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Chapter 2: Doesn't Remember?

Unbeknown to his brothers Donnie hadn't hung around but instead had taken off at a run outside the lair. With his long legs running wasn't exactly a problem. He just wanted some time alone to accept what he had just heard, and running away for a bit was the only thing that seemed to help. He knew running away from his problems was not a good long term solution, but he wasn't after a long term solution. Right now he would settle for a short one. He had been feeling depressed the last few days. Ever since April had started to withdraw from them. Was she bored of them? Was a part of her still angry with them because of what had happened to her father? Had he done something wrong? Was she just making excuses not to come see them? She's even been slacking her training with Master Splinter. But now it turned out that it was because April had in fact made her choice and Casey had won. Well of course he had. He was human, and as much as Donnie hated to admit it, he was a nice guy…

After 15 minutes of running he slowed down to a fast pace, not at all thinking about where he was going. No venturing top side tonight. He had a feeling a run-in with the mutants or Foot ninjas tonight wouldn't do him any good. The turtle just wanted to find a small dark hole to climb into and stay there.

Another 10 minutes passed before his walking slowed down and eventually came to a stop. The tunnels were pretty dark around him now, which suited him just fine. Finding a random step leading into another tunnel Donnie sat down. A cold breeze nipped at his neck sending a chill under his shell. Just by his foot there was a large puddle of water. Donnie didn't care to think about what was in it, but he could clearly see his reflection. The outline of his round face, green skin, and gapped tooth in the distorted puddle just seemed to maximise the cruel and mocking truth of just how much of a freak he really was. Raph was right. How could he even have thought that he had a chance with a beautiful girl like April? He felt so foolish. If only she had found another way of telling him about her and Casey rather than just avoiding them… him. She didn't want to hurt his feelings, but he would rather just have her there then not at all.

Donnie sighed sadly. He was a freak and he must accept that. He could pretend to be happy for them at least. Yes. One thing Don was good at was pretending. Pretending that he didn't feel left out. Pretending that he was something he wasn't. Pretending that his heart wasn't breaking… That was something he was good at almost as much as making things.

Lost in thought about the pretty red head, the strange smell that suddenly filled the tunnel caught the turtle off guard. He blinked rapidly as it made his eyes start to sting. Donnie looked up, "What is that?"

Strange smells in the sewers were quite normal, but this one, it didn't seem to belong. The best description he could think of was burning human waste in charcoal. He grimaced as it became stronger, but there was something else about the smell to. It was very… familiar. Where had he smelled that before…? Donnie suddenly gasped as a sound reached his ears! Music? There was music… in the sewers? The Purple clad turtle looked around him… Could be just an echo from the surface. But it wasn't any hip hop like on a radio or anything… No someone was playing a… was that a flute? "Strange," he thought, but Donnie tried not to think anything more of it as he looked about the empty narrow space around him. The sound was quite soothing…. even a little…. alluring.

"I want to be your friend…" A sudden whisper came out of the dark and Donnie almost jumped into his shell.

In one swift move Donnie hopped up and backed away. "Who's there?" He called out. No answer. The turtle looked about him. Having been raised in the shadows all four of them were good at seeing in the dark, but Don saw no one. He quickly went to reach for his bo-staff. He had heard someone whisper he was sure of it.

It was only then Donnie noticed a work man's ladder just a few feet away, which obviously led up to the streets through a manhole. The ladder was very rickety. Not at all secure like the others down here, and yet it looked familiar. Donnie then looked up above him towards the manhole. "I wonder which part of town that comes out too?" He said to himself. If Donnie had had any hairs on his neck they would have been standing on end. Alone in the narrow tunnel, that voice had come from nowhere. Donnie backed away a little. He should go… only, where was he? The turtle looked around. This tunnel didn't look like one of the places his brothers and he have passed through often. Had he been so distracted that he wondered into a place he didn't even know? There didn't seem to be any workman lights, which were normally all over the sewers. In fact this tunnel looked like it had been out of service for years, judging by the grimy and crumbling stone work. The eerie feeling increased.

"Who's there?" Donnie said again as he started to make his way back out of the tunnel.

"Don't go." Said the nothingness again. Donnie gasped. He knew that voice, and with it brought a feeling that seemed to constrict his breathing. There was somebody here. Somebody he couldn't see… What was going on? To his shock Donnie backed out of the tunnel and straight into his brother, Mikey!

