Hello everyone! I know it has been a while, but now all of the sudden I have a lot of free time and I have decided to continue this story that I was liking so much. I will try to update as soon as possible if I see that you are liking where is this going :D

Without nothing else to say, enjoy the reading.

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Wake up.

Donnie and Mikey were on the lab, away from their brothers. They couldn't find out what they were going to do that night. It had to stay as a secret. Sneaking into Stockman's lab to steal something was pretty risky, plus their brothers would stop them, get angry at them and start a fight between if they were sick or not. Donnie didn't want to go through that one once more.

"Okay, close the door Mikey. I don't want anyone to listen about tonight."

Mikey obeyed. Once the door was closed, Donnie began to talk.

"So, this is the plan. We wait till everyone is asleep. This part may be a little complicated, since Leo and Raph are not sleeping well, but we just have to find the moment to get out without anyone noticing. We can take the Party Wagon with us. Once there, we sneak into Stockman's lab the same way we did last time, then we wait till he's gone, and we go and look for the substance, then, we take it and get out of there. It's easy."

"Of course, it is! My plans are 100% effective!"

"Yeah, whatever. Just keep acting like if you didn't know anything. If Leo or Raph find out that I told you, then we're dead."

"Relax bro! I can handle it."

"I hope so…"

"Anyway, aren't you hungry? I'm gonna make a call to ask for some pizza."

Mikey did as he said. Some minutes later, the pizza finally arrived.

"Hey everyone! Pizza is here! If you don't come out now, I'll eat it all by myself!" Mikey shouted so the hole sewer could hear him. He headed to the kitchen. Leo and Splinter arrived first. Then, it was Donnie. Some minutes passed. Raph just didn't arrived.

"You know what? I'll go to his room and tell him to come. Maybe he's listening music or something."

With that words, Mikey stood up and walked out of the kitchen with a half-eaten piece of pizza in his hand. Once out from Raph's room, he knocked the door.

"Raph! We're waiting for you! If you don't come out, I'll eat all of your pizza!"

No answer. Mikey decided to open the door.

"Raph, I know you're angry but…" He stopped talking. The room was empty. "Oh God…"

Raph wasn't there. Mikey thought about it for some seconds, then he pulled out his cellphone and called Raph. No one answered. He gave one more call, same thing. Where the hell was him?

"So now, Donnie thinks that Leo and I are sick just because last night we couldn't sleep well. But I just don't get it. He saw it in the blood samples. We're completely fine."

Meanwhile, Raph had decided to sneak out with Casey. He had spent almost 2 hours alone in his room. He had nothing to do and he didn't want to come out. Some minutes later, Casey gave him a call and Raph acceded to get out with him. Now, they were both sitting in a rooftop. Raph had told Casey the whole thing.

"Intense… So, Donnie thinks that both of you have like a sickness or something?"

"Yeah, that's basically the hole deal." Raph answered. He sighted. "So, how was the party last night?"

"Pretty cool dude, I mean, I ended up vomiting in the bathroom, but I regret nothing."

"Damn it, Casey…" Raph was about to say something else, when he felt his phone ringing. "Uh… Wait a second. I have 7 missed calls from Mikey and now he's calling again."

"What do you want Mikey?" Raph answered the phone.

"Where the hell are you man?" Mikey was talking in a low volume, but he was clearly freaked out. He didn't want anyone to hear that conversation.

"I'm hanging out with Casey. Why?"

"Dude, Master Splinter's gonna kill you. He's obviously still upset at you for what happened in the morning."

"Did you tell him that I'm not home?!"

"No, he doesn't know."

"Well, then what's the problem? Just don't tell him."

"And what am I supposed to say? I told them that I would come and get you."

"Tell him that I feel sick or something."

"He won't buy that one. Come back dude."

"Argh, fine!" He shouted as he hung up the phone.

"What happened?" Casey asked.

"I have to go Casey. We'll talk later."

Casey couldn't even say goodbye when Raph ran away and entered to the sewers.

