A'IGHT PEOPLE, LISTEN UP…..AHH I AIN'T GOT NON' TA SAY.

Chapter 7: Continued torture

Leo gazed into Raph's blood colored eye in horror while a massive wave of confusion washed over his mind. Leo continued to stare into Raph's eyes clearly not knowing what to do. He soon noticed the tears forming and quickly falling from Raph's demon eyes. Raph slowly raised his head up to look directly into the eyes of his distraught older brother. The horrifying smile that Raph was showing immediately formed into a scared frown and he again slowly brought his hands back up to his head and let the large tears falling from his eyes fall harder and mouthed a frightened: "help me." Leo's eyes then widened to an enormous size and immediately shot his hands out to grasp Raph's hands, which were firmly gripping his head.

"Raph! Whats happening?! Can you...Raph?! Whats wrong, little brother?!"

"L-Leo?"

"I'm right here, Raph! Please, whats going on?!"

Leo yells in panic and concern as he gripped firmly onto Raph's hands. Raph slowly took his hands away from his head and reached for Leo's shaken shoulders.

"Le..o, p-please. You..g-gotta...lemme...g-go. P-please k-kill me...It..hu..rts...so much."

Raph's words of pleading came out as hard struggles for Leo to let him leave, let him die. Leo was dismayed at his brothers' words and got even more terrified and distressed.

"No, Raph. I can't let you go anywhere! And I'm definitely NOT going to...to KILL YOU! Something's happening to you and..."

Leo was soon cut off by a vociferous shout of pain.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH! STOP! STOP THE NOISE! AHHHH!"

"Raph!"

With that, Leo immediately swooped Raph into his strong arms and sprinted towards Donnie's Lab.

Donnie was working on an experiment that he claimed lasted a couple of weeks. Mikey had been chillin in his lab for the time being just to; 'keep Donnie company.'

"Hey Donnie, Can I touch this?!"

Mikey yelled from half way across the room. Donnie didn't respond at once, for he was working on his computer, doing research to continue his experiment, but was clearly getting aggravated with Mikey's random out bursts. He impatiently pushes back from his desk and twirls around in his chair and stops directly to look into his baby brothers Crystal blue eyes.

"Mikey! I have no physical, mental, nor verbal way I can make you understand that I'm working on..."

Donnie was quickly cut off by Leo bursting into the lab doors with a struggling Raph in his arms.

"Donnie! Please, You HAVE to help Raph! Something's wrong with him!"

Donnie And Mikey were both staring wide-eyed in shock and confusion, but didn't take long to coordinate to the current situation. Donnie quickly shot up from his chair and ran rapidly to Leo and Raph. Raph was still struggling and squirming in Leo's hold and obviously was getting worse. Luckily, The blood glowing color in Raph's eyes disappeared, but clearly showed that his eyes were open wide with crystal signs of fear in every part. He was still deeply panicking and he continued to scream and clutch his sweat coated head very firmly.

"N-NO! PL-PLEASE STOP SCREAMING! IT HURTS TOO MUCH!

Leo was truly panicking and confused on what to do and immediately began to blame himself for Raph's suffering.

"Dang it! Why didn't I see this coming! This is all my fault!"

Leo was soon snapped out of his paranoid out bursts by a firm grip on his arm. Leo shot his head up and glared deeply into chocolate brown eyes.

"Leo, Raph needs you to be strong for him. he needs you to there for him. He would definitely think this isn't your fault. be there for him."

Donnie gives Leo a half-smile, which Leo shortly returns, but both smiles are soon lived out by Raphael's grieving and pleading shouts.

"AHHH! MAKE IT STOP! I CAN'T...AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! STOP SCREAMING! PLEASE!"

Leo then sprints over to lay Raph down on the lab table with Donnie closely following. Once they got Raph on the table, he must have thought someone or something was holding him down causing him to instantly start to thrash around in a panic, hard.

"NO! STOP! LET ME GO! SOMEONE HELP ME!"

