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She did tell him nothing was wrong, but he’s watched enough movies to know when a girl tells you, “We need to talk” nothing good ever comes out of it.\n\n\tMaybe Raph was just being paranoid again. Maybe it was nothing serious. But the emerald turtle couldn’t help but feel worried. He laid in his hammock in his room, gazing at the phone in his hand. He was considering calling Lyric. Sure, she made him promise to trust her and not constantly be concerned about her every second of the day but he couldn’t help it. The thought that Lyric could get jumped, hurt, or worse was just beyond he could handle. \n\n\tAnd the young girl, for some strange reason, never wanted him to know where she lived. \n\n\tRaph sighed and scrolled through the contacts, finding Lyric’s number. His thumb hovering over the call button. It wouldn’t hurt to call just to check up on things. Making sure she was safe in her home. Then he can go on the rest of the day with an eased mind. Or he sure hoped he could.\n\n\tPressing the call button, he held the receiver to his ear and waited[s]---[/s]\n\n\tHe waited . . . and waited . . . and waited.\n\n\tAll he got was several beeps on his phone, but no one answered. Something in Raph’s gut twisted. Lyric never kept her phone off. Then of course, all the worst possibilities of why her phone was off rushed to his head. He tried to ignore them, but he just couldn’t block them out.\n\n\tHe sat up and looked to the phone. He tried calling again. Resulting in getting nothing but beeps. With a fretful sigh, he stuffed his T-phone back in his belt pocket and swung himself off his hammock. \n\n\tMaybe one little peek wouldn’t hurt. If Lyric is living nowhere near the main criminal’s sights they tracked, that could allow his mind to rest for a little.\n\n\tRaph nodded, Lyric didn’t have to know. He won’t even mention it to her as long as he knew she was safe.\n\n\tThe emerald eyed terrapin walked out of his room and across the living room. He glanced at the kitchen where he heard voices coming out of. Finding both Leo and Mikey laughing and talking. Leo had a mug cupped in his hands and he could only guess that it was filled with that icky tea he always seemed to love. Mikey had a plateful of pizza in front of him and ice cream kitty sitting in a box filled with ice occasionally licking Mikey’s freckled cheek. \n\n\tRaph chuckled and shook his head before proceeding to the lab. He passed the dojo and found Donnie was taking a private lesson with Master Splinter and he looked to be that he was being worked to the bone. Raph snorted.\n\n\t[i]Bout time. All that time spent in his lab was starting to show.[/I]\n\n\tThis was perfect though, now that the lab was free of body’s he doesn’t have to think of an excuse of why he wanted to use the tracking device Don had built some years ago.\n\n\tHe remembered snatching Lyric’s black phone at one point when she was occupied and placing a tracking device in it. He wasn’t being a stocker mind you. After the incident she had with those three drunk punks, Raph was determined to keep Lyric safe, and since the girl was so insistent on keeping her home a secret. He thought he would place it in the phone just in case.\n\n\tHe walked into the lab and closed it behind him. Locking the door. He walked over to the computer, kicking the spinning chair to the side out of his way. The computer was sleeping at the moment and he jiggled the mouse enough to bring the machine back to life.\n\n\tHe brought up the app radar and typed in the specific code for Lyric’s tracker. It loaded for a second before the radar popped up. Showing New York on it. There’s was a clump of different colored dots representing each family member. An extra dot showed up as light blue. Raph frowned as he saw the light colored aqua dot so close to the rest. He pressed a bottom on the keyboard and the map zoomed in on the sewer system. Yep, the dot was still close. He pressed the same button again and it zoomed in on the lair. The dot was still there.\n\n[i]\tLyric’s in the lair!?[/i]\n\n\tRaph didn’t know what to think. His mind was conjuring up different scenarios. Maybe she needed Raph for something important and she came all the way here. Raph shook his head, downloading the map onto his T-phone. He unplugged the little shell cell and started following the coordinates. He could see his own red dot moving to a different location every five steps. He went across the hall and ended up in front of Leo’s door.