Random Rotmnt prompts

Melatonin Mentality

Mikey angst with a happy ending
Sibling comfort
Lots of crying

Leviathan had patted his black inky paws on my face, worry spelled out in his milky white eyes. He led me to Mikey's room, apparently having woke up himself hearing his whimpers from across the hall.

'He must be having a nightmare. A really bad one if Levi can hear him from across here.' I thought as I put on a silk white robe and walked bare foot across the cold concrete floor, passing Ralph's and Leo's room standing outside the door with blue and pink painted skateboarders and a purple painted pizza on it.

I could now hear the sobs from outside and it broke me to hear the pained tone of the sobs. He's been like this since the Kraang Invasion and me and Raph have both agreed that it was probably because of the fear Mikey had of almost losing his two brothers and being alone to grieve by himself.

I knocked on the door softly, the door leaning open with a creak, revealing and a shaking, sobbing turtle shell on the ground next to Mikey's bed.

I stroll over slowly and crouch next to the shell picking it up and holding the plastron toward my chest, tightly.
The shaking stops but the sobs still continue but more quietly.

"Mikey..." I whispered softly patting the back of the shell in a soothing pattern.

"Leah?..." he called back in a choked sob that nearly made me break down myself. But that's not what Mikey needs right now.
He needs me to assure him he's safe,Leo's safe, and everyone is safe. I'll do anything for the brave and determined little brother that would risk himself to get his brother back so he and Donnie wouldn't be alone and broken.

"...Mikey..Come on I can't comfort you if you're inside your shell.."

"I don't wanna see any of you get hurt again..I- i just want us all to be safe and happy..wh-why are all my brothers risking themselves for me while I just have to sit back and let you all get killed?..I just-"
Mikey said, his voice cracking halfway through the sentence.

"Shhhh...we're not dead, you're not dead, and I'll always be here for you no matter what, even if the devil trys to keep me away from you." I mummerd softly.

There was only silence from the shell. I don't mind this time. There was nothing he could say right now that I didn't already know.

I stood up with the orange box turtle and walked to a corner where there was a rocking chair I had bought recently for Mikey's room since he'd been having these nightmares. I sat down slowly, as to not shake, what was most likely silently crying inside, and gently rocked back and forth.

After a few moments Mikey spoke, almost choked out,
"It hurt..it hurt so much."
"Mhm..I know Angelo." I hummed caressing the back of the shell with soothing patterns.
"Then you came to save us and then you got hurt-"
"Mhm..I'm here Mikey."
"B-but the look on your face and Donnie- h-he started crying-"
"Michelangelo." I cut him off in as firm of a voice as I could, my eyes clouded with tears threatening to pour from my face onto the sobbing box turtle I'm supposed to be comforting.

I take a deep breath as I held the shell tighter in a protective manner. Mikey's head finally popped up but kept the rest of his body tucked tight in the shell, which I didn't mind either because my arms were practically impenetrable at this point.

Oh my poor Angelo I hate seeing him spiral like this but in order to keep loving my baby brother as fully as I can I need to see him at his lowest of points as well and soothe him through it until the time is right.

I hope that time never comes so these moments don't go away.

Mikey's puffy, red eyes gazed up at my cloudy ones, I sighed heavily before I started to speak,
"Mikey...when me and dad were crying in the rain after he became a rat, you- you nuzzled you face in our hands and clung to mine until we stopped crying and then you fell asleep in both of our hands and we sat on the floor for hours until you woke up. D-Donnie slept on my lap, while Leo and Raph leaned on dad."

I always cried every time I remembered that moment when I was away for so long. I always wanted to nuzzle Mikey through the hard times because he would have it the worst being the youngest, the most expressive, and his brother weren't the best communicators when they were in their feelings. To be away from something that brought you out of a hard moment in your life with something so simple.

It was more painful then getting stabbed by the kraang monster.

The hot tears poured down my face and some landed on Mikey's cheek, but he didn't move. His own glossy eyes trained on mine. I cupped his face gently, wiping a few stray tears. Heh. I can totally read his face like a book.

'Why is she smiling? Shes hurting.' He probably thought.

"Michaelangleo...I'll tell you this as many times as I see fit..and right now is one of those times..."

"Wha?-"

"I love you. I love you during the day. I love you during the night. I love you when you're smiling. I love you when you're crying. I will always love you. I've loved and missed you for those 12 long years I was away so I will never ever have a reason to stop loving you. No matter what you're going through. I love you Michelangelo, my wonderful bright orange baby brother."

To say the tears flowing from both our eyes would be enough to fill a river was an understatement.

I felt his legs and arms pop out as he clung tightly to my robe like a koala burying his face in the silk and he sobbed his heart out. I kept my smile and tears as I nuzzled the top of his head.

We were like this for a lingering moment, before he sobs out softly, his voice slightly raspy.
"I'm so happy you came back for us."

I snickered a bit.

"And I'd do it again."

"Hey Sis?" He questioned.

"Hm?" I hummed.

"I love you more.."

My eyes widened slightly. Before I could respond, I heard soft snores. Heh. Well all that crying sure was good melatonin.
I get up and lay us both down on his bed, grabs some tissues on his nightstand to wipe our faces and slide under his covers with our heads on his pillows as I place a soft kiss on top of his smooth head.

"Goodnight Baby orange."