Last one!
Chapter 14
Epilogue
It had been a week since Donatello returned home with his brothers, and what a week it had been! Not once was he left alone except when he went to the bathroom but even then, the minute he came out someone would be at his side. Surprisingly though, he was glad. He was still suffering in the aftermath.
He was still having nightmares every night of being controlled, this led to him not getting as much sleep as he needed but he knew it was just a case of time.
His headaches at least had finally subsided, but he found he would have moments; little blink and you missed it moments where his limbs would tremble, and his eye would hurt. Again, he figured in time it would go away, they were becoming less frequent already.
His brothers noticed these moments though and it would worry them. Donatello understood and made sure to tell them he was ok.
He trained and ate as usual and soon returned to his lab. He was back to updating the security systems and fixing the odd broken appliance, nothing new was being built just yet.
He would get there.
They hadn't been topside all week, taking a small break while they recovered from the events.
Tonight, that changed.
The four brothers patrolled, at first silently and on edge but soon were back to chatting and messing around again. They found themselves loosening up at long last.
They took a break on a rooftop far away from the one this all started on.
The air was warm with a cool breeze, the brothers sat together and looked up at the cloudy sky.
"Aww man! We can't see the moon tonight!" Mikey pouted, "Stupid clouds!"
"Why don'tcha do a weather dance and see if that clears 'em?" Raph teased, Mikey leapt up immediately.
"Yeah! It works in the cartoons! There's gotta be like a reverse rain dance!" He enthused and quickly used his cell to google it.
He took a moment to read the results.
"Ok… so it says if I do the rain dance backwards then it'll rain on the other side of the earth… It also says I can do a dance to the sun god?" He seems to think about it carefully. "Yeah… I'll just do it in reverse!"
The brothers watch in awe as Mikey starts dancing a reverse rain dance, they soon get over their shock and start howling with laughter.
Raphael leans on Leo as he clutches his stomach.
They see Donatello pull out his own phone and points it at his little brother, he's giggling hysterically as he watches.
Mikey continues his dance but freezes when he sees Donnie's cell.
"Wh-? No! Donnie, you can't record me!" He whines, "That makes this embarrassing!"
The brothers continue laughing.
"Don't stop Mike! You were almost there!" Raph encourages, desperate to see the show again.
"Really?" Mikey perks up.
"Oh yeah Little Brother! I could feel it!" Leo nods, playing along.
Mikey immediately continues his dance.
He eventually finishes and looks up at the sky panting.
He gasps.
"OH MY GOD! IT WORKED!" He cheered as he jumped up and down, "LOOK! LOOK!"
The brothers look up and gape when they see the moon shining brightly down at them.
Donnie stopped recording and grinned.
"Nice one Mikey!"
"There's no way that happened because of him!" Raph stutters.
"Well it did Raphie! I am a genius!" Mikey grins, not looking away from the sky.
Raph looks over at Donnie who assures him it had nothing to do with Mikey, the two snicker as Mike finally sits down.
"This is nice" Leo smiles after a moment, the brothers agree.
And that's how they spent the rest of patrol.
They sat together enjoying the warm air, the cool breeze and stare up at the moon.
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