Laughter Lines by RomaMarufixx

Part Two

Don/Mikey, Raph/Leo

This is turtlecest, don't like? Don't read.

All characters are over the age of 18.

Characters belong to Nickelodeon.

SAINW

As soon as possible I had April round up the resistance so we could have a meeting, in which I discussed what I had planned for the future of the resistance. I wanted to bring the Shredder down, but I didn't think that, that would be possible anytime soon, so in the meantime I would start with upgrading the base, the technology inside and the weapons that they were using.

The people were more than happy to go along with what I had planned, saying that they would feel much safer knowing that their base was being improved and having better weaponry and that they would feel better fighting the Shredder with said improved weaponry. My brothers had agreed to help also, as much as they could as they didn't understand half of what I said I wanted to change and how.

I had proposed to my brothers that I could help them with their newfound disabilities, or maybe they'd had them for years, I didn't know whether or not I should ask in case it brought them back horror and pain, which I did not want to do. So instead of asking how and when they came about them I simply offered to build Mikey a new arm, and new eyes for both Raph and Leo.

They had all been reluctant at first, but had then agreed. I had a feeling that the only reason that they did was because if they said no I might have acted cold towards them and that was the last thing that they wanted to happen when they had just got their missing brother back.

Raph and Mikey had both come to talk to me about what I had suggested, I thought they were going to change their mind and decline, but they didn't, in fact they asked if I could put Leo's new eyes first, that they could wait for a new eye and a new arm, they just wanted Leo to have his sight back, so that was able to see again. I was more than happy to say yes and start on that as soon as I could.

Of course building someone a new set of eyes was going to be very hard, but I was pleased to see that technology had advanced some what in the decades that had gone by. April even had some technology from the Shredder, which was slightly more advanced, but even so a new set of eyes would be very hard to make and actually placing them in Leo's skull, attaching them to his brain or finding a way that they could work without being attached...there was a lot at risk. But he would make everything work for his brother, and then it would be easier to do for Raph and Mikey's arm would be the easiest out of the three to do.

As I got to work on doing everything that I had proposed, my brothers stayed close to me, offering help whenever they saw that it might be needed. Raph would lift objects that he thought would be too heavy for me or would put too much of a strain on me. Leo would be there to give me any advice that he thought I might need, including worrying about my health and telling me when I should take a break, have something to eat or sleep. And as for Mikey, he just remained close by my side, not speaking, just there, which gave me confidence and hope.

Although sometimes I worried for Mikey, he remained close but every time a touch or a look went beyond something more than brotherly then he would look or move away and act as though it had never happened, the closest the two of us had ever come to each other was when I talked to Mikey and that had been over a week ago, maybe I needed to talk to him again, that's what got him to speak out about how he was feeling before. The only problem with doing that was going to be spending some time alone with Mikey that I was sure would not be interrupted.

I decided to wait until late at night, when I knew that everybody would be in their rooms, retired for the night, until they had to wake up in the morning for whatever their duties were that needed to be done. I reached the door that belonged to Mikey and knocked like I had done before and waited for a reply or for him to open the door, the latter of which happened and Mikey's face looked shocked upon seeing me standing outside.

"Donnie?"

"Hey Mikey, is it okay if I come in?"

"Sure." Mikey said and stepped away so that Donnie could enter the room, which was dimly lit with a few candles dotted around, as Mikey's was one of the rooms with no electricity, a shocking fact Donnie had heard, out of all his brothers, aside himself, Mikey would have a hard time living without it and yet here he was. The door closed behind him and he turned to face his brother.

"I wanted to talk to you about something."

"Okay, what?"

"It's just something that I've notice, you spend a lot of time by my side, close to me, but everytime I try and get, I don't know...closer? Closer to you, you pull away and then act as if nothing has happened, why do you do that Mikey, help me to understand what's going on in your head, if you need my help for anything, you know you can just ask me."

"I know that." Mikey said in a quiet voice and that only made me more worried.

"Mikey." I stopped because I saw his mouth open and then close and then he repeated that action, as though he wanted to speak but just couldn't find the words to say, so I waited until he did.

"I'm just scared of getting too close to you."

"Why?"

