Mikey hadn't lasted much longer on the couch before falling asleep himself, quite happy to sleep there if it meant having Donnie laying on him. The uncomfortable position that Mikey had fallen asleep in only allowed him to sleep for a few hours before he woke up.
Donnie was still fast asleep in his lap, the only change in his position was that he was now almost hugging his brother's legs. As much as Mikey didn't want to disturb his brother's sleep, his legs were becoming very numb.
"Donnie…" Mikey whispered as he shook his brother's shoulder.
"Hm?"
"Donnie, wake up." Mikey said as he shook his brother a little harder.
"W-what? Mikey?" Donnie said as he pushed himself up slightly and realised that he was laying on his brother's lap. "Did I fall asleep?"
"Yeah bro, you were snoring and everything." Mikey laughed and Donnie's cheeks flushed lightly.
"S-sorry Mikey." Donnie chuckled as he moved to sit up, next to his brother.
"It's okay bro' I ended up taking a nap as well." Mikey grinned, feeling his heart start to beat against his chest rapidly as he noticed how cute Donnie was when he was still sleepy. "Um, you want anything to eat? Midnight snack?"
"No, I'm...still a bit tired, I might see if I can catch a few more hours of sleep...now that I seem to be able to," Donnie said. "Thanks Mikey."
"No problem bro." Mikey responded and watched as his brother walked away and upstairs to his bedroom.
Mikey waited a few seconds before following his brother upstairs without a sound so the still slightly out of sorts turtle didn't realise Mikey had followed him. Mikey stopped himself when Donnie's door closed, a feeling that someone was watching him was what made him stop and not go inside his brother's room to talk to him like he wanted to.
Without looking back at who was watching him, he quickly made his way to his own room and closed the door behind him before resting his head against it. Mikey wouldn't have been surprised if Leo had been watching Donnie and Mikey as they slept on the couch together.
When morning rolled around, Mikey was surprised to find Donnie's bedroom door still shut, but he was also happy that his brother was finally able to sleep and that neither Leo or Raph had bothered him.
Mikey peered into the dojo as he passed and was shocked to see that it was empty, Leo was usually either practising or meditating at this time of the morning, waiting for his brothers to join him on the days that they had a morning practice session.
Mikey doubted they would be having one today, given Leo was not in the dojo and Donnie was still asleep. Happy with that, Mikey made his way into the kitchen to make himself some breakfast, which is where he found both Raph and Leo seated at the table, in silence, eating their breakfast.
"Morning dudes!"
"Good morning Mikey." Leo replied as Raph grunted.
"I'm making eggs, anyone want any?" Mikey asked, looking at his brothers as he collected the eggs.
"I've got food." Raph says, as though Mikey is an idiot for offering food to someone who already has some. Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
"No thanks Mikey." Leo responded and Mikey smiled at his brother, although still uneasy under his oldest brother's gaze.
By the time Mikey set his plate of eggs down on the table, his brothers had left to go to the dojo to spar, allowing him to relax knowing he wasn't being watched and judged. He wanted to speak to Leo, properly speak to him so that he would leave him and Donnie alone, but he wasn't sure what his big brother's reaction would be, that and he would much rather sort things out between him and Donnie before he started talking to Leo and Raph about them.
He knew he would have to do that quickly before his brothers would confront them.
When Donnie awoke in the late morning he was refreshed, but as refreshed as Donnie was, his mind was still not clear and he knew why. He also knew why he had finally been able to sleep, because of Mikey, because he had his brother so close to him after pushing him away for so long and his body and mind had finally relaxed enough for him to switch off.
He was able to eat some breakfast and drink a cup of coffee in peace, as he had risen late and his brothers had already eaten and left the kitchen.
Once he was finished with his breakfast, he made himself a second cup of coffee and walked over to his lab, passing the dojo where Leo and Raph were sparring. He didn't see Mikey on his way to his lab, which made him frown but he reasoned with himself that it was because he was in his room reading his comics, not because of anything else.
Although he was very well rested, his mind still wasn't clear enough to focus on what he wanted to focus on, all his mind wanted to do was think about Mikey, so that became his latest project, deciding to let his mind do what it wanted to.
His mind ran through some scenarios of what he could say to Mikey or what he could do as well as what Mikey's reaction to what he would say would be. He knew that Mikey was react positively as long as Donnie got the right words out and didn't say anything that could be taken the wrong way, after all Mikey was the one who had wanted this between them before Donnie knew he did and was probably waiting for Donnie to come around.
If he was going to talk to Mikey, he would have to do it now…
Donnie stood a few inches away from his brother's open door, knowing that Mikey was alone as Leo and Raph were in the dojo still. He didn't know when they were going to come out and if he wanted to talk to Mikey, now was the perfect time, so he decided to just go in and say what he wanted to say and deal with the outcome before they would be interrupted by their brothers.