"Jeez Donnie you scared me out of my shell!" His baby brother looked a cross between surprised and happy to see him. Raph and Leo were right on his heels. All three were puffing slightly from the exertion of catching up with their long legged sibling.

Had they come looking for him after he had left? A little relieved he looked back down the tunnel where he had just emerged from. The smell still lingered in his nose and the back of his throat. It made his head hurt. But there was nothing to see and no one there.

Donnie placed a hand over his heart. It was pounding. He decided to do himself a favour and blow it off as shock from his brothers just appearing. "How…how the shell did you find me?"

Mikey just held out his phone. "You're not the only one who can use the tracker bro." He declared this while doing a little fist pump, obviously proud of his achievement.

"Ok let me rephrase that. Why are you here? I was on my way back." He asked trying to sound like he hadn't just been on the verge of a panic attack.

To answer his question Raph stepped forward. Rubbing the back of his neck with his eyes glued to the floor. A clear sign that he was uncomfortable with what he was about to say. "Hey bro. I guess I, well I just wanted to say….sorry…! I didn't mean… well I did mean, but I shouldn't have been so harsh." His hot headed brother's attempt at an apology brought an involuntary small smile to Don's face. He really did hate saying them. Donnie decided to be kind and spare his poor brother. After all Raph was just saying it how it was. He could pretend.

"It's ok Raph I get it. I'm a freak. Got to stop fooling myself." Donnie tried to say in a blow off tone. The three frowned. Donnie shouldn't be putting himself down. How did the smart brother have this uncanny ability to make them feel bad, even when he was agreeing with them?

"No Donnie I don't mean that-" Raph tried to protest but his brother had already walked passed them heading for home.

Well that hadn't done much to help ease the tension. Leo gave Raph and Mikey a look before they started following him.

"You sure you're ok Donnie?" Leo asked concerned. He knew his brilliant brother was upset and he wasn't fooled by Donnie's flippant manner.

"Yeah it's just….actually guys have we ever been here before?" Donnie, not at all keen to mention that he was hearing voices, instead decided he would just ask why this place felt so strange and yet so familiar to him.

Mikey looked at him curiously. "Errr yeah dude we are in the sewer all the time. We sort of live in it!" He said as though his Brainiac brother had just forgotten his own name. Donnie frowned, he didn't much like others pointing out the obvious to him, particularly Mikey.

"No I don't mean that. I mean here." Donnie pressed gesturing to the space around him. They were standing alongside the entrances to four tunnels. Apart from being a bit structurally unsafe, nothing appeared to interesting. "I was just down there and it just felt strange. I know we don't use these tunnels often, but it just feels a little familiar here -" Donnie stopped when he caught Leo looking around the place with the same eerie expression he had. Was it just the smart turtle's imagination or was Leo's colour draining from his face? This entire part of the sewers was a lot older than the rest of the labyrinth they used as access to the surface or a hiding place. There would be no reason for them to be here…?

"I think we may have just passed through it once or twice." Leo answered, talking so fast Donnie was sure the words were going to be suffering from whiplash.

"Have we?" Raph looked about him unsure. "By…the look of…it…it's…" Raph trailed off as once again he developed that same eerie look. Lucky Mikey was there to finish for him.

"Oh yeah. I remember this place. It's one of the oldest parts of the sewer. Workmen never liked coming down here because they said it was haunted." Mikey informed them as though he was reading them a story from his comic book. Donnie was just about to say what nonsense that was but that voice he had just heard kept his mouth shut but quickly dismissed the idea. Mikey was about to comment further when he caught the looks from his big brothers that told him he should maybe consider shutting up!

"I…I think we should be getting back. The pizza will need reheating." Mikey started shoving his smart brother back in the direction of home.

"Am I missing something here?" Donnie looked around questioningly at his brother's strange behaviour.

"Nope. Not at all bro. We just want to get home. I'm still hungry." Mikey continued to pull him along but Raph and Leo held back for a moment to exchange a look of uneasiness.

"Out of all the places he could have wondered off too, he comes down here!?" Raph shook his head in disbelief. "You don't think he remembers do you?"

"No I don't think so." Leo said a little too quickly. "He hasn't remembered anything in 10 years. Sensei made sure of it." Leo looked back at the long forgotten tunnel his brother had just come from, and shivered as the memories of a terrible day seemed to come towards him like a ghost.

"Let's go." Leo said quickly gesturing for his brother to follow him.

To be continued...

End notes: Poor Donnie... It's kinda cliffhanger. So, Don't miss it. I'll post the next chapter on next week as soon as I can

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