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Imagine that you are the second youngest of a family of 5, with two friend you first met ever since you've gone outside, Into the world of New York.
One of them manipulated you into loving them, obsessively. pushed you out of their lives and comes back with that same manipulation. The other fights you for loving the other, quickly realizing that it was all just a trick.
You also realize it's a trick too, and pushed that person away from your life...for now you guess. You feel happy and yourself again, but you still feel that hint of guilt in your heart.

You have three brothers, two older and one younger. They all annoy you to death, with all the banging in the living room and kitchen, coming in your lab without warning. Smashing your projects that you've taken hours, weeks, even months to work on. Sometimes apologizing, but it wasn't enough. It was mostly..
"You can try again later."

"Wasnt my fault."

"You know how clumsy I get.."

"Do it again."

"You can fix it again."

"My stuff is more important to fix, do it again later!"

Do it again.  Fix it again.  Fix it..
again. Again. A̵g̵a̵i̵n̵.

The yelling of your older brothers, fighting so much they've made one of the Bystanders (aka, you or your younger brother) hurt in the process.
And the head of the family. Your 'father'.
Your father doesn't even bond with you at all, mostly just beating you up in training, smirking as you get beaten recklessly by your elder brothers and come out with many bruises blooming, or just looking at you in disappointment with everything that you do. ᵗʰᵉʸʳᵉ ˢᵒ ᵍˡᵃᵈ ʰᵉˢ ᵈᵉᵃᵈ You tried and tried to get stronger like your elder brothers, but it doesn't feel like you.
The closest family member you have is your youngest brother. And although he may be annoying, clumsy, doesn't take anything seriously at all. He'd always give a lending ear for everyone.
It feels like that he's your responsibility..child who’s lost in his mind, just like you, but not like you at the same time. He's just seconds younger than the rest, yet always babied and babied for everything.
He'd said once that he was tired. He wanted to be taken seriously for once.
But of course, it's always ignored of how their younger brother felt, how they both felt.

But that's just your imagination, right? The first word that started all of this was "Imagine".

Imagine.

Imagine.

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Imagine. Imagine.

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ʷᵃᵏᵉ ᵘᵖ I⃪m⃪a⃪g⃪i⃪n⃪e⃪

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Imagination never runs out.

Imagine..

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Donnie hates it when they’re interrupted.
But it always seems to find its way to annoy them anyways. Whether it's when they’re giving a scientific explanation, or making a new invention. Big or not, they hate getting interrupted.
It's usually because someone (usually Leo) tells them that something's going on in the surface, or it's because someone had broken something. Or Casey and Mikey are being idiotic again.

Who made them in charge of those two in the first place?

they sighs and leans back in that old, squeaky chair.. for the 47th time.
Donatello, who is sitting on the worn out but comfy office chair. Gently face palms their face followed with groaning.

The project they’re working on is a type of wristband that can alert the others if one of them is not moving after 30 seconds to a minute, Donnie thought it’d be easy enough to add a tracker in it as well. The spark of bundled wires say otherwise.

The door opens, and out comes Mikey. Of course Mikey, what does he want now?

"Hey dude! Foods in the house, come eat!" Mikey yells out, even thought he’s not that far.
Donnie stares at him for a brief moment, considering if they’re actually willing to eat this time, they have not eaten breakfast, or lunch, or last night's dinner.

"Fine. I'll be there is a second." Donnie mumbles, but loud enough for Mikey. Who somehow was in front of Donnie's desk now.

Mikey does his little victory dance, its silly the fact he does it every time Donnie says yes to something.

"Watcha doin Donnie?" Mikey leans in to the bundle of wires.

"Don't lean your head like that, it'll shock you Mikey." Donnie gently pushed Mikey's head back,"It's for the wristbands, I thought it would be better if I put trackers on them-"

"Couldn't you just ask April to buy trackers and not risk your hands to make homemade ones?"

𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥.
But he does have a point.

"I would, but April and I have some.. Problems between us. I don't think she'll do that for me at this time Mikey, but thanks for suggesting."
Donnie stood up from the worn out chair, "Now, give my tracker some personal space Mikey, I'll be in the kitchen in a minute. I promise this time-"

"Hey egghead, hurry up your stupid shell in here, foods getting cold, you too Mikey!”

𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥.
but he didn't know Donnie was talking. Right?

