Disclaimed: I have rights, I have job rights, I have school rights, I have music taste rights, but I do not have the right to own TMNT. (Cries.)

Miwa wiped her eye as she got herself up and walks out into the pit, Leo and Raph were already up and watching morning cartons. She didn't wonder where Donnie was, most likely in his room pretending to be an inventor and attempted to build things out of whatever their father finds on patrol.

"Kids, breakfast."

She smiles as she stands up from the bean bag, but was soon knocked to the ground as Leo and Raph fling through the room. She frowns and stands herself back up, before sitting at the kitchen bench.

"Where's Donatello?"

"In his room father," Miwa replied, as the turtle places down her plate.

"Again? I thought I told that kid, to spend less time in his room."

"He wants to be a silly inventor," Raph said, stuffing bacon in his mouth.

"There's nothing wrong with that, Raphael. But, it doesn't mean he's allowed to miss out on family times."

"Donatello!" the turtle yells, before walking towards the room.

"Daddy, I don't feel so good."

Mikey's eyes narrowed once he realized Donnie was standing in front of him, still in his purple pj's.

"What's wrong, kid?" he asked, picking him up in his arms and pressing a firm hand on his son's forehead.

"I feel icky."

"Yeah, don't blame ya. You've got a fever kid."

As Mikey walks out of the kitchen, three worried children follow him, but stop once they were outside of Donnie's room.

"I see little ninjas, not eating there breakfast," he said, as he turned around.

"But, Donnie father?" Leo asked.

"I well take care of Donatello and you will eat your breakfast training is cancel for today."

Donnie watches his sibling, slowly walking away as his head rested on the turtle shoulder. He yawns as he feels his bed underneath him and eyes barely open as Mikey tucks him in.

"Where you going?" Donnie asked dozily.

"I'm going to get the, thermometer I be back in a minute," Donnie nods and watches his father leaves and it isn't long before he comes back.

"Open up, kid."

The seven year old opens his mouth and Mikey places the thermometer his tone, gently pressing a hand onto his head.

"101 1. Not good, how do you feel?"

"Hurts all over," he winded.

Mikey sighs, he knew he should have seen this coming, for a couple of days now Donatello wasn't keeping up with his sibling during training and had been strangely quiet.

"If I get you some soup, do you think you can eat some?" Donnie shakes his head, slowly.

"No, tummy hurts to."

"Why didn't you tell me sooner, kid?" Mikey asked, as he rubs a hand through Donnie brown hair.

"Didn't, want you to worry."

"I always worry, it's comes with being a parent."

As Mikey stands, he's stop when Donnie holds onto his hand.

"Don't leave."

"I'm going to get you something to eat. You might be on bed rest for a while and you're going to need all the strength you can get."

"But, I don't want to be alone," Donnie said, wiping away his tears.

"What, about if I call one of your brothers?" Donnie shakes his head, so he asked instead.

"Miwa?"

Mikey nods, Miwa and Donnie shard a strong bond despite the two sometimes getting into little fights, they had always been there for each other as Leo and Raph would fight more often.

"Sure kid, Miwa can you come in here please."

Miwa, footsteps was soon heard and soon she burst into the youngest room.

"Hai sensei."

"Can you keep an eye on your brother? I'm just going to get him something to eat and a couple of things to help get the fever down."

"Hai sensei," she said, soon going towards her little brother as their father walks out of the room.

Mikey feared, if the fever didn't go down then April would soon have to be involved in order to take Donnie to the hospital. The last thing he needed was him, devolving seizures because of a high fever, quickly asking Leo to inform her and telling Raph he's welcomed to see his brother. The older turtle soon fills an empty bowl with cold water and grabs a rag in his hands and heating up a can soup. Leo and Raph follows him into their brother's room.

"He felt asleep, is that good?" Miwa asked wordily.

"Yes, but we need him to wake him up. So he can eat something."

Miwa step down from the bed and stood by her brothers, the three watches as their father dip the rag into the cold water and gently shake there little brother awake.

