TMNT Fan Fiction

Ch 4 Frightening Thoughts

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

Don's POV:

When Mikey had came running into the lair carrying what looked like a small dog I was going to yell at him for disturbing the quiet, Raph could wake up from the racket he was making. I would have used a stronger drug but it normally knocks him out for a day and when he wakes up he is very disoriented. So, I use the lighter drugs that have less side effects but it makes it easier to wake him up with too much noise.

When Mikey drew near and I saw what he was holding I felt my mouth drop open. Master… no he, err she was too small.

"There has to be a reasonable explanation," I mumbled.

" Maybe Master Splinter had a girlfriend," Mikey suggested.

"It would have had to have been just before he died," then I thought about what I said, "Oh, ewww, gross Mikey. Master Splinter can't have had a girlfriend Mikey, we would have known."

I turned away and tried to suppress a shudder at the thought of Master Splinter and a woman… No, no, no it would be like one of us…. Ahhh, stop thinking such perverted thoughts. First take care of girl, then find were she came from, and finally decided what to do with her.

"If she is Master Splinter's daughter, then is she our sister," Mikey asked, " Do you think she has a name or can we name her? What do you think of the name Fluffy? Or maybe…"

"No Mikey we are not naming her and we don't know if she is related to Master Splinter genetically," I said.

"But she looks exactly like Master Splinter… same fur, ears, and tail," Mikey complained.

"And so does every other common brown rat in the entire world," I said exasperated.

I began checking her over for injuries and found mild hemorrhaging at the root of her fur follicles and nails know as scurvy, which could be cured by upping her intake of vitamin C. Though by the looks of things any food would help, she is nothing but fur and bones. She needs an IV for dehydration and to replace the blood she had lost, and because she is the only rat in our home, she will have to make do with sugar water. Also she had a lot of insects crawling through her fur and would need to have that cleaned out.

But first thing first and that is to get an IV into her with the addition of vitamin C and then splint her sprained ankle. Then while she is sleeping I can take a blood sample and see if she is related to Master Splinter. However, there was one problem to this plan and that is that Mikey wont shut up or get out of my way.

"Mikey, if you don't shut up and get out of my way," I growled, "I will tell Leo that it was you that had uploaded Bunny's Palace on my computer when we were thirteen."

At the mention of the dreaded video game Mikey's eye grew large and frighten as he shut his mouth and edged away from me, "You…"

Just then the door opened revealing a very irate Leonardo. Mikey looked like he was going to have heart attack. Did he hear?

It soon became apparent that he had not but I still couldn't treat the rat girl because now Leo was standing in the way. I had to get them out of there fast and if it meant threaten Mikey with Bunny's Palace and with it exposing the fact that he has done most of the minor repair jobs throughout the lair, so be it. Luckily Mikey didn't press me and told us about his secret hideout. I don't know if Mikey will ever let go of his childish tendencies but this was something I had to see and I could tell Leo agreed with me.

Then Leo started giving orders, "Mikey you are to take me to your secret hideout to make sure that the place you found her and our Lair will have no connections to whoever is looking for her. Don you are to take care of our guest and Raph while we are gone. OK, let's go."

Mikey got up and started leading Leo to his secret hideout, looking as down as I felt. I wanted to go to but I have two very sick creatures to take care of.

It was a while latter that I was looking at the rat girl's blood that I heard Raph shout out, "Master Splinter, NOOOOO!" from right behind me.