Raph basically slammed the doors open (Donnie has to make a note to themself to start building new hinges at this point.) and stomped in the lab, Eyeing the 'Tracker' on Donnie's desk.

"What the hell is that? Some new thing to gift to April? you creep." Raph assumes too quickly, better to tell Leo about it. But won’t it make them argue again?

"First of all, no it's not for April. Second of all, don't call me a creep, I gave up the whole obsession thing long ago Raph. Third of all, it's a tracker for the wristbands I told you about."

"First of all-" Raph mocked Donnie with the obvious hints of sarcasm. " it's totally a 'gift' for April, CREEP. Second of all, I think you meant 'long ago' as yesterday. THIRD of all why the hell would you gift April a bundle of wires and call it a tracker?"

"Raph, chill dude, don’t be a grinch. Donnie and April haven't been talking for weeks man." Mikey stood infront of Raph.

"Oh yeah? Then why did I see them smiling infront of his computer hm?" Raph assumed..again

"it's probably because they had an invention idea or something, you know?" Mikey then mumbled.
"and I though I was the assumer."

"ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅɪᴅ ʏᴏᴜ sᴀʏ?" Raph yelled out,
forgetting Donnies presence as Mikey started to back away from Raph.

"I didn't say anything man!"

"You think 𝐢𝗺 a assumer?!"

"I didn't say that!"

"I'll show you assumer shell-for-brains!" Raph raised his hand, preparing to smack Mikey’s head.

“What’s with all the shouting? I could hear you guys all the way from Jersey!” Leo stood infront of the doorway, arms crossed.

“Mikey here thinks I assume too much!” Raph slapped Mikey’s head. Mikey yelps with an ‘ow!’.

“Well, he is right you know, surprisingly enough.” Leo smirks. “And get your shells in the kitchen already and stop playing around.”

The two walked away from the lab, but before Mikey stepped out, he turned to Donnie, “ you coming?” He says with a smirk.

Donnie looked at Mikey for a second before walking towards him with a gentle smile.

The two walked into the kitchen, seeing Leo and Raph already beginning to feast. The curry smelled amazing to Donnie as they’re grabbing his own plate of the homemade dish before seating themself down between Leo and Mikey.

Halfway through his plate, Leo questions. “Hey Donnie, I saw a bunch of wires on your desk when I was in the lab, isn’t it a bit dangerous for that to be lying around?”

Donnie turns their head to Leo, before looking back at his half eaten food, “I’m making a tracker for those wristbands.” They quickly mumbles before stuffing their mouth again with rice.

“Oh, okay. But why? Isn’t the wristbands alarm enough?” Leo questions again,

Donnie usually loves being questioned about their inventions, but only for when they aren’t doing another thing instead of making said inventions. Like eating, for example.

Donnie glared at Leo for a half second, but they still answered. “No, see the alarms are indeed loud. But if, for example, Raph decides to quit the team for the 29th time. And gets himself in trouble, again.” Raph let out a muffled ‘Hey!’ Before Donnie continued. “Then we would know by the alarm system in the T-phones, but Raph’s location would be still unknown. If I put trackers in those wristbands, then we would be able to help Raph faster than ripping apart New York City to look for him.”

Leo looks at them blankly for a few seconds, registering the information that Donnie gave him. He then silently nodded and went back to eating his meal.

After dinner, Donnie walked back to their lab, before they could close the door, Mikey yelled out. “Hey Dee! You shouldn’t be in there for the rest of your life, ya know?” Mikey speed walked to Donnie as Donnie turned to look at him.
“There’s more to life than sitting around playing with tracker wire.. thingys!”

“Oh really? I didn’t know that.” Donnie hinted sarcasm. “Look, I need to make these trackers, they’re really important for missions! What if Leo and Raph fought again and Raph runs out of here? Don’t you know how many bad things happened when Raph does that?”

Mikey thought for a second, “uhh.. He met Casey?”

Donnie stared at him. “Well, you aren’’t wrong in my book. But did you also forget that I also almost got vivisected?!”

Mikey opened his mouth to reply, but what Donnie said was true, they did almost get vivisected. Along with Mondo, too. That was the reason why Donnie went coo-coo and almost killed Vizioso, but then again they did have a very good reason for that.

But he didn’t want to think of that day, Don Vicioso wasn’t the only one who almost died then.

