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Word Count: 2,153
Alternate universe - future parts will contain TCest, language, adult situations
Pairing: Leonardo/Michelangelo
Summary: Master Splinter only discovered, rescued, and raised three turtle hatchlings. What became of the fourth?

*My part of a trade with the incredible KameChuu. Preview art by KameChuu.", "writing": "\t``That's Donat . . . Donny's weapon of choice,'' Leo said. ``He never found a need to use anything else other than his brains. That's a pretty formidable weapon by itself.''\n\n\t``I suppose if you're really smart like that you've probably got a lot of stuff going on in your head almost all of the time,'' Mikey said. ``You'd want a weapon that was effective but simple `cause it would kind of balance you out.''\n\n\tLeo didn't bother to try to hide his look of admiration. ``That is extremely insightful, Mikey. We've tried for years to get him to try another weapon but he's very steadfast. I'm not sure he even understands why but I think you're onto something.''\n\n\t``From what I saw during the fight earlier, he does better than okay with the bo,'' Mikey said. ``He's way better than any of the Master's I ever saw using it on the internet.''\n\n\t``The ones you learned from,'' Leo said, prompting him to continue his story.\n\n\t``Yeah,'' Mikey said with a smile. ``I can't even tell you how many broom and mop handles I broke trying to learn basic strikes. They were great starter sticks, but I didn't realize how different a real bo was until I finally got my hands on one.\n\n\t``Remember how I told you about that fight I got into in the schoolyard?'' Mikey asked.\n\n\t``Against the bullies who were trying to steal your friend's skateboard,'' Leo said.\n\n\t``Yeah. They were just the start of something worse in the neighborhood. During the day it wasn't so bad `cause the teachers and other responsible adults were around, but at night the area was pretty deserted. When summer break rolled around the only adults were the lunchroom workers and they couldn't see the schoolyard.\n\n\t``The bullies came around a lot more after our fight and none of the kids wanted anything to do with them, but sometimes kids would already be there when those guys showed up.\n\n\t``One night I heard some kids yelling and when I looked out the window I saw those bullies were ganging up on a couple of kids, just like they did to Carlos and me. I got really mad, madder than I'd ever been before and I just grabbed one of my sticks and went outside.''\n\n\tMikey chuckled. ``I was so mad and agitated that I almost forget to wear a disguise. Even then all I did was grab my oversized hooded sweatshirt; I was afraid they'd hurt those kids before I got out there if I stopped to get dressed.\n\n\t``I was pretty proud of myself `cause I was nearly on top of them before they saw me. I broke my broom handle on the very first strike, but I got the satisfaction of knocking down the guy I hit with it. He was rolling around on the ground screaming and holding his head and the other bullies turned their attention on me.\n\n\t``The two kids got away and there I was holding two broken sticks and staring up into four very mean faces. Seeing the hero on TV face down the bad guys is so much more exciting than actually being in that position and realizing the bad guys wouldn't mind beating you to a pulp, if you know what I mean.''\n\n\t``We've experienced it a few times as well, so I know exactly what you mean,'' Leo said. ``How old were you?''\n\n\t``It was a couple of years after my first fight, so I guess around ten,'' Mikey told him.\n\n\t``Pretty young,'' Leo murmured.\n\n\t``Pretty dumb,'' Mikey replied with a grimace. ``From that close up I saw that those guys weren't the same old bullies that used to hang around. They were a little older and I noticed that they all wore the same matching vest. My brain said gang at about the same time one of them punched me in the mouth.\n\n\t``That was another difference; the bullies talked tough more than they fought, but this gang that moved in didn't bother with the talking part. Fortunately, I'd spent so much time training that my body reacted to the attack while my head was still trying to process what was happening.\n\n\t``I fell back with the punch and probably saved myself a few teeth because of it, and then when I hit the ground I rolled `cause I knew from the time before they'd kick me if I stayed down. It took them by surprise and put distance between us, enough that I could easily have sprinted for safety, but the closest place for me to go was the school and I didn't wanna lead them there.''\n\n\t``Letting them know where you lived would have been a tactical error,'' Leo said, ``not to mention that you could have been trapped.''\n\n\t``I guess I knew that on a subconscious level,'' Mikey said. ``Since I knew I couldn't go into any other building, I figured my best option was to take the high road and get up on the rooftops. Problem was; those guys were between me and the place I wanted to go.\n\n\t``The one I put down wasn't getting up any time soon, but that still made it four to one. To make it even more fun, a couple of them pulled knives and then one of them yanked out a bo staff, a real one. He'd had it jammed into the back of his coat and I hadn't even noticed it until he pulled it out and started swinging it around.\n\n\t``You know what the funniest thing was? I was scared right up until that moment, but as soon as he started spinning that staff, I realized that he didn't know what he was doing. I mean, I had the wrong weapon for the job but I knew what to do with it. That staff might as well have been a baseball bat or a tree limb for all he knew.\n\n\t``Right then I decided that he was the weak link in the chain and that's who I was going through. That feeling was such a rush! All of a sudden I couldn't even feel my feet on the ground anymore; I just let out a whoop and charged at him, both ends of my broken stick twirling.''