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[i_speak_softly]

Who: i_speak_softly, gaijin_ninja, and thesevencodes
What: Missing Mikey
When: Shortly after Mike disappears
Where: In and around C6
Summary: Mike is gone. Time for the remaining Turtles to close ranks, angst communally, and hate all outsiders.
Rating: PG-13, at least

Don climbs the stairs to the roof slowly. As he expected, Raph is still there, looking over the village as twilight gathers. He's been there all day, watching the horizon like a lonely wife on a widow's-walk. Like Michelangelo will appear out there in the blue, and come back to them.

He won't. Don feels it. Last time Mike was only kidnapped, taken to another part of this damned prison-world, but this time he's gone. Solitary vigil won't do them any good now. They need to be together, to take stock, to figure out how they're going to get through this.

"Raph. Come inside."

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He doesn't know what to do anymore. He's been sitting here for hours turning this over in his mind.

Hopeless. Powerless. Gone.

Out of all of them, Mike loved this place the most. Out of all of them, Mike deserved to be here the most. The sunlight, the freedom, the opportunity to live and be treated like a person - it was something they always dreamed about.

Those bastards had no right taking it away from him.

And Raph feels so damn dirty that he's still here.

So he sits there 'til the darkness steals the sun, and it feels right to have his own blood caked on his hands.

But Don's voice snaps him out of his daze, and he unfolds just enough to blink owlishly at his figure. He must've been sitting there for hours the way his joints ache.

But manages to stand, hollow-eyed and empty-handed, silhouetted by the setting sun.