Hey guys, long time no see. And by long time, I mean a year. Sorry about that, but I'm backing and I'm going to be updating this story as constantly as I can over the rest of the summer.I have left you guys without anything for too long so enjoy.

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Pain- that's the first thing Leonardo remembered. A searing pain that felt like it was trying to eat its way through also felt like he was underwater for some it was because he felt both weightless and immobile. The distorted voices all around him only added to his shaky theory.

Leo tried to move, but only managed to move his finger…. Or maybe it was his toe; he couldn't really tell. All he knew was that that did the trick. The voices around him stopped- like someone pressed a mute button. Warmth followed this-warmth of a hand possibly? He heard sniffling and felt pressure pile up near his right side. Am I…. in bed?

The voices that spoke to him were clearer this time, almost music to his ears. Leo's heart leapt in his chest, but he didn't know why. "Leonardo, my dear son. You must awaken. Please, awaken."

He felt more in control of his body. He felt his muscles unwind themselves as if the blanket cloaking his body was slowly being undone. A speck of light appeared in front of him. Just a small circle of white light. It wasn't much,but it was just enough to pull Leo to the surface. The curtain of darkness lifted from him, leaving Leo with an image of his audience. His two younger brothers, who looked so much younger than 15 and Sensei, who had a mirage of emotions on his face. It was like showing someone a kaleidoscope and asking them to pick out only one color.

"L-Leo? Are you with us?" Donnie asked, sounding like he couldn't believe his eyes.

He opened his mouth to speak, but his body chose that exact moment to tell him he was in pain. Not a sharp pain but a dull, nagging, aching pain that seemed like it spread from the center of his core. Leo's voice came out in a slight rasp that should not have even been considered an answer, but somehow his family accepted it. Smiles etched onto their faces, but Leo could see the strain behind them. Something was very wrong with this picture. He knew he was in Donnie's lab, but not much else. Where was Raph? And why did he ache so much?

Donnie sat by Leo on the bed and Sensei and Mikey took this as their cue to leave. Before they left though, he couldn't help noticing how Mikey looked back not at him, but at the curtain covered section next to furrowed his brow and tried to speak again, but Don stopped him.

"Don't talk, big bro. Just relax." Donnie kept touching his throat and gulping as if he was going to throw up and was pushing it down.

"Leo. Blink once for yes and twice for no. Understood?"

One long blink.

"Good. Do you know where you are?" It was Donnie's lab. It had the same cluttered yet organized look to it, although Leo couldn't help, but notice the shards of glass scattered across the room. He tried not to think about it too much because his head was fuzzy, the room was spinning, and he overall felt like he just spewed from a sewer pipe.

Blink.

Donnie's mouth curved up at one corner, but even in his drug induced haze he could tell his brother was tense. Almost as if he was bracing himself for the worst. Wasn't this the worst of it?

"Leo." A clammy hand touched Leo's. "Do you remember what happened?"

Blink. Blink.

The movement seemed to cut the strings that were holding the scientist up. Hazel eyes dropped to the ground like marbles, moving from side to side until they found their final resting place on the ground. The grip on Leo's hand got stronger as if the leader was going to disappear any minute. Usually Raph was the brother with the strong borderline painful grip, not sweet innocent Donnie. Where is Raph by the way?

"R-raph?" He rasped as close to his brother's name as he could get. It was apparently recognizable enough that it caused Donnie to close his eyes and sigh. A lone tear wandered down his made Leo all the more worried what had happened.

"You should get some rest. It'll be a couple days before you're back on your feet."

Leo narrowed his eyes. Hadn't he slept already? "B-but Ra-raph."

"I installed a video app on your t- phone so you don't get bored sitting here all by yourself."

The scientist stood up from the bed and walked towards the door. He looked stiff, almost like he was frozen in one position for hours. The feeling churning inside Leo was anything, but comforting."It's good to have you back Leo."

He didn't even look back on his way out.

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Raph was in hell. This had to had been hell. No place on Earth was this cruel, this torturous, this skin crawlingly sick. No living person should be forced to endure this and Raph was trapped was trapped and painfully alone. He was not chained or bound in any sort of way. HIs room was bland, dull and completely blank. The only way out was a single door- that was unlocked.

All Raph had to do was step outside and he was free- or so he was naively led to his door was not freedom, but complete and otter despair in the form of the maze. It was a maze whose rules the red clad turtle learned quickly. You make it through the maze without Rabbit eyes catching you. It was a simple concept, but that is assumed that the rabbit intended on making the maze if you got caught, well Raph didn't want to dwell on that too much.

