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Content WarningDescriptions of spiders crawling on Miles' body. Pause when you see resting under a tree. You can begin again at the next -? ﾸﾏ-. All you need to know is that spiders like Miles and Miles likes spiders.
LeonLeon knew he wasn't supposed to be awake right now, eleven at night. But he'd long gotten used to running around NYC until one in the morning.
He was on his phone aimlessly scrolling through tumblr, because what else is a turtle meant to do when forcefully bed ridden by their over protective [a decently protective because he was very much about to sacrifice himself for them a little more than a month ago] family.
Then he heard a shuffling outside his train car. Grunting softly, Leon pushed himself upright and looked through the window. And saw a figure in all black and some bright orange sneaking out of the Lair.
"Mikey?"
Getting up Leo moved carefully to watch his still healing bones and Junior. Who'd already made themselves mainly at home in the future. Jumping between the Liar and Casey's apartment. And who often slept in one of the other's beds, Casey's and Leo's more so. Not that they minded, they all cared for the kid who was a little younger than Mikey. He was the new baby of the family and would be treated with those expectations.
But Leo's other baby sibling was who he was focusing on.
Moving quietly Leon slipped out of his room, following far behind Mikey as she walked through the train tunnels.
When they finally got to a stop, Leo finally saw what they were wearing under the moonlight.
Their graffiti outfit, easy to assume when the whole outfit had speckles of spray paint all over it. The mask they were wearing over their face. And the fact her duffle bag clinked with spray cans.
As Mikey ran off into the night, Leo sighed.
So Mikey was sneaking out in the dead of night to do graffiti around New York. Leon wasn't going to take that away from them, because they obviously needed their alone time.
Turning around, Leo went back to the Lair.
-?-
When he returned, Leo decided to check on his twin. The other shared his insomnia so as Leon expected they were up and on their laptop. Curled up on their bed, Shelldon charged on the side table, with Donnie soothingly stroking their bot child's back.
"Hey Dee," He said softly sitting across from the other on their bed.
Donnie grunted not looking up from their laptop.
"Mikey's out doing art round the city."
They looked up slowly, mainly just from tiredness.
"Yeah I know,"
"Trackers and shit," Leo trailed off as Donnie finished the sentence.
"Ya didn't say anything though, not even like in passing."
Donnie shrugged, "Nothing has gone wrong yet, and Mikey's doing better than us. He just shouldn't use his powers like Draxum told her already. Angie will be fine."
Leo nodded, Mikey was going to be fine. Draxum made the turtles to be the best and they showed that in how quickly they healed. If Leo were human he would have been dead.
"Wanna watch a movie?" Dee asked.
-?-
After arguing a little they chose to just rewatch all the Jupiter Jim movies.
About halfway through Jupiter Jim: Atomic Lass and Robot Vampire, Junior shuffled into the room. Blanket dragging on the floor.
"Papá, Títi Dee?" He said groggily, rubbing at his eyelids.
Leo hummed, reaching out to CJ, "Over here JJ,"
The younger boy fell into Leon's arms and curled up in his blanket.
"Might want to do something about that, – Donnie said softly – You two are kinda too close in age, and you're just a kid, can't be expected to be a dad.
He sighed, he'd had this conversation before. About Junior's habit of calling him and Cassandra, Mamá and Papá.
Both he and Cass were bothered by the titles when he first started doing it a few weeks ago. But at some point it quickly became the new normal. They were still worried about him though, and his probable expectations for them.
"I know Don I know. Me and Casey have talked about it, we'll talk to him about, swear." Leo said, giving Donnie a genuine and tired look.
They sighed, "I know, just be careful alright?"
"All right."
They sat in silence for a moment before Leon spoke again.
"Or maybe you want Shelldon to be next in line after Mikey."
"Nardo I swear-
-?-
At some point in the night Raph had lumbered in, eye conformer* covered by his sleep patch, and told the two of them to go to sleep.
Muttering something about going to check on Millie?
Miasey? Miley? Mickey? Mikey!
Both twins quickly shot up upon realizing that their youngest sibling might not be back yet. And Raph was going to check on him when he probably wasn't there.
"Sumire, Aoi. Where's Mikan?"
