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The plan was for Donatello to sneak them into town with his supplies and hide them in the saloon until the county official could be contacted. \n\nRaphael, the one who spoke with a snapper accent was already awake and roaming the tribe. Now that Donatello was there, one of the other turtles had been sent to find him. The one named Leonardo had been chosen by Venus to be her mate and was still in her hut. Donatello decided to go fetch Leonardo himself. It would give him the chance to meet the turtle who had caught the attention of the most selective female of the tribe. Donatello was starting to think that he would be Venus’ only mate. \n\nHe left the others to load the supplies and headed to Venus’ hut. When he entered he saw his mate watching the other turtle sleep. Venus looked at Donatello and smiled. “He does not speak our language.”\n\n“Then it is good that I taught you some of the settler’s language,” Donny replied. Shifting his gaze, Don looked Leonardo over. He could see why Venus had chosen him and looked forward to getting to know him better. \n\nVenus got up and walked over to Donatello to give him a soft kiss. The scent of Leonardo still lingered on Venus and sent a wave of desire through Donny. Deepening the kiss, Don pulled Venus closer. He scraped his fingers down her carapace, eliciting a gentle moan from her. \n\nVenus undid Donny’s pants, letting them fall to the floor as she turned around. Donny didn’t need any more of an incentive. With a throaty grunt he pressed Venus against the wall of the hut. Her carapace scraped against his plastron, causing Don to churr. \n\nBringing his tail forward, Donatello hooked it around Venus’ and sought out her entrance. As soon as he was lined up, Donatello wasted no time pressing inside. \n\nWith a satisfied moan, Venus glanced over at Leonardo as she rested her head against the wall to wait for Donny to finish. “He is awake,” she stated in the native language. \n\n“Almost there,” Donny grunted, thrusting in deeper. Like every morning since she had started her mating cycle, Donny filled her with his seed. Once he was finished, Donny looked over at Leonardo to see that the other turtle looked uncomfortable. Donny smiled. “You really aren’t from the tribes.”\n\n“Your ways are strange to me. I’m not used to this openness with sex.” Though Leonardo tried to hide it, he had been aroused by the display. Venus must have noticed this as well and made her way over to the bed. Leonardo’s gaze shifted from her up to Donatello and then back again. \n\n“It’s alright. Go ahead,” Donny said in the settler’s language and smiled. “Females are hard to resist when they are in season, even more so after they had mated with another male. It’s our instinctual need to reproduce. Get it out of your system. I’ve got a few things to take care of before we need to leave.”\n\nCollecting his pants from the ground, Donatello put them back on as he made his way over to a hidden lockbox. Donny had fit a small metal box inside of a traditional wooden carving that was kept in Venus’ home. It had taken Donny a while to make his secret hiding place because had to get the measurements right and he didn’t want to splinter the wood. The only other person who knew about it was Venus. \n\nThanks to some creative book keeping, Donatello was able to skim some money off the top of the profits. It was intend to be used as a last resort. At the moment things were going alright with Saki. However, if Donatello ever felt that the safety of the tribe was in jeopardy, he would use the money to hire someone to take care of Saki once and for all. It was something that he had spent many nights praying that he wouldn’t have to do. He glanced over at Venus and Leonardo. Maybe his prayers had been answered. \n\nVenus let out a satisfied sigh as Leonardo churred out his completion. The scent of their coupling was enticing. As much as he would have liked to stay all day in the hut with Venus and her new mate, Donatello knew that he had to get back to the saloon. It was almost time to serve breakfast and Michelangelo couldn’t do it alone. \n\nPlacing the carving back in its place, Donny stood and made his way over to the bed. “Satisfied?”\n\n“No,” Venus hummed and reached out for him. “Stay.” \n\n“You know I can’t,” Donny choked out as he fought the urge to strip. It was all too tempting to stay. Turning to Leonardo, Donny had to clear his throat before he could speak again. “Get your things. We’ll be leaving soon.”