Trapped Abroad

a/n: Next chapter, and I remembered my disclaimer for once. Yay! Anyway did I surprise you with the same place where Charles Darwin first thought about his theory of evolution by natural selection. This would have been a talking point for the twins, if they could speak at this point. The word for this Chapter is Grandpa, because I am sitting with my Grandfather as I am writing this authors note. Italics are thoughts, might not be as much writing on this one so only one 'apostrophe' will be used from now on. Enjoy! :)

Chapter 2

It had been a year, and none of the turtles had met a captain that was willing to take them to the mainland so that they could get home. So the paradise they had 'mysteriously' woken up in had become another place that they couldn't leave. Don had made whistles for them to use if they were in any danger. Not that there was that much danger on Isabela. But none of them wanted to get too close to the birds nests, or the Iguanas that constantly spit out the excess salt in their blood. Sam, Don and Leo were between the two islands making sure that the penguins weren't hurt by any of the boats of tourists. The others were off doing something else, like finding food and shelter.

Donatello was standing in the cool water, not just cooling off but helping a baby penguin learn how to swim. He hadn't seen the jellyfish come toward him and accidentally stood on it. In return the now sore jellyfish stung him. Before he could react he fell into the water with a massive splash. Sam seen him go under and pointed to Leo's whistle and then went down to the bottom of the rock pile and jumped in to the water. Leo blew his whistle as hard as he could, hoping that Raphael and Michelangelo were within hearing range.

Under the water Sam automatically seen the danger. Jellyfish. Don came into her line of site and it didn't look like he could make the effort to save himself. Sam grabbed the younger twin under his armpits and dragged him up to the surface. Leo was right there waiting for them, and the other two were waiting at the top. Leo took Don out of Samantha's arms to let her get up and quickly handed him to the others. When all of the turtles were away from the rocks and onlooking penguins. Sam pointed at Leo and then his mouth, and then herself and Don's Chest. Leo knew that they had to do CPR on their brother. Sam started and it was taking a while, then on the third try his tired brown eyes opened and looked at his siblings.

He tried to move then his face grimaced when he couldn't. 'I don't think that he can move' Mikey wrote in the dry dirt above the rocks. Raph nodded.
'That can be very dangerous for him. I warned him ages ago about the Jellyfish and he didn't listen.' Raph calmed down a little when Mikey patted his shoulder. Meanwhile Sam and Leo didn't know how they were going to help Donnie.

Seven days passed and the turtles waited for a ship to come to where they were. It was not easy, now they had to find food, water, shelter, and make sure that Don had everything he needed to survive. Michelangelo was walking around when he seen a ship come toward the channel. He ran back to the others. 'A ship is coming, this is our chance to get out of here. And save Donnie.' He wrote.
'They usually drop anchor for a while, use that time to tell the captain about Don's condition.' Leo wrote. The others nodded.

The ship had arrived

Sam and Raph went down to the captain. Sam made writing signals in the air. The captain had pen and paper on board and handed them to her. 'Can you please give us a ride to the mainland. Our brother was stung by a jellyfish he needs a doctor. He cannot move' Sam showed him what she wrote.
"How many are there of you?" He asked. Sam used her paper again.
'Five' The captain nodded.
"You look like you could use a break. Grab the other three and climb aboard." Sam thanked him silently and they ran to get the others.

They got a half concious Donnie to stay awake long enough to get on the boat. Although a week had done nothing but make his condition worse. He was now running a fever and looked like he was ready to throw up at any second. The journey felt like forever for the five teens. But eventually they pulled into the docks in one of the small towns in the archipelago. As lovely as it had been bonding with nature, after a year and a jellyfish stung brother they were all pretty happy to be back to civilisation.

They did the only thing they could think of and took Donnie to the doctor. He was immediately taken to the ICU area of the hospital. Where the doctors had attached him to a lot of machines. The turtles looked at one another, it was the most technology that they had seen in the last year. Don quickly fell asleep, giving the others incentive to leave his room.

