Chapter 6: Scatter

April jumped as Leo coughed softly. His coughs had calmed down and thankfully the blood had stopped coming up too. Leo turned his head slowly, moaning softly as he did.

April put her book on the side table and leaned forward.

"Easy Leo," she coaxed as he started to sit up.

"Ape?" Leo mumbled, "What….what's going on?"

"Easy," April said firmly eased him back, "you need to take it easy Leo. Your plastron is still healing up. You need to lay back ok?"

"K…" Leo mumbled as he allowed her to ease him back against the pillows, "where's Mikey? April? Mikey he was in front me! WHERE"S MIKEY?"

Leo was sitting up not, frantic to find his younger brother, he gave a agonized yelp of pain as his stiches tore loose.

"LEO LAY DOWN!" April cried.

Don came sprinting in at her cry and grabbed Leo's twisting figure.

"MIKEY! MIKEY!" Leo shouted frantically.

Raph came in with Casey behind him and paused before dashing forward and grabbing Leo's shoulders and forcing him down.

"Casey grab the sedative hurry before he pull smore stitches!" Don ordered.

Casey grabbed the syringe and gave it to Don who quickly inserted the needle and waited.

Leo gave a weak moan and then went limp, slumping against the pillows with one of his hands loosely grasping Raph's arm.

"Why did you tell him Mikey was missing?" Raph snapped.

"I didn't," April replied firmly, "he just started freaking out about Mikey being in front of him and started trying to get up to find him."

Don froze.

"He said Mikey was in front of him?" Don mumbled.

"Yeah," April replied as she gathered up the supplies she would need to repair the broken stitches.

Don gave Leo a nervous look over and then looked at Raph.

"The blade pierced him from the front," Don whispered.

The whole room froze.

"Mikey….he…oh god…he," Raph turned and gave Leo a nervous look over, "are you telling me that Mikey tried to kill Leo?"

"I'm saying that he was in front of Leo when the blade pierced his chest. I think…Mikey had it in his hand…" Don whispered.

"He wouldn't have meant to hurt Leo," April murmured.

"No…but when the bomb went off if he was getting ready to hand it to Leo…the blade up and prepared to flip around to hand to Leo then…" Don whispered.

"The blast would have thrown Mikey forward with the blade…into Leo," Raph finished, growing pale, "then Mikey is out there thinking'…thinking' that he…ahh man we gotta' find him," Raph groaned.

"April?" Don asked.

"I'll stitch Leo up and keep him sedated. Hurry guys," April whispered.

Don nodded and then shot out of the infirmary with Raph on his heels.

~*~

Mikey whimpered as he sat up, bandages were wrapped around his battered frame and his burns were treated.

He looked around slowly, trembling when he realized he was in an unfamiliar place. He dragged himself to his feet and before he slipped toward the window he glanced around, making sure no one was there to see him.

He shot toward the window and scrambled out, dropping onto the fire escape and heading for the alley.

It was dark, night must have fallen hours ago. He took off at a jog, frantically searching for a place to hide.

The memory of Leo's limp body, covered in blood, made him whimper and fight tears.

"I didn't mean to, I didn't," he sobbed.

~*~

The young woman that had tended him entered the room to see him dash out the window and down the fire escape. She sighed and placed the tray of soup on the coffee table.

"Well…at lest he's better…I hope he gets home safely," she whispered, "poor thing was so upset."

~*~

Raph stopped at the light, his motorcycle humming under him and answered Don's call.

"Yeah? You found something? Where? Alright I'm headin' that way," Raph replied quickly.

Raph shot from the light the moment it turned green and headed toward the area of town that Don was on.

"Hang in there Mikey, we're comin'," Raph mumbled.

~*~

Don was standing on the fire escape that Mikey had just recently exited, staring at the blood stained-orange mask that a young woman was holding.

He eyed her and then glanced down toward the alley, Raph pulled in and jumped off, dashing up to where Don was.

"Well?" he hissed.

"She's got Mikey's chucks and mask," he murmured.

Raph peeked around the corner and shifted nervously. Freezing when the girl turned and spotted him.

"OH! You…you're like him!" she gasped.

Raph growled and stepped forward, dropping into the room.

"Where's my brother?" he ordered.

"He left…I was bringing him soup since he was waking up and when I came in he took off…he was already out of the window," she stammered.

Don dropped in beside Raph and gave her a slow look over.

"Why'd you help him?" Don whispered nervously.

"He was stumbling around in the alley, walking in circles….muttering something about he was sorry…he nearly got hit by a car…I…I just wanted to help," She whispered.

"Which way did he go?" Raph growled.

"He headed toward the street that's all I saw," she stammered, eyes widening as Raph whirled around and took off in the said direction.

"Thank-you for helping him," Don whispered.

"You're welcome…" she whispered back, jumping when she realized he was already gone.

"Creepy…girl you've either had too much coffee and need sleep or you're just going crazy," she mumbled, turning to find that the Nunchucks and mask were gone.

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