Raph ran home as fast as he could, carrying the unconscious girl like a baby while she was bleeding all over him. Bursting into the lair his brothers froze in shock at the sight that greeted them. Raph was covered in fresh blood, carrying a human who seemed dead and looking at Donatello with pleading eyes. Leo was the first one to break the silence.
"What have you done?" he asked, eyes wide like saucers, if the situation wasn't so serious Raph would have probably laughed at his brothers expression. As it was he just ignored him and instead turned to Donnie.
"I found her like this, she got caught in one of the traps Hun set for us. It looked like she fell down the manhole." Without another word Donnie ran forward, taking the girl into his arms and walking towards the lab. Raph heard a tiny whimper from behind him.
"We're monsters" Mikey cried, his eyes filling with tears. "Why does everyone want to hurt us? I know we look a little different, but we're the good guys, aren't we? But it's because of us that girl got hurt"
"Of course it's not our fault Mikey!" The blue-banded turtle exclaimed, "We help people who can't help themselves. That girl got hurt because Hun put out those traps, we help people, he hurts them, that makes us his enemy. People just doesn't like things that look unusual, we're just special, that's all." The youngest turtles eyes filled with tears.
"I don't wanna be special anymore," he sobbed "I don't even have friends, you guys are just my brothers."
His two older brothers embraced him, what else could they do? There was no way they could expose themselves to humans without frightening them, and a frightened human is a dangerous thing. They would try and hunt you down, to hurt you and your family, and that's all the brothers had, family. If that was taken away they had nothing left to loose.
Donnie gently placed the girl on his metal workbench before inspecting her injuries properly; her leg was still bleeding profusely, blood was all through her hair due to a nasty gash on her forehead and she was covered in bruises. Getting straight to work Donnie cleaned out her leg before stitching it up as quickly as possible, they couldn't afford to waste any anaesthetic on this stranger, so if she woke up now and saw a giant turtle all hell would brake loose. Cutting the thread and dressing the wound before putting a bandage around her head and adding an IV Donnie was satisfied that he had done all he could. Moving the girl to a comfortably large bed he wondered back towards his family.
"Dude if I don't eat soon I think I'm gonna die!" Mikey hollered; he was curled up in a little ball on the coach as if he hadn't eaten in a week.
It had been 4 hours.
"Get over it knucklehead" Raph growled menacingly, already over his previous good mood, he was sick of hearing his younger brother yell for the past half an hour, they were all hungry, but that was no reason to be a little bitch about it.
"If I could stop I would! But my tummy hurts so bad! I need food! I thought we were gonna have pizza! Think of that nice warm crust and that hot cheese that burns your tongue but you still want more and…"
Raph lunged across the room intending to make his brother shut up, but Leo was faster used to their bickering, stepping between them and raising an eye ridge the younger turtle backed off.
"Fuck this I'm getting some food" he mumbled, heading for the sewers exit. Leo attempted to follow him only to receive a threatening growl.
"Just leave him be, I'll go, he has no quarrel with me…yet" Donnie murmured before jogging after his brother, there was no way one of them should go to the surface alone, it was too risky in case there was an ambush. If captured that turtle could be used as bait, putting the rest of their family in danger.
Meanwhile at the lair Mikey had wandered into the lab to check on the human, they had never taken one home before, but had saved countless through their nightly watches. He didn't understand anything about them apart from they were slow and needed protecting. Nervously peering around the wall that separated the lab from Donnie's medical station he saw her lying in their medical bed. Creeping closer and closer until he was only a meter away Mikey held his breathe, not wanting to wake the girl, then tip toing right to her bedside. Letting out his breathe slowly Mikey sat watching her chest slowly rise and fall contently before curiosity overcame him.
He had always wanted to know what a human felt like, they looked kinda squashy and weird, but in a good way. Terrified of waking her and being seen he formulated a plan.
'Poke her and run' he smiled to himself, sure that this plan was bombproof.
Reaching out tentatively he poked the exposed flesh on her arm before turning gracefully and falling over the chair he had only just vacated, making a loud banging noise and automatically yelling "Shit!"
Scrunching his face up in apprehension he stayed very still on the ground, trying to not make a sound and looking back up at the girl.
Her eyes were wide open in shock, staring around the room, she hadn't spotted Mikey yet, but in only a matter of seconds their secret would be exposed. Thinking fast he kicked the chair across the room to catch the humans attention before rolling underneath the bed.
Hey everyone! Sorry for the short chapters, but I really hope you like it! If I only get 1 review it's still totally worth the time writing, and I write all the nice reviews I get on my wall and look at it when I'm feeling sad, so thanks for reading, I really really hope you liked it! 3
