I am back! Raphie's got some explaining to do!

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Raph held his face in his hands, groaning. Leo was shrunken in front of Mike… his nightmare was effecting him… everything was zooming in his head. He moved his hands from his face and waited for the sharpness of objects to stop being fuzzy.

"My luck… is fuck…" Raph mumbled as he shook his head and pushed further.

He regarded the begs of Mike to stop, he didn't want to listen to the innocent pleas and teases of his morning behavior. Mikey would just be half way through his sentence before he would tick Raph off anyway, so it was in vain. He defiantly didn't want to listen to Donnie's threat/caring speech on how he shouldn't hide his problems. He wasn't in the mood and he thought he could even go into kill mode. And Leo's…

"Raphael!"

Raph turned to see Leonardo make his way to him. He moved past Mike and Don and in his face, close. Raph let the smaller figure's chest touch his softly and the hot air of the blue-clad figure's breath hit him as he mentally shivered.

"You can't run from us, were family. And if one goes down, we all do…" Leo continued on with his family rant, which Raph turned off.

His eyes traveled all over his leader. His toned, but not bigger, muscles showed that he was truly a master, his delicious chocolate brown eyes with the pure caramel golden speckles showed like no others, his thick pink tongue let words go without a care in the world (and he thought about what else it could do), his skin was a perfect green that could get you hot… was he really going down that low...?

"…and I can't stand seeing you so mad at us…" Leo was cut off by Raph grabbing him close.

As Leo's and Raph's plastron came to contact it made a clank scratching noise but they were pretty close, that's for sure. Mike and Don stared with their mouths wide open in an 'o' shape, watching as Raph held Leo like a doll. Leo could be seen blushing as Raph just rest his head on his head, because Leo was shorter by only 2 inches.

"I am not mad, just frightened…" Raph said with no emotion, releasing Leo.

As Raph started to get up the stairs, Mike followed his with a blush on his face asked questions on what just happened. Leo stayed and hugged his arms around him in an act to get bearing on this situation and Don walked over to Leo and held his shoulders and led him to the lab.

On entering, Leo sitting down on the examination table, Don examined him like crazy.

"Did he touch you inappropriately? Did you feel anything get put on you? Did you feel weapons touching you?" Don asked as he pulled a stethoscope out.

"Donatello, I am fine… just confused…" Leo said as his blush stayed with him just a bit.

Donatello is a smart turtle, of course, and could practically feel Leo's distress as his own. He fell empathy for the older turtle, truly, he did. He got up from his sore knees and hugged Leo with a slightly tight grip.

"Don… what has happened to today…?" Leo asked, "I truly never saw that… look, in his eyes…"

Don let go and looked at Leo like he might as well be crazy. Look? What look? He never saw Raph's eyes change, no glint of pain or a pinch of anger, it was emotionless as stone.

"Leo, are you feeling truly ok? Look? Raph never had a look, he was emotionless back there!" Don pointed his finger to the closed door with Mike pleading in the hallway.

"You couldn't see it but I did… His eyes were dark and scared, like he's seen something to bad for even him to handle. His voice carried an ominous chill, like he had zero ideas if he really was near someone he cared about without getting hurt for his presence. It was scary the way his arms trembled in his hold of me, as if he couldn't let me go because he feared I was fake to his eyes…" Leo whispered loudly for the mood to set.

"… Only you could see those things, big bro…" Don sighed with a slight smile to the cold feeling traveling up his spine.

"I'm serious, Hamato Donatello!" Leo snapped with a serious tone in his yell.

'Oh no, the full name thing, must be serious to him,' Don sucked in through his teeth.

"Raphael needs our help, and you're making jokes on how I see things!" Leo stated as he looked at Don's stunned face.

"I… Leo, I never meant to…" Don was cut off by Mike's scream.

Being frightened as they should be, they ran to the hallway to see Mike punching the door with rage.

"You… mother… motherfucker!" Mike yelled as he slammed his fist against the door.

What has Raphael done now?

"Mikey… Mikey, its ok!" Leo ran to Mike and held his fists in between them.

Mike seethed for a few seconds before pulling his fists away, and taking one last swing at the door, hitting just beside Leo's head, chipping it too.

Leo shook just a little at his baby brothers' rage but none the less wanted to help. He grabbed Mike's shoulders and led him to Donnie, who never moved an inch out of his lab and just stood there wide-eyed.

"Don, can you take care of Michelangelo for now. I need to have a chat with Raphael for a second." Leo looked to Raphael's slightly chipped door.

Don still stood there but he followed Mike with his eyes, as if he was slightly scared to actually be near him. This was nonsense and a bull load of crap. No one should be judging each other like this and this should all be a happy outing on the surface and kicking PD's and Foot ninja were it really hurt.

"Donatello! Help. Mikey." Leo said with a growl.

"Oh… um, ok!" Don said kind of too fast for Leo likes, but it was Raphael time.

As Don held Mikey and shut the lab door, Leo turned to Raphael's door. As he strode over he thought of important questions that could actually get him answers or get him kicked out. Was Raph passing over the loss of their father in his own way? Was this an act of chivalry on his behalf? Does any of this have to do with father, his friends, brothers, or the others he cares for? For some reason, Leo thinks he is pretty much the person who started this in the first place…

As he got to Raph's room, Raph knew it was him, so he let himself in. How? Raph's door needs a key and he asked Don to make an extra, reaching up to the doorway edge, he pulled a key from the top of the doorway and unlocked the door.

Upon entering, he saw the room of Raphael's never changed; it was messy in its own way but not as messy as Michelangelo's. But Raphael stayed just staring at him with, not awe, but astonishment. He knew Leo would be the one to get in, he knew Leo would be the one scolding him sooner or later, he knew Leo made a KEY to get in his room (he just never knew where Leo had it), and he knew Leo was going to be the one to face his dreams…

And Raph was ready to should cooperation with his older brother…

TBC…

Raph sure better be ready for question, and what did he say to Mikey?

R&R