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Part 5

Little Man in the fridge.

Disclaimer: I have said it before, I will say it again – I do not own the Ninja Turtles (unless you count figurines). Yes, my friends – The Poss is back!

"How you feeling?" Leo walked into the following night with a tray of soup for his brother. Master Splinter was fussing over Donnie, and thought Raph should get his while the soup is still hot.

"Man, you know I hate soup. I mean soups not even a real meal," Raph grumbled. He was sulking because he felt fine, but Master Splinter had ordered him to stay in bed for another day. It was not normal for Raph to stay in bed all day and it was not normal for him to be living off soup. He was the kind of guy who required real food in his stomach. Earlier that day, feeling guilty Mikey had gone top side and brought back Raph his favourite pizza.

"Master Splinter said that if you eat this, then you can have some chicken," Leo said, placing the tray in front of Raph. Raph gulped it down, for he wanted the joy of eating something that required him to chew.

"Hey bro!" Mikey walked in carrying a nice big drumstick.

"Mikey, how'd you know if he was ready for that?" Leo could not believe Mikey's behaviour sometimes.

"Bro, I though we could use this to help temp poor Raph to eat his soup. I know he hates soup. I mean it's not even a meal," Mikey said.

"I've heard that before," Leo looked to his brother in red.

"You got in one, Mike-ster, now hand that chicken over!" Raph reached for the drumstick in Mikey's hand.

"You didn't say please," Mikey pulled the chicken out of Raph's grasp.

"I don't think please is in Raph's vocabulary, so you'll be waiting a long time," Leo chuckled, earning him a punch from his brother in red.

"I say please, just not to you," Raph replied, snatching the drumstick.

"I take it thank you is also absent from his vocabulary," Leo walked out the room, as Raph tossed a pillow at him.

"You want some potato too?" Mikey asked.

"Get me whatever you're having," Raph said, with his mouth full of chicken.

Mikey walked out, just as Splinter came to check on Raphael.

"I see you are making a fast recovery, my son," the old rat smiled.

"Think you'll let me get out of here tomorrow?" Raph looked hopeful up at his father in the doorway.

"If you're up to it, why don't you join us out here for dinner?" Splinter said, "I notice your appetite is still fully functioning."

"Doing the dishes, doing in the dishes," Mikey sang as he rinsed off all the dishes in the kitchen.

"Yeah Mikey, we can see you're doing the dishes. You don't have to sing about it," Leo teased his little brother, as he put the left overs in the fridge. Just then, the fridge gave a funny noise.

"The fridge is trying to tell you something Leo," Mikey swatted Leo with the tea towel.

"Don't be stupid! Fridges don't talk," Leo opened the door, there was no light.

"Leo you naughty boy! You broke the fridge!" Mikey squeaked.

"You a turtle or a mouse? How many times we told you Mikey, turtles don't squeak," Raph walked into the room.

"I see you're 100 better?" Mikey replied.

"Yeas, I just trained, so watch out, I'm still lethal," Raph joked.

"Raph, what do you know about fridges?" Leo asked his brother in red.

"Come again?"

"The fridge made a strange noise and then when I opened the door, the light's not on," Leo said.

"We always knew you'd go crackers one day Leo," Raph replied.

"Hey I know what's wrong with it!" Mikey beamed as though he had invented rocket science.

"What?" Leo and Raph asked at once.

"I saw it on TV. There is this little man inside the fridge who turns the light on and off. Leo must have scared him away," Mikey informed his brothers.

"Actually I take it back Leo. He's the one who's crackers!" Raph thumbed his little brother, "Little men in the fridge?" Raph laughed aloud.

"Mikey, you seriously crack us up sometimes," Leo laughed also at Mikey.

"No, it's true. I saw it on TV."

"Mikey we've told you before not everything on TV is real," Leo replied.

"Mikey please tell us you don't honestly believe a little man lives inside our fridge?"

"No, but I thought it was an idea – don' see you two coming up with why the fridge is not working," Mikey put his hands on his hips, annoyed that his brothers never took him seriously.

"Well I don't know!" Leo shot back.

"So Leo's stuffed the fridge, Don's goner be thrilled with you. Guess we should add that to the list for him, which I can see is already on the fridge it's self," Raph pulled the list off the fridge and began to add the fridge to it.

"What about asking Casey?" Mikey suggested. Raph and Leo looked at him as if he was mad.

"Okay, okay, just a suggestion. What if we tried to fix it?" Mikey said.

"You fix the fridge? Mikey, you need Don to replace your own light bulb, as if you can fix the fridge," Leo replied.

"What you goner do, ask the little man in the fridge to come back and turn the light on?" Raph playfully punched his brother.

"Hey that's not funny!"

"Yeah it is," Raph said, as he snatched the tea towel from Mikey and began to swat his brother with it.

"Hey Raphie?" Mikey stood in the doorway of his brother's room.

"What the shell you doing in here Mikey?" Raph looked at his brother annoyed. He was almost asleep when Mikey turned on the light.

"Can we swap beds?"

"No, get lost," Raph rolled over.

"But Raphie, I have no light in my room," Mikey said.

"Mikey, you're a bloody ninja and you're still scared of the dark?" Raph rolled his eyes.

"I'm not scared, I just like having a light in my room," Mikey said, "I can't read my comics."

"Go read them on the couch."

"But I want to read them in bed."

"Go borrow Leo or Splinter's lamp."

"Hey I didn't think of that, Good night," Mikey left.

"Hey turn the light off!" Raph yelled after him, when Mikey did not return, Raph got up and stomped over to switch the light off. "Stupid Mikey."

An hour later……

"Hey Donnie can I borrow your lamp?" Mikey was now onto brother number three.

"I'm using mine," Donnie looked up from his study notes.

"But Leo's one is broken and we all know Raph's lamps been broken for years," Mikey told his brother.

"Why do you need a lamp?"

"My light won't work and I want to read my comics," Mikey said.

"You're meant to be in bed sleeping," Donnie warned his brother. He knew Master Splinter would be checking on him soon enough.

"You're not sleeping!"

"Mikey, I've been in this bed all week! I don't need to go to sleep just yet."

"You never want to share your things," Mikey left the room.

"Great, a fridge, microwave, a hot water system and a couple of light bulbs to replace. Is there anything that they haven't broken yet?" Donnie rolled his eyes.