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It can wait five minutes! [He scolds back, trying to stand up now. His legs work just fine, but his fear of the resin breaking is a real fear.]

[That broom is being spun like a bo staff and thwacking Leo's legs to get him to sit down.

It may have been a long time since Donnie has had a staff in had for combat reasons, but he's not forgotten how to use such things.]

You sit, or I'll break your legs so you can't get up.

[Seems like today is just the day for Donnie to threaten violence.]

[The turtle is not prepared for the smack, he loses his balance and just lands hard on that chair. Thankfully, no glass stuck in his pants actually go into his leg.]

Fucks sake, Donnie-

I could do so much worse, Leo.

[He's tired, and not feeling great. Having Leo show up and make a mess of everything? Not helping, as he gets to cleaning up the glass, just ignoring the glass stuck in his own clothing and himself for now.]

[Leo manages to restrain a very bitchy comment, just sinking back in the seat with a grump.] If you faint, I'm not picking you up!

[He's lying, he absolutely would.]

[Saying NOTHING, just cleaning up the glass. Which means getting it into a pile out of the way because he doesn't have like, a dust pant to scoop it up and once that is done? Just sitting on the floor, as the fever is hitting him and maybe a little blood loss too.

Not just from the cuts, but because he's been taking so many samples from himself to test beforehand.]

[Leonardo lets the silence hang between them for a long moment, just watching his brother clean. He release a breath at Donnie sitting down on the floor.]

Look, I'm... sorry. I made this mess of your lab. I really shouldn't have. I was just pissed, still am kind of pissed.

This situation sucks.

[He doesn't say anything after Leo says his piece, because he has to think on what to say.]

... I wasn't going to shoot Casey.

[The confirmation is a relief. Leo hates that he even had to believe it was possible, that it could be possible for this long.]

You scared him badly enough he didn't even want to tell me, Don. I had to force it out of him. [He says this plainly, very bluntly. He wants Donnie to understand.] He thought you were going to do it. He kept trying to come around to excuse you, but, this is hard to really excuse.

It was just to scare him, the damned thing didn't even have a firing mechanism!

[Ah, there's the frustration about this whole thing showing.]

[As expected.]

If anyone else tried that, even just to scare him, you would flip out like I did.

I know he pushed you. [Casey said as much.] But, he's a bullheaded teenage boy. He wants to keep us safe and happy. Remember the stuff we did to protect our family at his age?

I would hope that he wouldn't push that far with someone else, let alone me!

[Like he expects Casey to actually use his damned head and think, not whatever that whole thing was.]

And we never did anything as stupid, and you know it.

If it's something he believes he can somehow fix or help with, of course he'll push.

Don't make me rattle off half the shit we did at 14-16. Cause I can.

Well he can't fix this.

[And there is an eye roll.]

None of what we faced involved guns, Leo.

Donnie, you forget teenagers are determined as fuck. He will keep trying because he loves you. It's also the family way to keep going even when the odds are against us. We be We. [An old motto that still lives with Leonardo even now.]

We literally ran into battles half cocked with no idea what we were doing. We willingly ate poison when Raph told us not to.... [He arches a tired eye ridge back at Donnie.] You can keep insisting we were somehow smarter, but we weren't. We never were.

I don't know what we'll do collectively. I'm just asking you, genuinely, talk to Casey, apologize. Make it right with him.

I don't want you two to stop being family, or a rift to form because of this.

Okay let me put it like this, I expect better from Junior.

[As to the rest of Leo's words, he just huffs. In his opinion he has nothing to apologize for! But not saying that, when he knows Leo might try to wail on him if he says that out loud.]

If any of that happens it's not because of me.

And I expect better from you.

[He states firmly and simply back. He doesn't intend to sound so... Raph level of disappointed, but it comes through regardless.]

So, if Casey takes your threat seriously and recoils from you, you're not going to take any blame for that?

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I have no control over how he reacts to things, and you know that, Leo.

[If he had that kind of control they wouldn't be in this situation! Also maybe the disappointment gets to him, but it's very brief.

Also, that sounds a lot like asking for empathy from him Leo.]

I am very aware, but, I expect you to be aware of how much he looks up to you and cares about your dumb ass. [He'll start throwing shit again, don't test him.]

Remember you're actually the adult, since you bring it up plenty about the teen versions of us come up at all.

Well he shouldn't. [If Leo starts throwing shit again, Donnie will use his ninpo to toss his brother out on his ass.]

That's different and you know it.

You can't control how he feels about you, nor can he control what your reactions are Donnie. I'm telling you, bluntly, plainly, no frills or delicateness. He's your only nephew, and you've made him afraid of you.

Tell me how it's different.

[He just lets out a little disgruntled noise at that first bit.]

It's different because of everything that happened to us that hasn't happened to them.

It doesn't mean they wouldn't make the same choices we did if put in those situations. They're us, Donnie. Just slightly to the left.

Somehow I doubt they would, but whatever helps you feel better about being around them, Leo.

Donnie, I'm not exactly showing up and hanging out with the damn kids. [He says with a frustrated sign.] They're us. They're us with better prospects and time.

If the situations were reversed, I'd help an older version of you, or at least try.

あなたは一人じゃない [His Japanese is less clumsy these days. Far more practiced, even if he hasn't spoken it since Usagi's death.] Remember?

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