Brown Soup

"All that's ever mattered is that we're together."

Day 2. 04:36 PM.

Mikey and Raph waited for a few minutes. They spent the while talking about anything else but the experiments. Raph wanted to clear Mikey´s head, as well as his. Finally, the door opened once more. Donnie walked inside. As soon as he saw Raph, a big smile lightened up his face.

"Raph! You are okay!" He yelled as he gave him a big hug.

"Yes, I´m fine." Raph smiled too.

"How are you feeling? Why did you fainted? What did the doctors tell you?" Donnie asked as he sat down.

"Whoa, slow down. The doctors think it is a side effect for the amount of alcohol I drank last night. I´m feeling a bit weak and sleepy, but besides, I´m feeling fine now."

"What were you doing this past hour when we were at the tests?" Donnie kept wondering, making Raph nervous about what was he going to answer.

"Uh, I don´t remember much. I woke up in a stretcher with a lot of doctors around me, but that´s pretty much it." He said, trashing his fingers with anxiety. He didn't know why he was feeling that way. Normally, he would lie to his brothers and he could remain as calm as if he was telling the truth.

Donnie looked at him suspiciously, so did Mikey.

"Are you sure? You don't seem to be…"

Before Donnie could finish the sentence, the door opened, and Leo came into the room. As he walked inside and looked at Raph, he couldn't help but smile, although he was mad at him before, that didn't stop him from feeling a big relief by knowing his brother was just fine.

"Raph, it's good to see you man!" He smiled as he sat down on the same table that his brothers were. Raph noted a burn mark on his plastron and also noted how Mikey's face changed to guilt once again.

"Leo, I'm so sorry! I should've thought better before trying to run away! It's my fault that they hurt you!" He broke up in tears once more, hugging Leo.

"Mikey don't worry about me. I get it. Sometimes fear makes us do crazy things and it's completely normal. Stop feeling guilty, because it´s not your fault, I did it to protect you. It was my own choice to do it. I love you little bro."

As Mikey and Leo were hugging, Donnie, had no idea of what was going on. He just looked at Raph, trying to get him to explain, but Raph looked distracted and didn´t noticed Donnie's looks.

Suddenly the door opened once again. Two guards entered with filled food trails. One for each. As soon as they gave them out, they got out and closed the room.

"So Raph, what happened to you?" Leo asked.

"Uh… As I told Donnie and Mikey, just a side effect of all the vodka I drank last night."

"Are you sure? You looked terrible." He responded.

"Well, that's what the doctors told me, but I am feeling fine now."

"You seem tired."

"I am, but I guess it's just lack of sleep. What kind of tests did they do to you while I passed out?" Raph questioned, changing the subject. He didn't want to keep talking about that.

"I guess each of us had a different test. I got something called a magnetic resonance which I don't know what it is."

"They are used to get a clear image of your brain Leo. Mine was that one too. What test did they performed on you Mikey?" Donnie questioned.

Mikey wasn't talking, even though Leo said that what happened was fine, he didn't feel like it was.

"I don't know what it's called like. They connected lots of cables to my head. I guess something about the brain… I don't know."

"Oh, that's to measure brain waves. Too bad that they chose the crazy one." Donnie joked. He wanted to cheer up his little brother.

Mikey smiled and let out a small laugh.

"See? That's the Mikey I like." Leo exclaimed.

"Thanks Leo." He laughed.

Finally, they noticed that none of them had seen what was on the trail food, except for Raph, who had been actually looking at his trail all along. They saw that it had french fries, a piece of fried chicken, a soup which they weren't sure about what was made of, but it had a brown color, an apple and salad made from lettuce and tomato, nothing else. The desert was a jelly and their drink was a bottle of water.

"Um… I guess I'll just stick with the french fries and the fried chicken…" Mikey decided.

"Come on Mikey, it shouldn't be that bad." Leo talked as he started moving the soup with his spoon.

"Are you sure? Your face is saying the opposite." Donnie noted.

"Why don't you try it first?" Mikey asked.

"Me?" Leo said as Mikey and Donnie nodded. "Okay…" With that said, he pushed the spoon filled with the brown soup into his mouth. Leo's face immediately turned into a disgust face. He swallowed it as fast as he could. As soon as he did, he started coughing and his eyes were tearful.

Mikey and Donnie busted out laughing, while Raph just let out a small laugh.

"Oh God." Leo exclaimed as he opened the water bottle and drank some. "Maybe I'll just leave the soup."

"That's the same face you do when you taste some of Mikey's food!" Donnie exclaimed as he couldn't stop laughing.

