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Donnie didn't care if this was a nightmare; it still broke his heart, seeing his little brother dying all over again and it still makes him cry. Maybe he should just move on, it -has been three years, but he can't, he can't just move on and he didn't think he ever would.

Being dragged into another world where his brother is still alive, Donnie can't help but feel mad, mad about the fact that their brother is still with them.

"Why, why, why?" he repeated over and over, holding onto the bloody body of his little brother.

"Please, come back. Please come back, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He sat there and cried out like a lost child, his brother was gone, in both reality and his dream.

"Donnie."

He shakes his head at the voice, just leave him in the dream, leave him where he still has his brother not someone he used to know.

"Donnie, wake up."

"No, he's still here, he's still here with me."

"DONNIE!"

Donnie's eyes widen, he places a hand over his panicked heart and notices he is now in his lab. He turns around to see Mikey in his wheelchair looking directly at him. Mikey's eyes sadden as, he notice the tears falling down his brother's face, Donnie cries out onto his desk and for once Mikey doesn't know what to do.

"Hey Dee."

Donatello wonders why he was sent here. Why, of all the places, was he sent to a place where his little brother is still around? Why not an alien planet? At least change would be easy to overcome, but not where his brother was still alive.

He tried so hard to move on after the death, but he could never bring himself to do. Mikey's voice would still reply in his mind, during both good and bad times.

He would still see his little brother dancing in the kitchen while he was making breakfast, begging for the last slice of pizza – if someone hadn't already had it.

The purple masked turtle's eyes took a quick glance at his brother, his Mikey would always know what to do whenever he had a nightmare. However, this Mikey just seemed so lost, it was like he didn't know how to handle it, and he was trying his best not to break down in front of his older brother.

Why was he given the job?

In a way Donnie is forever thankful to Master Splinter, for not giving his little brother the job. He didn't think that his Mikey could handle the pressures, but then again his Michelangelo seemed to do just that*, during his last few days on earth.

He had helped them with moving along always checking on them, always being there for them, always bugging them, and acting like nothing had changed. In a way, it helped them to move on, knowing that even though someone passed away, some things just didn't change.

All gone.

He thought to himself. He flinched as a hand was placed on his shoulder.

"Dee, want to talk about it?"

"No, Mikey I'm fine."

"Donnie-"

"I said, I am fine!" he snapped and for a second, he could have sworn he saw Mikey -eyes flinch at the sound.

He didn't mean to sound so hash, but he isn't in the mood to talk to him. So, Michelangelo sighed and wheeled towards the door. He stops in the doorway and turns his head back, to see Donnie crying again.

"You can always talk to me, dude," he said, before leaving.

Donnie yawned as he had recently woken up and walked into the dojo seeing Mikey struggling to stand, with the help of Leo and Raph.

"Easy bro," Raph said.

Raph slowly takes Mikey arm and places it around his shoulder, as Mikey struggles to stand Leo soon is by his side and all eyes turn to Donnie.

"Hey Dee," Mikey said.

"What's going on?" Donnie asked.

"We, thought it was best for Mikey to try and walk again," Leo adds.

"That's a good idea, but no training. He needs to take things easy."

"That means no patrol either for the rest of us," Leo said.

Mikey's eyes sadden at the thought, it was bad enough that he had to sit out, but the fact that his brothers had to stay as well only caused more guilt.

"Mikey, don't think that we have to stay here," Leo said. "We want to stay here, you're our brother after all."

"Thanks bro, I needed to hear that," Leo gives his brother a warm smile.

"Are we going to do this before I die of old age? Or what?" Raph complained.

"Dude, I'm getting there."

With cough and a careful step Mikey moves one foot forward, he can already feel his legs wanting to buckle under him, but he pushes on with Raph for support. Once he had soon found his balance and was sure he wasn't going to fall over, Mikey's arm slowly removed itself away from Raphael and walked towards the wall on the other side of the dojo.

His movement were slow and he could sense his brothers eyes watching with caution, as each one of the three were ready to be there for him, he smiles when his hand touches the wall.

"Told ya dude, I'll get there."

He giggles as Leo takes him into a hug and Raph is soon by his side, hitting him in the arm playfully. Donnie can't help the small smile that appears on his face.

Donnie's face slammed into the desk once again, papers out, laptop on, failed experiments still hadn't been cleaned up. Empty coffee mug, sticky notes all over the ground(,) and theories proven to be only- well, theories.

"Nothing working," he mumbles, he still hadn't moved his head.

He will admit it, he could be a bit rusted from working in the lab back at home, he often only stares at the screen. Telling himself that today is the day and he was going to build something for old time sake, however, he could never think of anything, nothing at all.

He didn't have the strength to build or to fix things anymore and all the time he would tell his brother to leave him alone. For once Donnie finds himself wishing*, his brother was still here just so he could tell him, but once again Donnie only finds himself with wishful thinking.

"Hey Don, ya in there?"

What does Raph want now?

"No," he said, hoping his brother would buy it.

"Right," Raph walks towards him and Donnie slowly turns his head with a bored expression.

"If you broke something, leave it at the door and I might get to it."

Donnie told himself a, hm, it had been so long since he had even said that statement to any of his brothers.

"I didn't break anything. Anyway, that's not what I'm here for, it's Mikey."

This got Donatello's full attention as his mind wonders on the million possibilities, hoping his brother had listen. He knew in his world, Mikey often did and it was only Leo and Raph that could never listen to him, but once again he finds himself only to remember the real reality.

"Relax Donnie, shell for brains is fine. Well was last time I checked on him, Leo's with him at the moment, but that's not what I came here for."

"So, what?" Donnie questioned.

"Look, I don't know what's wrong with him, but he's been pulling that fake smile stuff around us and it's bugging me."

"Raph, give him time. He's just been told to take it easy and so far everything he does someone needs to be watching him or at least be somewhere near him. He's just trying to get his life worked out."

"Yeah well, I want it to stop. Can't he just go back to normal?"

Donnie wanted to say, Leo had been through the same path with his leg, but he didn't want to get his history wrong. Sure there was a high chance that the event, had happened, but again Donnie didn't want to take the chances, so he went straight to the point.

"What are you suggesting, Raph?" he asked, finally sitting up right in the chair.

Raph shrugs, "Maybe we can do something that he used to do."

"Video games?" Donnie suggested.

"Na, that old thing hadn't worked for years and I don't think you're in the mood to fix it."

"We can get him to talk about comic books. He always used to talk about them, before."

"Tried it and it got rejected."

"Board game?" Donnie asked, knowing full well that it was the last opportunity.

"Think Splinter kept them?"

"Maybe, he kept Mikey's comic books."

"I'll go look," Raph stop once he got into the door way. "And Donnie…"

"Yeah."

"Try to get some sleep," and he left.

"I'll try."

I know this is kind of a filler, but what I wanted to happened next would most likely take up ten pages and I didn't think you guys all wanted to read that in one go. So, I hope you all don't mind this chapter.

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