#i was also autistic (pause for the gasps of surprise because this is surprising) so i didn't know how like. body language worked
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my worst quality is that in 4th grade I was really extremely super into Warrior Cats, as in i was one of those kids roleplaying warrior cats on the playground during recess. and i thought it would be really funny to train myself to hiss at people as a startle reflect. unfortunately i did that to myself during some core developmental years and now it's locked into my brain as an actual startle reflex and now, over a decade later, i still hiss at people when being startled. this stays between you, me, my 4k followers, and the internet at large. nobody is allowed to tell my 4th grade best friend that i did this to myself or she'll make fun of me
#mads posts#i was also autistic (pause for the gasps of surprise because this is surprising) so i didn't know how like. body language worked#and i was again obsessed with warrior cats during my developmental years#on an unrelated note i can wiggle my ears#and on a completely unrelated nother note i emote with my ears as part of Big Emotions#which is. objectively insane because it is not part of the human repertoire of facial expressions so nobody knows what to do about it#anyways
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Jumping on the Spewart Ă Roy train(?)!
I personally view Spewart and Roy as a QPR, considering how brotherly Roy is to Spewart. However, I was... Inspired to write some fanfic (which is below the cut). My little autistic brain is bouncing around with glee. Hope yall like it!
[ Colouring style inspired by @nrcy-d0 . AU belongs to @thekoopalingsandstuffs . ]
Dear Dieter
He drew a breath of the bitter air as his eyes settled on the brick walls of the alleyway. This was the place where it all happened. It felt so long ago... The thought of it didn't seem nearly as disturbing compared to back then, though he wasn't sure why he felt the need to come here. Closure, he assumed. His mind could rid of that rotter known as... Ha! For a moment, he forgot his name. Dieter. He only remembered because of that Other version... Not that it was a bad thing, but he didn't neccesarily want nor care to remember any Dieter at all.
Two months ago was chaos broke loose. This very alley was where it happened. And he was whom was affected. And Ludwig, of course, but Ludwig didn't exactly have the issue of concealing his feelings from everyone he cared about. Did he? Was he overthinking again? Maybe.
He only told one other person about everything. Well, not everything. He conviniently kept out the part about watching Dieter die... Not even Twila knew, to currently date. He only told Rango, though that also came as a surprise to him once he thought about it. It felt so strange that... Rango, of all people, was the one he told. However, that comment he made back when they first adopted Bun and Boomerang... It echoed in his mind. "He must've done something real messed up to have you acting like that." It was small, and of course Rango being Rango, was oblivious to the hint in his response. But at least he cared enough to notice he wasn't okay... Meanwhile Hariet kept persisting of Dieter's return and Topper celebrated his loss of virginity...
He wiped his nose, unable to tell if it was running because of the harsh cold or if he was due to cry again. He was supposed to be going for a walk, or so that's what he told Hariet in order to avoid the noise that came with their recent company... The Koopalings were at their home, and they were all supposed to be making Christmas cookies, to celebrate the upcoming holiday. Alas, he got overstimulated... And now he was here, face to face with the demon of his mind. This alley. He could feel Dieter's presence, oddly enough...
"Spewa-a-arrrrrt!"
He turned with a gasp, his heart jumped... Roy's figure was made more clear as he slipped on the icy pavement to run over. He calmed his breath. "You scared me," he muttered with a small cloud of frozen breath.
"Ah, sorry... But you scared me too. You've been gone for like... An hour?" Roy stuck his hands in his coat and gave a shudder. "This ain't the weather to be running off in..." "I'm sorry... " He didn't mean to make anyone concerned. Honestly, he didn't think anyone cared... Roy shook his head and smiled. "Nah, just... I don't want you to get hurt out here! Or freeze, or... something! It's way, way too cold..."
Spewart nodded. "How did you know I was out here though?" He paused for a moment and lowered his head... Spewart thought he could see his eyes behind his sunglasses. "Ludwig..." he began. "Luds told me... About you, about Dieter, about...-" "So you know." "... Yes."
A long moment of silence passed before he sighed and lowered his head. "I'm sorry." "What for?" "For worrying you. Let's just go back to the house." Roy blinked before slowly nodding, and the two began walking in the direction of Spewart's home before he slowly stopped again. His head hurt. His presence was strong. "Roy?" "Hm?" "Give me a second, please." "Of course." He turned around, facing the alleyway before breathing in deeply.
Dear Dieter, he began. I moved on. You need to as well. I don't like you, I never did... But I'm sorry you're dead. Please, move on. It's okay to move on.
Roy patiently waited, and soon enough, Spewart rejoined him. "What was that about?" "Making peace," he softly muttered.
Roy nodded and the two resumed walking before Roy turned to him. "Heard a new cafĂŠ opened. Wanna grab something before we go back?" He thought a bit and smiled. "Yeah, just not anything with a lot of dairy. I don't wanna throw up suddenly..." "Oh? Why would-... Oh yeah, CVS." Spewart nodded, still smiling. Roy couldn't tell, but Spewart's chest felt much lighter. His head felt more clear. They both moved on.
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How would the writing of Rick and Morty fuck up the World of PokeAni
So, how about that winter special, eh? While I must admit, the two-parter format was magnificent, the second half needed a few extra elements like a few extra episodes, Team Rocket interacting with their doppelgangers, even an extra main villain and an added caveat to their generic plan. What other details would I have in mind? Given my autistic brain...
Yeah, Iâm doing a Rick and Morty Crossover episode and Iâm also thinking like the original creatives behind that show as if they had creative freedom allotted to them by the PokeAni staff who had to go along with their dark places. Mainly the restrictions that they were only allowed to kill off any three PokeAni characters they pleased in the finale, the rest would only be reduced to defenseless infants/PokeEggs at âworstâ. The moment at a random convention where Dan Harmon is grilled on whether heâs killing people after confirming its continuity to both shows and holds up three fingers to confirm those two things, it will cause quite the riot and stir discussion in the PokeAni community that three important characters will be dying in the crossover event. It would go on to be such a big deal that big name celebrities and even news shows in western countries would share their two cents on the looming calamity about to befall the world that has charmed generations since the late 90s.
The special opens as normal, but there is an added scene where in a random hospital in Unova, a Swoobat magically appears onto a hospital bed and takes a deep gasp only to find an armored figure with what appear to be antique eggs adorning its chest and arms blasts it with a sort of energy. We cut to Ash who is informed that Professor Oak and all the Pokemon Ash had stored in his pasture have mysteriously vanished. The episode proceeds to hit the same beats all the way down to Pokemon forgetting moves and devolving into eggs up until Mirror Team Rocket pimps in with the armored guy in tow to fight the Pokemon. It surprises them because Humans donât usually fight Pokemon, but they chalk it up to another Team Rocket contraption waiting to be wailed on by Ash and crew including Champion Cynthia who has whipped out her Garchomp for the occasion.
Of course, the effects of the biological rewind take effect and the armored man uses it against Garchomp, bodying the poor thing down to a Gibble he mercilessly choke-holds before turning it back into an egg. He commands the main-universe Team Rocket to escort the egg back to base with all the eggs in Rowanâs lab which are gathered by other troops adorning eggless variants of the Pokearmor that are able to utilize Pokemon moves on top of augmenting their blaster aim. A few of them can even fly including the main figure who kicks Cinderace and Pikachu to the ground with enough energy to knock âem down a peg on their evolutionary tree. Cinderace ends up a Raboot in a Yamcha death pose and Pikachu a Pichu because of such a kick. We continue up to where AU Team Rocket explain their scheme before a regressing Lucario (Riolu) and Intelleon (Drizzle) which is beat for beat what Royal Pain had in mind during the movie Sky High. The mainline Team Rocket appraises the plan but when Meowth is about to dish out his compliment
Meowth: With your help, weâll be utterly un-uhh-aahhh! Armor Guy: Whatâs wrong? Cat got your tongue? Meowth: aah! aah! Aaowth! Muraaowth! Armor Guy: Since youâve eaten your words, Iâll guess for you. Wobuffet: Wabah! <Look out!> Armor Guy: (Zaps main Team Rocket down to Infants and eggs with Wobuffet merely scraped down to a Wynut as the Armor guyâs helmet is undone to reveal Evil Morty) Unambitious Given this was a gimmick too important for certain realities like my own not to imitate. AU Team Rocket: (Shivering in their shoes as Wynut!Wobuffet flees the scene before it is promptly paused by:) Stan Lee Rick: See the Season Four finale of Rick and Morty, Dum-Dums! Excel-urp-cior! AU Team Rocket: Team Rocked would prefer to be (Zapped by Evil Morty) BLASTING OFF AGAAAAAaaaaiiiIN!!!!!
