Chapter 17: Donnie

SHATTERED

Leo arrives at sunrise again. Raph tries to lock eyes but to no effect. Leo walks right by him, ignoring us. I blink as the small pond we're by shines in my eyes. When I can see again, I see raph running after Leo. Felix and Kate stand next to me, watching.

"Where's Amun and Sadie?" April asks.

Kate shrugs. "Sleeping. They're nocturnal after all."

Raph's voice brings my attention back to my two elder brothers. We all turn to them, sensing the tension between them.

"Leo, talk to me."

"Why should I? I'm not worth anything, so what does it matter what I say now or ever?"

"I…I didn't mean it! Leo, it…it was that THING! It made me say it!"

"Did it? Or did you really mean all those things you said?"

I want to know what Raphael said but I have a feeling I will not know for a long time. Not until this all blows over.

"I…I didn't, Leo." Raph almost sounds like he's begging. "Why won't you believe me?!"

"Because everytime I've ever believed you, I ended up thinking I was worth more dead than alive."

Raph pauses as if he's in shock. Leo keeps walking as if Raph don't exist. Then I see the anger in Raph building. He's shaking, fists clenched.

"Raph," I whisper stepping forward, "Don't…" But it doesn't stop him.

"YOU MASOCHIST!"

Leo screams. He lunges at Raph and wraps his hands around Raph's throat. Raph falls while Leo sits on him and starts punching Raph with all the anger he has in him.

"SO, I'M A MASOCHIST, AM I?! WELL, WHO MADE ME LIKE THAT, RAPH!? WHO!?"

Raph yelps as Leo nails him straight in the beak. But Leo's on a role and he won't stop.

"YOU DID THIS, RAPH! NOT SPLINTER! YOU! YOU DID THIS! I'M A CUTTER BECAUSE OF YOU! I'M A MASOCHIST BECAUSE OF YOU! I WOULD HAVE KILLED MYSELF BECAUSE OF YOU!"

Raph screams back. He lunges up and slams my brother into the ground. Leo kicks and punches him while Raph slaps him and slams him repeatidly into the ground.

"I'LL NEVER GO HOME, YOU LIAR!" yells Raph.

Leo hollers, "OH! OH! MARRY ME, LEONDO!"

"Guys!" I yell, pulling the knife Corin gave me from my pocket, "STOP! STOP IT!"

"SHUT UP!" Raph screams at Leo, "GO ROT IN THE SEWERS ALONE AND GET ABUSED TILL IT KILLS YOU!"

"BETTER ALONE AND ABUSED THAN BEING WITH YOU!"

"GUYS!" I howl, but they refuse to listen. I look at Leo's side of the knife. The metal looks like its shaking.

"Please ,no! Please ,no!" I whisper yell, trying to stop the metal from breaking.

I look up right as Raph yells, "GET OUT OF MY LIFE! I WISH YOU'D NEVER BEEN BORN!"

The sound of glass shattering fills the air. Leo collapses under Raph, cracks covering his body. Pieces of him fall off him as he moves.

I gasp as Leo's side of the blade turns to siver liquid and drains off the blade, leaving only the black side. Raph's side.

"LEO!"

Kate flys over to Leo, Felix by her side. She flings a shocked Raph off of Leo and brings him into an embrace. She's crying like a hurt child as she howls, "Oh, Leo! Oh, Leo!"

"I'm…sorry, "Leo groans, pieces of his now glass shell falling to the ground. "I'm sorry."

Kate and Felix help Leo to his feet, pieces of him falling everywhere.

All of us are speechless. Mikey is curling into me. Raph can't stand. April and Casey just stare. Even Shredder and Splinter are in shock.

"L-Leo…" Raph says.

"Stay away," Felix hisses. Raph flinches at the Suides harsh voice. "Stay away from us and him. Come on, Leo."

"Leo," Mikey says suddenly, "What about-"

"I'm not going home, Mikey," Leo snaps, his voice as shattered as his body and soul. "Raph has made it very clear that I am not wanted."

The leaves fly as Leo shoots into the sky, Felix behind him.

Before Kate leaves, she looks over us all, anger in her brown eyes. Then she says, "This was your doing! He's shattered because of you! You killed him!"

Kate's face is stained with tears. I see it so clearly, it's like a mirror. It's clearer than glass.

Kate loves Leo.

Not that friend love or sister love, but truly loves him.

Somehow that comforts me.

She looks directly at Raph when she says this, but I know she's talking to all of us. "Maybe one day you'll wake up and maybe you'll say 'isn't something missing?' Cause after Leo's gone, I know I'll say that often! But I doubt you will."

Before Kate leaves, she walks over to Raph and slaps him. Then she's gone.

"Raph,"Casey asks a few moments later," You okay?"

Raph climbs to his feet. I put the knife back in my belt pocket as I watch him. He uncurls his hand and I see shards of Leo in his palm. He looks at them.

"No, Casey," Raph whispers," I'm not okay."

No one's P.O.V.

Alec watches as Leonardo flies away. A piece of him lands in the water next to the Shimera's face.

This will be proof, Alec thinks snatching the piece in his mouth.

Then he swims back to the Nightmare King, ready to tell that Leonardo is certainly….

Doomed.