Poor Donnie, he's in another world at least his little brother alive in this one, but is it all what it seems to be?
"Don, ya meant to be resting." Both turtles see Raph standing at the door. "It's my shift."
Donatello pays little attention, his eyes drifted back to the still form in front of him. He wants to cry in relief, but he didn't want his brothers to think he was broken or insane, he was still confused. He wanted answers, but the look on his older brother, when he asked about the comics told him, he should have already known.
"I stay," he said, as his hand gently places on Mikey forehead.
"Donnie, if I have to bash your head in and drag ya, to your bed. I will."
At least Raph still the same, guess he's a jerk in any world.
"Just let me stay Raph, I well get some sleep. Promise."
Leo lightly punched his brother arm to get his attention, Raph only rolled his eyes and slowly walks out the door leaving Donnie's mind to wonder.
"Leo we can't leave him there, we've only mange to get him to bed a couple of days ago."
"I don't like it either Raph, but he isn't going to listen to us," Leo said, as he takes a seat a on the bean bag.
"This is stupid," Raph said as he walks up to his punching bag. "First Master Splinter and now we nearly lost our baby brother, what the shell? Why is life so messed up, it's bad enough he had to grow up and we didn't even do anything about it."
"Raph!" Leo warned.
"It's all ya fault!" Raph yelled.
"My fault, how is it my fault."
"You're meant to be leader; you were Master Splinter first choice, but no!"
"You know what happened on that day and in the end Mikey took over, anyway."
"Because you can't do anything, right!" Leo's eyes narrowed, he tried to stay calm and he was hopping, if he didn't leave the bean bag, Raph would end the conversion, but he knew the chances.
Inside the bathroom a small smile on Donnie's face showed, he was glad some things were still the same. He hadn't heard Leo and Raph argue for a very long time, Leo just seemed so lost after the death of Mikey, he hardly said anything at all. Often his older brother spent most of his time standing in front of his little brother grave, rain or shine and by the time he came back to the lair, he would always come back with a fever.
"At least you guys, still have hope." Donnie said quietly.
"I'm lost Mikey, I don't know what happened. One minute I walked out to refresh my mind and the next I'm here. I don't know what happen to your Donnie, but I will try to find him, it wouldn't be right if you were in a coma and the next thing he hears is, you died years ago. That well mess up anyone."
"But, at the same time I don't, want to. I know this is going to sound selfless , but I've missed you so much and now I'm just going to wait until you wake up. Is that okay little brother?"
Donnie sigh, he could feel tears picking back up, that's all he seem to be doing now, crying. He didn't know why, but one moment he was find and the next he would just burst into tears.
"D-Dee."
Donnie wipes away his tears and he sighed in relief, his brother eyes were slowly opening up, blinking and his head slowly turns over.
"D-Donnie," he barley said and Donnie soon takes him into a hug, crying out in relief. Mikey would have gladly returned it from his older brother, but he could barely move his arms, so he did his best just to smile.
"Donnie, what's wrong?" Leo said as he rushed into the room and soon went over and hugging his brother into his arms.
Mikey did his best to try and reassure both of his older brothers; it was when he notice Raph was still standing in the door way to overwhelmed to move. Once Donnie and Leo broke away, Mikey gave a weak smile over to Raph, the hothead signs and soon takes his brother into a hug.
"Missed you little bro," Raph mutter, trying his best to hold back the tears.
"That's new," Mikey joked and Donnie can't help and be suspired.
Sure he knew if anyone, who didn't know they would question Raph behaviour around the youngest. But, despite Raph's big tough guy act, it was always Mikey he would get along with, so why, was Mikey acting like this wasn't his older brother?
Wait, Leo thinks he's useless something that Mikey often does and Leo also sounded as if Mikey was the leader. If this is the case, then that mean… hold on, does that mean the relationship between Mikey and Raph is the same as Leo and Raph from my world? Well, when Leo used to talk.
"You okay Donnie?"
As Donnie comes back into reality, he sees Leo and Raph slowly standing Mikey back up.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. Hang on, maybe there's a wheelchair I can get you," Donnie said, standing up and moving to the door, but stops at Mikey protested.
"I don't need a wheelchair Don, I'm not broken." Mikey said in a cold voice and it hurt Donnie to see him struggling to move his legs from lack of use.
"Mikey."
"Don't."
"Come on bro, let's get you to your room." Raph said quietly.
They flinched as Mikey protested in needing help and drops to the cold ground, winches in pain. Leo is the first one by his brother side, offering a hand, but Mikey knocks it away and strugglers to pull himself up.
This isn't you. Donnie tells himself.
"Mikey, just let us help you," Leo said, but Mikey shakes his head.
In painful seconds Mikey slowly gets himself to stand despite his whole body yelling at him not to move, one slow step he takes it and another one behind it, he takes it and in slow and agony steps he makes it, standing in the door way already panting. Despite his brothers trying to help him, he shakes it off and Donnie is screaming in his mind at the sight, screaming how wrong all of this is.
How wrong his brother is acting, he wanted his little brother, the brother who would gladly let them help him and not someone who was suffering because he thinks he didn't need any help. The three watches, the youngest walk down the hallway and slowly towards his bedroom, they sigh simultaneously once the door behind him, slams shut.
"I guess he hasn't changed," Leo said, bitterly walking off.
"Fearless is still the same." Donnie questions, his second older brother, fearless was Leo nickname not Mikey, Mikey wasn't anything like that.
All of a sudden, all of his questions that Donnie needed the answers to wasn't important anymore and he just wanted to go home. Sure, his brother back and that's great, but he isn't the brother he used to know.
