Hey! I'm back! Thanks to BakaClare + Datninjaturtle for reviewing the last chapter, and to Kara The Fangirl and Who am i. I'm the Void. For alerting it.

There are references to my fics, Ultimate Remote + We're here for you in this chapter.

See chapter 1 for the disclaimer – I stress again there is no canon base for this and wish you to enjoy.

Leo jogged after his twin, chanting as he did so. "Donnie wait, Donnie wait, Donnie wa-"

Said turtle turned abruptly when he reached the doorway, causing the two to almost bang snouts.

"What is it, Leo?" Donnie said, sounding bored.

Leo, still clutching his snout, glared. "I don't know yet. You haven't told me."

Purple sighed and folded his arms. "Look, it's nothing. Forget I said anythi-"

"I'm not forgetting that you want to talk to me!" Leo snapped and the pair of them froze upon realising they were standing in the doorway only a couple of feet away from their various family members rooms.

One quick mental-conversation later and Donnie had shut the door and the pair of them were sitting on the sofa, Donnie still with his arms folded.

Leo saw this and sighed. "Would you unfold your arms!? I'm TRYING to help you!"

"With what?"

"I don't know!" Leo whisper-shouted, poking his brother in the chest for emapthis. "You won't tell me!"

Donnie sighed. "I know, I'm so irritating, aren't i?"

"Occasionally, yes." Leo said, bluntly, before actually thinking about what his twin said. "Wait – where did that come from?"

"Where did what come-"

"Where did THAT, the whole 'I'm so irritating' thing come from? I never said that – not in those exact words anyway…are you alright?" Leo finished somewhat lamely.

There was a pause during which Don contemplated what to do. Either brush it off, assure his twin he was fine and continue living his life as it was now or…

He sighed. It was now or never.

"Actually…no. I'm not really alright I suppose."

"Why?" Despite the fact Leo was technically younger, his protective brother instincts kicked in. "What's going on? Is there anyones ass I need to kick?"

Donnie chuckled dryly. "You might find that a bit difficult. Considering I'm fairly certain that what I'm suffering from is just a general feeling of uselessness."

Leo opened his mouth to ask 'what do you mean?' again, before closing it.

"Well…I mean, I know I'm not technically useless. I build thing – amazing things to boot – and let's face it without me you lot would be dead. But…oh jeez. Look, I'm just going to come out with it – do you guys actually like me?"

Thrown by the question, Leo failed to process it's true importance, saying brightly. "Of course we love you, Don! You're our brother – my twin –"

"No!" Don said, firmly, adjusting his position so he was looking straight at Leon. "I know you love me. You have to love me, we're family - I think it's contractually required - what I mean is do you like me?"

Leo paused, maybe it was being awake at god knows what time in the morning, but his brain wasn't as sharp as it usually was.

Seeing his twin's confusion, Don face-palmed and said through gritted teeth. "It's really not that difficult a concept, Leonardo. If we were not related would you still want to hang out with me? Or even be around me?"

Leo scrunched his fore-head at that, wondering what had led his Purple to think so lowly of himself that he had to wonder if they would want to be around him.

Unfortunately Purple seemed to take his silence another way entirely. "You know what forget it."

Just as Don was getting up Leo's brain jerked into gear and he grabbed his twin's elbow and yanked him back on the sofa. "Don't! Sorry, I zoned out. Didn't mean to. Look, of course we like you. Well, okay let's talk about me. I DO like you Donnie. You know why? Because you're you."

Don raised an eyebrow, and realising it sounded a bit like a stock answer, Blue hasted to expand. "What I mean is, you are nice Don. You are!" He insisted when Don scoffed. "Sure you get a little exasperated sometimes and want to be left alone, but I do think part of that comes with the territory of being a soft-shell. That and you never social you know…before."

There was a little pause while they both contemplated the past, then Leo carried on. "But we – I – don't care. You're patient when dealing with Mikey, he really looks up to you and thinks you're cool. You help Raph when he needs it, and you help me with training and explain things. I know you get annoyed with Splinter sometimes - like with the Ultimate Remote incident – but the pair of you do actually get on and he loves you to death-"

"He loves all of us to death." Don said, in a dead-pan manner. "Without us his life would not be complete. We are the moons to his Jupiter."

There was a beat, then Leo said. "Rather an odd way of putting it, but I see what you're getting at. Er…what was I doing? Oh yes – pep talk! You are really intelligent and yes you can be a bit arrogant about it at times but you're not properly, like, aloof. You are considerate – as evidence by when you made us those gifts, which I know went a little bit…wrong side up, but we fixed that in the evening didn't we? And the fact you even think to fix things up and invent things t help us says an awful lot about you really. You are using your 'powers' for good, so to speak. And…and…look, basically what I'm trying to say you are awesomely intelligent, have a good – if dry – sense of humour and do actually, depite what you – or ayoe else say sTin Man, you DO have a heart, you hear me?" At the end of his speech, Leon shot his brother a mock-stern look.

Don gave a muffled laugh and said. "Okey, I get it. I'm amazing." He grinned brightly, before clearing his throat and saying. "Thanks, Leo."

Leo grinned back and slung an arms round his brothers shoulders. "Ah no issue. What else are brothers for if not to cheer you up when you're down?"