Chapter 17: Get it

Kaylin launched herself out of the chair she had been sitting in and tackled Madison and Molly in a hug when they walked through the door of April's apartment.

"You're ok!" she sobbed. "You're ok, you're… bleeding! What happened!"

"Nothing," Madison said, allowing Raph and Leo to ease her into the recliner Kaylin had abandoned. "You know Dad."

Kaylin glared and clenched her fist, "Basterd."

"Kaylin, for the millionth time…"

"Yeah, yeah, no swearing in front of small children, whatever," Kay said kneeling next to her with Molly by her side. "Are you gonna to be ok?"

"She'll be fine," Donny said appearing with large first aid kit in hand.

"Madison!" April exclaimed, appearing in the room with Brian on her hip. "Are you ok!"

"She will be fine," Don repeated. "But I need to clean her cuts before they get infected. Can we lie her down somewhere?"

"Yeah, in the bedroom," April passed Brian to Mikey and showed them where the room was.

Leo and Raph helped Madison up, carried her to the bedroom and laid her down gently. Molly approached the bed, the rabbit stuffed back up under her arm.

"Molly, why don't you go with Leo and Kay-Kay and play a game?" she said with a smile.

"Why can't I play with, Raphy?"

"Because I need Raphy here with me, Honey," Madison said. "He'll come play with your when sissy is feeling better, ok?"

Molly nodded and exited the room with Leo. Kaylin took the hint and left as well with out any argument; April closed the door behind them.

"You need me here?" Raph said with a raised eyebrow.

"I need someone whose hand I can't break," Madison said with a small smile as she unzipped her jacket and pulled off her shirt so that Donny could get to her wounds better. Raph balled his fist as the sight of her back.

"I need to stitch up that stab wound first, Madison," Donny said pulling a syringe and bottle of liquid out of the bag. "If I don't then not only will it get infected but you'll lose a lot of blood."

"Alright," Madison watched him fill the syringe but grabbed Raph's hand and squeezed tightly. "What's that for?"

"To numb the area," Donny said. He cleaned the area and picked up the shot. Feeling the needle pricking her skin Madison crushed Raph's hand in hers. "I wouldn't watch this if I were you," he said as he picked up another needle and medical thread.

Madison looked away as the stitching needle pierced her skin. She buried her face in Raph's shoulder as the awkward pulling and tugging sensation danced on her upper arm. It wasn't that it really hurt, complements of the numbing medicine, but it just felt really weird.

"Ok, that's done," Donny said, putting the needles away. "Let me take a look at the rest."

Donny spent about twenty minutes looking over Madison's injuries. Turned out that in addition to a million and a half bruises and cuts her darling father gave her, she had a badly sprained ankle that was popped outta place, two broken ribs and probably a dislocated shoulder. Raph got angrier and angrier with every discovery. He was seething when Madison cried out after Donny popped her ankle back in place. His eyes swept over her white knuckles as she gripped the edges of the bed tightly. She was digging her finger nails into the bed to the point where she was almost ripping trough the blanket.

"When I get my hands back on that ass hole I'm gonna…"

"He'll get his own soon enough, Raph," Madison said. Her voice strained and breathing hard from the throbbing pain of having her ankle popped back into place. "Don't suppose you have any morphine in there?"

"No but I have something that works just as well," Donny dug into the bag and pulled out a pill bottle. He shook lose a pill and handed them to her. Madison swallowed it with some of the water that April had brought her. Don wrapped Madison's ankle up.

"I'll put ice on it in a minute but for right now I need you to lie on your stomach so I can clean and dress your back," Donny said. "And in case you fall asleep we won't have to move you."

Madison stretched out on her stomach and relaxed in order to allow the painkiller to start taking affect. She flinched every time Donny brushed her back with the alcohol covered gauze. She squwenched her eyes shut tightly and gripped the pillow fabric as Donny cleaned a particularly painful cut.

"This one might need stitches too if it keeps bleeding," Donny said.

"Joy," Madison grumbled. She felt Raph's warm hand grab her and reassuringly squeeze it. She looked up at him and he smiled kindly. Not being able to help herself she weakly smiled back. Donny finished dressing the rest of her back and frowned at the cut he had addressed earlier.

"Yeah, it's gonna need stitches," he said. Madison grumbled but lay as still as possible while he repeated the routine he had done on her arm. "Ok," he said when he had finished that "Turn back over."

Madison obeyed and turned back over and sat up. Donny gently handled her arm. Madison clutched Raph's hand again and winced.

"How bad does your shoulder feel to you?" Donny asked.

"It hurts like hell; does that answer your question?"

"I meant do you feel like it's broken."

"I don't know," Madison said. "What do you think, Dr. Don?"

"Well, its not broken," he said after a few moments of examining. "But it is horribly dislocated."

"Grand."

"Here," Donny handed her a piece of cloth. "Bite down on it," he instructed. Taking her arm he said, "I'm sorry, Maddy, but this is going to hurt," She grumbled something into the rag that no one could really make out. Donny looked apologetically at her "Brace yourself…"

Even with the rag to muffle the sound, Madison's scream echoed through the house. She collapsed into Raph biting back tears. He stroked her hair and tried to calm her.