Raph had his eyes open completely wide with panic and his thrashing was more powerful. Raph no longer had a strong grip on his head, he now had one hand grasped firmly around his neck and the other gripping hard enough to the table to show his knuckles become white and even draw blood. All three brothers ran to each side of their helpless brother and tried their very hardest to try and calm him down (mainly Donatello).

Donnie gazed directly into Raph's eyes while the other two held tightly onto his arms.

"Raph, Raphie"

Donnie soothed as he gently stroked Raph's face while avoiding his kicking legs.

"Raph, look into my eyes. You have to calm down big brother."

Raph continued to thrash around, but he was now glaring half-mindedly into Donnie's eyes and took a firm grip on Donnie's wrist while tears streamed down his emerald green cheeks.

"There you go, Raphie. Keep looking into my eyes. It's ok. No one's going to hurt you. I...I'll stop the noise."

Donnie kept gently stroking Raph's face and whispered soothing words into his ear. Raph's hard thrashing finally managed to slow down and he brought himself to calm down completely. The tight grip that Raph had on a Donnie's wrist had slowly began to loosen causing Donnie to give a relieved smile. Raph now had his full attention on Donnie's eyes as tears continued to trickle down his own while Don continued to stroke Raph's face and wipe away his tears with his thumb. Donnie's smile soon turned into a sad frown by the painful attempt of talking Raph tried to do.

"d-don..nie, i..it...hur..."

"Shhh." Donnie cooed as he used one hand to stroke one side of Raph's sweat coated face and the other to pull Raph's weak hand away from his neck.

"Shhh Raphie. Don't talk. Your gonna be ok."

Leo and Mikey immediately gripped one of Raph's hands and helped Donnie calm their feared red-clad brother. Raph's breathing was hard and labored and his eyes were still open to a massive extent and he was still absent-mind mumbling to himself which brought concerned looks on the other three turtles faces.

"The...sc...reaming. I..it won'...stop."

All three brother's were glaring deep into Raph's golden eyes with sadness and fear. Donnie was still stroking Raphael's face as Raph's eyes began to slowly droop closed and gently shushing him.

"Shhh, hush now Raphie. It's ok. It's alright."

With that, Raph completely closed his eyes and relaxed his head against Donnie's hand which was still placed softly on his cheek. Raphael's body was no longer tense or under any stress which led to all three brothers forming relived smiles and Donnie leaning in to kiss Raph's forehead.

"Donnie, w-what happened to Raph?"

Mikey asked with sadness shamelessly shown in his voice.

"He had a panic attack Mikey. But, something else isn't right with him. Raph has been waking up screaming from nightmares a lot, but...him screaming and having a fit like THIS, has NEVER happened before."

All three brothers turn their heads to look at their now knocked out brother in desperation.

"Thank G-d Master Splinter is coming back tomorrow. He's the only one who can REALLY help Raph's situation."

Leo states as he walks up and gingerly rubs his hand on Raph's plastron. The younger two nod in agreement as Donnie walks around to the other side of Raph and knots his brows at his rapidly breathing, pale form as Raph mumbled in his sleep.

"L..Leo, m'sorry..I..."

Leo gazes at his brother in awe as he gently pushes on Raph's plastron to get some of his breathing to a normal pace and rubs his forehead. Donnie was studying Raph up and down then finally released a breath he hadn't known he'd been holding. Donnie took Leo's hands and gently pushed them off Raph's body but kept his sight on Raphael.

"Guys, I have to do some research on Raph to figure out whats happening to him."

It didn't take too long for Leo and Mikey to understand what Donnie wanted, so Leo and Mikey hesitantly turned to walk out of the Lab, but Leo stayed and hung at the door for a sharp moment.

"Please Don, help Raphael."

Leo then walked out of sight of the lab closing the door silently behind him, leaving a strained Donatello behind to study Raphael's condition. Donnie brought a shaking hand up to Raph's neck to rub across the red mark he left from holding on so tightly resulting in small tears dropping from the corners of his eyes.

"Master Splinter, we need you. Raph needs you."