Author's Note: I'm surprised that this story has gone on for this long. Apparently this story went from a long one-shot to a small chapter story to this. I'm glad I did this. Now in chapter there is a timeskip. I wasn't going to show every single day becaues I would run out of things to write. Anyway here's the chapter, enjoy.

Chapter 7: Restlessness

Silence filled the cell, except for the repeating taps Mikey made on the metal bed. A heavy tension could be felt in the air as the four brothers were in separate corners of the cell. Leo trying to meditate, Mikey and Raph were sitting on their beds, shell's against the wall and Don sitting down on the ground.

It has been hours since they were last let out of their cell for food, and other than that nothing else had happened. It was hard for them to keep track of time with no clock but that wasn't the only problem. They were all bored and had nothing else to do, or knew what to do. And as always there was some tension that soon followed which was bad.

They weren't in the mood for talking at the moment, just like hours before and the day before. The only thing the four could hear is the repeating taps of Mikey's finger on the bed, which seemed to be the only thing that the orange clad turtle seemed to be doing only.

Raph sat on his bed, eyes looking forward, eyes narrowing as the tapping started to grow louder in his mind.

*Tap* Tap* Tap*

His fist clenched tight as the sound continued, for a while now it has been nothing but that irritating tapping.

*Tap* *Tap* *Tap

Both of his eyes narrowed as his teeth gritted, the sound getting louder and is now annoying him so much. His fist is trembling since he has it clenched so tight, it didn't seem like it was going to stop. His patience is starting to run thin at this point, combined with the boredom things only seemed to get worse.

*Tap*

And if he has to hear it for another minute-

*Tap*

No second.

*Tap*

Then he's.

*Tap*

Going to

*Tap*

Do

*Tap*

Letting out a frustrated yell he shot up from his bed, and shouted at the top of his lungs "Will you stop that irritating sound!"

That instantly stopped the tapping, making the sea green turtle wince, plus making Leo and Don jump. "What, how is it annoying?" Mikey asked sheepishly.

Raph started to heave as he dangerously approached his brother, voice filled with anger. "You have been making that same annoying sound for who knows how long so, GIVE IT A REST!"

Leo got out of his meditation and rose to his feet, "Raph calm down!"

"Don't get me started with you next fearless!" Raph snapped at his older brother, all his anger now directed towards him. "It's so easy for you to say because all you have to do is go to your la, la land and block out everything!"

Both of Leo's eyes glared back as he approached Raph, now getting in each other's personal space. "I wouldn't have to keep doing it if you would stop yelling at everyone every minute."

"Yelling? That's a laugh, tell me Leo, what am I supposed to do them," The red clad turtle rolled his eyes as he turned and walked to the center of the cell and held his arms out. "It's been ten days since we've been here, and all they mostly let us do is let us rot in our cell!"

Raph was dead on in his rant, they all have been imprisoned for ten days total, or that's as long as they managed to calculate. And in all honestly they haven't been allowed to do anything else by the guards. It was the same every day, they got released to eat breakfast or lunch, which ever it was. All they knew was that they only got to eat twice a day.

Once they finished they would always be escorted back to their cell for an undetermined amount of time. It would be hours before the guard would let them out again. Other than that most of their time had been spent inside their cell, with nothing more to do.

At first they followed Leo's suggestion and tried to do some stationary exercises to keep their minds occupied. But soon it started to prove useless since they kept doing the same thing every day. One by one each brother blew it off till it stopped eventually. Now they were left to their own thoughts and that was dangerous since an argument could happen at any time, like now.

As time went by it got pretty easy for at least one of them to snap at the other over the smallest thing. There were arguments constantly and since they were trapped in tight quarters none of them could escape the other.

"We have to keep a cool head right now," Leo responded as he wasn't fazed by the outburst.

"Cool head?" Raph jokingly chuckled, being sarcastic before yelling. "I'm completely cool!"

"Try saying that without yelling," Mikey joked, which happened to be a mistake.

"Shut it numbskull!" Raph shouted at his younger brother, his anger kept shifting.

The leaf green turtle got in between his brothers, "Hey lay off Mikey."

"Don't defend him fearless," Raph glared daggers at him. "Why not let him suffer the consequences for his actions."

"Because you're taking it too far," Leo fired back.

"Only because shell for brains keeps making that annoying sound!"

Mikey got off his bed, "I'm just tapping my finger how is that annoying, see?" He made the big mistake of tapping on the bed once more.

"AAAAHH!" Raph shouted as he dove for his brother, but Leo and Mikey moved out of the way. Hitting the bed his teeth grit as he turned back around, "Stay still!" he launched once more.

"Raph calm down!" Mikey shrieked as he jumped up and managed to hold himself up on the ceiling.

Using the chance Leo grabbed Raph from behind and tried to restrain him. "Raph knock it off!" he struggled to hold him, but Raph is much stronger than himself.