\n\n\tHe looked at the map then at the door. The little light blue dot seemed to be located right on the other side. He gave it a knock but no one answered. \n\n\tRaph chewed on his lip and twisted the knob, slowly opening to find that his eldest brother’s bedroom was[s]--- [/s]empty?\n\nThe red masked ninja wandered around the room. Looking in the most obvious places a female mutant would hide. Nothing. He even tried calling Lyric’s name. Silence. Raph glanced down at his phone, than at Leo’s bed. Setting the T-phone to the side he looked under the bed. Finding not that much clutter and his sights landed on the box. \n\n\tHe looked at it curiously. Gazing behind him to make sure no one was watching before he reached for the box and pulled it out. Last time he snuck in his brother’s room. He was caught snooping in his stuff and he could guarantee he didn’t want to repeat that punishment, but this was something important. Right? What if Leo had Lyric’s phone.\n\n\tHe took a breath and pushed aside the second thoughts from his mind, opening the box. He indeed found Lyric’s phone[s] ---[/s] but he also found something else. Something he wasn’t expecting. There was a small machine and a little waist band. He took those out and he found that light blue mask he had given the female terrapin. His eyes went huge when he found what looked to be to shapely molded[s]---[/s] breasts? \n\n\tRaph stared in bewilderment. His eyes landing on the clothes Lyric had worn. He took them and rubbed his thumbs against the cloths. Clenching it tightly. His eyes shutting and he rubbed his face in the leather jacket.\n \n\tLeo couldn’t . . . he wouldn’t . . . No. His brother didn’t do such things. This wasn’t him that was Lyric. These aren’t his clothes. It’s hers. She’s not a male. She’s not his sibling.\n\n\tBut despite Raphael’s hard attempts to deny the horrid thought. He couldn’t decline it when the evidence was laying there in his grasp. \n\n\tThere was a small gasp behind him and Raph separated from the coat to look over his shoulder. His eyes stinging with tears. Facing his shocked looking eldest brother standing in the doorway. One hand covered Leo’s mouth while the other supported him on the door frame. Tears were already welding up in his eyes.\n\n\tOh, this was not good. This was not good at all. \n\n\tRaph wasn’t supposed to find out the truth. He was supposed to tell him. This wasn’t how things should have unfolded, but apparently fate had different plans for Leo. One he wasn’t sure would have ended better. \n\n\t“R-Raph . . . I-I can explain.” He stuttered out. His voice cracking with nervousness. He could see Raph’s eyes hardening with anger.\n\n\t“Your damn right you better start explaining!” Came the harsh snap and Leo flinched. Raph was up on his feet a few inches away from Leo. He looked down to the ground and clenched his teeth. Muttering a short prayer in his head.\n\n\t“I-It’s not w-what you think. . . I-I didn’t m-mean to k-keep this a secret.” \n\n\t“The fuck are you talking shit about!? You play acted like a fucking women to get my heart just so you can crush it!?”\n\n\t“I-I d-didn’t want to hurt you. . .”\n\n\t“Didn’t want to hurt me!? Leonardo you already hurt me!” He shouted. Leo screwed his eyes shut. Next thing you know he was pushed into the wall, cornered by Raph. Leo peeked his eyes and wished he hadn’t. So many emotions flying from those fiery emerald eyes. He could see anger, sadness, disgust, rejection, anguish, betrayal and many more that he couldn’t find the right names to all rolled into two emerald orbs and surrounding him like a steel hot wall pressing in against Leo and pinning him to where he couldn’t escape. He could see the tears slowly dripping past the lids and falling along Raph’s cheeks. \n\n\tHe whispered, “R-Raphie . . .” \n\n\t“No! Don’t you even dare call me that! That name doesn’t belong on your tongue! Not after this!” \n\n\t“Y-You d-don’t understand.”\n\n\t“Damn right I don’t! Of all the things you could have done! You chose this!? Lying to me!? Deceiving! Making me think I actually had a chance . . .”\n\n\t“If you give me a chance to explain . . .”