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Leo spotted an area to the side under a large tree and pointed at it to Donnie, who threw the blanket down.
They all sat and piled their fast food on it in the center.
Raph was looking around wildly, twitching slightly whenever he heard a car.
Leo placed his hand on Raph’s back. “You feel that cool breeze, Raph? Can you hear the birds? Smell the grass!” He took a deep breath to show by example.
Raph looked at him nervously and then looked around, taking it all in. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. “It does smell kinda nice…” He opened his eyes and looked up at the cloudy sky. “I kinda hope it rains…”
“I think the smell actually indicates it will, though I don’t understand why you’d wish for that. We already live in the damp wet storm drains.”
Raph smiled a little and sipped his coffee. “Yeah, but fresh rain? From the sky? That’s different.”
Mikey rested his back against Raph’s side and grinned up at him. “I like it! We could go jumping in puddles or something!”
Raph laughed softly and smiled down at their baby brother.
Leo laughed as he watched them, digging into his own order and munching away. Donnie decided to use the tree as a back rest and eat silently beside him.
He looked back at Donnie and gave him a smile. “Can you play some music maybe?”
Donnie nodded and started playing music from his phone, taking off his headphones to act as a speaker. It wasn’t too loud and the quality wasn’t great, but it worked. He put on Under Pressure, they all knew Raph liked that song for some reason.
“I really felt safe when I first heard this…” Raph mumbled softly between bites of food.
“When was that?” Leo asked.
Raph looked up at him confused. “You don’t remember? It’s… it’s what April was playing in the car when we met her.”
Leo shrugged, going back to eating. “I probably just couldn’t hear shit over the snoring Donnie did.”
Donnie scoffed and chucked a loose twig at him.
Raph was staring at the speakers with a far away look in his eye.
“I guess it just used to sound like freedom to me, like the first time I ever felt safe…”
Leo gave him a little smile, but he wasn't really looking back. He was glad Donnie put it on regardless, maybe this was one of those things Donnie just paid more attention to than him.
“So… do you guys go out without me a lot?” Raph asked after a while.
Leo frowned and gulped down his food. It had been a while, but it had been a habit from when he didn’t get along with Raph.
“I… I mean we have… but mainly when you were sleeping in all day.” Or on a day he and Mom would both piss them off. But he figured he shouldn’t mention Mom right now.
Raph nodded and tugged on the pant legs of his sweatpants. “As long as you were being safe…”
Leo frowned. He was still trying to think parentally. He’d thought he’d been mad about being excluded, but he was still just worrying the same way Mom would.
Not very stupid teenager like. But maybe he had a solution for that.
Leo threw a wrapper at him.
He looked up and pouted.
Leo smirked back. “Do you wanna know what I have in this hoodie pocket?”
Raph squinted at him. “Do I?”
Mikey looked between them curiously.
Donnie seemed to know where this was going and shook his head.
Leo stuck his hand in his pocket and pulled out his vape.
Raph stared at it confused and looked up at his face. “What is that?”
Leo shook his head playfully and tutted. “Raphael, this is a weed pen. And I want you to take a hit.”
Raph’s eyes widened and he recoiled. “I-I can’t do that! Why do you even have that!”
Leo smiled knowingly.
Raph looked at Mikey and Donnie who seemed unsurprised by this. He was clearly starting to gather what Leo would do when he was out without him.
“I really thought Casey was cool enough that you’d have gotten high before.”
Something twitched in Raph’s expression and he looked away, staring into space with a more forlorn looking face.
Shit. What was that?
Leo coaxed him to take the pen. “Raph c’mon, let’s have fun today. You need help relaxing.”
“Leo stop…” He was looking down at the blanket, gripping it idly in a hand to avoid looking up at him.
“Come on man, I won’t even hit it to make sure you’re safe. I got you.”
“I-I can’t do that Leo…” he mumbled.
“What are you scared of?” Leo asked him, leaning over trying like hell to make him more playful.
Raph looked up at him with teary eyes.
Oh fuck.
“He’s with fucking child, you idiot.” Donnie stated beside him. His eyes snapped to Donnie to glare at him before turning back to Raph worriedly.
Raph just stared the pen. There was a new intensity to his gaze, no longer scared of the device. Maybe it was out of spite.
He reached out to take it from him. “No. To hell with that.” He examined the pen.
Leo grinned and got closer to help him, showing him which end to inhale from.
“Okay, just breathe it into your lungs slowly, then out. Don’t need to hold it in.”
