Next oneshot is from donniexP: Write a oneshot where 7 year old Raph comforts 6 year old Donnie after he has a panic attack over being worried about being rejected by his family.

Rated: K+ Genre: Hurt/Comfort/Family

Reassurance

The four brothers were hanging out together in their playroom. Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo were playing rock, paper, scissors while Donatello fiddled with something in the corner of the room.

''Rock

Paper

Scissors!'' The three turtles shouted before all groaning as they all had paper.

''Stop copying me Mikey!'' Raph growled.

''I'm not'' Mikey huffs.

''My sons'' Master Splinter greeted as he entered the playroom, the four turtles hummed in response.

The father of the family frowned when he saw Donnie alone in the corner, he went over and took a look at what the young turtle was doing.

''What is that Donatello?'' Splinter asked curiously, the three other turtles looked round at the pair.

Donnie blushed and showed his father the small metal contraption in his hand.

''I-I'm building something'' He admitted shyly.

''What a nerd!'' Mikey laughed.

''That's such a waste of time bro'' Leo chuckled. ''It's never gonna work! None of your thingies ever work''

''Give it up Don'' Raph smirked. ''Yer bein' stupid''

Donnie felt tears sting his eyes as his brothers all laughed, he felt his father take it off of him and scold him for playing with something so dangerous.

Suddenly he felt like he couldn't breathe, his vision blurred and his head spun. His muscles felt weak and wobbly as he struggled for breath.

He shakily stood up and escaped the room in pure terror of what was happening to him, he heard the yells behind him as he collapsed onto his knees.

His father and Raphael were in front of him while Leonardo and Michelangelo were just behind him.

''Deep breaths… Take deep breaths my son'' Splinter soothed. ''You can breathe… you are ok…''

Donnie was trying his hardest but it wasn't working.

''C'mon Donnie'' Raphael tried. ''In…. and out….. in….. and out….. that's it!''

The more Don breathed the clearer his vision became, eventually he could see clearly and his breathing was back but he was exhausted.

''Are you ok?'' Splinter asked gently as the brothers around Donnie fidgeted fearfully.

Donnie nodded tiredly.

''What happened?'' Leo asked worriedly as he hugged Mikey.

''Donatello had a panic attack'' Master Splinter explained. ''I think we may have to look more into that later on, but for now you need sleep.''

Donnie was carried to bed and left in peace.

Or so he thought.

He looked round to see Raphael sitting next to his bed.

''Raphie?'' He asked weakly.

''Why were you scared?'' Raph asked, Donnie could see how pale his brother was. ''Where you scared of us?''

''Kinda'' Donnie admitted, he was too tired to hide it.

''Why?''

''Coz I don't fit in'' Donnie explained as he slowly fell asleep. ''Leo takes care of us, Father trains us, you protect us and Mikey makes us happy… I just want to be able to help too. That's why I play with appliances… I wanna be useful so you guys don't abandon me''

Raph stared in surprise as his brother drifted off.

He wasn't completely sure what 'Appliances' and 'Abandon' meant but he understood what his brother feared.

He was scared they would think him useless and would chuck him out.

Raphael knew what he had to do.

He rushed to his two brothers and father and explained everything, they agreed to let Donnie experiment and that they would reassure him that he would never be useless.

In the future they were thankful for this as Donatello had proved himself to be a genius, he invented things that were way beyond the abilities of humans and was a lot smarter than them too!

They knew he still had the fear of being rejected but it didn't surface much.

Donatello was diagnosed with mild Anxiety but his panic attacks were never that bad again now that he had finally found his place.

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