\n\n\t“What’s there to explain Leo!? There’s nothing to explain! You’re just a lying selfish son of a bitch! How could you!?” \n\n\t“I love you!” The mint green turtle hollered out before he could stop himself. His hands were balled in fists and his eyes were shut so tight he saw spots. His own hot tears spilling. He slowly managed to open them to look at Raph and his heart shattered at the sight. Raph stared at Leo, his mouth ajar. The anger he was once feeling drained out of him instantly he couldn’t even recall being angry. But what it was replaced to, Leo would have preferred the anger. Disgust. Rejection. Vile. \n\n\tHe would have probably done better if he kept his big mouth shut.\n\n\t“You’re disgusting. . .” \n\n\tThose words. They just felt like a dagger to the heart and it got a twisted several times. This wasn’t what he was expecting, nor what he was prepared for. \n\n\t“What is wrong with you?”\n\n\t“Raph I[s]---[/s].” \n\n\t“No! Don’t you fucking dare say my name! I can’t even look at you!” Leo tried reaching out to him but Raph yanked away. Stepping back a few paces. Leo yanked his hand back and hugged it to his chest. No more than two days ago Raph was reaching out to him with open arms. Willing to caress him, love him, and promise all the world and protection to him. Now that the truth was out. All of it was gone before Leo had the chance to blink. \n\n\t“P-Please . . .” He whispered pleadingly. Raph snarled something bitter that felt like poison to Leo’s soul and he hunkered back in the corner he was pushed into. He never had felt so much fear in his life.\n\n\tRaph’s head shook slowly. His fist tightened till the knuckles turned a sickening white and green color. Leo trembled where he stood as he could feel the anger wash over him from Raph like a wave of hot lava. \n\n\t“Don’t . . . don’t even try to apologize. I’m not accepting it, and I’m not accepting you. I don’t love you. You’re not my brother.” \n\n\tThe sapphire eyes snapped open from those words and stared at Raph that immediately fled his room. He wanted to chase after him, tackling him, and explain everything but his feet wouldn’t move and he ended up collapsing on his knees. One hand one the floor keeping him up while the other held his mouth. Keeping down the sickness in the pit of his stomach that went up in the back of his throat. Tears spilled like they never did before.\n\n This moment was far worse than any of his nightmares ever viewed. \n\n\tDon took it okay. Maybe because he figured out the hints on his own. Raph hadn’t the slightest idea, and to boost. He probably didn’t believe in incest, and he definitely must be only straight to get sick at the idea of being with another male. For some part he couldn’t have blamed Raph for yelling at him for, but did he have to push the dagger in so far that it went through the other side? He didn’t even give him a chance to explain. Like he wanted to do this in the first place!?\n\n\tCurses left Leo like they would from a sailor and he sobbed uncontrollably. Hugging his abdomen and rocking back and forth where he sat. It hurt so much. Being alone this way. Being torn little by little and left in dust for the wind to pick up. \n\n\tMaybe if he kept up with the lie? \n\n\tLeo shook his head sharply. He would be lucky enough if he came out with his head still intact if it lasted any longer. \n\n\tHe felt like he couldn’t breathe. He felt suffocated in his room. Everywhere around him felt like the walls were closing on him. Squeezing him. The blue clad leader couldn’t stand it no longer and rushed out of his room. Nearly tripping on the way out. Pushing his bedroom door as it slammed into the wall. Running down the hallway clumsily, past his brothers who looked as panicked as he felt and yet he ignored them. He found his father who soon cut him off.\n\n\t“Leonardo!” He shouted out trying to stop him. He herd everything as he was as confused as his youngest son.\n\n\tLeo just gave a cry of misery and shoved the old rat away from him. Using as much strength and adrenalin he had left which surprisingly made Splinter stumble back a couple of feet away. He raced out of the lair. There was no telling where he was going, but he couldn’t stay there any longer. He was trapped in that place he used to call home. Like a cell. Being chained up. \n","writing_bbcode_parsed":"Chapter 11-