\n\n“Okay,” Leonardo nodded and got up from the bed. Donny could see that leaving Venus was difficult for him as well. \n\n“You can come back with me tomorrow,” Donny promised. \n\nBack at the cart there was a large turtle in a larger long coat leaning against it. “What kept you?” he said with a heavy accent. \n\n“You must be Raphael,” Donny said, as he extended his hand. “I am Donatello. I work at the saloon that I used to own, that now belongs to Saki. I will be taking both you and Leonardo with me and I will see to it that the county official is contacted. I have some friends who will help me without Saki knowing about it. I’m not going to bore you two with the details.”\n\n“Call me Raph,” the other turtle said as he shook Donny’s hand, but did not keep eye contact. \n\n“And you can call me Leo,” Leonardo stated while climbing into the cart. \n\nRaphael and Leonardo lied down in the cart and then they were covered up with the remaining supplies. They stayed still and quiet as Donatello drove the cart into town. Once they reached the saloon, the two turtles rushed inside and stayed in Donatello’s office while Donny took care of the supplies. \n\n“You two stay here,” Donny said as he brought in the last of the supplies. “I need to take the cart and horse back to the stables and then help Mikey with breakfast. You will have to lie low until the county official gets here. I’m not sure how you are going to work through the fact that you are both wanted criminals but that’s for you to figure out.”\n\n“The only reason there are wanted posters of me is because of Saki,” Leo argued. “I will explain this to the county official. I never committed any crimes. Old Hob did but I was never any part of it. Saki issued the bounty on me because he knows I have the deed to the land and my parents’ will, leaving it to me.”\n\n“I hope they believe you,” Donny sighed. “But there haven’t been many cases where natives get justice. And everyone who has gone up against Saki has lost.”\n\n“I have to try,” Leo insisted. “I can’t just sit back and let Saki win. He killed my parents because they wouldn’t sell him their land.”\n\n“I’m sorry to hear that,” Donny said honestly and then turned to go back outside. “I need to tend to the horse.” When Don finished in the stables he headed back through his office. “I’ve been thinking about your story and it reminds me of someone,” Donny said. He knew he didn’t have time to get into a long conversation be his curiosity was getting the better of him. “Was your father a rat named Splinter?”\n\nSurprised, Leo nodded. “Yes. How did you know that?”\n\n“I met him one day,” Donny answered. “It was before I ever thought about opening this saloon. In fact it was my conversation with him that got the process started. He was kind and we traded. He gave me a jar of the best pickled vegetables I have ever had. He told me about his son and how the way the people of the town treated turtles gave him hope. We talked about the upcoming festivals. I invited him to bring you to the tribe for our festival. He said that he would. It was the first and last time I ever saw him.”\n\nTears filled Leo’s eyes but a smile spread across his face. “He was going to bring me to the festival after all. I wanted to go into town so bad. Because of you he was going to take me.” \n\n“Your meeting is fate,” Raph stated. “We have purpose. Fate bring us here to beat Saki.”\n\nDonny smiled. “I pray that you are right. I have to get to work. Don’t leave this room.”\n\n“We won’t,” Leo assured him as Donny left to find Mikey. \n\nMikey was where Donny had expected him to be, putting the finishing touches on breakfast and starting the preparations for lunch. He looked up as Don entered the kitchen with an arm full of supplies. “You smell like sex.”\n\n“Venus is in season,” Donny replied as a matter of fact. “It is my duty to the tribe to insure that her clutch is fertile.”\n\nMikey snorted out a laugh. “And to think that just a few short years ago, you were a virgin timid about sex. You would have been blushing at the mention of it.”\n\n“If I recall correctly,” Donny smiled, “you helped me with that.” He placed the supplies on the table and then moved closer to Mikey. “Venus has chosen a second mate,” Don whispered. \n\n“Took her long enough,” Mikey scoffed as he continued to cut vegetables. He then whispered back, “Why are you whispering?”\n\n“You’ve seen those two wanted posters behind the bar?” Don asked, keeping his voice low. When Mikey nodded, Don continued. “They are here. Saki is the one who put the bounty out on them and they both have a score to settle with him. Venus chose one of them to be her mate.”\n\nMikey stopped cutting to look Donny in the eyes. “When you say ‘they are here’, do you mean with the tribe or here in the saloon?”\n\n“They are in my office,” Donny answered. “They are going to hide here until a county official can be brought.”\n\n“Are you sure we can trust them?” Mikey asked, shaking his head. “They are outlaws after all. They could be feeding you a bunch of lies. They will take what little money you have and run.”\n\nDonny shook his head, “No. I can see it in their faces. These two are genuine.”