-Warning: Violence!
Malin couldn't move, her whole body hurt, she didn't know what to do, except that she would have to try and get up, maybe try to cover her bruises.
When she walked down the stairs on shaky legs and got into the kitchen, she didn't know how to act, her brother was sitting by the table, eating. When he noticed that Malin had entered the kitchen he lifted his gaze and just stared at her.
Her mother gave her a sandwich, Malin ate it on her way out the door, her body was aching from all the sudden movements while collecting all her books.
Finally outside Malin only made it down the steps before she heard someone calling her name behind her.
Malin started running, first she though it was her imagination playing with her but when she felt a violent thrust on her back she knew it was real. Malin fell to the ground scratching her forehead on the asphalt, leaving a bleeding wound.
She was dragged into an ally and pressed to the hard and cold wall.
"You're not going to tell anyone what happened last night, if you go to the police I'll kill you, got it?!" Jonas...
He loosed his grip and walked away. Malin collapsed to the ground crying, she was feeling cold but she didn't care anymore …Maybe death isn't such a bad thing after all…
Donnie never left his lab that day, he felt so useless, Splinter had been in to him to take a look at how he was doing, Donnie had said that he felt sick and he got to skip practice, he sat in front of his computer, just thinking.
*1 month and 5 days later, Christmas*
Not even a Christmas tree was in Malin's house that Christmas morning, only the same old house with boring furniture's and the gray colors on the walls.
Any presents were absolutely nothing to think about, just like every year, her family didn't really celebrate Christmas. But Malin was happy, she was off of school for about 3 weeks so she could do what she wanted. And also the best thing was that her brother left her alone, not talking to her or anything. He would not do anything on Christmas. With a fast look at her family in the living room, she got up to her room again, reading a book. Later that day, it was late and my grandmother coming into my room, telling me my mother's at the hospital, she had passed out on the couch, they don't know what's wrong with her yet, we spent the rest of our Christmas in the hospital in a wait room, wondering what could be wrong with my mother.
Don's Pov
Christmas was hell, at least for me, dinner was torture, nobody spoke, not to me at least, and the presents has to be the worst, I gave Raph a new spanner, he said a short thanks, later I saw Raph throw it away…
To Leo a gave a cloth (for his swords), ink and an old pencil. He seemed happy when e first saw it but he didn't use the ink to write with, he gave it to Mikey and he thought the battle shell would look good in black…for Mikey I got a comic book, he made tiny planes of it, apparently, he already had that comic, he said "pointless gift if you ask me" out loud to Raph, I heard him…splinter got some tea, he really appreciated it, he was the only one that was happy with my gift, me myself got new wrist pads from Leo, a few tools from Mikey from Raph I didn't get anything, splinter gave me a letter but I were not allowed to open in until tonight.
the rest of the day I watched TV, I think my brothers were trying to avoid me, I don't know why though, they went out patrolling when I was in the bathroom. Why ask me if I wanted to come? I only slow them down right? Splinter didn't say anything either.
After laying down on my bed I opened the letter…
"Hello Don!
I have a present for you, come up as fast as you have read this!
Merry Christmas!
~April "
I got out from my room and making my way to April, hoping that she can make my Christmas better…
Don got to April's house, climbed on the fire ascape to get up to April's window, she opened it after he had knocked a couple of times, it was really cold outside!
"Hey April, what's up?" he asked as he walked in and took a seat on the couch.
"Not much…I heard what Mikey did to the battle shell, I promes that splinter will punish him for that" April said sitting beside him.
"Yea, it was pritty damaged…" Don sat there twisting and turning in the thick silence.
After just sitting there for a minute, just thinking it was time to break the silence, Don took a breath.
"So, April, what was it you wanted?" he asked
"Oh right, I almost forgot!" she said, walking from the room into her bedroom, coming back with a white, big box with red bow on it. She gave him the box.
"Merry Christmas" she said, giving him a kiss on the cheek. Don started opening the box, in it was a brand new laptop! It was so shiny, he didn't know what to say.
"You like it? I saw it in the store and immediately thought about you"
"I..I don't know what to say, thank you!, but, this must have been very expensive"
"It doesn't matter, you're worth it, and you needed a new one"
"God April, you're the best!" he took the laptop out from the box and opened it, it was beautiful, the color were a light green and the keys were white.
April had also made it fun by putting a turtle sticker in one of the corners on the front, she sure knew how to make a geek turtle happy. I laid the laptop down in the box again so nothing would happen to it. April and I sat there talking for a while.
"So how's things at home?" April asked, I didn't really feel like talking about it.
"It's ok, we're all okay" he said.
April nodded, it looked like she was thinking of something.
"Splinter wanted me to talk to you about something, maybe it's a little personal but he's concerned…how are you feeling home Don? Are you okay? If not, you know you can always come here to talk, with me and you have Splinter, he's worried about you, telling me that you're out of focus on practice and that you seem sad…"
"My brother's don't want anything to do with me, of course I'm not feeling okay!" Donnie thought to himself. "Nothing's wrong, I'm just a little tired, that's all" he lied
"Are you sure, you know you can talk to me" April said with a frown on her face.
"I know, thank you but there's nothing wrong so there's nothing to talk about" he said. "Oh, okay then…,well are you hungry? I'm gonna warm up some food from dinner, want some?" she asked, she got up from the couch, making her way to the kitchen.
"Yes, that would be great" he wasn't in a hurry anyway, not like his brother's would care if he was gone all night, except if something broke and they needed it repaired, then I'm good enough paying attention to…. They sat in the kitchen, eating and talking a long time until Donnie needed to get home.
"I'll see you soon April" Donnie said, he took his laptop under his arm.
"Yes, of course! Good night Don, safe run home" she said
"Always, good night and thanks again" he clamed out of the window, jumped down to the streets and down through the sewers, straight back home.
When the door opened to the lair, he saw Splinter on the couch, probably waiting for him to come back, Don sat down beside his master.
"Welcome home, Donatello, good visit at our friends ? Splinter asked turning the TV off.
"It sure was Sensei, look what April got me!" Don showed him his new computer.
"It's a very nice gift my son"
"I couldn't even say a word at first, I was so shocked" Don explained
"I see, it's late, I think we both should go to bed and I have had a talk with Michelangelo and he is going to clean up the mess he have caused." Splinter stood
"Thank you sensei, see you tomorrow" Don said seeing his master returning to his room, closing the door behind him. Don got to his room, locking the door.
He went to sleep in less then 5 minutes.
Malin Pov
Now we have a diagnosis, my mother have lung cancer. I heard the doctors talking to grandma, telling her that she won't survive and that she only have about 5 more month to live, I cried the whole night, I could not fall asleep.
That Christmas turned into hell…
A/N :Ok so it has been I while sense I updated, this chapter's a little longer so I hope you're not too mad at me haha, anyway, it was a sad chapter, more will be up soon enough!