Starting in this chapter, the adventures will be retold and some things changed. And of course, I don't own the rights to TMNT or Randall Boggs. Hope you all enjoy.

The others all took turns watching over Leo as he rested in bed for the next several days. Mikey would make him some soup at first to just make sure his stomach could handle food at all, and nothing happened, so he started making his favorite foods again. Don also unhooked him from the IV and heart monitor once he was considered out of the critical care. Leatherhead went home after that. April and Casey left the lair as well.

Now that the drugs had worn out of his system at the end of the week since they had gotten him back, the others had noticed a new trait in Leo as well.

He was grateful for the rescue, but after what was done to him, Leo had a new guilt to himself. He was moody a lot more. He just wanted to be left alone now that he was out of the danger zone.

Leo barely wanted to eat at all, but he knew he needed to keep his strength up if he wanted to be back to training a lot sooner. And there would be no telling how long he would be wearing the cover on his plastron. It would come off on its own in its own time. He also made it clear he didn't want a cover patch for his shell. He felt so ashamed that he felt it should be left out to the air since nothing more was revealed.

Randall stayed in the lair to help out as needed. He didn't speak of the rape, he was just there, and he was noticing Leo's new behavior as well. It was almost like how he used to be himself.

It was the middle of August right now. With Leo now out of danger, maybe getting him out of the city for awhile would be good for him. Splinter thought it up. He talked to April and Casey and said it was a good idea. It had been awhile since going to the farmhouse.

Splinter spoke to Leo about going to the farm. Leo just gave a glum look and said, "Whatever." He just had the look of he didn't really care.

Splinter felt bad for his son for what happened, but he didn't need to feel bad about anything. None of what happened had been his fault.

That weekend, the turtles and Splinter, two humans, and Randall all went to the farmhouse. It was a long, mostly quiet ride to the house. Leo had made the ride so dull. Mikey often tried to brighten the mood while Leo paid no one any attention unless he had to. When they got there, Leo was just glad to get away from his family and head inside. He knew they wouldn't let him help with it, at least not much.

Leo went upstairs and stared angrily out the bedroom window. After having been raped, he felt like his honor and dignity were gone. It had damaged his inner core. He couldn't even train while he was this injured. It was mostly just his stomach that everyone was concerned about, that he wouldn't tear it open again, as it was still fresh.

The others hoped a little time away from the city would do them all some good, but especially Leo. They hoped he would come out of his funk.

….

Over the next several weeks, Leo's physical injuries did fine. He was careful to make sure to not bend his middle as much as possible, and the glue held his plastron together. But it was his mentality that still wasn't doing very well.

Leo mostly tried to avoid his family and friends as much as possible. He would go to the barn or the woods for walks to get away from them. He knew how to be sneaky.

One day, well into the 7th week of Leo's recovery, Randall caught sight of Leo leaving the house again, trying to sneak off. He secretly followed the lead turtle.

Leonardo led him to a clearing in the middle of the woods, making sure to stay clear of the neighbor's house for sure. It was a beautiful, serene place that even had a good sized pond. Leo didn't go swimming of course, but he sat himself on the ground and tried to meditate first. When he found he couldn't clear his head of his irrational thoughts, Leo got up and started yelling his lungs out before he fell in a heap, crying hysterically.

Randall had stayed hiding amongst some thick bushes, silently watching. He had never seen Leo cry before. This was a place where the hurt turtle was more than willing to let his emotions go. He didn't know how to help him. At the least, he had followed to make sure Leo was staying out of trouble, should he find any.

It was a few hours before Leo calmed down enough to head back to the house. He knew his family would come looking for him eventually if he didn't get back. Randall still kept his distance.

When Leo made it back, Raph asked him where he was. "Just walking in the woods, Raph. Since I can't train, that's what I do for my exercise right now." Leo said, and brushed him off. He went inside.

Raphael was starting to get fed up with Leo's rash behavior. Then he heard some more footsteps and turned to see a visible Randall walking out from the woods too.

"Where have you been?" Raph demanded.

"I followed Leonardo. Where else? I just wanted to know where it was he's been sneaking off to every day. It's a private place in the woods that lets him let go of what he's holding in his mind." Randall explained.

"Does he try to train?"

"No. Meditate and then let go of his control for awhile."

Raph could see the need for that, as Leo was still hurting mentally.

The others all felt helpless to try to help Leo. They didn't know how to. Sure, they had all had bad encounters from the ninjas before, but not like Leo had, on his last encounter.