With both Rocket Teams disposed of, Evil Morty is the center villain who has reverted Dialga and Palkia into Eggs which now power his new armor alongside an equally regressed Groudon and Kyogre on his gauntlets. And sure enough, he wipes the floor with all of the gangâs remaining Pokemon, reverting them into eggs and turning the children younger before zapping them down to infancy before the idea of praying to Arceus could cross their minds. Cue a cutaway to Rick and Morty still adrift in a void between realities when a familiar face from the Movies shows up.
Yes, Sam from Pokemon 4Ever and a young trainer named Kana (I will reveal her Dub name at the end to preserve the surprise) emerges from a heavenly light in need of assistance with his world under threat. The two agree to his terms on the condition that whatever space-warping being return them to their universe. The episode that follows leads Rick to an army of super soldiers as we get a glimpse of Evil Morty staring intently at Pikachuâs egg with a Chameleon Arch on his head. Rick is told not to kill them by Sam, so he incapacitates them by increasingly brutal means before reassuring the blood-soaked Sam that, yes: âTheyâll live.â By the time they make it through the first half of the episode, Kana is met with a soldier that Rick cracks the helmet off of: An aged-up Ash Kachum, with Evil Mortyâs consciousness overwritten onto his own to become just another puppet for Evil Morty to control for a big announcement: He is no longer a Morty but a being hell-bent on eliminating every trace of Rick Sanchez across every possible reality. Thus, he christens himself Stillverse and sicks all the super-soldiers he created from gene-splicing the Trainers and Pokemon into a new breed of chimera dubbed âNuzlockeâ One team is literally the cast of the webcomic Myths of Unova. While the rest mix and match Pokemon to the point where pairs of certain characters are spliced with different Pokemon (Main Ash is spliced with Charizard and Lucario, whilst Mirror Ash is spliced with Pikachu and Bulbasaur)
They barely escape with their lives and make their climb to the peak of Stillverseâs armored fortress at the start of the fourth and final installment of the crossover... But seeing who Sam and Kana are forced to put up with, it wonât be without the loss of life, Sam pushes Kana out of the way of a blast from Stillverse himself which reduces him to a baby as he falls into a vat of acid. This results in the first death the Rick and Morty team are allotted to mandate upon the PokeAni, and the death of Professor Oak without even a goodbye shocks and horrifies fans who were watching this hypothetical episode as it would have aired. And weâve still in the first half of the episode. After Stillverse reveals that he had bodyjacked a Pikachu gijinkafied by gene-slamming, he proceeds to overwrite Rickâs existence in C-137 and all traces connected to such a being through merging the two Pokeworlds with C-137 and watches a beat-down from a brainwashed Ash, Wynut!Wobuffet gives a heartfelt speech about who Ash is and the bond between human and Pokemon before Stillverse reverts the poor normal-type to its egg and crushes it beneath his foot. Big Mistake, because seeing a Pokemon get thoughtlessly killed snaps Ash out of it and prompts him to attack Stillverse with bloodthirsty rage in a dramatic eight-minute fight sequence that looked like it was lifted from Dragonball Z. And it ends with Stillverseâs concsiousness being deleted with a magnetic punch to the face that ends up frying Ashâs arm off and killing poor Pikachu in the process. As the third and final victim of the Dan Harmon flying circus succumbs to his injuries in his trainerâs arms over a white background, the former rodent sees Ash as the Ash he knew and loved over this long and incredible journey. The episode ends with a sad insert song playing over this scene, the voice actress behind Ash giving it her all for this final performance as the Ash we had followed for over two decades and has now awakened to a horrifying sight, his never-say-never shonen protag attitude extinguished by Stillverse robbing him of his Pokemon, his partner, and his childhood. Kana goes forth to comfort Ash, her once proud son now thoroughly broken. (The dub calls her Della, short for Delia)
And the cherry on top, Harmon informs Wooden Plank Studios to shoehorn the plot of this tragedy into the ongoing âEveryone got murdered by Sephiroth so now Kazuya has to bring everyone backâ arc. If you want some deets on that, feel free to ask.
Events pop up all across every Pokemon Center, comic shops, record stores that have VHS tapes on sale, and even the former Pokemon Center in New York for the premiere of JN093, styled as a funeral for Oak, Wobuffet and of course, Pikachu. The âCelebrate Pikachuâ campaign, though controversial in nature especially when Comedic legend Betty White would pass over a week afterward, proves a successful premiere party for the opening salvo for the Pokemon Legendary Journeys arc.
The episode itself opens with Misty backed into a corner when her last Starmie is reverted into an egg, she pulls out a gun and fires at the mook staring her down, piercing her eye right as Evil Mortyâs mind control dissipates, exposing the child soldier to âred waterâ and revealing her to be the very Piplup whose kidnapping at the hands of AU Dawn set this entire tragedy in motion. This and unloading the lead of the pistol leaves Misty distraught and horrified. Meanwhile, Brock finds his lower body crushed from his Steelix turned Onyx getting reverted right as it is holding up debris, severely crippling him. When Steelix nearly immediately returns to normal, Alder informs Brock that Stillverse is no more, a relieved Brock passes with no regrets. (Or at least, he would have, had it not been for protesting PokeAni staffers upset about the dancing around the rules Dan and company have been doing with storyboards) The show then unveils moments of the liberated Nuzlocke soldiers undergoing physical therapy at the very hospital from all the way back in the Indigo League era before cutting to a despondent Ash looking at a prosthetic arm he got midway through the montage. The day has arrived for the funeral of Professor Oak, Wobuffet, and of course... Pikachu. Any and every Pokemon that had shared a meaningful interaction with these three throughout the run of the show leave flowers for them. Including Lt. Surge and his mournful Raichu who are revealed to have been among the spliced alongside half the Gym Leader and Elite 4 population that had manifested over the eight generations of Pokemon games.Â
Half the humans of both worlds have been spliced into Nuzlocke vessels for Stillverse and are considered damaged victims at best (aforementioned Gym Leader/E4 spliced) and sins against nature at worst (everybody else). And to make matters worse, Stillverseâs Universe colliding scheme and the Luigification between counterparts has caused the two worlds to merge together in a haphazard fashion where the gates are abundant and lead to any other world in the Super Smash Bros pantheon, thereâs even a gate into Sinnohâs distant past. The people go to Delia for help, due to Oak naming her as his rightful successor in his last will and testament. Goh wants to investigate with Ash and all of his spliced Pokemon offer to come along. Ashâs response. âI canât.â His matured young adult voice making it clear that he wants no one around anymore. The idea is proposed to find Xerneas and use its power to resurrect Pikachu, Ash agrees but only if he goes into that gate alone. And so, the next arc is set up and the Pokemon Legends Arceus adaptation begins.
So, yeah. All this for a missed opportunity to adapt the upcoming game through Dialga and Palkiaâs antics.
