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", "writing": "\tMikey sat on the dojo floor with a pile of arrow shafts to one side of him. On the small table in front of him were vanes, jigs, adhesive and other supplies needed for fletching his arrows.\n\n\tThis was a job he liked doing; it kept his hands busy and his mind free to daydream. The bow and arrow was his long range weapon of choice and of the four brothers, Mikey was the best shot, with Raph coming a close second.\n\n\tToday while he worked, Mikey watched his brother Leo practice with his swords. Leo spent hours every day with those bladed weapons in his hands. Sometimes he did weapons katas, other times he practiced striking targets, and often he simply ran through past battles.\n\n\tThat was what Leo was doing this afternoon. As he moved through one of the fights that he had pulled up from his flawless memory, Leo kept his eyes closed, seeing the battle in his mind.\n\n\tWatching Leo practice this way was another thing that Michelangelo liked. Despite the bulkiness of a body structure that included a solid shell, the eldest still managed to move with complete fluidity.\n\n\tTheir fighting styles were very different; where Mikey’s moves were big, bold and loud, Leo’s were refined, polished and silent. In Mikey’s mind, they sort of balanced each other out. When Mikey thought about teamwork, that’s what came to his mind.\n\n\tSitting in the dojo with Leo only a few feet away was also very soothing to Mikey’s jangled nerves. All through breakfast and morning practice he could feel the tension rolling off of Don and Raph. They didn’t say anything, but he could see behind their eyes when they looked at him and their desire was still prominent.\n\n\tHe was also perceptive enough to catch and understand the glances they passed to one another. The attempts to get past his barriers weren’t going to stop; he could tell that much from the things he was seeing.\n\n\tLast night when they’d gotten home from their patrol, Mikey had watched Raph follow Don into the latter’s room. Neither of them made any attempt to hide it from him now that the cat was out of the bag. As Raph was stepping inside, he turned a smugly satisfied look on Mikey and then winked.\n\n\tHe was gone before he saw the look of disdain that curled Mikey’s upper lip.\n\n\tLeo on the other hand had shown absolutely no sexual interest in Mikey. Mikey knew he was active with both Raph and Don, but apparently he was content with that situation and didn’t need more. Or he had seen his other brothers attempting to push their advances on the youngest and had gotten the message that neither of the other two seemed to have received. Either way, Mikey was grateful that he had one brother around whom he could still feel completely relaxed.\n\n\tLeo was not only content, but a little pleased with himself at how the day seemed to be working out. Mikey was still on edge around the other two siblings and they weren’t helping his attitude with their overt displays of sexuality.\n\n\tThe evening before, Raph had purposely waited until he knew Mikey was looking before making it very clear that Don and he were spending the night together. At breakfast that morning, Raph had tweaked Don’s tail right in front of Mikey’s face. If the red banded turtle was trying to make physical intimacy seem more appealing with those outlandish displays, he was failing miserably.\n\n\tDon wasn’t helping further his cause either; his blushes and demure demeanor suited his own personality, but not Mikey’s. The youngest was in no way a shrinking violet and the idea that someone might expect such behavior from him in the bedroom was obviously distasteful.\n\n\tHaving Mikey sitting just a short distance from him, seemingly very happy to be somewhere ‘safe’, suited Leo’s plans perfectly. Winning a fight didn’t always mean leaping into it feet first; the steady, stealthy approach was usually the most victorious, something he’d tried to make Raph understand on numerous occasions.\n\n\tThis was a perfect opportunity for Leo to show Raph exactly what he meant.\n\n\tLeo was enough of a realist to know that the possibility of defeat for all of them was still part of the equation. Mikey was a lot of things, but completely predictable wasn’t one of them. That was part of his allure and part of his mystique. It had always kept their Father on his toes and Mikey’s capriciousness was one of the reasons he frequently bested Raph in a fight.