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Chapter Four: Tim

As the truck bumped down a back road Leo's growls became louder and more nervous. the man in the front continued to talk in a calming manner. After a while Leo's growls stopped as he slipped into an exhausted sleep. His wounds and the cold eating at his strength. Finally the truck pulled into a fenced off facility. The place was large and spacious. Snow covered the ground. A large garage door opened and the man pulled the truck in. Leo jerked awake as the engine turned off. The man got out and closed the door, another man walked out and approached the truck. Leo started growling again.

"Tim! Shesh took you long enough. So where's the male? Ah!" called the second man.

Tim turned to acknowledge him but was almost too late to warn him about Leo's aggression.

"No Mitch! He's bites!" Tim warned loudly. Leo's growls increased and a snarl followed by a hissing sound rippled out from the crate as Mitch's hand came close. Mitch quickly pulled his hand back.

"Ehh? How'd you know...or did he bite you?" questioned Mitch.

"Tried to, poor thing's wrung pretty tight. I don't think they ever let it out of the crate." Replied Tim. He turned his attention on Leo again speaking in soothing tones. Leo's snarls stopped at the sound of Tim's gentle voice, but the nervous growls kept coming with every movement.

"I can tell the smell is horrible," said Mitch as he held his nose, "How can you stand being that close?"

"Go start up the fork lift and help me get him inside. Poor thing's got'a be freezing and we'll get'im cleaned up." replied Tim keeping the calming tone for Leo's sake.

After about twenty minutes Leo was inside a medical room. A large tub had been filled with hot water and five others were now awaiting the opening of the crate the door was left open to the outside...

Tim opened the crate and reached in talking in soothing tones. Leo's growls had been increasing and growing deeper.

"Careful Tim," whispered a blond haired girl. He nodded but reached further, he shouted in pain and jerked his arm back, blood hit the ground as Tim clutched his arm. Leo shot out of the crate like a bullet from a gun. He got nearly three feet from the door before a sickening snap send him sprawling. Mitch and two others grabbed him. Leo went berserk, twisting, kicking, snarling, and trying to bite.

The girl that had cautioned Tim rushed to his side, "Over here let me clean it out and get a good look." she urged. Tim twisted watching as the others attempted to restrain the male.

"Johnson, he's too wild he'll hurt the female! He just attacked Tim!" panted Mitch as he struggled to keep a good hold on Leo's thin frame.

The others nodded their agreement. The man named Johnson sighed and nodded moving over to a cabinet he pulled out a siringe.

"There are three other males, I guess we're just going to have to put this one down." he sighed as he approached Leo, "Hold him still."

If Leo had been fighting before he was waging a war now, every inch of his body straining to get away from that needle. Leo threw in all he had, desperate. I can't die like this!!! Leo's screamed mentally.

"NO!" shouted Tim leaping away from the girl and grabbing the needle just as it touched Leo's skin, "Johnson you can't!" Tim looked at Johnson, eyes pleading, "I'll work with him! Don't he's just scared sir! Please!"

Johnson watched him for a minute and sighed, "Grab me a sedative Anna...we'll have to knock him out then."

Relief and a smile erupted onto Tim's face. The girl that had been helping Tim came forward with another syringe, she gave it to Tim.

"Thanks Anna," he whispered. Leo's eyes had rolled into the back of his head and his whole body shook violently. Mitch and the others had him pinned down he couldn't move more than a few millimeters in any direction. Leo was completely out of his mind, unaware of the fact that his life was going to be spared. Tim gently inserted the needle, Leo's frame tensed and then relaxed as the sedative took hold.

"Ok let me finish fixing up your arm then we'll get to taking care of him," ordered Anna, pointing at Leo's now limp frame. Tim sighed but obliged watching the sleeping figure on the floor. Finally Anna was done and Tim moved Leo into the tub with the help of a now wary Mitch and nervous Anna. As they cleaned Leo's now limp frame Anna started crying. His infected wounds now visible, along with his horribly thin frame, making her shake her head. Tim's eyes were wild with rage as he gently cleaned Leo off, horrified that anything would be treated this way.

After they finished cleaning him off they tended to his wounds. Johnson pumped antibiotics into his system and Anna went to work on cleaning out the pus from the various gashes. X-rays were taken and a shocked group observed the damage to Leo's right leg.

"It's badly broken...sir...looks like twice... I don't think it was ever set in the first place!" exclaimed Anna, in horror.

Johnson looked at Leo and then at Tim, who was sitting next to the creature's limp body, " Pin it and wrap it in a soft cast until it's strong enough to be put in a hard cast. Mitch get an IV and clean out the biggest cage we have in this room. We need to be able to watch him at all times and have him on monitoring equipment. John we need to get some food in this poor thing. Move!" he ordered.

Tim sighed, his arm hurt badly, the poor thing wasn't as weak as it looked, it was a miracle that the bone in his forearm wasn't broken. As the others scrambled to obey Johnson, Tim remained where he was.

"Your in charge of him. When you think he's ready we'll put him in with the female." Said Johnson as he put his hand of Tim's shoulder.

Half an hour later Leo was moved into a large cage, blankets were put down for warmth and to soften the cage bottom, and He was hooked up to a Heart Monitor, an IV was put into his right hand, and the cage door was closed. The cage was large enough for Leo to sit up in and to lay down in comfortably. Tim sat there for a moment and then whispered, "Take it easy big guy, get some rest, your safe now." Leo's chest rose and fell slowly.

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Over the last four days Donnie had searched like a someone possessed tracking Leo's crate across multiple states. Finally he had found where Leo was. The others gathered to him as he finished hacking into the facility's system. A medical room was revealed to them and they could see a cage off to the side containing Leo. He was curled on his side, wrapped in blankets. Monitoring systems were outside the cage showing how weak Leo was.

Don quickly went through the security system's surveillance archives.

"He got there this morning" informed Don as he pointed out a truck pulling into the garage on a seperate screen. They all watched, shocked, as the mornings events unfolded, Raph had been right...Leo had lost his mind. To their relief Leo had a guardian angel, the man they now knew as Tim had prevented Leo from being "Put Down" like a dog. They watched as Leo was put into the cage, he was now in. Tim came in and checked on Leo every half hour or so.

"At least he is safe my sons...it would be best if we all followed Leonardo's example and rested. That means you too Donatello. Off to bed, we will check on him when we wake up." ordered Master Splinter.

"Hey Sensei?"questioned Mike.

"Yes my son?" replied Master Splinter.

"Did that Johnson guy say, the female?" Mike asked in interest.

They all got still as Don reran the conversation, and sat in stunned silence, when they confirmed what Mike had heard.

There was a female turtle, like them????

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