ok, *sobs* here's the very last chapter of 'do you remember me?' just...don't freak out ok? i'll write other stories.
Raph would have growled in frustration, only he couldn't.
"Well great." leo said, voicing raph's annoyance, "just great, where did they go?"
"I have no idea." a sinister voice growled, they all spun around,
"F-found 'em." donnie whispered, rahzar bared his teeth. Beebop glared at leo,
"See what you did to my beautiful piggy face?" he yelped, "you gonna pay for that." leo, what did you do. Raph thought, but he'd turned off his head piece a few moments ago, and leo didn't answer.
"I will finally crush your shell like the blueberries." rocksteady cackled at raph, raph glared at him, they backed up near the edge of the roof.
"Donnie, mikey," leo said, "you guys try to flank them, raph," he hesitated, "stay out if you can, please i don't want to lose you...again." raph almost argued, but then nodded. He crouched and his brothers charged the mutants providing him a distraction to get to the other roof top. Raph sat restlessly and watched, leo was, as usual, taking on tigerclaw and fishface at once, donnie took rahzar and beebop, not his usual opponents, and mikey took rocksteady, raph watched his younger brother anxiously, he was fighting really close to an edge. The building was seven stories tall, if Mikey fell, it sent a shiver down raph's shell just thinking about it. Leo quickly took fishface's legs out of commision, and the fish flopped around uselessly. Now donnie was the only one fighting two, and as raph watched he knocked beebop unconscious. Raph almost wanted to cheer, but even if he could he wouldn't have. Donnie kept fighting rahzar, and soon enough, the old bag of bones was also unconscious, slumped beside his mutant friend, donnie ran and began to help leo with tigerclaw, knowing that raph was there to help mikey. Leo and Donnie were a good team, raph had to admit, they had almost finished him off too, well, driven him away, when...
"BOOYAKASHA!" mikey yelled, jumping over rocksteady yet another time and hitting him with his nunchucks. Raph watched nervously as rocksteady stumbled, and regained his footing, taking a horribly familiar metal cylinder out of his belt, raph opened his mouth in a silent warning to mikey, luckily mikey spun around, even without hearing it. Rocksteady raised the sword and laughed. Mikey, backed against the edge of the roof, closed his eyes and waited for unbearable pain. Raph screamed.
"MIKEY!" it didn't even compute that he'd just spoken, he jumped across the gap between the buildings and yanked mikey away, pushing him behind him. The sword swung down at him.
"Raph!" Mikey gasped, but raph dodged the weapon and kicked it away from him and his brother, rocksteady stumbled back a few yards and raph gasped, he smiled at mikey, helping him to his feet.
"You ok?" he asked, Mikey grinned.
"Raphie, you can talk." he said, raph was stunned, he could talk, he could talk just as he was about to yell in triumph a huge force knocked him sideways, Mikey screamed. Raph was falling, falling as a memory rushed back to him, but this time he was horribly conscious, aware that the force of the blow had knocked the fake plastron a little loose, but that the skin underneath wasn't injured. Aware that he was rushing towards solid concrete very fast, aware of his brothers screams from above. All of this in mere seconds, before the world once again descended into darkness.
Leo gave tigerclaw one last kick, and then…
"MIKEY!" he spun around, raph? Donnie paused beside him and tigerclaw ran to his fallen comrades side. He saw raph save mikey, and then, fall, fall off the seven story building.
"Raph!" he screamed, and ran to his youngest brother's side, donnie right alongside him.
"Rocksteady!" tigerclaw yelled, "we have failed tonight, help me get these buffoons back to the shredder's lair."
"Meh, i already crushed his shell like the blueberries." rocksteady said, pleased with himself. The mutants left and leo jumped down, followed by donnie and Mikey, using the fire escape so they didn't suffer the same fate as raph. He was laying on his back, his eyes open and alert.
"Raph, raph can you hear me?"
"Loud and clear bro." raph said, Leo knelt next to him,
"It's gonna be ok bro," he said, choking back tears, Raph smiled.
"Yeah, you guys are gonna defeat the shredder, i know it." he said, leo felt his eyes sting.
"And you'll be there to help." Donnie said, "let me just-"
"Don," Raph said, "we all know this is it." leo felt his eyes fill with tears.
"Raphie," Mikey whimpered, sitting by raph's head, "raphie it's gonna be ok." Donnie started to cry quietly, and sat a few feet away, hugging his knees in defeat, leo felt a needle sharp pain pierce his heart.
"Raph, raph no." he moaned as tears began to fall.
"Heh," raph said, and coughed painfully, "you ain't the only one who can, who can sacrifice himself fearless." Leo stared at his brother and Raph opened his eyes a bit more.
"Raph…"
"Donnie," Raph said, "don this ain't your fault, hear me? I saved mikey on purpose, i knew i might die and i still did it, this is not your fault." he said it fiercely, and donnie sighed.
"I, i know raph." donnie said,
"Good." Raph said, and relaxed a bit, "Mikey, mikey you gotta stay you, don't let yourself take my place ok? You gotta stay the way you are and never change. That's important. Stay you."
"I, I will raph," Mikey choked out, and leo felt his tears fall faster onto his and raph's hands, raph turned his head slightly to look at leo.
"Leo, fearless, i want you guys to read the journal i've been writing in, you wanted to," raph coughed violently "you guys want to know why i let myself get so hurt, well, read it, i swear you'll find out, please read it...please…" Raph closed his eyes and his breathing slowed, "swear you'll read it fearless."
"I swear." Leo gasped, and raph smiled again.
"Good." he said, and relaxed. "I'll miss you guys." his breathing fluttered as did his eyelids, Leo gripped raph's hand tightly as the breaths shortened and slowed, then, raph opened his mouth again. "I love you guys…." he said, and then his chest rose once, and fell slowly, it never moved again.
"No," leo moaned, burying his face in raph's mangled plastron, "raph." Mikey started weeping and cradled raph's head in his lap, letting his tears fall onto the dark jade green skin. Donnie reached over and felt for a pulse, his one last hope of raph being alive, and then his arm fell and he too began to sob. The three brothers sat for what seemed to be days with raph's body, and then, as the sky lightened, they picked him up and went back home.
The endyou're mad at me right? i'm sorry, it just...it just happened, the story took over and now...yeah...so yup. that's the end. au revoir my friends...