\n\n\tIf there was an ‘on’ switch to Mikey’s sexuality, Leo hoped to be the one to activate it. If not, then Leo would accept Mikey’s decision and the eldest would ensure the others did as well. Leo was not about to allow a desire for Michelangelo to destroy their family or become injurious to Mikey.\n\n\tWhen Leo finished practicing he sheathed his swords and walked over to where Mikey sat. His younger brother had fletched a large number of arrows and still had a sizeable stack to work through.\n\n\tSquatting down, Leo picked up one of the finished arrows and contemplated Mikey’s handiwork.\n\n\t“No feathers, Mikey?” Leo asked.\n\n\tMikey glanced up. “Nah. The vanes are easier to work with and a shell of a lot easier to line up correctly. They last longer too.”\n\n\t“I’ll take your word for that since this is your area of expertise,” Leo said, setting the arrow aside. “I’m going to take a nice, hot shower.”\n\n\tLeo stood up and Mikey’s eyes followed him. “Um, Leo, everything’s cool with us right?”\n\n\tHis brow furrowed, Leo said, “Of course it is. Why wouldn’t it be?”\n\n\tMikey shook his head, feeling foolish. He kept expecting Leo to make a ‘pass’ at him and his oldest brother wasn’t giving any indication that he was even considering it. Mikey wasn’t as impatient as Raph, but waiting around for things to happen wasn’t really one of Mikey’s strengths either. \n\n\tHe had come very close to asking Leo why he hadn’t brought up the subject of sex yet. As if he didn’t have enough trouble with Raph and Don. Better to leave sleeping dogs lie, as the saying went.\n\n\tMikey covered his slip with a grin. “I thought you might be kinda ticked off not to be able to kick some Foot butt last night. You know, ‘cause you were paired off with me and not Raph.”\n\n\tLeo kneeled down and stopped the movement of one of Mikey’s hands by setting his on top of it.\n\n\t“Mikey, I said at the beginning of the night that I didn’t want to engage the Foot if we ran across them and I meant it,” Leo said. “Not having to argue with you over my decisions is one of the reasons I like patrolling with you; another is that I know if a fight does come our way, you can hold your own and I needn’t worry about you. Okay?”\n\n\t“Okay,” Mikey acknowledged. “Thanks for saying that, Leo.”\n\n\tLeo smiled and tapped the back of Mikey’s hand lightly before getting up and leaving the dojo.\n\n\tStanding beneath of spray of hot water, Leo thought about the conversation he’d just had with Mikey. He was sure that Mikey had meant to say something completely different but had changed his mind at the last minute.\n\n\tLeo was glad Mikey had backed off because the eldest wasn’t ready to have that discussion yet. Lying to Mikey about the Foot’s whereabouts and lying to him about having a sexual interest in the youngest brother were two entirely different things. Leo was not going to lie to him about that if Mikey asked a direct question. He would just have to rely on skill and luck to keep Mikey from asking that question.\n\n\tMikey spent another hour working on arrows and then put everything away. Stretching the numbness out of his legs, he strolled into the television room and was happy to see that it was empty.\n\n\tHopping onto the couch, he grabbed the remote and hit the power button. The TV array sprang to life, but the only thing on the various screens was snow.\n\n\tThat happened from time to time; although the array was hooked into an elaborate power surge protector it sometimes still took a hit from an electrical spike. Nothing was damaged; it just needed to be reprogrammed. Mikey kept meaning to get Donny to show him how to do that, but he always got bored partway through the lesson.\n\n\tWith a groan, Mikey went in search of his smart brother. Knowing that Don spent most of his free time in his lab, that’s were Mikey looked first. And that’s where he found him.\n\n\t“Hey, Don,” Mikey called from the doorway.\n\n\tDon twisted around in his chair and his eyes caught the remote control in Mikey’s hand.\n\n\t“What did you break?” Don asked.\n\n\t“That’s unfair,” Mikey huffed. “Raph breaks just as much stuff as I do.”\n\n\t“Then you’ll be happy to know I ask him the exact same question,” Don retorted.\n\n\tMikey held the remote up. “It was another power spike. Can you reprogram this for me?”\n\n\t“Let me close this file and I’ll take care of it,” Don turned back to his computer and his fingers rapidly stroked the keyboard.\n\n\tWhen he was done, he got up and followed Mikey back to the television room, accepting the remote from Mikey as they walked.