….

After another week, Don said that Leo was well enough to go without bandages. He was happy to hear it. But it would be a few more weeks before he was ready for full on training again. Leo could still go for walks and he could start smaller katas. Leo was desperate to start any kind of training again.

Training kept his mind focused and sharp. It made him truly feel like a leader. It also let him release pent up tensions.

Leo started wearing his katanas again. He was happy to be able to use them as he always had. It made him feel a little more self assured, especially when he went into the woods.

Master Splinter began to let him train beside his brothers, doing his own katas, but he wasn't training exactly with them just yet. Don had told him he needed to wait at least a total of four months at the least before he would be allowed full on training again with his brothers.

Splinter was agreeable to it. He did want his son to be happy too, as Leo just hadn't expressed being much of a happy camper in the last several weeks, if ever barely cracking a smile. Not even at Mikey's jokes.

One day, Splinter did come up with an idea for his sons to go on another camping trip. Randall could go too if he wanted. At dinner, he told them about it.

The boys were feeling a little antsy to do something fun. Randall was still a little more hesitant about camping trips.

"Come with us, Randall." Mikey pleaded. "Please?"

"They just aren't my favorite thing." Randall said.

"It would be a good idea to test some of your survival skills in the wilderness, just in case if you were to ever get lost out here." Don advised.

"You love competition. Think of this as a new challenge." Raph said with a grin.

"You should go and have some time to catch up with your brothers, Leonardo." Splinter said.

"Sure." Leo said softly. He would gladly go to make sure his bros wouldn't get into trouble. He still cared about them, and Leo was wanting to do something different too.

Randall reluctantly agreed to go too.

A few days later, with all they needed packed up, even Randall had a new backpack to hold his supplies, Casey drove the boys to a spot that was looking to be well hidden from other humans, and the guys would camp there.

It would leave April, Casey, and Splinter to use the house for a few days. Splinter would stay out of his friends' hair while they could spend time to themselves a little more.

There was a good-sized lake where the reptiles were staying for the next couple of days. There was an old mill nearby. They had collected four logs to sit on and built a fire pit. Night had just fallen, their favorite time of day. A fire was started as well.

"Let's leave our stuff and go exploring." Donny suggested. "We could look at that old building."

"Looks like it's about to fall down from here." Raph said.

"Looks like an old steel mill." Don could make out. "They don't make them like that anymore. It was made at the turn of the century."

"That's because it isn't that time anymore." Mikey added. "You coming, Leo?"

Leo just stayed silent, fuming.

"Ah, leave him. If he doesn't want to play, he doesn't wanna play." Raph said. He and the others went to go explore the mill.

Leo reluctantly left his seat on the log and went over to the mill and without going inside, as his brothers had done, he used a smaller side roof on the side to jump up to the roof and waited for them.

Inside the mill, the turtles and Randall decided to race each other to the top. Mike and Randall came in so close together, but Mikey managed to get to a top hole first.

"I win!" Mikey proclaimed, then looked to his right. "Hey." Leo was standing on the edge of the building.

Mikey climbed through the hole, followed by Randall and Don and Raph. "Looks like our silent partner decided to join us." Raph said.

Then something shot across the sky. A blue light. "Hey, look." Mikey pointed. "A shooting star."

The others looked too. It was something to behold. It wasn't something they got to see very often in the city, as the bright lights always blocked out the night sky, most of the time. The star passed and the guys went about their business.

They all raced each other some more around the mill on the way down, even Randall. Leo was still being a strong grumpy, silent type. When they got to the bottom, they went back to the campsite.

It was time to start getting some dinner, and they decided on fish. Raph and Don went to fish for dinner.

Leo took out his swords and began another kata. Mikey made sure he had the proper cooking utensils. Randall just sat and watched the lead turtle practice. He knew he had something on his mind.

Don and Raph caught five fish. They were biting good tonight.

"Look what we got." Raph displayed them proudly.

"I'm cooking." Mikey said.

"I'll help." Randall said. It would give him something to do to earn his keep.

Leo also did a part where he gutted the fish and Mike and Randall cooked the fish in three different frying pans. Randall was after all, able to use two frying pans with the double the hands he had.

They all had earned their keep tonight for dinner. Then they sat down to talk and tell ghost stories. Randall wasn't much for ghost stories that he knew of, but he knew what it was like to be scary. He even told tales of some his former glory days as a scarer to relate to the topic.