Donnie didn't see bothered of his older brothers heading towards his room, he wanted to check on Mikey, but a part of him told him, it wasn't the smartest idea and so he walks to his room, hopeful that well be, the same. He hold back his tears as he closes the door behind him, he slowly sit down on the floor and wonders why everything was so messed up. His eyes narrowed at the sight of a night light, he frowns, he wasn't afraid of the dark that was Mikey.
So, why was he the one with the nightlight? He stands up and walks over to it as he bends down, he slowly unplugs it and takes it out, his eyes scan it as his mind analyses it, he smiles at the sight of green turtle pattern around it.
He walks over towards the drawer and gently places it inside, he frowns again at the sight of a teddy bear, sitting on his bed. Now he was confused, he holds it into his hands and gave a sad smile, it was the same stuff teddy his Mikey had and now he knew the role. He wonders if he was still smart in this world, most likely he was, but it also meant he was the scared more of a little brother then Mikey was meant to be.
"Donnie," he turns to see Raph standing at the door. "Ya needed."
"Why?" he questioned.
"Remember the offer about the wheelchair, it's best if you get it. Now."
Donnie sighs and places the bear back down, maybe next time he will put it away.
As Donnie rushes into the Dojo wheeling the wheel chair, he frowned at the reason to why his brother was in here in the first place and not in his room resting. His eyes sadden seeing Mikey back against the wall, Leo is sitting beside him trying his best to comfort Mikey and Raph is standing over him.
"Mikey, what were you thinking? You've only got up from a coma," Donnie said rushing to him and his heart broke at the sight of tears in his little brother eyes.
"I couldn't do it, Donnie," he whimpered.
"Do, what Mikey?"
"I couldn't do a signal kata."
And if Donnie's heart could break again and shatter into a million pieces, if it was logically possible, he would have sown that the whole world could have heard it shatter. His little brother was crying, not crying over a lost video game or a cancel comic book, not fake crying over Raph causing him all over for a prank he did. Crying over something, that Donnie once thought his brother couldn't really care about and he knew, his Mikey still would have done the same.
However for some reason Donnie can't help and think a crying little brother wasn't fit for his world. Because even Leo and Raph looked as if there whole world had been taken away from them, Donnie fought back his tears.
He didn't care if this was a diffident Mikey a different world, all he saw was a baby brother crying and big brother didn't like to see baby brother crying and Mikey was his only little brother. So, without a second thought, he takes him into his arms and nuzzles his forehead and allows his brother to cry like a lost child, so the three stay there.
Watching and listening to the horrible sound that seems to go on endless. The painful screams and even though Donnie was just thinking a brother in need, Raph and Leo was only remembering, Mikey was there baby brother. Because, despite Donnie not knowing the history, it had been a long time since the two oldest had seen Mikey cry and a long time they've only remember how old all of them were.
Donnie's eye lids broke through the tears that were threating to fall, at the sight of Mikey shaking hands as he slowly goes for the hot coca in Leo's hands.
"He's going to be fine, right? It's just a onetime thing aren't it?" Raph asked and Donnie slowly turns his head.
It was when he remembers, he didn't know, he wasn't there Donnie who had all the information so he sighs and takes a guess.
"Hopeful it was just the lack of use in his legs, it would be a pretty good chance if that was the reason. He wasn't meant to get back into his normal routine, with how many months he was in there for."
"Why did it sound like ya, didn't know?" Raph asked and Donnie didn't dare to look at him.
"I know how many months he was there for," he lied and hopes his brother would by it.
"He was in a coma for three months, how does that slip someone mind," Raph voice starts to rise, but Donnie stays quite.
"Donnie answer, me!"
"Raph," all eyes turned to a tired Mikey, Leo gently places a blanket over his legs.
Donnie hated that wheelchair now, his little brother looks so old.
"Please guys, no fighting," he begged.
"Whatever fearless," Raph said walking away.
Something else, I'm going to have to get use, too.
Donnie didn't like that nickname, when it was for Mikey. Sure he can understand Leo, because he was the oldest and back in his world Leo had earned that title, but again after the death of his Mikey, he had lost it. His older brother wasn't the same anymore; Raph would spend most of his time looking after him or go after him, just like Leo did for the hot head whenever he went top side.
Funny, how things change.
"Leo, can you go after him?" Mikey asked and Leo nods, before walking off.
Donnie's eyes turns cold as Mikey struggles to place the hot coca onto the kitchen bench and so he walks over and slowly takes it away and gently placing it next to his brother, before taking a seat on the stool.
"Hey Dee," Mikey chocks.
"Hmm…" he hums, eyes not moving from looking at the floor.
"I used to hear you crying to me at night."
Donnie refused to allow his body to scream out and say, it wasn't him. He wanted so much to tell them all, but he wasn't sure if that was one of is best ideas.
"It wasn't your fault, you did everything you could to save me that night. For that I'm grateful, thanks dude."
The purple mask turtle wipes his eyes.
"Love you big bro."
He breaks down, his nightmares comes back and flash backs were returning to the day his brother died, they were his last words before darkness claimed the orange mask turtle forever and so he hugs his brother and cries. This time Mikey returns it and smiles, Donnie didn't see the tears falling down Mikey cheeks, because for the first time in years, he could hug his brother once again.
"Love you two, little brother."
Isn't that cute a bit of brotherly love, I'm a big b-team fan. So I had to put it in, tell me what you think in the review sections and to the people who reviewed last chapter.
PopcornWolf10 : Yep. It's a reversed, poor Raph he's still a hot head though.
CookieCrumble12: I'm glad you liked the first chapter, hope the second one is just as great and you're welcomed. :)
