Wow! This is a first in a while! I've updated in less than 24 hours! lol!

Note: Some scenes here come from the TMNT 2003 episode 'Meet Casey Jones' and the scene where Leonardo speaks about Skyrim comes from my dear friend Tyroth Darkstorm's fanfic 'Mutant's Misplaced' in chapter 12, if you haven't read the fic you can find it in my favourite stories category or go to Tyroth Darkstorm's page listed in my Favourite authors category.

Chapter Eight

Disagreement

Meanwhile, Mona had gone to her and Raphael's bedroom where Raphael was looking at his face in the mirror. He had been told by Donatello to keep the mask on until the following night, his face even though it still stung a little, it wasn't as bad as earlier.

As Mona walked in, he looked away from the mirror.

"Pandora's all settled." said Raphael "I went in to say goodnight to her, and she was under the covers, Donnie read her bedtime story this evening, She wanted to kiss my face again, so I let her, despite the pain."

Mona chuckled as she thought of how Pandora still wanted to make her daddy better.

"How you feeling?" she asked.

"Still in pain, but it's bearable!" Raphael said "Damn that Cobra!"

"It'll be alright in a few hours." said Mona "Donnie does now how to treat those nasty venom stings."

Raphael just grunted as he ran his fingers over the white mask.

"By the way, I went to see Mikey." said Mona "He's very upset."

"Is he?" asked Raphael in a disinterested voice "Is he remorseful at the fact he almost got me killed?"

"Raph!" said Mona in shock "You know he didn't mean it!"

"He should have bloody listened to me!" Raphael snapped "Followed my lead! But oh no!"

"Raph! I know you're mad now, but aren't you the least bit remorseful for what you said to him?" Mona retorted.

"He needs to be more serious!" Raphael argued "Actually listen for once!"

Mona stared at Raphael.

"He never listens to me Mona!"

"He only wanted to help. He knows he made a mistake!"

"A mistake that nearly killed me!"

"But it didn't Raph! You're both home and you're both safe!"

Raphael narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth.

"So it's no big deal to you is it?" the turtle growled "What happened?"

Mona's eyes widened.

"How dare you!?" she snapped "It does matter to me! All I'm saying is you've said some things to Mikey that might have been a little harsh! He is really sorry for what happened!"

"If he was really sorry then he would have realised that he's an immature idiot!" Raphael shouted "And I'm ashamed to have an idiot for a brother!"

"He's not an idiot!" Mona yelled back "And you should control your temper! You said some really hurtful things to him! Yes! I understand he may have acted wrong, but he didn't mean it intentionally! Can't you just let it go and come to the fact you both came home safe!?"


Raphael opened his mouth to speak again, but he couldn't think of the right words, but he still felt so angry at Michelangelo and all he wanted was his mate to realise why he was so mad, but instead she was trying to tell him to stop getting angry at Michelangelo and now, he didn't want to be in the same room as her if she didn't understand how he was feeling.

"Whatever!" he said finally with a snarl "I'm sleeping on the sofa!"

"What!? Raph...please don't be like that!"

But Raphael grabbed a pillow from the bed as well a spare blanket from the wardrobe and stormed towards the door.

"See you in the evening!" he growled as he opened the door with a bang and leapt down towards the sofa in the main lair.

"Wait! Raph!" Mona called after him, but the red masked turtle ignored her and went into the main lair and to the large sofa in front of the many TV screens and began to make up his bed on it.


"What a hot-head." Mona then heard Leonardo's voice from the side, she turned and saw the blue masked turtle watching from his bedroom door.

Mona nodded.

"We heard everything." Donatello's voice came from behind Leonardo, as he looked out his bedroom door.

"Sorry you two." said Mona "Did we disturb you?"

"It's fine." said Leonardo "It's not the first time is it?"

Mona shook her head.

"He just needs to cool down, normally after something like this he's fine to talk tomorrow." she said "Just looks like I'll be sleeping alone today."

Donatello looked at Raphael who was now laying on the sofa and had decided to put the TVs on at a low volume.

"If you say so Mona." he said, he then looked to where Michelangelo's room was.

"How is he?" he asked "Mikey?"
"He's upset." said Mona "But we talked about what happened, and he said he feels a little better, but is still hurt by Raph's words."

"Not surprised." said Leonardo "Raph sure said harsh stuff!"

"I've never seen Raph so mad at Mikey before." said Donatello walking over to Mona "Well, that's a lie, I have, and I remember a time he almost bludgeoned Mikey with a metal pole during sparring, that was before you came into our lives Mona, just before we met Casey Jones."

"And that time we got teleported to Skyrim and that mine collapsed as he stepped on a loose part..." Leonardo added then looked at Mona with discomfort "And you nearly drowned..."

Mona went pale as she remembered, Raphael had lost his temper with Michelangelo because of that and nearly beat him to a pulp but their friend Tyroth had managed to stop the fight and talk some sense in Raphael.

"Only too well." said Donatello as he looked at Mona and remembered how he only just managed to revive Mona but it was close.

Mona sighed.

"I just hope after they've slept on it, they'll talk about it calmly and they'll be friends again this time tomorrow."

"I do hope so." said Leonardo in a worried voice.

"Let's try not to let it worry us." said Donatello "Let them sleep and calm down, we'll see what tomorrow brings."

Mona nodded and looked towards Pandora's room.
"I better check on Little Geisha." She said "See if she's asleep yet."

"She enjoyed he story tonight." said Donatello with a small smile "And she asked again if Uncle Mikey was okay."

Leonardo chuckled.

"Sweet girl." he said.


Mona smiled softly at Leonardo then thanked Donatello, then walked to Pandora's room to check on her daughter, as she did, she took one last glance at the sofa and sighed again sadly.

"I hope you calm down Raph." she said "Both you and Mikey."

It was rare that she and Raphael would argue and it be so bad he would refuse to share a bed with her and sleep on the sofa and it worried her.

She wasn't sure if she would get any sleep tonight, but she tried to push it to the back of her head and just hope everything would be okay the following night.

Oh dear, a lover's tiff. Not good!

Mona's trying to play peace keeper, but sadly not everyone can get on the same page.