At about 4:00 the next morning Raphael woke up. He noticed his left leg felt weird but he was unable to figure out why at the moment. He furiously rubbed his eyes trying to get the sleep out of them. When he opened them back up he noticed his leg was up on something. Then he looked around the room and saw Michelangelo sitting by his bedside, why the heck is Mikey sittin' in my room sleepin'?

The next thing Raphael noticed was the bandage on his arm, and then the night before all came back to him. Leo! God I hope he's okay.

Disregarding everything else, Raphael sat up and swung his legs over the edge of the bed. However when his feet hit the ground and he attempted to take his first step, with his left leg, a jolt of pain was shot up his leg and he fell to the ground.

"Shit! What the hell," Raphael winced while holding onto his, now throbbing, injured knee.

At the sound of Raphael's cursing Mikey was awake in an instant and kneeling next to his injured brother on the ground.

"Raph, what do you think you're doing? You cant be walking on that leg of yours. Donny said you shouldn't even be out of bed."

"Mikey, I gotta see Leo. How's he doin'? S'he all right?" Raph asked in a near panic while cringing at the pain in his leg as he tried to stand back up.

Mikey, realizing he would be unable to reason with Raph, slid under his arm to help him stand.

"Fine, since you're obviously not going to listen to me and stay in bed, I'll help you get there. Except you have to keep all weight off that leg, cause Donny's gonna kill me as it is for letting you outta bed,"Michelangelo said while supporting and giving Raph a stern look. "Whatever you say," Raph said while hopping on one leg and hanging onto Mikey, "I jus' need ta see 'im."

When they got into Leo's room, Leonardo still had not woken up and Donatello was sleeping in the chair, head resting on the table by the bed. Donny instantly awoke , as he sensed the other two come into the room .

"Raph! You're up. Mikey, why is he out of bed?" Donny asked, quickly getting agitated.

"Donny I tried to..."

"Don' get mad at 'im. I made 'im let me. I had ta see Leo." Raph stated as he released his grip on Mikey and hopped over to Leo's bedside.

"C'mon, ya gotta wake up bro. Donny fixed ya, please wake up," Raph pleaded. Raph wanted to talk to Leo and make sure he really was okay after what Shredder did to him. He just wasn't able to forget the look on his brothers face when Shredder threw him and he hit the wall. He had never really seen Leo display fear before, but that was what he saw before Leo slumped into unconsciousness, he was sure of it, and it scared him.

"Raph, Leo was badly injured and I think he has a concussion, so it could very well be a little while until he wakes up. Let's just give him a few more hours to rest, he needs it, as do you," Donny told him. "Ok, fine," Raph relented," But I'm staying right here with 'im." "Raph, you..." Donny started.

"No Donny. You weren't there. Ya didn't see 'im when it happened. I don' care what ya say, I'm not leavin' this room 'til he wakes up," Raphael demanded, refusing to change his mind for anyone.

"Okay, fine. But at least let me elevate your leg and put some more ice on it," Donatello tried to reason with Raph.

"Fine, but you can go an' get the ice yourself, cause like I said I'm not leavin' him no matta what."

"Don't worry, I was planning on it. Like I said, I don't want you on the leg at all, and I'll explain to you what I thinks wrong with it a little later. Let's just wait until Leo wakes first."

After Donny had gotten the ice and found a good way to situate Raph with his leg elevated he began wrapping the ice pack onto Raph's knee.

"Hey Donny?"

"Yeah Raph."

"Leo is gonna be okay, right? I mean he'll get better an' still be able to fight an' stuff right? Cause I tried ta help 'im, I really did, but I couldn't get to 'im fast enough. I...I..." Raph said on the verge of panicking again.

Donny dropped the wrap and ice and placed his hands on Raph's shoulders looking straight into his eyes. "Raph. Focus on me. You have to calm down. Take nice deep, slow breaths. This is not your fault." Raph held his gaze on Donny doing as he was told to. In, out, deep, slow breaths. Just breath. After a couple of minutes Raph had himself back under control.

" 'm sorry Don. I'm jus' really worried about Leo. He is gonna be okay right?"

"Yes, I think he will be fine. He just needs a lot of rest and is going to have to take it really easy for a while," said Donny in his best attempt to tell Raph what he wanted to know without giving too many details, so as to not cause him to panic again.

After Donny was sure Raph was pretty calmed down he went back to wrapping the ice on. "All right Raph. I want you to leave this on for about 20 minutes, and then I'll come back in and rewrap it," Raph nodded his head in understanding while looking at Leo, "And like I already said, I really want you to keep off that leg and just rest. So if you need anything at all, until I can make you up a pair of crutches, let Mikey of I know and one of us will come and help you out."

"I don' get it Donny. Why can't I jus' get up when I want? I mean it's not broken right, or it's be in a cast, wouldn't it? So what's wrong with it?" Raph asked. He had just been up for a little while and already this was pissing him off.

"Raph remember how when you got up earlier you couldn't even stand on it? Well I don't want you to injure it more. And I told you I'd tell you what's wrong later. You already almost had a panic attack a minute ago. Do until Leo wakes up, I just want you to rest and not worry about it. We'll get it fixed up soon enough."

"All right, fine. I'll jus' sit 'ere an' rest 'til Leo wakes up," Raph sighed not too entirely happy with this situation. He wanted Leo to be all right and wanted to know why Donatello was stressing out so much over his leg, but he would just have to wait.

"Oh, and Raph," Donny said about to walk out of the room, "If Leo should wake up make sure he doesn't get up, and call for me right away," Donny told Raph.

"Sure thing Donny, an' thanks for helpin' me out with my leg. I do appreciate it even though I give ya trouble 'bout it."

"No problem. I just hope we can get you two healthy again real quick," Donny said sounding a little disappointed.