A/N: Finally, what you've been waiting for. What happened to Mikey and Don (somewhat).
Enjoy!
I DON'T OWN THE TURTLES!
It went on like that for nearly two weeks. Mikey and Don would sleep for hours at a time, get something to eat, get their bandages changes, hang out with Leo and Raph for a little while, and then go back to sleep in Donnie's bed. Mikey still had nightmares, and both brothers didn't want to leave the other, but they were sleeping less and less everyday.
Mikey and Don's physical condition continued to improve, but their mental condition didn't seem to change. Mikey still hardly talked to anyone but Don, and Don acted very protective of him. Both of them came close to having a break down if one of their brothers wasn't near them when they were awake. Don had defiantly made more progress then Mikey, though. Don would work on his projects and start saying facts that his brothers didn't understand, while Mikey wouldn't joke, read comics, play video games, anything. It seemed Don was still there, but Mikey was gone.
Raph and Leo didn't have the heart to ask them what had happened to them when they were in Bhisop's lab. Then, on a day their brothers had been awake for thirteen hours, Raph got impatient of all the waiting. He confronted them.
"What happen' to ya?" he asked them.
Don looked up and paled, and Mikey started shacking rapidly,both instently knowing what Raph was talking about. Don opened his mouth, about to respond before seeing Mikey's condition. He instantly got up and rushed over to his little brother, ready to comfort him. Don quickly pulled Mikey into a hug, which Mikey tried to get out of. Don started whispering comforting words to his little brother. Mikey began to calm down. Maybe to much, because he fell asleep quickly in Don's embrace.
Leo and Raph had stopped trying to help Don comfort Mikey. As much as it hurt them, they knew that Don did it best at the moment, and they just had to be patient with these moments between their brother. Raph got a feeling that he was going to regret asking.
After Mikey fell asleep, Don looked at his older brothers with pain filled eyes. He opened his mouth and closed it. He did that a few more times, and his brothers let him, knowing that Don did this when he is stressed.
Finally, Don was able to speak. "I-I-I really, really don't want to talk about this, but you guys have a right to know. Just...just help me take Mikey to bed. I don't want him to have to hear this, even if he's asleep. Living through it is enough." don really didn't want to leave Mikey, but he knew that, even in his sleep, Mikey would be effected by hearing the story.
Leo and Raph could hear the fear in Don's voice, so they decided not to argue. They brought Mikey into Don's room, and put him to bed before leaving the room and going back to the living room. They sat down on the coach, Don in the middle with his older brothers on eather sides.
"We...we were at the junkyard when Bishop got us," Don said in a wavering, fear filled voice. "Mikey had come to try and help me find a part I needed to fix something he broke. We had just found the part when Bishop's men came. We tried to fight them, but their were just so many. They overpowered us, and took us to Bishop's lab.
"At first, it wasn't so bad. He would take some blood samples, ask us questions, punch us every once in a while. But it got worse quickly. He had kept us in a room together at first, a cell. The cell had a screen in it, that had a live feed to the lab. They worked on me first. They tested my reaction to different things. Drugs, electrocution, pain. Mikey was forced to watch it all. Then they would throw me back to him, and he would still be happy, outgoing, cracking jokes to cheer me up.
"They dissected me first." Raph and Leo stiffened at Don's words. They had did their best to hide all emotion, but they couldn't when their suspicion was true. "Mikey was forced to watch it. He was still cheerful. I knew he was putting up an act, an act that was slowly breaking. He hated this, and was ready to break. The next day, they switched to Mikey.
"They did all the same things to him as they did to me. They yelled at him, abused him, used him as their little lab rat. His acted started falling, but he kept it up. It was crumbling, little by little. Day by day. It didn't fool me when they threw him back to me at the end of what I assume was a day. It didn't fool me as I watched him on the screen. But it fooled the "scientist" Bishop had, and even Bishop himself. That was Mikey's downfall."
Leo and Raph wanted to yell at Don to stop, that they couldn't stand knowing anymore, but they couldn't. But they knew, they had to keep listening. They couldn't help their baby brothers without knowing what they went through. They let Don continue.
"They took him like normal, but they didn't put it all on the screen instantly like always. Instead, Bishop came on the screen. He explained something to me, something I wish I never heard. He explained that him and his "doctors" believed Mikey to have a mental disorder. ADHD. I had come to this conclusion about Mikey before, but knew there was nothing I could do for him, so I never said anything. Bishop told me that, when ADHD was first discovered, they would... test the ADHD person's brain to see how to cure it. He told me he had decided to test Mikey.
"They made me watch. I had read about what they did to those people, knew that most of them died, others went brain dead. I watched as they cut Mikey's head open. They poked around a little while, before his heart monitor started going crazy. The screen was shut off.
"I worried for what felt like forever before they threw Mikey back to me, a bandage around his head. He was unconscious. I tried to get him to wake up, and it worked. Mikey woke up, and smiled slightly at me, gripping my hand tightly. I did the few test I could remember and do to test for brain damage, he tested negative for all of them, so I knew he was OK. After he fell asleep again, Bishop came on the screen, telling me that Mikey was lucky to be alive, saying how he didn't want to kill his play things."
Don was shacking, much like Mikey had earlier. Leo and Raph both put an arm around their brother, trying to comfort him. "You can stop," Leo told Don, "You can tell us the rest another time." Raph nodded in agreement. Both of them wanted to know the rest so they can help their brothers heal, but seeing how much pain it caused one of them, they didn't want to push.
Don shook his head. "No," he whispered, "I'll finish telling you. I'm almost done, anyhow." the older turtles nodded. They all sat in silence for a minute or two. Raph and Leo let Don have time to collect himself, holding him tight to keep him grounded to the here and now.
"Mikey might not of been brain dead after that, but he was broken. His spirt was lost. He stopped joking, laughing, fooling around. It had kept me sane through it all, and I only remained sane after because of my concern for Mikey. They began questioning us again. They wanted to know we're you were. They shot us with drugs, hit us, tortured us for the information. We never gave it to them. They stopped and left us alone for a day or two, before... dissecting me again, and Mikey for the first time. Then they locked us in the place you found us in. Then you found us, and you know what happens after that. The End."
Scilence rained after the story was over. Leo and Raph were livid over what Bishop had done to their brothers. They had only been gone a month, and that all happened to them. Don was distraught. Talking about what had happened hurt him more then he thought it would. He felt exhausted.
Raph and Leo saw the condition of their distraught brother, and gently guided him to bed. Mikey wasn't sleeping peacefully, until Don lied down next to him. His sleep eased as he unconsciously moved closer to Donnie in his sleep. Don seemed to relax slightly as well. Don fell asleep quickly as Leo and Raph took their leave from the room.
They went into the kitchen where Leo began making tea. It was prepared in silence as the brothers went over everything they had just been told. They wanted to find Bishop and kill him for everything he did to their brothers.
Leo looked at Raph. "You know Don's hiding something, right?"
Raph sighed while nodding his head. "He didn't go into details about what he went through, or the dissections."
Leo nodded and the two fell into a tense silence again.
"We'll help them," Raph said, "won't we, Leo? We'll get our little brothers back."
Leo nodded with a grim smirk on his face. "Of course we will, Raph," Leo comforted him. "I swear we'll get them back. Even if it's the last thing I do."