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They, well Leonardo and Raphael were currently on patrol, it was a hot summer night. “Jeez, how much longer Raph” Leonardo complained trailing behind Raphael. “We have to catch those robbers, Leo”, “They probably aren’t even out tonight” Moments after Leo spoke a store alarm went off and 2 teenage boys broke the glass one was pretty big and strong looking, and the other one normal sized. “Ah, jinxed it” They ran straight to the area. 

“Stay Put!” Raph jumped down on one of them “Leo, get the other one” Raph struggling to keep the big one down. “On it” Leo was already ready to tackle him “RUN, DONT LET THE F** TURTLE GET THE GOODS” The big one spat. Raphael turned his head “Watcha say?” He looked furious. “To not let your homo brother get the goods?” He laughed nervously not really thinking Raph was that big of treat. “Oh you’re gonna get it” Raph picked him up and slammed him on the ground face down. His nose looked seriously broken. The big one grunted. “Have anything more to say?” Raphael forced his head up what his hand.

”Fuck you man!” He managed to turn and lift his arm and punch Raph in the face causing his nose to bleed aswel. Ralph had enough he needed to silence this pest. He tugged on his shirt collar and brought him up against the wall.  Making it easy to punch his face multiple times. “Raph! Stop! it’s okay I got the shit” “cmon” Leonardo dragged him “He called you a slur man” Raphael not letting go. “It’s fine” Leo desperately trying to get Raphael to let go. 

“Raphael Hamato” Leo finally got him to let go. They took an alley way to get home faster. Raphael holding his head up to try to stop the pretty severe bleeding. “Okay, careful” He let Raph go first into the sewer. ”Shit what happend guys” Michelangelo said quickly rushing to Raph. “Some idiots robbing a store called Leo slurs” Raph said being leaded to the living room by Mikey. “I’ve told him to let it go” Leo spoke coming back with paper rolls for Raphael’s nose that is still bleeding. “Screw them man, did you catch them?” Mikey helped Leo with getting paper. “Yeah we did” Leo cleaning up blood on Raphael’s shell.

”Keep your head down, Raphael and breathe through your mouth” Donnie also getting involved. Raph muttered a “thanks”. “Leo, are you ‘Kay though?” Mikey made eye contact with Leonardo. “It’s all good” Leo states “Even though I suck at emotions, being called slurs isn’t all good Nardo” Donnie said softly trying not to sound harsh. “I’m fine I promise” “Thanks for worrying tho, Love yous” 

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Mikey, had been to one to get the pizza that day. Maybe he shouldn’t have. Because just when he had got to the pizza place something terrible happened. “Turtle dude!” A voice emerged from the alleyway. Mikey froze and turned to the direction the voice came from. “Shit man I ain’t looking for trouble” Mikey backed away when he saw a trio of guys walking towards him. They all looked big and had way more power than he had. He gripped his Nunchaku. His mind spiraled he couldn’t think of an attack plan. “ So, Michelangelo is it huh?” One of the buff looking dude probably on steroids looked down at him. He wasn’t that short, Mikey. They were just tall. His impulsive behavior got to him he swung his nunchaku and hit the guy in the face and made a run for it.

He ran to the closest sewer drain and opened it looking behind him to see nothing following him yet. He was shaking normally he would have prepared for fights but now it was unexpected. “Yooo, Angelo” He was greeted by Leo who was skating on the ramp. “Where’s the pizza, buddy?” Raph made his way to Mikey. “Did you forget where it was or something” Donnie laughed. Mikey didn’t talk not that he wanted to not talk he was still processing. “Uhhh, you good” Leo also walked towards Mikey. “Nardo, he’s shaking” Donnie’s grin had long faded. “What happened?” Raphael tried to get something out of the poor boy. “Umm.. no I..I” Mikey tried. “What?” Raphael put a hand on his shoulder. “I..I think I almost got jumped” Mikey said softly. “Wait what, Who?”, “Yeah who?!”, “Where?” Mikey was bombarded with questions. “Uh three bu..buff dude’s, and the alleyway at the pizza place” 