"Mikey, I need to talk to you." Donnie said as he made his way into his younger brother's bedroom without asking for permission to enter.
"Um, okay, sure bro...what's up?"
Donnie stood at the bottom of Mikey's bed, wringing his hands due to how nervous he was. Mikey put down the comic book that he had been reading and shuffled down his bed until he was sitting at the end, looking up at his brother.
"Donnie...what is it?"
"I shouldn't have said what I said." Mikey frowned, not knowing what Donnie was referring to.
"Um, what?" Mikey asked and Donnie sighed and closed his eyes.
"I shouldn't have said that we should forget about what happened, I regretted it almost immediately but I've been too much of a coward to come and speak to you about it until now." Donnie admitted and watched Mikey's face closely for his reaction.
A bright smile beamed on his brother's face and Donnie felt all his anxieties and nerves wash away.
"So, you don't wanna forget what happened? Mikey asked, the smile not leaving his face as he watched his blushing brother.
"No."
"Because you want it to happen again?" Mikey asked, head tilting to the side slightly.
"Mikey-" Donnie began to speak but was cut off when Mikey pulled him down to kiss him. The kiss wasn't anything more than a peck but when Mikey pulled away, Donnie pulled him up so that he was standing so that he could kiss him deeper.
It wasn't long before churrs and moans were coming from both of the turtles and they toppled onto the bed, Donnie leaning over his brother as he moved to his neck, nibbling at the skin. The two were becoming so lost in each other that they didn't hear the footsteps that were walking up to the door.
Since his discussion with Raphael, Leo had been thinking about his two youngest brothers non stop. Thinking about what they had done, what had caused them to stop talking to each other and pull away. They seemed like they were becoming closer to each other, but they didn't seem to be getting anywhere fast and it felt like Leo would need to intervene to get the two to work out their problems.
He gave up with his meditation, stretching his body out as he stood up and looked to the other side of the dojo where Raphael was fighting an invisible foe, which he had been doing so for as many hours as Leo had been meditating.
As soon as Raph realised that Leo was watching him, he stopped and walked over to his brother.
"What's wrong?" He asked, noting his brother's serious expression.
"I'm going to talk to them." Leo said.
"No ya' aint." Raph immediately replied.
"I wasn't asking for your permission Raphael, I was just telling you what I'm going to do." Leo said before leaving the dojo, with Raph following right behind him.
Leo looked around the lair to see if he could spot his two youngest brothers, but they weren't anywhere in sight...he was going to have to go round the lair and find them in order to talk to them.
"Leo, for fuck's sake leave it be." Raph growled as he watched his brother scan the lair.
"No, unlike you Raphael I care about what is going on between our brothers." He said without looking back.
"Leo, they're not babies, they can work things out for themselves." Raph said, trying to hold his brother back.
"Well they haven't so far." Leo said as he headed towards the lab, pulling out of Raph's hold.
"Leo!" Raph shouted, stopping where he was and watched Leo look into the lab and turn back around, staring at both Mikey and Donnie's bedroom doors.
Raph watched as his brother stared and listened for even the slightest noise that would give away where one of both of their brothers were.
Leo heard something upstairs, from Mikey's room and turned in that direction.
"Leo! Wait!" Raph growled as he followed behind his brother.
Raph followed Leo as they approached Mikey's bedroom, his face slightly flushed at the noises coming from behind the closed doors, the same noises that he heard the night that caused this whole thing between Mikey and Donnie.
Leo looked at his red banded brother and noticed the flushed look on his face, confirming the noises were what they thought they were. He reached for the doorknob but Raph pulled his arm back.
"They've obviously worked things out, let's go."
"We need to talk about this." Leo said as he pulled his arm away from his brother so that he could open the door.
The sight they saw when they opened the door was their purple banded brother hovering over their youngest brother, his tail being played with by Donnie. It took the two younger turtles a few seconds to realise they were being watched and their heads turned in the direction of the door to see Leonardo standing in the doorway, a very wide eyed and shocked look on his face and Raph behind him, face turning red.
Before anyone could say anything, Raph pulled Leo backwards and slammed the door closed. It wasn't long before Raph and Leo's raised voices could be heard on the other side.
Donnie and Mikey remained frozen as they listened to their brothers argue right outside the bedroom door. Both of their hearts were hammering from not only their make out session, but from their brothers walking in on them in such a compromising position.
"Should...should we go out there?" Mikey asked.
"Maybe we should wait until they've...stopped arguing." Donnie said as he moved off his brother and to his side.
"Well, it's Leo and Raph, we could be sitting here for hours." Mikey jokes, drawing a light laugh out of his brother.
"That's true." Donnie saaid, resting a hand on his brother's thigh. Mikey covered his brother's hand with his own as they listened for Raph and Leo to calm down so they could come out of Mikey's room and talk things over with their older brothers.