Don flopped back in his seat and eyed his brothers warily as Raph looked back and forth from Leo's wrap job on his hands while Mikey shook his hands then asked weakly, "So that solution stuff that you put on my hands will burn later, huh?"
"Yup." Don said as he caught Leo glancing across the lab at the bed where Alice was resting with a frown on his face.
"Did she have another seizure?" He asked. Don shrugged and glanced across the lab at Alice and noted that she still looked pale even under the dim lighting. Her face was half buried in the pillow, and the covers were drawn up almost over her head, leaving just a little bit of her face exposed.
"Dunno. But it is possible if one considers her irritability from earlier, plus her tantrum," Don said before adding thoughtfully. "I've read on the net that seizures affect the mind in different ways."
"Is that a good thing or bad?" Leo asked with another frown as he tried to process what Don had just said. Again Don shrugged his shoulders.
"Depends on what part of the brain the seizures affect, I suppose."
"What part of Alice's brain do you think was affected?"
"That's hard to say," Don said as he partially turned his head to glance in Alice's direction. "It could be any part. The creative center, the right, the left, the front or back- What you're asking for are specific details that I don't have. To me, it's like being asked to find a needle in a haystack."
"You could do an exam, couldn't you? Figure out everything that needs figuring..." Mikey said with a small gimance. Okay his hands were starting to burn now. And he was going to give Don a piece of his mind later cause it was starting to hurt like a motherfucker!
"I could..." Don said thoughtfully as he put his hands behind his head and laced his fingers together. "But not without her permission. I wouldn't want to overstep certain boundries."
Leo nodded his head understanding what Don meant about boundries.
"Yeah, we don't want her wrecking our things again." Raph said.
"Well. You may just have to make peace with that if she did have a seizure," Don said in a bemused tone as he glanced back at Alice. "I've been thinking. If Alice agree's to be our mate- There is a good chance that any offspring she conceives may be lost or born with the same condition that she has. Or even born with learning disabilities."
"That doesn't sound good." Leo said.
"That's because it isn't. I'm not entirely sure how any of us would feel about our offspring suffering from those things-" Don said as he unlaced his fingers and dropped his arms so that they rested on the arms of his chair.
"And then there is Alice. How would she feel about it all?" Mikey wondered aloud without meaning too.
"Dunno." Don said again, his mind already far away.
"And we won't know until we get the ball rolling." Raph said as he stretched his arms up over his head then started to drop his arms when Don snapped,
"Don't you dare put your hands down yet!" Causing Raph to freeze and stare at his younger brother wide eyed, with his hands still in the air.
"Okay, okay. Geez..." Raph grouched before asking in a sulky tone, "How long am I going to be stuck like this?"
"Until I say so." Don growled as he crossed his arms over his chest and leaned back in his seat.
Deciding that it was time to tactfully change the subject, Mikey asked, "How long do you thing she'll be feeling bad?" Don glanced at his baby brother and seemed to be mulling over his question before saying gently.
"I'm not sure. A few hours at the most."
"Will she be up in time for dinner? Cause I was going to make something to welcome her." Mikey said as he tried to shake his hands free of the toy glued to them. He felt a slight pull on his skin and shook harder, anticipating having his hands back to himself again so that he could thumb through some old cook books he had hidden away in his room, and plan.
He wanted the welcome dinner for Alice to be perfect.
Nice with a slight hint of romantic so that his brothers could 'get the ball rolling' as Raph had so nicely put it. Maybe he could turn it into a candle light dinner with the use of some of Splinter's or Leo's scented candles to possibly help relax Alice a bit so that she wouldn't get offended again and destroy a bunch of their things...
Yeah. Maybe that would work.
But the food would either have to be very upscale and classy, like soup, salad, and pasta with a side of seafood. Or simple soup and salad. Period. But what kind would everyone enjoy? Don and Leo liked tomato soup wich could be made into something new and interesting with fresh veggies, shrimp and rice, or even a nice wine and fresh basil to give it a little zing.
Or should he go with something like what Raph would eat?
Raw fish wrapped in seaweed sweetened by warmed up sugar... To be perfectly frank, Mikey would rather die than eat that particular dish, but from time to time change was good. And if Alice might like it then he'd go get his hand made spear and head toward his favorite fishing spot, which was only about two in a half miles from the lair and was an area of great beauty.
Like the area he and his brothers now called home since the cavein at the subway caused by the mousers when he and his brothers were younger, his fishing spot held secret alien tech within it that turned it into a virtual cavern of crystals and sparkling river water- kept fresh from anything humans dumped into it by a filter that Don had made a while back so that they could all enjoy the spot.
And just two years ago, Leo and Splinter had started moving things around down there and creating flower bed. Lugging soil, small trees and seeds down from the surface to make it a more brilliant and lovely place to spend one's time.
Maybe if things worked out with Alice, he or one of his brothers could take her there sometime.