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Chapter 7: Mike and Don
Don is sitting at the kitchen table, sipping on some coffee when Mike walks into the room and sits across the table from Don.
"Yo, bro, how's it going?" Mike asked while putting his feet on the table.
Don looked at him. "Oh, nothing… just thinking, that's all."
Mike studied Don's expression. "Donnie, it isn't just anything, there IS something, something maybe you need to get out." Mike suggested.
"I don't know, Mikey…" Don said.
"Well, what's it about?" Mike asked.
Don sighed and looked down, wrapping his hand around his cup of coffee. "It's about April…" Don said quietly.
"Oh…" Mike said and then looked down. "Well, I don't really know the whole story…"
Mike looked in the room to see Casey not moving still. "Hm, we have time for a story, dude."
"I don't know…" Don said and then looked at his brother's face. Mike was giving him the puppy eye look.
Don sighed. "Oh fine… I'll tell you what happened…"
**
Don is in April's apartment, trying to fix her toaster.
"I'm really sorry about this, Don, but you know how I am with electronics." April said.
Don chuckled. "Oh, April, I know… and I don't think your neighbors would like the smell of smoke coming from here." Don smiled.
"Haha, very funny, Don." April commented.
April walked to her refrigerator and got out a bottle of water. "You want anything to drink?" She asked Don.
Don turned his head. "No thanks, but thanks for asking." He looked at the broken toaster.
April sat at the kitchen table, watching Don. "So how are you guys doing?" She asked.
Don sighed deeply. "It's been hard, very hard since Master Splinter past away. I think Leo and Raph are taking it even harder than me and Mikey are… which is a lot."
"I'm sorry to hear what happened to him…he was a great man." April commented.
"Thanks… he was, wasn't he?" Don said.
They both stayed silent for a few seconds…
"So…" Don started, "how are things with you and Casey doing?"
She sighed. "Oh good, sometimes he's too hard headed to figure whenever I make the first move on him, but that's who is and always will be…"
Don laughed. "Yeah, I always knew he had a hard head, no offense to him."
"He would most likely agree with what you said." April said.
"So no problems in your…?" Don asked.
"Oh, no," April said. "Well… I mean sometimes yeah, and other times no. I just don't know what to do with him."
"Well, if you ever need to talk about it, I'm always going to be here for you, April." Don said.
April smiled. "Oh I know, Donnie, and I will always be here for you, too."
Just then Don and April hear someone kicking at the door.
April jumped up and Don quickly turned around.
"What is that?!" April asked.
Don took out his bo staff. "The Foot…" Don looked at April. "April, stay back here by the sink, away from the fight."
April gulped. "Okay…be careful, Donnie."
"Oh, aren't I always?" Don said and then jumped in the living room area and the door is kicked down and in come foot clan members.
Don jumped towards them and kicked one into another.
"Give up now, turtle!" A foot ninja ordered.
The foot ninja tried to punch him, but Don grabs his wrist. "Let me think about that…" Don flipped the foot ninja and he lands on the floor hurt. "Nah, I don't think I will be giving up."
More foot clan members keep intruding in the apartment, trying to get Don.
April stands at the kitchen sink, watching Don in fear. A few foot ninjas jumped through the window over the sink and land by April. April hurries and gets a frying pan and hits two on the head with it.
Ninjas keep coming through the window that has been broken. April backs up towards the living room, trying to fight off some of the foot ninjas.
Some foot ninjas surround Don. Don raises his bo staff high and starts smacking foot ninjas on their heads with it. "Here, lets play stick ball; I have the stick, you be the ball!" Don said and then hit a few more down.
Don jumped out of the circle the foot ninjas had around him and hits a few more.
A foot ninja, whom is on the ground, grabs April's foot and April trips backwards, but keeping her balance and Don hits her accidentally on the back of the head and April falls.
Don turns around and sees April on the ground, knocked out. "Oh, god… I'm so sorry, April!"
Police sirens are heard. "Foot Ninja… Vanish!" The lead ninja said and the Foot are gone out of sight.
Don kneels down to April, checking her. "Oh god…"
"I can't let the police find me." Don thought. "But I can't just leave- -" Don heard footsteps near her doorway and Don quickly escapes through the window, leaving April on the ground.
**
"…and that's what happened." Don said looking down with tears going down his check.
Mike wiped a tear from his eye. "Dude, I'm sorry, bro." Mike said.
"And know what the sad thing is? Before the police showed up, when I was checking on her… I think she was in a coma…" Don said and then closed his eyes, tear drops falling next to his coffee.
"Look on the bright side, at least she isn't dead, she's still breathing." Mike said trying to make Don smiled.
"Yeah… but if it weren't for me she would've been fine, without getting hurt in anyway…" Don said.
"Don't blame yourself…you have no need to." Mike said.
They both stayed in silence for a minute.
"I wonder how our bro is doing." Mike wondered.
"Oh, I'm sure Leo's doing fine. He's a very good ninja." Don commented.
Mike looked at the turtle communicator. "You think he's ever going to call?"
"I hope so, I'm really worried about Raph." Don said.