Disclaimer: Not mine, someone else's.

Title: TMNT: Mafioso.

Rating: T

Pairings: April/Casey…. Cuz they're already together, and now; Mikey/Angel.

Genre: Crime/Family…. It can be considered a little bit humor too

Summary: Splinters dead, Michaelangelo is the new leader of the Dragon-Foot clan, Leonardo is a bartender, Raphael is a loan-shark and Donatello's gone rogue turtle. Anything else? Oh, well Casey and April own a nightclub if it means anything….

Day thirteen.

"….And dat's how I got dis accent." El finished the tale.

"…Wow, that's fucked up." Renet commented.

"LANGUAGE RENET!" Doc yelled from another room.

"Sorry!" Renet called back; she turned to El with a grin and flipped the bird in the direction Doc was in. El grinned back as they both snickered and he gave her a thumbs off.

"I CAN FEEL IT IF YOU'RE FLIPPING ME OFF!" Doc called from the kitchen.

"Fuck." Renet cursed under her breath.

"LANGUAGE!"

"I need my own place…." El muttered under his breath, and then suddenly gripped his forearm in agony "OWW! SHIT!" He heard Doc give a shout of pained confusion, leaving only two possible sources.

"I'm sorry!" Cody squeaked, looking guilty and scared. He ran over to his Uncle Leo who was keeled down, with one hand cupped over his forearm where blood seeped out from between his fingers.

"I-It's alright Cody," Leo said between clenched teeth as he got up and headed towards the bathroom; he had been injured far worse many times.

"I'm so sorry Uncle Leo!" Cody wailed and ran over to hug Leo's leg, the five-year-old continued to wail and cry.

"It's alright…." Leo insisted; he had been asleep on the couch when he heard noise; he woke up to find Cody playing with his secret cache of kunai and shuriken, Leo jumped out and tried to stop him but he startled the boy and Cody accidentally threw a shuriken at him, which ended up buried in his forearm.

After several minutes of struggling, Leo peeled the hysteric child off of his leg and ran into the bathroom where he locked the door.

Leo grabbed a small hand-towel and rolled it before placing it between his jaws to bite on. He turned to the shuriken poking out of his forearm and braced himself; with his other hand he gripped one of the sharp points and swiftly yanked it out. A gasp of pain escaped him but it was muffled by the towel, his teeth bit into the towel hard.

Blood gushed out and rolled down, pooling at his elbow and dripping down his wrist. The towel dropped from Leo's mouth and he turned water of the sink on and cleaned the blood off of his arm, and cleaned the wound. Damn, it was deep.

Grabbing the first aid kit, Leo wiped the cut with anesthetic wipes before putting on a little antibiotic ointment and wrapping it with gauze and bandages. It still bled through though, meaning he would have to constantly change the bandages.

Even though he didn't care much for the searing pain, he took some pain killers for his brothers sakes, he could see all of them groaning in pain. Oh, Leo found an interesting side-affect to this 'pain-connection' he had with his brothers, with them being connected through pain, he could trace the chi back to them at the moment they feel pain, and could see what they saw. That was how he found El the other day, and he had been so focused on saving his brother that the pain did not bother him. But through that last bout of pain, he could see that Mikey was currently out of the picture. He was…. Somewhere. And that was a setback for Leo, because it looked like his attempts of making up with his brother were for nothing, all he managed to do was drive him away on vacation.

Then again, maybe his method of 'talking' hadn't been a very sound one; after all, he literally held a sword to Mike's throat…..

Day fourteen

Knock Knock

"Hi uncle Donnie!" Cody chirped when he opened the door, revealing the snow-suit clad turtle on the other side.

"Hey Cody." Doc greeted warmly and messed up Cody's thick red locks before entering the apartment; Shadow was reading a book, and Leo was as per usual asleep on the couch, sleeping off another graveyard-shift.

"Where's Raphie? He hasn't come over anymore!" Cody asked in a whine.

"He's uh…." Doc raked his brain for an excuse.

"Does he work like uncle Leo?" Cody asked.

