Even Older Siblings Need A Break

PT 1 Brains and brawn

It started as a normal day, Donnie was in his lab working on one of his numerous projects that keeps him occupied for hours, sometimes even days. Leo was practicing his moves on his skateboard, Mikey was painting a mural of the family, he's been doing that alot lately, and pops is set up in front of the movie projector watching yet another of his glory days films, and our new guest Casey is out with April and Cassandra, trying to get used to the fact he doesn't live in a post apocalyptic world anymore. I was in the small room we had for training, punching away at one of our dummies. It'd been a few months since the krang attack, about 6 and half, we'd gotten the layer fixed up from the damage it sustained, thankfully it wasn't as bad as when the shredder destroyed our old layer. Mikey's hands have finally stopped having tremors frequently so he's been able to do alot more recently, that's probably why he's been painting so much. Donnie wasn't injured very much beyond a few bad bruises and scrapes, his arm had been having tremors from where he'd helped Mikey, but he's used compression gloves to stop it mostly so he's gotten better, he has been wearing his battle shell more frequently tho, probably because of how he had to fly the ship, I'm worried but, it's not harming him so I just let it be. Leo's injuries however.....they had healed up fine sure but.... The scars they left...Leo now had a large crack, that ran along the center of his shell, whenever he sleeps he has to use a small breathing machine that Donnie made for him because the damage sustained to his lungs and throat was worse than we'd hoped, he can breathe fine when he's awake, but when he goes to sleep it's like his body forgets to breathe, he almost gave poor pops a heart attack the first night he went to sleep, he kept gasping every few minutes, it was almost like he was dying, which I suppose he could have. Aside from that, Leo also was lacking the mystic energy he used to create his portals, Donnie says it's most likely because of how exhausted his body was with the fight, and that it should only be another month or two before he has enough energy to use his portals again. Pops has been trying to be more involved, asking us if we're ok more often, checking where we're going when we leave, it's weird but not unwelcomed, Mikey says its probably because of the scare of almost losing his son's. We've been getting through it, Mikey makes us have Dr feelings sessions every week now, Donnie and Leo pretend to hate it but... Whenever they think I'm not looking I always catch a small smile on Donnie's face, or Leo with a blush of embarrassment, they like the attention, if they admit it or not. However not every day is perfect...this day just so happens to be one of those days...

💥Boom💥

A loud explosion came from Donnie's lab. I ran out of my room and looked around to see if anyone had heard it, pops, had the TV up so loud I'm surprised he isn't deaf, and Mikey and Leo both have headphones on listening to there favorite playlists, so it seems I'm the only one who heard it, I almost thought I'd imagined it but that thought was quickly drowned out by the voice that came next.

"Fuck!"

Oh boy....time for raph to intervene. I quickly walk over to Donnie's door, more like a curtain since he hasn't gotten around to installing a actual door yet. Two firm but gentle knocks is all I do, I don't want to frighten him.

"Mikey I don't have time to eat right now I ate last night so don't worry"

Last night? Ok now raphs worried, it's almost the end of the day, don must have lost track of time again.

"Ah no, Its's raph, I was just- coming to check on ya, I heard an explosion and a few curses, language btw, and raph just wanted to check on ya, can I come In?"