“..Sorry dude.” Was all that Mikey could muster. He knows that getting cut open is terrifying to experience.

He hasn’t told them what happened to him and Casey either.

‘No, don’t think about that..’
His mind is getting all over the place again. He needs to stop thinking those bad memories.

Has he looked down on the floor this entire time? Maybe he has, he hasn’t settled in reality just yet. He finally looked up to see nobody infront of him, Donnie must’ve went back in their cave lab. Did they even hear Mikey say sorry?

Mikey rubbed his left eye, why is he so tired all of the sudden? He dragged himself to the living room and sat himself down.

He’s bored now, maybe some cartoons would do the trick.

He heard footsteps from the entrance, maybe April came by to say-

No. She probably is still mad at Donnie for..Whatever the reason is, maybe she came here to apologize?

He hears more than one, maybe three.. four pairs? Did the Mutanimals came by to say hi instead?

No, if they were, he would’ve heard two giant footsteps. Leatherhead stomps really loudly. He doesn’t really know about Slash though.

He missed Leatherhead dearly, not that he’d gotten himself back in dimension X, that’s be the worst. Him and Leatherhead hadn’t been talking lately, which made him worry. What if he’d forgotten about Mikey? What if he’d gotten injured? Is so then why haven’t they been contacted yet? What if they all died?! What if..-

“..de…Dude!”

“Huh?” Mikey turned his head to see Casey, he looked back to see Karai and April standing beside him aswell.

Oh, so April did tag along, why is she here? Maybe it is to apologize.

Wait, where did Karai come from?

“Hey, what up dude? I called you like 15 times, what’s going on, Mikester?

“Why are you all surrounding me? I haven’t done anything! I swear!” Mikey lifted him hands up in the air.

“Woah, Mikey, don’t assume that you did anything, we just wanna ask you something.”
April sat down next to him as she’s comforting Mikey, Karai taking the seat next to April.

“Yeah, do you wanna hang out with us? It’s alright if you don’t wanna man, the way that you spaced out like that is kinda worrying.” Casey leaned towards Mikey. “You alright man? You didn’t really answer me earlier.”

“Oh, yeah I’m fine dude. I was just in my head, and I would love to hang out with you guys! I just don’t know if Leo’s on board.” Mikey looked back at the dojo, He’s sure that Leo wouldn’t allow him to hang with Casey. “Is Karai joining us? Or did she follow you guys here for another kata session with Leo?”

“Oh I’m definitely coming with you guys, I haven’t actually had fun since.. Well, never. Unless you count Shinigami and I kicking ass. Plus, I wanted some quality time with my little turtle brother, we never hang out and I though this’ll be the perfect time.”
Karai smirked, she then looked around the lair. “Where’s the rest? How come you’re so lonely here, Mike?”

Mikey looked at the lab, “Well, Donnie’s in the lab making their stuff,” Casey shook his head while scoffing. “And Leo’s in the dojo, and Raph.. I don’t know, but I’m guessing he’s in his room or in the kitchen.” Mikey listened closely at the heavy metal thats blasting loudly in Raph’s room.

“So, what are we waiting for Mikey? let’s get out of here!” Casey sat up and pulled out his skateboard, jumping up from the couch and landing on the skateboard.

“Wait, what about Leo? We should tell someone we’re going out before Leo knocks my shell loose!” Mikey sat up aswell, his eyes stuck to the dojos frame.

Mikey sometimes gets a bit anxious before he leaves, he knows that Leo (or Raph) would always know that he left the lair before he actually step foot out of the lair. He also worries that his companion, or in this case, companions. Would get into big trouble with anybody, especially when Casey is with him.

“So what about Leo? He’s always a grumpy mom, he shouldn’t tell you what to do with your life.” Karai stood up and walks beside Mikey. “Besides, Shredder is gone, the Kraang is long gone, Tiger claw made a truce, Zeck and Steranko said they become heroes after the whole you and the alternative universe thing happened. What are you scared that we’re gonna encounter this time, Mikey?”

Mikey thinks long and hard, well. The purple dragons might still be out there, yet he hasn’t heard from them in awhile. Rahzar is dead, for good. He doesn’t know what happened to Baxter flyman..

Karai is right, there’s literally nobody else to fight. Either dead or made a truce.

