Something About Donnie

"For you, there's nothing in the world I wouldn't do."

Day 3. 07:46 PM.

Raph opened his eyes. He saw white. He realized that the headache was gone, also the itch and the cold. He sighted as he sat down.

"The red turtle is awake." A female doctor said.

Raph realized that he was on a hospital bed. When he sat up, he also noticed that one of his arms was handcuffed to the bed. He rolled his eyes and then, Raph saw both of his brothers still sleeping, on two beds next to him, on his right side. He had Leo beside him and Mikey was beside Leo. Raph could see that Leo still had a needle into his arm with a plastic cable connected to it, making a transparent fluid enter his arm. Raph looked to his other side, there was no other bed, still no Donnie. Raph smiled in relief that Leo and Mikey were fine, but he was still worried about Donnie. He was almost sure that he had saw him. He looked at his skin. The rash was completely gone.

Suddenly, five doctors approached him. Two of them were female.

"Who the fuck are you?" Raph asked.

"How are you feeling Raphael?" One of the male doctors asked.

"I'm feeling like shit, but what the hell do you care."

"You should be feeling fine now. We're going to run a quick test on you. Is that okay?"

"It's not like I have a choice, you assholes." He talked, showing them his handcuffed arm.

"Okay, please place this on your mouth, under your tongue." A doctor said, giving him a thermometer.

Raph rolled his eyes as he did what he was told. While he did that, another doctor examined his arms and legs.

"No rash." He spoke up, telling that to another doctor, who was writing down notes.

"Do you feel any pain at all?" The doctor asked.

Raph didn't replied anything, just denied with his head.

"Okay, that's good…" The doctor murmured.

After that, the doctor checked his heartrate, his breathing and his reflexes. When Raph was done with the thermometer, the doctors could see that he had no fever now.

"Alright Raphael, you're completely fine now. Please let us know if you have any symptoms on the next few days because you may have side effects from either the sickness or the shots they gave you earlier."

Raph laughed in sarcasm and gave no answer to that. He couldn't believe how cynic were those doctors. They acted as if they cared about them, their health, but all they cared was that they could still use them as lab rats. They treated them as objects, nothing else. Even though now they had spent some time with them and they knew they felt pain, had feelings and sense of reason, they didn't care about that. All they cared was their stupid experiments and just to make it worse for them, Donnie was nowhere to be found.

"Hey doctors, do you have any idea of what happened to our brother? You know, the fourth turtle? The one in purple with the gap on his teeth?"

The five doctors looked at each other, not knowing what to answer to Raph. Their faces looked worried. Before any of them could talk, they heard a cough coming from the other side of the room. It was Mikey, he was waking up. The doctors immediately ran to help him and used that as a distraction not to answer Raph's question.

As soon as Mikey opened his eyes, he had a bunch of doctors around him, looking at him.

"Ah, get away from me! Please don't stick me with needles no more!" He shouted.

"Don't worry Mikey, they'll just check that you're alright." Raph said, making Mikey to sit down and look at him with a smile.

"Raph! You're okay! What a relief!" Mikey talked happily.

"Same to you little brother." Raph smiled.

"What about Leo?" Mikey asked, looking at his older brother lying down. He still had some dry blood on his plastron and arms.

"I'm sure he's alright, just hadn't woken up yet."

"Michelangelo, we'll give you a small check up to make sure that you're alright, okay?" One of the doctors said.

Mikey nodded with his head. The doctors followed the same procedure as they did with Raph. Mikey still had some trouble breathing, but it was almost nothing. He was alright.

"Michelangelo, you're completely fine, I'll just give you something to make your breathing return to normal." One of the female doctors told him.

"And what's that?" Mikey asked worried.

"Well, we've figured out that you don't like shots, so I'll just give you a cough syrup. Is that alright?"

"You figured out right." Mikey smiled.

After some seconds, the doctor approached to Mikey with a spoon filled with the syrup.

"Open wide." She said.

Mikey obeyed and shortly after taking the medicine, he made a grossed-out face.

"Ugh, it tastes terrible." He spoke up.

"It was that or a shot. You'll have to take that for three days." The doctor said.

"Don't worry, I still prefer this."

"Alright." The female doctor smiled. "Now we just have to wait until your brother wakes up."

"Why does he still have that thing in his arm?" Mikey asked, referring to the needle.

"Leonardo's sickness made him dehydrate a lot. That thing coming into his arm is just water." The same female doctor said.

After that, the other four doctors inside of her room told her that they had to go to attend another business. The female doctor told them that she could stay there taking care of the turtles. After the doctors went out of the room, the female doctor started talking.