Raph took a long drag, Leo could see his eyes watering as it went down, trying like hell not to cough.
He then coughed it back out in Leo’s face with a wheeze.
“Fuck.” He croaked.
Leo laughed and put it away. “You good?”
Raph coughed into his fist and took some deep breaths, then relaxed his shoulders. “Ugh… yeah, thank you…”
Out of the corner of his eye he could see Donnie glaring at him. He elected to ignore it.
Raph looked up at the sky again and flopped onto his shell, stretching his arms out.
Leo leaned over him. “Feelin’ good, big man?”
Raph shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe I’m always spacey, how will I know if it worked?”
“Just give it a bit.” He sat beside Raph and leaned back on his hands.
Donnie was still glaring at him.
Leo smirked. “You want a hit too, Don?” He waved the pen around tauntingly.
Donnie just grumbled and went back to looking at his phone.
“You can’t give that to them, they’re only little!” Raph chastised.
Leo snorted and looked down at him, he was pouting. “Buddy, this is hardly the worst thing they could get in their system lately.”
“Doesn’t it hurt kids' brain development?”
“Raph, I got news for you about you being a kid too.”
Raph whined and pressed both hands to his head. “Yeah but my brain’s already broken. Don’t give that to them! Have you given that to them before?”
Mikey flopped onto Raph’s stomach and pat his plastron. “It’s okay Raphie, Leo never lets us. He’s just kidding.”
Raph peaked up at him and pouted, wrapping his arms around him. “He better be.”
Raph looked up at Donnie who was still ignoring Leo and frowned.
“Donnie.” He said sternly and reached out to poke his leg.
Donnie was startled and eyed Raph, his expression softening. “Huh?”
“You promise Leo’s just kidding?”
“About what?”
“The drugs. I don’t want baby brains getting fucked up.”
Donnie frowned and stared at him. “I… it’s not good for babies if the mother does drugs, no…”
Leo snapped his head to look at him and stared at him hard, shaking his head. The fucking idiot.
Donnie noticed and tensed, looking away.
Raph just lay flat and stared at the sky again. “You weren’t listening.” He said softly. He didn’t sound as upset as Leo was expecting.
Maybe the weed was helping.
“You guys are thinking about the eggs more than you’re saying, aren’t you?” He breathed out slowly.
Leo looked at Donnie, he shook his head to tell him not to press, but Donnie furrowed his brows and gave Leo a serious look back.
“Raph, do you want me to be honest? Or do you want Leo to keep ignoring the issue?” Donnie asked plainly without dropping eye contact with Leo.
Oh he was gonna kill him.
“Just be honest, I’m sick of the fucking lies in this family…” Raph mumbled. It made Leo look over and he saw Mikey laying against him sideways in the crook of his arm. He was idly petting his back.
The weed was probably working now, but this wasn’t what he wanted it for.
“I’m worried about the egg situation, Raph.” Donnie said plainly.
Mikey grumbled against him and shot Donnie a dirty look. “I don’t care about it at all.” He said. “Who the hell cares about stupid eggs? Raph’s what’s important.”
Donnie glared back. “I care because we don’t have any idea when they’ll pop out, Stockman drugged you and said you could lay once a month! That sounds way too fast considering you only lay every 6 normally! And if these ones are… aren’t duds ?!”
Raph huffed loudly. “Leo. What do you think?”
Leo frowned. He was avoiding thinking about it. It was the worst thing about this situation and had the lowest priority in his mind. The compartmentalizing he needed to do to focus on getting Raph, his brothers, and himself out and home and calm had left no room for the fact that Raph had been impregnated. By them. He needed to ignore it to get them home. And then his mother had blown everything else up.
“I… I think I don’t want to worry about it right now.” He said after a minute.
Donnie scoffed. “We don’t get what we want here, Leo! What we want was thrown out the window the second we got locked in those cages!”
Leo glared at him. “Why do you care more about this than Raph!? It’s not your body, it’s his!” He was getting angry, why the fuck was Donnie trying to make today worse?
Donnie growled loudly and clutched his head. “You fucking idiots ! Have you never seen how he gets about the DUDS?! No of course not! It’s only me paying attention! He GRIEVES them! And they’re not even REAL! Neither of you want to admit that if he lays them before we talk about what to do about it he’s going to be COMPLETELY unable to consent on what to do about them!”
Leo just stared at him. He was panting from his outburst. Out of the corner of his eye he could see Mikey staring at Donnie sombrely.
