Title: Odd
Turtle Out 2/5
Summary: The
stories of five turtles who felt left out.
Disclaimer: I
don't own any of the characters nor the universe they live in.
Raphael
As far as Raphael can tell, he's the only one of his family who has a problem with living in the sewer.
Donnie doesn't care where he lives as long as he has electricity and can fiddle with his toys. Same goes for Leo. As long as he has a place to train, he's happy. Splinter hardly ever leaves the lair these days; he dislikes having to travel to the surface. And even though Mickey likes the things humans make and the foods they cook, at the end of the night, he's happy to crawl back into the sewer and go to sleep in his own bed.
But Raph, he settles for living down below because there is no other place in the world for a mutant turtle to exist, except maybe a dissection table in a secret government facility. He settles but it is not enough. There is a whole world above ground that Raph wished he belonged to.
Raphael would never tell his brothers but on summer evenings, he sneaks up to roof tops and watches the families in the dusk: the kids playing out late, enjoying the chance to stay up late; the parents watching from their balconies as they cook supper on the barbeque; the television sets and stereos blaring from open windows.
He'll watch until the sun sets and everyone has headed inside with their doors and windows locked. Then he'll meet up with Casey and they'll beat in a couple of skulls. They'll celebrate with throwing back a couple of cold ones and call it a night. Casey will return to his apartment, and the warm bed he shares with April, and Raph will slink home to the lair.
Nights like these seem to satisfy something in him, something his brothers don't seem to understand. Yes, Raph has always enjoyed the high of imminent danger but it is not the only reason he does this. Raphael, and again this is something he'd never tell anyone, does this to protect the world that he cares for, the humans he cares for, the place he wishes more than anything he could be apart of.
But Raphael is the tragic revenger. He makes the world a better place for others to live in, but he will never be able to reap what he has sown. This world is not meant for him and he can not live here, despite how much he wishes he could.
End