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Shadows in the night	By : selfless1978 Category: +S through Z > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Views: 2281 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Leo was drifting in the darkness. He felt no pain, no fear, he felt nothing. It was so calm here. 'Quick get him inside!' He liked the way it was calm here. No bad guys to beat up, not having to run for his life just pieceful quiet calm. 'Get him on the table! April get me some of Leo's blood bags!' Did he hear his name? No, no one was here so he must just be hearing things. Suddenly his left arm itched a little and he wanted to scratch it. 'Damn it! I can't get the needle in. Wait there it goes.' Then, he saw a light. Such a pretty yellowish white. He wondered what it would be like to stand in that light. He started to walk to it. 'No, no, no, no, NO! I'm loosing him! Raph push me that machine over there! Hurry!' Raph...who was Raph? Who was who? There wasn't anyone here. He walked abit more towards the light, he really wanted to go to it. It was so beutiful. 'Clear' Then he felt a thump in his chest. Leo stopped and frowned why was his chest thumping? It wasn't supposed to do that was it? Oh well, the feeling was gone now. He took another step to the light 'Again!' There was that thump again. What was it? What did it mean? He was so close to that wonderful warm light. But everytime he tried to go, his chest thumped. 'Damn it come on...stabilize. Please come through. Mikey get me another bloodbag!'' Wait he knew that name didn't he? What name? He didn't hear anything. He was hearing things again. He felt something tighten on his right arm. 'Just like that Master Splinter, we need to keep that wound closed.' Master Splinter...Sensei? No that wasn't right. Was it? That light. He was so close to it, could almost reach it. He took another step. 'Damn it all to hell! Vicky I'm trying, god I'm trying, but I might lose him. Clear!' Once again there was that thud in chest. This was really getting annoying he had enough. He was going to the light now once and for all. 'Leonardo! Don't you dare give up on me! Give up on us! Don't you dare die! Clear!' His chest thumped again, but this time something else hit him also. Donnie? Donnie was calling him. 'Please, Leo. We need you.' He followed the voice now, he didn't want the light anymore. He wanted the voice, it brought him more comfort. 'He is holding, for now.' The voice he needed to reach the voice...
Leo opened his eyes to a world of pain, everything hurt it seemed but he was so glad to be there. "Donnie, look!" Vicky whispered. Leo calmly looked into Donnie's eyes. "I'm...here. I..won't..give...up." He brought his eyes around to the others. April was crying, holding onto Casey, Lucy was standing next to them tears in her eyes as well. Raph had his arm around an obviously scared Mikey's shoulder, Spilter heaved a sigh of relief. Vicky leaned in and kissed him on the cheek gently and sat next to him holding his hand. Once again Leo's eyes closed this time in a peaceful rest knowing they were near.

Leo came slowly awake to the feeling of his right arm being moved around. God he felt horrible, he was stiff, sore and weak. He felt something tighten on his arm and he groaned in pain.
"Leo?"
He forced his eyes to open. At first everything seemed fuzzy but his vision soon started to clear. Vicky was standing over him, wrapping a bandage around his right arm. Donnie and Lucy were on his other side and Donnie was looking down at him. "Hey, big brother. Glad you could join us. How are you feeling?"
"Don't ask."
"I just did."
Leo sighed. "I feel like I got hit by a frggin bus." He looked around. He was in Donnie's lab, thier private little hospital. "How long have I been out?" He asked as Vicky finished up with his arm. He tried to sit up and Donnie helped him and he swung his legs over. He had to get up and moving, his muscles were so stiff.
"About 30 hours."
Then Vicky came around the table toward him and he took her into his arms, holding her close to him. They stayed like that for a few moments then she pulled back a little. "Are you hungry?"
"A little." he admitted, smiling at her.
She kissed his cheek. "I'll go make you something."
Lucy was watching them with an unreadable expression in her eys. "May I come help you?" she asked Vicky.
"Sure, come on." Vicky smiled.
Leo watched her and Lucy go and smiled. Then he looked at his brother and sighed, he was about to get yelled at...
"The next time I tell you I want to look at your wounds you better listen, or I swear to god I'll make Raph and Mikey hog tie you so I can. You have no idea how close you came to..." Donnie stopped and closed his eyes, trying to compose himself. "Leo, I came close to loosing you a few times on that table. I was so worried I wouldn't have enough of your blood stored up to pull you though. I had to tell Vicky you might not..." Donnie choked off again.
Leo watched his younger brother struggle, then reached out a hand and placed it on Donnie's shoulder. "I'm sorry Donnie..."
"It's okay...I was just scared, Leo."
"So, how bad off am I this time?"
"That gash on your arm is the worst one. It did a lot of damage but it should heal up ok. It took me forever to stich you up. The rest wasn't as bad but there was alot of it. It took Vicky awhile to deal with all those glass cuts. The bullet was a clean shot straight through so all I had to do was clean it and close it. You got tossed around pretty good so your going to be bruised and sore for a couple days. I don't know how you got so lucky to where he didn't do any permanent damage"
Leo looked at him and smiled. "I had my brothers with me, that's how."
Donnie smiled back at him. "Come on, I'll help you to the kitchen."
Leo stood up and with his brother supporting him, made his way out of the lab.

