When they landed on their own rooftop, Leo's only reaction was to blink his eyes a few times as he looked around. He was led inside by his brothers. He was welcomed by most of the clan in the main room of his home. He hugged his children tightly. Then he excused himself from the crowd and disappeared into his bedroom.

Raph had watched him go while he stood brewing tea in the kitchen. A few moments later, Master Splinter joined him, although he declined a mug.

"Michelangelo and Woody have suggested that Akito, Violet and Machi head to their apartment for the night. I believe they are offering a movie marathon."

"Probably a good idea," Raph replied as he waved off Donnie, Sadie and Gabe. Miwa and Sam had just left as well. And Donnie had said he'd sent April a text when they first arrived home, but Raph hadn't seen any members of the Jones family that night.

"Do you think this takes care of the resistance? The threat against Akito and Machi?" Master Splinter asked.

"Suzu and her agents seemed to think they were roundin up the entire group with this trip, so I would say yes."

"I am glad to see that Violet's theory was correct. Did you happen to meet these fox uncles?

Raph shook his head. "They were fightin against the wolves, though, when we got there. Mike and Don joined them. I'm not sure if they spoke to them after or not. We left pretty quickly once we had Leo."

Raph stared down at Leo's tea, feeling a little strange since running through mission reviews with their father was Leo's domain. But Master Splinter was asking him, so obviously their father had seen how rattled Leo appeared to be. And he supposed that if he went over this with their father now, Leo wouldn't have to do it later.

"And Usagi?"

"He's still alive," Raph said, still not sure if he regretted that decision or not. Killing someone who was already unconscious from the beating he'd just delivered wasn't part of his training. But he'd been pretty tempted. "Although he's missin part of an ear now, and Suzu promised to haul his ass to jail. They've got enough on him already that they're not gonna need Leo to testify or anything."

"Will Suzu be returning? Perhaps to continue training with Akito and Machi?"

"Yeah, she's gonna - ," he stopped and looked at his father. "Wait, any particular reason yer interested in her comin back to visit?"

"I have a guest bedroom and you do not. I was just curious to see if I needed to ready it."

"Is guest bedroom code for something?"

His father glared at him but Raphael could only grin at his father's suddenly retreating back as he turned to leave the apartment. Master Splinter stopped by the main exit, though, and looked towards Raphael and Leonardo's closed bedroom door. He wiped the smile off his own face before turning back to Raphael.

"Thank you for bringing him home. Although, I do fear you have your work cut out for you."

"I'll take care of him," Raph said solemnly.

"Yes," Splinter said. "I can always count on you to do so."

Raph felt himself warm at his father's praise as he watched him leave. Then he picked up Leo's mug and headed into their bedroom. He set the mug down on Leo's bedside table as Leo walked out of their bathroom with steam from his shower following him.

Leo climbed into bed and pressed his shell back against the headboard as he wrapped his fingers around the steaming mug. "Thank you," he said.

Raphael climbed into the bed and sat next to this calm and polite Leo. The calm and polite Leo who still wasn't making eye contact with him.

"Kids are stayin at Mike and Woody's tonight."

"Okay," Leo said quietly in response. "How are you feeling by the way? How's your stomach?"

"Fine," Raph answered.

"It's not fair," Leo muttered. "He tried to kill you and then you don't even get a chance to fully recover before you're chasing after me again."

"I'm fine, Leo," Raph said. He rested a hand on the top of Leo's thigh and was pleased when Leo didn't flinch or tense beneath his fingers.

Leo glanced down at his chafed wrist. It had stung in the shower. As if he'd needed the reminder of being chained. He shook his head and pushed the thought away as he settled his shell deeper into his own safe bed and focused on the warmth spreading through him from having just one of Raph's hands on his leg.

Raph watched Leo quietly drink his tea for a few moments before saying, "Tell me what happened."

Leo took another drink of his tea. It was perfectly brewed, as it always was by Raphael. Just another way that his mate consistently took care of him. And he was sure Raph was currently gearing up to try to help him through this most recent experience as well. But he wondered if it was fair to Raph to have to repeatedly help him recover. He was pretty sure Raphael deserved a break. And maybe if they could just go to sleep, he'd feel better in the morning, which would be better for Raphael as well.

He put his mug down and turned to Raph, looking at him for the first time since he'd come into their room. "Are Casey and Mona back?" He hadn't seen either of them out in the main room when they first arrived.

It wasn't what Raphael was expecting, but he also wasn't surprised that Leo would think about the welfare of the humans used to bait him into the trap. He nodded.

"I'm sorry I went by myself to pick them up," Leo said. "I know you're mad at me for that. I was tired and not thinking straight and it was a huge mistake."

Raphael nodded again. "I wasn't mad. I was fuckin furious."