What he could see of Raph was just staring at the sky. He had no response to it, but his eyes weren’t glazed over. He wasn’t sure if he was actually calm or just not listening.
And then he laughed. So they all looked at him.
“Raph..?” Mikey tapped him gently.
He kept laughing.
Leo scooted closer and stared at him worriedly. His eyes were closed and he had a big dopey smile on his face.
“You guys know how funny this is? Dad told me for years this would happen and I never worried about this part, I never had to! They were HIS kids, you know? He wanted ‘em. He made ‘em for himself. And now he’s dead and now suddenly it’s up to me? For the first time in my life, it’s my body, not his…” He sighed. “And that’s just so funny.”
Leo gently reached out to rub his shoulder. “Raph, it’s always been your body…”
Raph opened his eyes to laugh at him loudly. “No it hasn’t, Leo! Look at me!” He patted his stomach. “This was never mine to do what I wanted with! And suddenly it’s my responsibility! That’s so funny!”
Donnie glared at Leo again. “We can’t even have a conversation about what he can consent to cuz YOU wanted to get him high.”
“Donnie, will you stop?” Mikey asked. “It’s not helping to be mad at Leo.”
Donnie’s eye narrowed and he pulled his legs up to hug his knees. “I don’t know who it helps to be mad at, I’m just mad…” he mumbled.
Leo’s eyes softened and he rubbed his temples. “Donnie, you’re not wrong, okay? I get where you’re coming from. But today has been.. ugh, more emotionally draining than yesterday somehow. I just wanted Raph to have a fucking…” he growled. “I’m trying to take care of Raph right now. No one’s been doing it, and you wanna drag him back into the bad shit! Give him a day off, man!”
Donnie looked at him miserably. “I… I don’t know how many days we have before he pops Leo… you don’t get it, they said he could lay EVERY month, not IN a month…”
“Pffft, Donnie I’m not popping today, calm down. I’ll tell ya if I start feeling queasy or anything, I promise…”
Raph was definitely high now.
“Raphie, you threw up this morning.” Mikey said gently, raising a brow at him.
“Yeah but that’s different. Don’t worry about it, Raphie’s not having babies today okay?”
Leo sighed and tapped his fingers against his knee a few times. “It doesn’t matter what we discuss, Raph isn’t raising any more fucking kids he didn’t ask for. That’s final.” He said darkly.
He sensed Donnie and Mikey look at him but he just stared at Raph, who was calmly smiling at the sky.
“Leo… if Raph reacts the way he does, how do you think OUR turtle brains are going to react to those eggs being ours…?” Donnie asked it so softly. The question at the back of Leo’s mind he was ignoring most.
The fact that somewhere in the back of his mind his horrible animal genes felt proud of what they’d done to his brother made him sick.
“Then we’ll ask April or Casey or something. I don’t fucking care Donnie. Just drop it.”
“See! That’s something you’d need to PLAN for!” Donnie sounded annoyed again. “Plan ahead! Which means talking! The thing you refuse to do!”
“Donnie!” Leo barked at him.
Donnie growled again, but this time it sounded more animalistic. He chanced a look at Donnie and something was strange about his expression.
And then he pounced on him and pinned him to the ground.
Leo was too stunned to react as he had his arms pinned to the blanket and was currently snarling in his face.
“If you can’t take care of Raph, I will!”
Leo blinked and growled back, rolling him over so he was on top. The action probably hurt so he tried not to put too much weight on him. “Donnie, that's ENOUGH! What the fuck is wrong with you!?”
He was struggling under him, grumbling and glaring.
“Leo!” Mikey shouted from behind him, he couldn’t look up, he was too busy trying to hold Donnie down.
“You won’t do what’s best for Raph, you're NOT fit to be in charge of this!” Donnie was growling as he tried to fight back.
“Guys stop fighting!” Mikey yelled again.
“No one’s fucking in charge Donnie! It’s Raph’s fucking choice not yours!"
"You’re the one keeping him drugged and not letting him talk about it!”
Leo felt Mikey shove into him suddenly from the side, knocking him off Donnie onto his back beside him. He looked up to glare at Mikey but Mikey just stood tall over them both, glaring furiously.
“You ASSHOLES! Look at Raph right now!”
He pointed at their brother, who had moved backwards from them and had tugged the hood up and tightened it so he couldn’t see. His knees were curled inside the hoodie and his arms weren’t in the sleeves. He was like a real turtle hiding in his shell.
