Nobody's Drabbles

by Mikell

A series of 200 word, narrative drabbles. I've deliberately left out names and dialogue (in most), to practice and improve my narrative characterization. ("Tell" is the exception, being 100% dialogue.) Random topics. Mostly set in the 2k3 series, with occasional references to the 2k7 movie.

4. 4 Love

A/N: Events, ie, Leo being kidnapped by the live statues, refer to the 2007 TMNT movie.

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~Love~

He loves his brother, even if he wouldn't call it love. He loves the way the Leader always has a plan. How he's always thinking, always. He loves that he cares enough to nag, even though it drives him crazy at times, so crazy that he doesn't think; he's not Fearless after all, and not thinking makes him say things he doesn't mean to say, or hit things he doesn't mean to hit.

He loves knowing that, if he ever does go too far to make it home again, his brother will be there to look after the others. He loves his brother's precise ways, his ridiculously neat room, his chronic need for perfection. He loves that he came home again after his training, even if he'll never admit it. The family just wasn't the same without him. The predictability is the team's anchor, he discovered, when it returned.

Even when his brother drives him to the edge of fury, even when he gets more-honorable-than-thou over some ridiculous point, he loves his brother. He just won't admit it. Not out loud. When the monster took his brother, then his love made itself heard. A brother's love is spoken through vengeance.