They all went into a bathroom. Obviously Sam went into the girls. Looking into the mirror she didn't recognise the girl staring back at her. She was way to skinny to be healthy and her olive green skin looked darker than normal from exposure to the sun. The boys had the same problem and didn't realise that they too had had too much sun and not enough to eat.

One of the nursing staff must have picked up on this and walked over to them. "Hi kids, I was wondering if you could tell me if you are hungry enough to have anything to eat." Four teenagers looked at each other. Okay they were all starving and hadn't had anything to eat since the day before. Sam shook her head, it she wasn't hungry, but there was no way her older brothers were going to let her starve to death. Leo nodded. "Follow me then, I will make sure that you get some food." The turtles followed, some more reluctantly than others. And as it was the first proper meal they had in a year. They wanted to scarf it down as quickly as possible, but something told them that it was a bad idea so they ate slowly. Sam forced down the toastie that Leo made her order. Why do I let them talk me into doing things I don't wanna do.
 That is the best food I have ever tasted thought Mikey as he licked his plate clean. He watched as Leo made a writing gesture in the air. The nurse told them to stay put as she went and found some paper and pens.

'When can we go back to New York' Leo wrote. He showed the nurse and she looked at them surprised.
"If you guys aren't from here, then you need to at least wait until your brother is well enough to be transferred to another hospital." The nurse told them, the teens looked sad. Sam grabbed the pen and paper.
'Do you think that it would go through faster if our father was able to contact this hospital.' The nurse was surprised to hear about a father figure for the turtles but none the less said that it might have and that they shouldn't get their hopes up.

Upstairs Don had woken from his nap, he looked around the room as best as he could. His siblings weren't there and he couldn't communicate with anybody to ask where they had gone. A doctor came into the room and still Don couldn't feel it when he tapped his pen against the bottom of his feet. Nothing was working and all Don could do was shake his head. The doctor wrote something in his chart and left the room again. Don was alone again and he was feeling bored. After what seemed like forever his siblings walked into the room with a tray of food.

It was still weird for him having to be spoon fed like a baby, but he needed it and was starving. Raph grabbed the spoon off of the plate and sat on the bed. He put the plastic in the soup and guided it to Donnie's mouth. Stubbornly Don opened his mouth. He felt stuck, as if someone had put glue on his muscles to stop them from moving. Stupid jellyfish, now I can't even feed myself. He looked at Raph with his brown eyes as if pleading with him not to feed him any more. It was too hard on him and he couldn't tell them that.

Shit Donnie, you can't do it by yourself and none of us can tell you that. He looked back at Don nervously and once again tried to put the spoon in his mouth this time Don was having none of it and moved his face away. Raph looked back at him and once again tried to force the spoon into Don's mouth. Raph used his free hand to hold Don's face still for long enough to make him eat. Only Leonardo carefully took the spoon off of Raph and placed it in the bowl and moved the tray away. In the confusion the boys never seen their sister leave the room.

Angry Raphael tried to punch Leo for taking the tray away. Leo blocked it so Raph tried again. And Leo was still too fast. Mikey pushed them apart and pointed to the open door. Don lifted his head to try and see and it never worked. Leo seen this struggle and decided to lift the top of the bed up so he could see. Sam isn't shy about medicine why would she run off like that. Don thought. As a matter of fact, Samie had left to bring up the toastie that she had been made to eat.

In the morning the doctor came back and told them that they were being transferred to New York. After a lot of high three-ing, the same nurse that got them food the day before came in to prep Don for the helicopter journey. "Have you kids been in a helicopter before?" She asked them. They all nodded. "Fancy that. I wish I had been." Sam smiled at her sarcastically and looked at Mike who had the same kind of look on his face they left for the helicopter that would take them home.

And they had no idea that their father was one who made sure that they were transferred to New York that day.

a/n: Hahaha I love cliff hangers. See you next time and Six more days till Christmas 2015!