"Because if I get too close to you, and then the time comes around when you have to leave, it will kill me again and I can't go through that a second time." Mikey started to raise his voice but didn't shout. "I don't want you to leave but at the same time I know that you have to, so that your world doesn't end up like this, I just, I just want to be selfish and keep you here...I'm just scared of losing you Donnie." That's when Mikey began to cry and I can not handle when my brothers cry, normally I can put on a mask and remain calm,, but not now, not my Mikey in the hellish place, he deserved to have some comfort, he'd been denying himself it for so long.

I pulled him closer to myself and just held him as he cried into my neck and my eyes began to well up. I have no idea how long the two of us stayed like that, I wasn't counting, the only thing that mattered in that moment was Mikey in my arms. Of course it couldn't have lasted forever, after a while Mikey pulled back and looked back at me with red eyes behind his mask.

"I know that you will have to go back Donnie, you can't stay here, no matter how much I want you too."

"Mikey-"

"It's okay, I can handle it, I mean, what do you think I've been doing for the past thirty years?" Mikey said with a smile, but it didn't ease the ache I felt inside me. I wanted to leave to get back to my family, but I didn't want to leave my brothers like this, but if I didn't then this would become their future.

The same thoughts just kept swimming around in my head but now another one added to the mixture. I needed to find out how or why this universe's Donatello left or whatever happened to him, but it would be hard to do so with my brothers always around me.

"You have me for now." I reminded him, trying to stay focused on the conversation that was happening in front of me and not let my mind wander onto other things.

We shared another hug and talked for a while longer before Mikey decided that I needed my sleep, I would have asked if I could sleep in Mikey's bed that night, only for one it was a single bed and I doubt the two of us could have fit comfortably in it and two, Mikey looked very uncomfortable whilst telling me that I should sleep.

In the base I now had my own lab, which was useful as I didn't have to deal with the large amount of people walking around me, causing distractions. It also meant that my brothers visited me slightly less as they were needed back in where I used to work which gave me time to myself to try and find out what happened to the other Donatello. First I decided to do some research on what had happened in the past thirty years to go more in depth of what my brothers told me, even though they had lived those years they may not have known what was going on elsewhere in the world and memories couldn't always be trusted.

Mikey was more affectionate towards me after we had talked, we shared hugs, small touches of each other's flesh and just spent time talking about anything that came to our minds and it made my heart swell that Mikey was becoming more like his old self and I could tell that Leo and Raph were noticing the changes when they weren't noticing each other.

One day Mikey surprised me by coming into the lab up behind me and draping his arm around me in a hug whilst his chin rested on my shoulder. Normally it would take him a good half an hour to even touch me slightly, let alone give me a hug and lean on me.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm working on Leo's eyes." I said looking down at the metal desk where two eyeball shaped objects were laying on top of a mess of wires and other electrical equipment that I was using. "I have the shape and the eye colour sorted...now I just have to get them to actually work, I think if I can't think of a way to put something inside them to make them work I may have to do surgery on Leo, which I really do not want to do."

"You'll figure it out Donnie, you always do."

"Not always." I said without thinking.

"You do." Mikey assured me and nuzzled into my neck, making me flush at his boldness, as well as the fact that I hadn't had much physical interaction as I usually would have had if I had been in my own universe, Michelangelo was a nymphomaniac to put it nicely, years without his partner, without me, must have killed that.

"Mikey-" I didn't get to say much else, as soon as I turned my head to look at Mikey whilst I spoke to him, his mouth was over mine. I didn't hold back, wrapping my arms around his neck as his hand fell to my hip and squeezed there at my exposed flesh. A churr escaped me, making my mouth open and Mikey's tongue filled the space.

I managed to pull away and mutter the words "The desk." and I was promptly moved to it and Mikey made his ways between my thighs, which I am embarrassed to say spread like butter at his touch. "Watch Leo's eyes." I muttered noticing that Mikey's arm was resting awfully close to them and he laughed, a joyful real sound, not a scoff or fake short laugh like I had heard before, but an actual Mikey laugh.

"That is not something I expected to hear in this kind of situation."

Although I loved hearing Mikey laugh, there was something I would much prefer to hear right now.

"Mikey."

"Hm?"

"I need you."