When the two bright banded ninjas started their relationship, Mikey thought that after a while they would share a room, especially after they started having sex but no, Raph would leave straight after, always making sure they were not in his room.

It really annoyed Mikey...but he let it slide for the first month to see if there was any chance that Raph would stay the night with him but after that, Mikey'd had enough.

"You're spending the night here." Mikey demanded as Raph went to leave the room after they'd had sex.

"What? Why?"

"Why not?" Mikey retaliated.

"'Cause...I like to sleep in my own bed."

"Then I'll come and sleep in your bed."

"No."

"Why not?" Mikey asked again.

"I...I like sleeping alone." Raph said, avoiding looking at his brother's baby blues.

"Fine." Mikey huffed and turned away from his brother.

Mikey waited for Raph to leave the room, but after a few minutes, he felt Raph press himself against his shell.

"Fine...I'll stay here tonight, will that make you happy?"

"Maybe…"

It never took long for Mikey to go to sleep but with Raph's warmth behind him, he was asleep much quicker than usual.

They'd only been asleep for a few hours when Mikey was woken up by the sound of whimpers and the feeling of someone thrashing against him.

"Raph?" Mikey said as he turned over to see his brother shaking and his eyes crunched closed. "Raph!" Mikey repeated as he shook his brother, trying to wake him.

Raph shot upright, almost knocking Mikey over as he tried to catch his breath. When Mikey tried to wrap his arms around his brother, he pushed him away.

"Leave me alone!"

Mikey ignored his brother, instead wrapping his arms around him and holding him tightly, not letting him go no matter how hard he fought against him.

"Raph, calm down bro, it's okay, I'm here.'" Eventually Raph calmed down and let Mikey hold him.

"Is this why you didn't wanna sleep in bed with me?"

"...Yeah" Raph admitted, relaxing in Mikey's arms.

"Dude you could have just said...having someone with you can help."

"Yeah...I never thought about that before and...I guess I didn't want ya' to see how weak I am."

"I don't think you're weak just for having bad dreams dude." Mikey said as he kissed his brother's head. "But I'm not letting you sleep alone after this."

"...I guess that wouldn't be a bad thing." Raph admitted as Mikey laid him back down in the bed.

"'Course it won't be." Mikey said as he nuzzled into his brother's neck.

Raph grunted a response but soon found himself falling asleep again, Mikey's fingers running up and down his arm in a very soothing manner that helped lull him.

Raph slept the rest of the night with no more nightmares, so he decided to sleep with Mikey the following night and once again he had no nightmares.

After that the two always slept in the same bed together, very rarely did they sleep apart and only those nights would Raph be plagued with the nightmares he was so used to.