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This Is Forever
HI umm I was wondering if you could do a one shot where the reader has been a part of Alexandria for a while and she and Daryl have started to fall for eachother without the other one knowing and she goes to The sanctuary and offers herself in return for daryls safe return to Alexandria? And then negan calls Daryl into his room and makes a scene causd he's jealous about how the reader is in love with Daryl and Daryl finds out that way and somehow Daryl and the reader end up "getting cozy ;)" HI I just sent a request for a Daryl X reader one shot where the reader gives herself to negan in exchange for daryls safe return to Alexandria, sorry it's me again lol! I forgot to ask if you could also make it like negan brings the reader to Alexandria in horrible condition all tied up and Daryl sees it and it drives him crazy before they some how end up "getting cozy ;)" lol I'm so sorry this is so much to ask! I love your writing by the way!!<33
Somehow, Iâm kinda sorta catching up but also not really because I have a million more requests left to write I am such trash omg how did I earn 1,000 followers? Hahaha I didnât have a chance to write at all last weekend. I was at a charity event my dad runs every year. All the proceeds go to an amazing local charity for autism. From merchandise and raffle tickets alone, we made 5,000 dollars. Thatâs not counting things like ticket sales and getting in the door. That hasnât been counted yet. If you wanna hear more about it, let me know because this charity is close to my heart because my brother is autistic. If you wanna know more about it, Iâm gonna post it on another blog on wordpress so let me know!! Also, just a reminder that I do have a Wattpad account. My username is PerfectInsanity17 but I havenât posted in a while for one because Iâve been working on this and secondly, not a lot of people were reading my work so I paused for a bit. But Iâve got three stories to read on there. If youâd like me to keep going on those stories, let me know!
How did you end up here?
A few days ago, things were wonderful. Things couldnât get any better. Maggie and Glenn would be having a baby, Alexandria was thriving, you were rebuilding the wall. The only complaint you had was that your friendship with Daryl had become more and more complicated. The more time you spent with him, the stronger your feelings got. But he constantly kept you at armâs length and there was no possible way to get more than friendship from him. But if that was your only complaint, then you really had nothing to worry about.
How could so much go wrong in just a few days?
In just a few days, Alexandriaâs only doctor was killed, Daryl ran off to get vengeance on her killer, Glenn, Michonne, and Rosita went after him, something went wrong with Maggieâs baby, and mere hours later, Glenn and Abraham would be dead, murdered mercilessly right in front of you and the entire group. And you would watch Daryl, bloody, pale, and weak being dragged away as a prisoner. All because of one man. All because of Negan.
Youâd caught Neganâs attention briefly but it was nothing more than a smile and a nod from him. You wanted to cry out in protest when he had Daryl thrown into a van and driven away but Rick told you not to. The crushed skulls of your friends didnât hurt in convincing you to stay quiet either.
How did you get here?
It was only a few days later when Carl got the crazy idea in his head to sneak into a saviorâs truck and head for the sanctuary. You werenât sure which was crazier, Carlâs plan to kill Negan, or your plan to switch places with Daryl. How much good would switching with Daryl do? Probably wouldnât help all that much. But Daryl would be home where he belonged. You had no idea what they were doing to him and that made your heart ache even more. He was already an abused man with a bruised soul. He might not recover from even more damage. If you could get him away from all this, then you would. Youâd walk through fire for that man.
The things one does for love.
Seeing Carl with such bloodthirst was unsettling. He managed to take out two of Neganâs men before someone stopped him. And through it all, Negan was nothing but amused by the situation.
âAnd you,â Negan said when you emerged. He pointed at you with his bat, its barbed wire fresh and clean, as if it didnât have flesh hanging off it and blood dripping from it like a leaky faucet just a few days ago. The memory of Abraham and Glennâs flesh dangling from the barbed wire made you nauseous.
âWhatâre you doinâ here?â Negan asked.
âI wanna make a deal with you,â you stated. Laughter erupted from the men surrounding the truck but Negan was quiet. Once the laughter died down, he let out a chuckle and rested the bat on his shoulder.
âShit, couldâve just driven here yourself,â he said, âDonât gotta be a stowaway. Come on in, letâs talk about this deal.â
Youâd caught a glimpse of Daryl before Negan took you and Carl outside. He was rounding up walkers for some reason you couldnât quite understand. He was filthy, his thin hair soaked in sweat, his face marked with cuts and bruises that made your blood boil with rage. At least heâd recovered from being shot. He was alive, that was the most important thing. Thatâs how you had to rationalize it to keep from losing your mind. Otherwise, you werenât sure what you wouldâve done.
âSo, whatâs your name?â Negan asked once the two of you were alone, âDidnât have a chance to ask when we met.â
âBetween murdering two people and kidnapping another, how could you have found the time?â you shot back, âNameâs Y/N.â
âShit!â Negan exclaimed, slamming his hands down on his legs, âYouâre just full of piss and vinegar, arenât ya?â
âLook, I came here to make a deal with you, Negan,â you said, âYou gonna hear me out or not?â
âBy all means,â Negan said, âDonât be shy, Y/N. Iâm shakinâ in my boots.â
âI was hoping youâd let Daryl go.â
âNot a chance.â
âLet me finish,â you snapped, âLet him go and take me in his place.â
âYou gotta forgive me, Y/N,â Negan chuckled, âIâm kinda confused. Why would you give a damn if you were here instead of him?â
âBecause he doesnât deserve whatever youâve put him through.â
âFunny you should say that,â Negan said, âBecause Daryl seems to think differently.â
âThat doesnât surprise me,â you said, âBut that doesnât change the fact that he doesnât deserve this.â
âAnd again I say, why do you care?â Negan inquired.
âBecause I love him,â you blurted out, âAnd I need him to be safe.â
Neganâs smile fell and he leaned back in his chair. He was no longer amused by the situation. You couldnât imagine Negan being jealous considering this was the only time youâd ever spoken. Then again, he was quick to murder two people heâd never met before. So, maybe he was quick toâŚlust.
âYou stay right there,â Negan said, hopping up onto his feet. The sly grin was back on his face as he headed for the door, âI will be right back. Just give me two minutes.â
You leaned back in your chair, allowing yourself to get just a little comfortable as Negan left the room. It probably wasnât the greatest idea to get the slightest bit comfortable. If Dwight or any of Neganâs other meathead henchman came in, youâd be screwed. Negan could easily trap you in this comfort youâd sunk into.
After a few minutes, Negan returned with Dwight following close behind, dragging Daryl by the collar of his sweatshirt. You gasped but Negan held out his hand before you could get up.
âDonât move,â Negan said, turning his attention to Daryl, âWell, Y/N made an interesting offer. Would ya like to hear it?â
âWhat did you do to her?â Daryl snapped.
âNothinâ at all,â Negan retorted, âNow pay attention. Y/N seems to think you donât deserve any of this. And she wants to make a trade. I let you go and take her instead.â
âWhy would you tell him this?â you snapped.
âAnd do you wanna know why?â Negan continued.
âNegan!â you exclaimed, âDonât!â
He threw his head back, erupting in laughter, âBecause she loves you! Now ainât that just fantastic, Daryl? The things people do for love am I right?â
Daryl stood there staring at you, stunned by the revelation. He fought to keep a straight face. He didnât want Negan to read him and figure everything out. If he was alone with you, he wouldâveâŚwell, he wasnât entirely sure what he wouldâve done. From the time youâd met, he was certain that youâd never seen him as anything more than a friend. And wasnât this the worst time to find out he was wrong? When he couldnât say a word in response to you.
âI gotta say, Y/N, youâve made an interesting offer,â Negan continued, âYou can stay if you want to but there ainât a chance in hell of me letting him go free.â
âNo!â Daryl blurted out, earning a rough yank from Dwight, âJust let her go.â
Negan sat back down across from you, nodding to the door, âDwight, I think Daryl needs a time out. Put him in his cage.â
âY/N, donât do this,â Daryl continued as Dwight dragged him out of the room, âGet out of here!â
Dwight slammed the door behind them and it was just you and Negan alone, trapped in the uncomfortable silence. You folded your hands together on your lap, shaking your head, âIâm not staying unless you let Daryl go. Otherwise, Iâm leaving with Carl.â
âWeâll talk about this later,â Negan said, âYou just hang out here for a while. Iâve got some things to tend to.â
You didnât move from your spot for hours. Negan had left to take Carl him and you considered sneaking away after a while but you wouldnât leave without Daryl. And you had no idea where he was and you couldnât exactly search for him without being caught. You really had no way of escaping so you just continued to wait.
