I want to thank everyone who wrote again. I would also like to mention to some authors that they need to be writing their stories. I am still thinking on this, but the least I can do is make Leo wake up. Remember Turtles Not Mine. Enjoy...
God his head hurt, actually if he thought about it his whole body hurt. "What was going on?" The last thing he remembered he was arguing with Raph about something. He opened his eyes slowly and shut them again quickly. Too much light was in the room, he moaned and tried to get up to shut off the light, but he couldn't move. He tried again, but nothing. "Oh God, something really bad happened to me." Leo thought. "HELP!!! GUYS!" Leo screamed but it came out in a whisper. It hurt to talk. "What the shell has happened to me?"
"Leo?" came a soft voice. Leo knew that voice. He just couldn't figure out who's it was he tried to sit up again.
"Easy, Leo. It's going to be ok, you can't move around too much." Said the voice.
"Who, what?" asked Leo. Donnie came into Leo's view.
"You have to be still or your stitches will open. I need you to just stay still." Said Donnie.
"Donnie, It hurts. Why can't I get up?" said Leo confused.
"You got cut pretty badly, plus both your arms and legs are broken. I'm gonna give you some pain meds ok? This should help with the pain." Said Donnie as he got a needle. As Donnie came towards Leo's neck to administer the medicine a vision came to Leo. There were sharp claws and an evil laugh. Leo screamed a high pitiful scream and tried to get out of Donnie's way. "Leo, what the shell? Calm down, it will be ok. Leo its Donnie." Donnie could see that Leo was not really looking at him. The others heard the scream and ran into Leo's room to see what was going on. Mikey and Raph had their weapons out ready for anything. "Guys, he's caught in some kind of memory. Help me keep him still, I don't want him to reopen the stitches." Said Donnie. Mikey and Raph came over to Leo and held him down. Leo continued to struggle and whimper. Master Splinter came in took one look at his son and knew he was remembering what happened to him.
"Leonardo, concentrate on my voice. You are fine. Nothing here will harm you my son. Look at me." Said Splinter. Leo continued to whimper still caught in the memory. The pain, the laughing, and the knowing he was dead. Then he heard a voice. Distant but there, his Sensei, he heard his Sensei. He concentrated on Splinter's voice and gradually stepped out of the memory.
"Sensei?" Leo asked weakly.
"I am here my son. You are safe." Said Splinter. Leo looked up and saw that Splinter was there. He looked around as much as he could saw his brother's concerned faces and saw April in the doorway. He finally looked back at Splinter and started to cry. His brothers were shocked. Leo never cried, Leo was never afraid, he was their leader, and their leader was strong. "Whatever did this to Leo really scared him." Raph thought. "My son, it will be ok. You are safe. Donatello is going to give you something for the pain. Is that not right Donatello?" asked Splinter.
"Um, yeah Leo. Are you ready?" asked Donatello a little uncertainly.
"I... I don't want anything. I just want to go to sleep." Said Leo as he tried to compose himself.
"Are you sure? I know you have to be in pain." Said Donnie.
"No, I don't want anything. I can control the pain." Said Leo.
"If your sure Leo. I don't want to see you in pain." Said Donnie.
"I'm just tired. I can handle the pain. Donnie, how long will I be in these casts?" asked Leo.
"At least 6 weeks, Leo. Your arms and legs were completely broken. Raph had to reset them." Said Donnie.
"I can't do anything. I can't move I can't do anything. How the shell am I supposed to function?" asked Leo angrily.
"Leo, you have to calm down. We'll help you. You'll get through this." Said Donnie.
"So, I have to be a burden to you guys. Please leave. I want to be alone." Said Leo. He couldn't turn away from them like he wanted so he just closed his eyes, to shut them out and to shut out the memories.
"Leo, you could never be a burden, come on bro." Said Mikey.
"I think we should leave Leonardo alone for now. We will check on him later." Said Splinter. Splinter walked out of the room followed by April, a sad looking Mikey, and a worried looking Donatello. Raph didn't leave he stayed right were he was.
"Raph, please leave." Said Leo.
"How'd you know I was still here?" asked Raph.
"Because I only heard 4 different footsteps out the door. I don't want to talk Raph I just want to sleep." Said Leo
"Well I want to talk. I want to know what the shell happened to you." Said Raph angrily.
"I don't want to talk about it. Just leave it alone for now Raph." Said Leo, as he looked his brother in the eye.
"No, and there's no way you can stop me from asking either so you can just stop. I have to know what we have to go find. If you don't tell me all the happened how can I find the thing that did this to you and beat the shell out of it?" asked Raph.
"I don't think you should find it." Said Leo softly.
"Leo, what if it comes back? What if one of us is next. We need to find this thing and shut it down." Said Raph as he stood at Leo's side looking down at him.
"I don't know what it was Raph. All I remember is lots of pain, and the laugh and how I was going to die. I couldn't do anything. It was like it was in my head. I couldn't fight, I couldn't call for help. I was helpless, just like I am now." Said Leo.
"Leo, your not helpless. As soon as you're healed you will be as good as new." Said Raph.
"Exactly, I have to wait because I was afraid of it. I have to wait because I couldn't fight it. I have to be a bother to everyone here because I couldn't fight it. I don't want to depend on you guys, I wish I could go back to that night and fight, I wish I wish I didn't survive." Said Leo quietly.
"Hey, don't you talk like that! What the shell? How could we survive without you? How would I be able to live with myself when the last words out of my mouth were I hope you get a stiff neck? God, Leo I am so sorry. I didn't think, and we almost lost you, and now you're talking like this. You need to stop feeling sorry for yourself and think like the fearless leader you are." Said Raph.
"Fearless, that's a laugh. Raph, I can still feel it. I can still hear it laughing at me. I don't know what it was I don't know how to find it and even if I did, I would just probably get you guys killed." Said Leo defeated.
"So, you were scared. So what. We've been thorough so much and you were never scared. Now you are good! It shows you have brains. This thing nearly killed you Leo. It attacked you and it hurt you bad. If you weren't scared I would be surprised. Hell, Leo I was scared for you. When I saw you lying there bloody and broken, I was scared that I would lose my brother. I don't want to feel that scared again." Said Raph.
"I don't know how to find it. I don't even know what it really was. How are we supposed to fight something that I can't even really describe?" asked Leo.
"Well the first thing we do is get you to rest. Then we get you better, then we make you give us all you can on this thing, then we get Donnie working on it. But first things first bro, you have to get healed. I'm offering to help you Leo. And you know I don't really like to help you." Said Raph as he looked into Leo's eyes and saw mixed emotions, fear, pain, and uncertainty.
"It hurts Raph, it hurts a lot, and I don't know if I can honestly live like this for 6 weeks. I have to burden you guys with everything. I don't think I can do that. My honor won't allow it. I should of died." Said Leo.
"Shut the Hell up about Dieing!!!" screamed Raph. "I don't want to hear it again. You lived because we wanted you to live. You lived because you're stronger then this thing. And you know what you lived because you have to learn to take peoples help. Now shut the shell up, get some sleep, in the morning we have lots to do." Said Raph as he headed for the door.
"Raph..." said Leo.
"What?" said Raph, as he was about to open the door.
"Thanks, I'll take your help." Said Leo, as he closed his eyes and was asleep before Raph could respond.
"Good, because no matter if you didn't take it, you would have been forced to." Said Raph as he went to get dinner.
Well not a bad chapter. We still don't know much about what attacked Leo, but that's because I haven't decided what exactly did. I hoped you liked it. Tune in for more....