Spitting out the rag she glared at Donny, "I hope you know that I reeeaaaallly don't like you right now," she growled.

"Yeah but you'll love me later when you can still use your arm properly," Donny said wrapping it.

"Kaylin didn't scream when you put her shoulder back," she said recovering a bit.

"Kay's injury wasn't as bad as yours," Don replied. "She only hit the ground. You not only hit the ground but were continuously attacked after you hit, thus causing further injury. That better?" he said giving her another pill.

"A little," Madison leaned back into the pillow, trying to mind the stitches.

"Ok, now the best thing for you to do is sleep and let yourself heal a little bit," Don said. "And I don't wanna hear anything about it. You stay in bed. Get it?"

"Yeah, yeah I get it," Madison laughed a bit. "Oh hey, Don," she called as he and April began exiting the room. "Leave the bottle." Donny chuckled and lightly tossed the pill bottle at Raph who caught it and set it on the bedside table.

"You are somethin' else, Maddy," Raph chuckled.

"What makes you say that?" she asked, trying to get comfortable but being unsuccessful.

"I don't think I have ever seen anyone put up with as much crap as you do," he said. "I mean you took one hell of a beating from that basterd but you picked up Molly, with a busted shoulder, and threw her to safety. That musta hurt like hell."

"It did."

"So why did you keep putting up with his crap anyway?"

"It's just how I've always done things," she replied, her eyes feeling heavy, probably due to the meds Donny gave her. "We didn't really have a place to go and we were afraid to leave because every time I would try and get help things went from bad to worse. It was just easier to put up with his crap and keep the kids as safe as possible."

"But you couldn't?"

"No," she chuckled slightly to herself. "Enough was enough when he tried to throw Brian out the window."

"God…"

"I wouldn't be able to live with myself if something like that happened to him, or any of the kids for that matter. Those kids are my life."

"I've noticed," Raph chuckled. "You tired?"

"A little," she laughed. "Those pills are my new best friends."

"I'll get outta here so you can sleep," he said starting to get up but Madison grabbed his arm. "What?"

"Will you…" she blushed a bit. "Will you stay with me till I fall asleep?"

Raph smiled and adjusted himself on the bed so that Madison could lean comfortably up against him. She turned on to her side; her good arm tucked underneath her and snuggled up against the mutant, her other hand on his plastron. Raph put a protective arm around her and leaned his head against hers.

"You are surprisingly very comfortable to lean on," she muttered sleepily.

"Thank you?" Raph laughed, accepting the odd complement. He couldn't help thinking that those pills Don gave her were probably about to make this situation very funny very fast.

"And you're pretty hot too," she said. "For a giant mutant turtle, that is."

Raph couldn't help but laugh. Yep, she was gone… the situation just got funny.

"You're not half bad looking yourself, Maddy," he chuckled. "For a human."

"Liars go to hell, Raphy," she said.

"I ain't lyin'."

"Whatever…" Madison said, snuggling back down. Raph cupped her chin and tilted it upward. "What?"

"You seriously don't know how pretty you are, do you?"

"Guess not," she said casually. "I was always told I was pretty ugly."

"Your dad tell you that?"

"Yeah," she said. "And a couple of kids at school before Mom took us out and started home schooling us."

"Well they're idiots," he said. "You're beautiful."

"Thanks, Raph," Madison smiled.

"No prob, Babe."

"Don't… call me…Babe," Madison barely finished her sentence before she was fast asleep. Raph tried to move but Maddy winced every time he did, so he just laid there. Not that he was actually complaining about having Madison lying in his arms he just wanted to make sure Molly was ok. He looked down at the slumbering girl and smiled. Tucking a lose lock of hair back, he bent down and kissed her cheek before leaning his head up against the head board. He could smell the sweet scent of her hair as his own eyes became heavy and he drifted off to sleep.

Several hours later, while the two slept, Peter and Casey burst back in through the door. Casey looked slightly annoyed and Peter had some sort of book tucked underneath his arm. Master Splinter had arrived as well and was embracing Molly with relief.

"Where have you been?" April asked Casey and he threw his helmet off.

"The little bugger didn't tell me that the address belonged to a house in a town five hours away from here!" he exclaimed.

"Shhhh!" Kaylin hissed. "Madison got the crap kicked outta her and she needs sleep so shut it!"

"Where is she!" Peter demanded. "Is she ok?"

"She'll be ok," Donny assured him. "She just needs rest. Brian is sleeping too so we need to be quiet."

Peter didn't really like the answer but he took it. Setting the box down on the coffee table he collapsed on the couch.

"Wait, question…" April said. "If the town is five hours over and five hours back, and you've only been gone for about seven, how fast exactly were you going!"

Casey and Peter exchanged a humored look, "Not that fast…"

"How fast is 'not that fast'?"

"Only about 90," Casey said causally.

"90?"

"I think we hit 120 at one point," Peter said slapping Casey a high five.

"On your motorcycle!" April exclaimed. "What if you had crashed? You would both be pavement pizza!"

"But we didn't crash now did we, Babe," Casey said.

"For the last time do not call me 'babe'!"

"Did you get it?" Kaylin asked Peter as Casey and April began to bicker.

Peter smiled and patted the box, "Got it," he told his twin with a wink.