Human AU. Michelangelo didn't know what he expected public school to be like, but it wasn't this. Things in New York City are getting strange and it's up to Michelangelo to defend it along side his new friends: April O'Neil, Donatello Stockman, Raphael Hamato, Leonardo Hamato, and Casey Jones. But Michelangelo doesn't know if he can trust them. Or if they should trust him.

The loss of a brother splits the family apart. Years later, the old ghosts come creeping back in a form they'd never imagined. How long can family connections last? How far? The turtles find that the past doesn't stay buried, and some things never die.

Don returns to the lair after waking up in an alley, just as a suited man is about to cut of his head with an axe, he can't remember how he got there and thinks that only hours have passed, until Leo tells him its been three weeks.

Is it worse to suffer in protection of those you love, or to watch someone suffer to protect you? Leo, Don, Mike, and Raph struggle to recover from a horrifying captivity. Now completed!

Raphael confronts a broken Leonardo, who, after their master's death has been carrying a dark secret that's eating him alive: an untold story Splinter shared on his deathbed. Probably the most tragic fic I've ever written.