#dont worry guys donnie and raph won't stay dead forever. i could never

[moltenatlas]

Okay so I've got a leo au. i call it the somebody please fucking help him au (actual name pending)

its half finished but i think its cool

so the way the story goes is that when Leo's about 14 splinters mental health goes so thoroughly down the drain that he decides he is going to kill himself.

See, the thing with that is, he doesn't want to leave the kids alone. so instead of deciding not to, he decides to take the children tm with him. as you do.

So he decides to do it on donnie and leos birthday, right after the party. yknow, have a last hurrah?

The kids have a blast, and are actually really excited that splinter is celebrating with them. he's always been distant and sad, but look! he's happy! they don't question it in the hope it continues.

So its the night of, and everyone crashed really early, due to the sugar.

And splinter makes his move.

He goes and grabs Leo's swords, because they're the easiest weapons to kill someone with in the house. And he goes into raphs room first.

Leo's always been a light sleeper, so he wakes up to Raph's cut-off scream. He assumes he had a nightmare, and gets up to go check in on him.

Only to see his father, covered in blood, holding one of his swords, leave Raph's room and walk into Donnie's room. Suddenly filled with dread, he peeks into raphs room and sees blood everywhere.

He drops to his knees, and the sticky blood gets all over him. there's no way that he's alive, and he hears a sudden cry from donnie's room, and quickly realizes just what is happening. he doesn't know why, but splinter is killing his brothers. and Donnie's already gone.

Suddenly moving as fast as possible, he books it to mikeys room, and wakes him up with everything he has. Mikey's confused, obviously, and all Leo tells him is that they have to leave right now.

Mikey is like, "okay, shouldn't we grab donnie and raph????" and leos face just. twists in pain. He doesn't say anything.

Leo drags himself and his brother out of the sewers as fast as possible, figuring they'll be harder to find in the new york city streets. Mikey's got shorter legs and isn't quite as fast as he is, so he carries him.

Suddenly, as soon as he makes it up to the manhole cover, splinter's at the bottom of the ladder. He's holding his swords, is absolutely covered in blood, and has a glint in his eye that doesn't look quite right. "Leonardo. come here."

Leo obviously fucking books it. He's chased over buildings and down side streets by splinter until splinter has him cornered in an alleyway.

In a last ditch attempt to save mikey, he sets him down and tells him to run as soon as leo tells him to. Mikey finally demands to know whats happening, why is dad covered in blood, why does he have your swords, why are we running from him? And leo just goes: "he killed raph and donnie, Mike. He's going to try to kill us too, and if i have anything to say about it, he's not killing you."

Mikey notices, for the first time, how blood-covered leo is, something that was difficult to see in the dark. Leo takes advantage of his shock to shove mikey behind him and turn towards his father.

His father is clearly not.... completely sane. He's telling them about how it'll all be over soon, and everything is going to he okay, and he's so sorry.

Leo gets into position, preparing himself for what he thinks is his death. He finally yells, "RUN, NOW, AS FAR AND AS FAST AS YOU CAN," to mikey. He proceeds to tackle his father to the ground and try to wrestle the sword out of his hand.

Mikey runs, finally snapped out of his shock by leo tackling splinter, and books it out of the alleyway as fast as he can.

he doesn't leave, though. he can't bring himself to leave leo alone, so intead he climbs a fire escape in a neighboring alleyway, and climbs up to the roof to watch.

During the tussle, leo manages to wrench the bloodied sword out of splinters grasp, and in a desperate, adrenaline-fueled move, he runs his father through the chest with the sword.

His father makes a choked noise, and leo wrenches the sword out of his chest. splinter falls over, choking on his own blood. His father starts to beg him to just end his pain.

Don't let it be said that leo is not merciful.

Leo stabs him through the head, and his movement finally stops. his breath heaves and he suddenly feels sick.

"Leo?" Mikey calls from the roof, and Leo's head snaps up so fast that his neck twinges with pain. He tells mikey to stay up there as fast as he can, not wanting mikey to see.... that. Leo pulls the sword out, and quickly free climbs up to the roof.

As soon as he sees mikey, he pulls him into a tight hug. He doesn't cry.

He comes to the sudden realization that he is the eldest Hamato now, and needs to take care of mikey because HE'S the responsible one now.

shit.

He can't stay up in the city, because duh, and he can't go back to the sewers, because there are CORPSES in there, so he brings mikey to the hidden city entrance that splinter showed them, and spend the first night sleeping in the streets.

The laws in the hidden city are fairly lax when it comes to emancipation and citizenship, so leo manages to make both he and mikey citizens, emancipates himself, and gets sole custody of his brother to keep him out of foster care.

He works 2 jobs, sends mikey to school while he just speedruns a ged, works at least 70 hours a week to keep their lives afloat, and very carefully doesn't think about his emotions. Also he gets approximately 0 hours of sleep per year. Mikey is very worried.

He ends up having to be the one to go back to the sewers to get what they need, and he buries his brothers and scrubs the absolute SHIT out of the blood on the floor.

he doesn't take anything from Donnie or Raph's room.

He goes through his fathers room and steals everything of value he can find because fuck that guy amrita?

Afterwards, he brings mikey to donnie and raphs graves, and sets up a shrine in their apartment.

he THEN realizes that he has told April JACKSHIT and immediately shows up at her house and gets CRUSHED in a hug.

She cries when she's told what happened.

from then on, April brute forces leo into taking care of himself.

anyway there's more than that but this post is long as shit already and i haven't even gotten to the actual PLOT.

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