Sorry for the gap between updates, been taking exams all month, so I haven't really had the chance to update! But good news, I got an A* on my english exam, which got me moved up to set 1! I hope you enjoy this chapter, it put me through a lot of stress trying to get it to work! Oh, and thank you for all the lovely reviews!

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Raphael Point of View

The night was quiet. Everything was still, peaceful. Considering the hectic lifestyle I normally lead, it was a rare occurrence for there to be no flurry of movement in every corner. Today had strained us all, but now we could finally heal. I'm glad that we could all start to move on, and that everything was explained simply and quickly. There was no need for us to go into the details of that night, as we could all recall every moment of pain we felt, so we knew and understood the anguish one another were feeling.

I knew that Leo had been suffering, and I do feel sorry for the guy, he is my brother after all. But I also knew that my other siblings had been suffering just as much, and that I was going through the same. I'm still a little worried that I will wake up in the morning and Leo will run off into the forest to train, leaving the rest of us wondering where he had wandered off to, and what time he would return.

Mikey has bounced bake faster than the rest of us, but he still jumps at the sound of a blade sometimes. Occasionally I catch him staring at Bella's cheek, a look of sadness shining in his eyes, and then I look again and its gone. I'm certain that he is going to be just fine, though it doesn't hurt to keep an eye on him.

Donnie is wearing himself out, as he is trying to fix up the farm house and look after all of us at the same time. The turtle is a genius, but he cant run solely on coffee for the rest of his life. I see him stumble and slump when he thinks that no one is looking, and then he's off again, smiling and being as kind as ever. Donnie is too kind and caring for his own good.

Bella is hiding her feelings, as I know she is suffering from more than just what the shredder did. I don't know what Bella went through in the months when she was in Forks after the Cullen's had left, but from what Charlie had told us, she was in a bad state, he said that she seemed cold and uncaring, two words that I would never think to associate my older sister with.

"You know, I always knew that you were a star gazer" a voice said behind me. I whirled around to see Bella standing behind me, a small smile on her face. I opened my mouth to say something, but she held up a hand to stop me. "Don't worry, I won't tell the others. You mind having some company?"

"Nah, as long as you don't bug me." I joked, moving to leave more room on the bench beside me. The room was starting to get cold, as I had had the window open for about an hour now, but the others were all rapped up in their blankets, so they didn't seem to notice. Bella moved to sit next to me, and I noticed that she had a hair brush in her hand, and with closer inspection realised that she also had a band around her wrist.

She must be planning to spend some time with me like we did when we were kids. Bella would catch me awake late at night, and she would sit with me. She would begin to brush her hair, and somehow I would end up being the one brushing her hair, and somewhere along the line she taught me how to braid hair. I knew that if our brothers, especially Mikey, they would never let me live it down. But Bella never told them, no matter how angry I would make her when I disobeyed Leo's and Fathers orders. She kept it between her, and when I asked her about it, she said that it was the special thing that she had with me, and that none of the others would ever be able to braid hair like I could.

Without even waiting for her to start brushing her hair, I gently pried the brush from her hands and sat her down so that her back was facing me, and began to gently pull the brush through her thick hair.

"I didn't think you would remember" She whispered, her voice soft and relaxed. "We haven't done this in awhile"

"I never forgot, I just got too wrapped in my own little world." I answered, still untangling her brown locks.

"That you did. I think the last time we did this was when we were twelve or so. I didn't think you would have the patience to do this any more."

"I'm not a hot head all the time, I do sometimes know how to unwind. I don't think I ever told you this, but I used to love playing with your hair. But I preferred it when you used strawberry scented shampoo instead of lavender, I've never been to keen on the smell" I wined as I caught the scent of her hair. Lavender always smelt like metal to me somehow, and I made me grind my teeth together.

"I didn't even realise that I was still using this shampoo. I always used to use the strawberry one, but when I got to Forks all they had was Lavender, so I just brought that." She explained. By this point I had completely untangled her hair, and was now dividing it into sections. When I was young, I always found it hard to do a perfect braid, as my fingers were wide and stumpy, but now that I'm used to twirling my Sai's around them nearly everyday of the year, I don't have any difficulty.

"I'm worried about Donnie, raph" Bella blurted out suddenly. I stopped moving my hands for a second, but then carried on slowly.

"What you mean?"

"He's been working himself so hard recently. He's taken it upon himself to take care of all of us, even though he knows that I am more than capable of dealing with out injuries now that they have healed a little. And he's also helping Casey get the farmhouse up to date, fixing things and doing jobs that he knows will put a strain on his injuries. I had to fight to convince him to go to bed tonight, and I know he will be up at the crack of dawn to check everyone's bandages and tend to father." I had finished braiding her hair now, and I turned her to face me. Her face was scrunched up in worry, and she had her hands clasped tightly around each other. "Also Father is healing slower than I expected him to, and I'm starting to worry. He tells me every time I see him that he is fine, and that he just needs more rest than he used to, but he's trained me well. His pulse is weak, and he always seems to be cold." By now she was ranting.

