Chapter 6: Training and Pain Pills
Leo's POV
It's been four days since my training started, my whole body hurts. Sit-ups, push-ups, strength training for my leg. They won't get it through their heads, my leg is never going to be strong enough unless the bones are reset. It happens though…despite my warnings and attempts to explain…the bones snap and I end up on the floor screaming.
I hear them talking to me, trying to calm me down, I can't stop screaming…its worse than when it was broken the first time.
"…broken…bad…," I hear Don say.
"….but….did…happen?" I catch Mike sobbing.
I writhe away, chest heaving as I scream. The I'm gone, I'm out like a light.
Raph's POV
He's been trying to tell us, shell, why didn't we listen? The leg was wrong…the bones were wrong. Don's got him under an X-Ray thing and we know now that the bones in his leg never healed up properly. It's been a ticking bomb, just the right pressure at just the right angle and the bones snapped. I feel sick, that I pushed him so hard, when he knew that the leg was bad.
He's out cold right now, passed out after a few seconds of enduring that agony. April's calling the doctor that we were going to take him to in a few more weeks, I glance up as Don says my name for the fifth time.
"Yeah?" I manage.
"Help me move him Raph," Don orders.
I get up and lift Leo's trembling body, his quaking hands the only sign that he's even semiconscious.
"Hold on Bro," I whisper to him.
We take him topside where April's waiting for us in her van, Master Splinter huddles in the front bench with Leo, who is whimpering now, he's coming back around.
Don's POV
How did I not see his leg was wrong?
How????
I feel sick, my brother, my poor brother is in agony and the only way to help him is to risk our exposure.
Master Splinter is cradling him. The makeshift splint I made for him is all that is keeping his leg still…and every bump is making Leo whimper.
We get there, at the clinic and April rushes in, it seems like years before the doctor and April come out.
They have a stretcher and another man comes out to help move Leo over.
We wait for hours in a back room, waiting to know if the damage can be fixed. They call me in to help after a while, needing someone who knows our physiology better.
Mikey's POV
They just told Don to come in and help, its been hours, its just his leg…should it take this long to fix it? I don't know, I don't.
But I can't get the sound of Leo screaming in agony out of my head. The way he sobbed as Don tried to get a look at the injury.
I glance up as Don comes back out looking relieved.
"They've got it set right," he sighs.
I think we literally just let the breath we'd been holding out. Raph relaxes, the tension in his shoulders vanishing.
Two days later I slip into the room they've given Leo and catch sight of him sleeping. He looks relaxed.
I walk over and sit beside him, fumbling with the book I grabbed out of his room to bring him.
"Leo?" I whisper.
"L-le-leg b-br-broke…n-n-not…d-de-dead," he mumbles.
I can't help but laugh as he glares at me, but he smiles a little and laughs.
"You ok? Does you leg hurt?" I ask softly.
"P-pa-pai-pain p-p-p-pills," he gets out.
"I brought your book for you," I tell him, helping him sit up as I hand over the precious book.
He smiles and grips the book with determination, his hands are shaking bad. But he's smiling.
"T-Th-than-thanks," he whispers.
"No prob bro," I tell him.
I glance up as the door opens to see Raph and Don coming in, arguing softly about who should go first.
I hear Leo chuckle and they look toward us.
"I think he's ok with all of us in here," I tease.
Raph snorts and comes in first, walking over and sitting on the opposite side, carefully moving around Leo's elevated leg.
Don follows suit, pulling up a chair at the foot of the bed.
"You doing ok?" he asks.
Leo nods and promptly opens the book I gave him, ignoring us instantly.
We all bust up laughing, I can hear Leo laughing behind the book.
At least everything's ok now, Leo's leg is straight, he might actually be able to walk now rather than drag the leg.
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