After several hours, Negan burst into the room, fuming and swinging his bat around. He was enraged, pointing his bat at you, âWhat the fuck did you do?â
âExcuse me?â
âDonât fucking pretend you donât know what the fuck Iâm talking about.â
âI havenât moved from this spot!â you shouted, âIâm clueless!â
âWell, looks like you got your deal after all,â Negan said, âDarylâs gone, and youâre mine now.â
Another few days passed and Daryl had gone from hilltop to the kingdom but ultimately ended up back in Alexandria with the others, prepared to fight Negan with everything they had. Dwight offered his assistance but knew nothing about you or your condition. He hadnât seen you since the day you arrived, which sent chills down Darylâs spine. It mustâve meant that Negan had dealt with you personally. Had he killed you? OrâŚworse? Things he didnât want to think about.
âWeâre gonna win,â Rick declared.
âWhat about Y/N?â Daryl asked.
âOnce we finish this, weâll be able to go over there and get her,â Rick explained, âIâm sure Y/N is fine, Daryl. Negan wonât kill her. She could be a potential bargaining tool for him. Donât you think?â
Daryl grunted, âSure. Better make the fucker pay for the shit heâs done.â
âBelieve me, we will,â Rick said, âNo doubt about that. Letâs just get ready. Try not to worry, Daryl. Y/N can take care of herself. She was bold enough to leave and try to get you out of there, sheâll be just fine.â
Just as Daryl had been afraid of, Negan had been the one to handle you personally. Negan was convinced you had something to do with Darylâs escape and it was incredibly bad timing but you had no idea Daryl had even gotten out. Negan of course didnât believe you for a second and his solution to this problem was to simply have you beaten until you admitted to it. But you knew that if you did, heâd most likely have you killed. On the other hand, you were so delirious that you werenât sure which would be worse, death or being beaten.
You were just barely conscious when Negan threw you into a coffin. After a few minutes, you heard some familiar voices that made you perk up and felt the coffin being lifted but there wasnât much you could do as you could barely move and were too weak to push open the coffin.
âIâve got somethinâ you might be interested in,â Negan said. The coffin creaked and groaned as he pulled it open. You turned away from the blinding afternoon sunlight but were quickly dragged out by your upper arm, feeling Neganâs leather jacket against your skin.
âY/N!â Daryl exclaimed from behind the gate. Rick stood at the very top of the gate, staring at you in shock. He knew that Negan wouldnât have killed you but he still wasnât expecting you to be so bruised and bloody.
âShe made the deal,â Negan continued, âShe stayed, he left. But Iâm gonna take Daryl back now. If you all cooperate, Y/N will live. But, itâs a limited time offer so Iâd make this decision quick.â
After that statement, everything became a blur. Bullets were flying, everyone was running around in a panic, ducking down and hiding. You couldâve sworn you heard Daryl shouting so you followed the sound of his voice despite how disoriented you felt. Negan was too distracted to notice your absence or try to prevent you from running off. You were avoiding all the gunfire better than you expected since you werenât even trying. All you knew was you had to find Daryl. It felt like years since youâd seen him. And the last time you had seen him wasnât exactly pleasant for either of you.
After being unable to find any familiar face, you realized it was pointless to be in the middle of all this gunfire when you could barely focus. You sat under a tree off in the corner where the gunshots were faint and you were free to take a deep breath. Your bones ached, your head throbbed, the blood and sweat that had accumulated on your body over the last few days left a layer of grime you couldnât stand. Your eyes were so swollen, it was easier to just lay your head back and close your eyes.
The chaos ceased for a moment but you werenât allowing yourself to feel relieved yet. Sure, Rick and the rest of the group couldâve won but they also couldâve lost and it would become a slaughter soon. Soon, people were shouting and firing their guns again and this time, roaring followed. Roaring? Why would you be hearing roaring? Who would have an animal like that?
You kept your eyes shut the entire time. If you didnât see it, it couldnât be happening, right? You thought of the simpler times when you and Daryl went on runs together, when youâd be spending days at a time alone together. He was always so quiet but his blue eyes spoke louder than his mouth ever could. He always hugged his legs to his chest, like he was shielding himself, very rarely ever made eye contact. And when he did, he seemed so unsure and would only peek at you from behind his wispy hairs hanging over his face. Youâd wake up early in the morning while he was still sleeping and youâd push those hairs away from his face just to sneak a peek at his peaceful expression, his chest moving steadily up and down. You never wanted those runs to end. You had been convinced every time that you would tell him how you truly felt about him but in the end, you could never go through with it. And now, it could easily be too late. Daryl could be dead or dying. With all that gunfire, the possibility of him being alive was slim.
The second round of insanity ended much faster and then silence followed for several hours. You refused to move from your spot though, still so tired and so sore. This was the first time youâd been able to relax in days without fear of getting hurt again.
Footsteps approached you but you still didnât move or open your eyes. The personâs clothes rustled and you heard them set something down in the grass beside them. It was when the person spoke that you finally opened your eyes and a pair of blue ones were staring back at you.
âY/N,â Daryl said, âIâve been lookinâ everywhere for you. Thought you were dead.â
âI thought you were,â you whimpered. Despite how injured you were, you threw your arms around him, nearly tackling him, âIâm so glad you made it out okay. Who got you out?â
âNot sure,â he replied, âWhat did that asshole do to you?â
âHe was convinced that I was the one to get you out,â you explained, âThe timing was pretty coincidental Iâll admit but he wouldnât listen to me. I donât wanna talk about that now. Iâm just glad itâs over. Is Negan dead?â
Daryl shook his head, âEveryone from hilltop and the kingdom came at the last second and chased Negan and his guys outta here. But theyâll be back. Come on, letâs get you looked at. Can ya stand?â
âI think so,â you grunted as you got up on your feet. Being in one position for the last few hours made your muscles scream out in agony when you finally straightened out. Daryl grabbed your hand as the two of you walked to the infirmary. With all the commotion, you didnât feel it was the right time to bring up what Negan had said a few days ago. Daryl would just get uncomfortable and shut down like he always did when someone brought up heavy conversation. Expressing emotion was not on Darylâs list of skills. Especially now with his mind on other things, talking about that just wasn��t as important.
You gave it about a week. Your injuries had mostly healed by then. But other than that, you and Daryl were back with your group and things felt almost normal again. But you still felt uneasy around him. And he seemed more quick tempered than usual, getting frustrated with you easier than before.
Daryl had taken you back to the infirmary after youâd reopened a wound while you were trying to regain your strength and practicing your shooting. He sighed a few times as he was cleaning up the wound on your arm.
âWhatâre you thinking, Y/N?â he grumbled.
âCanât just sit around forever,â you replied, âI have to get back to how I was.â
âIf you hadnât gone there in the first place,â Daryl muttered, âYou shouldâve stayed here where it was safe.â
âI had to go,â you argued, âYou werenât safe.â
âI donât care about me,â Daryl shot back, âYou shouldnât worry about me so much, Y/N.â
âDidnât you hear what Negan said?â you snapped, âWhat he told you? I care so much about you, I love you so much. I couldnât stand the thought of you being hurt or ending up dead.â
âWell, how do you think I felt?!â Daryl shouted, tossing the bloody rag into the trashcan, âI hated every minute of you being there. I knew what Negan was doing and there was nothing I could do.â
You were startled by his outburst. He so rarely offered much in response but he was off now, âI donât wanna lose you, Y/N. Not again. Canât go without you again.â
âI didnât know you felt that way,â you said.
âYeah, well, didnât wanna give Negan any more leverage than he already had,â Daryl said, âI didnât actually believe him when he said it. Itâs true though, what he said. Isnât it?â
You kicked your feet, grinning as you grabbed his hands and pulled him closer to you so he stood between your legs, âItâs very true, Daryl. I love you so much. There was justâŚnever a good time to say it.â
Daryl nodded, his own way of saying he loved you too. You were content with his not actually saying it because you knew he felt it. You felt it in his touch when he ran his fingertips up your arms. You felt it in the kiss he placed on your lips, careful and hesitant in all of these gestures but they spoke to you.
You wrapped your arms around Darylâs torso, your hands slipping underneath his shirt and roaming his back. He tensed a little at your touch but soon he was rolling with it, kissing along your jaw and down your neck, his teeth grazing your shoulder. You inhaled deeply, taking in his scent as his trembling fingers tugged on your shirt. Pulling away briefly, you threw your shirt over your head and tossed it to the floor, quickly bringing Daryl back in. He groaned against your skin, running his nails down your back. You unbuttoned his shirt, pushing it off his shoulders.
