Laughter Lines by RomaMarufixx

Part Four

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

Once we were back at base, Raph left my side almost instantly, so I decided to make my way over to the room that me and Mikey had began sharing, where I hoped he would be. Unfortunately, he wasn't and my nerves began getting the better of me, all I wanted to do was to leave the room and go back to my lab and bury myself into something that would let me avoid having to tell Mikey what I had been doing behind his back. But logically I knew it was only a short time before Mikey would find out himself or Raph would let something slip, and he would would react far better hearing it first hand from myself.

I tried to think of how I was going to tell Mikey, I knew that it would be a touchy subject for Mikey and I didn't want him to hide away from me or hate me for bringing back bad memories for him. But it would be best if I told him sooner rather than later, as the longer I hide this away from, the worse his reaction is likely to be.

"Donnie?" Mikey's voice called me out of my thoughts, and I looked up to find him standing in front of me.

"Hmm?"

"You were all spaced out, are you okay?"

"Yes I'm fine, thank you, I...Mikey, I need to speak to you."

"Okay, what about?"

"Can we sit?" I asked and gestured to the bed that was behind me.

"Okay, Donnie are you sure you're okay?" Mikey asked as he sat down on the bed and I joined him.

"I'm fine, I just need to tell you something, I'm a little worried about how you will take it."

"Well neither of us will know until you tell me." Mikey reasoned and a short chuckled escaped me.

"True, well, Mikey, I've...been looking into what happened to me, to this universe's me." I explained, cutting to the chase. "It bugs me and I need to find out what happened because I don't just think that he ran away and left, I know I would never do that." I spoke honestly and tensed when I saw Mikey's dull eyes staring at the floor. "Mikey-"

"It's okay." Mikey said and cleared his throat before looking up at me. "I would be lying if I said that I didn't want to know what happened to him, you...I'm just afraid at what you'll find."

"You're not mad at me or anything are you?" I asked worried and a smile crept on Mikey's face and I relaxed and let go of my earlier tension. He wrapped his arm around me and nuzzled into my neck, giving me a kiss where my neck became my shoulders.

"I'm not mad Donnie." He said and moved away from me so that we could look into each other's eyes. "Just tell me what you find and if you ever need help, I'm here, I know that whatever you will find will upset me in some way but it would be nice just to know, it might help put my mind at ease." Mikey said, giving a weak smile.

I took a short while to study my mate and brother's face, I know Mikey was thirty years older than the last time that I had seen him, with his age closing in on fifty years old, but even so he looked so aged. Mikey had always had a 'baby' face and I thought that he would always have it until we got very, very old, but the stress of everything that had happened during those thirty years had really aged him. Of course that didn't matter to me, the only thing that did matter was how tired he looked, and ill, I would have hated to have been there when Mikey lost his arm.

I had patched up my brothers more times than I care to remember and some injuries could have been life threatening if myself or someone else had not been there to prevent further injury or worse, but I don't know how I would have reacted, as much as I pride myself in remaining calm in the most stressful of situations but there have been times before and I am sure that there will be times again when I couldn't be as calm as I should have been and if I was there when Mikey had lost his arm then I would have been the furthest from calm. Maybe I had been there, or at least the other me, when it had happened.

We didn't speak much else that night, we just spent it holding each other, both of us too afraid to go of the other and finding a comfort in having each other there to hold.

Before I knew it I had been there for a number of weeks, finishing building Leo his new eyes, starting the plans for Raph's eye and Mikey's new arm, spending time with my brothers, helping Raph free mutants from the smaller of the mutant prison camps, spending private time with Mikey. It had been almost a month before it occurred to me that the time may have passed equally in this universe and my home universe. I knew that if it would, my family could be falling apart at this very moment and turning into the brothers that were in this universe.

"Donnie, you wanted to see me?" Leo called from the door of my lab and knocked me out of my thoughts.

"Ah, yes!" I replied with a wide beaming smile, that if Leo could see would have made him worry for my sanity. "Come in." I said and he slowly made his way into the lab, probably fearing that he may hurt himself on something on the floor, my lab had always been a mess and he remembered that. When he reached me, I led him over to a table meant for surgery and felt him tense.

"Don't worry Leo, I know you've never liked getting patched up and yes, this is a little-okay, lot more than just being patched up but, I've finished your eyes!" I exclaimed, very excited that I had finished Leo's eyes and if everything went to plan, I would be giving my brother back the gift of his sight. "I just have to remove your current eyes and replace them, it will take some time but you will be out, you will feel nothing and if everything goes the way it should go, you'll have your sight back."

"I trust you Donnie." Leo said, squeezing my shoulder and smiled at me. He slowly took off his jacket and his glasses, revealing his damaged and scarred blind eyes before getting onto the surgery table, all whilst I filled up a syringe with a sedative which would knocked him out more than enough time for me to do the surgery with added time in case I need it, for example, if there were any complications or other problems. Once I was sure that Leo was out I began to surgery with a slight shake of my hand that I soon controlled.