“Alright, let’s go dudes! Let me get my skateboard real quick!” Mikey ran into his room and grabbed the skateboard, the others already at the entrance, ready to go. Mikey ran back to the others.
Before he left, he realized that he should really tell someone, incase something did go wrong.

“Just let me do something real quick.” Mikey ran to Donnie’s lab. Donnie took a quick glance as Mikey enters.

“What do you want?” Donnie asked bluntly.

“April, Casey, Karai and I are gonna go hang out, Figured I should tell you before I went. In case Leo got mad and all.” Mikey felt a some weight lifting from his shoulders, now he can trust that Donnie would come to the rescue if something did go wrong.

“Do you have your T-phone?” Donnie lifted their head, Mikey pulled out the T-phone with a smile.

“Weapons?”

“Yup!” Mikey pulled out one of his nunchucks.

“Smoke bombs?”

“Yeah.”

Donnie inspects from afar, “alright, have fun then. Be back before midnight, though. Or I’ll get Leo and he’ll drag you here.”

“Gotcha! I’ll always count on you Dee!” Mikey closed the lab doors and headed off.

Donnie smirks, “I’ll count on you too, Mikey.”

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Donnie hates it when they, or anybody close to them is injured.

For example, Raphael. He always gets himself injured, in many ways possible. Rough housing, Training, patrol, jumping off the roof for fun, the list can go on.

Another example: Leonardo..
Donnie absolutely hates his suicide missions.
Leo always goes off into missions where he basically sacrifices himself, like for one: the time when he stayed back to hold off Kraang Prime for us to get into the pod.
He doesn’t know how Leo got off the ship, but one thing for sure. He didn’t get off with just a scratch.

Leo was saved, yet he had multiple fractures and sprains, a light concussion with, the cherry on top, deep cuts that could’ve -s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶v̶e̶- easily killed him.

Another example is Mikey, basically the same thing as Raph. With less of jumping off roofs (he still does it). But adding a additional: getting beaten up from all of them.
He wouldn’t say ‘beaten up’, maybe just getting smacked in the head or such.
Now, Donnie wouldn't say that they never laid a hand on Mikey in any way harmful for their whole life. even at their young age, they had given Mikey a slap or shove, but not so frequently as Raph.

With Raph, he always finds it fun to beat up his little brother, whether it's because of his rage and Mikey blew a fuse, which is partially fair. Or if it's just because Mikey exists.
He knows Raph love his youngest brother to the bottom of his heart, everyone does!

Now, Leo on the other hand, he doesn't smack Mikey that much, but yes. It's true. The mature, patient, fearless leader likes to slap his youngest brother in the back of his head.
It's mostly because of meditation and/or training problems, Mikey messes up almost daily in training, and Leo seems to not like it, picking the cards like: 'the enemy would've killed you by now!' Or 'how would that make make me a good leader in battle??' And.. now that he thinks about it, that second one sounds like he wants to show off how good and perfect he is a 'leader'.

And Donnie knows that Mikey does what he does to light up the room, even if it's annoying.

He knows that he does pranks so Raph could blow off some steam. That's why he's the fastest runner.

He knows that he annoys Leo from his meditations/training routines so that he could spend some time with the family, even if the rewards a smack or two.

Donnie knows that Mikey comes in their lab, despite the warnings in the door. To also annoy them out of the lab, also earning a smack or a yell. But yet it always works for them. Sometimes he would feel bad about yelling or smacking him, though..

Getting to the point: Donnie hates it when anybody's injured. Especially Mikey.

He hasn't forgotten about that day. The day when they were on a mission, that elevator trip. They knew that Mikey just wanted to light up the mood a little, but yet Raphael thought it was okay to punch him to the ground. quite literally. They even saw Leo smirking after, Donnie knew he was also thinking about it aswell.

But they didn't do anything... Not that they appreciated it! No, they didn't mind Mikey tapping his nunchucks at all!
Well.. they admits, it did kinda annoy them a little. But they didn't think about punching Mikey like that!
They didn't do anything because they didn't want to be involved. Yes, it did mentally hurt them. The way Mikey got back up silently. Donnie understood, The punch was all so sudden. But if they’d got involved, three possibilities would've happened:

1: They get yelled at for being distracted.
2: They would also gets punched to the ground (again, quite literally).
3: an argument would've occurred, which could've been a really bad timing, especially at that mission. The guards would've caught them!