âYou really wanna do this?â you mumbled, wrapping your legs around his hips.
Daryl nodded and ran for the door to lock it as quickly as he could to make it back to you. You laid back in bed as he climbed over you, burying his face in your neck. You wrapped your legs around his hips once more and he responded with an experimental thrust of his hips, grinding against you. A squeak escaped your lips as you gripped him tighter in your arms.
âShit, Y/N,â he grunted, âNever wanted anything so bad.â
A fire was burning deep within you and heâd barely touched you. Neither of you could bear it anymore, you couldnât hold back any longer. You lifted your hips so Daryl could pull your pants down with ease. You sat up a bit and smashed your lips against his while you tugged his pants down past his hips. You felt his fingers slip underneath the waistband of your underwear, his thick fingers cold against your warm flesh. As his fingers reached your core, you bit his lip in surprise. You retaliated by allowing your hands to explore, sliding into his boxers and gripping him firmly in your hand.
âDaryl,â you whispered, slowly stroking him. Daryl groaned, whipping your body around and pulling your underwear down your legs. You gripped the headboard, your heart racing as you panted and whined. You wiggled your hips impatiently, looking back at him over your shoulder, âWhatâre you waiting for?â
âStay still,â Daryl said, slapping his hands down on your hips. You jumped but smiled at the fiery feeling growing in the pit of your stomach. Biting your lip, you lowered your head. Without warning, he plunged into you and you both groaned in unison as he stayed there for a moment, allowing the two of you to adjust to the senstation.
âGoddamn, Daryl,â you said. Daryl slowly started moving his hips back and forth, his hands moving up and down your back. He held back any noises, only allowing a few grunts. You couldnât hold back your pleasure as you moaned and whimpered, curling your toes and bunching the sheets up in your fists. The ache grew stronger with every thrust and you knew this wouldnât last long for either of you. But this closeness would be worth it no matter how long it was.
Suddenly, Daryl lifted you up so the two of you were on your knees, your back against his chest as he thrust harder against you, beads of sweat running down the side of his head and dripping off his jaw, landing on your shoulder. With one hand on your hip, he moved his free hand down your stomach until he reached your sweet spot, his fingers moving in quick, deep circles. You writhed and rolled your hips against his fingers, flashes of white in your vision as you finally came. Your legs were weak and once Daryl let go of you, you fell forward, his continued thrusting sending you into aftershocks and your walls squeezed him so tightly, he couldnât hold back anymore. He leaned his head back as he released inside of you.
âI canâtâŚwe justâŚfuck,â Daryl said, more out of breath than youâd ever seen before, âYou alright?â
��More than alright,â you replied, rolling onto your back. He flopped down beside you, âThat was amazing. I canât believe we did that though. Ever think weâd end up here?â
âNah, but then again, youâve always been unpredictable,â Daryl replied, kissing your sweaty temple. He never thought heâd ever have the courage to tell you how he felt about you. This had been the last thing he ever expected to happen but he wouldnât change it for anything. He never wanted to let you go. This was forever.
OKAY THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PATIENCE I KNOW IâM ABSOLUTE TRASH I APOLOGIZE FOR TAKING SO GODDAMN LONG. Writing smut is just harder to get done for some reason.
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A little more Spirit And Oxygen
Hereâs another sneak peak at my TMNT fic, âSpirit And Oxygen: Across The Universeâ which is part of my âMikey The Lifegiverâ fic series. It chronicles Mikeyâs adventures in major depression, brain damage, and being the actual heart and soul and light of the team. http://archiveofourown.org/series/599863 This will probably be the final story, which means it might as well be a chapter fic, which means that this is officially Chapter One. Yes. I feel good about this. Stuff that is my heacanon here: 1) Shinigami is in a polyamorous relationship with Karai and Michelangelo, and the ladies have their own bedroom in the lair. 2) Raph has taken a shine to Shini and her attitudes on life and is so proud his little brother has such an awesome loveperson who is also banging his awesome sister. 3) April has finally decided to try dating both Donnie and Casey, although sheâs spent more time with Don, and Casey doesnât mind. 4) Splinter and Shredder are dead. Shredder killed Splinter and then the boys teamed up with Karai to kill Shredder, and Leo decapitated Shredder after Karai punched Shredder in the heart after Mikey knocked out Shredder with a kick to the face. Shredderâs henchmen have teamed up with Purple Dragons and other gangs, and have recreated robot Foot ninjas. Splinter appears as a spirit to the Hamato family. 5) The Mighty Mutanimals are very involved in the turtlesâ lives. Mondo has learned first aid from Dr Rockwell and engineering from Don. 6) Leo and Karai have been duel sensei-ing and still argue over who gets to be Actual Sensei. 7) Abandoned military bases are turned into hide-outs for the more vicious, feral, and angry mutants in every borough. Mikey, Mondo, and Shini like to try and find them to befriend the tamer, friendlier ones. Karai and Raph wind up getting angry out of love and fear. 8) Mikey is Donnieâs assistant in the lab and is a field medic who uses his emotional empathic reach to comfort the injured; he can be telepathic when he tries hard, but it gives him migraines. 9) Mikey has developed epilepsy following a brain injury, but it also boosts his spiritual powers. He and Raph share an empathic connection. ...I really got attached to Deanna Troi and Jean Grey when I was a teenager, okay? Also, I am happy to discuss where the rest of the story might go and how and why. Iâll often switch to several perspectives in one chapter, like April (Storm) or Karai (Iron) or Ghost Of Splinter (Wind) or Shinigami (Magic). Mostly Iâm just in love with writing Donnie talking about Mikey. (PS, Mikey is Oxygen, duh. Don is Earth, Raph is Fire, Leo is Water. The Tumblr post for Mikey The Lifegiver is the second most popular blog post Iâve written so far. The first one is me waxing pagan about winter gods) Also, for my regular readers: You knew this sort of thing was gonna happen again. Itâs all I write. Apparently, though, since 1999, Iâve had the most  wonderful contemporaries and competition. You hardcore Mikey fans, youâre the best, I love you all.
Donnieâs dreaming hard again, and he cherishes it. Usually is dreams are soft and quick, minnows in a stream, full of chrome and rust and the scent of oil, and there are tiny things in his hands, beeping and whirring, and there are giant things in front of him, clicking and rumbling; and the scars all over his hands reminds him that these are his, he made them, and they make sounds at him as though they are praising him.
Almost a year ago, shortly after Splinter died and Shredder died and Karai moved in, things began happening that challenged every science imaginable, but Donnie learned to be completely fine with it. Aside from Leo and Karai in a constant subtle battle over who would be sensei, Raph mellowed out and Mikey stopped pranking. Donnie was the only one who recognized Mikey as the catalyst: after enduring a series of traumas that they wouldnât wish on their enemies, Mikey had become quieter, softer. His odd hyperfocusing moments turned on books without pictures and science documentaries and Donnie spent three weeks spying on him; it was no surprise when Mikey caught him each time, because Mikey had changed the most. Donnie and April ran every single test, and Mikey endured them with a strange fidgeting patience, but Rockwell in the end explained that Mikeyâs Dimension X brain had finally caught up with him. He was almost like April. Don stopped being surprised when a beaker full of An Unusual Chemical dropped from his hands and floated back up to the table, despite it only being him and Mikey. Mikey, who folded his arms and grinned cheekily, and that was the day Donnie went to the closet and handed him a lab coat with his name on it.
Between their rotating autistic traits and interests, Donnie with engineering and physical science and Mikey with social sciences and cultural studies, they managed to create Things that made the lair easier to live in. With Mikey around, it was easier to navigate the entire city and study humansâ patterns, so certain stores, warehouses, junkyards, and clinics would stay their âborrowingâ targets. With Donnie around, they had vehicles and cloaking devices to move further and deeper in.