\tRaph just couldn’t help but worry, it felt almost like a natural instinct to worry. Tonight was supposed to be the night he met up with Lyric again. She did tell him nothing was wrong, but he’s watched enough movies to know when a girl tells you, “We need to talk” nothing good ever comes out of it.

\tMaybe Raph was just being paranoid again. Maybe it was nothing serious. But the emerald turtle couldn’t help but feel worried. He laid in his hammock in his room, gazing at the phone in his hand. He was considering calling Lyric. Sure, she made him promise to trust her and not constantly be concerned about her every second of the day but he couldn’t help it. The thought that Lyric could get jumped, hurt, or worse was just beyond he could handle.

\tAnd the young girl, for some strange reason, never wanted him to know where she lived.

\tRaph sighed and scrolled through the contacts, finding Lyric’s number. His thumb hovering over the call button. It wouldn’t hurt to call just to check up on things. Making sure she was safe in her home. Then he can go on the rest of the day with an eased mind. Or he sure hoped he could.

\tPressing the call button, he held the receiver to his ear and waited---

\tHe waited . . . and waited . . . and waited.

\tAll he got was several beeps on his phone, but no one answered. Something in Raph’s gut twisted. Lyric never kept her phone off. Then of course, all the worst possibilities of why her phone was off rushed to his head. He tried to ignore them, but he just couldn’t block them out.

\tHe sat up and looked to the phone. He tried calling again. Resulting in getting nothing but beeps. With a fretful sigh, he stuffed his T-phone back in his belt pocket and swung himself off his hammock.

\tMaybe one little peek wouldn’t hurt. If Lyric is living nowhere near the main criminal’s sights they tracked, that could allow his mind to rest for a little.

\tRaph nodded, Lyric didn’t have to know. He won’t even mention it to her as long as he knew she was safe.

\tThe emerald eyed terrapin walked out of his room and across the living room. He glanced at the kitchen where he heard voices coming out of. Finding both Leo and Mikey laughing and talking. Leo had a mug cupped in his hands and he could only guess that it was filled with that icky tea he always seemed to love. Mikey had a plateful of pizza in front of him and ice cream kitty sitting in a box filled with ice occasionally licking Mikey’s freckled cheek.

\tRaph chuckled and shook his head before proceeding to the lab. He passed the dojo and found Donnie was taking a private lesson with Master Splinter and he looked to be that he was being worked to the bone. Raph snorted.

\tBout time. All that time spent in his lab was starting to show.

\tThis was perfect though, now that the lab was free of body’s he doesn’t have to think of an excuse of why he wanted to use the tracking device Don had built some years ago.

\tHe remembered snatching Lyric’s black phone at one point when she was occupied and placing a tracking device in it. He wasn’t being a stocker mind you. After the incident she had with those three drunk punks, Raph was determined to keep Lyric safe, and since the girl was so insistent on keeping her home a secret. He thought he would place it in the phone just in case.

\tHe walked into the lab and closed it behind him. Locking the door. He walked over to the computer, kicking the spinning chair to the side out of his way. The computer was sleeping at the moment and he jiggled the mouse enough to bring the machine back to life.

\tHe brought up the app radar and typed in the specific code for Lyric’s tracker. It loaded for a second before the radar popped up. Showing New York on it. There’s was a clump of different colored dots representing each family member. An extra dot showed up as light blue. Raph frowned as he saw the light colored aqua dot so close to the rest. He pressed a bottom on the keyboard and the map zoomed in on the sewer system. Yep, the dot was still close. He pressed the same button again and it zoomed in on the lair. The dot was still there.

\tLyric’s in the lair!?