Raph began to run. He knew Mikey. He would tell them something. Suddenly, he stopped running for a moment, as his vision started to become double. What was happening to him? He closed his eyes and after some seconds, he opened them again. Nothing changed. His vision was still double. His head started aching. He felt weak. Raph started walking again, even though he didn't feel really conscious of what he was doing. It was like if his head told him to do something, but his body did a totally different thing, but he had to get to his home. It was not that far away. After some steps, he stopped walking again. He closed his eyes once more. The next thing he knew, was that he felt a strong pain on his head. He was on the floor. After some thinking, he understood. He had fainted, but that hit woke him up. He opened his eyes, rubbing his head, making sure that the hit haven't open his head. His sight was fine now. The headache was still there, but he wasn't weak anymore. Raph stood up. Without hesitation, he started walking home again.

Raph kept walking, still feeling the pain in his head, but besides that, he didn't feel safe. He felt that someone was following him. It was a very strange feeling. He wasn't used to it. Anyway, Raph ignored the feeling, even though he looked behind him a few times in his way, but after all, he finally arrived home.

He found Mikey waiting for him in the entrance of the lair.

"Dude, I thought that you wouldn't arrive. I was starting to worry." His little brother said with relief.

"Yeah, well I'm here now. I know you and you wouldn't be able to keep my absence to yourself. Anyway, let's go to the kitchen." He talked irritated, starting to walk with Mikey following him.

As they entered the kitchen, Leo, Donnie and Splinter looked at them. Splinter looked really angry.

"What took you so long Raphael?" His sensei asked annoyed.

"Nothing." He answered in a low voice as he sighted and sat down. Raph wasn't in the mood for a lecture right now. The headache was killing him.

"If it was nothing you wouldn't had delayed twenty minutes to get here and eat with us. All of your brothers and I are done eating, except for Michelangelo who went to get you."

"Sensei, please. I have a really bad headache and all day long I've been having a really bad mood, so please just leave it." Raph requested, raising the volume of his voice and taking deep breaths to avoid his head to explode.

"Raphael, when you wake up every day, you either choose to have a positive or a negative attitude in your day. It's your choice."

"Well, apparently, today I chose to have a negative one. So what?" He exclaimed with rage. His headache was growing.

Splinter sighted.

"My son, you have everything in your life. Do you know what I do? Every time I wake up, I thank for the life we have."

"The life we have? Our life sucks! We are mutants, we live in a sewer, a whole clan of ninjas wants to hurt us, and all the entities of another dimension want us dead! What part of that is the good one?" Raph couldn't stand his headache anymore. He started yelling.

"Raph don't you dare to say that! Wake up to reality! You have a family! You have us!" Leo entered to the fight.

"No Leo! You wake up! Our life it's a nightmare!" He could feel the pain in his head palpitate harder and harder.

"Then wake up from the nightmare Raph!" Donnie shouted annoyed.

"Donnie I can't freaking wake up from this nightmare! How could I?" Raph yelled as his headache grew wider and wider.

"Raph! Just open your eyes bro!" Mikey cried.

"I don't understand!" He scram.

"Why are you delaying so much my son?" Splinter asked.

"We are your family! Wake up and see it!" Leo shouted.

"Your life wouldn't be a nightmare if you just woke up!" Donnie demanded.

"You still have your eyes closed dude! Why don't you open them Raph?" Mikey asked desperately.

Raph couldn't take his headache any longer. They were all shouting at him. He couldn't take it anymore. The only thing his impulse made him do was to take out a loud scream and to fall on his knees.

Raph opened his eyes with a scream. Then, he realized that he was lying on the floor, on the sewer tunnels. All of his brothers and Splinter were surrounding him.

"Yes! He's awake!" He heard Donnie's voice.

"Raph! Are you okay? What happened?" Leo asked preoccupied.

"Dude, we thought we'd lost you!" Mikey exclaimed with tears in his eyes as he pushed his brothers aside and gave him a strong hug.

"My sons! Please give your brother some space." Splinter ordered.

