This chapter might be a bit forced, and it probably has the WORST cliff hanger ever!
But I promise this all links up, I had intended to give you more but I thought it was a smidge too much with a bit too much sadness.
So sorry about that, hope you enjoy XD R and R plz
Chapter 2
Shell!
I can't believe it.
I cannot believe the way Donnie acted at Sensei's house; it's just … it's not him.
Mikey's death must have hit him hard … not that it hasn't affected all of us!
I just … I can't believe he is gone …
It doesn't help when you have hypothermia, and I don't consider it my cup of tea being stuck in an overly crowded house!
But this month has been by far the worst in my entire life. For starters, the call we got from when Donnie got stuck in a snow storm.
The GEEK had gone down to his office to retrieve some equipment or pieces or whatever he needed for his "little project". He didn't count on the abnormal weather we had been having to change from boiling hot to super cold, changing from the hate of the unbearable heat to the hate of the persistent snow!
He crashed his car, hit his head and got knocked out; leaving us two older brothers to worry about him! We managed (after an hour of wandering completely lost in the snow) to find his car half buried under a white, seemingly fluffy prison imbedded into an unstable building at the side of an abandoned street.
However, the car was not the only support the over-hanging roof had because the pillars were destroyed and one movement could cause the whole rood crushing the car with Don inside.
Somehow we managed to get him out before the roof crushed the car (it was all a blur to me) but Leo took a hard fall and was so close to cracking his head open!
It was only then (when I was sitting in the snow, somehow in a trance) when I realized that I hadn't even bothered to get a coat and there I was, trembling uncontrollably in my drenched, turquoise work clothes.
We all got discarded from the hospital and Sensei INSISTED that we take a break from our jobs and stay at his house just until we fully recover. Honestly, I think the real picture was that he doesn't trust us alone when we are injured.
Then there was the time when Sensei began receiving death-threats, claiming that our father has made so many sins and deserves to die along with his family!
Master Splinter reassured us that he has no idea who the sender is, but we've known him long enough to know when he is lying and we didn't want to push him.
But that wasn't the worst part. I admit, everything that had happened scared em half-to-death. I nearly lost my immediate younger and only older brother to snow and our fathers life was threatened but … but they didn't die …
The day we received the call was the worst day in my life. Don picked up the house phone after spending hours complaining about how Mikey never called anymore and … and I still remember his face … the shimmer of clear irritation was literally washed away by a few stray tears.
The look of unbelief stained his face, his eyes were increasingly leaking and he was choking back on sobs so he could finish the painfully long phone call.
When the caller ended the … call, it slowly slid out of Donatello's hand without him even acknowledging it, and when he was finally knocked out of his trance by Leo repeatedly saying his name in concern, Don bowed his head and whimpered the two words that none of us EVER expected or even WANTED to hear.
"Mikey's dead."
It was plain simple.
The two words, but it sounded too complicated.
I was right there when Don collapsed in Leo and mines arms as we kneeled to the floor … but it felt like I was miles away … it felt like I was underwater.
I heard the pained cried of Don and Leo, I felt the tears soaking into my coat and most importantly, I felt my heart sink when Donnie sobbed those words again and again!
"Mikey's dead! Mikeys Dead!" He choked, gripping Leo's shirt like he was afraid we would lose Leo too!
"H-h-he w-w-was my … ONLY l-li-little brother … I could've DONE something … I –I SHOULD have done something! We shouldn't have let him left!" He cried, taking deep ragged breaths in-between is tightly wounded sentences.
I held my head up, trying to hide the tears that flooded my face an attempting to stifle my sobs! But Leo had seen it, and tightened his grip on both of us like a boa-constrictor. He didn't want to let us go, he didn't say anything to me or Donnie at that time and for that … I was thankful.
At times like that, I would clearly take out all my anger and fury on the person who tried to comfort me (except for Sensei of course) by saying 'It's going to be ok'!
It isn't!
It bloody well isn't!
Mikey, our youngest brother, the one who always managed to keep us together, the one who always managed to crack a laugh even at the most inappropriate of times, was gone.
We all knew THAT was the hardest thing that had happened to us, but we knew we had to do the hardest thing in our lives …
Tell Sensei the tragedy.
