I guess I've just been on a roll. xD

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Splinter had not moved in the last three hours, his legs tucked underneath of him as he kneeled next to his second oldest son's bed. His old bones creaked with protest when he stood up and walked over to the dresser in his son's room where a bowl of wet rags sat. Raphael had been sick for a week now, and his fever was off and on, going away for a few days then coming back full force a day later. Now the red masked ninja lay in his bed, under bed rest despite his complaints. Squeezing the rag until it was just damp, the large rat placed it upon his son's head. He had been asleep all day, and only woke up a few times to use the bathroom. His ears twitched when Splinter heard the door to Raph's room open and turned his head slightly, watching as Donatello walked in with a heater in one hand, and a bottle of pills in the other. "Here you go Master Splinter." Splinter smiled, and thanked his son as he watched the purple clad turtle plug the heater in.

"I brought some medicine too. April said this will help keep his fever down."

"I will give them to your brother Donatello, go train with your brothers." Since Raphael didn't seem to be getting any better, Splinter left them in charge of training themselves so he could tend to Raphael. He gently urged Don with his eyes when the purple masked turtle tensed, and looked at Raph. The wise rat knew Donatello wanted to be here in case anything changed, "If anything happens I will call you Donatello, now go." He said, placing a soft paw on his son's shoulder before Donnie nodded and slowly left the room.

His gaze shifted back down to Raphael, and he sighed softly, rubbing his cheek before kneeling back down infron of the bed. "Raphael." He gently shook the hot headed turtle, it took a few moments for his son to open his eyes, and another few moments for him to actually wake up.

"Masta Splinta?" He yawned, rubbing his eyes and looking at the rat.

"Did you sleep well?"

Raphael nodded his head and Splinter smiled, taking two tablets out of the bottle and pressing them into Raph's clamy hand, "Take these my son. They will help with the fever."

"How long have I been asleep?" Asked the second oldest turtle, as he tried to sit up.

Splinter pressed down on his shoulders, forcing him to lie back down, "You need rest Raphael. Don't worry about the time for now." Once his son was relaxed again he took the water and the pills (Raph had let the fall out of his hand.) and held them to the turtle's lips.

Raphael glared at the tablets before placing them in his mouth as Splinter tipped the cup ever so slightly, allowing the hot headed turtle to drink. Afterwords his son laid back and began to fall asleep again. The rat looked down at him with a sigh. He removed the damp rag from his son's head and wet it once again before placing the old piece of cloth back on Raphael's head.

"Be strong Raphael."

The second oldest turtle grunted softly before finally falling asleep, leaving Splinter to stare at the sick turtle. Any other day, the giant rat would leave his son's care to Donatello, they all knew- splinter the most- that hot headed Raphael didn't like the attention one gets when sick, his son thought that any help he received was a sign of weakness, he also knew how Raphael bore the world's problems over his shoulders, a need to protect people, his family or not, and that burden fueled his anger more than anything. He felt the need to save the world on his own. That's why whenever Raphael was hurt, despite how hard it was- everyone acted as if nothing was wrong. Now though, something was going wrong, and they couldn't ignore it. Raphael was suddenly the sickest of them all.

"Sensei, is he getting any better?"

It took him a moment to figure out what Donatello had said to him, but once he did he replied, "I'm afraid not, his fever still hasn't broken."

"Now that he's got medicine in his system it should help."

"Let's let your brother rest for now." Splinter said, looking up at the purple masked turtle with a small smile, placing a hand on his shoulder and walking out with him.

It was hot. Way too hot for the middle of fall, the air was stale, and it felt like the sun was mere inches from his face. The sewers were usually cold in fall, they'd all sleep with extra blankets, and even leave the oven on as a way of heating their home up. Yet now, it felt as if it was summer, the air felt sticky and stale and he hated it. Grimacing as he realized his blanket was soaked in his own sweat, he opened his bleary eyes, only to be met with the sight of the brownish orange ceiling of his room. "Why...s'it so hot?" He murmured to himself, looking around his room only to spot the heater in the middle.

Raphael slowly sat up, rubbing the sweat off his forehead as he stared at it in confusion, the heater stayed by the stairs, so why was it in his room? Was Mikey playing some sort of prank? Leave it to Mikey to risk freezing to death to prank one of them, with a growl the red masked turtle stomped over to the heater, and ripped the plug from the outlet, killing the hunk of metal that made the terrible heat and heading downstairs to where he knew his brothers were.