\n\n\tMikey's blue eyes were flashing as he re-lived that fight; his entire body quivering from the small shot of adrenaline brought on by excitement. Leo's heart began to beat faster in reaction, his lips parting slightly as he started to breathe a little quicker. Mikey's youthful vigor and lively animation were affecting him just as they'd done in Leo's dreams. Within seconds a tingling sensation started to sweep through Leo's groin and he sat up straighter in an attempt to quell his reactions.\n\n\t``Of course he swung at me, but his hold was wrong and he was totally off balance,'' Mikey continued. ``It was like he was moving in slow motion and I ducked right under the staff with ease. Dude, that guy was so off center he almost had his entire back to me! I hit his hand with one of my sticks and clobbered him in the back of the head with the other.\n\n\t``I got him in just the right spot `cause that blow knocked him out cold. When he hit the ground I grabbed his bo staff and then turned around to see where the other three guys were.\n\n\t``They were coming at me so I lifted the staff and jabbed one of them right in his . . . um, you know . . . package,'' Mikey said, flushing becomingly and glancing quickly at Leo.\n\n\tLeo's mouth felt dry from the physical reactions he was having to Mikey but he immediately knew that the youngster wanted some kind of absolution for the low blow. With a smile, Leo said, ``Sometimes we can't afford to fight pretty; we have to fight to win.''\n\n\tMikey rewarded him with a bright and relieved smile. ``I sorta wasn't aiming there; I was trying for his stomach, but I'd never held a real bo staff before. It was a lot heavier and longer than the broom handles I was used to practicing with.\n\n\t``He fell down real fast after that and I spun around to hold off one of his buddies. I was working to compensate for the weight of the bo so I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I was faster than him. I knocked the knife out of his hand and then managed to clock him a good one on the jaw when something felt like it bit into my collar bone.\n\n\t``I jumped aside and saw the last guy standing there with blood dripping off his knife and it came to me that it was [i]my[/i] blood. I let him get behind me; I let him get close enough to cut me. It really started to hurt then and I stopped being excited and got mad again.\n\n\t``I hit him really hard Leo, right in his rib cage. I heard bones snap and he yelled and fell down and I hit him again. The only thing that stopped me from hitting him more was that my wound was screaming at me and I heard sirens.\n\n\t``They weren't all unconscious so I still couldn't go home to the school. I took off across the street to the apartment building like I'd originally planned and climbed the fire escape to the roof. I kept running for a while; jumping from roof to roof until I couldn't hear the sirens anymore. Along the way I snagged a sheet off a clothesline and when I finally stopped running I sat down to see how badly I was hurt.\n\n\t``My sweatshirt was pretty bloody so I peeled it off first and then I cleaned what I could with the sheet. After that I could see that the cut was long but not too deep. The bleeding was the first thing I knew needed to be dealt with, so I tore the sheet and made a thick pad that I could press down on the wound.''\n\n\t``Did it need stitches?'' Leo asked, curious as to how a ten year old mutant turtle managed to deal with a wound in such a difficult to reach spot on his body.\n\n\t``Well, if I could've gone to a proper doctor they probably would've taken a couple,'' Mikey answered. ``Since I couldn't and all I really knew was basic first aid, I decided to do something called `butterfly stitches'. I remembered reading about that when I was doing research.\n\n\t``There was a bodega close by and as much as I hated to do it, I busted out a small window so I could climb inside. I went right to the aisle where the medicine and stuff was and took some surgical tape, aspirin, and things for cleaning and disinfecting the wound. I felt bad for stealing, Leo, I really did, but I had to. Was that okay?''\n\n\tMikey was looking at him beseechingly and Leo reached across to take hold of the younger turtle's hand.\n\n\t``Of course it was,'' Leo told him gently. ``You did what you had to do because you didn't have any other options. You've probably repaid that debt tenfold by now with all of the crime fighting you've done.''\n\n\t``Do you really think so?'' Mikey's eyes were searching Leo's, his chin trembling slightly.\n\n\tThe knowledge that Mikey held Leo's opinion in such high regard though they barely knew each other flattered the older turtle immensely. With his free hand, Leo moved the snack platter to the other side of the bench and slid closer to Mikey.\n\n\t``I'm sure of it,'' Leo said in a low, soothing tone.\n\n\tMikey stared at him for a second, his lower lip caught between his teeth. ``Do you want to see my scar?'' he finally asked, his voice almost a whisper.\n\n\tLeo nodded and Mikey lifted a hand to touch a spot on his collar bone, twisting his upper body closer to Leo so that the blue banded turtle could see the mark better.\n\n\tBare inches separated them and Mikey's intoxicating scent became overwhelming. Leo reached up to touch the long, thin scar; tracing the line with his fingertips. He heard Mikey's breath catch in his throat and Leo's eyes moved back to the incredible blue ones that were so close.\n\n\tLeo wanted Mikey in that moment more than he'd ever wanted anything in his entire life. The younger turtle seemed to be waiting for something; seemingly caught in a situation he wasn't sure how to deal with and Leo felt nearly the same way.\n\n\tFaced with his first real test since meeting Mikey, Leo found himself having to now make one of the most difficult decisions of his life.\n\nTBC...............\n\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "\t``That's Donat . . . Donny's weapon of choice,'' Leo said.  ``He never found a need to use anything else other than his brains.  That's a pretty formidable weapon by itself.''