“They are so dead” , “nobody hurts Mikey” Raphael started “But I’m fine look, please don’t hurt them maybe they’ll come after me again” He spoke fast. “We’ll make sure they never lay a finger on you” Raph pushed his brothers to the exit. “See you later I guess” Donnie waved. “good going Mikey, now they are getting hurt for you” Mickey huffed. He was still a little shook but he’ll be okay. To pass the time he tried to draw but he was too worried so he just laid on the couch staring at the wall and twisting the pencil in his fingers. After what felt like forever he heard some noise. “We’re back” Leo and Don had an arm around Raph who was bleeding from his leg. “Is he okay?” Mikey panicked. “He’s fine” Dee tried to reassure Mikey. “You sure” he checked out the wounds on Raphael. “He went a little overboard” Leo laughed. Mikey hugged all of them even Donnie who clearly disliked it but let him anyways and Mikey probably hugged Raphael till he couldn’t breath.

For the rest of the day Mikey offered to do everything for Raphael because he felt so guilty. But Raphael told him to leave it and that’s just what brothers do. Protect.

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Donnie, had been good for most of the day until he found a big flaw in one of his recent inventions he had been working on for awhile now. And he had no idea how to fix it. Which really annoyed him he was smart and he capable of anything, well that’s what he thought. Now he had been working on fixing it for what he thought was about 1/2 hours. Then he heard Leo call him for dinner. “guys foods here!”, Leo shouted. He pulled up his glasses and glanced at the time, oh shit it has been 5 hours and he hasn’t gotten anywhere. Chewing his inside of mouth, he simply thought he could be do one more thing before getting food. 

“Yo, uh Dee” Mikey entered his lab. “Gotta ya food” Mikey sat his pizza down. “Oh, apologies I was just working”, Donnie looked at the box. “It’s okay, just eat something you’re kinda in da zone yk”, “Anyways me and Leo are on patrol today, bye!” Mikey walked out of Donnie’s lab backwards. Donnie sighed he really wasn’t feeling it. His room lights were way too bright when he took off his mechanical glasses to switch to his normal ones. The pizza smelled strange, which was off cause it was from the same place they always got it from. And above that his speakers weren’t on because they’ve needing fixing. He started getting overwhelmed by everything. Donnie tried to calm himself down gripping hand on the table and standing up. His legs were weak from sitting for so long.

He probably should’ve not overworked himself again. His brothers had been noticing he started doing it again which is bad they aren’t aloud to know. Dee’s breathing only sped up thinking about it. He started scratching his arm that was supporting his weight. he started crying not that he wanted to he just did. Donnie’s arm started giving out and he fell to the ground making a loud noise echo threw his lab. That’s probably what send alarm signals to Raphael who was just chilling in the living area. 

Raphael was alerted when he heard a loud noise coming from Donatello’s lab. He made his way to the lab. “Hey d- oh fu-“ Raph panicked at the condition his younger brother was in. “Rap-“ Donnie managed to say still sobbing. “It’s me”, “Sorry buddy but I gotta touch you I’m moving you to the bed” He grabbed his brother bridal style. Raph  walked to Donnie’s bed a sat him down and covering Don’s lap with a weighted blanket. Donnie moved his hands to his ears. “Oh yeah right headphones” Raphael muttered. He started looking for them opened some drawers and pulled out his noise canceling ones. “Here you go“ he put them over Dee’s head. Raph sat next to Donnie and rubbed circles on his hand to signal that he was here for him.

He waited until he stopped crying and his breathing calmed to try and sign to him. “You okay to talk?” He signed Donnie looked over and signed back “yes”. Don took off his headphones. “Arm okay?” Raphael asked. Donnie looked at his scratching arm, “you came in time not bleeding yet.”, “What trigged it?” Raph asked worried about the answer. “Overworked”, “Don’t you dare give a lecture I know I messed up.” 

“I won’t, just glad you didn’t hurt yourself too bad”, “I love you Donnie” 

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”Yeah love you too Raphael.”