Hope
"You can't set your hopes too high."
Day 2. 03:53 PM.
Raph woke up with a burning sensation in his leg. He immediately opened his eyes in pain as he yelled and sat up.
"Hold him down!" He heard someone shout.
Raph tried to fight, but all he could see was a bunch of guards trying to hold him still and blocking his view to his leg. He kept shouting as the pain just incremented in his leg, until he heard a doctor shout that he was done. The guards stepped away, letting Raph see that he was in a stretcher and that Dr. Collins was holding a cotton with alcohol in his leg, which was still burning like hell.
"What the fuck? What did you do to me? It burns!" Raph yelled, as he grabbed his leg with desperation, not knowing what to do to make the pain go away.
"Relax Raphael, the pain will go away in a few minutes. The medicine of the shot I just gave you is really painful, but it will make you feel better."
"Make me feel better? My leg is burning up, my head still feels like it is going to explode, I still feel dizzy and still have nausea!" He kept yelling with rage.
"As I said, relax. The sooner your anger goes away and calm down, the sooner the pain will go away too."
"Oh yeah? What fucking convenient to you!"
"Well, do what you want. If you don´t want to listen to me, then don't."
Raph couldn't help but to clench his teeth and fist his hands with anger. He stayed that way for some seconds.
"Argh! It's not going away!"
"I said relax, not stop yelling. Take deep breaths and smooth your body."
Raph did so. He closed his eyes, trying to ignore the intense pain. Breath in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out. After a couple of minutes that felt like an eternity, the pain was gone almost completely. His headache was almost gone too, his nausea had disappeared and most importantly, the burning sensation in his leg had completely vanished. He still felt with no energy and weak, but at least he had no more pain.
He opened his eyes once more. Before Dr. Collins could say a thing, Raph stood up of the stretcher, willing to punch Dr. Collins, but the guards immediately stood up too and held him down. He wanted to fight them, but he felt too weak to do it.
"Alright Collins, why the hell was I feeling that way? Is it the medicine that you gave me this morning? I was just fine before you gave it to me!"
"Raphael, I was just about to explain to you what was happening, so please, I ask you once more to calm down and to let me talk, before the guards hurt you."
Raphael wanted to punch somebody. He was filled with anger, but he was feeling too weak to do it. He decided to stop fighting. Dr. Collins was right. There was nothing else that he could do.
"Now tell me, why am I feeling this way? I need to know!" Raphael was acting desperate and anxious.
"Look, Sophie told me some symptoms that she could notice while you were with her. Some of them are headache, weakness, dizziness, nausea, etcetera, right?"
Raph nodded his head.
"All of those symptoms are side effects of the medicine that you started taking this morning…"
"I told you! I can´t take that pill again! It's making me weird! I am not feeling well!"
"Raphael, listen to me. These things will happen if you stop taking the pill. It's just your lack of sodium and your body adjusting to the pill. Believe me that with the shot I just gave you, these secondary effects will start to go away, but you have to keep taking the pill."
"Or what? That pill is just doing bad things to my body!"
"If you stop taking it, then we will make you take it and you are not going to like it. We need you in a good condition for the testing."
"Fuck the testing!"
"You can be as mad as you want, but we will continue. Right now, we are worrying about you. You turtles have an apartment, you can exercise and you have us taking care of you, but that can go away when we want to, so I'm warning you, if you don't obey and behave, bad things can happen to you and your brothers. Is it clear?"
Raph wanted to cry of anger. That wasn't fair. What had they done to end up at a hell like that one. Raph couldn't help but nod.
"Are you going to keep taking the pill?"
He nodded once more.
"Good boy." Dr. Collins said with a smile. "You are free to go now. You decided to lose conscience instead of going to your next test, so you can wait in the Lunch Room while the doctors are done testing your brothers."
Raph stood up and exited the room. Sophie was waiting outside, sitting on a couch with a guard. She looked up as the door opened and Raph exited.