Leo’s eyes softened and he sat up. “Raphie..?”
Mikey kicked him. “You’re both so fucking stupid!” He then kicked Donnie for good measure. “You keep talking about his stupid pheromones or your own stupid genes! You’re BOTH giving off fucking territorial turtle right now! So STOP IT!”
Leo shared a look with Donnie who looked equally as horrified.
Surely it had only been normal anger. But Leo suddenly couldn’t deny the smell in the air. The smell of a scared female.
The smell of a scared MATE…
And with that thought popping into his head he wanted to throw up again.
A more horrifying thought occurred, which was what had set that off. And whether they were giving off their own smell to Raph.
He shook off the feeling so he could inch closer to Raph.
“Hey, big brother…” He soothed as he sat beside him. “Everything’s okay, are you okay..?” He really didn’t smell okay, and Leo had no idea what it meant that he knew that. He hadn't smelled him earlier.
Raph peaked his eyes out of the tightened hood to stare at him nervously.
“Y-you’re fighting over me…” he wasn’t asking.
Leo frowned and looked back at Donnie who was just sitting there looking queasy. “We’re not fighting, right Donnie?”
Donnie looked at him with sad eyes and shook his head. “We’re not fighting…” he said quietly.
Leo looked back at Raph and smiled softly. “See? It’s okay. We’re all okay.”
Mikey went to sit on Raph’s other side and hug his arm, he chirped softly in his ear which made Raph whine and hug him tightly.
God. Would that happen to them if this continued? Would they react just as strangely to each other’s noises?
Leo was suddenly hoping the eggs would be laid today after all, just so he could break them all himself for doing this to them.
Raph let go of Mikey to grab Leo’s shoulders. His pupils were pretty dilated and he wasn’t sure if that was from the weed or the turtle.
“Don’t fight over me. That’s way scarier than anything else, okay? That’s scary like dad watching us scary.”
Leo frowned and put his hands on Raph’s, rubbing them softly. “I’m sorry we scared you… I promise we’re not fighting over you, you’re just our brother and we’re both trying to help…”
Raph shook his head and looked down. “N-no… no you can’t lie, I said don’t lie…”
Leo gripped his face to make him look up. “Hey. I’m not lying.”
Raph’s eyes watered and he shook his head again. “I-I can smell it…” he whispered.
Leo took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He then looked over at Donnie and held his hand out to him.
Donnie stared at it before shakily taking it and inching himself to sit beside Leo across from him. He put a hand on Raph’s arm. “We’re not fighting over you Raph, we’re okay. I’m sorry.”
Raph stared between them nervously. “I-it… there’s a horrible turtle brain in my head on top of the ghosts now…”
Leo winced and cupped Raph’s cheek. “Talk to us, tell us what’s going on in that head of yours.”
Raph looked at him nervously. “The… the turtle brain in me is scared I have to.. to choose between mates right now… a-and the voices are having a field day… b-but I’m too loopy to hear it clearly…”
Leo sighed and dropped his head. “God I’m sorry… I just wanted you to chill out for a day.”
Donnie frowned and wrapped his arms around Raph, hugging him tight. “I’m sorry, I’m overthinking this and I’m taking it out on you. Please don’t feel scared, we’re not males fighting over you I promise, we’re just both worried about you in our own ways…”
Leo could see Raph’s eyes water over Donnie’s shoulder as he hugged him back.
“You’re always tryina look out for me Don, I know…”
“Is… does it still.. smell like we’re fighting..?” Leo asked carefully.
Raph looked at him nervously. “No.. but… god Leo, I… I really hated how that felt...”
Leo nodded slowly. He hated how he felt. Raph still seemed scared, maybe Donnie was more right than he’d realized.
One turtle playing animal instinct parent was enough, if all four of them started acting out if those eggs were laid…
“So.. we should talk about it then, shouldn’t we…” he finally said. “Cuz I… I don’t want this to get worse.”
Donnie pulled away from hugging Raph and the four of them sat in a circle, legs crossed, sitting knee to knee.