\n\n\tAs Don ran through the set-up program he said, “I’m sorry I jumped to conclusions, Mikey.”\n\n\tMikey shrugged. “Don’t worry about it. Most of the time I come to you because I did break something.”\n\n\tDon laughed lightly. Punching in the correct selections, Don glanced at his brother and saw that Mikey was in a fairly mellow mood.\n\n\t“I’ve been hoping to get a chance to talk to you alone,” Don said.\n\n\t“’Bout what?” Mikey asked, although he knew quite well what the answer was.\n\n\t“About the special relationship that Leo, Raph and I have now,” Don said, determined to use soft and alluring terms to bypass Mikey’s current mindset on the subject.\n\n\t“Oh,” Mikey said, “sex again. I guess it’s true that once a guy starts having it his IQ drops straight into his dick.”\n\n\t“That’s as unfair as my jumping to the conclusion that you’d broken something,” Don protested.\n\n\t“I just admitted you were mostly right though, didn’t I?” Mikey shot back.\n\n\tDon gaped at him. “How can you know you’re right about this if you won’t even entertain the idea of giving it a try?”\n\n\t“We aren’t talking about broccoli, Don,” Mikey said. “This isn’t something you taste and then spit back out. Look, I know you guys are enjoying yourselves but I’m not interested in hearing anymore about it. Just because I know what you do doesn’t mean I want all the sordid details and you dropping hints that I should be a part of it makes my skin crawl.”\n\n\t“Mikey, I bring this up because I don’t want you to be left out,” Don said.\n\n\t“Some things I don’t mind being left out of,” Mikey told him. “Going to look for giant, mutated bugs, searching for underground monsters, and sex are all things you guys can leave me the shell out of and all you’ll get from me is a big, fat thank you.”\n\n\tSomehow Mikey had turned the tables on him again, but Don wasn’t about to give up yet.\n\n\t“I can understand your qualms, but what I’m talking about is a loving, physical relationship,” Don said.\n\n\t“A hug is a loving, physical relationship too, Don,” Mikey said flatly. “You want one of those from me, no problem. Could we return to the matter at hand now?”\n\n\tBecoming slightly exasperated, Don tossed the remote on the couch and faced Mikey.\n\n\t“Is it too much to ask that you think of me as something more than mister fix-it?” Don asked. “All I would like is for you to be more open minded and let me explain how being intimate with someone feels, Mikey. Or let me show you; we’ll go slow and only do what you feel comfortable with.”\n\n\tSo there it was, thrown right out between them and Mikey could think of only one thing that would make Don put the genie back into the bottle. Guilt.\n\n\tLooking pointedly at the remote and then back at Don, Mikey said, “So does that mean you won’t fix stuff for me anymore unless I have sex with you?”\n\n\tDon’s mouth dropped open and if it was possible for it to have become detached it would have hit the floor. After a second it snapped shut with a loud pop.\n\n\t“N . . . no!” Don all but shouted. “I’m . . . not . . . I didn’t mean . . . .”\n\n\t“That’s why I don’t like this sex stuff, Don,” Mikey said. “It’s really messing up our family. Now you guys are using it to get stuff from each other and I don’t wanna live like that. I guess I’ll go read my comic books instead of watching TV. At least they don’t have any strings attached to them.”\n\n\tDon’s eyes were wide as he watched Mikey leave. There were so many things he’d wanted to say but somehow in a few sentences Mikey had built a dam against his words that was better than any beaver’s.\n\n\tLeo slid down the corridor and ducked into his room as soon as Mikey started to mount the stairs. He had observed the entire conversation between Don and Mikey, but did not want Mikey to know that.\n\n\tHe had to hand it to his little brother; he certainly had slammed Donatello down hard. Leo chuckled at just how adroitly Michelangelo had handled that situation.\n\n\tStaying out of the fray and leaving the other two to their own devices when dealing with Mikey was working out perfectly. The fatal flaw that Don and Raph had succumbed to was in underestimating Mikey.\n\n\tLeo knew better than to ever do that.\n\nTBC………………….\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "\tMikey sat on the dojo floor with a pile of arrow shafts to one side of him.  On the small table in front of him were vanes, jigs, adhesive and other supplies needed for fletching his arrows.