…
…
Weeks had passed, and Donnie came up with the craziest of suspicions.
"I don't think Mikey is gone!" He exclaimed when he finally gave up and told me why he was asking to use the computer.
Since whenever Donnie got stressed, he would go and work straight on a project or research every night till he was completely sleep deprived and looked like a zombie and because of this, me and Leo banned any use of technology in the house (except for the TV, Leo insisted that he would watch the re-run of Space Heroes that was kept on tape from when he was a kid).
I looked at Donnie, unsure of what I was going to say.
"… uh, Donnie …" I began, placing a hand on his shoulder.
The Brainiac instantly shook it of though and looked me directly in the eyes.
"I AM getting enough sleep Raph! And I KNOW what the police had told us but … something doesn't … something doesn't feel right, OK!" He exclaimed once more. He knew me well; he knew exactly what I was going to say!
"Don, it doesn't feel right to me either. I have been having the same feeling as you, but what are we gonna trust? The law and force who WITNESSED his … death … or a basic twitch that tells a different story?!" I saw a glint of irritation in his eyes.
"RAPH JUST … just let me use the computer!" He added 'calmly'.
I shook my head. "If Leo finds out I let you, then he will have both of us! You have to learn that you cannot keep things to yourself anymore Donatello, we are not fifteen anymore! You have to learn to talk to US and not just your stupid computer! So just leave it Don!"
"Raphael … PLEASE! I just need to -" he begged.
" – Just WHAT Donnie? What is SOOOO important that you have to do that will SOMEHOW prove Mikey is STILL ALIVE!" I shouted … I honestly didn't mean to … but he was getting on my nerves.
As much as I would love to find proof that Mikey was alive … we wouldn't be able to prove it! We had specifically asked for no media to get involved with our lives and besides, the government wouldn't exactly hand us any information willingly with a cheesy smile on their faces saying 'Ere you go mate, just don't rip the paper.'
"Ugh! JUST GIVE ME THE COMPUTER!" He yelled whilst launching himself at the door but in the process, he knocked me to the ground aswell!
"Donnie! STOP IT!"
I tried to pin him down, but all that bundled up anger must have given him super human strength, like … MY STRENGTH! The one person I would have a challenge in a test of strength is … well, basically ME! There isn't really anyone else as strong as me, if I do say so myself; but the geek was ACTUALLY fighting back against the jock!
"Raph, Donnie? What is going on here?!" Leo shouted as he entered the room.
'ABOUT TIME!'
"LEO, HELP ME NOW!" I yelled as the purple nurple managed to yank himself out of my grasp and run towards the computer.
I once again attempted to physically pull him out of the seat, but the persistent little ~#* was stuck to the desk.
"LEO!" I snapped, whilst Donnie plugged in his phone to the wire.
Our oldest brother, still stunned, snapped out of his trance and ran over to (finally) help me.
Gosh! Donnie was like a kid on his first day at kindergarten, not letting go of his momma's leg even if he was being pried off!
Don struggled (but still managed) to work on his computer, whilst me and Leo struggled (and was failing) to tear him from the chair!
"You know, using brute force is HIGHLY UNNESSISARY!" The geek yelled.
"You know, he has a point Raph." Leo told him.
"Shut up Fearless leader, keeping him from using technology was YOUR IDEA, so this is YOUR fault!" I snapped.
"You agreed to it Raph!"
"Just LET ME USE THE COMPUTER!"
"NO!"
"NO!"
"WHAT IS GOING ON IN HERE?!"
"SENSEI?!" We all cried in surprise.
Leo and I lost our grip and tumbled backwards, hitting the book shelf and got crushed by falling school text-books!
'YUCK, CHEMISTRY!'
Donnie, who somehow managed to stay on his chair, just shrugged off the shock and continued to work on the computer.
Master Splinter, our adopted father, stood at the door of the room with an 'unimpressed' look on his face. His hands were hidden behind his back, his black hair was brushing against his forehead and his kimono was gliding over the floor.
"I was in the middle of deep meditation trying to block out your noise and … I thought you forbade Donatello from using the computer?!" He began with a snap, but it turned into a confused question.
"WE DID! BUT HE–" I began, but was interrupted by the sudden outburst of my genius brother.
"WHAT!"
To be continued