a foursome anymore… And it just doesn't feel right…

"Leo? You okay?" Don asked me, pulling me out of my thoughts. He was just sitting beside me. How did I not notice he left? I nodded quickly and looked down in shame. "Mike brought up something… Very important…" He was talking to Mike?

"What is it?" I ask. It's been a while since we've talked about our other two brothers.

"He and Raph want to be able to hang out with us again." He answered. I sighed, although I felt like jumping up and down. Finally, we will get to be our group of four again!

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Things are now going great. The four of us even ate dinner together this evening. We all are watching the television together now. It's so great that we are all together again. But I still have to patrol tonight. I don't really want Donnie to come with me tonight… He needs to spend time with Raph and Mike. I stand up and stretch.

"Well, I better go and patrol the city…" I start. Donnie gets up and tries to follow me. I set my hand on his shoulder. "You stay here, bro."

"What?? Why?" He asks. I look to our other brothers.

"You need to spend time with these guys. Because we've spent a long time together, and we don't need more time. They need more time with you… Family's all you got…" I reply. He nods and sits back down. I leave our Lair, proud of our family's significant relationships.

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I jump from rooftop to rooftop, checking each alleyway and store, making sure no crime would get past me. Suddenly, a scream comes through the air. I sprint toward the sound. I look down and see a Purple Dragon member trying to mug a harmless woman. I jump down and pull the woman away from him. I go to pull out my swords, when the gang member smiles. Out of the blue, I am knocked to the ground. I look up and see the woman smiling at me. I fell into a trap… I am being held down by two other gang members that came out from the shadows, and I am defenseless. I feel a cold barrel of a gun being pressed to my temple.

"Say good night, freak…"

Those are the last words I hear before a gunshot sounds and my world turns to black.

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Don POV (I have to have reactions!!! So not the whole chapter is going to be in Leo's POV…)

Leo's been gone for a while. He usually gets through with patrol really fast… Well, when him and I patrolled, we lacked crime fighting. We always just wanted to get home. He might be actually looking… No. He still wouldn't take this long…

"Guys… Leo's been gone too long... We should look for him…" I suggest. Mike nods and follows me to the door. I look behind us and see Raph following as well.

We hit the surface and climb up to the rooftops. We are jumping from the surface to surface, when we hear a gunshot. I feel my heart beating harder with worry. What if that was with Leo? I hope I'm not right…

We head toward the noise. I feel bile rise in my throat at the scene.

So much blood… Surrounding my lifeless older brother's body… I walk over to him and collapse to my knees. The ones who killed him already fled the alleyway. I hear sobbing and turn to see Mike on the ground crying. Raph's leaning against the brick wall, his face pale. I crawl my way to my younger brother and pull him into my arms, trying to comfort the both of us.

"T-This isn't supposed to happen… We are supposed to be together now… We're supposed to be a family again… This can't be happening… We can't be a family without Leo!" He choked out. I realize that I was crying then. Crying because my older brother was dead… And…

My little brother was completely right.

But failure will always creep beside you, holding you back…