\tThis was a job he liked doing; it kept his hands busy and his mind free to daydream.  The bow and arrow was his long range weapon of choice and of the four brothers, Mikey was the best shot, with Raph coming a close second.

\tToday while he worked, Mikey watched his brother Leo practice with his swords.  Leo spent hours every day with those bladed weapons in his hands.  Sometimes he did weapons katas, other times he practiced striking targets, and often he simply ran through past battles.

\tThat was what Leo was doing this afternoon.  As he moved through one of the fights that he had pulled up from his flawless memory, Leo kept his eyes closed, seeing the battle in his mind.

\tWatching Leo practice this way was another thing that Michelangelo liked.  Despite the bulkiness of a body structure that included a solid shell, the eldest still managed to move with complete fluidity.

\tTheir fighting styles were very different; where Mikey’s moves were big, bold and loud, Leo’s were refined, polished and silent.  In Mikey’s mind, they sort of balanced each other out.  When Mikey thought about teamwork, that’s what came to his mind.

\tSitting in the dojo with Leo only a few feet away was also very soothing to Mikey’s jangled nerves.  All through breakfast and morning practice he could feel the tension rolling off of Don and Raph.  They didn’t say anything, but he could see behind their eyes when they looked at him and their desire was still prominent.

\tHe was also perceptive enough to catch and understand the glances they passed to one another.  The attempts to get past his barriers weren’t going to stop; he could tell that much from the things he was seeing.

\tLast night when they’d gotten home from their patrol, Mikey had watched Raph follow Don into the latter’s room.  Neither of them made any attempt to hide it from him now that the cat was out of the bag.  As Raph was stepping inside, he turned a smugly satisfied look on Mikey and then winked.

\tHe was gone before he saw the look of disdain that curled Mikey’s upper lip.

\tLeo on the other hand had shown absolutely no sexual interest in Mikey.  Mikey knew he was active with both Raph and Don, but apparently he was content with that situation and didn’t need more.  Or he had seen his other brothers attempting to push their advances on the youngest and had gotten the message that neither of the other two seemed to have received.  Either way, Mikey was grateful that he had one brother around whom he could still feel completely relaxed.

\tLeo was not only content, but a little pleased with himself at how the day seemed to be working out.  Mikey was still on edge around the other two siblings and they weren’t helping his attitude with their overt displays of sexuality.

\tThe evening before, Raph had purposely waited until he knew Mikey was looking before making it very clear that Don and he were spending the night together.  At breakfast that morning, Raph had tweaked Don’s tail right in front of Mikey’s face.  If the red banded turtle was trying to make physical intimacy seem more appealing with those outlandish displays, he was failing miserably.

\tDon wasn’t helping further his cause either; his blushes and demure demeanor suited his own personality, but not Mikey’s.  The youngest was in no way a shrinking violet and the idea that someone might expect such behavior from him in the bedroom was obviously distasteful.

\tHaving Mikey sitting just a short distance from him, seemingly very happy to be somewhere ‘safe’, suited Leo’s plans perfectly.  Winning a fight didn’t always mean leaping into it feet first; the steady, stealthy approach was usually the most victorious, something he’d tried to make Raph understand on numerous occasions.

\tThis was a perfect opportunity for Leo to show Raph exactly what he meant.

\tLeo was enough of a realist to know that the possibility of defeat for all of them was still part of the equation.  Mikey was a lot of things, but completely predictable wasn’t one of them.  That was part of his allure and part of his mystique.  It had always kept their Father on his toes and Mikey’s capriciousness was one of the reasons he frequently bested Raph in a fight.

