ENDLESS LOVE- C.J

No.9

Leo woke up and whined in pain. He looked up and saw nothing but pieces of brick. He removed the rubble from him.

"Casey! Gabby!" He tried to get up but fell on his elbow, holding his side and grunting. He noticed Casey popping out of the rubble. "Casey, you okay?" He whined in pain too, trying to get out of the mess. He lifts up his wrist, trying to contact anyone from outside the rubble.

"Donnie, Mikey, anybody?" He asked. 

Casey was completely out of the rubble, breathing heavily, and slid down to Leo and couched in front of him with an angry look on his face.

"What the heck was that?" He asked, Leo though he meant the monster that chased them.

"Some kind of drippy crazy kraang monster," Leo answered, he lifted his hand from his side and noticed there was no blood showing.

"No, I mean you! Why weren't you listening to anybody?" Casey asked angrily.

"Because I was trying to get us into the other side of that fight and into the building!" He explained.

"That sure worked out well," Casey said sarcastically.

"I was doing everything right. How could it go wrong?" Leo rubbed his head.

"Because you weren't listening to your team! You don't have all the answers all the time!" Casey pointed out, he was furious.

"But I'm the greatest ninja the world's ever seen. You said that."

Casey scoffed. "I was wrong."

"What?" Leo mumbled, his eyes widening. Leo instantly felt embarrassed and put his fists against his forehead, as if he was praying.

"You're impulsive, you're arrogant, and you don't see that every decision you make could cost someone their life!" Leo turned away from the boy. "You want to know what really happened to your brothers in the future?! They die. Everybody dies fighting the Kraang." That sentence hit Leo hard. Leo felt as if his body was paralyzed. "The world needs Master Leonardo, And all I get is this guy." Casey pulled out the picture that his master gave him and tossed it, landing next to Leo.

Casey walked away to begin to dig through the rubble to get out, Leo grabbed the picture and looked at it...

The two didn't say anything to each other...

"You're just a teenager." Leo jumped in surprise, and turned to see gabby stuck in the rubble.

"Gabby!" Leo tried to crawl towards her, but his side was killing him. He hissed at the pain.

"Don't bother, I can get out myself." She pushed the brick off of her, and slowly crawled to Leo.

"Are... are you—"

"Leo. Don't worry about me. I'm gonna be ok." 

"Ok?! Your 'ok' is a huge soon to be SCAR?!" He was right. Something had cut her waist while they were falling, and it was a deep cut. It was surely going to leave a scar.

"Yeah. But back to what I said before. You're just a teen. You shouldn't even be doing this. You aren't supposed to be mature at your age. You haven't fully developed." Leo narrowed his eyes, as if he didn't want this conversation.

"You're supposed to be having fun, doing something you enjoy doing. But you aren't, are you? I sorta get it. My step sister, sunny, she's way too mature for her age. Twelve years old! But once in a while, she loves to get childish." She groaned, she wasn't used to comforting people. "Look... what I'm trying to say is—" she grabbed his shoulder, and they both turned to face each other.