Near Death CH. 3

Raph's P.O.V.

It's been almost a full week since Spike's attack to the lair. Mikey still barely wakes up and when he does, it's usually no more than a couple minutes then he just slowly drifts back off into his unconscious. I try to make Mikey as comfortable as I can, but he keeps wanting to move to the main room which Leo said he wasn't allowed in there for some reason. I just hate seeing him like this, it's just like that time when he got captured by that Bradford guy. He was so sad, I couldn't bear to look at him for more than a few minutes. April comes by a lot just to make sure that Mikey and rest of us are all right. She's actually here right now and she pushed me out of Mikey's room just so I could give him more room to breathe. What the shell does she mean by that?! Leo is always telling me that I should get out of the lair once in a while, but shell no! I'm not leaving! What if Spike attacks the lair again?!

"Raph! Come on!" Leo was calling from the main room, "It's time to head out!"

"No way! What if Spike comes back?!" I keep on arguing with Leo about this almost every day, but we seem to get nowhere in the argument, "I can't risk losing more than one brother!"

Leo sighed. He knew that he was getting nowhere with me on this argument, "Listen, would it make you feel better if you knew that sensei was watching Mikey? So then you could only have to worry about me and Donnie?"

I pondered over what he had said. It would make me feel better if that was the case, "Yeah that would help…"

Leo let out a sigh of relief, "Good, I'll go ask sensei if he agrees with this…" Leo walked out of the main room and into Master Splinter's room.

"Leonardo… what brings you here?" Splinter asked while he was meditating.

"Well Sensei, we were just wondering if you could watch over Mikey while we were out… it would be the only thing that would get Raph to come out with us." Leo responded.

Master Splinter was silent for a little bit then he stood up, "But of course… if it will get Raphael to go outside and get some fresh air."

Leo let out a sigh of relief, "Good…" Leo walked out of Master Splinter's room and back to his brothers.

No One's P.O.V

"Well? What did he say?" Raph questioned as Leo walked up to them.

"He said that he would watch Mikey." Leo happily responded. Leo was glad that finally he and Donnie had gotten Raph to come outside and go on patrol with them.

Leo led his brothers outside while Splinter went to his youngest son's room and took April's place by the side of Mikey's bed.

Outside

Raph was having a race with his older and younger brother. He knew that he would usually beat them easily without any trouble, but tonight he purposefully let Donnie win which earned him a weird look from both Donnie and Leo.

"Raph? You okay?" Donnie questioned him, "You don't usually let either of us win."

Raph mumbled his answer without much thought, "Yeah… Yeah… I'm fine…"

Leo and Donnie exchanged glances then Leo walked up to Raph, "Hey, is this about Spike?"

Raph gave him a 'what do you think Fearless?' look.

"Oh…" Leo replied.

"Uh, guys?" Donnie began to say.

Leo and Raph looked over at their younger brother then both of their eyes widened. Standing no more than a few meters away was Spike.

"Donnie!" Leo yelled, "Get out of there!"

Donnie didn't even hesitate one second and quickly retreated behind Leo.

"Get back here you little pest!" Slash yelled at Donnie. He picked his club and rested on his shoulder.

"I will not let you hurt my brothers Spike!" Raph yelled angrily. He pulled out his Sai while Donnie and Leo pulled out their weapons as well.

Slash grunted and a smirk spread across his face, "Oh I'm not going to hurt them… I just want to kill them so we can do things on how they were originally going to be." He lunged at Leo catching him off guard and whacking him hard sending him crashing into the wall of the building.

"Leo!" Raph screamed. He narrowed his eyes then quickly charged at Slash and rammed him into the alley.

"I don't want to fight you Raphael… but you leave me no choice!" Slash swiped his club at Raph sending him flying into Donnie. While Raph was recovering from the impact with his brother, he noticed that Leo was gone.

"Leo?!" Raph called out. He looked around and saw Slash dragging Leo by one foot away.

"Spike!" Raph angrily charged at Slash, but Slash knocked Raph away and made his escape dragging Leo down with him.

"NO!" Raph yelled in vain. Tears started to form in his eyes and run down his cheeks, "H-He got L-Leo… HE GOT LEO!" He fell to his knees punching the ground hard.

Donnie was watching all this happen, "Raph…" He silently called. He walked up to his older brother and helped him up to his feet and pulled him into a hug, "It's going to be okay Raph… I promise…"

Raph nodded and rested his head on his brother's shoulder. They were going to find Leo, they had to! "Don't worry Leo… we're coming for you!"