It wasn't too long after that that they all went to bed using the sleeping bags they had brought along. Randall preferred this way of camping, that he wasn't alone here in the wilderness.

…..

Back at the house, Casey wanted to talk to Master Splinter about how to tell April he cared for her.

"Uh, Master Splinter, you're wise and all that. How do you tell someone that you got feelings for them?" Casey asked.

Splinter had been trying to meditate and allowed him up. "I am not an expert in such matters. I would just think to be yourself and trust your instincts."

"Master Splinter, this is me we're talking about." Casey stated.

"Hmm? Perhaps a large breakfast, served in bed. Some flowers. Many flowers."

"Great. Thanks, Splinter!" Casey thought about what he was going to do to surprise April.

Splinter had a feeling Casey would need the flowers. But he had given his advice on like what he had seen from TV before.

In the morning, Casey made some pancakes, if ever so messily. He also got some flowers and put them on the tray in a glass. The smoke alarm went off while he was cooking pancakes and they ended up blackened quite a bit more than he wanted them to be. He wasn't good at making pancakes.

Just as April was waking up, Casey knocked on her door and was going to wake her up, but saw she was awake. "Breakfast is ready." he said.

Casey handed April a tray of burnt pancakes on a tray with flowers as she saw. "I hope you like your pancakes a little crispy around the edges." He said.

April was surprised at this. This was nice of him. She found the food was not that good, but she made herself swallow it. "Hmm. Delicious." She lied. Then she realized something. "Why are you being so nice? Did you take my car apart again?"

"No, nothing like that." Casey said fast. "But I gotta tell ya something, April."

"What?" She was listening.

"You know how you have a car and you try to get it all perfect and something turns out that it ain't?" Casey asked.

"No, not really." April replied.

"Ugh! I had this all worked out. April, I care about you." Casey said. Then he started babbling about until April placed two fingers on his mouth.

"I care about you too, Casey." She said. Then they hugged and kissed.

Upstairs, Splinter could sense it was a good outcome. He smiled. "The flowers were a good idea." He was happy for them.

…

In the morning, Mikey brought out some eggs and bacon that were in a cooler. And again, Randall helped to cook the food for five.

They all had some breakfast and then did some training exercises. Leo began to really challenge his brothers to get up into trees and even at charging at them.

"Leo, you really shouldn't be doing that." Don pointed out.

"I'm fine, Don. Don't worry about me." Leo said firmly.

They even went swimming in the lake. Leo didn't join them this time, but Randall did. He could swim yes, just didn't do it often. They dunked each other, splashed each other, went underwater and chased each other. It was all fun and games.

Later on, there was more training. Leo began giving out orders on what he wanted them to do, even though he wasn't to partake in their training yet. Randall was given weapons as well to be involved. This might have been something to help Leo reconnect with his brothers, but he didn't see the fun part in it this time. In his mind, they needed to be ready for anything.

They trained with their weapons, and Randall had been getting good with them. Tonfas were just his kind of weapons. He needed tough weapons when he didn't use invisibility and heights to his advantage. Unlike the turtles, he didn't exactly have a shell despite being reptilian-like.

After weapons practice, they even did some more sensing practice. With their masks turned, one at a time, they each had a go at trying to sense where their brothers were. Randall was now considered one of the brothers too. Since he also didn't wear a mask, when it came time for his turn, Randall was given a huge hanky to tie over his eyes.

As Leo instructed, Randall could hear a change in Leo's voice, just how mad he seemed to be. He used his sense of hearing and smell as well to sense Don, Mike, or Raph coming at him. There were a few hits received throughout the exercise, but nothing that was debilitating.

Leo kept on pushing his brothers most of the day with training. Even in the water.

By the time dinner rolled around, they were all ready for a break. Perhaps camping while Leo was like this was a bad idea.

They had fish again that evening for dinner. This time, Mikey and Randall caught the fish. They also gutted them as they didn't trust Leo or Don to cook.

The next day was when Casey came and got them first thing in the morning. Right now, they were glad to be heading back. It was so boring out here at this point.

They were glad to get back to the farmhouse. Mikey was glad to watch some TV again. Leo went to the barn to be alone. Don went to work on the van to make sure it would be working before they would leave to go back to the city in another week. Raph went and lifted some weights for awhile.

Splinter was happy his sons and Randall were all back. They were safe and not injured. Randall had a few bruises from the harsh training the day before and needed a rest from it. Sure, they all did, but the lizard could get them a little more easily.