(A/N: Now, back to my chapter stories. The flashback is in Dons POV and the present time is in Mikey's POV.)
FLASHBACK
Two days. Two more days until my big brother is put six feet under. I'm actually kind of scared for him… Even if he is dead already. I mean, I couldn't imagine being alone, deep in the ground, not even being able to see sunlight.
By the way, it's been about a week since he actually died. I haven't gone into the infirmary ever since that night. I don't think I'll be able to see his dead body again until I HAVE to.
Mike has been ignoring everyone (mostly me), and all he does during the day is go into the infirmary and talk to Leo's corpse. I don't even know why he does it. He only talks about how everyone's doing and how much he need him and miss him. During the nights, he has minor nightmares, but they are scary enough to have him run to Raph's room at night.
Raph has been taking out his anger on EVERYONE (mostly me)… Even Master Splinter! All he does during the day is punch out his punching bag like a mad man. He told me a little bit ago that he was pretending that it was a person he was punching at. Probably me. And during the night, he has nightmares as well. And just when they get unbearable, Mike will come to his room for his comfort. But I bet Mike doesn't realize that Raph needs comfort as well.
Splinter just stays in his room all day. I don't even know what he does in there. And during the night he'll give us practice and go extra hard on me. He seems to be angry with me.
And me… During the day, I stay in my lab. I usually don't actually work on anything, unless I am forced to, and I just look things up on the internet. Just stupid, random stuff. But during the night… Oh god. My nightmares. My family's nightmares are not nearly as gruesome as mine are. They can only imagine how the whole thing went down with Leo's murder. I was there and witnessed it. It hurts that no one wants to comfort ME when I have nightmares. I wish Leo was there to comfort me... If he was here, I probably wouldn't even need my other family members in this time of need.
I guess, right now, our whole family is kind of confused on our emotions…
But the thing is, I know mine.
I'm just lost… Without my big brother to guide me…
PRESENT
Geez, Donnie has been gone a long time now. Raph and I have played a few games already and it's been about… two hours. Don is never gone that long… I need to check it out. I start to get up from my position on the couch.
"Where are you going? Aren't we gonna play another game?" Raph asked me. I look toward him in disappointment.
"Don has been gone longer than he should've been. We gotta go and find him." I replied. Raph gives an annoyed expression.
"He's probably on a run or something. Just leave him; he's the one who decided to leave anyways." Raph answered back to me. I just turned around heading out. "Fine. I'm just not going."
I headed up on the roof tops. I was bolting across them, when I smelt smoke. I followed my senses, and found a small fire on a rooftop. I reached into my belt and found a small fire extinguisher that Don gave me a long time ago. I put the fire out, and noticed what was burning was not normal in the least bit.
It was a shell cell.
Don. No.
I found all of his stuff sitting a few feet away from the fire. I grabbed my shell cell and dialed up Raph. Right after I dialed, I saw something else, which was gleaming. I picked it up. It was a dart, with the foot emblem engraved. Blood was on the needle.
Raph finally picked up with a 'Yo?'.
"Raph… The foot… The foot they…" I started, stuttering. I heard a sigh on the other end.
"Spit out, moron." Raph said. I sighed and finished off my sentence.
"They got Donnie. He's captured."