\t``I suppose if you're really smart like that you've probably got a lot of stuff going on in your head almost all of the time,'' Mikey said.  ``You'd want a weapon that was effective but simple `cause it would kind of balance you out.''

\tLeo didn't bother to try to hide his look of admiration.  ``That is extremely insightful, Mikey.  We've tried for years to get him to try another weapon but he's very steadfast.  I'm not sure he even understands why but I think you're onto something.''

\t``From what I saw during the fight earlier, he does better than okay with the bo,'' Mikey said.  ``He's way better than any of the Master's I ever saw using it on the internet.''

\t``The ones you learned from,'' Leo said, prompting him to continue his story.

\t``Yeah,'' Mikey said with a smile.  ``I can't even tell you how many broom and mop handles I broke trying to learn basic strikes.  They were great starter sticks, but I didn't realize how different a real bo was until I finally got my hands on one.

\t``Remember how I told you about that fight I got into in the schoolyard?'' Mikey asked.

\t``Against the bullies who were trying to steal your friend's skateboard,'' Leo said.

\t``Yeah.  They were just the start of something worse in the neighborhood.  During the day it wasn't so bad `cause the teachers and other responsible adults were around, but at night the area was pretty deserted.  When summer break rolled around the only adults were the lunchroom workers and they couldn't see the schoolyard.

\t``The bullies came around a lot more after our fight and none of the kids wanted anything to do with them, but sometimes kids would already be there when those guys showed up.

\t``One night I heard some kids yelling and when I looked out the window I saw those bullies were ganging up on a couple of kids, just like they did to Carlos and me.  I got really mad, madder than I'd ever been before and I just grabbed one of my sticks and went outside.''

