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What: Probably the most awkward, hormone-spiked bath ever
When: March 31st, during the Unofficial Derpturtle Sleepover
Where: House 55
Summary: Robert has just the luck to be turned into a mutant red-eared slider in the middle of spring mating season, which, needless to say, is making everything a little awkward. Especially when he's been in the same house as his boyfriend (and his family) for a few days. And then, of course, he's neglecting to keep himself hydrated, so clearly Don has to get him into a bath. ~~This won't turn awkward or fail miserably at all.~~
Rating: F for Fail. No, really, it's probably going to get into NC-17 territory, though knowing how much Robert and Don suck at emotional stuff, anything along those lines will likely be awkward and abortive.

So how uncomfortable is it to be in your partner's house in the middle of a mating season while simultaneously being aware of how much the rest of his family dislikes you?

Very uncomfortable, that's how uncomfortable. And that is why Robert has completely immersed himself in work on his nanocomputer, both to ignore the subtle anxiety of the various Hamatos not named Donatello looking at him disapprovingly and to try to suppress the increasingly-urgent desire to do more than just cuddle with Donatello. It was decidedly unprofessional to feel like that... and, truth be told, Robert was more than a little nervous about the idea. Eight years of self-imposed cloistered distance from people meant that sexuality was something he hadn't really ever gotten a chance to envision as anything more than furtive, broken fantasies. Never mind that his emotional abilities were skewed enough and most of his fantasies ended up depressing him somewhat because they were about Benjamin... though, the subject of them had, admittedly, changed somewhat in three months.

Okay, changed a lot.

Clearly this mental topic deserved to be crushed down in favour of typing even more fiercely at the ergonomically-designed miniature keyboard of his nanocomputer. Never mind that only having two fingers was kind of throwing him off his typing stride. Never mind the strange lethargy and general illness he felt. I have to distract my mind from this...

Somebody more knowledgeable of turtles - for example, an actual turtle - might realize Robert's more than a little dehydrated right now. That's what happens when you isolate yourself in a house where people tend to congregate around the kitchen and steadfastly refuse to do anything but work in a desperate attempt to push the hormone-induced thoughts out of your head. (And it's funny, because Robert normally wouldn't deny thoughts like this. But there isn't anywhere private enough to indulge them...)

Anybody feel like wresting him from his engrossed state at the nanocomputer?

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Okay, cue awkward turning-around time in a narrow bathtub. Robert half-stands to make sure his shell doesn't catch on the edge, turns, and sits down again unsteadily, causing the water level to waver around their midsections. In the process, he whacks his shell off the wall again... Curiosity may have killed the cat, but all it does for a turtle is make him repeatedly smack his shell off of things.

But who cares, he has a boyfriend to kiss. The scientist-turned-turtle scoots forward a little, pressing himself against Don - that's odd when your frame doesn't yield quite so much anymore - and brings his hands up to his cheeks to reflexively stroke them. Both hands, this time, not just one. It's the awkward result of both Robert's own tendency to do this and the turtle instincts telling him to do this for his mate.

He eventually stills one hand, using it to almost-delicately cup Don's cheek, and presses his own beak against Don's, softly. At least it wasn't a slow-moving headbutt this time.

The other hand continues to stroke Don's cheek slowly, caressing around his eye ridges and the edge of his jaw with almost-sensuous movements... well, as sensuous as Robert can get, anyway.

Kissing Don like this is a lot different from kissing him as a human - their mouths are about the same size, for starters, so there's less of a threat of Don's mouth essentially engulfing his face. That, and insistent desire, means that Robert's kiss this time is more hungry than it's been before, and he might actually be panting slightly in the process.

Robert does not mind this at all. He whimpers faintly - as much as a turtle can whimper - and presses into him, closer, closer, so close - a little part of Robert's brain, completely detached from what's actually occurring, sits and watches and notes just how close this is and how much could go horribly, horrendously, painfully badly.

The rest doesn't actually care.