"Calm down sis, I'm sure that they are both fine. Father is telling the truth, he's not as old as he used to be, and with all that has happened over the last few months, he needs a bit more time than the rest of us to recover. Just give him time, I'm sure that he will make a full recovery, as he has the best healer in the multiverse to care for him." I smiled, and she twitched her lips, her cheeks going a light shade of pink. "And with Donnie, the turtle just needs to sleep for a day and have a proper meal. Maybe you should make him stay in bed today, get a direct order from Father and he will do as he's told, whether he likes it or not"

"Your probably right, I'll talk to Father in the morning while I'm checking him and get an order for Donnie to stay in bed. I do want to check on Don though, as I think he's been running a temperature the last few days, but he's been covering it up." She stands, and strides over to the bed Don is occupying, and places her hand on his forehead. I see her frown, and gather that she was correct in thinking that he had a temperature.

"He has a fever, worse than I thought it was going to be" she said, and then she looked to the side, where a chest of drawers was placed. She opened the top drawer, and shook her head. "He's been taking every pain medication under the sun. Thats just making it worse! I thought he was the smart one, but he's been abusing his body by putting himself under so much stress whilst he's ill!" She scooped up all of the packets and boxes, and quickly disposed of them in her suitcase, which she pushed back under her bed.

"He's too kind, he's always trying to help us. I know your pissed at him Bells, but his heart was in the right place, even if his head weren't" I defended him, but I fully intended on giving him a smack round the head as soon as he was health again.

"There is no way that I am allowing him to leave this room, I will strap him to this bed if I have to. If he had just told me that he wasn't feeling well, I could have given him the right medication, and he would be feeling fine now, but no, he had to be all self sacrificing and keep it to himself. And now he has a fever and I'm pissed off." She grumbled. Even though she said she was pissed, I knew that she was more worried than anything.

"Keep Leo in here with him. I know that he hasn't been sleeping properly. Keep the two of them up here, that way neither of them can leave without the other one telling. Oh, and you might want to hide Don's laptop, cause you know as soon as he thinks he has a chance, he will be on it working on some crazy complicated experiment of his." I jerked my head towards the laptop case, which had three state of the art padlocks attached to it, all because of the amount of times Mikey had stolen it and downloaded games to play, deleting the files already stored to make room for them.

"Hide it in your stuff, he won't think to look in yours. He'll go straight for my stuff." She mumbled as she prepared something I couldn't see. I did as she said, sliding the case deep under my bed, and pulled a few boxes in front of it so you couldn't see it even if you looked for it.

I looked back in the direction of Bella, to see her holding a syringe in one hand, and wiping the inside of Dons elbow, where his veins were, with an antiseptic wipe with the other. She moved to inject the needle into his arm. I made a startled noise, and she briefly looked in my direction before turning her attention to what she had been doing. "Don't panic Raph, its just some pain killers, nothing major. I've checked all of the pills he had in his drawer, and if he took any of them tonight, it was over six hours ago that he took them, so there's no danger in giving this to him now." She had inserted the needle now, and was steadily pushing the plunger down. "Also I didn't want to wake him up, as he needs his rest, this medicine will make him sleep for longer. That will give me a chance to check on Father and get the order for him to stay in bed before Don has time to argue." She smoothly pulled the needle out, and placed a small ball of cotton where the needle had been. She gently applied pressure, staying like that for a few seconds before pulling back to examine that white material for blood. From what I could see, there was no blood, and I'm assuming there was none as Bella leaned back to drop the cotton into the bin that was beside the chest of drawers.

"So he should be fine if he stays in bed?" I asked, I had settled myself into bed by now. My ribs had been throbbing all day, and now they were starting to hurt, but I didn't want to worry her, so I figured it would be best just to rest them for the night.

"He'll be just fine as long as he rests at takes the medicine I tell him to. It will probably take a few days for the fever to go down and for him to be back to full health, but that's to be expected." She gently stroked his forehead, placing a light kiss before walking over to my bed. She held her hand out to me, and I saw that she was holding to small white pills in her hand. "Here, I know that you ribs are hurting now, take these and you will be fine." She winked at me, bent down and kissed my forehead just like she had done with Don. I just shook my head in amazement.

"Night Raphie" She whispered, before walking over to her bed.

"Night Bells" I whispered back, and slowly sank into my bed. The bed wasn't the most comfortable, but at least it was a proper bed.

Now that I think about it, all of us were stupid when it came to the whole self sacrificing thing. We thought that it would help the others if we didn't tell them when we needed help, or when we were sick or injured, even though Father had trained us to work as a team, as a unit. We were there to help each other, but we never wanted to admit that we needed help. In the long run, we just ended up making things worse, making things more complicated and difficult than they needed to be.

Maybe things will change now that we have all started to realise that we need each other. I have a strange feeling that we are going to learn that we have to ask for help, even if the source of help is the last person that we ever thought that we would have to turn to to receive it.

Ohhhh theres a little taster of what is to come! I hope you all enjoyed the chapter, and please leave a review!
Pingu xxx