\n\n“If you say so,” Mikey shrugged and went back to work. “I just hope it doesn’t come back to bite us in the ass.”\n\nDonatello brought Raphael and Leonardo food throughout the day. He wasn’t able to spare them much but it was better than nothing at all. As the day progressed Donatello was able to pull aside one of the few men he could trust, Calhoun. Donatello explained the situation to the carpenter rhino and requested that he send word to the county officials. Calhoun was only too happy to help. \n\nAfter Donatello had closed up for the night and finished his work in the kitchen, he headed back to his room. Raphael and Leonardo were sleeping on the floor but woke when they heard the door open. “Do you have anything to eat?” Leo asked as he stretched and sat up. \n\n“There wasn’t much left,” Donatello answered, handing them bowls of stew and some bread. “Mikey salvaged as much as he could. Nearly shorted himself something to eat to give you more but I didn’t let him. As soon as he finishes up in the kitchen, he will be joining us for the night.”\n\nRaphael used his bread to scoop some stew into his mouth. “We will get deeds for saloon and land back for you too,” he said through a mouth full of food. \n\n“You will have to break into Saki’s office to do that,” Donny said, shaking his head as he made his way over to the bed. “It would be pointless anyway. He would simply say that the deeds were stolen and I would get into trouble. No thank you.”\n\n“But Saki stole from you,” Raph argued. “How he get away with it?”\n\nSighing, Donny lied back on the bed. “He has friends. Friends who willingly lie for him. He said that he won the deeds in a drunken bet and his friends backed him up.”\n\n“So you have friends say you won deeds back,” Raph replied. \n\n“It would be down to my word against his,” Don said, without looking at Raph. “I don’t know. I have friends who would be on my side. They know Saki was lying and have even gone so far as to say that they would lie for me if I managed to get the deeds back.”\n\n“Then we do it,” Raph said, reaching over to slap Don’s arm. “Me, Leo. We take deeds back.”\n\nDon turned to look at Raph and pointed to his safe. “Saki has a safe like mine, the newest model. Can you open that?”\n\nWithout a word, Raph placed his bowl on the ground, scooted over to the safe and got to work. Running his bottom lip through his teeth, Raph pressed his ear to the safe and started to turn the dial. His breathing was shallow as he worked and he moved slowly. \n\nHolding his breath, Donatello kept his eyes on the dial in anticipation, wondering if Raph was going to get the first number right. Just as the dial lined up with the right number, Raph stopped and then started turning it the other way. And then the second number followed by the third. Raph had opened the safe. Don sat there with his mouth agape, unbelieving. \n\n“Did he just open your safe?” Mikey asked from the door. They had all been so focused on what Raph was doing that they hadn’t noticed him enter the room. He was still in his dress but judging by his scent and the wet spot on the skirt, Mikey had thoroughly cleaned himself before coming down. \n\nRaph looked at Leo. “This is why I need lookout. People sneak up on you.”\n\n“I already agreed to go with you,” Leo said before pulling himself off the floor. Leo walked over to Mikey and stretched out his hand. “Hello. I’m Leonardo. You must be Michelangelo. I will admit that, given your name, I wasn’t expecting you to be a female.”\n\nMikey’s eyes went wide and Don did his best to stifle his laugh. Raph got up and slapped Leo’s arm. “He is boy.”\n\nLeo looked over his shoulder at Raph and then, shaking his head, back to Mikey. “How can you tell? He’s in a dress, so I assumed that he was a she.”\n\nMikey looked at Donatello for an explanation, shrugging his shoulder. With a slight chuckle, Donny explained. “Leonardo wasn’t raised in a tribe but by settlers instead.”\n\nMikey looked at Leo and, tilting his head to the side, asked, “Where you their slave?”\n\n“No,” Leo shook his head. “No. They raised me as their son. They love me.”\n\n“Oh,” Mikey blushed. “Sorry.”\n\n“It’s okay,” Leo waved it off. \n\n“Does Saki make you be whore?” Raph bluntly asked. Mikey looked at the ground and shook his head as Leo’s mouth dropped open. Raph looked at Don. “Why would tribe let him dress like girl and be whore?”\n\n“Well,” Donny looked up at Mikey before answering. When Mikey nodded his approval, Donny continued. “Michelangelo’s mother was simple minded from birth and his father… raped her….” Holding up his arm, Mikey showed the mark under his arm. \n\n“I am not important to the tribe.”