It had taken Donatello a few weeks to work out how to reconfigure his machine to work within their own universe but once he had, it zeroed in on their Leo's location immediately. Sadie had pitched in while teasing him that he'd created the original machine to work harder than he'd ended up needing it to work by searching out other dimensions instead of his own.

But Donnie knew that they had needed it to work that hard to first pull the other Leo here. Without the other Leo, he wouldn't have Sadie in his life. Mike wouldn't be smiling again and spending more and more of his free time with Woody. And Raph would still be out trashing himself every night with Casey.

And perhaps most important of all, Raph wouldn't have already forgiven their Leo for leaving. Raph wouldn't be on a mission to bring their Leo back to them.

He tested his new transporter on a few pieces of fruit, moving them from one room of the lair to another, before he felt confident enough to try to transport his brother. He didn't like the idea of sending Raphael away. And since he could pinpoint their Leo, he had first suggested that he could just transport Leo home. But Raphael had vehemently disagreed with that option, although he wouldn't tell Donnie his reasons.

But Raphael knew he owed it to Leo to go to him. And to apologize. And then he wanted Leo to come home willingly.

"Call me when you're ready to return," Donnie said, eyeing his older brother. Raphael looked nervous, something Donnie had never seen before unless it involved insects. He had a feeling the nerves had nothing to do with whether Donnie's machine would work and everything to do with the way Raph had begun to look at the other Leo before he'd left to go home.

"You will come back, right?" Mikey asked, standing just inside the lab door, as if he couldn't decide whether he wanted to witness this or not.

Raph met both their eyes and nodded. He sent another nod to Donnie and watched as Don typed a few things into his machine.

Going from the cold air in Donnie's lab to the sweltering heat of the jungle of Central America was a shock in itself, second only to the tremor that ran through his body following the particle transportation. He looked down at himself and was thankfully all in one piece.

The jungle plants were thick and he made noise taking just one step forward. He paused for a second at the loud noise, but then continued, letting his feet fall heavily as he pushed his way through the trees and foliage. Since there was no way he was going to creep up on the perpetually-silent Leonardo, he figured he may as well make noise and lead Leo to him. He certainly counted stomping through the heat of this jungle as having gone pretty far to reach out to his long-lost brother.

He walked in the sweltering heat, swatting away bugs that made his skin crawl, until he heard moving water and headed towards it. Maybe his next thought stemmed from the fact that he was raised in a sewer or that it was the first one he'd ever seen, but the waterfall he came upon was magnificent, certainly more amazing than any he'd ever seen in movies. He forgot that he was hot and that there were more bugs than he'd ever encountered crawling within inches of him and just stood staring at it for a few moments.

"Raph?"

He froze. There. That was the voice of his Leo. He felt a shiver run down his spine. The pitch was ever so slightly different from the Leo he'd recently spent two months with. Most people probably wouldn't even notice the difference.

He slowly turned around and found his big brother standing only a few feet away from him. The sight of Leo, his Leo, made his stomach squirm. Leo wore a dark hooded cloak, but his blue eyes shone out despite the hood.

He walked slowly towards Leo and lifted his hand to push the hood off Leo's head. He noted that while Leo stared hard at him, Fearless didn't even flinch to Raph's raised hand. When the hood was down, Raph realized it wasn't enough and he used both of his hands to push the cloak off Leo's shoulders. Once it was gone, his eyes roamed over Leo. His skin was darker, no doubt from being excessively outside. Raph liked it and resisted the urge to rub his hands down Leo's tan arms. He continued to stare and noted that although he could still see muscle definition, Leo was much skinnier. He eyed a few new scrapes and knicks on Leo's plastron before glancing down at Leo's legs where he quickly noted a few new scars there as well.

His eyes traveled back up Leo's body to his face where he found Leo's eyes examining him as well. He began to consider just how different he must look and suddenly regretted not taking better care of himself for the past two years. He silently thanked the other Leo for forcing him back into the dojo recently. He shifted nervously for a few seconds under Leo's fierce blue gaze. At least Leo had a good excuse for being skinnier. Who knew what there was to eat down here.

He reached forward again and once again Leo didn't flinch. Raph slid his hand gently down one side of Leo's face before his fingers slid back to grip the back of Leo's neck as he took another step towards Leo in order to rest his forehead against Leo's forehead. His eyes slid shut and he took a deep breath in and was rewarded with Leo's scent. Again he felt a squirming sensation in his stomach. He could feel Leo's muscles tense under his fingers but noted that Leo didn't pull away from him.

"Leo," Raph whispered, raising his other hand to finally give into the urge to run his fingers down Leo's arm.

Although Raph's eyes were shut, Leo kept his eyes open and continued to stare at Raphael's emerald face, now only an inch or so away from his own. If it wasn't for the actual feeling of Raph's fingers on his skin or Raph's breath on his face, he would assume the heat of the jungle was affecting him more than usual today. He'd imagined Raphael here with him numerous times over the past two years. But he never expected to actually find him standing here. And certainly not with this kind of greeting.

He could feel his muscles tense under Raph's hands but even that involuntary reaction wasn't enough to stop his hands from shaking with need to touch Raph in return. He finally lifted his hands and cupped Raph's face. He watched as Raph's eyes snapped open at the unexpected contact.

Raph watched as Leo's fierce blue gaze softened as he used his thumbs to rub under Raph's eyes and brush away tears Raph hadn't even been aware were running down his face.

"Missed you, Raphie."

Raph nodded quickly in return. "Need you," Raph managed to whisper back. "I'm sorry, Leonardo. I'm so sorry I said I hated you. I've never hated you. I was just-,"

Leo pressed his lips to Raph's lips, cutting his apology short. He knew he owed Raph an apology, too. He never should have run away. Or run so far. Or stayed away for so long.

But right now he wanted to focus on answering the churr he'd just heard from Raph's throat. And the feeling of Raph's lips against his own. The pleasure of having Raph's tongue press its way into his mouth. Raph's fingers as they tightened around the back of his neck and his arm.

There'd be time to talk later.