"Laila? Can you hear me? Laila?" Her eyelids felt like lead as she struggled to open her eyes. Her body felt like anyone's throat after eating a ghost pepper, sore.
"Laila?" A breeze blew over her gashes and she winced in pain. She tried to open her eyes but her eyelids were still too heavy. Finally managing to open them, she noticed Leo looking down at her in concern.
"L...Leo?"
"What happened to you?"
"The foot...ambush."
"And you wonder why we don't let you out alone a lot. Why do you always do this?"
"I...I wanna prove to you guys I'm not a *cough*pushover."
"Laila... You've never been a pushover."
"You guys are *cough* always treating me like one."
"Laila, we don't mean to. We're just looking after you." She winced in pain suddenly and realized her stitched up wound reopened.
"I'll go get Donnie." He mumbled and left. Donnie came in moments later.
"Hey Don?"
"Yeah?"
"How long do you'll think it'll be until I recover?"
"A while. Now you see why we're all so overprotective of you?!" She winced in pain when he accidentally pressed on her wound.
"Crap. Sorry,sorry." He continued stitching keeping his hand nowhere near the wound, in fear of accidentally hurting her again.
"First chance I get, I'm going topside."
"Not alone."
"Yeah."
"Laila-"
"This is why I always go topside alone, cause you all treat me like a fuckin' baby!" She pushed him away, not caring about her wound and headed downstairs.
"Laila, where do you think you're going?"
"Out."
"No you're not." She clenched her fist and punched Raph in the face, hard. He stumbled back, a bruise forming on his cheek as she stormed out of the lair.