So Donnie dreams heavily, about jumping from roof to roof in Staten Island, looking for that one military facility that up until now always had staff. Mikey is right behind him, ready with both kusarigama and grappling hook. Donnie stops and signals, and Mikey presses right against his carapace, wrapping one arm around his waist, extending the other to aim the grappling gun. Don signals again, and Mikey pushes off and practically flies â scratch that, he literally glides â and Donnie feels perfectly utterly safe as he casually throws an arm around his little brotherâs shoulders. Mikey wouldnât let them drop; theyâd only hover. Thatâs how good heâs gotten. The grappling hook keeps catching on roof edges and Mikey lets it hover and glide to the next and the next, and they keep going.
Theyâre on the roof of the facility, over a mile from where they started, and Donnie pries open the secret door and they move in, and their flashlights roam. They remove their backpacks when he finds the correct room, and collect the items heâs already listed on his T-Phone. Itâs silent, itâs swift, and the only thing that warns him is Mikeyâs hiss and his voice in Donnieâs head:Â Donnie, get DOWNâ
And Donnie flattens himself on the floor and the creature grazes him with a long metal toe as it leaps over him, and his right shoulder and bicep both rip open wide and his body spills blood rapidly. But itâs not the pain that makes him scream. Itâs the strangled screeching gasp, full of pure agony and horror, that Mikey makes from somewhere behind him. No living creature should be making a sound like that unless itâs about to die...
There is precious seconds of heavy silence, and he hears Mikey make that familiar, inhuman growl that all the turtles make when enraged, when their human sides shrink and their literal reptilian brains take over with crushing power. The creature howls in pain and shock, and Mikey lets out a roar that contains Donnieâs name scrawled into it, and then there is crashing, there is stabbing, punching, shrieking, snarling, bones cracking and flesh squelching and liquid spurting and other noises that Donnie will hear in his post-traumatic nightmares. Donnie crawls forward, collapses on his back, turns around and forces himself to stand.
The creature has Mikey pinned to the ground, and shadowed blood is pooling everywhere. And then Mikey kicks and flips the creature over with a furious shriek, and through the darkness Donnie sees his teeth flash in a savage grin, you do not want to see that kind of smile on Mikeyâs face, and Donnie sees him coated in shadows, launching again at the creature, smacking his nunchaku again and againâŚand then the creature stops moving, stops making noise; and Donnie hears his own harsh, pained breathing, and his brotherâs harsh, pained breathing, and he manages to call out, âMikey, are you okay?â
Thereâs a pause. âIâm always okay, Dee,â comes a breezy reply, but it is thin and strained. âHey, Dee, whatâs hurt on you?â
âMy right shoulder and upper arm, but I can patch it up. You?â
A longer pause, much much longer.
âCan I take a raincheck on answering that?â
Donnie feels his gut turn to ice. âMikey?â
He sees the dark figure of his brother hold up a finger. âJustâŚgimmeâŚa sec.â
Within that second, Mikey falls to his knees. Donnie feels himself lurch forward. His eyes strain. The shadows on his brother are not shadows. They are too shiny. Heâs covered in it.
No. No. Please, no, not again, I canât handle this again.
Itâs not the blood loss making Donnie feel so dizzy. He struggles to move, and watches, in slow motion, as Mikey falls over completely, smacking the floor, and it is a wet smack, and liquid is still pooling around him. And Don starts to hyperventilate, because heâs not sure where the light switch might be in this room and where the first aid kits are, and suddenly the darkness is too dark and the floor opens up and he is being swallowed, and he cannot reach Mikey, and then he falls, and as he falls his T-Phone rings, and something presses its energy button, and itâs blaring in his ears, louder and louder, calling MIkeyâs name.
Donatello bolts up screaming, and it is too dark and he canât see. A door crashes open. A body launches at him, and before he can take another breath, a pair of arms are wrapped around him and a plastron is pressed against his, and his chin is on a broad muscley shoulder, and the scent he breathes in is pure Raphael.
âRaph,â he squeaks out. âHey--â
âSshhh, Donnie, easy,â the hoarse voice murmurs. âIt was a dream. Youâre okay.â
He finds himself awkwardly patting his older brotherâs upper carapace, trying to politely pull away. âRaphâŚRaph, I realize thatâŚcan I breathe? Please?â
Raph pulls away, green eyes serpentine in the darkness of his bedroom. The way his head tilts, too.
âIâm fine, Raph. I promise. I know itâs a nightmare.â
Those eyes and that head tilt remain fixed on him.
âDonnie, this is your fourth nightmare. Do you realize that?â
Really?
âUm. No?â Heâs been so busy between his lab and the sectioned-off infirmary that Rockwell and Slash and Casey helped build that he sometimes doesnât remember going to bed.
âWell, it is. And Iâll bet itâs the exact same one. Yours are weird.â Raph sits back, agura style, and Donnie draws his knees up to make room. âTheyâre like clockwork. Once a week. And, yâknow, this is the fourth week since--â
âI know. And you guys dragged me to my own bed when you knew I wouldnât stay here.â
âYou did this time,â Raph points out.
âTrue. Wait, I did?â
âCongratulations on a full twelve hours of sleep, bro. Itâs ten in the morning.â
Donnie feels his eyes grow wide. He throws the covers off and jumps off his bed. âIâm missing work, I--â
Raphâs strong hand slaps against his chest. âRemember what we all agreed on? Until your shoulder and arm is fully functional, you donât do anything complex without someone helping you. I hope you were planning on asking someone.â
Donnie narrows his eyes. âDo you know how to handle the complex alien chemicals I need to work on? Plus the newer components of the retromutagen?â
âIf not me, you have April. Or Rockwell. Or Shini.â
Donnie sighs, looks at his immobilized arm, and sighs again.
âYouâre a stubborn bastard, Hamato Donatello.â
âYouâre worse.â
âI am a paragon of complacency, little brother.â
And Donnie winces. âTry not to call me that?â
âOh. Right. I forgot. Youâre right. Sorry, Don.â
Donnie sighs and gets dressed.
âUm.â Raph rubs the back of his head. âSo, nothingâs changed this morning. ThatâsâŚlike, good, right? Kinda?â
âKinda,â Donnie says. âIt means that Mikey is continuing to heal. Which is the best we can hope for in this situation.â
As he heads out of his room and toward the lab doors, Raph catches up. âYou should eat something first.â
âI need to check his vitals and change his IV bags.â
âKarai did that.â
âEven the GI tube?â
âYeah, that one too.â
Donnie pauses. âI just need to seeâŚâ
âDonnie.â Raph is impossibly firm, and very soft. âDonnie, everything you could do has been done. Weâve watched you and learned from you for a whole month. Itâs a routine. And part of the routine is that those of us who arenât doing the routine help ourselves first. Itâs your turn.â
Donnie is very silent as Raph steers him toward the kitchen. Leo is finishing up a plate of eggs, toast, and tea. Shinigami is making two more plates.
âOh, you got him up! Good morning, Donatello. Did your nightmare complete itself?â The witchâs smile is knowing and polite, and he has gotten used to her specific brand of sass. She is, after all his little brotherâs girlfriend and his sisterâs girlfriend.
He mumbles âyesâ because shrugging his shoulders still hurts. He eats mechanically, even as he is poked at to make conversation. Raph has started giving him daily protein shakes. There is one next to his plate. He drinks it and crushes the bottle, casually proving how fine he is. Sometimes the others forget how strong he is.
He misses having Mikey around to defend him.
âIâll be in the infirmary,â Shinigami says, and Donnie startles. When he looks at her, he sees dark, deep circles under her eyes. Her fair complexion is blotchy and even paler than usual. And he wants to slap himself. She loves him. She has so much love, she loves Mikey and Karai so much. And Karai, to see her baby brother like this. Abruptly, he stands up, wraps his arms around Shini, and grips her like one of Mikeyâs famous octopus hugs.
She simply buries her face in his neck and holds him tight.
 * * * *
Donnie is at his computer. As heâs reading and copying notes, he canât help but hear her from the infirmary corner, and after a while he gives up trying to ignore it. He stretches his neck to catch a glimpse.
Shinigami has been sitting by Mikeyâs bedside for fifteen minutes, and she only started speaking a couple of minutes ago. Don sees her hand tighten around Mikeyâs as she talks.
