Bike Riding One Shot (#2)

(Part Two/Final)

Raph and Mikey

"You don't know what you have until it's gone."

Raph gasped awake, struggling for air. He tried sitting up but found himself trapped under… a body?

Mikey.

'Mikey! Oh shit. Please don't be dead little brother! Please! Stay alive for me, please.' He internally begged.

Slowly turning himself to turn his baby brother's body, he gently moved Mikey onto the ground and studied him.
Mikey had cuts and bruises all over him, much like Raph, except Raph was still breathing, Mikey looked still enough to be dead.

"No! No…. No… Mikey, Mikey," He shook Mikey gently seeing if he'd wake up.

"Mikey please, now's not tha time ta joke ya retard! Get up! Stop goofin' around!" Raph was beginning to worry now. He shook his little brother a bit more and then tried pressing his ear against Mikey's plastron.

He searched for a heartbeat.

….

And he found none.

"NO! NO Mikey! You can't fuckin' do this! COME BACK YA DORK! QUIT PLAYIN'! Please… GET UP!"

Raph sobbed the last part out. His baby brother was gone. And he was going to try everything to get him back. Thank god that they had ended up in an alley way. But humans could still look for them to try and help them. So Raph dragged Mikey over to the manhole in the back of the alley way and popped the manhole cover off with his sais.

Carefully sliding Mikey down, hoping to not damage him anymore. Climbing next, he covered the manhole. Jumping down, he put Mikey laying straight on his shell.

"Please baby brother…" He sobbed out. He began doing CPR.

Thump, thump...

Raph continued pressing down hard on Mikey's plastron.

Carefully, Raph opened Mikey's mouth and breathed into his baby brother twice.

He searched for a heartbeat and found nothing.

He pressed 30 more times.

Breathe, breathe.

Listen.

Nothing.

Thump, thump…

Raph wasn't going to quit. Even when his arms and most likely broken ribs were aching and it was past over an hour, he continued doing this in intervals. 30:2. He wasn't going to stop until his little brother breathed.

"C'mon baby brother! Please goofball! Just come back ta me! I'll never be mean ta ya eva again! I'll let ya read my magazines and pull as many pranks as ya want ta! Ya just have ta come back…. Please."

Raph stopped and sobbed his heart out. He slowly held Mikey close to him.

"I love ya baby brother…. Please. I know I never say it but…. Please. Just come back! Michelangelo…."

Raph sobbed again holding Mikey closer. Finally, he roared angrily, throwing a sai from his belt straight into the sewer wall, leaving a giant crack there.

But Raph didn't care. All he cared about was his now dead baby brother.

"Baby…" He whispered as he remembered Sensei saying that he'd call Mikey that as a tot.

His baby.

When he was told that he scoffed and said no way in shell would he have ever said that.

'I know what he meant…', Raph thought weakly. He gave an ironic chuckle.

"I messed up little brother…. So badly.. I miss ya already. Why didn't I stop ya from comin'? Ya didn't deserve this ta happen ta ya. I'm so fuckin' sorry baby.." Raph's hands were covered in blood. His, but mostly Mikey's. And he looked down.

Then Raph cried.

He tried again.

30 Thumps.

2 Breathes.

Listening.

Repeating.

And then he stopped.

And he screamed.