Baby Raphie

Part 10

“Hello Michelangelo and Miss. O’Neil.” (MS) 

“Hey Sensei.” (Mikey and April) 

“How’s Raphie ?” (Mikey) 

“Raphael is fine Michelangelo, I am getting him some ice to chew on.” (MS) 

“ICE !?!? Isn’t that cold for a baby Sensei ?!?!” (Mikey) 

“Calm yourself my son, as a baby before Raphael loved to chew on ice. You all had your favorites when teething.” (MS) 

As MS talked, he grabbed an ice cube from the freezer and gave it to Raph who put it in his mouth and gnawed on it. 

“What was mine, Leo and Donnie’s favorite things to chew on ?” (Mikey) 

“You Michelangelo loved to chew on anything you could get your tiny hands on. Donatello loves frozen fruits, of course before I would give them to him I would take the skin off if there was any to begin with. Leonardo loved to chew on…” (MS) 

There was a short pause as MS took a deep breath and closed his eyes. 

“Chew on what MS ?” (April) 

“I am sorry, I thought I heard something……..Michelangelo hold Raphael for a moment please.” (MS) 

MS handed Raph to Mikey and walked out of the kitchen and into the living room towards the turnstiles and looked out and listened. 

His listening was interrupted by Mikey who walked over to his master with April closely following him. 

“MS what is it ?” (Mikey) 

“April please fetch Leonardo, quickly.” (MS)

“I’m here MS.” (Leo)  

Before anyone moved, Leo walked up behind MS and stood almost in front of him and listened too. 

“I will go.” (Leo) 

Leo walked out of the lair and Raph had finished his ice cube and watched his oldest brother walk out and starts crying in Mikey’s arms. 

“Shhh, it’s ok Raph. Leo will be right back. Shhh.” (Mikey) 

Mikey tried to comfort Raph but he wasn’t calming down. Donnie took Raph and rocked him a bit and it still didn’t calm him down. So Donnie walks around the lair a few times (an hour) and Raph finally stopped screaming but he still had silent tears running down his face and whimpering every once in a while. 

Donnie stopped walking and was now just bouncing on his feet standing up with his hand on the binky in Raph’s mouth holding it so it doesn’t fall. Then Casey walked over with his hands in his pockets. 

“Hey Donnie.” (Casey) 

“Hey.” (Donnie) 

Donnie’s eyes never left Raph’s teary ones as he still had silent tears running down his face. 

“How’s Raph ?” (Casey) 

“He’s ok. At least he stopped screaming.” (Donnie) 

Raph looks away from Donnie and looks to Casey and holds his arms out. 

“He wants you to hold him Casey.” (Donnie) 

“Me ?” (Casey) 

“Yes. Now here you big baby, hold the baby.” (Donnie) 

“Fine.” (Casey) 

Donnie hands Raph to Casey and Casey holds Raph close to his chest and Raph smiles a tiny bit and snuggles into Casey’s shirt and listens to his heart. 

“He stopped crying.” (Donnie) 

Donnie smiles as he watches Raph drift off into sleep and Casey watches him. 

“You’re really good with babies Jones.” (Donnie) 

“Yeah, I had to take care of my sister so I’ve had practice.” (Casey) 

Then April walked around the corner with Mikey and hey saw Raph asleep and smiled at Casey. 

“I swear if you wake him up I will pound you Mikey !!” (Donnie) 

“Chillax Donnie. yours starting to sound like Raph.” (Mikey) 

“Why don’t you go rest for a bit in your lab Donnie. You look really stressed out. Casey, Mikey and I can watch Raph.” (April) 

“Ok.” (Donnie) 

Donnie walks to his lab and shuts the door quietly. 

“You can put Raph in his crib if you want Casey. He should be ok.” (April) 

“Nah, I’ll hold him. I mean, because he’ll wake up if I put him down and I don’t feel like hearing the kid cry.” (Casey) 

“Whatever you want to tell yourself Jones.” (April)