ââŚkeeps insisting nothing hurts, of course, but I refuse to believe her. Even when she shifted back and forth to her snake form, I could tell her arm was giving her trouble. Even the snake looked sad!â A small laugh, humorless. âOh, sweet Mikey, you should see the looks she gives me when I point out her pain. She thinks I donât see it. I see everything about her.â A pause. âI see everything about you too, you know. I see the subtle shifts in your facial muscles when you slip one of your behavior masks on. You know what I mean. When you fake smile, or your laugh is not real? I see it. You should not ever be sad, my Mikey. I told Karai I would do anything to protect her. Now that promise extends to you. Therefore, you must recover from this. You must hold me again so I can tell you I love you. You must hold me tightly, like an octopus, and laugh into my hair, and spin me around, and talk about your comics and your television shows. Tell me about Hamato Yoshi and how he adored you. Tell me about your brothers and your adoration of each of them, how they are your heroes. You and Donatello are very close. I know you wish to have so much knowledge and skill the way does.â
Donnie bites his lip and blushes a little. He almost feels like a sensei, in a way, the way Mikey looks at him while he works or while he is showing Mikey a project. He pictures the last lesson theyâd had. April was there. She and Mikey were side by side, chins in their hands, looking at him lovingly, freckled faces and blue eyes alight, looking like mischievous twins.
He wants Mikey to wake up and look like that again.
He doesnât know when Mikey will wake up. That hurts him most of all. This coma is different, deep and frightening. Mikey lost a lot of blood, and the mutant hit him in the neck, and Donnie knows how bad that can be. Concussion. Oxygen loss. Brain function compromised. Brain damage. Mikey already has enough. Donnie is worried.
Shiniâs voice startles him.
âWe miss you, Michelangelo. I miss you. IâŚneed you. You must come back soon. Please.â And Donnie watches as Shinigami leans forward and presses her lips to Mikeyâs, and smiles. She squeezes his limp, broken hand again. She stands up and begins to walk toward the door, then changes course, coming toward the lab. Donnie blinks at her.
She smiles at him. âWhat you working on?â
âOh, umâŚâ he glances down. âTaking notes on neurobiological function in humans and reptiles. I believe our brains are almost fully human, but we probably have neuronal and hormonal responses similar to diamondback turtles, too.â
âMikey will sometimes make little noises,â Shini offers. âTheyâre not human.â
Donnie nods. âYes. Chirping. Cooing. Growling. A kind of purring growl, like churring. Hissing.â
He shifted through the pages, wrote down some more notes.
âYou arenât going to do that all day, are you?â
Donnie glances up. Shini has leaned her hip against the table and is smirking. âLeo wants everyone in the dojo for training. Is this very important?â
He bites his lip, looks at his screen. âI guess it can wait until later.â He saves the file. Shinigami takes him by the elbow and steers him out of the lab. Interestingly, Raph is waiting there, arms crossed. He smirks and nods. âGood. Good Donnie.â Shinigami giggles, as if the two had planned it.
âHowâs Mikey?â Raph asks, automatically.
Shini just shrugs. âThe same. Karai wonders if I can use my witchcraft to find him in the astral plane. It is a thought.â
Raph raises an eyeridge. âDamn straight, itâs a thought. Heâs been healing pretty well. Maybe itâs time to try reaching out to him instead of waiting for him to wake up.â
Donatello sits up straight and snaps his fingers. âIt can be a family effort!â That seems to light a fire in Raphael, and he joyfully reaches out to fistbump Shinigami, who has a wide smirk on her face and a glint in her eye. Donnie feels stronger and happier than heâs felt in weeks.
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Sneak Peek: AÂ âMikey The Lifegiverâ side story
So, while working on the âSpirit And Oxygenâ fic, I got poked in the writerbrain by yet another âDonnie thinks about how much he adores Mikeyâ story that didnât quite fit, but maybe it could, so right now itâs going to be a side story, at least until Season 5 rolls around and we get canon confirmation on some things.
Stuff that is my heacanon here: 1) Shinigami is in a polyamorous relationship with Karai and Michelangelo, and the girls have their own bedroom in the lair. 2) Raph has taken a shine to Shini and her attitudes on life and is so proud his little brother has such an awesome loveperson who is also banging his awesome sister. 3) April has finally decided to try dating both Donnie and Casey, although sheâs spent more time with Don, and casey doesnât mind. 4) Both Splinter and Shredder are dead (Karai killed Shredder, take that Leo, although Leo was there too and got some hits in). 5) The Might Mutanimals are very involved in the turtlesâ lives. Mondo has learned first aid from Dr Rockwell and engineering from Don. 6) Leo and Karai have been duel sensei-ing and still argue over who gets to be Actual Sensei. 7) Abandoned military bases are turned into hide-outs for the more vicious, feral, and angry mutants in every borough. Mikey, Mondo, and Shini like to try and find them to befriend the tamer, friendlier ones. Karai and Raph wind up getting angry out of love and fear. 8) Mikey is Donnieâs assistant in the lab and is a field medic who uses his emotional reach to comfort the injured. I donât know if any of it will reflect in real canon. We shall find out in March. I did see the Korean leaks and Iâm not saying a damn word. Also, I am happy to discuss where the rest of the story might go and how and why, and Iâll probably switch to another perspective like April (Storm) or Karai (Iron) or Ghost Of Splinter (Wind) or Shinigami (Magic). Mostly Iâm just in love with writing Donnie talking about Mikey, and this would be my third Earth And Oxygen fic in the âMikey The Lifegiverâ series. (PS, Mikey is Oxygen, duh. Don is Earth, Raph is Fire, Leo is Water. The Tumblr post for Mikey The Lifegiver is the second most popular blog post Iâve written so far. The first one is me waxing pagan about all those winter holidays from dozens of religions with hundreds many gods) Also, for my regular readers: You knew this sort of thing was gonna happen again. Itâs all I write. Apparently, though, since 1999, Iâve had the most  wonderful contemporaries and competition. You hardcore Mikey fans, youâre the best, I love you all.
Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick, And think of you Caught up in circles confusion Is nothing new Flashback warm nights Almost left behind Suitcases of memories, Time after Sometimes you picture me I'm walking too far ahead You're calling to me, I can't hear What you've said You say go slow I fall behind The second hand unwinds If you're lost you can look and you will find me Time after time If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting Time after time If you're lost you can look and you will find me Time after time If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting Time after time After my picture fades and darkness has Turned to gray Watching through windows you're wondering If I'm ok Secrets stolen from deep inside The drum beats out of time If you're lost you can look and you will find me Time after time If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting Time after time You said go slow I fall behind The second hand unwinds If you're lost you can look and you will find me Time after time If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting Time after time
-Cyndi Lauper, âTime After Timeâ
 Earth And Oxygen: Time After Time
 Donnieâs dreaming hard again, and he cherishes it. Usually is dreams are soft and quick, minnows in a stream, full of chrome and rust and the scent of oil, and there are tiny things in his hands, beeping and whirring, and there are giant things in front of him, clicking and rumbling; and the scars all over his hands reminds him that these are his, he made them, and they make sounds at him as though they are praising him.
Almost a year ago, shortly after Splinter died and Shredder died and Karai moved in, things began happening that challenged every science imaginable, but Donnie learned to be completely fine with it. Aside from Leo and Karai in a constant subtle battle over who would be sensei, Raph mellowed out and Mikey stopped pranking. Donnie was the only one who recognized Mikey as the catalyst: after enduring a series of traumas that they wouldnât wish on their enemies, Mikey had become quieter, softer. His odd hyperfocusing moments turned on books without pictures and science documentaries and Donnie spent three weeks spying on him; it was no surprise when Mikey caught him each time, because Mikey had changed the most. Donnie and April ran every single test, and Mikey endured them with a strange fidgeting patience, but Rockwell in the end explained that Mikeyâs Dimension X brain had finally caught up with him. He was almost like April. Don stopped being surprised when a beaker full of An Unusual Chemical dropped from his hands and floated back up to the table, despite it only being him and Mikey. Mikey, who folded his arms and grinned cheekily, and that was the day Donnie went to the closet and handed him a lab coat with his name on it.