"I'm Dr. Tran, but you can call me Nora." She smiled. "I'm sorry for everything that they are making you go through. Believe me, if I could, I would help you get out of here. I hadn't even saw you before, but watching you in that room, begging for help as the sicknesses revealed in your bodies was terrible. The reason why they almost kill you is that you had never had a vaccination before today on the morning and your bodies have not enough defenses. I tried to make the doctors change their minds and get into the room before, but I couldn't." She said with sadness.

"Then help us find Donnie, please. We need to find him before we escape. We won't leave without him. Do you know where he is?" Raph asked once more.

Nora hesitated before answering, then he sighted.

"I… I do know that he's still here, in the building." She whispered.

As Nora said that, both, Mikey's and Raph's eyes widened in surprise. Their brother hadn't escaped.

"Is he alright?" Mikey asked immediately.

"I don't know. There was a blood trail on a hallway this morning and…" Nora started, before Raph interrupted her.

"We know…"

"The only thing I know is that he's still alive."

Before any of the turtles could answer something, they heard that Leo was starting to move. He then, opened his eyes.

"Ugh…" He complained as he sat on the bed, watching his brothers looking at him. He then sighted in relief.

"You guys are alright." He smiled weakly.

"Leo! You're fine too!" Mikey yelled happily.

"Hello Leonardo, I'm Nora. I'll just give you a quick check up to make sure that you're fine now." She said as she walked towards him.

Raph hadn't said a thing. He was just thinking about Donnie. They needed to find him before something worse happened to him.

"Raph, you had me so worried, you were talking by your own." Leo told him as Nora examined him.

"Leo… Donnie's alive." Raph murmured.

"What?" Leo asked.

"Donnie's alive!" Raph yelled with joy.

"How do you know?" He smiled.

"She told us." Mikey answered.

"Hey, I'm not sure of his condition, but yes, he's alive." Nora explained.

"So, are you on our side?" Leo asked.

Nora, once more hesitated before answering. Then, she nodded, making the turtles smile. After, she checked Leo and made sure everything was okay.

"Everything is fine with you too Leonardo. Just let me take out that needle in your arm and you're good to go."

Leo nodded, then he talked.

"Nora, you told us that you were on our side so, could you please help us find out where Donnie is and how is he? We're worried about him. He's our brother."

Nora sighted, then pulled the needle out, making Leo let out a small scream. She still didn't reply a thing.

"Please Nora. I know that this may put your job in danger, but being here, puts out lives in danger. We'll die here if we don't escape and we won't unless we find our brother." Raph begged.

"We seriously need your help Nora." Mikey said.

She sighted.

"Alright. I don't promise you that they'll tell me something, but I promise I'll try." She responded with sad smile.

The turtles smiled too. Maybe they could find Donnie. They needed to find him.

Suddenly, the doors opened. Sophie and three guards came inside.

"Hello Dr. Tran. Are they ready to go?" Sophie asked.

"Uhm… yes. They are completely fine. Michelangelo needs to take this cough syrup, but that's it." She responded, handing the syrup to Sophie while the guards unhandcuffed the turtles from the beds.

Once the turtles stood up, Sophie ordered them to walk.

"Bye turtles." Dr. Nora said with a small smile as they walked outside, making the turtles smile too. Maybe she could be their way out. They just needed to find Donnie first.

Sophie took the turtles to their small apartment, without saying a word the whole way. She was definitely still mad, but the turtles didn't really care. After they arrived, the guards freed the turtles and finally, they left, leaving the turtles alone on their temporal house.

"Finally! We're free for the rest of the day!" Mikey rejoiced, walking to the kitchen to find some food.

"Yeah, today was a really rough day." Leo talked, following Mikey with Raph behind him.

"Totally. These guys are nuts. How could they do something like that to us? We almost die!" Raph complained.

Leo hesitated, but he finally asked.

"Raph, what were you hallucinating about? You were murmuring things by your own for almost ten minutes."

Raph sighted with sadness before answering.

"Ten minutes? I felt it like thirty seconds. I… I saw Donnie. He was beside my bed, watching me with a very sad face. I asked where he was, but his only answer was that he was fine. I just hope that's true…"

"I miss him." Mikey murmured.

"Me too. But we'll find him. At least now we know that he's alive." Leo spoke up.

"I just hope he had a better day than us…" Raph said sadly.


Hello! After 2 weeks, I'm back! I'm sorry that I haven't uploaded chapter, but I had really rough week at school. Anyway, I hope that you like this chapter and this weekend I'll be uploadidng the next one (it's about Donnie).

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