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Home.

He still remembered when Donnie found their new home. Laughing and proud of his discovery. That was his brother, that's how he would remember him. Not the quiet and dejected turtle that came back. He never once told them what happened, and in a way that made it worse.

He could see the man hole cover.

He checked around himself, his body ached but he was too close to stop.

They had never taken Raph, a fact which he was certain did more harm than anything they could have done. The taking of the weaker members of their family, hurting them in countless unknown ways…while leaving the elders alone.

Some brother you are Leo.

He slipped into the sewer in silence.

For a long moment, he froze in the blackness that was once so normal to him. His heart sped and his breathing became uneven. It was too close to that place. His hands fumbled, reaching out for something to help him find his bearings.

His hand closed over a thin pipe.

Pipe, there were no pipes in that cell.

More meaningless discoveries, from a soda bottle to a spider web. But they were things not in that cell and they helped him fumble through the darkness.

The closer he got to him, the closer he was to keeping his promise. To tell their father.

He stopped.

Tell their father?

How on earth could he look his father in the eye and tell him this. What would he say? He felt sick to his stomach, and the weakness he felt spread to his limbs.

He forced himself forward, if only to find the light of their home.

With out his brothers, how could he ever consider that place a home again?

Would his father even permit him to stay?

Did he deserve it, if he were allowed?

He found himself standing in the doorway of the den. Though he never recalled going into their home. It was all there. There were comics and weapons spread to the four corners of the main room.

Just as they had left it.

Comics which would never be read, gadgets never finished.

Because he walked them into a trap and got them killed.

He had no right to be here.

Just then he heard the steady clank, clank of wood on stone. His master descended the stairs and knelt in front of the candles.

Praying?

Meditating?

Who could be sure.

The only thing Leo was sure about, was that after seeing him, there was no way he could leave.

He pushed forward and toward the rat.

Splinter turned and began to rise just as the turtle slumped to his knees in front of him. His hands in fists on the floor as his forehead touched the cold stone.

"Leonardo! Y-"

The rat was cut off by a slur of guilt laden words from his oldest. The normally stoic Leo was sobbing at his fathers feet. Begging forgiveness and damming himself.

The rat stood there in shock. When his boys had come home, he was grateful to have them safe at home. Regardless of what shape they arrived in. Though he had spent the last 2 days reassuring them their missing brother would be alright and it was not their fault, he was not certain.

He had spent his nights in fear of him showing up on his doorstep worse than the others…or not at all.

So to see Leo kneeling and pleading, was a dream come true. He hardly took note of his words, as those old eyes scanned over looking for signs of injury. Only a few nicks and scrapes. Bad sores on his knees and thighs, as they all had from living 'there'.

No one told him more than they were captured, and for the time he did not ask.

Somewhere in Leos pleading he took a breath and finished carefully. Though, just as heartbroken as ever.

"…killed him. Master forgive me. I failed you, I failed them…"

Splinter reached out, his hand covering the top of Leo's head. Leo flinched back at the touch, as though it burned.

How could the rat comfort him. It was his fault, didn't he know? Wasn't he listening? Leo couldn't save them.

Trembling features looked up to meet his master for the first time. The old rat smiled warily then his eyes softened.

Leo couldn't understand why until a voice came from behind him.

"No Leo, You didn't."

TBC

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