\n\n“The tribe doesn’t want to risk Mikey passing either of those traits on to his offspring so he has been marked,” Donny explained. “Sadly, it led to… unkind… treatment towards Mikey. He was expected to be either simple like his mother or aggressive like his father.” Getting up off the bed, Donny made his way over to Mikey. With a finger under Mikey’s chin, Donny tilted Mikey’s head back so that they could look each other in the eyes. “But he is neither. He is the kindest, most clever person I have ever met.”\n\n“Your tribe would do such a thing?” Raph snapped in the native language. “They would mark and child and treat him so poorly that being a whore is the better option than staying with his own people?”\n\n“We’re not perfect,” Donny tried to argue but he knew it was week. “The mark was only meant to keep him from being able to breed. The unintentional side effect was the bias that was shown towards him.”\n\nRaph scoffed and glared at Donny. “When you get the saloon back, will he still be expected to whore?” \n\n“No,” Don shook his head. “If I get my saloon back Mike will work with me as a partner. He would be able to quit being a whore. But that’s only if I can get my saloon back. Right now, I don’t think it would go over well with Saki if Mikey quit.” \n\nLeo leaned in close to Mikey. “What are they arguing about?”\n\n“Me,” Mikey answered. “The big guy’s not happy that the tribe would be so unkind that it drove me away to become a whore.”\n\nLeo nodded his head, “That’s what I thought.”\n\n“How are you going to get the saloon back?” Mikey asked in the common language, for Leo’s sake. \n\n“Raphael and Leonardo plan on taking the deeds back from Saki,” Donatello answered. \n\n“That’s going to be hard to get to,” Mikey thought out loud. “The safe is upstairs in his office next to his bedroom. You would have to go when he was out or be really quiet when he slept but he’s a light sleeper.”\n\n“How would you know all of that?” Leo asked, though he looked like he was afraid to hear the answer. \n\n“Hun, a man who works for Saki, he’s taken me there a few times,” Mikey answered, a deep blush spreading across his face. “He… favors me.”\n\n“I’ve met Hun,” Leo said. “Does he know… you’re a… boy?”\n\n“No,” Mikey answered. “If he ever found out….”\n\nMikey was unable to say anything more before Raph growled and stormed out of the room. “I need a drink.” Donatello followed him out and watched as Raph pulled a bottle down and poured himself a shot. Downing it in one gulp, Raph cringed and the burn. “That’s good drink,” he said before pouring himself another. “Come drink with me.” He grabbed another glass and poured a shot for Donny. “It sucks to drink alone.”\n\n“You’re going to have to pay for them,” Donny said as he sat next to Raph. \n\nRaph glanced at him sideways before he reached into his long coat and pulled out a coin purse. Tossing the purse on the counter, Raph downed another shot and poured another. “I left myself in that tribe.”\n\n“I know,” Donny replied as he looked in the purse. “Your children will be raised with the others, lost among the many.”\n\n“I know what it’s like to be signaled out,” Raph said out of the blue and then drank his shot. “I was supposed to be chief,” he added as he poured yet another. “I was selected as soon as my mother laid my egg. The temperature of my egg was regulated to make sure that I was a boy. I was presented to the tribe the day I hatched and named after my father. I wasn’t allowed to get mixed up with the other children. I had to learn my duties.”\n\n“It’s the same for our tribe,” Donny nodded. “I think it is a common practice. Our chief has chosen his mate this season. I was relieved when the female he had chosen wasn’t Venus. Though, to be honest, I think she was a little offended.”\n\nRaph chuckled and took another drink. As quickly as it came, the humor dropped from Raph’s face. “He’s going to get himself killed.”\n\nDonny couldn’t stop the tears that formed and had to blink them away so that he could see. “It is my biggest fear every time he goes up those stairs. It was easier for him to pull it off when he was a kid but he’s getting older. He’s not going to be able to hide the fact that he’s male for much longer.”\n\nRaph stared down at the bottle. “We’ll get the deeds to the saloon. The girl Michelangelo is pretending to be goes back to the tribe. If he wants to come back to work with you here, he needs to do it as a male. 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As expected, as soon as the first turtles arrived to load the cart Donatello was filled in. He was told about the eight new male members of the tribe. Two of the new turtles wore the clothing of the settlers and they both had been wronged by Saki. Donatello knew right away who they must have been, there were wanted posters of them up in the saloon. The plan was for Donatello to sneak them into town with his supplies and hide them in the saloon until the county official could be contacted.