A few hours later and everything was finished, I just waited for Leo to wake up. Many times I had, had Mikey, Raph, April or all three outside the door to my lab asking to come in to check on Leo, see how he was doing, but I refused to let them in, I had to make sure Leo was mentally, emotionally and physically fit before letting the others see him.

When Leo started breathing more regularly and moving slightly, I knew he was awake, but he hadn't opened his eyes yet.

"Leo? Are you okay? Are you in any pain?" I shot a few questions at him before stopping myself from saying anymore.

"They feel weird."

"Your eyes?" He nodded.

"Yes."

"But are they hurting you at all?"

"No."

"Can you open your eyes for me Leo?" I asked and patiently waited for him to do so, but minutes passed and he made no move to open his eyes. "Leo?"

"What if it hasn't worked?" Leo asked, a slight shake in his voice and I sighed, I should have seen this coming. Fearless leader, a nickname given to Leo by his partner and brother, Raph, but he wasn't fearless, no one was, Leo had fears and was scared from time to time, such as now, he just needed someone to give him reassurance.

"How will you know if you don't open your eyes Leo?" I asked him as I held his hand and stroke the back of it to give him some comfort.

There were a few more minutes of silence before Leo's eyelids slowly lifted, exposing his new eyes. They were very close to the same colour as before, but everyone has their own unique eye colour that couldn't be replicated, but I had tried my hardest. From a distance they looked like normal eyes, it was only when you came close you could seen the cracks where I had fixed the white plates together and inserted the iris and pupil.

"Leo?" I asked, trying to get his attention and his eyes shifted to look at me and he gasped, even though he tried to cover it up after. "Can you see me, what do I look like."

"Young." he said and smiled and then looked around the lab. "Younger than I even remember you, I guess there was a part of my mind that tried to age you so that it felt like you had stayed with us." Leo paused. "This place is really a mess Donatello, you could hurt yourself in here." I laughed and threw my arms around his neck and he hugged me in return. It took me a few seconds to realise that something was dripping on my shoulder and another few seconds to realise that it was Leo crying.

"Thank you Donnie."

"There's no need to thank me Leo." I said as we pulled apart. "I'll need to see you tomorrow, just for a check up, now, I think there is someone that you are dying to see."

"I'll see you tomorrow then Don." Leo said as he move off of the table and collected his cloak along with his glasses and made his way out of the room, closing the door behind him.

Now that Leo's eyes were finished and worked fine, thus far, I decided it time to work on Raph's eye along with Mikey's arm, since I knew what I was doing with the eyes, having done Leo's, Raph's eye would take no time at all, it was only Mikey's arm that would take some time…

Leo couldn't stop his heart racing as he walked through the hallway at a faster speed than normal, now that he could see he didn't have to rely on his other senses to slowly direct him around. He got a few shocked looks from the people he passed, so he decided to put back on his glasses, that and also it would be more of a surprise for Raphael.

By the time he reached the door that was, at first Raphael's room but now belonged to the two of them, his heart sped up even more and he had to take a few deep breathes before pushing open the door and stepping inside.

Raph was sat on a chair on the far side of the room that was near a desk, he rested his elbows on them and hid his face in his hands. He must have been like that for a very long time, he'd known it was mid morning when Donnie had started the surgery and was know late at night, almost a new day. Leo coughed to get the other's attention and Raph jumped around.

Raph wasn't wearing his bandana, leaving his wounded eye to be seen, a dark hole where once a beautiful golden eye was. Leo had never seen it before and now all he wanted to do was reach out and stroke it.

"Leo?" Raph said and walked over to him until they were only a few inches apart. Seeing Raph face to face like this for the first time in decades made Leo's eyes well up again. Slowly he reached up and took his glasses off, looking down as he did so.

Once his glasses were off he looked up at Raph, without the dark rims he was even more attractive, older, more scarred and a lot different to the last time that Leo had actually seen him, but no less attractive.

"Can ya see me? Did it work?" Leo couldn't speak, he felt like his throat was closing, unable to get the words out, instead he just grabbed the back of his head and pulled him closer so that they could share a kiss. It didn't last long as Leo pulled away so that he could kiss all of Raph's face and then his neck before pulling back so that they could look at one another.

"I take it that's a yes?" Raph asked, his voice thick with emotion.

"Yes." Leo said as he touch just under where Raph's other eye used to be.

"Hey, don't do that." Raph said, removing Leo's hand from his face, but not letting it go, just entwining their fingers. "Don'll have me a new eye soon and we'll be even."

"I've never seen the wound before." Leo said, resting his head against Raph's as he reminded him.

"It's been so long, I barely think about it anymore, didn't think there was any point, wasn't like you, still had one eye."

"Like you said, Don will have your new eye ready soon." Leo said, he was going to say more but Raph cut him off with a kiss.

Their kisses grew hotter and their hands were all over each other. Leo refused to close his eye, wanting to take in every inch of his lover's body and his reactions. When he could take no more he pushed Raph back and churred deeply, getting one in return.

"Let's take this to the bed shall we?"