"I am sorry, Raph. I'm sorry you had to worry and search for me again. This was all my fault."

Raphael pulled him close and nuzzled his face against Leo's. "Ya shouldn't have gone alone. But being turtlenapped is never yer fault. Its not yer fault the rabbit's crazy."

Leo turned his face into Raph's and met his eyes again. Raph wasn't one to give long lectures and Leo could read most of what Raph wanted to say in his eyes, anyway. He watched as Raph's eyes softened as he said, "But I was only mad because nothin is more important to me than you."

Leo felt some of his stress leave with Raphael's easy forgiveness. Raph opened his mouth to say something else but Leo quickly covered it with his own mouth. His tongue slid into Raph's mouth as he began to pull at Raph's shoulders until Raph slid down on his shell. Leo slid his own body down as well and pressed kisses to the side of Raph's face until he could easily press his face into Raph's neck. He was releasing a contented sigh at the same moment that he felt Raph tense as he realized that Leo had just tucked them both into their typical sleeping positions.

"Leo," he said with a half-hearted growl.

But Leo shook his head and pushed his face further into Raph's neck. The arm he'd wrapped around Raph's plastron squeezed tighter.

Raph resigned himself to sleep. For now. He listened as Leo's breathing told him exactly when his mate fell asleep. He was asleep soon after, far more tired than he would've admitted. His body relaxed as he slept and the fingers he had wrapped tightly around Leo's arm slowly loosened their grip.

However, halfway through the night, Leo shifted in his sleep and Raphael's fingers reflexively began rubbing a soothing pattern over Leo's arm. To which Leo's immediate response was to jerk awake, shove Raph's hand away and frantically move himself away from Raphael and up into a seated position.

Raphael sat up just as quickly. Leo's eyes were wide and his breathing was fast. Raph knew he was taking a chance of making this worse by touching Leo right now, but he surged forward anyway and did the one thing that had always made Leo feel safer than anything else. He pushed Leo back on his shell and climbed on top of him, letting his weight press Leo into their mattress.

"It's me. It's me, babe," he whispered. "Look at me. Leo, look."

Leo stilled and met Raph's eyes as he felt Raph's solid weight holding him in place. Someone else may have felt trapped under the bulky turtle, but Leo had always felt secure and grounded. It was part of Raphael's unique ability to pull him out of his own head.

Raph's green eyes locked onto Leo's blue ones and he quickly replayed Leo's actions in his head.

"He touched you?" he asked, trying to keep his growl low for his already startled mate.

"Just my arm," Leo said quickly, "when I was asleep." Although he knew words almost weren't necessary because his unconscious actions had already spoken volumes to Raphael.

"Don't say just," Raph said. "Anything anywhere would be too much." He leaned down and nuzzled Leo's face as he felt Leo nod. "Tell me, Leo. Tell me what happened while you were gone. Let me carry it with ya." He let more of his weight drop onto Leo's plastron as his hands moved to slide up and down Leo's arms.

Leo took a few deep breaths in as he felt Raph's warm hands move over his skin. He never wanted to unconsciously flinch under Raphael's hands again, so he began speaking. He told Raph how he'd been immediately surrounded by wolves when he landed in the other dimension. And how he thought he'd been doing pretty well, despite his exhaustion, when one of the wolves had pulled a taser.

"Fuckin dirty move."

Leo actually gave a half shrug. "I guess when your main goal is to abduct someone, you're not really in it for the honor of the fight."

Raphael smirked at him, secretly pleased to see a little Fearless humor. However, he dropped the smirk when he heard what Leo said next.

"I woke up with my wrist chained to a bed in Usagi's hideout."

"A bed?" Raph growled.

"Usagi was there," Leo continued, "in a chair," he quickly clarified. "And he was so calm when he spoke that it made everything he said worse."

"What'd he say?"

"That I should agree to stay with him willingly," Leo said, frowning. "That Akito and Machi would join us. That he'd let me train the wolves any way I wanted. But he also told what the bracelet on my wrist was for. One little piece of metal that was going to keep me separated from you."

"Found ya anyway," Raph whispered. He still hadn't had a chance to tell Leo how they had managed to find him. But he'd save it for later. For now, he shifted himself slightly and pushed Leo's head to the side with his nose so he could let his tongue slide up Leo's neck. "Keep goin."

"Usagi left the room. And I fell asleep. But I woke up when he started touching me and kicked him off the bed. He left again but threatened to get restraints for my legs."

Raphael growled as Leo spoke. And then he watched as Leo seemed to hesitate. He shifted himself again and moved his mouth away from Leo's neck in order to begin tracing his tongue over his mark on Leo's arm.

"Mine," he said with a low growl that sent a shiver up Leo's spine.