"Hey! My food it's good by its own way." Mikey laughed too.

"Stop it." Leo said letting out a smile. "If you don't believe it's that bad, then taste it."

"Don't worry, that reaction seemed totally sincere to me." Donnie smiled as he picked up a piece of fried chicken and tasted it. "Well, at least this is eatable. Tastes like plastic, but I don't believe it's as bad as the soup."

"Have you ever watched that show about that women's prison?" Raph finally spoke with a weak voice.

"Orange is the New Black?" Leo answered.

"Yeah, this is how their food must taste like… Anyway, how did you answer so fast Leo? Do you watch it?"

"Sometimes. I watch it when there's nothing else to watch. It's actually pretty good."

"Are you still talking about the show or the actresses?" Raph laughed. His eyes were closing, he looked really tired, but that couldn't stop him from mocking Leo.

"Seriously Raph? Is that the reason you watch it?"

"No, no… I think it's a pretty good show Leo. Why are you such a perv?" He smiled as Mikey and Donnie laughed.

Leo rolled his eyes, letting a small smile show up.

"Why are you so tired Raph?" Leo asked, concerned about his younger brother. "I haven't seen you like this since the last time we stayed up late watching The Notebook with April."

"I… don't know. Maybe the medicine… I have no idea."

"The medicine?" Donnie questioned quickly. Raph hadn't mentioned anything about medicine.

"What medicine?" Leo asked.

Raph's eyes widened. He was so sleepy that he wasn't even putting attention on the things he was saying. He really didn't wanted them to know about the pills.

"The medicine of… they gave me a shot when I was waking up. They said it would help me to feel less wasted today." He lied.

"They can't keep treating us this way. Maybe we are not human and do not have human rights, but this is not fair." Leo spoke up.

"We need to get away from this place." Donnie talked.

"Yeah, the faster, the better. We need to escape before they end up doing something that might actually hurt us." Leo said.

"We have to make a plan, and it must be a good one. There's guards everywhere, this place is like a maze and we are being watched 24/7."

"You're right Donnie. Tonight, we must start planning at the apartment. I don't even believe it's safe talking about this in here."

Suddenly, the door opened as Sophie walked inside.

"Hey, I hope that you are enjoying the food." She said with a smile as the turtles just stared at their food trails with disgust. "I need Michelangelo and Raphael to come with me. You guys will be having almost the last tests of the day. Leonardo and Donatello, we are done with you for now, so you can wait here while the doctors are done with your brothers. Then we'll get the four of you to have X-rays and after that, we will be done for today, so please come with me."

Raph rolled his eyes as he stood up weakly, even though he was somehow relieved that he didn't have to talk to his brothers and continue saying dumb stuff that he didn't wanted them to know. As for Mikey, his face changed to concern and fear once more.

"Mikey, you're going to be just fine. Raph will take care of you, right Raph?" Leo tried to help his brother to feel better.

"He's right little bro." Raph said as he winked.

Mikey took a deep breath and walked out of the room with Raph. The door closed again, leaving Donnie and Leo alone.

"We seriously need to find a way to escape as soon as we can. I'm worried about Mikey. I don't know how long he is going to keep standing this." Leo said worried.

"Yeah, it's only been a day in here and his phobia is killing him. If he couldn't even stand getting a flu shot by me once a year, I don't want to think about how terrified is he here."

"Plus, his fear is not only with needles, everything that has to do with doctors scares the hell out of him."

"I know… changing the subject, I'm worried about Raph too. He's not acting normal since Sophie took him god knows where this morning."

"Yes, he doesn't want to talk about it, but he's not doing well and I'm sure it has no relation to the amount of alcohol he drank last night. I mean, what, is he stupid? It's our brother. We've been living with him for 15 years in a row! Of course we know him enough to know that he is hiding something, maybe not to worry us, but how does he want us not to worry when he's acting anxious, weak, and this morning he looked as pale as a corpse, plus he fainted!"

"Oh, and you didn't saw him on the allergy tests. Before he fainted when we got out, he threw up. That's why he looked that bad when we got out. I didn't tell you immediately because he would kill me if I did, but there's certainly something up with him."

"I just hope it´s not that bad…"

"Me too… We can try to talk with him tonight. I don't think that he'll tell us, but the least we can do is try."

After Donnie said that, there was a long silence in the room. Both wondering what kind of tests were being performed on their brothers and if they were alright.


Yep, this time I actually updated quickly! This was chapter 8 and I really hope you liked it!

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