Okay here's the thing, I've been noticing a lack of turtle centric (Not just Mikey, but all of the turtles) stories. Just simple stories where one or two brothers get into trouble, get hurt, tortured, stitched up etc. I see a lot of Au's about OC's, or AUs, sisters etc. and there's nothing wrong with that at all, don't get me wrong, but I just don't like reading them. And I'm sure I'm not the only one. So I decided to open a request story, everyone (with the exceptions of guests, sorry but I want to PM you) can request a story/one-shot. Important is that I don't have all the time in the world, so they may take some time, and I won't do everything. Make the details on the request too thorough, and I maybe won't like it, make it too vague.. you get the point. Don't be afraid to request anything, because we're all fucked up anyways :D As long as it's about Mikey, and there's something like brotherly fluff or hurt going on, no prominent OC's please, and I won't do tcest. Try to make a clear request and if you want something specific, ask: Like I want a hug moment between Leo and Mikey.

Let's see if the idea catches on, and maybe more authors will follow ^^ (And maybe it will totally flop or I can't work with the ideas, who knows. For now, I'd like to give it a try)

Requests done so far:

Chapter 1: Raph never snapped out of his mind control and Mikey is affected by this (Not a request)
Chapter 2: Leo is frustrated about his injured leg at the farm house and Mikey cheers him up.
Chapter 3: Mikey messes up and his brothers get angry at him, but not long after his brothers are in danger and Mikey sacrifices himself to save his brothers (No character Death, just injuries)
Chapter 4: Mikey was mutated in the series' finale instead of Leo. (Special request for No Guns Only Roses)
Chapter 5: Someone kidnaps Mikey because he knows Mikey has gotten powers from the mutagen, and wants to turn him in a weapon.

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Summary: Raph never broke free from his mind control and Mikey tries to protect him from his own family.

Rated T, probably M but you know my stories aren't M :D

Leo sighs, his shell against the side of the door opening, looking at the sight in front of him with a frown on his face. I close my eyes for a second, trying to make eye contact with Leo but he ignores me for a moment, only looking at his two sleeping brothers with sadness in his eyes, regret and guilt.

"Are we really doing this?" I ask eventually, causing Leo to finally acknowledge me. He looks at me, tears brimming in his eyes.

"He's suffering Don, there's no other way" This time I'm the one who looks away, my gaze wandering to my only little brother sleeping with a troubled face. "They both are". I nod absently, knowing the mental state my little brother was in right now. I slowly walk up to him, shaking his shoulders lightly.

"Mikey" I mutter, careful not to wake Raph up as well. He groans, blinking a couple of times before his blue eyes focus on me.

"What?" He asks, eyes flickering to the still sleeping form of Raph and then back to me. The small glimmer of hope that had been present just seconds ago gone. Because he knew Raph's condition hadn't changed yet. He seemed fine right now, sleeping on his own bed, with Mikey guarding him.

But underneath the blankets was a different story. There were skinny arms, muscle disappearing from the lack of movement, for 6 months. Restraints around his fragile wrists to keep him from running off, back to the Shredder. And a constant headache because of the turmoil of having two minds inside of one.

Raph and Shredder's minion, dark Raph.

"We need to talk to you" Leo steps in, glancing at the sleeping figure of Raph. "In private" Mikey frowns at the urgent tone in his voice, and reluctantly stands up, walking out of the door without waiting for us.

I glance at Leo for a second, silently communication at the suspicion that Mikey already knew what was going on, or had the feeling that something was going on. Because he always had a sense for when bad things were about to happen. Like the night he was getting restless and uneasy, the night Raph was captured.

Or when he didn't trust Raph being back to his old self. And we did.

I rub at my arm, the scar still there from Raph… Dark Raph attacking us that night. When we released his restraints without listening to Mikey, and he slashed me up pretty bad. Irony in the whole situation that Mikey was the one to actually take Raph down in the end, while he had been the one pleading not to hurt him.

Struck him at the back of the head while glaring furiously at the both of us. He hasn't spoken to us for days after that had happened, but then again, he hasn't spoken to us that much after we captured Raph and brought him back to our lair, desperately trying to bring the real Raph back.

But failing every time.

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"Hear me out" Leo says, watching as Mikey sits down in the dojo. "Raph is suffering, both Raph's are. And we have no way of curing him" The orange clad turtle blinks one time, then another. Not getting where Leo was hinting at, or he just didn't want to accept it.

