Mikey was the last of the three to come in, following closely behind Raphael. He hadn't realized Raph had stopped in the doorway, and ran right into his bigger brother, who turned around and shoved him back in annoyance.
"Hey! I'm just trying to get through!" Mikey pushed his way past his always angry brother, who muttered some comment, but Mikey shook it off and made his was over to Donnie.
Donnie wiped the blood on his hand off onto his pant leg and tossed his glasses onto a nearby work table. Ignoring the yelling coming from his eldest brother, he bent over the unconscious girl and tucked an arm under her legs and another under her back, lifting her out of the mess she had thrown herself into. Standing up slowly, he began to feel around with his feet as to not trip over anything and cause more damage to the room, himself or the girl.
Since Donnie couldn't see without his glasses very well, he jumped a little when Mikey seemed to have popped up out of nowhere. Mikey helped him lay the girl back on the bed and went to his main desk where he kept a spare pair of glasses. Donnie gladly took them, thanking Mikey and instructing him to watch over the girl.
"Are you even listening to me? What the hell happened in here?" Donnie rolled his eyes and grabbed a clean towel off a tool cabinet for his face. He would look at the cut later to asses the damage.
"Yes, I heard you, but in case you didn't notice I was busy putting our "guest" back where she belongs." Donnie replied sarcastically.
Donnie pushed past Leo, who was practically boiling with anger. He looked at Raph who was standing in the doorway with his arms crossed and watching Leo closely. Donnie went to the white cabinet at the front of the room and gathered medical supplies, like disinfectant solution, stitching thread and wrap to close back the wound on the girls leg, which undoubtedly opened back up in the commotion. The ever growing red spot on the white bandages confirmed it.
"Well I'm waiting, Don." Leo snapped, folding his arms in annoyance.
Donnie let out a sigh and glared at his brother. "She woke up sooner than I had expected. I was out of the room for a second-"
"You left her alone?" Leo interjected before Donnie could finish his explanation.
"For a second! Jeez let me finish before you start bitching at me!" Donnie shouted, trying not to drop any of his supplies. "And for your information, I was going to the bathroom. Sorry for being being a living being that has to go to the bathroom every once in a while."
Leo threw his hands up and let out a huff. "Fine. Sorry. Go ahead."
"I was out for a few seconds when she woke up. She was scared. She probably doesn't know whats going on. If I woke up in a random dark room tied down and hooked up to machines I'd be pretty damn scared too." Donnie set his supplies on a metal rolling table and turned back to Leo.
"She somehow broke out of her restraints and climbed out of the bed. She didn't get far with the condition she's in. I was going to take her back to her bed but," Donnie bent over and picked up the bloodied screw driver, just a small one but enough to do a bit of damage. He let out a small chuckle, "she grabbed this that was lying on the ground and got me with it. Then she went tumbling back and knocked herself unconscious. Which could mean a potential concussion or other head injury."
"How did she escape? Did you even tie her down?" Leo pressed.
Raph cut in with his own comment, "Maybe if 'Mr. Perfect' did it the first time none ah this woulda happened, would it?" he teased.
Leo shot Raph a deadly look. "Shut up Raph, stay out of this. Don't you have a dojo to break?"
"Don't you have a stick to pull out of your ass?" The red-clad turtle retorted. Mikey let out a laugh before covering his mouth as Leo shot him a look too.
Leo huffed and walked over to Mikey, grabbing his arm and directing him toward the exit. "You two go find something else to do."
Mikey tried to argue but Raph pushed him out of the room before he could say anything, shutting the door behind him. The two talked loudly as they walked away from the room. Leo turned his attention back to Donnie, who was beginning to unwrap the disheveled bandages from the girls leg. Leo didn't say anything as he studied her sleeping form. He noticed a small bottle of morphine on the cart. She would be out for a while longer, giving Don time to fix whatever damage she had done.
Leonardo found a stool a couple feet away and pulled it up to the end of the bed. He sat down and watched his brother carefully sterilizing the area and preparing to remove the torn sutures and replace them. He grimaced at the fresh blood that seeped from the wound, turning his head to advert his view. He swallowed hard, trying to think of something other than the wound. He was always able to handle the sight of blood, but needles were what got him. They made him queasy and uneasy. He was good at hiding it-most times- but there were times when he had to leave the room.
Eventually, Donnie got up to dispose of the used up or bloody items in a proper waste bin. Leo looked back at the the unconscious girl, who had fresh bandages covering her thigh and a blanket covering her. She looked comfortable, given the condition she was in. Leo almost felt bad, but steeled his emotions and went to work on new restraints.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Leo looked up to see Donnie standing beside him, drying his hands on a hand towel.
"She is going to wake up soon. Given how she acted upon waking up the first time, she needs to be tied down. Tighter, or more stable this time." Leo replied.