\tRaph didn’t know what to think. His mind was conjuring up different scenarios. Maybe she needed Raph for something important and she came all the way here. Raph shook his head, downloading the map onto his T-phone. He unplugged the little shell cell and started following the coordinates. He could see his own red dot moving to a different location every five steps. He went across the hall and ended up in front of Leo’s door.

\tHe looked at the map then at the door. The little light blue dot seemed to be located right on the other side. He gave it a knock but no one answered.

\tRaph chewed on his lip and twisted the knob, slowly opening to find that his eldest brother’s bedroom was--- empty?

The red masked ninja wandered around the room. Looking in the most obvious places a female mutant would hide. Nothing. He even tried calling Lyric’s name. Silence. Raph glanced down at his phone, than at Leo’s bed. Setting the T-phone to the side he looked under the bed. Finding not that much clutter and his sights landed on the box.

\tHe looked at it curiously. Gazing behind him to make sure no one was watching before he reached for the box and pulled it out. Last time he snuck in his brother’s room. He was caught snooping in his stuff and he could guarantee he didn’t want to repeat that punishment, but this was something important. Right? What if Leo had Lyric’s phone.

\tHe took a breath and pushed aside the second thoughts from his mind, opening the box. He indeed found Lyric’s phone --- but he also found something else. Something he wasn’t expecting. There was a small machine and a little waist band. He took those out and he found that light blue mask he had given the female terrapin. His eyes went huge when he found what looked to be to shapely molded--- breasts?

\tRaph stared in bewilderment. His eyes landing on the clothes Lyric had worn. He took them and rubbed his thumbs against the cloths. Clenching it tightly. His eyes shutting and he rubbed his face in the leather jacket.
 
\tLeo couldn’t . . . he wouldn’t . . . No. His brother didn’t do such things. This wasn’t him that was Lyric. These aren’t his clothes. It’s hers. She’s not a male. She’s not his sibling.

\tBut despite Raphael’s hard attempts to deny the horrid thought. He couldn’t decline it when the evidence was laying there in his grasp.

\tThere was a small gasp behind him and Raph separated from the coat to look over his shoulder. His eyes stinging with tears. Facing his shocked looking eldest brother standing in the doorway. One hand covered Leo’s mouth while the other supported him on the door frame. Tears were already welding up in his eyes.

\tOh, this was not good. This was not good at all.

\tRaph wasn’t supposed to find out the truth. He was supposed to tell him. This wasn’t how things should have unfolded, but apparently fate had different plans for Leo. One he wasn’t sure would have ended better.

\t“R-Raph . . . I-I can explain.” He stuttered out. His voice cracking with nervousness. He could see Raph’s eyes hardening with anger.

\t“Your damn right you better start explaining!” Came the harsh snap and Leo flinched. Raph was up on his feet a few inches away from Leo. He looked down to the ground and clenched his teeth. Muttering a short prayer in his head.

\t“I-It’s not w-what you think. . . I-I didn’t m-mean to k-keep this a secret.”

\t“The fuck are you talking shit about!? You play acted like a fucking women to get my heart just so you can crush it!?”

\t“I-I d-didn’t want to hurt you. . .”

\t“Didn’t want to hurt me!? Leonardo you already hurt me!” He shouted. Leo screwed his eyes shut. Next thing you know he was pushed into the wall, cornered by Raph. Leo peeked his eyes and wished he hadn’t. So many emotions flying from those fiery emerald eyes. He could see anger, sadness, disgust, rejection, anguish, betrayal and many more that he couldn’t find the right names to all rolled into two emerald orbs and surrounding him like a steel hot wall pressing in against Leo and pinning him to where he couldn’t escape. He could see the tears slowly dripping past the lids and falling along Raph’s cheeks.

\tHe whispered, “R-Raphie . . .”

\t“No! Don’t you even dare call me that! That name doesn’t belong on your tongue! Not after this!”

\t“Y-You d-don’t understand.”

