Chapter 2: Shattered Heart

I wake up cold, the rain washing the blood from my battered body. I shiver as I start to move.

Raph is gone, I don't think I could've stood it if he'd still been here though.

Shivering I drag my bruised legs close as I struggle to get warm.

I don't know how long I lay there, shivering, bleeding, cold.

I move slowly though, once I decide to.

My body screams protest, every breath I take is agony. I stagger to my feet and stumble toward the fire escape. I huddle on one of the platforms, shivering in the cold.

I feel the cold glass against my forehead and whimper as a flash of lightening leaves me cringing.

My throat is raw, every breath feels like I'm inhaling glass.

The tears start not long after that, the agony of Raph's hate tearing my heart apart, mangling it as much as my body.

The window opens and I nearly fall through.

"Leo," I hear.

I force my swollen eye lids open and struggle to see.

"Oh my gosh…on Leo who did this to you?" she whispers…April…it's April. How did I get here? I don't remember…

I drift in and out, vaguely aware of the fact that I am being cared for, that my mangled body is being bandaged.

I feel something pressed to my lips and struggle to swallow, it hurts too much.

When I finally get the strength to wake up, I find myself on April's couch, she's talking to someone on the phone.

I sit up and look around…I'm alone…my brothers aren't here.

The pain of that knowledge rips me apart. I stagger to my feet and move toward the window.

"LEO!" I hear before I'm out and staggering up the fire escape.

They hate me…they hate me…Raph took my offer…I can never go home…I can never go home…

I don't know how long I run, how long I wander, but hunger finally wins out on me and I find myself outside the lair.

Hoping, praying that Raph will at least let me eat before he drives me away. That maybe he'll let me gather up some of my things.

I close my eyes and manage to get the door open.

"LEO!" I hear someone shout, seconds later hands catch me as I sink toward the ground.

Everything goes dark.

"…he…ok?"

"….sick….Mikey…he…eaten…."

"Will…he….alright?"

I catch snatches of their conversation and shiver from the cold of my body.

I struggle to curl tight and hands stop me.

"Shhh, just rest," I hear…its Don.

Raph must've let me stay long enough to get better.

I cringe when I hear a scraping sound.

"Shhh," I hear, a hand rubs my carapace…its my father…

When I finally wake up, I'm alone in the medical lab. I slowly rise to my feet and stagger toward my room, no one else is up.

I freeze when I see Raph's closed door I have to walk past it to get to my room. I move quickly, silently and then reach my room and slip in.

I gather up a few things and freeze as I hear my door creak open. My hands tighten around the bundle I'm holding.

Fear makes my heart race.

"Leonardo?" Its my father, "what are you doing? Are you going to find Raphael?"

He never came home? He didn't take my offer?

"Leonardo," it's an order.

I flinch and turn slowly around.

He did the worst thing he could've done to me…he left me to my father's rage.

The slaps come fast, too fast for me to react.

I'm sobbing, clutching his robes and begging him to forgive me.

He presses my head against him.

"You will leave…and you will not come back without Raphael. Am I clear?" he whispers.

I nod.

"Swear it," he orders.

"I swear," I croak out, he steps back and walks out of my door.

I sit there and weep, heart broken and utterly lost.

I drag my things to me and get up.

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