\tMikey chuckled.  ``I was so mad and agitated that I almost forget to wear a disguise.  Even then all I did was grab my oversized hooded sweatshirt; I was afraid they'd hurt those kids before I got out there if I stopped to get dressed.

\t``I was pretty proud of myself `cause I was nearly on top of them before they saw me.  I broke my broom handle on the very first strike, but I got the satisfaction of knocking down the guy I hit with it.  He was rolling around on the ground screaming and holding his head and the other bullies turned their attention on me.

\t``The two kids got away and there I was holding two broken sticks and staring up into four very mean faces.  Seeing the hero on TV face down the bad guys is so much more exciting than actually being in that position and realizing the bad guys wouldn't mind beating you to a pulp, if you know what I mean.''

\t``We've experienced it a few times as well, so I know exactly what you mean,'' Leo said.  ``How old were you?''

\t``It was a couple of years after my first fight, so I guess around ten,'' Mikey told him.

\t``Pretty young,'' Leo murmured.

\t``Pretty dumb,'' Mikey replied with a grimace.  ``From that close up I saw that those guys weren't the same old bullies that used to hang around.  They were a little older and I noticed that they all wore the same matching vest.  My brain said gang at about the same time one of them punched me in the mouth.

\t``That was another difference; the bullies talked tough more than they fought, but this gang that moved in didn't bother with the talking part.  Fortunately, I'd spent so much time training that my body reacted to the attack while my head was still trying to process what was happening.

\t``I fell back with the punch and probably saved myself a few teeth because of it, and then when I hit the ground I rolled `cause I knew from the time before they'd kick me if I stayed down.  It took them by surprise and put distance between us, enough that I could easily have sprinted for safety, but the closest place for me to go was the school and I didn't wanna lead them there.''

\t``Letting them know where you lived would have been a tactical error,'' Leo said, ``not to mention that you could have been trapped.''

\t``I guess I knew that on a subconscious level,'' Mikey said.  ``Since I knew I couldn't go into any other building, I figured my best option was to take the high road and get up on the rooftops.  Problem was; those guys were between me and the place I wanted to go.

\t``The one I put down wasn't getting up any time soon, but that still made it four to one.  To make it even more fun, a couple of them pulled knives and then one of them yanked out a bo staff, a real one.  He'd had it jammed into the back of his coat and I hadn't even noticed it until he pulled it out and started swinging it around.

\t``You know what the funniest thing was?  I was scared right up until that moment, but as soon as he started spinning that staff, I realized that he didn't know what he was doing.  I mean, I had the wrong weapon for the job but I knew what to do with it.  That staff might as well have been a baseball bat or a tree limb for all he knew.

\t``Right then I decided that he was the weak link in the chain and that's who I was going through.  That feeling was such a rush!  All of a sudden I couldn't even feel my feet on the ground anymore; I just let out a whoop and charged at him, both ends of my broken stick twirling.''

\tMikey's blue eyes were flashing as he re-lived that fight; his entire body quivering from the small shot of adrenaline brought on by excitement.  Leo's heart began to beat faster in reaction, his lips parting slightly as he started to breathe a little quicker.  Mikey's youthful vigor and lively animation were affecting him just as they'd done in Leo's dreams.  Within seconds a tingling sensation started to sweep through Leo's groin and he sat up straighter in an attempt to quell his reactions.

\t``Of course he swung at me, but his hold was wrong and he was totally off balance,'' Mikey continued.  ``It was like he was moving in slow motion and I ducked right under the staff with ease.  Dude, that guy was so off center he almost had his entire back to me!  I hit his hand with one of my sticks and clobbered him in the back of the head with the other.

\t``I got him in just the right spot `cause that blow knocked him out cold.  When he hit the ground I grabbed his bo staff and then turned around to see where the other three guys were.

\t``They were coming at me so I lifted the staff and jabbed one of them right in his . . . um, you know . . . package,'' Mikey said, flushing becomingly and glancing quickly at Leo.