"Hey there. Are you feeling better now?"
Raph raised his look and nodded.
"Great. Come on, I´ll take you to the lunch room. Your brothers will be free in sort of twenty minutes."
Raph started following Sophie and the guard. After some hallways, they arrived to a door with two guards outside of it.
"Hello, I'm bringing the first turtle."
"Alright… This one is Raphael right?" One of the guards said as he checked a list.
"Right." Sophie responded.
"He's good to go inside." The guard said as he opened the door.
"So, Raphael, I talked with my boss and I convinced him of letting you eat with no handcuffs on." Sophie smiled as she took out some keys and freed Raph, who didn´t responded.
Once he was free, he entered the room.
The Lunch Room had four tables with the seats attached to them. He was alone at the room.
"They'll bring the food when your brothers arrive." Was the last thing Sophie said before the guards closed the door.
Raph sat down. Finally, alone. He started moving his foot with no reason. He felt nervous, but he didn't knew why. The teardrops started coming out. He felt sad and anxious. If he could had killed Shredder that night, that wouldn't be happening. He was never going to forgive Leo for what he had done to all of them. He didn't wanted to think about it, but he knew that they were never going to get out of there, at least not alive. Raph didn't knew how much time they had left, but he knew that they were going to get killed in one of the mad experiments of the scientists. Sooner or later, they would discover that they were mutants and that wasn't going to end well.
Soon, the door opened once more. Raph raised his head quickly and swiped away his tears. He saw Mikey entering and the door closing behind him. He didn't looked fine. Raph knew that look, he knew his brother was really sad.
Mikey's face lifted up as he saw Raph. Mikey was surprised.
"Raph!" He shouted with tears in his eyes as he ran to hug his older brother. Raph stood up and returned the hug. "What the hell happened to you? You scared the crap out of us when you fell to the floor, plus you looked so pale and…"
Raph interrupted him.
"Mikey, I'm just fine. It was just a bad reaction I got from drinking too much last night." Raph lied. He didn't wanted to worry his brothers. He was going to keep the pill thing to himself.
"Are you sure? You look weak."
"Just lack of sleep… Anyway, are you alright? What happened for you to have such a sad face?"
Mikey's look went down again.
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Come on Mikey, tell me. I'm your big brother. You can trust me."
Suddenly, Mikey broke down. Tears started falling to the floor.
"The guards hurt Leo and it was all my fault! I'm a fool!"
"Mikey, you're not a fool, what happened? The last thing I remember is seeing you walk out that room with your face full of tears. You weren't even speaking."
"I couldn't! I feel so guilty!" Mikey couldn't even talk straight, he couldn't stop crying.
"Why?"
"When I saw that the doctor was pricking Leo with needles, I decided to run and try to escape, but then they electrocuted me and pushed Leo to the floor and started electrocuting him! They even left a burn mark on his planstron! I remember watching Leo shaking on the floor and the guard wouldn´t stop!"
"Mikey calm down." Raph spoke, but Mikey ignored him and kept crying.
"I couldn't even move! I was so scared!"
"Mikey stop!" Raph yelled and he covered Mikey's mouth and gave him a tight hug. "You have to calm down. I know that you hate in here and so do we, but believe me when I say that I am going to try my very best to get out of here and even if I don't get to leave, I'll get you out of here. You know that I would give my life for yours and that I love you. I won't let anything bad happen to you. I promise that we will escape." Raph said, even though he knew that they needed a miracle to get out of there, he needed his younger brother to have hope. Hope would be the only thing that would keep him going.
"I love you Raph." Mikey cried as he held his brother tight.
"I love you too. Sorry for making you drink so much last night."
"Don't worry, it was actually really fun."
Raph smiled as he stopped hugging Mikey.
"Let's sit down and wait for Donnie and Leo. I hope they don't take too long."
So, this was chapter 7! I hope you enjoyed it! Don't forget to leave a review! I really love to read your opinions of the story! Thanks for reading!