He kisses wetly at Don's beak, his hands meandering across that skin that right now matches his own, and lets himself feel wanted, feel safe, feel perfect for this brief span of time where he's in his lover's arms and apparently doing something right. Apparently. If this experimental evidence is anything to go by.

He shifts his pelvis, more so that his tail isn't crushed against the back of the tub and can swell more or less in peace between his thighs (and part of him realizes how familiar that sensation is as a human), and lets his hands run over Don's plastron in response. This touch is more blatantly erotic - if Don hasn't figured out Robert has something of a fetish for this, he might realize it now if he's coherent enough - and longing, with Robert's fingers sliding down his smooth scaled abdomen and then gliding back upwards in circular motions that belie just how much Robert wants to stroke lower.

Wrong? Where exactly is the wrongness in this? It feels right. Objectively there doesn't seem to be any argument against this either.

"D-Don..." Robert murmurs breathlessly. "I-I... want you... E-Exceedingly so..." His voice is small and, if it's possible for it to be, sexy. He doesn't exactly speak very long, though - just goes back to kissing him lustfully, perhaps even employing his tongue if Don doesn't have a problem. And from the looks of things, Don doesn't have a problem with much of anything right now.

Robert won't get much answer aside from some grunting, and a rough shove that smacks his shell back against the edge of the tub. Don moves forward into the space, grabbing again at Robert's arms. The message reads like a very definite I want you too, but the animal emptiness in Don's eyes might make Robert second-guess who exactly is accepting his offer.

Splinter could have hear you two horny brats from halfway across the house, especially after Robert's shell thumps against the wall. He immediately goes to see what sort of trouble is going on, and can easily recognize the sounds from walking in on his sons before. Except that there is more than one voice within that room.

He doesn't knock, but suddenly, the door is open, and a very angry rat is standing just inside the bathroom watching his son manhandle his boyfriend. A very angry rat that, despite his diminutive 4'10" height, looks about ready and able to skin them both alive with his cane.

"DONATELLO! ROBERT! What is the meaning of this funny business?!"

That's three times Robert's shell hit the wall now, actually. If anybody's counting. Splinter might have been.

If Splinter's paying attention over his own yelling, he might be able to hear Robert's soft, nearly-terrified whimpering. After all, he certainly didn't expect to be shoved onto his shell, and those eyes of Donatello's have nothing but pure feral lust in them. Even Robert can tell what that means. And honestly, he's more than a little frightened. His small, broken voice pleads, "D-Donatello, p-please, i-if you wanted me to l-lay down I would have done s-so... gladly..."

He trails off, of course, when he hears the shouting, and manages to turn his head enough to choke out, "M-Master Splinter?"

Robert gives Splinter something of a desperate look. A look that reads "can you please stop your son from raping me, I don't like it very much".

Don looks up sharply when the door flies open, and grunts out a, "Hrgh?"

Exactly two seconds later he snaps back to himself, looks at Robert, looks at Splinter, and throws himself back against the opposite wall with a room-shaking slam and a rug-soaking splash. He scrabbles for -- well, nothing, his fingers making ineffectual plinking noises in the suddenly-shallower water, and then he covers his face with his hands and curls in on himself.

Please do skin him alive, Master Splinter. You'd be doing him a favor.

Splinter hadn't been counting, but the multiple thumps had still gained his attention.

Splinter will do no such thing--not today. He has another punishment already in mind. It's impossible to remain angry at their reactions, seeing the horror in both their faces, but Splinter makes a good show of it.

He looks pointedly at Donatello, despite how his son is curled up on himself. "Donatello--Dojo, flips, now!"

Robert's horror grows more palpable as Don practically rips away from him and smashes into the opposite wall before defensively curling in on himself. He ruined it, didn't he? Granted, being raped wasn't ethical in the least, but...

But... He didn't want Donatello to go.

Robert reaches out one hand abortively to Donatello's coiled-inward body, though it freezes when Splinter barks his orders, and instead he pulls back into the opposite side of the tub, instinctively coiling inward a little himself. He sobs softly; he can't help it. The shock of everything going from wonderful to horrible in an instant is almost too much for his emotionally-stunted mind to comprehend.

