Leo's Capture

Part 12

Leo slept real good that night. When he woke up, he had no idea how long he had slept, but he felt very rested. For a moment, he thought he had woken up in his cell at Victoria's, but when he saw everything that belonged to him, he knew he was home again. After all that, it had felt like a dream.

But when he felt his sides, there were scars on them from the stitches, reminding him it wasn't a dream. His plastron was scarred too. But now, it was time to go out and face his family.

Don, Raph, Mikey and Splinter were all having breakfast together this morning. Ever since Leo's disappearance, they hadn't been the same.

Raph fought with Don a lot more and snapped at everyone, though he tried to be a good new leader. Don tried to help him out, but Raph still didn't like being told what to do.

Mikey had lost a lot of his childlike charm and was more serious, but he still did try to make the others happy.

Splinter had just stayed in his room a lot more and had tried searching for Leo's soul in the astral plane, but never found him. But he felt that his son was alive somewhere. He didn't doubt that Leonardo would return to them if he could get away.

This was one of those rare mornings that they had decided to eat together before morning training.

Leo nervously went down the stairs. He saw his family in the kitchen.

"Hey!" Leo greeted.

His voice surprised everyone, let alone his appearance all so suddenly.

"LEO!" His brothers shouted and went to hug him. Even Raph.

Splinter looked on as the three brothers knocked Leo to the ground. They were just so happy to see him.

"Oof!" Leo grunted from the impact.

"Where did you come from?!"

"I missed you!"

A few of the questions asked and said.

"Ok, ok! Guys, I'm happy to see you too, if you'll let me up." Leo smiled.

They let him up. But from that moment, Leo felt something odd about his stomach as he sat up and got up. But he wasn't going to say anything.

"And to answer your questions, I got here last night. I found everyone was asleep and didn't wish to disturb anyone. And I missed all of you too. Very much."

Leo then looked at his father.

The wise rat had a smile on. "I knew you would come home to us, Leonardo."

"I didn't know where I was, but I was up north somewhere and managed to get away 2 weeks ago. I've been following the Hudson River I found out. It led me back to here."

"Are you okay? What did the kidnappers do to you?" Don asked.

"I had some stomach surgery mostly." Leo gestured with his hand over his plastron and showed them one of his sides. "I was x-rayed a lot, had some injections, but I was fed well and let outside when it was nice. But I was still a prisoner. The woman who took me, she was called Victoria; she said she wanted me to do a job for her, but I never found out what it was. She was just using me for something."

His family had easily noticed the scars when he had pointed them out.

"She should pay for what happened to you!" Raph growled.

"I have a feeling that she'll be in New York before long to try to get me back." Leo said.

"She's not getting you back."