Here it is like I promised! I'd like to point out two things real fast.

1) I do realize that there is no actual "infirmary" or whatever in the 2012 version of TMNT. For our purposes, Donnie's lab has an infirmary.

2)I am not a doctor or anything, so I have limited medical knowledge. I'm trying my best. Feel free to correct me on anything.

I'm sorry this is boring. The next one will be more interesting. Just, try to enjoy or something. Thank you to everyone who faved, followed, and reviewed!

Disclaimer: I forgot to add this in the last chapter, but surprisingly enough I still don't own them.

Leo watched as April rubbed her tired eyes. She was doing exceptionally well considering the circumstances, and in retrospect they really were lucky to have her. Due to her recently acquired medical knowledge, Donnie seemed pretty stable, but without any equipment they had no real way of knowing. He sighed, watching Donnie moan in his sleep as horror filled dreams haunted him even on a different plain.

"I did everything I could." April said, falling back onto a chair. She seemed so... uncertain.

"Thank you April. Really." April looked up into Leo's sincere blue eyes, filled with confidence and hope, everything she wished she could have. She looked back at the floor.

"No problem Leo." It came out as a tired mumble, but he understood. Leo always understood. They fell into silence watching the steady rise and fall of Donatello's chest.

"I'm gonna go get Raph," Leo said, breaking the spell that had fallen over the two of them. "I'm 99% sure he broke his arm back there." April watched Leo slide out the door, his skilled feet not even making a sound as they padded across the familiar stone floor. She wished she could do more. For Donnie, for Leo, for herself.

The swishing of a tail on the cement announced the presence of Master Splinter. He cast a worried look at his son before turning to April

"Thank you, Miss. O'Neil. For everything you have done to aid our family." Why did they keep thanking her? Any of them could have done just as much as she had. She didn't even help in the battle to save him. They had done that all on their own.

"It's really nothing Sensei. I would do anything for Donnie." She faked a smile. Master Splinter nodded solemnly before slowly approaching the bed-ridden turtle. He ran one furry paw gently over his vulnerable forehead, simply feeling the feverish green skin.

'Comforting him' April realized. And it seemed to be working. Donnie already looked more relaxed than before his father had entered the room. Splinter just smiled down at the sleeping turtle.

April was enchanted by the simple love he had for his son. Ever since her father had been turned into that mutant crazy bat and had tried to feed her rotten fish, their relationship had been... tense.

Deciding to leave the father and son to their family time, April crept out of the room after Leo. She closed the infirmary door gently behind her, careful to keep the noise to a minimum. Her fingers trailed across the smooth metal as she allowed them to linger a little longer than usual. Fears were racing through her head. How had everything changed so quickly?

Her feet dragged as she searched for her three friends. She had been through the entire Lair and hadn't found a trace of any of them. Casey had already headed to the infirmary with Splinter, and April was beginning to worry. Raph was hurt and Mikey... was barely coping. There was no way Leo could take care of the both of them by himself. Not now.

April glanced around again, trying to remember if she had missed anything. Just as she opened her mouth to call out to them, she heard something. It sounded like... Leo? She followed the sound, or at least the direction it had come from. It had stopped by now, but April knew she hadn't imagined it. Then she stopped. The Shell Raiser. How had she missed it?

Jogging back through the Lair, April made her way to the car. She gently opened the back, ready to send them out, but the sight in front of her froze her in her tracks. All three of them were curled against each other in a huddle. Leo had his younger brothers pulled up against his plastron, and Mikey had buried his face in Raphael's neck. Both Leo and Raph looked up the moment she entered. They looked exhausted, physically and emotionally.

April turned to leave, knowing that they needed this time for themselves, when a shout from the infirmary caused a spike of fear to tug at her heart. She dashed back to Donnie's side, trying to figure out what at gone wrong.

"He's not breathing!" Her breath caught in her throat at Casey's panicked exclamation. She grabbed his arm, desperately pressing two fingers to the inside of his wrist. Nothing.

"Casey he needs compressions!" He tripped over his own feet as he leapt to her side. They started a rough version on CPR, with Casey doing chest compressions and her trying to supply him with oxygen. She was vaguely aware of his brothers watching them from the doorway, fear radiating off them in waves.

It was mechanical. A pattern. Compressions. Breath. Check his pulse. It will work. It has to work.

"Come on Donnie..." Casey placed his hands back on Donnie's now re-opened and bloody plastron, ready to start a new round of compressions.

April looked up at her friends. Mikey was pulled tight against Leo's side, tears running freely down his face. And then it happened. Before Casey had a chance to move, Donnie gasped. Took in air all by himself. Everyone in the room seemed to collectively release the breath they hadn't realized they had been holding. It seemed so insignificant. Nobody on the surface would have known if Donnie was to die, right here, right now. Even if they did, odds were they wouldn't even care. But he had a family. And it would kill them if he died. Right in front of them. And they couldn't to anything to stop it, because it was completely out of their hands. They had NO IDEA what they were doing.

April felt a surge of anger towards the world. It wasn't fair! None of this was fair! They couldn't even take their dying brother to a hospital because of something they had no control over.

It wasn't fair.

The next chapter will not be so short. And it will be more interesting. As always, thank you for reading and please review!