Raphael, the one who spoke with a snapper accent was already awake and roaming the tribe. Now that Donatello was there, one of the other turtles had been sent to find him. The one named Leonardo had been chosen by Venus to be her mate and was still in her hut. Donatello decided to go fetch Leonardo himself. It would give him the chance to meet the turtle who had caught the attention of the most selective female of the tribe. Donatello was starting to think that he would be Venus’ only mate.

He left the others to load the supplies and headed to Venus’ hut.  When he entered he saw his mate watching the other turtle sleep. Venus looked at Donatello and smiled. “He does not speak our language.”

“Then it is good that I taught you some of the settler’s language,” Donny replied. Shifting his gaze, Don looked Leonardo over. He could see why Venus had chosen him and looked forward to getting to know him better.

Venus got up and walked over to Donatello to give him a soft kiss. The scent of Leonardo still lingered on Venus and sent a wave of desire through Donny. Deepening the kiss, Don pulled Venus closer. He scraped his fingers down her carapace, eliciting a gentle moan from her.

Venus undid Donny’s pants, letting them fall to the floor as she turned around. Donny didn’t need any more of an incentive. With a throaty grunt he pressed Venus against the wall of the hut. Her carapace scraped against his plastron, causing Don to churr.

Bringing his tail forward, Donatello hooked it around Venus’ and sought out her entrance. As soon as he was lined up, Donatello wasted no time pressing inside.

With a satisfied moan, Venus glanced over at Leonardo as she rested her head against the wall to wait for Donny to finish. “He is awake,” she stated in the native language.

“Almost there,” Donny grunted, thrusting in deeper. Like every morning since she had started her mating cycle, Donny filled her with his seed. Once he was finished, Donny looked over at Leonardo to see that the other turtle looked uncomfortable. Donny smiled. “You really aren’t from the tribes.”

“Your ways are strange to me. I’m not used to this openness with sex.” Though Leonardo tried to hide it, he had been aroused by the display. Venus must have noticed this as well and made her way over to the bed. Leonardo’s gaze shifted from her up to Donatello and then back again.

“It’s alright. Go ahead,” Donny said in the settler’s language and smiled. “Females are hard to resist when they are in season, even more so after they had mated with another male. It’s our instinctual need to reproduce. Get it out of your system. I’ve got a few things to take care of before we need to leave.”

Collecting his pants from the ground, Donatello put them back on as he made his way over to a hidden lockbox. Donny had fit a small metal box inside of a traditional wooden carving that was kept in Venus’ home. It had taken Donny a while to make his secret hiding place because had to get the measurements right and he didn’t want to splinter the wood. The only other person who knew about it was Venus.

Thanks to some creative book keeping, Donatello was able to skim some money off the top of the profits. It was intend to be used as a last resort. At the moment things were going alright with Saki. However, if Donatello ever felt that the safety of the tribe was in jeopardy, he would use the money to hire someone to take care of Saki once and for all. It was something that he had spent many nights praying that he wouldn’t have to do. He glanced over at Venus and Leonardo. Maybe his prayers had been answered.

Venus let out a satisfied sigh as Leonardo churred out his completion. The scent of their coupling was enticing. As much as he would have liked to stay all day in the hut with Venus and her new mate, Donatello knew that he had to get back to the saloon. It was almost time to serve breakfast and Michelangelo couldn’t do it alone.

Placing the carving back in its place, Donny stood and made his way over to the bed. “Satisfied?”

“No,” Venus hummed and reached out for him. “Stay.”

“You know I can’t,” Donny choked out as he fought the urge to strip. It was all too tempting to stay. Turning to Leonardo, Donny had to clear his throat before he could speak again. “Get your things. We’ll be leaving soon.”