"He had to go and continue making that annoying sound!" Raph broke free and jumped up to grab the youngest turtle but Mikey dove out of the way. He charged once more and managed to catch him. "Now I'm going to silence it for good!"

"SHUT UP!" they all froze at the angry voice, but surprisingly it wasn't Raph's.

All three looked over and saw their genius brother glaring at all three of them. His body trembling a bit as he has a disappointed frown on his face. All three brothers gulped as they realized that they had an angry Donny on their hands now.

Raph may be a hothead and loses his temper every now and then and his brothers knew to stay away. But an angry Donny is a force to be reckon with. No one dared talk or mess with him when he's in a mood like this.

They all froze stiff as they watch Don rise up from the ground and walk over to them. "Separate," he told them in irritated voice. Raph nodded as he let Mikey go. "Now back away."

They both then moved away from each other. "Don you-" Raph tried to speak but a glare from his brother shut him up.

"All of you haven't been helping the situation at all, you just get mad, irritate or ignore everything," he looked at all his brothers. "So why don't you all just sit down and shut up!" All three of them back up at their brother's rant.

Raph decided to brave his brother's wrath once more with a gulp. "But Don we're started to go crazy in here. And that sound Mikey was making wasn't helping anyone."

"I've noticed," he responded as he turned and walked back to his bed. "If memory serves we're starting to have symptoms of cabin fever."

They all raised their eyes at this. "But…we're in a cell…and we're not sick," Mikey responded clueless.

Don closed his eyes and took a few breaths to calm himself so he wouldn't snap at his brother. But had to remember that they wouldn't know about this, so he had to explain. "No Mikey, cabin fever is a term used to describe those who are irritable and restless after spending a prolong amount of time in a confined space."

Leo sighed and asked for all of them, "Simple terms Don, please."

"It basically defines us, we're easily annoyed, bored and angered since we've spent so much time in here with nothing else to do," He responded with a sigh.

"Any cure for it?" Mikey asked as they walked closer.

"Getting out of the cell," Don plainly said, which disappointed them all.

"Well that's great," Raph responded as he paced around the room and kicking the dirt. "Who knows when we get to get out again!"

Just then their cuffs glowed and their wrists binded together, all four of them grit their teeth as they knew what was happening. All their eyes looked at the door as it opened, reveling all too familiar guards. The guards walked in, holding their clubs and looking way too cheeky.

"You all know what to do," the lead one said.

They all stood side by side, glaring back at them, knowing what is going to happen but it has become too much and they weren't going to stand it. "No," Raph defiantly said.

"What," the guard snarled.

"You keep taking blood from us for no reason, no more," Don back up his brother.

Just then their tattoos lit up and they all cried out as they were shocked, being brought down to their knees. It took five seconds for them all to fall to the ground before the shocks stopped. All their breathing were shallow, limbs shaking and partially numb. But before any of them could react they felt the guard whack them on the shells, making them fall flat on the ground.

Heavy hands then were pressed down on them, keeping them all pinned. "This is what defiance gets you," the head guard responded as the four Triceratons that held the syringe guns came in. And like always they stuck the needles in their arms and drained a pint of blood from them.

This was the tenth straight day they did this. None of the brothers knew why but every day they would drain blood from them, and they wouldn't say what they were doing it for or what they were using it for. It would be the same every day, being order to get to the ground as the guards would hold them down. Then their blood would be taken then they would be left alone. But this time it was different since they weren't being willing.

Once the pints were taken the four left the cell. The guards then gave each brother a warning whack on the shell, causing them to cry out in pain. They then rose up and left the cell, leaving the four on the ground.

Before closing the door the lead guard glared at them, "Keep this up and you all will get another private yard time." The doors closed once more and their cuffs dimmed and released their wrists.

Raph was the first to get to his feet, shouting out loud as he hit the nearby wall. "They're not getting away from this!"

"We feel the same way Raph," Leo responded as he and the rest of his brothers got up. "I'm getting sick of them myself."

Raph nodded as he started to pace around the cell again. "I'm sick of them doing this to us, I'm sick of how cruely they treat us, and I'm just plainly sick of them!"

"What can we do?" Mikey interjected. "We can't resist or they'll shock us, and of course they can restrain us because of the cuffs, so what is it we can do?"

"One thing," Don said, causing all eyes to focus on him.

"And what do pray tell think what it is we can do," Raph folded his arms, not impressed.

Donny smirked, "We do the one thing that all prisoners try to do. We're going to make an escape plan."

A/N: Hope you like. I wanted to show what would happen when the brothers are confined in a small space for a while and I hope it was good. I tried to mix a bit of humor and hope it works. Now i'm asking for a little help. I want you all to tell me what is something you would like to see in this story. If I like it i'll consider putting it in if I can create a good scene in my head. I thank those who help. And if you have any questions at all about the story or anything about it please ask. Till next time.