"But she's fine right now, just giver her a break. Maybe if-"
"No maybe's. She needs to be tied down, and I'm going to make sure it's done right." Leo finalized.
Donnie huffed, and started his sentence again. "Maybe, if she isn't tied up, she won't be as freaked out. Maybe then she'll trust us, at least a little. Trust that we won't hurt her."
Leo finished the strap on her ankle and pulled it tight. He sighed and looked back at Donnie, who was holding his damp towel to his temple, wiping off the drying blood.
"Frankly, I don't care if she trusts us. I don't care if she's scared. With what she knows, she should be. And hurting her? Well, if she's smart then she won't get hurt." Leo said as he stood up.
Donnie looked at his brother with annoyance. He rolled his eyes and checked her vitals on the machine next to her. Her blood pressure was off, since she had lost quite a bit of blood. Donnie debated heading to the blood bank and swiping a few bags, but he'd have to do blood work to find out what blood type she was to prevent any other complications.
Leo took a seat on the stool again and folded his arms. Donnie knew this time his brother was going to wait for the mystery girl to wake up. Donnie sighed and walked out of the lab. All the commotion had made him hungry.
It was about 4 am when the machines started beeping rapidly.
The blue-clad leader shot up in alarm. He had been dozing off until the machines went off, so he was wide awake now. Donnie had fallen asleep at his desk in the front of the room, and was woken up by the machines as well. He blinked the sleep from his eyes as he threw on his glasses and stumbled across the lab half-awake. Leo got up to approach the machine but the girl caught his eye.
Her body began to shake and her eyelids were half open. Leonardo realized she was seizing and turned her onto her side, holding her upper body as steady as he could. Donnie quickly reached over and undid her restraints to ease the pulling on her shoulders.
Leo grabbed at Donnie and tired to stop him from undoing the restraint but his hand was swatted away. "What are you doing?" he demanded.
Donnie huffed angrily and snapped at Leo. "She's seizing. What harm is she going to do to you? She'll rip her arm out of her socket if I don't!"
Before Leo could say anything else, Donnie checked the machine and raced back to the cabinet in the front of the room. He called back to his brother and told him to keep her steady like how he was as he grabbed something.
Donnie ran back to the girl, who looked pale and lifeless. He quickly, but steadily, injected something into the girls IV. The machines began to slow down and so did her shaking. He took the syringe out and set it aside, taking out a pen light and checked her eyes. As quickly as it started, it was over.
Leo blinked rapidly as he tried to process what had just happened. He let go of the girls shoulders and laid her back to how she was. Donnie looked over her head, shoulders, and leg wound to make sure she hadn't hurt herself further. After he was satisfied, he turned around to Leo.
"What the hell? Donnie questioned.
"What? What the hell what?" Leo asked, pulling an innocent look.
"Are you really so paranoid that she's going to try something? She was having a seizure. A seizure, Leo!"
Donnie's face was inches from Leo's. Leo could feel the anger seething from his younger brother. He looked past his brother and to the girl again. Her hands were still unrestrained, and as much as it irked him, Donnie was right. She had a seizure and now she's asleep. She can't do anything in the condition she was in. But his pride wouldn't let him say all of that.
"I'm just trying to take precautions. She could have been faking it for all we know. As a way to get us to drop our guard." Leonardo seemed to convince himself more than anyone else.
Donnie looked at him with total confusion. "Leonardo. Why would you think she could be faking it? She's got a brain injury. She's hurt and exhausted. She's unconscious."
Leo huffed and turned away, walking back to his seat and sitting down on it. Donnie stood in the same spot for a moment. Finally, he shook his head and walked back to his desk. He looked over the girl again, before shifting his gaze to his eldest brother. His back was turned to him, but he could still imagine the look on his face.
Leonardo had not been very easy going since the Kraang invasion. It was almost like a whole personality change. He was angry a lot, he pushed his brothers to work harder in training, even to the brink of exhaustion. He was always serious on missions and patrols and would hardly partake in any fun activities when April and Casey would come over. Both Splinter and April had taken him aside on many occasions and tried to get him to talk to them about it, but he would always brush them off and disappear. Leo argued more with the brothers; there was even an argument between Mikey and him, which had never happened before. That night Mikey stayed at April's apartment.
Donnie mentally sighed. He wished things hadn't gotten so complicated with their fearless leader. Donnie remembered the time when Mikey told him that instead of "fearless" it should be "fearful," since it seemed like their older brother was afraid of everything. Turns out, it wasn't that far off.
Donnie wished things could just go back to the way they were. He knew that him and his family would take the meditating, goodie-two-shoes, somewhat laid back Leonardo over this new leader he's become. He hoped that one day Leo would wake up and see that he's hurting them, whether he's intending to or not.
here is chapter 3.
It has been WAYY too long since i've updated this, but oh well lol. I've gotten back into the tmnt spirit for at least another chapter, so here you guys go :)))