\tIf there was an ‘on’ switch to Mikey’s sexuality, Leo hoped to be the one to activate it.  If not, then Leo would accept Mikey’s decision and the eldest would ensure the others did as well.  Leo was not about to allow a desire for Michelangelo to destroy their family or become injurious to Mikey.

\tWhen Leo finished practicing he sheathed his swords and walked over to where Mikey sat.  His younger brother had fletched a large number of arrows and still had a sizeable stack to work through.

\tSquatting down, Leo picked up one of the finished arrows and contemplated Mikey’s handiwork.

\t“No feathers, Mikey?” Leo asked.

\tMikey glanced up.  “Nah.  The vanes are easier to work with and a shell of a lot easier to line up correctly.  They last longer too.”

\t“I’ll take your word for that since this is your area of expertise,” Leo said, setting the arrow aside.  “I’m going to take a nice, hot shower.”

\tLeo stood up and Mikey’s eyes followed him.  “Um, Leo, everything’s cool with us right?”

\tHis brow furrowed, Leo said, “Of course it is.  Why wouldn’t it be?”

\tMikey shook his head, feeling foolish.  He kept expecting Leo to make a ‘pass’ at him and his oldest brother wasn’t giving any indication that he was even considering it.  Mikey wasn’t as impatient as Raph, but waiting around for things to happen wasn’t really one of Mikey’s strengths either.

\tHe had come very close to asking Leo why he hadn’t brought up the subject of sex yet.  As if he didn’t have enough trouble with Raph and Don.  Better to leave sleeping dogs lie, as the saying went.

\tMikey covered his slip with a grin.  “I thought you might be kinda ticked off not to be able to kick some Foot butt last night.  You know, ‘cause you were paired off with me and not Raph.”

\tLeo kneeled down and stopped the movement of one of Mikey’s hands by setting his on top of it.

\t“Mikey, I said at the beginning of the night that I didn’t want to engage the Foot if we ran across them and I meant it,” Leo said.  “Not having to argue with you over my decisions is one of the reasons I like patrolling with you; another is that I know if a fight does come our way, you can hold your own and I needn’t worry about you.  Okay?”

\t“Okay,” Mikey acknowledged.  “Thanks for saying that, Leo.”

\tLeo smiled and tapped the back of Mikey’s hand lightly before getting up and leaving the dojo.

\tStanding beneath of spray of hot water, Leo thought about the conversation he’d just had with Mikey.  He was sure that Mikey had meant to say something completely different but had changed his mind at the last minute.

\tLeo was glad Mikey had backed off because the eldest wasn’t ready to have that discussion yet.  Lying to Mikey about the Foot’s whereabouts and lying to him about having a sexual interest in the youngest brother were two entirely different things.  Leo was not going to lie to him about that if Mikey asked a direct question.  He would just have to rely on skill and luck to keep Mikey from asking that question.

\tMikey spent another hour working on arrows and then put everything away.  Stretching the numbness out of his legs, he strolled into the television room and was happy to see that it was empty.

\tHopping onto the couch, he grabbed the remote and hit the power button.  The TV array sprang to life, but the only thing on the various screens was snow.

\tThat happened from time to time; although the array was hooked into an elaborate power surge protector it sometimes still took a hit from an electrical spike.  Nothing was damaged; it just needed to be reprogrammed.  Mikey kept meaning to get Donny to show him how to do that, but he always got bored partway through the lesson.

\tWith a groan, Mikey went in search of his smart brother.  Knowing that Don spent most of his free time in his lab, that’s were Mikey looked first.  And that’s where he found him.

\t“Hey, Don,” Mikey called from the doorway.

\tDon twisted around in his chair and his eyes caught the remote control in Mikey’s hand.

\t“What did you break?” Don asked.

\t“That’s unfair,” Mikey huffed.  “Raph breaks just as much stuff as I do.”

\t“Then you’ll be happy to know I ask him the exact same question,” Don retorted.

\tMikey held the remote up.  “It was another power spike.  Can you reprogram this for me?”

\t“Let me close this file and I’ll take care of it,” Don turned back to his computer and his fingers rapidly stroked the keyboard.

