It had been 3 days since Donnie was reverted from monster back to Don. He has been forced to remain on bed rest for at least a couple of weeks, so a relapse could not occur.
One day, being the fourth day of his recovery, Don awoke early at 5 a.m. He limped through his and Leo´s shared room over to the living room couch using his Bo staff as support for his wobbling legs. He carefully laid himself down on the couch, lucky for him there were bundles of blankets on the couch. So he just laid his head down on a pillow and tucked himself in the blankets. He started thinking about what had occurred over the past 3 days. He remembered wanting to help with the chores the previous day, but his brothers nearly trampled him over with blankets and pillows as they quickly took him back to his bed saying that he needed to rest. He was annoyed, he wasn´t very accustomed at resting for so much time since he usually never had any sleep at all from sometimes working all day and night in his lab. The most he would rest after a finished project was one day or less. Yet, he knew his brothers were only doing it because they cared about him and for his own good. So he decided to surprise everyone, Casey, April, Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Master Splinter by doing all the house hold chores early before everyone woke up at 8 a.m., but his fatigue was winning. His weak body was screaming for some rest.
No, he thought. I have to stay awake!
But, soon he felt his exhaustion win though. He sighed; he had to wait until his body was stronger, and more stable. Hopefully tomorrow, he thought. He snuggled in and felt all the blankets fall on top of him, covering him from head to toe to staff in his hands. He ignored it and fell asleep, slowly drifting into wonderful dreams of new inventions and memories of when his and him were young.
At 8 a.m. Master Splinter was in a deep meditative trance. He, himself, was also remembering memories of the past. If one looked closely, he had a small smile on his face…
Mikey had woken up to make breakfast, Raph had woken up and was sparring in the dojo, and Leo, being Leo, was laying in his bed talking to ¨Don¨ (actually he was doing all the speaking, thinking someone was listening to him), whom he thought was in the bunk bed below him.
¨So what do you think Donnie¨asked Leo.
No response
¨Donnie?¨ asked Leo worriedly.
Silence
Leo got down from his bed and looked closely at Don´s bed, whom had a bundle covered by pillows. He lifted the blankets up anf off of the bundle. He was expecting to see Donnie snoring away or at least screaming at Leo, ¨What you do that for?¨, prying his stolen soure of warmth from Leo and going back to sleep. Was Leo surprised when he discovered a bundle off pillows!