TMNT Fan Fiction

Ch 3 Exposed to The World

Disclaimer: Only in my dreams do I own them, in the real world I don't.

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Leo's POV:

After chewing Mikey out for his crewel prank on Raph, I quickly followed Raph into his room. I found him hiding in the back corner of his closet crying. I just stood there staring at him. It always disturbed me to see him like this and in the beginning I used to leave him alone but that only made things worse and he had become so depressed that he almost starved himself to death. If Donny hadn't noticed I think Raph would have died. First Donny put an IV in and then we had to take turns force-feeding him and even now he is listless and will only eat when he is told to.

I walked in and sat down next to him.

"Go away Leo," he sobbed into his arms as I gave him a hug.

"You know I can't do that," I whispered quietly to him. I was always shocked at how much weight he hadlost. Despite our best efforts he had lost about 2/3 of his muscle weight and looked almost too fragile to move.

I gently picked him up and carried him into his room and tucked him into bed. I have perfected my technique of holding him and flipping back the covers at the same time. I sat down on the couch next to the bed and watched him while waiting for Donny to arrive with the sedative.

"Do you hate me Leo?"

"No, Raph you did nothing wrong," I said thinking about today.

"But I killed…" he started crying again. Damn I thought we were making progress and Mikey just ruined it with a few careless words.

"No you didn't Raph. It could have been any of us," I said it a little too forcefully and Raph shrank back. I tried to reassure him with comforting wordsbut he just buried himself further into the blankets.

How many times did I wish for Raph to stay home instead of going out into the night to bust heads, or to listen to me, or to not fight with every one of his family members? How often did I wish that Raph would not be so much Raph? Now my wish had come true at the price of Raph's soul. It was like every single emotion that he hid behind his tough shell exterior had been put on display and now he has nothing to hid behind. It's like he is a little kid and that makes me want to shake some sense into him. It's ironic that no matter what Raph still manages to get under my skin.

Donny came in and gave Raph the sedative. We watched him as he slowly fell asleep.

"Do you think that he would be this bad off if we had gotten there earlier," I asked Donny sighing.

"You mean before they administered that wierd hallucinogenic drug? Yeah... or maybe if we had known," Don shook his head sighed before he left.

When we had gotten to Raph he had seemed tired and beaten up but he was lucid enough to want to fight. It was only later that we learned that Raph believed that he had pushed Master Splinter down that hole. He had forgotten that he was trying to save Master Splinter or that he was fighting several foot soldiers and Elite guards at the time.

By the time we realized what was going on the drug had longtaken ahold ofhismind and he believed that he was guilty of our Master's death. It didn't help that we had agreed with him in the beginning and now he has to rely on us to know what hadreally happened.

Don's been trying to find a way to revive his true memories and fix the chemical imbalance in his brain. Basically Raph can't stop himself from showing every emotion he is feeling and believing the lies planted there. Untilhe is curedwe have to watch him all the time and in a way it is a blessing that he wont leave the lair without us, but I really wish that we had the independent self-centered jerk back.

Mikey's back, I can hear him talking to Donny about something he found. Curious I got up and walked to the door. Mikey was holding something in his arms and as he and Donny turned towards the lab I sight of reddish brown fur. A puppy or maybe a cat, I can't believe he wants us to take care of something else, I mean we already have one time consuming responsibility and we don't need another.

I glanced at Raph to make sure he was asleep before heading quickly to Donny's lab to tell him that we are not having a pet. When I entered Mikey looked up at me nervously and said, "Oh, hi Leo… you are not going to believe what I found."

I walked over to Mikey. "Mikey," I said glancing at the table, "I don't care what you… what the shell!" Lying on the table was Master Splinter… no wait… this creature is too small. I feel faint. Even though I had held the funeral. Even though I knew he was dead. I still had hope that maybe just maybe he wasn't. I didn't realize that that hope still existed or how painful it was to have it bloom only to be crushed by the truth.

"Where did you find him," I asked.

"Nope not him… her," Mikey said with a little humor in his voice.

"Mikey…" I said with a little warning in my words. This was important and now is not the time for Mikey to be playing one of his games.

"In the sewer," Mikey said evasively.

"Where in the sewer," I asked exasperated.

"Around," Mikey replied.

"Mikey this is important," I tried to reason with him. I knew he had better memory then that!

"Mikey," Don spoke up, "I could always tell him about…" He left the threat hanging glancing at his computer.

"You wouldn't," Mikey exclaimed. He sounded horrified and the way he was fidgeting now made him look more in need of the bathroom then anything else.

"Mikey has been…" Don started slowly.

"I found her in my secret hideout," Mikey blurted out so fast that I almost didn't catch it. Mikey had a secret hideout. I almost laughed out loud but then this was Mikey, the one who never put away his childish toys of his youth when it was time to grow up, oh this I had to see! Also, I had the perfect excuse to see it lying right next to me. But I had to wonder what Mikey had done with Don's computer, cyber sex… ebay… no he probably just crashed it. He has absolutely no technological skills.

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pacphys: In the new episodes we see Mikey setting up the TVs and when asked to fix the water heater Donny said, "Why is it always me? Why don't you ask Mikey…" Anyways I am not saying that Mikey is a techno genius just that Donny had taught him how to do minor repairs so that Donny can have more time with his inventions.