Somehow after it all ended, he would return back to this room, his safe haven. The rabbit would not stop foot in here. It was Raph's choice to leave, so anything that happened to him was his fault and his alone. At least that's how he's made sense of it.

He had left this room three times in order to get out- once for each of his brothers. He had been caught all three times. He doubted he had the strength to endure a fourth round.

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Leo was bored. He wasn't in as much pain as before, but he was still bored. He scrolled through the limited amount of videos before settling on one of the cliche family noise was all it was to him really. The leader was mainly focused on figuring out what happened to him and Raph. Flashes of images came back to him in fragments, like looking at small pieces in a much bigger puzzle. And apparently his family wasn't going to tell him anything in the near future.

At same point, he decided to stop trying to fit the pieces together without the right glue for the job. All of this thinking was just running him in circles. For now, he would just deal with the cluelessness and watch mindless sitcoms.

"Stephanie, I thought I told you not to go to that concert."

The girl in question toyed with her hair as if it would save her from this situation."You said I couldn't go to the concert. You didn't say anything about the concert's afterparty."

Leo smirked along with the laugh track. At least he was entertained.

"Go to your room."

"But dad…"

"Now Stephanie!"

The blonde huffed and stamped her way up the wooden stairs. Leo could only imagine what Splinter would do if he or his brothers even thought of disrespecting Splinter like that. He would probably be doing katas for the rest of his life.

The sitcom dad flopped down on the couch, rubbing the tension out of his temples. His face brightened when he noticed the quick padding of soft footsteps coming towards him. "Daddy, daddy, daddy…."

The phone slid to the ground unnoticed. Quick images flashed in his mind like a strobe light. The memories became lead in his mind, sinking down towards his stomach. His tasted like the acrid stench of the sewer. A coppery aftertaste followed after he bit his own tongue, punishing it for betraying him, dishonoring him. His chest curled like a fist, pummeling his heart with every beat. If Leo could start screaming, he would.

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Donnie sat under the single sewer grate that showed the outside world without having to be moved. The rising sun prodded him with warm fingers signaling the new day, but he remained still. He just sat with his knees clutched to his chest. He didn't even look up when the sound of boots on sewer water hit him. The foot could've attacked him right then and there and he wouldn't have cared.

"Donnie, I know this is hard, but you have to tell him." The turtle in question sighed and looked up at the equally exhausted redhead.

"You make everything sound simple." He wiped a hand across his face. "What am I supposed to tell him. A mutant bunny kidnapped you and Raph, ra-did things to you and put Raph in some sort of coma that's slowly killing him." April wiped a tear from his eye.

"I was never supposed to have this weight on me. Leo was always the big brother, the leader, the responsible was supposed to be the muscle, the backbone. Now it's up to me and Mikey and I don't know if we can handle this- if I can handle this."

"I'm here for you, but Donnie, you have to tell Leo what happened before he finds out another way- the wrong way."

The purple clad turtle merely looked up at the sun and shook his head. Donnie was the scrawniest of all the turtles and he knew that, but he felt the full weight of that now. The weight of his family was on his shoulders. He was the big brother- and all he wanted to do was shrink into an insignificant atom and blend into nothing.

"Leo may be loaded with painkillers, but it's going to wear off soon- and… he's going to feel sore. He's going to wonder what happened."

All the strength left the scientist. He could no longer shield himself from what was ahead. All he could do was get it over with and hope for the best.

One breath in.

One breath out.

Hazel eyes hardened. "Okay. Let's do this."

The way back to the lair way awkward as if both were walking on a tight wire. If one would fall, they were sure the other would catch them. The smoke was the first thing that sent them on high alert. No, not smoke- steam.

Donnie sprinted to his lab only to find Leo's bed empty, IV's ripped out and thrown to the side. He would have panicked- in fact he should've panicked, but something outside his control was keeping him calm. If it wasn't for that, he won't have noticed where the steam was densest- his personal shower.

Opening the door was like stepping inside a hot oven on a summer day. The spray was near boiling in temperature, but Leo still sat in the middle of it, curled in a little ball. He had a small rag in his hand that he was using to seemingly strip the green from his skin. He muttered only two words as he rocked back and forth on the sewer ground.

Not clean.

Not clean.

Not clean.

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