“Okay,” Leonardo nodded and got up from the bed. Donny could see that leaving Venus was difficult for him as well.

“You can come back with me tomorrow,” Donny promised.

Back at the cart there was a large turtle in a larger long coat leaning against it. “What kept you?” he said with a heavy accent.

“You must be Raphael,” Donny said, as he extended his hand. “I am Donatello. I work at the saloon that I used to own, that now belongs to Saki. I will be taking both you and Leonardo with me and I will see to it that the county official is contacted. I have some friends who will help me without Saki knowing about it. I’m not going to bore you two with the details.”

“Call me Raph,” the other turtle said as he shook Donny’s hand, but did not keep eye contact.  

“And you can call me Leo,” Leonardo stated while climbing into the cart.

Raphael and Leonardo lied down in the cart and then they were covered up with the remaining supplies. They stayed still and quiet as Donatello drove the cart into town. Once they reached the saloon, the two turtles rushed inside and stayed in Donatello’s office while Donny took care of the supplies.

“You two stay here,” Donny said as he brought in the last of the supplies. “I need to take the cart and horse back to the stables and then help Mikey with breakfast. You will have to lie low until the county official gets here. I’m not sure how you are going to work through the fact that you are both wanted criminals but that’s for you to figure out.”

“The only reason there are wanted posters of me is because of Saki,” Leo argued. “I will explain this to the county official. I never committed any crimes. Old Hob did but I was never any part of it. Saki issued the bounty on me because he knows I have the deed to the land and my parents’ will, leaving it to me.”

“I hope they believe you,” Donny sighed. “But there haven’t been many cases where natives get justice. And everyone who has gone up against Saki has lost.”

“I have to try,” Leo insisted. “I can’t just sit back and let Saki win. He killed my parents because they wouldn’t sell him their land.”

“I’m sorry to hear that,” Donny said honestly and then turned to go back outside. “I need to tend to the horse.” When Don finished in the stables he headed back through his office.  “I’ve been thinking about your story and it reminds me of someone,” Donny said. He knew he didn’t have time to get into a long conversation be his curiosity was getting the better of him. “Was your father a rat named Splinter?”

Surprised, Leo nodded. “Yes. How did you know that?”

“I met him one day,” Donny answered. “It was before I ever thought about opening this saloon. In fact it was my conversation with him that got the process started. He was kind and we traded. He gave me a jar of the best pickled vegetables I have ever had. He told me about his son and how the way the people of the town treated turtles gave him hope. We talked about the upcoming festivals. I invited him to bring you to the tribe for our festival. He said that he would. It was the first and last time I ever saw him.”

Tears filled Leo’s eyes but a smile spread across his face. “He was going to bring me to the festival after all. I wanted to go into town so bad. Because of you he was going to take me.”

“Your meeting is fate,” Raph stated. “We have purpose. Fate bring us here to beat Saki.”

Donny smiled. “I pray that you are right. I have to get to work. Don’t leave this room.”

“We won’t,” Leo assured him as Donny left to find Mikey.

Mikey was where Donny had expected him to be, putting the finishing touches on breakfast and starting the preparations for lunch. He looked up as Don entered the kitchen with an arm full of supplies. “You smell like sex.”

“Venus is in season,” Donny replied as a matter of fact. “It is my duty to the tribe to insure that her clutch is fertile.”

Mikey snorted out a laugh. “And to think that just a few short years ago, you were a virgin timid about sex. You would have been blushing at the mention of it.”

“If I recall correctly,” Donny smiled, “you helped me with that.” He placed the supplies on the table and then moved closer to Mikey. “Venus has chosen a second mate,” Don whispered.

“Took her long enough,” Mikey scoffed as he continued to cut vegetables. He then whispered back, “Why are you whispering?”

“You’ve seen those two wanted posters behind the bar?” Don asked, keeping his voice low. When Mikey nodded, Don continued. “They are here. Saki is the one who put the bounty out on them and they both have a score to settle with him. Venus chose one of them to be her mate.”

Mikey stopped cutting to look Donny in the eyes. “When you say ‘they are here’, do you mean with the tribe or here in the saloon?”

“They are in my office,” Donny answered. “They are going to hide here until a county official can be brought.”