\tLeo's mouth felt dry from the physical reactions he was having to Mikey but he immediately knew that the youngster wanted some kind of absolution for the low blow.  With a smile, Leo said, ``Sometimes we can't afford to fight pretty; we have to fight to win.''

\tMikey rewarded him with a bright and relieved smile.  ``I sorta wasn't aiming there; I was trying for his stomach, but I'd never held a real bo staff before.  It was a lot heavier and longer than the broom handles I was used to practicing with.

\t``He fell down real fast after that and I spun around to hold off one of his buddies.  I was working to compensate for the weight of the bo so I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I was faster than him.  I knocked the knife out of his hand and then managed to clock him a good one on the jaw when something felt like it bit into my collar bone.

\t``I jumped aside and saw the last guy standing there with blood dripping off his knife and it came to me that it was my blood.  I let him get behind me; I let him get close enough to cut me.  It really started to hurt then and I stopped being excited and got mad again.

\t``I hit him really hard Leo, right in his rib cage.  I heard bones snap and he yelled and fell down and I hit him again.  The only thing that stopped me from hitting him more was that my wound was screaming at me and I heard sirens.

\t``They weren't all unconscious so I still couldn't go home to the school.  I took off across the street to the apartment building like I'd originally planned and climbed the fire escape to the roof.  I kept running for a while; jumping from roof to roof until I couldn't hear the sirens anymore.  Along the way I snagged a sheet off a clothesline and when I finally stopped running I sat down to see how badly I was hurt.

\t``My sweatshirt was pretty bloody so I peeled it off first and then I cleaned what I could with the sheet.  After that I could see that the cut was long but not too deep.  The bleeding was the first thing I knew needed to be dealt with, so I tore the sheet and made a thick pad that I could press down on the wound.''

\t``Did it need stitches?'' Leo asked, curious as to how a ten year old mutant turtle managed to deal with a wound in such a difficult to reach spot on his body.

\t``Well, if I could've gone to a proper doctor they probably would've taken a couple,'' Mikey answered.  ``Since I couldn't and all I really knew was basic first aid, I decided to do something called `butterfly stitches'.  I remembered reading about that when I was doing research.

\t``There was a bodega close by and as much as I hated to do it, I busted out a small window so I could climb inside.  I went right to the aisle where the medicine and stuff was and took some surgical tape, aspirin, and things for cleaning and disinfecting the wound.  I felt bad for stealing, Leo, I really did, but I had to.  Was that okay?''

\tMikey was looking at him beseechingly and Leo reached across to take hold of the younger turtle's hand.

\t``Of course it was,'' Leo told him gently.  ``You did what you had to do because you didn't have any other options.  You've probably repaid that debt tenfold by now with all of the crime fighting you've done.''

\t``Do you really think so?''  Mikey's eyes were searching Leo's, his chin trembling slightly.

\tThe knowledge that Mikey held Leo's opinion in such high regard though they barely knew each other flattered the older turtle immensely.  With his free hand, Leo moved the snack platter to the other side of the bench and slid closer to Mikey.

\t``I'm sure of it,'' Leo said in a low, soothing tone.

\tMikey stared at him for a second, his lower lip caught between his teeth.  ``Do you want to see my scar?'' he finally asked, his voice almost a whisper.

\tLeo nodded and Mikey lifted a hand to touch a spot on his collar bone, twisting his upper body closer to Leo so that the blue banded turtle could see the mark better.

\tBare inches separated them and Mikey's intoxicating scent became overwhelming.  Leo reached up to touch the long, thin scar; tracing the line with his fingertips.  He heard Mikey's breath catch in his throat and Leo's eyes moved back to the incredible blue ones that were so close.

\tLeo wanted Mikey in that moment more than he'd ever wanted anything in his entire life.  The younger turtle seemed to be waiting for something; seemingly caught in a situation he wasn't sure how to deal with and Leo felt nearly the same way.

\tFaced with his first real test since meeting Mikey, Leo found himself having to now make one of the most difficult decisions of his life.

TBC...............

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