A/N: How do computers know when you're in a rush? I wanted to post this real quick before I had to go do counseling, but Google Chrome crashed on me.

Anyway, I started this one a while ago, and then ended up being put on hold to work on other things (managed to maintain my 4.0!), and...yeah. Oh well, it's done.

Disclaimer: Is this in the show? The answer to that is the same as my answer to whether or not I own it.

Leo didn't know what woke him from his sweet sanctuary of sleep. All he knew was that he was slowly being pulled out of the blanket of unconsciousness and was becoming aware of his surroundings.

Suddenly his "big brother sixth sense" (as the others "lovingly" called it) kicked in, telling him that something was wrong with one of his brothers.

He couldn't go back to sleep with that feeling.

His mind made up, the leader pulled himself out of bed and eased his way to the door. It most likely was Mikey—the poor kid had too many nightmares, and today probably would add to that.

Just another way he had failed as a brother today.

The normally-blue-banded turtle walked out of his own bedroom and made his way down the hall to his youngest brother's room. Sure enough, the smaller turtle was thrashing about, caught in the threshold of a nightmare.

Leo carefully crossed the dangerous terrain known as Mikey's bedroom (seriously, did he ever clean?) to get to the child's bed and gently sat down near him. "Mikey?" He gently grabbed the younger one's shoulder and gave a small shake. "Mikey, wake up. You're having a nightmare."

"Donnie!" Mikey screamed out when he finally awoke, looking around the room in panic as he tried to catch his breath. "Where's Donnie?!"

"Mikey, calm down. Donnie's fine, it's you I'm worried about. What were you dreaming about?"

The younger ignored his older brother, instead pouncing out of his bed and running to his doorway (tripping numerous times on the various junk lying about) right as a scream came from Donatello's room.

"Mikey!"

The two youngest of the turtles met up with each other in the hallway (with their older brothers closely following) and nearly knocked each other over with the force they were going at.

"Are you alright, Mikey?" the genius asked as he scanned Mikey with his eyes for injuries.

"Yeah, what about you?" Mikey responded as he did the same thing, pulling his lanky brother into a hug when he didn't see anything.

"Yeah…"

While the two younger brothers hugged, Raph and Leo exchanged a look, then nodded in agreement.

They weren't leaving their little brothers alone again.

"C'mon, guys, let's camp out in the living room," Leo suggested as he and Raph guided the partially clingy younger two towards the living room before leaving to get blankets and pillows.

Finally, after much moving about, the four of them were laying in a pile with Mikey and Don in the middle.

"You guys alright now?" Leo asked as he pressed himself against Donnie's shell and pulled the blanket over them before wrapping his arms around his younger brother.

"It was…"

"We were a bit shaken up over what happened…"

"If you guys hadn't have come when you did…"

The two older brothers understood; Dogpound worked for Shredder, and Shredder wanted them dead. There was no way they weren't threatened.

'And I didn't do anything. I'm a horrible older brother…'

"Are you guys okay?" Leo asked, hoping most of his fears weren't true.

"He just threatened us…Only time he really hurt us was when he pinned us down harder than necessary," Don explained as he gently squeezed Mikey's arm. There was no way he was mentioning how Dogpound had slammed his fist into the wall right next to his head while they were chained down.

"A-Alright…We're sorry we didn't get there sooner…"

"You guys couldn't—"

"We were being stubborn and stupid," Raph explained as he gently pulled Mikey closer to him. "We…We needed your help, but we waited until it was almost too late…You guys weren't answering your phones…and that's how we knew you needed help…"

"Guys, we knew we couldn't handle Dogpound—but we didn't want you guys to keep seeing us as 'the B-Team'…" Donnie explained as he gently squeezed Mikey's arms for both their comfort. "We risked our lives thanks to a stupid training session…"

"We're all safe now, though...So let's just get to sleep. I don't know about you guys, but I'm beat!"

The older three all smiled at the youngest's reasoning as he snuggled closer to Donnie so that he was nuzzling his neck and all four of them eventually fell asleep, knowing that their brothers were safe.

A/N: You know, I thought about adding Splinter to the end of this...then my dad reminded me why I suck at writing decent father figures.

And in case it's not that clear (because it isn't really...), Don and Mikey both were having nightmares of what could have happened had Leo and Raph not come when they did.

So...Yeah. Hope you enjoyed, and as of now, the next chapter for this will be based off of...*looks* I did that already-Okay, it's gonna be "I, Monster" and-fudge. Why do I do this to myself?

Haha, whenever the next chapter is up, you'll get to see my attempt at Splinter!

Love y'all!