First given names, meant one thing, they where fucked. Leo and Donnie gave each other knowing looks.
Mikey wasn't back yet.
-?-
Raph dragged both of them into the living room, leaving Casey and Shelldon to sleep in the bedroom.
"Sumire where's she?" He asked voice a little less intense then before
Donnie sighed and turned on their wrist pad, not even bothering to put it on after grabbing it on the way out of their room.
"He's on his way back, ya don't have to worry too much."
Raph huffed and sat down on the floor.
Twins just decided to give in and sat on their older brother's leg.
-?-
Their dad and April walked out from their rooms, Leo hadn't even noticed as he had gotten a bit loopy from lack of sleep. Going into a light sleep.
He did wake up when Dad called out to Mikey,
"And where have you been, young lady?"
MikeyTheir dad's voice was tired and thankfully not all that disappointed, "And where have you been, young lady?"
Mikey knew at one point that they'd get caught sneaking out.
Turning slowly away from her train car Mikey lowered their spray mask, and gave their family a wonky and kind guilty smile.
"Hey Guys, how ya doing on this fine evening?" He said, leaning on the side of the train.
They were all sitting in the living room. Raph criss-cross with the twins leaning on either arm, April laying flat on the ground with her head on Raph's knee. And their dad on his shoulder sipping some tea. They all looked seconds away from passing out.
Mikey really had been the only one keeping up their abhorred patrol sleeping schedule so that did make sense.
"Zay noticed you waz gone, when Rwaph went to shek on me and D," Leo mumbled out, head buried Raph arm.
"How long exactly have you been going out?" Splinter asked.
Mikey sighed leaning into their arms, "About two weeks now," he muttered.
"And how frequently?"
"Every other day or so." She said anxiously peaking between their arms to see a slight frown on their father's face.
He hummed, "I know you don't like being trapped inside all the time, and I'm sorry if I made you feel that way Mikan-chan, – it had been a long time since he'd called Mikey that – But you can't go running around at night right now. People are jumpy and things are dangerous. You can go to the Hidden City but no topside for five days."
Mikey groaned loudly, waking up Donnie who'd drifted off at some point.
"Fine," She grumbled and stumbled dramatically into her room. Pulling off her street clothes and getting into her pajamas.
They could hear the others shuffling back to their rooms.
Pulling out their phone they sent Spidey a quick text
MJ : made it safe home
MJ : but the fam caught me sneaking in
MJ : im not allowed out for a bit
MJ : so we probs wont see each other for awhile :(
MJ : goodnight btw
Turning their phone off, Mikey quickly fell asleep. Dreaming of a spider boy.
Milesnowyaseemenowyadont : kay so update on the MJ sitch
nowyaseemenowyadont : she loves cooking, they've been making art since they were little and he has at least two siblings, and she's a mutant turtle
shorterandsmarterthanyou : awww just like yoo（人´∀`*）
noirjailbait : wait hol up they're a mutant turtle?
nowyaseemenowyadont : wha's it to you (ㆆ _ ㆆ)
noirjailbait : there are mutant turtles in my world too!*
noirjailbait : four brother all where these red masks, and all ninja
noirjailbait : apparently their dads a rat
dontfightadancer : how do you get turtle genes from a rat?
noirjailbait : don't ask me ive only talked to them like couple times
noirjailbait : they help with my cases sometimes
nowyaseemenowyadont : they'r in my world too actually
nowyaseemenowyadont : although i don't know their pronouns or names
nowyaseemenowyadont : they call themselves the Mad Dogs
shorterandsmarterthanyou : pretty sure there are turtles in my world too havent talked to them though*
dontfightadancer : okay now i want turtles :/
-? ﾸﾏ-
Miles woke up to five new texts from MJ, which he quickly responded to with reassurance that it was alright. They could still text each other.
As he got ready in his dorm they responded, with a smiley face a thanks for understanding, and Talk to ya later Tiger ;. Miles felt like he'd fallen in love all over again.
"What are you giggling at?" Ganke* asked, tying his shoes by the door.
Miles glanced down from his bunk with a smile, "Just someone I met on patrol."
Ganke smirked, "Just someone."
