This is The Day

Healing

Raphael's recovery had been going swell. His fever had passed, and his arm was much better. Of course he still had to take it easy when training and had to continue physical therapy classes. So, when Mikey walked into the room to find his older brother, Raph complaining to adonnie about how much weight he could use on his arm, he wasn't surprised.

"Raphie, you need to take it easy! Sixety pounds is enough for now!"

"I've been takin' it easy fer weeks Donnie! This is stupid."

Don only sighed and shook his head, "If you overdue it you'll just be at step one again."

Mikey decided that Raph needed a break. He saw the fight coming on before it was even starting and wanted to stop it. "Hey Raphael! Leo wanted me to pick some things up from the dump! Wanna come?"

Raph grinned, "I'm in!" He dropped the twenty pound weight he had been holding, and ran out, the loud clang from the weight echoing off the walls.

Donatello called after him, but decided to just let him go, Raph seemed to be getting angry and some time topside should be enough to help him cool down.

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"Dude! It's freezing out here!"

"Shut it Mikey." Raph replied to his younger mutant brother, looking over the city and grinning. He was still allowed topside, but it was usually only for training and night patrol, so tonight felt special.

"C'mon Raph! Let's go get these rhings." He pulled a wrinkled piece of paper that had a list of items.

After five minutes of Mikey squinting at the messed up writing, Raph growled and snatched it. "Lemme see that!" Upon reading the list he blinked before looking at Mikey. "He wants to find a toaster?"

"Splinter broke ours. It's was awesome! The bread inside of it explo-"

"Yeah, yeah. Let's get to it." 

Mikey grinned and nodded, running after Raph. Pretty soon they were racing across the rooftops,  Raphael just as fast as he was before the accident. Of course he was still no match for Mikey.

"Hurry up Raph! Your taking all day!"

"Oh as soon as I get ahold'a you I'ma kill ya!"

"Whatever you say Raphael!" Mikey laughed and ran even faster, jumping across rooftops until he saw the dump, where he jumped down but kept running, Raph not too far behind.

After a good twenty minute game of try to catch Mikey they both stopped and began searching for the items on the list. "Mikey, you look for a bike tire. I'll find a toaster "

Mukey nodded and hopped off to search for the bike tire, leaving Raphael to searxh through the heaps of garbage for a toaster. As he looked he thought back through the last few weeks, he had yet to apologize to Leo, he knew he had to. Afterall, he uadn't taken his anger out on him.

The second oldest turtle grunted and grimaced as his hand touched something sticky and he quickly wiped it off, before movong to another pillow of rubbish.

"I found the tire Raphie!!!" 

"Then go look for a..." The red masked mutant looked down at the list, squinting slightly, "fabric?" He blinked and gave Mikey a funny look, who simply shrugged in return.

"Ah! One toaster!" Raph grinned as he pulled a grungy, rusty toaster out of a pile of trash and put it in the sack he had brought. Then looked back down at the list. Pillows. Leo wanted pillows too? What was he making?

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"Donnie where's Raph?"

"Mikey asked him to help get some things for you from the dump." Don stated matter of factly, his eyes focused on a computer panel he was tinkering with.