I wrote this little drabble as a comment in an Donnie x April pic: Only for a Day by *BrushBell on deviantART. This is an updated version. Bronies will notice the MLP reference. Hope you like it!
Shakespeare: The Eyes are Blind...You Have to Look With Your Heart.
Donnie was severely wounded. As a human, he probably would not survive his injuries. What he didn't knew is that the effect was passing. April ran to his rescue.
"Donnie! Speak to me! Are you okay?"
The purple clad boy slowly and hardly opened his eyes. He smiled when he saw the girl of his dreams.
"April?" He forced himself to lean forward and embrace her slowly. "I'm sorry..." he said with a weak voice. "I'm really an idiot..."
The redhead's eyes widened in shock. She pulled back a little to observe him. "You? An idiot?"
Donnie felt a sharp pain in the chest, but he felt her arms preventing him from falling.
With an effort, he managed to face her.
"I thought...that being a human...not a green mutant freak...I...I could..."He was almost crying, but he felt the girl's finger over his lips.
"You could have a chance with me?" Donnie was shocked. It looked like she was reading his thoughts.
"This...this is ridiculous! Donnie...I don't care what you are..." She caressed his face as she spoke. "Human...mutant...I don't care at all...I just...want you to...be there for me..." Tears appeared in her blue eyes.
"Please...Donnie..." April moved to embrace him. "D...Don't leave me...I...I love you..." He slowly wrapped his arms around her as she sobbed, and felt his eyes closing. Right in that instant, the transformation effect passed.
The orange-haired girl thought it was too late to save him...until she felt a cold three-fingered hand on her neck. Startled, she broke the embrace, and what she saw nearly made her broke in tears of joy: Donnie was no longer a human brown-haired teenager: he was that mutant ninja turtle again...the same mutant she met before...and he was fine! Donnie opened his eyes and analyzed his once-again reptillian body, Then he smiled at her, also almost crying of happiness.
"April...I'm fine! And I'm alive!"
"Oh, Donnie!" April threw herself into his arms, and felt his hands stroking her orange hair again.
"But how?"
"Honestly...i don't know either..."
April observed the turtle's face. His eyes were expressing sadness. "Are you okay?"
"I...I don't know...I...just wanted to be that guy for you...I wanted to be...perfect..." April stroked his face, and he turned to face her.
"But you are! Just being you...you're... you are perfect, Donnie."
"No, I'm not perfect...you are!" At the end of that true love declaration, their faces approached slowly, and their lips touched. Finally...their first kiss. Both felt a huge weight off their backs while they deepened the kiss, embracing each other.
While the two were kissing, the other three turtles observed. Raphael could not take all that emotion, and wiped a tear from his eyes.
"Darn it! Now you've got me acting all sappy!"