Written for Snee, Jee, and Chi! I was in a pissed off mood when i did this.
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Who am I. Well. I'm just Me: Hm... Confusing? *looks at last chapter* How? :) Well maybe you'll understand a bit more on this chapter. No Raphael and Leonardo were not a couple. Yes, Raph is taking Leo's 'abuse' because he is protecting Mikey. It's a small 'Mikey/Raph' Pairing XD Anything else, I'll reply and explain.
Outcast of Pain
Chapter Four: Arduous Subjugation
The morning was sown with pain, anger, resentment, and the thoughts of actual death. He had found his brother, Leonardo, and now he was suffering the utmost horrors at the turtle's hands. The petty things were the violent outburst, the small cuts and scratches, and the punishment. The worst was the threat to Mikey's safety, rape at Leo's hands, and waking up in a puddle of his own blood. He knew it was far too early for Mikey to come seek refuge in his room, but it was far too soon for him to know how bad Leo had lost it also.
"God," Raph's voice was hoarse. "If ya up there… can ya… fix my family?" he closed his eyes laughing. He still loved his family enough to ask something that may or may not be there to fix his hell? Peachy!
Time seemed to shift in and out as Raph tried to move, failing every time, before he just laid there seeing his ceiling, splattered in blood, and his eyes turned to look at the door countless times from the faintest sounds. He just couldn't bring up the energy to get up and make sure Mikey never saw him like this. To lock his door.
All Raphael could do was lay on the ground weak and broken. His breathing and beating heart his only company until the moment he was dreaded came. Soon, his heart beating rapidly, he heard Mikey's steps nearing his door.
"Raph?" Mikey's voice behind Raph's steel door. "Hey, are you okay?" Raph made an attempt to move but he couldn't feel his body. Was he a mess? Would Mikey see what Leo had done? "Raph, I'm coming in, okay?"
No… No, don't come in, don't see me like this! Mikey, please! Tears prickled Raph's eyes as his door was opened. The light that streamed in was dim at most, but that didn't' matter. It was still bright enough that Raph heard Mikey stop only a step into the room crying out his name.
"God, Raph… Raph… no…" Mikey was crying. IT was his entire fault, all Raph's fault. "Don!" Mikey screamed rushing out of the room to his brothers, the genius.
"Damn it Mikey!" Don stated being dragged into Raph's. "Holy…" Raph felt his shame rise even worse. Another thing his brother could hold over him. "Raph…" hesitant, scared, sad… disbelieve. "Oh god… Raph…" shaking hands began to push against his chest to start shaking him.
"Hurts… don't…" Raph hissed out weakly.
"RAPH!" Mikey threw his body onto Raph's hugging him tightly. "I thought you were dead!" Raph laughed forcing his eyes opened to look at Mikey then to shift over to Don.
"Tired… 'igh'." He stated closing his eyes again before they were flew open as Don pushed harder on his chest making him silently scream out curling into a ball.
"Don't fall asleep!" Don hissed in anger. "You… you look like you just through yourself off the empire state building! What did you do to yourself! Are you trying to get pity, huh, Raph?"
"You think he did this to himself?" Mikey gasped in disbelief. "Raph is many things, Donnie, but he's not suicidal or an attention whore!"
"How would you know, huh?" Don spat out as he stood up forcing Mikey to do the same. "Why is it that 'he' found Leo, Mikey? He's probably the one who kidnapped him… hurt him… did all that stuff! Why don't you think for once about WHY during Leo's episodes he always calls Raph's name?"
"You're lying!" Mikey pushed Don back before Raph blinked twice his brother on the floor screaming in pain as he clutched his arm. Don's staff was out, his breathing heavy, but his eyes were filled with panic and fear.
"Get out!" Raph weakly yelled forcing himself to stand his fear for his youngest brother over powering all his pain and sore muscles. "Out… of my room… Don." He felt dizzy his world spinning as he widened his stand his arms around his chest but his glare was stronger than he'd ever felt it directed at any person, even this 'Leo'.
"I … I didn't mean to…. Mikey, Raph… I-."
"Get the fuck outta my room!" Don turned running out of the room as Raph closed his door locking it before collapsing to the ground pain over running every part of his body. Just what had Leo done to him!
His eyes traveled to Mikey who whimpered continuing to hold his arm. He felt horrible watching his brother knowing that under his pain he was most likely struggling to understand what had just happened to cause his brother, the pacifist in the family, to suddenly lose himself in rage and attack. Raph knew. He knew the second that Don entered his room that Mikey would see the true face of his family. See what he saw every day now. He never wished this for Mikey and it was far too late to even pull him up to the warmth of his family, all except Leo.
"Mikey?" he coughed twice before dry swallowing. "Ya okay?" Mikey whimpered. "Come on, bro, speak ta me!" Raph forced himself to crawl over to Mikey's prone body shivering, even going so far as FLINCHING at Raph's soft touch to his shoulder. "Damn it! Mike, I can't help ya if ya don't tell me where it hurts!"
Mikey uttered a weak, "Arm." As he shifted wide panicked eyes to Raph.
"Shush… yer fine…" he touched the arm seeing a contusion but it wasn't broken… he smiled. "A nasty bruise though… but yer fine." He pulled Mikey closer into a hug covering him in his own blood but pleased that he was fine. Gratified that it wasn't something that would hinder his brother and his new escape plan. "Ya wanna get outta here, Mikey?" Mikey hic-cupped a yes. "Good cause ya not stayin' here no more… not with them doin' this ta ya."
Raphael sat at the table a couple of days later, Mikey not even two feet from him eating his food, before Leo and Don came into the room. The two were silent as they watched the heated glare from both brothers.
"Mikey," Leo turned to watch Don begin to explain only to be silenced as Raph chuckled. "Shut up, I'm not talking to you." Leo turned his attention to Raph, his body still bound in a multitude of bandages from how severe the wounds Leo delivered to him were, who continued to laugh as he got up, the lacerations and bruises still clear on his skin that was not covered by Mikey's pour first aid job.
"Doesn't matta, Donnie, he ain't gunna listen ta scum like ya… so ya might as well leave da room." Both Donatello and Leonardo were shocked as Mikey pushed the bowl away standing up, bandages covered his shoulder to his elbow, something that had happened the day after Donatello's attack that he received from Splinter, before he walked next to Raph.
"Raph and I are leaving… it's obvious neither of us are welcomed here." If their shock could turn into disbelief and fear then it would have as Raph shoved them to the side moving.
"My sons?" Splinter called seeing this. "What is-?"
"Aint gunna listen to no rat no more." Raph spat. "And I aint ya son, Splinta, not when ya treated me like some freak." He had never felt so strong before, but Mikey… he had to keep his brother safe from these people who would threaten him… kill him… "Come on, Ape said we could crash at her place… by da way, Donnie boy, she aint too pleased with ya… Neither is Casey…" he gave a malicious grin as they bother turned leaving.
Raphael was half way up the ladder before he stopped, Mikey no longer visible, and looked at his broken family, "No matter what you've done to me, Leo, Don, Master, I'll still consider you family… no matter what you've done to me." And with that said he left through the sewers his eyes scanning the shadows for anything that seemed darker than the area around them.
THE END
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Not Really, one other chapter to explain Leo's situation to you all... Jee was forceful about it!