“Are you sure we can trust them?” Mikey asked, shaking his head. “They are outlaws after all. They could be feeding you a bunch of lies. They will take what little money you have and run.”

Donny shook his head, “No. I can see it in their faces. These two are genuine.”

“If you say so,” Mikey shrugged and went back to work. “I just hope it doesn’t come back to bite us in the ass.”

Donatello brought Raphael and Leonardo food throughout the day. He wasn’t able to spare them much but it was better than nothing at all. As the day progressed Donatello was able to pull aside one of the few men he could trust, Calhoun. Donatello explained the situation to the carpenter rhino and requested that he send word to the county officials. Calhoun was only too happy to help.

After Donatello had closed up for the night and finished his work in the kitchen, he headed back to his room. Raphael and Leonardo were sleeping on the floor but woke when they heard the door open. “Do you have anything to eat?” Leo asked as he stretched and sat up.

“There wasn’t much left,” Donatello answered, handing them bowls of stew and some bread. “Mikey salvaged as much as he could. Nearly shorted himself something to eat to give you more but I didn’t let him. As soon as he finishes up in the kitchen, he will be joining us for the night.”

Raphael used his bread to scoop some stew into his mouth. “We will get deeds for saloon and land back for you too,” he said through a mouth full of food.

“You will have to break into Saki’s office to do that,” Donny said, shaking his head as he made his way over to the bed. “It would be pointless anyway. He would simply say that the deeds were stolen and I would get into trouble. No thank you.”

“But Saki stole from you,” Raph argued. “How he get away with it?”

Sighing, Donny lied back on the bed. “He has friends. Friends who willingly lie for him. He said that he won the deeds in a drunken bet and his friends backed him up.”

“So you have friends say you won deeds back,” Raph replied.

“It would be down to my word against his,” Don said, without looking at Raph. “I don’t know. I have friends who would be on my side. They know Saki was lying and have even gone so far as to say that they would lie for me if I managed to get the deeds back.”

“Then we do it,” Raph said, reaching over to slap Don’s arm. “Me, Leo. We take deeds back.”

Don turned to look at Raph and pointed to his safe. “Saki has a safe like mine, the newest model. Can you open that?”

Without a word, Raph placed his bowl on the ground, scooted over to the safe and got to work. Running his bottom lip through his teeth, Raph pressed his ear to the safe and started to turn the dial. His breathing was shallow as he worked and he moved slowly.

Holding his breath, Donatello kept his eyes on the dial in anticipation, wondering if Raph was going to get the first number right. Just as the dial lined up with the right number, Raph stopped and then started turning it the other way. And then the second number followed by the third. Raph had opened the safe. Don sat there with his mouth agape, unbelieving.

“Did he just open your safe?” Mikey asked from the door. They had all been so focused on what Raph was doing that they hadn’t noticed him enter the room. He was still in his dress but judging by his scent and the wet spot on the skirt, Mikey had thoroughly cleaned himself before coming down.  

Raph looked at Leo. “This is why I need lookout. People sneak up on you.”

“I already agreed to go with you,” Leo said before pulling himself off the floor. Leo walked over to Mikey and stretched out his hand. “Hello. I’m Leonardo. You must be Michelangelo. I will admit that, given your name, I wasn’t expecting you to be a female.”

Mikey’s eyes went wide and Don did his best to stifle his laugh. Raph got up and slapped Leo’s arm. “He is boy.”

Leo looked over his shoulder at Raph and then, shaking his head, back to Mikey. “How can you tell? He’s in a dress, so I assumed that he was a she.”

Mikey looked at Donatello for an explanation, shrugging his shoulder. With a slight chuckle, Donny explained. “Leonardo wasn’t raised in a tribe but by settlers instead.”

Mikey looked at Leo and, tilting his head to the side, asked, “Where you their slave?”

“No,” Leo shook his head. “No. They raised me as their son. They love me.”

“Oh,” Mikey blushed. “Sorry.”

“It’s okay,” Leo waved it off.

“Does Saki make you be whore?” Raph bluntly asked. Mikey looked at the ground and shook his head as Leo’s mouth dropped open. Raph looked at Don. “Why would tribe let him dress like girl and be whore?”

