I am almost out of drabbles. After this one there's only one more thats actually finished. I'm so sorry it took me this long to update, I know I suck.
THANK YOU PEOPLE WHO REVIEWED. OML THAT WAS AMAZING. I LOVE LONG REVIEWS AND I JUST SQUEALED WITH JOY AT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
I might be starting a new story, and there's a kind of teaser at the bottom of this chapter... But I don't know when I'll have the story up and finished... It's your choice if you want to read it.
I'M SORRY I'M TIRED BUT I STILL DON'T OWN ANYTHING.
It didn't take long before Leo and Raph realized the walls between their rooms were a bit thinner than the rest.
The new lair was nice, they had to admit. It was bigger than their last home, and Donnie quickly made new lights and air filtering systems. Mikey set up his video game tower. Raph claimed a corner in the dojo for his punching bag. Master Splinter occupied the large room and helped decorate the new dojo with Leo.
Donnie chose a big room for his lab, and a smaller one for his room. Mikey got a medium sized room, and put all of his action figures and comic books on the new shelves Donnie helped him make.
Leo didn't want to fight with Raph over the last two rooms, so he took the slightly smaller one and filled it with candles. Raph took the last room, hanging his posters up in no time.
Leo was in the first room, then Raph, Mikey, and finally Donnie.
It didn't take long before Leo and Raph realized the walls between their rooms were a bit thinner than the rest.
Leo woke up in the middle of the night to a loud rumbling sound. He grabbed his katanas and shot out the door, only to realize the rumbling sound was not as loud. He crept back into his room and leaned his head against the wall.
Wait, it was coming from the next room? But that was...
Raph. Of course his snoring sounded like a steamroller. But why was it so loud?
Leo pressed his hand against the wall and realized how hollow it felt. He sighed.
His katanas were put back in their place by the nightstand and he tried going back to sleep. It didn't take.
Annoyed, he wrote a note on a sticky note and placed it on Raph's door. 'Your snoring is loud.'
After placing the pillow over his head, Leo finally fell back asleep.
The next morning when Raph saw the note, he cocked an eye ridge and shrugged. The note would stay.
A few nights later, Raph found out just how thin the walls were when he heard Leo doing katas in his room. The yelling that signaled a new move was driving him off the edge. It was ten'o clock at night, and he had to be up in a couple hours to patrol with Casey.
He wrote a note on a sticky note like Leo did. He didn't want to let Leo know he was going out, so this seemed best. 'Your yelling during katas is getting annoying.'
He placed it on Leo's door on his way out.
When Leo saw the note, he rolled his eyes and took it down, only to stick it next to the first one on Raph's door.
They would have asked Donnie to fix it, but it was such a small thing compared to the work still needing to be done in the lair, so they silently agreed to keep it the way it was.
A muffled sneeze came from the wall and Leo automatically yelled "Bless you!" before he paused in his stretches and realized what just happened. He held his breath to see if Raph would answer back.
A confused "Thanks?" came through the wall and Leo face palmed. Hopefully it wouldn't be brought up later.
It wasn't brought up at all. Apparently another silent agreement had been made: What happens between the walls, stays between the walls.
Raph was using the punching bag in the dojo, so Leo meditated in his room. It was peaceful for about twenty minutes before a loud guitar solo pierced the silence with all the grace of an elephant trying to bowl with a tank.
Leo sat there for a few seconds in shock before glaring at the wall. This means war.
He walked over to his own beat box and searched for the right tape.
Finding the correct one, he entered it in the slot and pressed 'play.'
Leo didn't listen to rock often. It had been a few years, in fact. But this called for desperate measures.
The guitar and bass coming from the wall intensified. Leo turned up the volume on his to match.
Louder on the other side, louder on his side. Leo was surprised no one had come running to see what all the fuss was about.
The music was practically deafening now. Leo held one hand over his ear while the other cranked up the volume more. It wouldn't turn anymore. Leo had hit the max. Judging from the no longer increasing music from the wall, Raph had hit his max, too.
Then there was a small 'bang' from the wall a few seconds before Leo's speakers blew out with a 'bang' as well.
He stood in shocked silence for a beat. Then he couldn't help it. Leo burst out laughing at the ridiculousness of it all. They had just blown out their speakers!
Laughter coming from the wall only made it harder to stop.
Mikey threw open the door, finding Leo rolling on the floor in a fit of laughter. He paused and backed out of the room slowly. This was most likely something he didn't want to be involved in.
The walls were more than a bit too thin, Leo found out.
It had been a fight. A nasty one. Leo said some things he shouldn't have, and Raph said some things he probably regretted as well.
It started when Raph had gone to Casey's without telling anyone. He came home at one-thirty to a worried and pacing Leo. Donnie had assured Raph had been moving from the tracker on his cell, so he wasn't dead. It wasn't fast enough to be in a truck. Mikey had worried as well, but Leo told him everything was fine and he'd wait for Raph to return.
That was at ten'o clock. Leo hadn't stopped pacing or worrying. So when he saw Raph sauntering in like nothing was wrong, he lost it.
Raph had retaliated, of course. It got nasty. Nastier than it had been in months. Raph ended it when he stormed up to his room and slammed the door. Leo shook his head and followed up to his own room. He'd said some regrettable things. Raph probably had, too.
It wasn't long before Leo heard stifled sobs coming from the wall. Carefully, he got out of bed and listened through the wall. Those were definitely sobs.
It saddened Leo to know he had been at least some of the cause for the cries.
His footsteps padded silently out his door and into the next room over. The sobs stopped for only a few seconds before they started again when Leo sat down next to Raph against the far wall. He apologized for overreacting and Raph apologized for not telling him where he was going.
They slept on Raph's floor that night. The silent agreement to say nothing was still intact.
Raph's door was nearly filled with notes by now. It had been months since Leo put the first one up there. The only clear spots were near the edges and door handle.
'You're going to poke an eye out with those things.'
'Shut up Fearless.'
'I do what I want.'
'Fix that leaky pipe already it's driving me crazy.'
'Stop leaving notes on my door.'
'You first.'
Were only a few. Mikey had asked about them once. Raph and Leo looked at each other and both said they had no idea what Mikey was talking about.
Leo could hear when Raph talked to Spike. He didn't say anything.
Raph heard when Leo woke up at midnight screaming from a nightmare. He didn't say anything.
They didn't have to. The looks they gave each other the next morning were enough.
It was just enough to show that even though they were at each other's neck most of the time, they still had each other's backs. No matter what.
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