fearless_leader | 1st Kata [text]

[Don is leafing listlessly through the journals, hardly even paying attention to what he sees and hears. But two sentences bring him up short. He's too astonished to reach for the pen at his elbow.]

Leo?!

[Do you have any idea, how relieved he is to hear your voice? It's certainly reflected in his voice. At least she was telling some truth.]

Yeah Don, it's me.

Raph! Raph, come here!

Leo, where are you? [Something else about those two sentences registers.] Why didn't you ask for Mike?

Is Mikey there as well? [No, but then why wasn't Don yelling for him too?<]

I'm in the woods, around this..village. Where are you?

Because the person I ran into mentioned only you, and Raph. [But he had to find out for himself. A part of him had hoped Mikey was here as well, but it didn't seem like the case.]

No, he hasn't come back... [Excuse his muffled voice as he pulls his sweater on.] I'm coming to find you. Can you give me a better hint?

[Here's a wrinkle for you]

Come back? You mean he's been here before? [What on earth was going on?] How..long was he here? [There's a pause] How long have you two been here?

[Hang on, checking location]

A log cabin, looks like a rec center. [Yes he's peering through windows] Don, be careful, it's cold out, and I don't know how many are trustworthy in this place.

((OOC: Hope that location works, I picked a random one off the maps. xD If not, I can change it or something.))

Edited 2011-01-13 06:29 (UTC)

[He freezes* with his sweater half-on, then slowly pulls his head through so you can hear him.]

Leo... do you remember being here? A place called Luceti?

((*Sorry for terrible pun.))

[Don's busy struggling with his sweater when Raph peers into the room. He was basking, thank you very much. This better be good. He's still a little drowsy.]

What? What happened?

[...Wait a minute.]

Did you say "Leo"?

[Leo stops. He's been here before as well?]

No, I woke up in the forest around this place, a couple of days ago. I was told the name of this place.

[There's a pause as he hears Raph in the background.]

He's back. Where's your -

[He pauses, listening to what Leo says. He casts a worried glance at Raph, watching his reaction. The question he wants to ask will wait.]

Days? Leo, you're unbelievable. We'll be right there.

You've gotta be kiddin' me.

[Then he's out the door again, running to grab his snowsuit and boots as fast as he can, then meet Don at the door.]

I had shelter for most of it.

[No fireplace, but shelter was better then nothing at all. The brief time in the welcome center helped as well.

He'll be there around the rec center, hiding within the trees, and keeping an eye out, either for his brothers, or trouble, which ever came first. He has a blanket with him that he got from somewhere.

[Don and Raph show up in about a minute and a half, seeing as how Leo has been hiding out two hundred yards from their house. If he's high enough up, he may have even seen them come out the front door.]

Leo?

[Leo, you moron. He's glad to see you, but jeez. They need to get you someplace warm.]

You all right? It's freezin' butt cold out here!

[Not like Leo knew they were that close! Good to see you too Raph.

He'll move toward them once he spots them, keeping that blanket about his shoulders. He looks relieved, even if a bit guarded.]

Thanks for pointing that out Raph. I'm fine, cold but fine.

[Don can't think of anything to do but hug his brother. And pull the blanket tighter around Leo's shoulders while he's at it.]

[Raph smiles at that, walking up to put a hand on both of their shells.]

C'mon, guys. House ain't too far away.

[Leo erks a little at the hug, blinking, before he smiles and hugs him back. He then looks up at Raph. Wait, what?

He pulls back a bit from Don, moving a hand to keep the blanket wrapped around him.]

A house, above ground?

[Don glances around at the whitened landscape. Where had Leo been, during the near-full-week of snow Luceti had just experienced? Even through his layers of coats and sweaters, he feels the cold.]

Come back with us. We'll explain everything.

[Raph's floating in a state of silent shock as they turn to head back home. He walks a half-step behind Leo, and can't take his eyes off him.

Leo's back. Leo's back, standing right there in front of him, slipping into their lives just as quickly as he slipped out of it. And now, they have to rearrange themselves again, make room for a brother that once filled a hole; an old wound they'd been so intent on closing.

He knows he should be happy, but he isn't. Not to the extent he thought he would be.

There's so much scar tissue left to cut away.]

[After a moment he just nodded, and moved to follow Don.

He's been around, though any clothes he found didn't fit because of the shell. Guess who ever keeps the towers stocked, didn't think to stock clothes for a turtle. Which is why he stuck to blankets. He follows them, looking about and keeping alert as they go. There's a barely noticeable grimace, before he's shifting his grip on the blanket to the right hand.

He watched them, or at least Don as they walked. Things were adding up in his mind, and he wasn't liking the ideas he was getting. He'd fill that hole in again, he would do his best to do it, but they had to let him in.

As they neared the house, he took it in with a raised eye ridge.]

[Don hesitates when Leo does, automatically responding to his caution. Then he moves forward and opens the front door.]

Welcome home.

[The house looks like this. On one wall of the living room is a familiar painting. Leo may also notice that many objects in the house have a tiny scrap of paper taped to them, bearing the Romanized Hamato-Japanese name of the labelled object. And being an observant ninja, he's likely to see signs that not three but four people live in this house.]

[Don will follow Leo inside. When he sheds his coat, he doesn't bother to take off a lopsided sweater.]

[Raph strips off his own winter clothes and tosses them over the back of one of the couches for now. He'll put them away later. For now he's too busy staring at Leo, still hanging behind with his arms folded.]

[Leo steps in, and takes things in, raising an eye ridge at the labeled objects, he's on edge though.]

Who else lives here and how many?

[He lets out a sigh as he warms up, and pulls off the blanket, revealing those strange wings and...that ugly jagged scar on his shell. It's old news to Leo, he's learned to live with it, even if the cold aggravated it.]

[Damn, that scar again. It's at least a partial answer to the question Don still wants to ask.]

A man. Derek. [He glances at Raph. How to explain this to their paranoid brother?]

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