Between their rotating autistic traits and interests, Donnie with engineering and physical science and Mikey with social sciences and cultural studies, they managed to create Things that made the lair easier to live in. With Mikey around, it was easier to navigate the entire city and study humansâ patterns, so certain stores, warehouses, junkyards, and clinics would stay their âborrowingâ targets. With Donnie around, they had vehicles and cloaking devices to move further and deeper in.
So Donnie dreams heavily, about jumping from roof to roof in Staten Island, looking for that one military facility that up until now always had staff. Mikey is right behind him, ready with both kusarigama and grappling hook. Donnie stops and signals, and Mikey presses right against his carapace, wrapping one arm around his waist, extending the other to aim the grappling gun. Don signals again, and Mikey pushes off and practically flies â scratch that, he literally glides â and Donnie feels perfectly utterly safe as he casually throws an arm around his little brotherâs shoulders. Mikey wouldnât let them drop; theyâd only hover. Thatâs how good heâs gotten. The grappling hook keeps catching on roof edges and Mikey lets it hover and glide to the next and the next, and they keep going.
Theyâre on the roof of the facility, over a mile from where they started, and Donnie pries open the secret door and they move in, and their flashlights roam. They remove their backpacks when he finds the correct room, and collect the items heâs already listed on his T-Phone. Itâs silent, itâs swift, and the only thing that warns him is Mikeyâs hiss and his voice in Donnieâs head: Donnie, get DOWNâ
And Donnie flattens himself on the floor and the creature grazes him with a long metal toe as it leaps over him, and his right shoulder and bicep both rip open wide and his body spills blood rapidly. But itâs not the pain that makes him scream. Itâs the strangled screeching gasp, full of pure agony and horror, that Mikey makes from somewhere behind him. No living creature should be making a sound like that unless itâs about to die...
There is precious seconds of heavy silence, and he hears Mikey make that familiar, inhuman growl that all the turtles make when enraged, when their human sides shrink and their literal reptilian brains take over with crushing power. The creature howls in pain and shock, and Mikey lets out a roar that contains Donnieâs name scrawled into it, and then there is crashing, there is stabbing, punching, shrieking, snarling, bones cracking and flesh squelching and liquid spurting and other noises that Donnie will hear in his post-traumatic nightmares. Donnie crawls forward, collapses on his back, turns around and forces himself to stand.
The creature has Mikey pinned to the ground, and shadowed blood is pooling everywhere. And then Mikey kicks and flips the creature over with a furious shriek, and through the darkness Donnie sees his teeth flash in a savage grin, you do not want to see that kind of smile on Mikeyâs face, and Donnie sees him coated in shadows, launching again at the creature, smacking his nunchaku again and againâŚand then the creature stops moving, stops making noise; and Donnie hears his own harsh, pained breathing, and his brotherâs harsh, pained breathing, and he manages to call out, âMikey, are you okay?â
Thereâs a pause. âIâm always okay, Dee,â comes a breezy reply, but it is thin and strained. âHey, Dee, whatâs hurt on you?â
âMy right shoulder and upper arm, but I can patch it up. You?â
A longer pause, much much longer.
âCan I take a raincheck on answering that?â
Donnie feels his gut turn to ice. âMikey?â
He sees the dark figure of his brother hold up a finger. âJustâŚgimmeâŚa sec.â
Within that second, Mikey falls to his knees. Donnie feels himself lurch forward. His eyes strain. The shadows on his brother are not shadows. They are too shiny. Heâs covered in it.
No. No. Please, no, not again, I canât handle this again.
Itâs not the blood loss making Donnie feel so dizzy. He struggles to move, and watches, in slow motion, as Mikey falls over completely, smacking the floor, and it is a wet smack, and liquid is still pooling around him. And Don starts to hyperventilate, because heâs not sure where the light switch might be in this room and where the first aid kits are, and suddenly the darkness is too dark and the floor opens up and he is being swallowed, and he cannot reach Mikey, and then he falls, and as he falls his T-Phone rings, and something presses its energy button, and itâs blaring in his ears, louder and louder, calling MIkeyâs name.
Donatello bolts up screaming, and it is too dark and he canât see. A door crashes open. A body launches at him, and before he can take another breath, a pair of arms are wrapped around him and a plastron is pressed against his, and his chin is on a broad muscley shoulder, and the scent he breathes in is pure Raphael.
âRaph,â he squeaks out. âHey--â
âSshhh, Donnie, easy,â the hoarse voice murmurs. âIt was a dream. Youâre okay.â
He finds himself awkwardly patting his older brotherâs upper carapace, trying to politely pull away. âRaphâŚRaph, I realize thatâŚcan I breathe? Please?â
Raph pulls away, green eyes serpentine in the darkness of his bedroom. The way his head tilts, too.
âIâm fine, Raph. I promise. I know itâs a nightmare.â
Those eyes and that head tilt remain fixed on him.
âDonnie, this is your fourth nightmare. Do you realize that?â
Really?
âUm. No?â Heâs been so busy between his lab and the sectioned-off infirmary that Rockwell and Slash and Casey helped build that he sometimes doesnât remember going to bed.
âWell, it is. And Iâll bet itâs the exact same one. Yours are weird.â Raph sits back, agura style, and Donnie draws his knees up to make room. âTheyâre like clockwork. Once a week. And, yâknow, this is the fourth week since--â
âI know. And you guys dragged me to my own bed when you knew I wouldnât stay here.â
âYou did this time,â Raph points out.
âTrue. Wait, I did?â
âCongratulations on a full twelve hours of sleep, bro. Itâs ten in the morning.â
Donnie feels his eyes grow wide. He throws the covers off and jumps off his bed. âIâm missing work, I--â
Raphâs strong hand slaps against his chest. âRemember what we all agreed on? Until your shoulder and arm is fully functional, you donât do anything complex without someone helping you. I hope you were planning on asking someone.â
Donnie narrows his eyes. âDo you know how to handle the complex alien chemicals I need to work on? Plus the newer components of the retromutagen?â
âIf not me, you have April. Or Rockwell. Or Shini.â
Donnie sighs, looks at his immobilized arm, and sighs again.
âYouâre a stubborn bastard, Hamato Donatello.â
âYouâre worse.â
âI am a paragon of complacency, little brother.â
And Donnie winces. âTry not to call me that?â
âOh. Right. I forgot. Youâre right. Sorry, Don.â
Donnie sighs and gets dressed.
âUm.â Raph rubs the back of his head. âSo, nothingâs changed this morning. ThatâsâŚlike, good, right? Kinda?â
âKinda,â Donnie says. âIt means that Mikey is continuing to heal. Which is the best we can hope for in this situation.â
As he heads out of his room and toward the lab doors, Raph catches up. âYou should eat something first.â
âI need to check his vitals and change his IV bags.â
âKarai did that.â
âEven the GI tube?â
âYeah, that one too.â
Donnie pauses. âI just need to seeâŚâ
âDonnie.â Raph is impossibly firm, and very soft. âDonnie, everything you could do has been done. Weâve watched you and learned from you for a whole month. Itâs a routine. And part of the routine is that those of us who arenât doing the routine help ourselves first. Itâs your turn.â
Donnie is very silent as Raph steers him toward the kitchen. Leo is finishing up eggs, toast, and tea. Shinigami is making two more plates.
âOh, you got him up! Good morning, Donatello. Did your nightmare complete itself?â The witchâs smile is knowing and polite, and he has gotten used to her specific brand of sass. She is, after all his little brotherâs girlfriend and his sisterâs girlfriend.
He mumbles âyesâ because shrugging his shoulders still hurts. He eats mechanically, even as he is poked at to make conversation. Raph has started giving him daily protein shakes. There is one next to his plate. He drinks it and crushes the bottle, casually proving how fine he is. Sometimes the others forget how strong he is.
He misses having Mikey around to defend him.
âIâll be in the infirmary,â Shinigami says, and Donnie startles. When he looks at her, he sees dark, deep circles under her eyes. Her fair complexion is blotchy and even paler than usual. And he wants to slap himself. She loves him. She has so much love, she loves Mikey and Karai. And Karai, to see her baby brother like this. Abruptly, he stands up, wraps his arms around Shini, and grips her like one of Mikeyâs famous octopus hugs.
She simply buries her face in his neck and holds him tight.
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