"It's been six months, you can see the damage on his body" The decreasing muscle, the sick complexion. "Neither of them has lived in the past 6 months Mikey, they are suffering, we know Raph is still conscious in there…" I add, painfully remembering spoonfeeding Raph in an attempt to keep him alive, and in the end feeding him through an IV as he refused to eat.

After 1 month of imprisonment he already wanted to die, Dark Raph wanted to die. He knew we wouldn't let him go, but we wouldn't let him die either.

Clinging onto the tiny possibility that Raph would come back.

"Just say it, I can handle it" Mikey scowls and I wince at the harsh tone.

"We want to let Raph rest"

…

It only takes a few seconds for Mikey to process what Leo was implying exactly. Immediately his face contorted in an angry glare.

"No" He stands up, ignoring me completely as he walks up to Leo. "Don't even think I'm letting you touch him, or you!" He growls, directing his gaze towards me for a second before turning back to Leo. The latter doesn't back down, standing his ground as Mikey almost touches his beak with his own, glaring the entire time.

"Mikey, he's suffering. You just can't see it"

"And I don't care!" Mikey yells back at me, now walking up to me with narrowed eyes. I cautiously take a step back but Mikey just takes another step forwards. "You are not killing him" He snares, but I keep my face neutral. He's grown taller too in the last 6 months, almost at Leo's height right now.

"Let's.. wait a few days" Leo says cautiously, glancing at me. I frown, he's trying to tell me something. So I nod, taking another step back. Mikey keeps glaring, this time directed at Leo.

"We're giving him as many days as he needs" Mikey mutters, turning his shell to me and walking out of the door. I knew where he was heading, Raph's room again. A place he's been a lot in the last months. I sigh, turning to Leo and waiting for him to start.

"Did you notice that he was shaking?" He asks me and I blink, shaking my head. "He was, and he was very tense"

"Mental breakdown?" I ask and Leo nods, I curse. "Not again" I mutter, sitting down on the ground, head in my hands.

"I don't know for sure but he did the exact same thing a few weeks after…" he stops himself, sitting down next to me and throwing an arm around me, bringing me closer.

"I miss him" I suddenly mumble, glancing at the photo on the shelf, next to dad's picture of him, Tang Shen and Miwa. His smiling face, now as a rat and surrounded by the four of us.

Leo sighs next to me. "I do too Don" I know it's harder for Leo that he's gone, Leo was the head of the family now, he had to make the important decisions. It was a burden I would never want to carry on my shoulders.

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"Careful, he probably suspects we're coming after them" Leo whispers and I nod, following him silently and blending in with the shadows. The only thing visible was a vague outline and the white eyes that were focused on the windows leading to Shredder's lair.

Leo signs for me to come closer before pointing at the window. I nod, not needing any words to know what Leo was referring to. I place the tool on the glass, easily cutting through the glass. Carefully I remove it, sticking my hand through the newly created hole and opening the window from the inside. Silently we slip inside, making no noise at all.

I narrow my eyes, crouching down at the ledge. Shredder was nowhere to be seen, but we knew he was in Japan right now. Instead Rahzar and Fishface were near the throne, not even on high alert, with multiple foot bots guarding the room. Leo signs again and I nod, jumping after him the moment he jumps down.

"The turtles!" Fish Face screams, drawing his blade and running towards me, while Rahzar is running straight at Leo. I easily dodge the blade, knocking it out of his hands with my staff.

"Where's Stockman?" I growl, jumping away as Fish face aims a kick at me. I jab my staff near his gills, making him yell in protest. Immediately I spin around, hitting the foot boots that were approaching me, slicing them in half. I dodge Fish Face again, getting rid of the foot bots first. I can see that Leo has the same plan and within minutes all of them are down.

"Tell me, where are your brothers?" Rahzar snickers, only ticking Leo off further. He charges, knocking Rahzar down and wrapping a chain around him, effectively dying him down, and I do the same with Fish Face.

"Where is Stockman?" Leo asks this down and Rahzar growls at him. Leo growls right back, striking the mutant wolf with his fist and knocking him out. He glares at Fish Face but the mutant doesn't take the opportunity to talk. He looks at me, and I easily bring my bo staff down on his head.

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We eventually find him in the basement in Shredder's lair, in a makeshift lair after we destroyed it 6 months ago. And I'm grateful that it's a different room, I didn't know if I could visit the room where dad was…

"Aargh!" Stockman screams as rope suddenly wraps around his arms and wings, keeping him rooted on the ground. Granted he has never been too much of a fighter so taking him down was fairly easy. However, the moment when we approach him he starts to snicker, like he knows something we don't.