"D-dad," he choked.

"Hey son, do you think you can try this?" He holds out the teaspoon, "it's your favourite."

Donnie shakes his head, before slowly dozing off to sleep, Mikey sighs, placing the bowl down on the drawer.

As the night moved on, the three refused to move from Donnie side and had made a nest close to his bed, to keep an eye on both the youngest of the family and their father. Even though Mikey held it well, he was worried and soon he knew he was about to panic, Donnie's fever didn't seem to want to go down. Instead it seemed to get worse and fast, he had done everything his Donnie used to do whenever one of them were down with the flue.

Damp cloth … checked.

Cold bath … did that.

Medicine … been done.

"That's it, April taking you to the hospital," Mikey said as he carefully walked around the sleeping children on the floor.

"No."

He stops in his tracks at the sound, his sibling were soon by Donnie's side stopping him from falling out of the bed, the youngest started to cough, causing Mikey to be quickly be by his side.

"Kid, you're sick, real sick and I can't bring down your fever."

"But, if I go to the hospital, you can't see me," he started to cry and Miwa hugged him into her arms.

"Kid," he said quietly.

"He's right father," Leo responds.

"I'm sorry kid, but you need to go. I've done everything I can for you, but the doctors can do more to help you."

Donnie whimpers in his sisters arms, but soon felt his father taking him into a hug.

"Do you think you can be brave?" Donnie wipes away his tears and glances up to his father's eyes, he slightly nods. "Then I need you to do this, it's important for you to get better."

Donnie nods, he knows how protective his father can be and even though they don't know why. April had once told them that if one of them died before him, his farther wouldn't be able to take the heart ache.

"Kay," he whispers slightly, placing his small hand over his father's heart.

"Thanks kid."

Mikey places Donnie back down on his bed and walks out the door.

"Don't want to go," Donnie said, quietly.

"Don, ya have to," Raph said.

"But, I want to be with daddy."

The kids shifted at the sound of the youngest voice, even though by now most of then called there father by titles. Donnie was still the only one, who kept on calling Michelangelo, "dad," and when he was scared it would always go back to, "daddy." Michelangelo had never taught them a prefer way to call him, it was just easy for the kids to tell people on the outside world as father or sensei.

"We know, Donnie," Miwa tried to comfort him. "But, you know how protective he is."

"Yeah, remember the time we were walking home for the first time?" Leo asked and Donnie nods. "Remember when, that street gang attack us and called them self's, the… the um."

"Purple lizard," Raph said.

"No. Purple Dragons, yeah that's it," Leo adds.

"Where's this going to?" Donnie asked.

"I'm getting there, anyway. Remember how they trap us in the alley and because we didn't come home on time, father knew something was up and he went looking for us. Aunty April pulled up in a van and kicked two guys down and father came in. He was really mad."

Donnie nods, he remembers that day, they're had wanted to try walking home without April and Mikey had agree to it, but if they weren't home on time. Both were coming after them and Donnie knew from that day on, his father could become serious mad, he had never seen so much anger in him.

Granted, the old turtle never shown any anger before, but the eyes on his father would have been enough to kill someone, without a fight, if looks could kill.

"He was more angry then what Raph, can get," Miwa but's in.

"Hey," Raph protested. "I'm not mad all the time," Leo glares and the hot head only mumbles.

"Anyway, my point is. Father doesn't want to lose any of us, remember what Aunt April said?"

"He can't take a lost, it well be too much for him," Donnie and Leo both said at the same time.

"Kay, I'll get better, so daddy doesn't need to worry."

"Ready to go Donnie," April said as she walked in.

Donnie nods and runs up to Mikey, he picks him up into his arms and takes him into a hug.

"I bring his stuff over, later," April said, as she takes away the boy.

"That's fine, it be pack before you come back."

"Sensei," Miwa said.

"Yeah."

"Can we go with Donnie? We want to be there for him." Mikey hesitated for a while.

"April?" he asked her and she nods.