Mikey looked up at Raph. “You should say what you think, it’s your body…”
Raph looked between them and then held his stomach. “I… I really haven’t thought about it, I really always thought… I’ve been mentally prepared for this, but not having to…” He closed his eyes. “I don’t want your kids, guys… I-I really don’t know what I’m gonna be like when they pop out, but I don’t want them right now…” He opened his eyes to look at them teary eyed. “I…I don’t know what to do… it… it’s gonna hurt so bad if we have to crush them, and it feels.. ugh in some horrible part of my brain it feels wrong to do that…”
Donnie put his hand on his knee. “You don’t have to feel ashamed for feeling bad about it, okay? Of course it feels bad. Your body’s been readying that for you for years, making you experience what are essentially human miscarriage after miscarriage… your dumb dumb turtle brain really wants this, but it’s not you Raph…”
Mikey sighed and leaned against Raph. “I don’t care what happens to them, I just want you to be okay…”
Raph sniffed and looked down at him. “You.. you really have no opinion on this, Mikey..? Some… some of them will be yours, y-you get that right…?”
Mikey shook his head and closed his eyes. “They’re not mine Raph. They’re Dad’s. I think that’s the easiest way to put it, I don’t want Dad’s kids. Enough shitty adults have fucked us up for a lifetime, I’d rather…” he hesitated. Leo saw something in his eye, like he was putting on a brave face as he looked back up at Raph seriously. “I’d rather they not have to deal with life at all. It’s.. easier that way.”
Raph hugged his stomach tighter and nodded.
And then he looked at Leo.
And Leo had to say something.
He scratched his chin and looked down. “Raph, I… there’s this horrible thing inside me that-- I feel really shitty about this okay, I know it’s not me... This thing is proud of what I did, it’s excited to see these eggs hatch… and I feel like fucking shit about it. I’ve been trying to push that away all day.”
Raph laughed a little and wiped his teary eyes. “Y-yeah I figured… but you’re not alone, my shitty turtle brain is too happy about this…”
“I know what needs to be done, and I was ready to be the one to do it until now… now I’m scared I’ll get cold feet. Or worse… so Donnie’s right, we should have someone who’s aware and able to… take care of it for us.”
Raph sighed and looked down at his stomach. “So we’re gonna get help from someone to crush them… everyone agrees..?” He looked up at them to see their answers, he looked somewhat pained.
They all nodded.
He sighed and leaned back on his hands. “I really wish I could just get an abortion… I wish I wasn’t… ugh…”
Mikey leaned against him and hugged him around his middle. “I know… You’re gonna be okay, Raph…”
“So…” Donnie was holding out his phone. “Do you want to ask Casey…?”
Raph barked out a panicked laugh and shook his head fast. “No! I never want her to see a NORMAL egg! No way!”
Leo tilted his head and rubbed the back of his neck. “That leaves April or Mom..”
They all looked at each other.
“So April.”
“Yeah, April.”
Raph frowned and stared at the ground between them. “It would have been mom before…” he mumbled. “Whenever I got the nerve up to tell her…”
“Raph, I think you’re a little done trusting mom with stuff. We need a real adult.” Leo said.
Donnie tapped his phone on his knee. “So… this still would leave us needing to figure out when Raph is likely to be due…” he looked up at him.
Leo sighed. "Alright, brainiac, when do you think that is?"
“As far as I’ve researched it takes turtles 3-6 weeks for eggs to go from fertilized to laid… so for you with your twice the speed of a turtle, I would guess a week or three..? But this doesn’t account for whatever Stockman drugged you with that was going to turn your speed up to 6 times as fast…”
Raph was clearly trying to count in his head, but it wasn’t working. Too high.
Leo's mind was clear though, and he could count. His eyes went wide.
“6 weeks but 12 times as fast is… like 3 days Donnie…”
Donnie looked at him with a frustrated pout and did a big shrug, as if to say “duh”, without fighting him.
“Do you see the issue of the timing? I’d say that’s our lowest estimate. Anywhere from now until a month from now.”
They all looked at Raph. He looked down and felt his stomach.
“It’s… it’s not today, I’ll tell you if I think I feel anything…”
They all eyed him worriedly anyway.
“So… are we saying the plan is to wait until he lays them and call April, or does someone need to have the awkward conversation..?" Mikey asked.
Leo sighed and raised his hand. “I’ll do it, I’ll call her now just gimme the phone.”
Donnie handed it to him with a breath of relief. He obviously didn't want to.
Leo took it and stood, going to lean against the other side of the tree to get some privacy.
He found April’s number and called it.
It only had to ring once before she answered.
“You guys okay?” She asked immediately.
Leo laughed a little at how fast she was at asking that.
“Yeah April, it’s not… an emergency exactly, I mean maybe it’s not. But… look something happened with Mom, can you talk right now?”
“You know I’ve always got time for you, bud.” He could hear her smile through the phone.