"You know why we're here" Leo states with a confident voice.

"Then that means he's still under the control of the brain worm" Stockman replies with a smug undertone, buzzing throughout the sentence.

"And what do you know about that" I glare, pointing the blade in my bo staff at his throat.

"I know that it's already too late to save him, the brain work makes his way into the brain within 2 weeks, removing the brain worm means killing him." He buzzes again. "Not even a doctor could safely remove it, your brother is gone"

The blade had disappeared into his throat the moment Leo nodded at me.

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Not even a doctor could safely remove it, your brother is gone; and so was the mind that was transferred into Raph's body. He couldn't escape the foreign body either. So they were stuck, both wanting release.

Someone groans softly and immediately I snap my gaze to the source of the sound, staring into two green eyes.

"Raph?" I ask with uncertainty laced in my voice, hesitantly I reach for his hand, squeezing it gently.

"Mikey?" His voice is troubled, raspy and I nod, tears jumping in my eyes. I knew it was him, I knew it was the real Raph.

"Is that really you?" And yet I still asked. "Tell me something only you can know"

Tears welled up in Raph's eyes as well, conflicted between being confused and happy. Confused why Dark Raph suddenly let him have control, why he had suddenly won the battle over Dark Raph. But happiness because for the first time in so many months, he could talk again and control his own body.

"We used to sing each other a lullaby when we were younger" Raph whispers and that's the only thing I need before I wrap my arms around him, squeezing him tightly. Tears stream down my face but I hide my face in the crook of his neck. We stay silent for a moment until Raph groans again.

"What's wrong?" I ask immediately, untangling myself from the hug.

"Headache, he's still fightin'" Raph mutters and I sigh, feeling the smile leave my face. "The restraints?" He weakly pulls at them, fingers trembling as he suddenly moves his hand to his own will.

I shake my head, feeling the tears fall down "How much did you hear, Don suspected… but he didn't know for sure"

This time it's Raph who casts his head away. "Every time he was awake I could see hear everythin', see everything'..." He stops, but I know what he's trying to say, he was fully conscious the entire time, there was just someone else controlling his body. He couldn't decide where he looked at, when he closed his eyes, how he moved…

"Then you know why I can't remove them" I whisper, tears appearing in my eyes once again. "I missed you so much Aniki". His expression falters, tears falling down his cheeks, I reach for his hand, wrapping mine around it and squeezing it tightly in reassurance.

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"And?" I ask as Mikey walks out of the door, there's conflict in his eyes, conflicted between being happy, angry or sad. He looks at me, still with anger in his eyes but he sighs.

"It was him" His voice is so vulnerable, relieved but broken at the same time. "I told you he was still there.. there's still a chance" I sigh at the comment but decide not to argue with him. Not after this, so I don't, instead I walk up to him, wrapping my arms tight around him, squeezing him against me.

He accepts silently, wrapping his arms around my body as well, burying his face in my plastron.

"I don't want him to die" He sobs, voice muffled. I squeeze my eyes shut, Raph and I may fight a lot, and have plenty of arguments but he was my brother, and we loved each other like no other human sibling could. We grew up together with no contact with others, we only had the four of us and dad.

But I couldn't get myself to verbally agree.

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"Don?" I close my eyes as Mikey calls my name, lowering my gaze in shame. "Why isn't Raph in his bed?' There was a sharp tone in his voice, an accusing one. I stay silent, because I knew that Mikey had already figured it out. But he of course wouldn't take silence for an answer, and the next thing i know is being spun around.

"Don" He growls this time, glaring at me with tears in his eyes. "Where is Raphael?"

I try to lower my gaze again but he grabs my face, forcing me to look at him, like a mother scolding a child. And Mikey was pissed.

"I'm sorry" I whisper, tears welling up in my eyes and the next thing I know is a fist connecting to my head, I stumble, falling off my chair and onto the ground, landing on my wrist at an awkward angle.

"HOW COULD YOU?!" Mikey screams, jumping on my body and delivering another punch to my mouth, blood exploding from my mouth. "HOW COU-"

"MIKEY!" A sharp voice suddenly interrupted him and an arm wrapped around Mikey's torso, pulling him backwards. The orange turtle lands on his shell, blinking a few times and looking at Leo until a glare returns to his face.

