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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"A wide blue eyed turtle hung over the back of the sofa, staring up at his older brother with eyes that held so much love and admiration. 'RAAAAAPHIEEEE, you gonna be on the good old B team for patrol tonight? Heh? (he winked) with your favourite little brother?' Mikey smiled as he placed his chin into his hands./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"'Don't call me that you dork, and hell no' Raph pretended to cringe at that name, but truth be told he secretly loved his little brothers affection, although he would never admit it, and it would never usually fly with his other brothers, but Mikey was different. Although they where basically the same age, Mikey was more childlike and innocent than any of them. He had managed to keep his child hearted spirit in check, and he probably always would. So Raph, Leo and Donnie somewhere along the way swore to always protect him, and keep that part of their little brother fully intact. Mikey was their light on a rainy, dark day, he kept things fun, and always reminded the brothers they where still allowed to kick back and relax, that life shouldn't always be all gloom and doom and fighting. Mikey was his annoying little best friend, and Raph had always admired him, a lot more than Mikey even realised. He didn't always show it because he always acted to tough so show any emotions, but he hoped Mikey knew, and Mikey did. It was the same for Leo and Don to, they would be utterly lost without the little goof ball roaming about the lair causing mischief and chaos with his alter ego DR Prankenstein./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"A wide blue eyed turtle hung over the back of the sofa, staring up at his older brother with eyes that held so much love and admiration. 'RAAAAAPHIEEEE, you gonna be on the good old B team for patrol tonight? Heh? (he winked) with your favourite little brother?' Mikey smiled as he placed his chin into his hands./p
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