Speaking of the guards.. What did Mikey and Casey do after they ran? Of course they were curious, neither hadn't told them, or to anybody.
That question leads to Donnie now, typing away after just saying goodbye to Mikey. They should ask him about it after he's done coding.

What was Mikey going to do?

Right, he said he was gonna hang out with Casey, April and Karai. He's gonna be fine. Right?
..Right..?
Right..!
...Right?

Oh.. So many possibilities. So many ways of injury, so many ways to D⃥I⃥E⃥. So many ways.. So many ways..

No, don't think that. Mikey has his T-phone on him, he even showed it to Donnie! Stop thinking... No wait don't stop thinking! 𝐘𝗼𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝗼𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐟𝗼𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝗼𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠!

Donnie groans as they leaned back, (48th time, still counting.) they massaged their forehead as they closes their eyes. Leo taught them to breathe, to keep calm. In and out, in and out, in and out..

Okay, their calm enough. Should they check on Mikey? No.. He's probably up and away in the rooftops by now. But why would that stop them? But he could be in the Mutanimals place too, he can't be any safer than in there. Oh but..what if he's in Aprils place? Then if they did go and checked on him he would be called a creep forever from everyone! Especially Raph!
Oh wait, they had his phone. Donnie should be able to track his phone!

Oh what's gotten into them? They’ve never been super anxious like this before about Mikey going out. Is it because he's with April? No. Couldn't be that.. Could it?

Could it be because he's with Casey? When they hang out, it causes havoc! Well, 75% of the time. But at the same time he always hangs out with Casey, so it couldn't be him.

Could it be because of Karai?
Now that he thinks about it. It's really rare for Karai and Mikey to hang out, and what Donnie means by 'rare', they means almost never. Why would Karai wanna hang out with Mikey? Maybe it's just a brother and sister thing, well. Half-sister to be precise. Maybe Karai wanted to have some fun time outside of katas with Leo.

Still, couldn't hurt to check his locations.

Donnie scavenged to find their phone, they know Mikey hasn't been out for long, probably 10-20 minutes after his goodbyes.
after they’ve found the T-phone, they checked the location of Mikey. They sigh in relief as they see the dot close to the sewer entrance. Mikey was just a couple buildings away. The dot seems to slightly move. So it could mean he's just chilling out with the group.

But the weight on their shoulders didn't lift. The possibilities in their mind are endless.

Maybe.. the coding can be saved for later.

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“What the hell were you thinking going off like that?!”

Unlike Donatello, Michelangelo does not become paranoid about many things..

”You should’ve told of me, or at least Raph something instead of running off! Mikey would’ve called if something happened!”

Sure, with squirrels? Yes. The Shredder? Definitely, the cheese demon? 100%

”-But instead of telling me or Leo, no! You ran off with your smart ass, and came back like this.”

Unlike Michelangelo. Donatello experienced paranoia most of the time they’ve been alive.

”I thought you were smarter than this. Splinter would’ve been dissatisfied.”

The paranoia of their coding failing.

”Are you crazy or something? Being paranoid isn’t an excuse, dumbass.”

Their experiments exploding. Failing to succeed.

”Leo, Raph, just listen to me.”

Their friends injured. Sent to the hospital.

”I was- paranoid. I was paranoid about Mikey and-“

Their family dying. At deaths door, knocking.

“-when I arrived, I saw he was just fine, with April and the others. So I was gonna come back!”

Their enemies planning on revenge.

“But then a thing- a person- I don’t know.. Something showed up and started attacking them! I couldn’t just stand there!”

-even though they’re all 6ft under.

”I meant, what kind of person would let their friends be attacked like that? Let alone their own brother!

 Their trauma, that no normal teenager would go through.

”But the enemy was seriously trained, we weren’t getting out with just bruises, Leo.”

the list goes on.

”April and Casey are alright. Karai is fine too, and so is Mikey, Raph.”

It goes on too long.

”I don’t give two shits about Mikey, he was the reason why all of this happened in the first place anyways. Thank god April and Casey made it fine. You already had a beating, but I’ll give you one if you go out stalking April again.”

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“Good that Aprils fine, Casey too. But I wanna know a real reason about why you were so irrational and went out there, we could’ve been discovered! I’ll have to think of a punishment for you, and Mikey too. ”

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“What?”

But it applied to the whole family.

