May ran. She didn't want to leave Raphael and Leonardo behind to fight the battle, but when Raphael took on that tone of voice, you listened.
She didn't stop running until she was on the verge of exhaustion, when her legs refused to keep going and she collapsed.
May looked around. She was far from the fight. She wasn't sure exactly where. She grabbed her phone to call somebody but stopped herself when she realized there was nobody she could call. Her parents couldn't help her, and the only turtle who was on her contacts list was Raphael. He was fighting, he couldn't pick up.
May shivered, realizing she was alone. This was bad. Very bad.
After a few hours, she stood again, shakily, and started wandering around a bit. She needed to get her bearings.
May called Raphael, certain that he would have taken care of the ninjas that had attacked them. No answer.
"That's worrying..." May muttered. Now what?
She wandered a bit more. There was a pizzeria nearby, Antoine's. Okay. That was good. That meant she can't have been more than a few blocks from the entrance to the turtle's lair. She had to get the others to help.
May climbed down into the sewers and started running in the direction of the lair, sewage splashing around her. Things seemed to be moving in slow motion. She couldn't make it there fast enough. Weirdly, May felt like she couldn't breathe. Why was the world... tilting? What was that pain in her chest?
With a final, desperate gasp, May fell onto the cement, blacking out.
It was Leo who found her.
He and Raphael had finished off the Foot soldiers. They were going to call May, but their phones were both dead. They had decided to head back and find May from Donnie's tracker. They had both taken different routes home, Raphael had wanted to see if May had gone the long way.
She hadn't, apparently. She was unconscious barely a few meters from the entrance of the lair. Just from the sight of her, Leo knew something was wrong. She was too still.
Then it hit him. She wasn't breathing.
As little as Leo trusted May, she was Raphael's friend and April and Casey's daughter. He flipped her onto her back and started chest compressions. He knew a little CPR, enough to know he could help.
May started coughing suddenly. "Good girl. It's okay. That's it. Just breathe." Leo gently pulled her into a sitting position. "Come on. Let's get you to Donnie." He lifted her into his arms gently.
May was still hardly really conscious. She kinda hung off his neck. "Raphael...?" She squinted up at Leo, her voice wavering.
"It's okay." He brought her into the lair. Raph was already there. Leo could hear him yelling at poor Donnie.
"May I interrupt?" Leo pushed into the lab past Mikey, who had been quietly watching the other two. Raphael's eyes widened, and he took May from Leo, turning to Donnie.
"D... I'm sorry for yelling at you, but could you...?"
Donnie could sense the pleading in Raph's voice. He shared a glance with Leo, before nodding to Raph.
"She wasn't breathing when I found her." Leo told Donnie helpfully.
Donnie nodded, turning to work on May, having Raph set her on his work table. Raph did, but kept his hand under her head, for a pillow, so her head wouldn't be against the hard surface.
Donnie wanted to argue and force everybody out to give himself room to work, but something about the look on his brother's face told him Raph wouldn't leave May, no matter what he was told. So, Donnie worked around him, carefully checking all of May's vital signs.
A few hours later, Donnie let out a breath. "Okay, good news. She just had a panic attack and fainted from it. She'll wake up soon. She should be fine."
Raph snarled. "Leo said she hadn't been breathing, Donnie! You can't tell me she'll be fine!"
"She's breathing now. It was just part of her brain shutting down from sheer panic. She'll wake up in a day or less."
"What if she doesn't?!" Raph demanded. "What if she stops breathing again?! What if she dies?!"
Donnie took a deep breath. He's worried. That's the only reason he's being difficult. He's just worried. "Raphael. I promise that she'll wake up."
Raph looked like he wanted to argue, but didn't. He only turned his attention back to the unconscious girl. With the hand that wasn't supporting her head, he gently twirled a strand of her auburn red hair.
Donnie's heart ached a little. He hadn't seen his brother care about anybody or anything like that. He looked at her like her life was the most precious thing in the world to him. He argued constantly with Leo over whether she was trustworthy or not, and he defended her, no matter what she did.
He gave a half-smile and went to his room to sleep. He was exhausted, having been up pretty late the past few days. He hoped May realized how much Raph cared for her. By the looks of things, he would sacrifice his life for hers.
Donnie just hoped May would make the same sacrifice.