Raphael/Raph's P.O.V.

"Fearless smile? Heh, the world is over as we know it!" I said with obvious sarcasm which earned a glare from Mr. Smiley himself and a slight grin from Don. As Leo was about to say something, a soft cough and a groan came from our little brother got our attention.

Don wiped Mikey's forehead, Leo picked up a crumpled up, light green blanket and tucked our kid brother in with serious perfection issues. He continued to mess with it until it bugged me. He was taking way too long so I shoved him out of the way and finished it for him.

"Raph, what was that for?!" Leo demanded as he got that 'Raphael is being a hot-head again for no reason' look on his face, geez, I bet that's what he's thinkin' too!

"Could you keep it down Leo?! Or is that to hard for our fearless leader? You were taking an hour just to tuck Mikey in!" I said as Don got between us with an annoyed look and whispered, "Shhh, both of you quiet down or leave the lab! I'm trying to work and Mikey needs his sleep!"

I shot Leo a glare and stormed off from the lab to the dojo for my punching bag. Who does he think he is?! Don on the other hand needed more sleep than Mikey did! He's been up for so long I can't remember when he last went to sleep!

Reaching the dojo's doorway, I felt a firm hand on my shoulder and a stern voice say, "Raph, what did I do this time?" then he sighed deeply. I turned around to look at my older brother, his eyes staring intimidatingly into mine and I felt my blood boil.

"What do you want Leo?" I growled, feeling myself getting tense, containing my anger.

He removed his hand from my shoulder and shook his head looking confused.

"Why do you look like you want to beat the shell out of me? I don't remember doing anything to make you angry and if I did...I'm sorry. But we can't be arguing or fighting while Mikey is sick. Truce?" Leo asked, his eyes changing from intimidation to concern and the usual guilt.

Whenever he looks like that...it makes me feel stupid. Why was I mad again? I sighed and nodded, 'That's my fault, again. My anger just pops at times, sometimes it's small but with Leo...they're usually big. I don't know why, but his face just makes me mad. That doesn't even make sense!'

"...Sorry..." I whispered quietly, "I guess I'm just tense because goofball over there is sick as a dog."

"Yeah, I know the feeling. So we're good?" he asked.

"Sure. At least until Mikey's better." I smirked while holding out my hand. Leo smiled and we shook on it. No more fighting until our little brother was better and driving us crazy.

"Hey guys...do weee...got...more...coffeeee?" Don appeared out of nowhere and nearly hit the wall next to us.

"Donnie? You ok?" Leo said going into mother hen mode.

"Just...finneee..." Don replied with his obviously tired face.

"Bro...go to bed. When you don't sleep, your face is harder to look at without gagging." I said trying to get a reaction to see how awake he really was.

"I need...coffee?" he tried to sound convincing but failed miserably as he swayed like a brittle tree.

"Yeah, you're going to bed. NOW." Leo ordered, as he grabbed Donnie's arm and took him away. Don must have realized he was going to sleep no matter what he said, so in annoyance he threw some pills at me and yelled "COFFEEEE!"

"He means give them to Mikey when he starts to cough again." Leo translated for me as he was fighting Don's attempts to escape his grip. "At least you get the easy job!" he called from the hallway and I only thought one thing.

'Yes sir' Of course dripping with sarcasm. Hey, it's just my thing, wait...why is my foot warm?

"Meow."

I looked down where I heard the sound and felt the warmth, but I figured it would be the little flea trap with orange fur, and it was.

"Meooow?" 'it' said it like a question so I'm guessin 'it' was asking about Mikey.

"Yea, he's still around and sick." I answered as 'it' jumped to my shoulder and whined.

"Fine, fine! I'll let ya see him but no funny business ya got that?" I said as 'it' purred and rubbed it's head against my cheek as if to say, 'Of course not! Now lemme see him!'

As I started to walk I heard some talking and a few coughs coming from the lab.

'Time to play doctor.' I thought grinning to myself and the it just hung on to my shell as I walked with the meds in my hand.

I was about to knock on the doorway but something made me want to listen in on my little brotha's rant. It's pretty funny to listen to since it doesn't happen often.

"You know the worst part of being sick?" Mikey said to no one. Silence replied with silence, so he kept goin,

"The sick part. Being sick is being needy, so you're like, sick AND needy! Soo not fun dude." he stopped to cough up some nasty orange slime then kept goin, "As I was saying...wait...what was I saying?" looking to his right where Donnie put a lemongrass plant and he asked it, "Silver Sentry? I'm not sure if its you or one of my bros!"

I shook my head and grinned at the scene, Mikey talking to a plant thinking it was his favorite comic book character! "Mike, those comics are melting what's left of your brain or did you know I was here?" I said suddenly, from behind him, which, heh, scared the shell out of him.

"Wha?!" he jumped a little and started to yell at the plant, "Raph! Not funny bro! You almost made me soil my shell! How was I supposed to know that you looked like Silver Sentry?! Although, I gotta say...its an improvement dude!"

"Funny, last time I checked...I was right behind you and guess what? I still am." I said bluntly with sarcasm.

Mikey finally looked up and grinned, "You're still a cute little bunny Raph!" When he started to cough again, I remembered the medicine Don threw at me for Mikey before Leo dragged him out of the lab to sleep.

"Geez, Don could have just asked instead of being such a hot head!" I muttered to myself while Mikey took the pills happily, thinking it was pepperoni. Without looking at me he laughed, "That sounds weird when you say it Raph!" I frowned and crossed my arms as I remembered 'it' wanted to see him. Picking 'it' up I said to mikey,

"Yeah, keep laughing chucklehead, I brought 'it' to see you." I dropped 'it' on my kid brother's head as he squealed with excitement, "Klunk!"