When he got downstairs everything seemed to freeze, Mikey's game paused, Leo put his crossword ouzzle down, and Donnie put his blow torch down and took his goggles off, and they all just stared. He didn't know why they were all staring, but it was bothering him. "What is it?" He spat, crossing his arms over his chest, but they continued to just...stare. Just as Raphael was about to walk out, Leo spoke up. "You're up." He said, and Raphael cocked a brow at the shocked expression on his brother's face.

"Yeah. I'm up."

Donie got up, and walked over to Raphael, who let out a huff as his younger brother began feeling his head and asking him a bunch of questions, "Where's Splinta?"

"He went to April's to get more medicine." Mikey spoke up, leaning over the couch, "Dude, you've been sick like, all week."

"Well, I'm not anymore." He snapped back defensively and Mikey shrugged, Donnie however sighed.

"You don't have a fever, but sincce this is your first day without one you should take it easy."

"I've been takin' it easy all week!"

"And you're going to have to be taking it easy for another week if you don't rest some more so your body can heal." Leo snapped, and Raphael glared.

He knew Leo was only trying to look out for him, but he had been laying in bed all week, and all he wanted to do right now was eat something other than soup, and go topside for some fresh air. Truthfully he didn't even remember most of this week, other than eating and sleeping.

"Raph, Leo's right. Your body still needs time to recooperate."

"Fine. Whateva." He paused, "But that don't mean I'm gonna lay around all day." He snathed the remote from Mikey's side, and changed the input, going through the channels. Mikey let out a yelp, and tried to snatch the remote back but the red clad turtle shoved him to the floor, taking up the enire couch.

"Raaaph!"

"Shuddap." He snapped, and his younger brother for once, listened.

If he was going to be forced to sit around today, he'd at least do it the way he wanted to.

Somehow Raphael had managed to get out of the lair and join them for patrol that night. Leo had originally told Raph no, it was even colder than before, and even if Raphael's flu seemed to be gone, the weather would only bring it back. Raphael had went off in a rage and after some fighting Leo begrudgingly let Raphael come along, and simply decided that their night out would be shorter than usual. Whether his younger brother liked it or not. "Leo, are you sure about this?"

"He needed some time away from the lair. An hour topside won't hurt him." The leader replied and Donnie rolled his eyes, Mikey however seemed relieved with the answer and went back to rocking himself on the bar he hung upside down from.

Donatello had been most against the idea once he heard Leo had deided to let Raph join them and had went of a mini rant to the oldest about how the body needs time to rest after taking on the flu. Leo had barely understood what Don was talking about and suddenly felt pity for the red masked turtle. How many times had Donatello ranted to Raph for coming home injured? "You don't know that Leo. Raphael could barely stay well in early fall it's almost win-"

"I'm fine! Stop talkin' like I'm not here!" Both Leo and Donnie snapped their heads up to look at the hot headed turtle, who was glaring at both of them.

Before any fights could break lose there was a crash, as well as a groan and the three turtles foudn themselves looking down at their youngest brother who was laying on the rooftop, rubbing his head. "Ow."

"Shell fer brains." Raphael snorted, smirking at his youngest brother and Leo couldn't help but chuckle. It took a moment, but pretty soon Don was laughing too and Mikey grinned.

Thank you Mikey. Leo thought as he helped the orange masked turtle up and sighed softly, Mikey smiled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head, "I slipped."

"Obviously." Donnie chuckled and Mikey stuck his tongue out at him.

They spent about an hour running across the roof tops, looking for any signs of purple dragons or the foot, but alas, nothing was found hinting to anything bad and the four turtles were in the sewers, walking home. Donnie seemed to keep his eyes on Raph, watching him for any signs of getting sick and the red masked turtle tried his best to ignore him. They trekked through the sewers in silence, and other than the rushing water that ran pass them, there was no other noise. That's when Leo heard it, the soft splashing of someone's feet. He paused, it sounded faint, and far away, but either way someone was down here. "You hear it too?" Raph whispered, and the blue masked turtle nodded.

"Mikey, Don." He pointed tot he right, "Go that way, me and Raph will go back, call us if you find anything."

With that, the group split, Mikey and Down silently running ahead, while Raph and Leo went back the way they came to see if someone was following them.

I hope this chapter works for you guys. xD R&R please!