"Yours," Leo whispered back and wrapped his hands around Raph's shoulders before letting them trail down Raph's arms.

"What are ya thinkin?" Raph asked, thinking about Leo's earlier hesitation.

Leo paused for only another moment. "I was afraid," he whispered out. It was something he'd admit only to Raphael. "Knowing I was untraceable in another dimension and about to be further restrained by the one creature who -,"

Leo stopped and Raph didn't need him to continue to know what Leo was thinking.

"It felt worse than facing Shredder," Leo finally said. "Or a legion of Kraang. Or -,"

"Because this was personal," Raphael replied before he covered Leo's mouth and twisted their tongues together. He pulled away and waited for Leo to open his eyes and look at him. "And because it was scary, Leo."

Leo nodded, grateful for Raphael's understanding.

Raph sat up so that he was straddling Leo's lap and Leo felt the loss of his weight and warmth. But he didn't stay cold long as he felt Raph's fingers slide down his plastron.

"Yer safe with me, Leo."

"I'm sorry I pushed you away earlier, Raph," Leo said. "I know I'm safe with you."

Raph nodded. "I'm gonna remind ya anyway." He leaned over Leo and whispered to him, "By touchin ya. A lot." One hand trailed down the side of Leo's face and neck before trailing across his collarbone. "Okay?"

Leo arched his body up towards Raphael and pulled Raph's mouth back down for another kiss in response. Raphael released a loud churr as he felt Leo's body rub against him.

"Aishiteru, Leonardo," he murmured as he let his fingers trail over every part of Leo that he could reach. He listened to the gasps and soft churrs he pulled from Leo as he touched and massaged over Leo's arms and sides. He moved himself down Leo's body when his current position proved too difficult to allow his fingers to reach Leo's tail and the leg muscles he liked so much.

Leo's eyes darkened as his favorite turtle moved his fingers and then his tongue over his skin. He watched as Raph teased by kissing and licking along the crease at the top of his legs but purposefully avoided the growing bulge in his lower plastron.

Raph grinned to himself as he listened to Leo's panting breaths. "Ya want me to keep touchin ya?" he asked.

"Depends on where you're planning to touch next," Leo said and boldly grabbed one of Raph's hands and moved it towards his entrance.

"I can do that," Raph said, immediately harder than he'd been a moment before thanks to Leo's request. He wet a finger and immediately began pressing it into Leonardo before he finally trailed his tongue over Leo's slit in encouragement, not that Leo needed much more encouragement, to drop down for him.

Leo churred loudly at the different sensations as he was pulled into Raphael's mouth. He moaned out Raphael's name and couldn't take his eyes off the emerald turtle who was expertly spreading a tingling warmth across his entire body. He writhed beneath Raphael and waited through the preparation process before he began pulling on Raph's shoulders. He wanted more contact with Raph's body. He wanted him pressing him into their mattress with his strength.

Raph did as Leo wanted and moved his way up Leo's body. He felt Leo's strong legs wrap tightly around his waist as he pressed his way into Leo's body with a deep moan. He breathed in Leo's scent and moved his tongue over Leo's neck as he moved his hips, thrusting into Leo, aiming for the spot that would make Leo throw his head back and churr and completely come unglued. Completely forget about what he'd been through. He grinned when he found it and reveled in the look of peace he could see on Leo's face once their combined convulsions eventually stopped.

"You ever get tired of sorting me out, Raphie?" Leo panted after a few moments.

"That sounds like yer asking if I ever get tired of you. And I could never get tired of you," Raph panted back. He didn't budge from his position on top of Leo. He wasn't sure he was going to for the rest of that night. "Besides, all those bastards are goin to prison." He didn't want to mention the rabbit directly, but continued. "And we're never gonna see any of them again. Our kids aren't in danger anymore. That other dimension will have peace. Its over. So sortin ya out in the future is gonna involve things like getting ya to watch sports with me. Not rescuin ya from other dimensions."

Leo actually huffed out a laugh. "I love you, Raphael."

Raph smiled and licked his way up Leo's neck in response and Leo chuckled again.

Leo let his fingers trail over Raphael's muscular arms. "I got to actually talk to Akito and Machi's uncles. They're the ones who got me out of that house. They told me their side of the story in dealing with their evil brother. I – I didn't actually get to say goodbye to them before we left, did I?"

"No, I think ya were in shock," Raph said. "But if ya think they're good, then maybe we can arrange a little family reunion. But only if its here in our dimension."

"Deal," Leo murmured as he felt his eyelids grow heavy.

"Hey, Fearless," Raph whispered, nudging Leo's shoulder.

Leo hummed in response.

"I think Master Splinter has a thing for Suzu."

"Is that code for something?"

Raphael chuckled.