Miles laughed sheepishly, "Okay maybe someone really cool, who makes like the coolest graffiti in the whole wide world!"
The other snorted, "Oh you are down bad,"
Standing up Ganke went to leave the room, "Tell me when you finally ask them out!" He said waving Miles goodbye.
"Kaykay!" Miles yelled back smiling like a mad man.
-? ﾸﾏ-
The rest of Miles' day was just school stuff. By the end of it he just decided to spend the last daylight hours walking around before patrol.
At some point they found themself at the park, resting under a tree.
A spider crawled down from the tree, Miles smiled warmly at the creature gently picking it up in their hand. They'd become fond of arachnids since their mutation, going on multiple internet deep dives about them. The new information actively helped him in some ways, avoiding peppermint became much more difficult during winter though.
The spider, a very venomous female brown widow, chittered at him happily. Crawling around his hand excitedly. Miles wasn't concerned about it biting him, they were immune. And none had ever really been afraid of him for a while, they seemed to love him really. A universal Spider-person thing apparently.
Miles watched as the spider explored his hand peacefully, before settling on top of his hair. They laughed softly, getting comfortable against the tree.
More spiders began crawling out, gathering around them and resting on his legs, shoulders, head, and a few slipped into his back-pack even.
The comforting feeling of other spiders brought Miles into a sleepy state. Just to be safe and to protect himself and his spider friends Miles layed out a web around their tree. Anybody who triggered it would get stuck and wake them up, and the others would be able to scamper off with time to spare.
With their work done Miles fell asleep.
-? ﾸﾏ-
Miles heard someone talking in a low whisper. Carefully keeping his eyes closed, he tried to listen to what they were saying.
"You little ones sure do care about this young spiderling don't you?, – the voice was high but soft and almost whimsical, almost motherly – Oh and looky here. No need to pretend deary, I won't hurt you."
A hand gently wiped spider silk from his shoulder. Miles opened his eyes groggily and saw a woman standing beside him, a gentle smile on her face.
She was dressed like old money, with a fluffy collar, in purple and green business casual, which was admittedly strange to see this deep in a park. Her skin was purplish, her hair web white, and the white part of her eyes was a pale bright yellow. The only way to describe her features was oddly spider like.
Miles frantically stood up and checked the time on his phone, noticing immediately that it was almost curfew, which meant unless he booked it he'd have to deal with the security guards asking where he'd been. Picking up his backpack he triple checked that nothing was missing. Mainly because you can't trust anyone anywhere, and he'd been napping for at least an hour.
"Um, thanks for waking me up, Miss?" They dragged their words in question.
"Ms. Mador," She said sweetly, and now that Miles was standing he noticed they were the same height, though her hairstyle made her look taller.
"Right, thanks Ms. Mador. Bye!" And with that he ran off back to school.
Praying that they wouldn't have to use more than their super strength and speed to get back quickly.
Big MamaIt had been some time since Barbara had met another Spider. It was a shame that dear Petey was taken so early in life.
But it seems she's met the new Spiderling running around New York.
It's a shame that she had to find out his identity this way, May had said the boy was rather secretive. Such are the follies of youth she supposes.
Author's Noteeye conformer* - A conformer is a clear acrylic shell fitted to an empty eye socket or in the case of an underdeveloped eye socket before fitting an ocular prosthesis. It helps in the formation of fornices and helps expand the socket. Raph lost his eye to the tumor post krangification so he's wearing this until he can get a prosthetic one.
noirjailbait : there are mutant turtles in my world too!* - The og mirage turtles and noir Spidey share the same universe
shorterandsmarterthanyou : pretty sure there are turtles in my world too havent talked to them though* - The 2012 turtle and Peni share a universe
Ganke* - Miles roommate at Brooklyn Visions Academy, he canonically knows Miles is Spider-man
Big Mama won't pose a threat or cause like overarching drama. She's gonna be a background character in this fic.
General Fic Update
Okay so Chapter fours is probs going to be late, because I'll be focusing on finals for the week, and be taking some time to just relax for a bit.
Also for a schedule for this fic, I'm gonna try and post on Sundays maybe late night Saturdays. This all will probs be weekly but I'll also make it known when things become bi-weekly.