"YOU BASTARD!" He growls, his anger suddenly directed at Leo and he swings his arm, Leo barely able to block it before it hits his face. I jump up, running to the syringes as quickly as I could. "HE WAS YOUR BROTHER, OUR BROTHER!" Mikey screamed, and a sudden grunt from Leo was heard.

"He was suffering Mikey!" Leo shouts back, but significantly calmer than the youngest of the family.

"YOU WANTED HIM DEAD, DIDN'T YOU?!" At this Leo staggers back, hurt in his eyes that he did not often display, but I knew that it hurt more than every punch Mikey could ever deliver.

"I never wanted him-" Mikey punches him straight in the jaw before delivering a powerful kick to his side, causing Leo to grumble to the ground.

"HE WAS FAMILY, HOW COULD YOU JUST KILL HIM LIKE THAT?!" He pulls his arms backwards again but before he can hit Leo again, the needle has already disappeared in his neck. He struggles, and he struck out towards me with his fist, but I quickly block him, taking a step back. He spins around, delivering a kick to the back of my knees.

I yell, my knee falling out beneath me but Leo suddenly wraps his arms around Mikey's plastron again, pulling Mikey's shell against his plastron.

"LET ME GO! YOU'RE MURDERS" He thrashes as much as he could but the sedative was quickly overpowering him, tears started streaming down his face. "You killed him, he was my brother" His voice seemed to be stuck in his throat, and it only came out as a high pitched voice.

Slowly his struggles lessened until he completely fell limp, slumping against Leo's body. The blue clad turtle fell down almost, keeping Mikey in his hold and buried his face in the youngest' shoulders, crying. Don wrapped his arms around the two, sobbing at the possibility of having lost not one brother, but two.

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"He was angry at you, he told me" Dark Raph says tiredly and Leo looks at him with a murderous look. I put a hand on his hand, calming him down. Leo sighs, taking a deep breath before nodding.

"Do you know why?" I ask with a flat voice and Dark Raph eventually nods. A silence ensues for a couple of minutes.

"We both want to be free" He admits after the silence and I nod, already knowing this. "You could let me go"

"You know we won't, Raph is still in there" Leo retorts with a glare, crossing his arms over his chest. Dark Raph sighs, closing his eyes a little too long for it to be considered blinking. He carefully tests his bonds, but again they don't give in.

"You want to kill me" He suddenly conducts without any emotion in his voice, because he was content with the thought. I lower my head in shame, it was one thing to discuss it with Leo... "Do it" I look up, gazing in his eyes, Raph's eyes, but at the same time, it wasn't my brother. It was someone else.

"I know Shredder is dead, and I know that the Brain worm can't be removed after all these months. And you're not letting me go. I don't want to live my life like this forever. If that means dying, so be it" There was absolutely no remorse or sadness in his voice, just defeat he was trying to cover up.

Leo continues to glare at him. "And what do we gain from killing you?"

"The knowledge that your brother isn't suffering anymore" He says sharply. We stay silent for a while, were we really about to agree to this? "I can let you talk to your brother in personal"

My eyes widen at the sentence, talk to my immediate older brother? For the first time in 5 months. Because that's how long it had been, 5 months. He had managed to fight Dark Raph for a month a couple of times, breaking free and being able to talk to us. But after a month Dark Raph became too strong, and Raph became weaker every single day.

"What's the catch?" Leo asks, his eyes narrowed in suspicion.

"That you promise to kill me afterwards."

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We knew that we did the right thing, our talk with Raph had confirmed our thoughts and plans of killing Dark Raph, and ultimately Raph as well. And when Dark Raph allowed Raph to take control for the first time in 5 months, we talked, about a lot of stuff. The past, the future and the present. We talked for hours, alone and later on Raph talked with Leo as well.

And with the three of us, and eventually with Mikey as well. Though he didn't know that it was all a setup, that it was planned, and that we had already talked to us. Not like it mattered, he wouldn't've called us either way to talk to Raph as well.

But one thing became clear in our conversation, it was that Raph would choose dying over living the rest of his life like this any other day. We knew this, Mikey knew this, because Raph told us. He'd forgive us if we killed him, if we'd free him from this constant suffering.

So we killed him.

That was 3 months ago, and Mikey still hasn't talked to us.

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For the record, that was the last time I'm killing anyone from the Hamato family in this story and probably in the rest of my stories.