It was now about 1:00 and Raph had been brought some lunch, eaten it, then drifted off to sleep. In his sleep he heard something from the bed beside him and quickly opened his eyes and sat up closer to the bed.

Leo was moaning and his eyes were beginning to twitch as he finally began to regain consciousness.

Raphael grinned, overjoyed that Leo was finally waking up. Raph took Leo's hand, of his uninjured arm, and gave it a gentle squeeze.

"Hey Leo. C'mon bro wake up. It's me, Raph. Ya gotta open your eyes for me bro."

Slowly, Leo forced his eyes opened. He took notice of Raph next to him, and realized that Raph had a hold of his hand. Leo smiled, relieved that Raph was okay. He had imagined that Shredder got him and that's when he had awoken.

"Raph. S'good ta'see ya," Leo slurred.

Leo now fully awake, tried to sit up but as soon as he did so, squeezed his eyes shut at the excruciating pain that coursed through his body, especially his head and stomach, with the motion.

"No Leo. You're hurt bad, an' ya have ta not move around too much 'til Donny checks ya out an' makes sure you're all right," Raph said as he very gently helped Leo to lay back in bed again. Leo followed Raph without protest realizing he had no choice, for it hurt entirely too much to move right yet.

" 'K, I gotta get Donny in here, don' move," Raph said as he turned away from Leo to get up and go fetch Don.

Once again forgetting about his injured knee, with Leo being the only thing on his mind at the moment, he jumped up from his chair and went to run and get Donny. Though again, with his first step his knee buckled and he collapsed.

"Aw, fuck!" Raph exclaimed and grabbed his knee. Forget this. "Donny! Leo's awake, an' I need some help here!" Raph yelled out the door.

Hearing Raph yell, Donny sprinted into Leo's room and took notice of Raph lying on the floor in obvious pain, and went to him first.

"Raph, I told you not to get up on that leg," Donny told Raph, "Here, hang onto me and let's get you back into your chair."

Reluctantly Raph wrapped his arms around Donny grabbing onto the rim of his carapace. He wasn't about to argue with Donny as he lifted him back into the chair, for all the pain he was now in.

"Sorry Donny. I completely forgot about it jus' then. I was gonna come an' tell ya that Leo's awake," Raph said after he had regained his composure.

As soon as Donatello got Raph back into his chair and propped his leg back up, reapplying some ice, he directed his attention toward Leo.

"Hey bro. How ya feeling?"

"Like I got hit by a truck. My head is killing me, and if I try to move, well let's just say it's a big mistake."

"Yeah I imagine. I'll bring you some Tylenol in a couple minutes. When Raph brought you home you were unconscious. When I examined you though, your shoulder was dislocated and I don't know how long that had been out of place. You had a pretty good-sized hole in your plastron. There was a little bit of internal damage, but I stitched that up and covered your plastron. I also noticed there was quite a bump on the back of your head so I'd like to check you for a concussion in a little while, once you've had a little more time to wake up," Donny told Leo, as he updated him on his injuries.

Leo seemed to take this all in quite well. After giving it a couple seconds to all sink in Leo nodded his head in reluctant acceptance.

"Okay, so I know what's wrong with me, but how exactly did this happen? And why is Raph not able to so much as stand on his leg without falling to the ground in obvious pain?" Leo asked, taking on his leader and big brother tone.

"Well, can you tell me anything that you remember of what happened last night?" Donny asked.

"Yeah, I know Raph and I were out on patrol and then the foot attacked. Shredder was with them," Leo started.

"Shredder!?" Donny gasped, "But he's...I thought we killed him?"

"Yeah, I thought so too, but I'm sure he was there, though we were doing good with the foot, Shredder wasn't even really involved," Leo paused and thought for a second, "I just don't know what happened then, we were doing good."

Raph then looked up at Leo and Don.

"Actually Leo, Shredder did get involved."

Both Donny and Leo now directed their attention back to Raph.

"What do you mean? What happened Raph?" Leo asked.

Raph really didn't want to tell him, he was glad Leo didn't remember what had happened. But he knew Leo would eventually force it out of him so he just gave in.

"Well, ya see. While ya were fightin' Shredda snuck up behind ya an' ya turned around when I yelled your name. Then he stabbed ya in your plastron with his blades an' lifted ya into the air. By then I had made it over to ya an' tried ta get 'im ta let ya go but he jus' twisted the blades around inside ya, then flung ya at the edge a the buildin' an' you fell unconscious when ya hit the wall," Raph paused and took a deep breath before finishing. "When 'e threw ya I thought you were goin' over the ledge I was in shock an' almost didn't see Shredda try an' attack me, but I managed ta block it. Then I jumped ta spin kick 'im in the head but he ducked an' when I came down he kicked my leg. There was a loud pop, an' I collapsed, an' before he left he slashed my arm."

Donny and Leo were completely silent and didn't move a muscle as Raph finished telling what had happened, and how he had then managed to get Leo home.

"Bro, I'm so sorry. I should'a gotten there or warned ya sooner before Shredda had a chance at ya. I'm sorry, it's all my fault. If I had gotten to ya sooner ya wouldn't be like this," Raph said not making eye contact with either Leo or Donny.

"Raph look at me." Leo demanded. Reluctantly Raph directed his attention to Leo.

"This is not your fault. It was my mistake. From what you just told us, you saved my life. Yes I was injured, as were you, but we will recover and everything will be fine. Had it not been for you Raph, things could have been much worse," Leo said as he reached out, with his good arm to pat Raph on the shell.

Raph smiled and carefully gave Leo a hug. He had been so worried Leo would hate him for what had happened.

"Now Donny. What is your diagnosis on Raph here?" Leo asked his brother in purple.

Donny sighed. He had been dreading this moment, but now it was here and he was left with no choice, because he knew Leo would accept nothing short of the whole answer.

Donny then directed his attention on Leo, afraid to see Raph's reaction.

"All right, well, you see I did some tests on him and am afraid he tore two of the four major ligaments in his knee, possibly along with some other things," at this point Donny looked down at the bed, breaking eye contact with Raph.

"So, how long will this take to heal Don?" Leo asked, with concern now etched in his features. If it was bugging Donatello this much, Leo knew it had to be bad.

"Well the only way for his knee to ever properly function again is surgical repair."