Vicky was making Leo a salad. She didn't want to give him something heavy to eat right at first. Lucy was helping her chop up some vegetables. Vicky could tell the other woman had something on her mind and was struggling to find the words. "Just spit it out, Lucy. Trust me, I wont get offended."
"I just wanted to say I'm sorry my husband did that to, Leo. That my husband messed up the one you care about." She said softly. "Leo, could have been killed.." She got quiet.
Vicky figured this was bothering her. The poor girl was stunned when she had first realised that she and Leo were a couple. Heck if it had been the other way around she would be stunned too. Vicky thought a minute on how to answer as she was breaking up some lettuce leaves. "Lucy, let me explain something. I fell in love with Leo for his personality. He his kind, caring, loves his family, has a strong need to protect that family and he extends that protection to who needs it. His brothers are more or less the same. I also understand that they have been givin a wonderful gift in their talents from the instruction of Splinter. This means, however, that they can do things and handle things that noone else can and this puts them into danger. It's something that I have to live with. You don't have to apologize for that. Leo and I both understand the risks he takes and I can live with it because he cares and tries to make the world a better place."
She felt arms wrap around her from behind, then Leo spoke. "She's right, Lucy. There is nothing to apologize for."
"Daddy!" came a dual cry from the kitchen door. Dennis and Amy came running in and wrapped their arms around him. Vicky found all these arms to slightly be getting in her way. "Why don't you go help him to the table so he can eat." Leo and the kids untangled her and moved towards the table. "And there is also this, Lucy. He has risked his life to save ours, it would be selfish of me to keep him from saving more, that includes your husband." She said quietly to the other woman.
Lucy looked at her and nodded, understanding in her eyes.

"They did what?!" Raph said in astonishment. They were gathered in Donnie's lab the next day. The purple masked turtle had just got done going over everything they had manged to collect that very long night. Leo was sitting in Donnie's lab chair, with little Mir, and he was just as stunned as his brother was.
"They combined multiple animal DNA and mixed it in the mutagen." Donnie said again then kept going "All of it predatory. The result being a very unstable mix. All of the other mutants have just one animal/human DNA mix. This makes us more humanlike because it's a stable mix. However, the more DNA that is in the mix the more unstable the result is. You have all these different animal insticts warring with each other and the human part gets pushed aside. It's a very stupid thing to do, and dangerous."
"And with all of his being predetory no wonder he looked at me like I'm lunch." Leo said, bouncing Mir on his lap.
"He went after you because you were already bleeding. Most predators take out the weakest animal they can, less likely for them to get hurt."
"Is that supposed to make me feel better?"
"No, I just thought you would like to know."
"So how did Brian become the test subject?" Raph asked.
"And where did they get the mutagen from?" Mikey asked.
"Slow down guys. As to where they got it from that was really easy to find out, after we put TCRI out of, illegal, buisness I'm sure that some of the goons we couldn't get our hands on flipped over to the new breadwinner, Bachman Bio Lab. I'm assuming they started to make the mutagen for their new employers. It's got the exact basic componants, they just added their own twisted flair to it."
"Donnie, we took TCRI out years ago. Why start experimenting now again?" Leo asked.
"Because someone told them to. I can't figure out who though, it's not in any of the files I was able to get. Whoever green lighted the project is very hush hush."
"Oh great another mad genious or evil super villan wanting a mutant army...this is really starting to get old." Raph grumbled.
"Starting to? It's been old after the second time, bro." Mikey said.
"For once I agree with ya, Mikey" Raph told him. "Now back to my original question. Why Brian?"
Donnie pulled out the briefcase and put it on his desk and opened it. He then pulled out the paperwork and dropped it onto the desk. "Because he figured out what they were up to. What better way to silence someone and get a test subject at the same time?"
"Shit..." Raph whispered. "So what do we do now?"
"We need to figure out who gave the go ahead to Bachman Bio Lab. And We need to find a way to get Brian off of the streets." Leo said.
"Man, neither one of those sounds like it's going to be easy." Mikey said.
"It's going to be fairly difficult, yes." Leo said "But I know what I'm going to do first."
"Oh, and what's that?" Raph asked.
"Change a stinky diaper."
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