Raphael had been missing for about a little over three days now and everyone was starting to get really worried about him. We called Casey and April and they were both on the look out as well, but unfortunately for us a major snowstorm hit Manhattan and "the city that never sleeps" was all but shut down. That didn't stop us from searching and we still went out, one at a time, to look for him. Even Splinter went out a few times no matter how much Leonardo argued with him.

While we waited for our shift, we sat anxiously in the living room watching the door with a telephone handy. Leonardo had been gone a long time. We were only supposed to search for two hours at a clip and then come home to get warmed up. Leo had been gone for over three now.

I was sitting in the living room with Splinter and I was as wound up as a spring. Sensei, however, was the picture of calm, only the occasional twitch of his whiskers betrayed the worry he was feeling. Donatello was in his lab in his computer trying to get any information he could about Raphael.

Suddenly, the door opened and Leo walked in pounding his feet on the floor to get the snow off. I jumped up. "Leo!"

He took off his coat and hat and hung them up sadly. "There's still no sign of him."

"You have been gone for quite a long time, My Son," Splinter said quietly.

As I ran to get Leo some hot chocolate, I heard him answer. "I'm sorry, Master. I just know he's out there somewhere and I couldn't stop looking." He looked down at his hands which I noticed were dry and cracking as I handed him the cup.

"We can't do Raph any good if we're frozen to death, Leo," I said angrily. We were already missing one brother, I couldn't bear to lose another.

Leo looked up at me with a haunted expression. The cold had really done a number on him this time. Splinter must have realized it too.

"Michaelangelo, bring Leonardo some hot soup. After he eats, he will go to bed."

Leo shook his head, but Splinter put up a hand to halt any argument. "You will do as I say, My Son."

"I thought I heard Leo come home," Donatello said walking into the room shaking a thermometer. He walked over to Leo and sat beside him. "You know, I told everyone only two hours out there."

Leo sighed and gave a weak smile. "Ok, I've been lectured by everyone in this room. I've learned my lesson."

I smiled and Don shook his head. He held up the thermometer. "Here, let's see how far your temperature dropped."

1.1 Leo pushed it away. He hated to be babied. "I'm fine, Donny. I don't need…"

"I'm not arguing with you, Leo," Donatello said with a stern voice that made me smile. "I'll give you to the count of three to put this in your mouth or I'll take your temperature another way."

I laughed at Leonardo's stunned expression. And before Donny could even count to one, he had the thermometer in his mouth. I guess Leo knew as well as I did that Don was serious. I sighed and went to the kitchen to make Leo's soup. It had felt good to laugh. For a second there I almost forgot about all the worry.

By the time I returned with the soup, Leo was stretched out on the couch and Donny was getting his coat on. I handed Leo the bowl and looked around. "Where's Splinter?"

"I talked him into going to bed for awhile," Leo said taking a bite.

"On the promise that you'll be right behind him," Don added. "Make sure he goes to bed, Mike. His temperature is way down. Take a hot water bottle with you, Leo."

"Yes, Sensei," Leo said with a bow of his head and a small smile.

"Yeah, you're lucky I'm not Sensei," Don scoffed. "I would have given you more than just a lecture for being out there so long. I'll be back in two hours." And with that he was gone.

We were quiet for a second and then Leo said. "I guess I really made him mad."

I settled down on the chair and nodded. "We were worried about you."

My brother set the empty soup bowl on the stand beside him. "I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking about anything but finding Raphael."

"Yeah that's pretty much all anyone's thinking about. Except when we were thinking about finding you too."

Leo looked at me with a hurt expression. " I said I was sorry, Mike."

"I know," I sighed. "Sorry. Why don't you go to bed?" I picked up the bowl to carry it in the kitchen. When I came back, Leo was asleep on the couch. I put a blanket around him and sat in the chair to wait.



A door slammed and I jumped about two feet out of the chair. I guess I had fallen asleep and when I looked at the clock I saw that I had been asleep for over five hours.

"What's wrong?" Leo said sitting up quickly on the couch. We looked at each other for a second and only then did we look to the door. It was wide open and I realized it wasn't the door that slammed it was Donatello's body onto the floor.

Leo jumped off the couch and I was right behind him as we raced to our brother. He was laying face down and when Leo turned him over, I gasped. His coat was soaked, both with snow and with blood.

Leo put a trembling hand to Don's throat to feel for a pulse and I held my breath in anticipation.

"There's a pulse, but it's weak." He carefully took Don's coat and hat off and to my relief the wounds weren't as bad as we had feared.

"Take him to the bathroom," Splinter said. "And put him into the bathtub."

I turned, not having realized he was behind us.

"He is in shock from the cold," Splinter continued. "We must get him into some warm water."

We picked Donny up and he started mumbling. "Raphael….got Raphael….meet..die…Raphael…"

We ignored his ramblings and put him into the tub. Leo started running warm water.

"Not too hot," Splinter advised. "Only luke warm."

We stood and watched as Donny continued to mumble. "Raph…meet…die.." His voice dropped to a whisper and we all gasped. Before Don dropped into complete unconsciousness, the last word he said was, "Saki."