”What do you mean by punishment? I did what you would do!”

ᵗʰᵉʸ ʷᵒᵘˡᵈ ᵈᵒ ⁱᵗ ᶠᵒʳ ᵗʰᵉⁱʳ ᵉᵍᵒ

It felt like a family tradition.

“What do you mean that you don’t give a shit about Mikey? It’s not his fault!? ”

ʰᵉ ᵈⁱᵈⁿᵗ ᵐᵉᵃⁿ ᵗʰᵃᵗ

ᵈⁱᵈ ʰᵉ?

it applies to Raph and Leo.

ᵗʰᵉʸ ᶠⁱᵍʰᵗ ᵗᵒᵒ ᵐᵘᶜʰ ᵒᵛᵉʳ ⁿᵒᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ

“What do you mean that Mikey has to be disciplined too?”

ʰᵉ ᵈⁱᵈ ⁿᵒᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ʰᵉ ᵈⁱᵈ ⁿᵒᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ᵃᵗ ᵃˡˡ

Casey and April.

ᵗʰᵉʸ ʷᵒᵘˡᵈᵛᵉ ᶜᵃʳᵉᵈ?

“What did Mikey do?”

ᵗʰᵉʸ ʲᵘˢᵗ ˡᵉᶠᵗ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵈⁱˢˢᵃᵖᵒⁿᵗᵐᵉⁿᵗ

even Tang-Shen and Splinter.

ᵗʰᵉʸʳᵉ ᵈᵉᵃᵈ

“What did Mikey do?” Donnie asked to themselves, freshly bandaged around their wrist and arms, scanning over Mikey, peacefully sleeping over the customized cot. He didn’t have any major injuries, none of them did, but Donnie had asked Mikey to stay the night in the lab.

”I just want you to stay in the lab overnight. Just in case if I missed anything or a reaction occurs, okay?”

“Gotcha, Doc!”

Raph would always say something irrational, hopefully by the time morning comes, he wouldn’t be saying sorry directly, but he would take back what he said about Mikey, Leo would drop the threat of punishment, they were just angry, overprotective? At Donnie for not telling them, right?

Of course, Donnie had their reasons. Whenever they gets paranoid about something, there’s a 75/25 chance of telling the rest. 25% of that was if they told them.

The first time they went solo, Mikey got mad at them for naming something without them. But he dropped it immediately after.. At least Donnie thinks so.

The last time they went on a solo mission. They nearly killed Don Vicioso for the taste of revenge. ʰᵉ ᵈᵉˢᵉʳᵛᵉᵈ ⁱᵗ ʰᵉ ᵈᵉˢᵉʳᵛᵉᵈ ᵗᵒ ᵈⁱᵉ They didn’t even ask if Donnie themself was okay.

But Donnie should be sleeping away. It’s already 2 A.M. Donnie hates it when they overthinks.

Maybe tomorrow will be a better day.

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“I can’t believe they would do something like this!” Leo paced around the kitchen, frustrated for Donnie’s actions.

“Why would Donnie chase them down like that? Without even telling us!” Leo slammed his hands down on the table. Raph on the other end, laughed at Leo’s frustrations.

“I’ll tell you why, Donnie did it for April!” Raph waved his hands around, “Obviously whatever they were fighting about didn’t lead Donnie away from her, and Casey hanging out with her was the breaking point!”

“You’re never gonna let that go, are you?” Leo glared for a second, then his head hung low as Raph nodded, putting his feet up on the table. “I don’t know, Raph.” Leo sighed “He- they said they were paranoid about Mikey-“

“Paranoid my ass!” Raph interrupted “Can’t you see Leo? He’s using that as an excuse! He’s never paranoid!” Raph stood and headed to the fridge for snacks, “just think of a punishment or something, I’m gonna go steam off.”

“Really? Breakfast is soon! Wait, Raph-“ Raph mocks Leo with his hand and walks away, Leo sighs, he puts his hands together as he thinks. How could Donnie be so irrational? It’s like they shut off his- their brain and went for it. Did another experiment gone wrong? He’s gotta shut off the lab at this point. Donnie’s been making too many mistakes, again.

God, Donnie..w̵h̵y̵ a̵r̵e̵ y̵o̵u̵ s̵o̵ s̵t̵u̵p̵i̵d̵? Leo expected better, much better than this.