WHEN CO-PARENTING BECOMES MORE

Epilogue (aka chapter one :/)

Mikey swore he saw Draxum wince when he saw the short rat's figure step into the "tv room", he's sure everyone saw it he grumbled a sort of swear the Mikey chose to ignore.

Okay, maybe winced was an understatement, he fully looked away from him, seeming more irritated with Splinter in the room. Whenever the rat got into the sheep's vision he'd look away, both Mikey and Donnie caught onto that the moment it happened more than three times...

Draxum and Splinter both would spare each other glares from time to time when they met each other's gaze.

and oh. oh. My. god, was it awkward, uncomfortable even, while they tried to.. entertain the conversation, it wasn't hard to tell that Splinter changed the reason why he came into the room, sooner than later, Donnie, god bless his soul, dragged the Baron off to look at some new tech of his, the slider would let sigh as he attempted to speak up and say something, got cut off by his older brother "Pops, what was that?" Raph asked his hand that was covering Leo's mouth was more so looming over it.

"Hm? What was what red?" Splinter asked nonchalantly, his ears twitching slightly at the question, raph placed his hand securely on his hips, forgetting about Leo at the moment "y'know- the-" "The awkward divorced parents thing you have going on with Barry?" Leo cut off raph, the sliders interest in the conversation peaking even more.

Raph shot his beloved younger brother a glare, biting the inside of his mouth, before exhaling out " yeah- ever since shredder, you two tolerate each other more?...but it's-" raph struggled to find the correct wording before Mikey interjected and said "uncomfortable" Mikey's voice came out as stern and a bit of doctor-delicate-touch came out at the end.

"Eh- my son's I do not know what you mean" the Rat spoke , he cocked his head to the side, his tail swinging back in fourth in annoyance, telling his three other sons to drop it.

The three of them gave each other a look that screamed 'theres more going on here'

Splinter chose to ignore it.

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Meanwhile, Donnie was showing off his very impressive tech, just drowning in parental approval. Baron hovered over the soft shell , looking down, praising anything, and everything he understood and knew, Donnie looked over his shoulder, the drawn-on eyebrows on his mask furrowing.

"What is the matter Donatello" the sheep asked sternly, yet, a hint of concern laced his tone. Before he could have peaked down at his 'son', the soft shell swung around in his chair, it was so fast it almost gave Baron whiplash

"My dear Second Christmas, I have a question" Donnie said waving his hand dismissively at the question the sheep asked, he raised his eyebrow at the turtle and his harsh like tone.

" why do you look at my- our father like-" Donnie took his time to give a proper example, "-that" Draxum coughed out, chuckling at the attempt, the sheep shook his head, his ears moving with his head movements, Donnie tried his best to not physically cringe at the unexpected noise , "It's nothing Donatello"

Donnie usually would put up a fight but he could just send Mikey to Draxum's apartment later and get a confession about the reason why, there had to be a proper explanation beside the fact that Draxum turned the ex-hollywood star into what he was today, perhaps it was just only that.

After a while of showing the last of his newest inventions, the sheep had left to go join Mikey one last time, before having to return back to his sad little man apartment for the night, waving off at his turtle sons.

His very chronologically online children.

Who was totally shipping him with his "enemy"