"Don't worry, I've taken a couple of days off," the turtle eyes drift to the kids.

"Very well, but stay out of trouble."

They nod as their father hands over there brother, April smiles, placing hand on the child forehead.

"Hurts," he quietly said.

"We know little one, but you're going to get better soon."

As April walks out of the room, three reaming children follow, leaving Mikey alone once again. Sure, in a way he was used to it, they all went to school leaving him to his own thoughts. But despite knowing where they're going to Mikey's mind continues to mess around with his memories.

"Only going to the hospital," he bitterly says before sitting back down onto the bed.

He didn't see Miwa running back to him as he was already far too deep into his mind, but he did feel something hugging his leg causing him to look down.

"Love you father," he ruffs her short black hair.

"Love you to kiddo, now you better go before April leaves without you." She nods.

She knows that April would never do that to anyone of them, but she also knows this is her father's way of hurrying things along. She quickly dashes through the door and waves, before leaving him alone again.

Donnie's eyes blink rapidly as he stares out the window in front of him, three other people shared the same room as him and he was the only one who got window to look at. The dark sky and the towers in front of him, was away in hoping to see his father dashing about.

Leo and Raph already fast asleep and Miwa slowly dozing off, April had gone to get some coffer for herself, leaving them alone for a short while.

His mind wonders if his sister had been having nightmares, most of his sibling did, but so far he hadn't got any or at least not any with like there nightmares. He remembers Miwa telling father about them, all of his older brothers nightmares seem to be horrible.

Leo and Raph often dreamt them self-up as turtles and Mikey was with them as well, but not the father he knew instead he was a teenage just like their dream forms would be.

They often describe him to be the opposite he is now, smiling, goofing off and just being a teenage and less being a ninja. Miwa would say, she was human still, but it would never take long after that before she burst into tears, saying she was trying to kill them.

Donnie would often laugh, but was soon shut up, with the serious expression his family would give them, after his sibling would tell him about aliens and other mutants.

Donatello didn't believe that, sure he could see other life forms, but aliens living among them and trying to take over the world he didn't see it. But, the eyes on his father were often full of pain, when every, they talk about their dreams, only told him otherwise.

"Donnie, what are you still doing up?"

April voice was heard, as she walks into Donnie privet cube, she places a blanket over the three as they have fallen asleep and she sits down on the chair, taking small mouth full of coffer, before placing it to the table.

"Couldn't sleep," he said, as he turns his head to her.

"Try to."

"Aunty April?" she nods as an answers, "Were there any other mutants like dad?"

April raise an eye brow at the sudden questioned.

"Why would you like to know?" she asked, gently.

"Well, if dad's a mutant, surely there must have been others. How many and what happen to them all?"

April sighs, pulling a blanket over him, she didn't want to answer, Mikey had tried so hard to keep his brothers a secret and she didn't want to take that one form of comfort away from him.

Donnie's eyes shifted, he could have sworn he saw something, running in the night sky across the building.

"There were others," this had caught Donnie attention again. "But, they were bad, very bad."

"What do you mean?"

"Some of them worked for a very cold man, who wanted nothing but unlimited power."

"Did dad stop him?" she giggles slightly.

"Yes and he had help."

His eyes turned again, something was out there, something was watching them, he knew it, he had that feeling and that's when realized it. Facing right at the window there was a figure, sitting on the roof top, April's eye followed the boy directions and she smiles.

"He came," Donnie said, not daring to take his eyes away.

"Yes, he did and he would always come," she said, rubbing a hand through the boy hair. "No matter how far, no matter what. But your father will always come for you and nothing will stand in his way to get to you, all of you."

Donnie smiles. It was as if all his worries in the world went away and he didn't care about nightmares or aliens or what else was out there in the world. He didn't care about his logic, of what was meant to be and isn't because his father was there and he well be for a very long time and this helped him sleep, through the night.

Again updates are going to take away, so please wait. However, when I do get time to write again next chapter ninja weapons and drama.

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