Tmnt (any version) one-shots 💙🧡💜❤️

2k!Raph & 2k!Splinter comfort

This one was requested by @i-like-monty and is a pretty interesting one! You also didn't specify which traumatic event (there are a lot, they all need therapy 💀) so im going off an idea here that the show never actually addressed very deeply!
(THIS IS NOT A SHIP, THIS ONE IS A FATHER SON RELATIONSHIP!)

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"Come on Raph, we were just messing around!" Mikey laughed. Raph threw a punch at him but Mikey dodged.

"You think it is funny?! Im done with you guys!" Raph shouted. As he did, Master Splinter entered the room.

"What is going on?" He asked calmly.

"Raph is overreacting to a joke, like usual." Donnie rolled his eyes. Splinter looked at Raphael who was fuming.

"No! What happened was they thought it would be funny to put a big worm on my face while I slept so when I woke up I'd freak out! After everything that happened with the Shredder and the whole mind worm thing too!" Raph raised his voice more and more, not realizing how loud he was getting. Splinter didn't stop his yelling, he simply listened to his words.

"Oh come on! It is a worm! Get over it!" Mikey groaned, leaning back on the table.

"Michelangelo, Donatello! Triggering your brother's trauma is not a joke and is not funny! Go to your rooms while I speak with Raphael and then I will come speak with the both of you!" Splinter was stern, tapping his staff on the ground. Donnie and Mikey bowed and left the kitchen, no longer laughing and a bit guilty.

"Come Raphael," Sensei's voice was much softer now as he spoke to the startled turtle.

"Yes Sensei," Raph said as he followed Splinter out of the kitchen and into the dojo.

When they entered, Leo was working on his form.

"Leonardo, you may go," Splinter dismissed him. Leo looked over and grinned when he saw Raph.

"What did you do this time, Raph?" Leo teased. Before Raph could respond, Master Splinter put a hand up to stop both boys.

"Leonardo, do not tease your brother, he did nothing wrong."

Leo was surprised. He nodded, bowing to his father before leaving the dojo.

"Come, sit," Splinter directed, sitting in front of the tree and pointing at the ground in front of him. Raphael did as he was told and sat before his father.

"Raphael. What troubles you. It is to my understanding that the problem this morning was a worm?" Splinter folded his hands in his lap and looked at Raphael with a perplexed expression.

"Well, sort of, yeah." Raph began. "They put a huge worm on my face this morning and it freaked me out because it made me have, like, vivid memories of when Shredder..." he shivered at the thought, unable to finish his sentence.

"Flash backs?"

"What?"

"What they boys did triggered flash backs. That is an unfortunate effect of trauma."

Raph sat in silence for a moment. Trauma?

"But. I am a ninja! Things like that shouldn't.. shouldn't stick with me like that!" Raph looked Splinter in the eyes. Splinter sighed and shook his head.

"Anyone can have trauma. And the situation you have been through my son was in fact very traumatic. But that is okay." Splinter reached out, placing a hand on Raph's shoulder.

"But, I'm a ninja!"

"Even ninja's can be traumatized. Being a ninja doesn't make your experience any less traumatic or less valid."

Raph felt tears well up in his eyes. As he tried to hold them back, he began to shake.

"Why.. why am I shaking?" Raph looked down at his hands as they shook violently.

"Because you're body is trying to cope with your mind. Trauma is more than mental, it can be physical too." Splinter explained.

Raph began to cry, the tears running down his face as he watched his hands shake.

"Come here Raphael, it is okay to feel the way you do." Splinter nearly whispered, opening his arms. Raph hesitated for a moment but leapt into his father's embrace, hugging him tightly and allowing the tears to stream down his face like waterfalls.

"Don't worry, my son, you don't need to talk about it at the moment, just let it out." Splinter whispered as he rubbed Raph's shell.

"Thanks.. Thanks dad... I love you," Raph managed between sobs.

"Of course Raphael, I love you too my son," Splinter replied, lifting the red clad turtle into his lap and gently rocking the teenager as if he were a baby again. Raphael didn't want to admit it, but it was incredibly comforting, so he did not protest his father's actions.

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"Guys, what did you do to him?!" Whispered Leo as he and his younger brothers stepped away from the crack in the dojo door.

"We didn't think it would be that bad! All we did was put a worm on his face!" Mikey put his hands up.

"Really?! After what happened with the Shredder and the whole mind control worm?! You didn't think it may have been a bad idea!" Leo whisper-shouted at the two.

"We didn't think about it, we didn't mean to freak him out this bad Leo, honest!" Donnie stated softly. Leo glared at him and pointed at their rooms.

"We will continue this conversation away from here, let Raph and Sensei deal with this." Leo narrowed his eyes. Mikey and Donnie hung their heads and tiptoed away, Leo hot on their heals with a nasty look on his face.

Splinter smiled a bit, having heard the whole exchange with his advancing hearing, as a rat. He then continued to comfort his second oldest son as he cried and shook in his arms.

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Sorry if that was a bit short or not what you were expecting, i just feel like Raph needed a good cry and reassurance from his dad he so rarely gets😭

Had fun writing this one! Hope you enjoyed reading!