The trip to the hospital took less than thirty minutes for Leo and though Lily was in no immidiate danger of bleeding to death, he was still worried. She'd lost more blood than he would have liked.

And had slipped into unconsciousness about ten minutes ago and was now a total dead weight in his arms as he sat croutched on top of a building across from the hospital trying to find an opening that would allow him to get her the help that she obviously needed.

He had been carefully considering his options for several minutes while anxiously shifting his gaze from the large medical facility across from him, then to Lily. She was paler than she had been a second ago, not only that but her body was shaking almost uncontrolably from the cold.

Or perhaps she was going into shock? He didn't know but he'd wasted enough time waiting.

She needed help now.

He stood up, holding her tightly against his plastron. Feeling her slight weight in his arms and started to step off of the roof when an ambulance pulled up and a couple of doctors and nurses rushed out to help unload it. This was it, the opening he'd been looking for.

He looked down at Lily again, her head was resting on his shoulder, her face was partially hidden by the drying blood and dark hair falling in her face.

"Hold on just a little bit longer, Lily." He said softly as he stepped off of the roof and let himself free fall until his feet connected with the ground. Then his years of training took hold. He stayed to the shadows as he made his way over to the ambulance then propped Lily up in a semi sitting position in the back of the vehicle. Then quickly went through her pockets to see if she had any medical insurance cards or something on her.

After all the last thing he wanted for her was to leave her in the care of people who would only let her suffer. He found a medical insurance card in the black leather wallet in her jacket pocket, along with a state ID.

And what looked like a broken medical bracelet tucked away in the back folds of the leather and frowned as he turned the metal over in his hands and read, Lily Ericson; CIP.

Leo's eyes widened in disbelief then a low growl escaped his throat. Motherfucker- His clan now owed not just any person a great debt, but a sick person. A really sick person if the words on the broken bracelet were any indication at all. Just what was CIP anyways?

He wasn't sure how to react to this information. To be honest he would have liked to be pissed, but he figured that Lily must have had her reasons.

He laid the broken bracelet on top of the insurance card laying on her left upper leg and reached down and ripped the L from his belt and quickly slipped his mask into her uninjured hand along with the patch. Then reached out and framed her face in his hands and whispered to her softly in japanese.

"I'll be watching you."

She stirred slightly in his grasp and opened her eyes and looked at him, her eyes unfocused. And everything in him froze. God she had the most lovely eyes he'd ever seen before in his life.

The warm turqouise color holding him enthralled for a moment before he heard the doors to the building a few feet away open with a 'Visssshhh' nearly causing him to jump out of his shell as he quickly stepped away from her, and moved back into the shadows where he could observe her being taken into the hospital without being seen.

Once he was sure that Lily was being taken care of, he turned and made his way to the nearest manhole and dropped down next to it so that he could pull it back just enough to squeeze himself through it.

(*************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************)

Don stood in his lab under some fluorescent lights, looking at an X-ray of Mikey's head when Splinter walked in. "Donotello?" Don hummed and looked away from the X-ray in his hand to look over his shoulder at his master.

"Mikey has a linear fracture to his skull." Don said aloud, answering the question that his master was too worried or afraid to ask.

"Is that good or bad, my son?" Splinter asked cautiously. Not wanting to get his hopes up when he could wind up losing one of the young ones that he'd raised. Don looked back at him over his shoulder again and set the X-ray down on his desk.

"It's good. It means that as long as he doesn't develop complications, Mikey should be back up on his feet and annying the shell out of us in no time at all. Though he'll have to avoid more head wounds. Which means no more skateboarding, patrolling is out for a while- Oh yeah, and tell Raph that unless he wants to watch Mikey literally die in his arms, he's not to smack him in the head. It could cause his brain to swell and bleed until it kills him."

Splinter nodded his head sagely as Don took a deep breath then asked, "Is Leo home yet? I want to know if the kid is alright."

Splinter looked at his son and shook his head slightly. The 'kid' his brainy son was speaking of must be the same one that Raphael had just finished telling him about a few moments ago. The one that had fought so hard to save his youngest son that now he and his whole clan in it's entirety now owed a life debt too. A life debt that he had no idea how they would repay.

"No. Leonardo is still gone." Splinter said absently as he wandered over to Mikey who was laying on the salvaged hospital bed that his brother had had brought in for emergencies, a thin blanket covering him to keep him comfortable. Mikey's normally soft emerald skin had taken on a sickly chalky green hue that had alarmed him greatly when his other two sons had carried him into their underground home almost an hour ago and started working on him.

But now he was just happy to see that his son was resting. The slight rise and fall of Mikey's chest assuring the old rat that his son was alive. He reached out and placed his clawed hand in Mikey's and smiled a little bit when his son's fingers curled around his own, gently gripping Splinters hand in his like he used too as a child.

He stood there for several minutes, reluctant to leave his son when he heard Raph call Leo's name in greeting and saw Don move towards the door of his lab to peek out and saw his son sigh and look back at him. "Leo's back." He said gently and Splinter nodded his head in understanding.

"You go. I will sit with Mikelangelo just a bit longer." Splinter said. Don nodded and said something about bringing tea for him when he came back then quickly ducked out the door to join Raph and Leo whom were already talking.

"So the kids okay?"

"I honestly can't answer that Raph. All I know is that she was taken into the hospital. What sort of treatment she gets there is questionable at best." Don raised an eye ridge at his eldest brother. Questionable? The hospital is a better place for her than here. She'd have a higher risk of infection. He thought. Though he was a mite curious about why Leo had said what he had said.

"Don could you do a computer search on an illness called CIP? I found a medical bracelet in Lily's wallet with her name on it." Don's eyes got so wide that the slightest pat on the back could have knocked his eyeballs right out of his skull he was so surprised. CIP. Wasn't that congenital insensitivity to pain? As in a person who felt no pain?

"Holy shit." He muttered as he started to turned around when Leo said,

"Oh and Don, I left Lily at North Ridge hospital...could you pull up her file so that we can see if she's being treated well there? I need to know her room number if they kept her, and how they treated her wounds. I also need you to use this-" Leo pulled out Lily's state ID. "To check for her current address. If she lives alone or not."

"You're not asking for much are you." Don said wryly.

"We owe her Donny." Leo pointed out in a growling tone. "The more we know about her, her illness and so on- the better we'll be able to repay her."

"Alright. Give me an hour or so." Don said as he took the state ID and turned to leave again when Leo said in a slightly hesitant tone.

"Hows Mikey?"

"He'll be good as new with some rest." Don said before asking.

"What happened to your mask? And the patch on your belt?"

"I...didn't have anything else to leave with her so I left those." Leo said, unable to stop the embarrassed flush that crept across his face.

"Well that's one way to tell someone 'welcome to the family'." Raph said with a smirk. Leo's blush deepened to a vivid purple as he lightly pushed Raph away from him so that he could go find their master and report to him.