He took a deep breath. “Look, you know that whole… Raph’s pregnant thing? Well, he wanted mom to help him deal with it, but Mom kinda…”
How should he even say this? He rubbed his finger and thumb over his closed eyes.
“She kinda admitted the worst thing in the world to Raph and he doesn’t trust her anymore… which I’d be way more happy about if we didn’t.. need an adult for something…?”
He heard her take a deep breath. “Yeah man, I get that… I just think I’m not gonna be much mutant birthing coach help.”
He blinked. “Oh. No no no, it’s not that, it’s.. ugh, the way this is gonna have to work is he’s gonna lay those eggs and we’re gonna have to crack them. Only problem is something’s still… wrong with us, and I have a feeling our shitty turtle brains aren’t gonna let us do it…”
He heard shuffling and a pause.
“Leo, have you considered talking to Big Mama about this?”
He frowned and leaned his head back against the tree. “Should I? She’s just here to help our brains, right?”
“She’s got a lot she can do. She really does come from a whole other world and she might be able to get you a different option. Cuz Jesus, Leo, you kids are talking about doing more stuff that could keep messing with you mentally. And if you need me I’ll be there, but maybe see if there’s a better option first, okay..?”
Leo gently tapped his head against the tree. “Yeah… yeah okay. Can you send her number over?”
“You got it.” He felt the phone buzz from a text. “Hey Leo..? Do you wanna tell me what happened with your mom..?”
Leo sighed and sunk down to sit on the ground. “It’s… you know I was yelling at you about Mom maybe knowing what happened to Raph..?”
She sucked in a breath.
“So yeah, definitely knew but for the worst reason… Raph’s kinda… he’s not taking it well, I’m tryina get him out of the house…”
“God Leo, I’m sorry…”
He felt wetness on his cheek and wiped it. “It’s fine… we just, you know, need a new solution…” he rubbed his eyes. “But I’ll call her, thank you…”
“Let me know if anything happens okay? Keep me in the loop and I’ll be there in a second if you need anything.”
“Thanks April, I’ll text you later.”
They said their goodbyes and went to look at the message on the phone for the Doctor's number.
He peeked his head around the tree to look back at his brothers, who were gently messing around on the picnic blanket. Raph still looked high so they were poking him to see if he felt it, at least they weren't all spiralling. At least he'd done something right.
He tucked back behind the tree and called the number.
“Big Mama’s office, how can I help you?”
Oh. That’s a little weird of an official name.
“Um, hi I’m calling to try and talk to uh… my therapist? Big Mama..?”
“What’s your name? Do you have an appointment?”
“Uh Leo, I don’t have an appointment. It's… kind of an emergency? Or like.. I really need advice?”
“Hold please.”
He heard strange music he’d never heard coming from the phone for a while.
He wasn’t even sure what he was doing, it was making him anxious. He really wanted a hit of his weed but he knew to stay clear headed for his brothers right now.
The music stopped.
“So she’s actually willing to give you an opening she has right now if you have an emergency, would you like to come down to the office?”
Leo blinked and laughed a little. “Uh… I don’t think we can, we’re not uh… public facing people…”
“Oh no no, not the human office. The hidden one.”
Leo stared blankly and furrowed his eyebrows. “The… hidden one… where would I find that?”
There was a buzz on the phone again.
“Here I’ve sent you directions to the nearest door. You’ll go to this alley, press on the door on the wall, and in you come. Very simple portal spell, don't worry.”
Portal spell..?
“Uh… okay, that sounds good, thank you…”
“Sure! If you show up in 10 minutes you’ll have an hour with her max. So don’t keep her waiting!”
The line hung up and he stared at the phone in utter confusion. He then looked over the directions.
Sure did seem to be a random alley.
He came out from behind the tree and looked at his brothers.
“So… April told me Big Mama could help us? Impromptu therapy session..? She’s… inviting us to her office right now.”
They all stared at him confused.
“Leo, we can't go to an office!” Raph yelled.
He gave the phone back to Donnie. “Apparently this one we can. It’s… not for humans?”
Mikey jumped up and started gathering their trash. “Secret mutant office for mutants! Hell yeah!”
Donnie stood and rolled up the blanket. “I don’t know if she was a mutant, Mikey.”
“Whatever it is, it's a place we get to go!”
Raph stared up at Leo worriedly but he gave him a reassuring smile and held his hand out.
“I think you need to talk to her anyway…”
Raph sighed and took his hand.