'If by 'working' you mean; borrowing money from Mikey, lending it out to people on the streets and beating the crap out of them when they don't pay back.' Doc thought, but he responded "Yeah, he works, he's really tired now too; like Leo."

Doc walked over to Leo and flicked his head "Wake up!"

"Five more minutes sensei….." Leo groaned and turned onto his sides; Doc rolled his eyes, was it him or did Leo sound like Mikey right then? Doc flicked him again.

"Leo, come on man; wake up."

The reaper-looking turtle opened his eyes "Oh hey Doc, what's up?" He asked quietly.

Doc rolled his eyes, grabbed Leo by the fabric of his reaper-robe, and yanked him up "To the bathroom, now."

"I'm not going in front of you." Leo stated flatly.

Doc rolled his eyes again "I need to check your shoulder." He said and continued to drag Leo to the bathroom.

"My shoulder's fine." Leo defended.

"The searing pain I feel in my shoulder disagrees!" Doc shot down and tore one of the sleeves clean off.

"That was my only robe!" Leo complained; Doc raised a ridge, did Leo ever wash that…..?

Doc quickly pulled the bandages off and took the gauze off from the injury; his jaw dropped. "Holy shit!" Doc elled and pushed his brother down to sit on the toilet, he grabbed the first-aid kit. "Leo, it's horrible!"

"What are you talking about?" Leo asked stubbornly "It's fine!"

"Yeah, that's why the skin around it is purple and theres puss leaking out of it." Doc snorted "It's infected. Leo, I knew you were stubborn, but putting your health on the line is ridiculous."

Leo went quiet. Doc quickly poured in some peroxide and grabbed some stitches "How did you get this anyways? Did Mikey send one of his Dragon-Foot ninja to torment you?"

"No; Cody found some of my shuriken and threw one at me by accident." Leo replied.

"Wow, he got it pretty deep…" Doc said, impressed, as he stitched the wound together; he applied a layer of gauze and wrapped it in bandages "Take really good care of that shoulder, Leo; I mean it." He stated with emphasis "Take a few days off of work."

"No." Leo refused.

"Now while I find your productivity impressive, your health is more of my concern; you have like what, five months of built-up vacation time? Just use a week."

Leo was about to argue, but then Doc added "And if you don't, I'll be sure to get Mikey involved-"

Leo put his hands up "I surrender." He said quickly.

Day fifteen

Being confined to the Lair was driving El nuts; sure, he spent that first fifteen of his life in the sewers, but that was probably the root of all of his anger issues. While he appreciated Doc's concern (to some extent), he found himself annoyed by his brothers constant doting. He could not be kept content by watching TV all day and having pointless conversations with Doc, it was an amazement Renet wasn't pulling her hair out, considering she had been stuck down here for god-knows-how-long.

But what really annoyed him was that he couldn't talk to Leo. Leo saved his freaking life but he couldn't run a few blocks to thank him. And Doc had told him that Leo had been injured too so it was the perfect time.

Living with Doc and Renet, he found out a few things; Doc didn't play vigilante alone any more, Renet (whom Doc was actually training) went with him, as his 'sidekick'. And while Doc no longer worked on projects as he did in the past, he did write out blue prints for them all of the time, El could not wrap his head around the reason Doc wouldn't build things anymore, considering that in the past he would stay up several days at a time thinking, drafting and building machines.

And Renet…. Was actually, not too bad. Sure, she was still annoying as shell, but at least she wasn't boring. From his experiences with Renet, he always wondered why Lord Simultaneous had picked an air-headed blonde like Renet as an apprentice, and after having started to live with them, he realized she had this freaky ability to measure time; she could measure things in the tenth, hundrenth, thousandth and even millionth of a second. Whether or not she was born like that, or she been taught to do that, El did not know.

Luckily, today was a bit of a lighthearted day; the pain in his midsection was subsided thanks to the painkillers and booze, and Doc again worked his medical-science magic and had made the pain Leo was feeling dissolve as well. But he knew that not all days could be quite as lighthearted; it was only a matter of time before something else happened.

And that drove him more crazy than anything.

Blarg. Sorry, I've been a bit under the weather as of late...