A/N: Leo played with Karai and came home with a boo boo. * MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH * Drama * Heavy angst * Gore

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In the needle room, Donatello ordered, "On three. One, two, three."

The team loaded Leonardo on a table. It didn't matter how gentle they were, their leader yelled out in pain.

Don slowly peeled away a shoddy bandage from Leo's thigh. A swell of blood gushed out; and before you could say 'catastrophic hemorrhage', Donatello re-covered the gash. He choked on a hard crust of hopelessness. "What happened?"

"I fell." Attempting a smile, Leonardo didn't even try to lie well.

"On Karai's tantō?! I hope it was worth it." Donatello pictured the double-edged bitch. That was all the bedside manner Leo was going to get. "Raph, Mikey, hold him."

The two shocked brothers did what they were told. Raphael took Leonardo's shoulders while Mike grasped shin and ankle. Their brother had lost all his color. Life pooled under his leg and dripped on to the concrete.

The orderlies secured the patient.

Don had no business applying a tourniquet. Incorrect placement or insufficient pulse obliteration meant nerve damage; and if that happened, a teen with limited hands-on medical experience would have to remove the whole limb. And, the first time you amputate your brothers leg usually goes like clockwork, right?

Leo seized up in agony as the belt cinched tighter; the only pain management he had was screaming. Everyone was slipping around in Leonardo's blood. Mikey was crying.

The laceration had stopped bleeding, but, nothing was alright. Donatello still needed to flush out the wound, and the tourniquet was a ticking deathbomb.

Doctors have to be straight with their patients. "Leo, I'm sorry, but I'm going to gag you if you can't hold it together. Try telling us what happened instead of screaming, 'k? Because this is really going to hurt, now. You ready?"

Leonardo breathed it out, seething and nodding.

Donatello water-boarded the swollen, red slit.

Fearless sung like a blue canary. "She stabbed me, D! Arghh-shit! I couldn't get her off my shell. She slid down my body like a snake down the staff! FUckme, Karai can dance."

"Fuck you, Leo!" Spit flecked out Raphael's mouth. Nobody wanted to hear how light on her feet the kunoichi was. The hard line on Mikey's face said he was thinking the same thing.

In regarding each brother, Leonardo got all three turtles mixed up. "Yeah, you wouldn't understand, Raph. Or you, Mikey! Don would, though, you'd get it. You wanna know why?"

Donnie clapped his hands to snatch everyone's attention. "No, we're done talking, now, I gotta sew you up."

"She's my Pop-Tarts." Leonardo was delirious. His head thunked back on the cold, hard table like his spirit got sucked into a jet engine.

Red laid his head on his brother's plastron. He recoiled. "His heart!"

Donnie slid over to his recycled defibrillator. "Mikey, start mouth-to-mouth, shit! Raph, get all the metal off his body. I got the AED." He wheeled a tall, plastic cart back to the body. The body.

While Mikey worked, Donatello squeezed the retro-fitted, tentacle, ectrotrode pads in Leonardo's scute nooks.

Don heard a hollow recording of his voice, saying, "Clear!"

His brother's body arched up to heaven, and with each humming shock, the lights got weaker and weaker.

Donatello understood. "Zero radial pulse." That was the stupidest thing the genius had ever said.

Leonardo's wrist flopped on the med-bed.

Mikey folded over his brother. The youngest clasped Leo's hand and prayed quietly to God.

Donatello had to do it. He reached to close Leonardo's eyeballs - bugged out, yet flat.

Raphael returned to Earth and swatted Don's hand away. "No, he's fuckin' not!" Red pressed a finger to Leonardo's neck. "Leo. I didn't mean it!" Red's hateful last words to his dying brother haunted him already; and, they always would.

Leonardo was gone. Donatello fell to his knees heart forever charred and blackened, his brother had died for nothing. Karai would soon join him. Fuck you, Leo.

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A/N Leo actually made it. Nah, he's dead...or is he? lol :D Thanks for reading!