\t“Damn right I don’t! Of all the things you could have done! You chose this!? Lying to me!? Deceiving! Making me think I actually had a chance . . .”

\t“If you give me a chance to explain . . .”

\t“What’s there to explain Leo!? There’s nothing to explain! You’re just a lying selfish son of a bitch! How could you!?”

\t“I love you!” The mint green turtle hollered out before he could stop himself. His hands were balled in fists and his eyes were shut so tight he saw spots. His own hot tears spilling. He slowly managed to open them to look at Raph and his heart shattered at the sight. Raph stared at Leo, his mouth ajar. The anger he was once feeling drained out of him instantly he couldn’t even recall being angry. But what it was replaced to, Leo would have preferred the anger. Disgust. Rejection. Vile.

\tHe would have probably done better if he kept his big mouth shut.

\t“You’re disgusting. . .”

\tThose words. They just felt like a dagger to the heart and it got a twisted several times. This wasn’t what he was expecting, nor what he was prepared for.

\t“What is wrong with you?”

\t“Raph I---.”

\t“No! Don’t you fucking dare say my name! I can’t even look at you!” Leo tried reaching out to him but Raph yanked away. Stepping back a few paces. Leo yanked his hand back and hugged it to his chest. No more than two days ago Raph was reaching out to him with open arms. Willing to caress him, love him, and promise all the world and protection to him. Now that the truth was out. All of it was gone before Leo had the chance to blink.

\t“P-Please . . .” He whispered pleadingly. Raph snarled something bitter that felt like poison to Leo’s soul and he hunkered back in the corner he was pushed into. He never had felt so much fear in his life.

\tRaph’s head shook slowly. His fist tightened till the knuckles turned a sickening white and green color. Leo trembled where he stood as he could feel the anger wash over him from Raph like a wave of hot lava.

\t“Don’t . . . don’t even try to apologize. I’m not accepting it, and I’m not accepting you. I don’t love you. You’re not my brother.”

\tThe sapphire eyes snapped open from those words and stared at Raph that immediately fled his room. He wanted to chase after him, tackling him, and explain everything but his feet wouldn’t move and he ended up collapsing on his knees. One hand one the floor keeping him up while the other held his mouth. Keeping down the sickness in the pit of his stomach that went up in the back of his throat. Tears spilled like they never did before.

 This moment was far worse than any of his nightmares ever viewed.

\tDon took it okay. Maybe because he figured out the hints on his own. Raph hadn’t the slightest idea, and to boost. He probably didn’t believe in incest, and he definitely must be only straight to get sick at the idea of being with another male. For some part he couldn’t have blamed Raph for yelling at him for, but did he have to push the dagger in so far that it went through the other side? He didn’t even give him a chance to explain. Like he wanted to do this in the first place!?

\tCurses left Leo like they would from a sailor and he sobbed uncontrollably. Hugging his abdomen and rocking back and forth where he sat. It hurt so much. Being alone this way. Being torn little by little and left in dust for the wind to pick up.

\tMaybe if he kept up with the lie?

\tLeo shook his head sharply. He would be lucky enough if he came out with his head still intact if it lasted any longer.

\tHe felt like he couldn’t breathe. He felt suffocated in his room. Everywhere around him felt like the walls were closing on him. Squeezing him. The blue clad leader couldn’t stand it no longer and rushed out of his room. Nearly tripping on the way out. Pushing his bedroom door as it slammed into the wall. Running down the hallway clumsily, past his brothers who looked as panicked as he felt and yet he ignored them. He found his father who soon cut him off.

\t“Leonardo!” He shouted out trying to stop him. He herd everything as he was as confused as his youngest son.

\tLeo just gave a cry of misery and shoved the old rat away from him. Using as much strength and adrenalin he had left which surprisingly made Splinter stumble back a couple of feet away. He raced out of the lair. There was no telling where he was going, but he couldn’t stay there any longer. He was trapped in that place he used to call home. Like a cell. Being chained up.  
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