Raph was still breathing heavily. What had happened to him? Why was he on the tunnels all from the sudden? The only thing he was sure about was that his head was still aching and that the pain was killing him.

Splinter asked Leo and Mikey to move aside, leaving him on the floor with Donnie.

"What happened?" Raph asked confused.

"Leo, please call April and Casey and tell them that he's awake." Donnie requested as Leo responded with a yes.

"Okay Raph, can't you remember what happened?" Donnie bean asking, as he helped his brother to sit up, laying his back on a wall.

Raph was still trying to figure out his surroundings. His heart was pounding fast. He just responded denying with his head.

"Listen, Casey told us that you went outside with him. You were talking with him on a rooftop and Mikey called you. He asked you to come back home to eat pizza. Then, Casey told us that you told him you had to go. Does that sound familiar?"

Raph nodded with his head. He remembered that.

"Donnie, I know what happened! After that, I arrived home and Master Splinter started asking me why had I delayed so much and then you all started screaming at me, telling me to wake up from a nightmare, and the last thing I remember was that I fell on my knees! My freaking question is, how did I get here?"

Donnie looked at him confused. He looked scared.

"What?" Raph yelled desperately.

"Raph, you never arrived home. After Mikey told us he would go and get you, he delayed some minutes, until Leo went to ask him what was going on and he told him everything that you told him on the phone. Leo told Master Splinter and me. Then, Mikey called you and called you, and you wouldn't respond. We then called Casey and he told us that you had left a long time ago. We went outside and looked for you for almost four hours. April and Casey were looking for you too. Mikey found you lying here. You hit your head pretty hard and you wouldn't wake up. I had to inject you some medicine to wake you up."

Raph couldn't assimilate what had happened. Did he really never arriver home? Was it all just a dream? Another hallucination?

"No. No, it can be. I remember everything perfectly. It all felt so…"

"Real?" Donnie completed the sentence. He knew that the medicine that Stockman gave him was getting worse.

Raph didn't respond to that. Then, Leo, Mikey and Splinter got close again.

"I already advice April and Casey, Donnie." Leo talked.

"Thanks."

"How are you doing Raphael?" Splinter asked.

"Well, I have nausea, I feel dizzy and my headache is getting worse, but yeah, I'm fine."

"Donatello?" Splinter requested for more information on his son's state.

"Don't worry, Master Splinter. He has a concussion, so those are all normal symptoms. I just have to give him a quick checkup in my lab and let him rest for some days, but he'll be fine."

"Well, then, let's go home." Splinter ordered.

"Can you walk?" Donnie asked.

"Sure, I'm just a little dizzy."

They all started walking home, but Mikey had still one question that was going around on his head.

"Raph…" He started.

"What Mikey?"

"If you were walking home, what were you doing at the other side of the sewers?"

Raph sighted.

"I don't know Mikey. I guess I was a little bit distracted."

Their brothers didn't know and Raph didn't want to tell them for them to worry, but he remembered clearly that on his way home he had a blurry and a double vision and that he didn't felt conscious of what he was doing.

After they went home, Donnie took Raph to the lab and closed the door.

"Do you still think that there is nothing wrong with you?" Donnie asked.

"Donnie, the only thing wrong with me is the fucking headache that I have right now, so can you please give me some ibuprofen and get this over with?"

"Seriously Raph? You fainted in the middle of the sewers, you didn't even have an idea of where were you going and you were sure that you arrived home and that we all started shouting at you to wake up and you still think that the medicine Baxter injected you had no effect?" Donnie shouted as he got out from a drawer the things he needed.

"Donnie, I told you before and I will tell you again. There was nothing in our blood, you proved it yourself, so there is nothing wrong with us, so can you please stop it?"

Donnie sighted. He was not going to have this fight again. That night, Mikey and he would steal the substance and he would prove to his brothers that he was right.

"Alright, I'm going to start the checkup, please follow the light. I'll check your pupils." Donnie said, ignoring everything Raph had told him.

Everything would be over that night when he found a cure.

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