“Well,” Donny looked up at Mikey before answering. When Mikey nodded his approval, Donny continued. “Michelangelo’s mother was simple minded from birth and his father… raped her….” Holding up his arm, Mikey showed the mark under his arm.

“I am not important to the tribe.”

“The tribe doesn’t want to risk Mikey passing either of those traits on to his offspring so he has been marked,” Donny explained. “Sadly, it led to… unkind… treatment towards Mikey. He was expected to be either simple like his mother or aggressive like his father.” Getting up off the bed, Donny made his way over to Mikey. With a finger under Mikey’s chin, Donny tilted Mikey’s head back so that they could look each other in the eyes. “But he is neither. He is the kindest, most clever person I have ever met.”

“Your tribe would do such a thing?” Raph snapped in the native language. “They would mark and child and treat him so poorly that being a whore is the better option than staying with his own people?”

“We’re not perfect,” Donny tried to argue but he knew it was week. “The mark was only meant to keep him from being able to breed. The unintentional side effect was the bias that was shown towards him.”

Raph scoffed and glared at Donny. “When you get the saloon back, will he still be expected to whore?”

“No,” Don shook his head. “If I get my saloon back Mike will work with me as a partner. He would be able to quit being a whore. But that’s only if I can get my saloon back. Right now, I don’t think it would go over well with Saki if Mikey quit.”

Leo leaned in close to Mikey. “What are they arguing about?”

“Me,” Mikey answered. “The big guy’s not happy that the tribe would be so unkind that it drove me away to become a whore.”

Leo nodded his head, “That’s what I thought.”

“How are you going to get the saloon back?” Mikey asked in the common language, for Leo’s sake.

“Raphael and Leonardo plan on taking the deeds back from Saki,” Donatello answered.

“That’s going to be hard to get to,” Mikey thought out loud. “The safe is upstairs in his office next to his bedroom. You would have to go when he was out or be really quiet when he slept but he’s a light sleeper.”

“How would you know all of that?” Leo asked, though he looked like he was afraid to hear the answer.

“Hun, a man who works for Saki, he’s taken me there a few times,” Mikey answered, a deep blush spreading across his face. “He… favors me.”

“I’ve met Hun,” Leo said. “Does he know… you’re a… boy?”

“No,” Mikey answered. “If he ever found out….”

Mikey was unable to say anything more before Raph growled and stormed out of the room. “I need a drink.” Donatello followed him out and watched as Raph pulled a bottle down and poured himself a shot. Downing it in one gulp, Raph cringed and the burn. “That’s good drink,” he said before pouring himself another. “Come drink with me.” He grabbed another glass and poured a shot for Donny. “It sucks to drink alone.”

“You’re going to have to pay for them,” Donny said as he sat next to Raph.

Raph glanced at him sideways before he reached into his long coat and pulled out a coin purse. Tossing the purse on the counter, Raph downed another shot and poured another. “I left myself in that tribe.”

“I know,” Donny replied as he looked in the purse. “Your children will be raised with the others, lost among the many.”

“I know what it’s like to be signaled out,” Raph said out of the blue and then drank his shot. “I was supposed to be chief,” he added as he poured yet another. “I was selected as soon as my mother laid my egg. The temperature of my egg was regulated to make sure that I was a boy. I was presented to the tribe the day I hatched and named after my father. I wasn’t allowed to get mixed up with the other children. I had to learn my duties.”

“It’s the same for our tribe,” Donny nodded. “I think it is a common practice. Our chief has chosen his mate this season. I was relieved when the female he had chosen wasn’t Venus. Though, to be honest, I think she was a little offended.”

Raph chuckled and took another drink. As quickly as it came, the humor dropped from Raph’s face. “He’s going to get himself killed.”

Donny couldn’t stop the tears that formed and had to blink them away so that he could see. “It is my biggest fear every time he goes up those stairs. It was easier for him to pull it off when he was a kid but he’s getting older. He’s not going to be able to hide the fact that he’s male for much longer.”

Raph stared down at the bottle. “We’ll get the deeds to the saloon. The girl Michelangelo is pretending to be goes back to the tribe. If he wants to come back to work with you here, he needs to do it as a male. That Hun guy can never know.”

“I agree,” Donny nodded.
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