A/N: Now you may be thinking "WTF ARE YOU DOING YOU KILLED OFF DON HOW ARE YOU STILL CONTINUING THIS STORY" and as I said, the story is not over...

Chapter five

And she cried. Her cries turned into sobs, and her sobs turned into violent wails.

"April?" Splinter's voice called from the shadows, silencing her sobs.

"S..Sensei?" she called out frantically. "Sensei!"

"Ap- Donatello!" April whipped her head around to see Splinter rushing towards her. He fell to his knees in front of Donatello, his face contorted in a look of disbelief. "My.. My son.."

"Sensei.." April looked at him with tearful eyes. She watched as a tear ran down his cheek, and she watched as he unraveled into a sobbing mess of himself. April burst out crying and shoved herself into his arms. Splinter wrapped his arms around her in a tight embrace. His soft cries of terror and disbelief rang in her ear, and only fueled her own.

They sat on the floor of the sewer for hours, crying until the tears had run dry.. Even after that, they held each other in silence and fear and just pure disbelief.

"What are we going to do.." April broke the silence, still wrapped in Splinter's warm embrace. Splinter pushed her forward to look into her eyes. He opened his mouth as if to say something but said nothing. He looked down at the floor of the sewer and shook is head. When he looked back up there was a twinkle in his eyes and a smile spread across his face.

"Wake up." he whispered to her.

April's face twisted into a look of confusion. "Wake up." he said again, a bit more firmly. "Wake up!" his voice was frantic now, but it seemed to slip away until she could barely hear it any longer.

April's vision became blurry as light burned her eyes. "Wake up!" she heard again but it wasn't Splinter's voice this time. She sat bolt upright in the bed, her breath coming out in ragged gasps. She turned her head quickly to see Donatello's face, gazing at her in worry. Relief washed over her in waves, as she realized it was all a dream.

"Donnie!" she cried out and threw herself in his arms.

Donatello pulled her from his arms and looked at her. "Are you okay?" he asked, his look still one of worry.

She slowly shook her head, tears beginning to spill from her eyes. Donatello pressed a kiss to her forehead and pulled back to look into her eyes.

He brushed a tear away with his thumb. "What did you dream?" he asked softly.

Her look quickly became one of fear, and she threw herself back into his arms. He understood then, and whispered softly into her ear "I'll never leave you."

A/N: You really thought I was going to kill off my favorite character? Pfft.