*Author's note: I fully blame Autobot AfterShock for putting this idea in my head...

It had been a rough couple of days, and I mean rough. You would think that with the mutagen in their system that it would stomp all over any icky bug they came across. Nope, not true at all. I was about to pull my hair out in frustration as all four turtles got sick...all at once.

A simple little bug that Amy had brought home from school had them all laid out. And after a day or two of this, I was ready to go out and take on Bishop...

Cris looked like she was about to take up her Hanbo and use it herself she was so annoyed. There was one problem with that idea though, Raph was laying on the couch with a fever and had her laying ontop of him, and wouldn't let her get up. Everytime she tried his arms would tighten and she flopped right back down against him.

"Damn it Raph!" She snapped at him. "I do have other things I need to do!"

"But I don't want you to get up." He whined in his stuffy nosed voice. "I want you to stay here with me."

She just rolled her eyes and sighed, nothing else she really could do. Raph may be sick, but he still had the strength to easily keep her there.

Mikey was the one grating on my nerves. "Vicky! Can you make me some chicken soup?" He asked from the other end of the wrap around couch.

"I just made you some."

"I want some more. And a comic book...can someone get me a comic book?"

"There is one on the coffee table in front of you."

He brought out an arm to reach for it, but fell a few inches short. "I can't reach it."

Holding back a whole cascade of unpleasant thing that wanted to come rolling out of my mouth, I walked over to said coffee table, picked it up, and threw it at him. Then I turned to go to bathroom to get a new washcloth for Leo who was passed out in the recliner.

"Um...you forgot to give me the remote..."

I spun back around and glared at the innocent eyed youngest brother before I grabbed the remote and threw that at him too, hitting him upside the head.

"Raph I need to get up!" Cris snapped again.

"No, you're my snuggle bear and you're not getting up."

She groaned as her head dropped to his plastron.

I made my way to the bathroom finally get Leo a cool washcloth and came back with it and sat gently on the recliner arm as he slept on. He had the worse fever out of all of them and he wasn't resting easy either. I frowned slightly as I placed the cool cloth on his head.

It was about then Marina was dragging Donnie out of the lab, her face more than a little annoyed. "You are not going to die." She firmly told him, I got the feeling that wasn't the first time she's tried to tell him that.

"It's malaria." He told her. "I just know it. Fever indicates that it could be malaria."

"You have the flu."

He let out a hacking cough. "Ebola, it could be ebola...chest pain and coughing is a sure symptom of ebola..."

"It's. The. Flu." She told him through clenched teeth as she almost shoved him into the other recliner.

"Bubonic plague..."

"FLU!" She snapped as she threw a pillow at him.

"Can I please have some chicken soup?" Mikey asked again.

Cris was trying to quietly slip out of a sleeping Raph's arms, only to be pulled against him again. Apparently he wasn't sleeping after all. "Raph!"

"Nuh uh. You're staying right here."

This time I rolled my eyes as I went to go get Mikey's soup so he would shut to fuck up for five seconds.

"Anthrax!" I heard as I walked. "We've got anthrax!"

(Smack) "It's the flu you moron!"

I made it into the kitchen and warmed up another bowl of soup for Mikey, taking as long as I could to do it. I was in no hurry really to go back out there. Mainly because I was on the verge of killing them. I walked back out of the kitchen to see that Cris had finally managed to slip out of Raph's arms and was just turning to walk away, when his hand lashed out, grabbed her by the back of her shirt and down she went again. I shook my head as I walked to Mikey, then handed his soup to him.

"It's too hot." He whined. "Can you blow on it for me?"

"Eat it." I told him flatly. "Or you're going to end up wearing it."

"But it's hot!"

"Mikey!"

"Food poisoning!" Donnie guessed again. "We ate take out at Kevin's diner the other day! I knew we shouldn't have gotten food from there, that place has bad reviews."

"Oh good lord." Marina sighed.

"It was those tuna omelettes! I know it was!"

I think Marina gave up by that point, she just shook her head and walked away.

"A little help here?" Cris finally asked me from where she was stuck against Raph.

I sighed again as I walked over to her and carefully lifted the arm off of her. I tried to anyway. Arm snapped back down after only a few inches of being lifted. "No, I don't want her to go."

"Raph! Let her up or I'll knock you out with my damn asp!"

"But I want her to stay here with me." He whined.

"I have to pee you dolt!" Cris flared at him.

"But you'll come right back though, right?" The puppy dog eyed look he gave her, cut through her irritation.

"Yes, you big baby. I'll be right back."

Caitlin walked in then from the portal where she had taken the kids to my parents. "Caitlin! Come blow on my soup! It's to hot."

"You blow on it."

"You can do it better than me." Again out came the puppy eyes.

She laughed as she walked over to him.

Leo groaned a little in his sleep and I walked over to him with a frown. A frown that turned even deeper when I noticed the mustache, goatee and glasses drawn in sharpie on his face. I slowly turned my head to Mikey, who had frozen to watch me with the spoon inches from his mouth as he was about to take a bite. With the bowl in his hand he really couldn't dodge the pillow that came flying his way, narrowly missing Caitlin, from where I was standing. I stormed off, mumbling to myself as I went to go find something to go clean Leo's face.

It went on like that for hours and by the time we finally got the kids in bed that night, the guys were all sleeping finally. I tiredly leaned on the kitchen doorframe and watched them as they slept. Even after the day we just had, I smiled. Wasn't often that we were the ones taking care of them.

Cris was stuck in Raph's arms again, sleeping herself, and Caitlin and Marina I had bullied to go to bed once these big babies were asleep. I was the only one up to enjoy the quiet now.

Leo groaned in his sleep again as his head moved and I walked over and placed a new cloth on his head. His fever had dropped over the course of the day but he was still warmer than he should be. I tiredly sat on the floor next to the recliner and rested my back against it, leaning my head against the armrest. I was on the verge of falling asleep myself when I felt a hand run gently through my hair and I tiredly turned around to see him sleepily watching me. "Thank you dear one." His own voice suffering from his stuffy nose. "For everything. I know these few days haven't been easy."

"It's fine Leo. No one is pleasant when they get sick. Brings out the baby in all of us."

"Speaking of baby, can I get some soup please?"

I just nodded as I stood up and went back into the kitchen and came back with a bowl. He quietly ate and when he was done he settled back down to sleep. I covered him back up before taking his empty bowl back into the kitchen. I just happened to look over at Mikey and tried not to wake the others with my laughter. This time the prankster got pranked as his face sported the same decorations Leo's did earlier. "Teach him to facepaint me." Leo mumbled before he drifted off. I lost it.