What Happened to Fearless

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Leo POV.

It's been two weeks since the incident with Winter. Two weeks since I came home. Things are so much different. Not being able to eat what I usually eat here in Central America has made it to where I can't stand to eat the food my family eats now. Ever since we defeated Winter, I've been having nightmares about my time in Central America. I haven't been sleeping well and it's starting to take a toll on me. I can't let my family know though. I'm supposed to be the oldest, the leader, the fearless. I can't let them find out what happened to me their.

Everything was amazing there for the first month but then I saw them. Two girls one at the age of six and the other eighteen, just like me. They were being tortured behind a building far away from any villages. So I did what I should have done, I saved them. I took them to a nearby village to make sure they got there safe. As they left I tried to make it back to my "home" but I was captured by the people who work at the same place as the ones who tortured the girls. They took me to the building, and that's when my trip went to hell.

They kept asking me questions; what was I, how was j created, are there anymore like me, where did I come from? I never answered so they tortured me. This kept going on and on for what seemed like forever. They barely fed me. If I had a broken bone, they didn't care. It just kept going. Two months later they found the girls again. They were placed in a cell with me. The older girl told me her name was Kendall and the little one was Quinn. That's where I learned that they also weren't normal. They had elemental powers. Kendall had water and earth, along with the ability to heal, but these people didn't know that. Quinn had fire and wind along with the power to read emotions and minds, these people didn't know that either. However, since Quinn is so young, she couldn't fully read minds yet but she was practicing. Every time they tortured us Kendall was there even if I tell her not to help me. Us three grew close.

I learned that they didn't have families either. They were taken from their families and experimented on by these people, they weren't even related. They were the only ones out of 20 people to survive the experiments. Since Quinn didn't have a mom or dad, she called Kendall mom and Kendall treated her like her very one. As they all got closer, Quinn ended up calling me dad. I thought of it as an honor. To have such a little girl call you something so loving like dad because she trusts you is something not everybody feels. I protected them as best I could when they tried to torture them, so I mostly got tortured they didn't and I was happy they weren't as harmed.

A month before I escaped, they saw how close we were getting and decided to change that. They took Kendall and Quinn to another building farther away and when I tried to stop them, and I put up one good fight, they shot me twice int the leg so I couldn't move. I never forgave myself for letting them be taken and I don't think I ever will. Then I escaped. I was shot so many times that day it's all fuzzy and I barely remember it but that's what my nightmares are mostly about. Now I'm back to my real home but it feels so different.

All the guys are still mad at me because I was gone for so long but Raph has gotten better at his anger towards me since two weeks ago. Mikey and Donnie however still hold grudges. I guess the incident made them forget about it and once it was over it all came back. Thanks to that place I was tortured in I barely eat anything. When the guys ask me if I'm hungry or why I'm not eating I say I'm not or that I use to the food in the jungle and can't eat what they do.

All of the thoughts of that evil place has been in my head for the past two weeks. I miss Kendall and Quinn so much. They were my family over there. I searched everywhere for them but no sign of them.

As I'm thinking about all this in my room, I hear master splinter calling for us. "Boys!! It's time to Train!" I get up as plainly as possible. I sill hurt from all those tortures I've just been good at hiding till recently, I think it's starting to become to much because I'm adding all this training and everything. All I can hope for is that none of them notice.

As I made my way done to the dojo, I see my brother already in there. Once I enter I of course have to get a smart remark from Raph. "Wow! We made it down before Leo. Huh. That's something we don't see everyday."

I ignore him and get in position to train.

"I fear that with Leonardo's long trip to Central America, you have all forgotten how to officially work better as a team." Master said. "I hope that you will become the group you were before your brother left."

All we did was stretches and team exercises. I was about to fall over too but my brothers only looked a little tired out. I have to fight through this pain though. I can't be seen as week. I'm supposed to be the leader. The spot in my mask where it is tied behind my head started to fall so I quickly tied it back. One of the punishments the gave me and the girls were branding numbers on us. Kendall got her left hip with the number 17, for her age when they first had her, Quinn had it on her right wrist with the number 5, and I got it on the back of my head with the number 18. I have to hide it now with my mask tail.

We walk out of the dojo to eat dinner, well I'm not eating dinner but I still sit with the family. They are all talking about stuff that happened while I was gone. Of course I wanted to know what happened to them and what they did but my mind was somewhere else. Only when Mikey screamed my name did I look at my family sitting at the table.

"What?" I asked.

"Dude we've been trying to get your attention for 5 minutes." Raph stated. "We tried asking what all you did in the jungle. Was it interesting?"

I froze. I didn't know what to say. "Uh.... Nothing really happened. A few uh... Thieves from time to time, but nothing like the things we went through." When I said that is sounded more like a question.

"Don't worry bro. I bet any place without us is boring." Mikey joked making everyone laugh. Mike then slapped my back like friends would do to each other but I was hurting so much I hissed in pain. All the guys started at me and mike looked scared. "Sorry Leo I didn't think it would be that hard. Wait..... I didn't hit you that hard."

"Are you alright my son?"

"Yeah." I said through fretted teeth. "I'm just gonna go upstairs."

Don finally spoke up. "I can look at your back Leo if something is hurting."

"I said I'm fine!!" I didn't mean to shout and once I realized I did I regretted it. "Sorry. I'm going upstairs."

I walked slowly all the way to my room and laid down. Hoping I can finally get a good nights sleep.
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3rd POV

As Leo slowly made his was up the stairs, his family was worried about him. I mean ya they all were still mad, except splinter, that he was gone for so long but they still love and care about him.

"What's up with Leo?" Raph asked Donnie and Mikey shrugged and turned to their father.

"I believe something happened that he does not want us to know. Do not push your brother too hard, let him come us."

Mikey was honestly worried about his older brother. He looked up to Leo most of the time and he doesn't like it when any of his brothers aren't well or hurt, he doesn't like it. He wants to help Leo but he just doesn't know how.

Don was conflicted about how he feels. He knows he should be angry and mad at him but he know deep down he loves his brother and wants to help him get better. He just needs to know how and if Leo will let him.

Raph is confused about what's going on with Leo. He knows that it takes a while lot for something to make him hurt like that and act the way he's been acting lately. He's gonna make sure he finds out what's going on with Leo and he'sgon a fix it.

Master splinter knows about how Leo is troubled right now and he knows something happened on his trip. He has been waiting for Leonardo to come and talk to him but is afraid that if he waits for him to come any longer, he's hurting Leo even more by not putting a stop to it.

It was silent the rest on the dinner. They all went to sleep that night trying to figure out what's wrong with the leader and blue. They all went to sleep soundly except for poor Leonardo. He's tossing and turning, sweat dripping from his head. This has happened everyday for two weeks. It's a scary sight to look at. The same nightmare over and over again. He can never forget what has happened to him and the girls. He will never forgive himself for being defeated so easily when Quinn and Kendall needed him most.