\tWhen he was done, he got up and followed Mikey back to the television room, accepting the remote from Mikey as they walked.

\tAs Don ran through the set-up program he said, “I’m sorry I jumped to conclusions, Mikey.”

\tMikey shrugged.  “Don’t worry about it.  Most of the time I come to you because I did break something.”

\tDon laughed lightly.  Punching in the correct selections, Don glanced at his brother and saw that Mikey was in a fairly mellow mood.

\t“I’ve been hoping to get a chance to talk to you alone,” Don said.

\t“’Bout what?” Mikey asked, although he knew quite well what the answer was.

\t“About the special relationship that Leo, Raph and I have now,” Don said, determined to use soft and alluring terms to bypass Mikey’s current mindset on the subject.

\t“Oh,” Mikey said, “sex again.  I guess it’s true that once a guy starts having it his IQ drops straight into his dick.”

\t“That’s as unfair as my jumping to the conclusion that you’d broken something,” Don protested.

\t“I just admitted you were mostly right though, didn’t I?” Mikey shot back.

\tDon gaped at him.  “How can you know you’re right about this if you won’t even entertain the idea of giving it a try?”

\t“We aren’t talking about broccoli, Don,” Mikey said.  “This isn’t something you taste and then spit back out.  Look, I know you guys are enjoying yourselves but I’m not interested in hearing anymore about it.  Just because I know what you do doesn’t mean I want all the sordid details and you dropping hints that I should be a part of it makes my skin crawl.”

\t“Mikey, I bring this up because I don’t want you to be left out,” Don said.

\t“Some things I don’t mind being left out of,” Mikey told him.  “Going to look for giant, mutated bugs, searching for underground monsters, and sex are all things you guys can leave me the shell out of and all you’ll get from me is a big, fat thank you.”

\tSomehow Mikey had turned the tables on him again, but Don wasn’t about to give up yet.

\t“I can understand your qualms, but what I’m talking about is a loving, physical relationship,” Don said.

\t“A hug is a loving, physical relationship too, Don,” Mikey said flatly.  “You want one of those from me, no problem.  Could we return to the matter at hand now?”

\tBecoming slightly exasperated, Don tossed the remote on the couch and faced Mikey.

\t“Is it too much to ask that you think of me as something more than mister fix-it?” Don asked.  “All I would like is for you to be more open minded and let me explain how being intimate with someone feels, Mikey.  Or let me show you; we’ll go slow and only do what you feel comfortable with.”

\tSo there it was, thrown right out between them and Mikey could think of only one thing that would make Don put the genie back into the bottle.  Guilt.

\tLooking pointedly at the remote and then back at Don, Mikey said, “So does that mean you won’t fix stuff for me anymore unless I have sex with you?”

\tDon’s mouth dropped open and if it was possible for it to have become detached it would have hit the floor.  After a second it snapped shut with a loud pop.

\t“N . . . no!” Don all but shouted.  “I’m . . . not  . . . I didn’t mean . . . .”

\t“That’s why I don’t like this sex stuff, Don,” Mikey said.  “It’s really messing up our family.  Now you guys are using it to get stuff from each other and I don’t wanna live like that.  I guess I’ll go read my comic books instead of watching TV.  At least they don’t have any strings attached to them.”

\tDon’s eyes were wide as he watched Mikey leave.  There were so many things he’d wanted to say but somehow in a few sentences Mikey had built a dam against his words that was better than any beaver’s.

\tLeo slid down the corridor and ducked into his room as soon as Mikey started to mount the stairs.  He had observed the entire conversation between Don and Mikey, but did not want Mikey to know that.

\tHe had to hand it to his little brother; he certainly had slammed Donatello down hard.  Leo chuckled at just how adroitly Michelangelo had handled that situation.

\tStaying out of the fray and leaving the other two to their own devices when dealing with Mikey was working out perfectly.  The fatal flaw that Don and Raph had succumbed to was in underestimating Mikey.

\tLeo knew better than to ever do that.

TBC………………….
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