And he's utterly terrified of Splinter's likely reaction to all this.

Don gives Robert one more wide-eyed, terror-stricken look, then bolts out of the tub, dodges around Splinter, and vanishes.

He will go after Donatello for a moment, but for now, he is not the one that is the worst off of the two. Donatello was not the one that was nearly raped. Hormones are perhaps something to laugh at for humans, a sort of awkward progression from adolescence to adulthood, but that iis not the case for turtles. Their hormones arestronger and make for far more dangerous reactions.

It is obvious that his son had not warned Robert of the strength of instinct. That Robert did not understand the instincts of his own turtle body. Splinter would fill in for what Donatello did not say.

And then, once satisfied that Robert understood, he would go and sooth his gentlest son's spirit. Robert was merely startled and scared--something that could be easily cured. Donatello's wounds would take longer to heal, but could wait for the moment.

Splinter stalked through the water on the floor and reached a hand towards Robert--

--placing it gently on his head.

"Do not engage my son during Spring, or he may do something that he regrets." The tone was scolding, but there was an odd gentleness to it (he had nearly been raped, after all, Splinter told himself). "You would do best to keep your hands to yourself while you are in our home!"

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It's not that Robert doesn't know about how hormones can be powerful. After all, he's an astrobiologist; he knows that they can be extremely potent in other species. But it was more the suddenness of it that had thrown him off. How he'd been in Don's arms one second, and the next flat on his back.

His own disconnect from his instincts means that the turtle instincts he has are getting more or less pushed aside. He's only barely cognizant even of his human instincts.

That hand going toward Robert's head? Robert just cringes. He doesn't make any attempt to move away from what he expects is a strike. And yet, it isn't. It's just a gentle touch on the head.

The owner of that hand is still terrifying though, so Robert isn't un-cringing anytime soon. He still looks decidedly anxious. However, he finds his voice enough to speak - somewhat audibly, if not shakily.

"... M-Master Splinter, sir... th-the issue i-isn't him being sexual with me. The issue is how... v-violent that was. And s-sudden.

He d-didn't need to push me down." Robert's voice is nearly plaintive.

He sobers at the second part though. "Honestly... I h-hadn't expected such... suddenness... but, I apologize. I was the one who... r-requested his permission for the initial contact. I suppose I... shouldn't have done so... But I didn't expect that it would... h-happen like that."

Robert's gaze travels down, across the stripes on his arms. He's ashamed of how unprofessional he was, how much he needed Donatello... How wonderful it had been and how it felt like he'd ruined it with his own foolish needs.

"... I'm... not used to being so aroused all the time..." I'm used to being in control.

Really, this whole situation was reminding him of the drugs.

Splinter sighs tiredly and removes his hand. He seems more irritated than angry now. Why were all of his sons capable of such foolishness? Even Leonardo was likely capable of such lapses in judgment if he met the right... woman. Or man, as it may seem.

He does his best to ignore how blunt Robert is being about what had happened. There are some things that Splinter would rather not know. The details of this are some of them. The rat's eyelid twitches.

"Then you know for the future to be more cautious," Splinter states dryly. "Donatello is also not used to being aroused by someone."

He was going to have a migraine after this was all said and done.

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The approach was cringe-inducingly clumsy, but the kiss itself works out much better than Don would have imagined. And that touching... Parts of Don's brain turn on, other parts turn off, some kind of low noise starts up in the back of his throat, and then his hands are everywhere, pawing gracelessly at Robert's arms and shoulders and plastron, just needing to put his mark on him.

"Robert," he gasps into the other turtle's mouth, and loses himself again... but a moment later he's back, rallying enough higher brain functions to push Robert firmly away. "Rob, we shouldn't be doing this. Not right now." As he says it, he climbs to his feet, sending the water sloshing crazily from one end of the tub to the other. He has to get out, before he forgets why he's leaving.

[Starting over from Robert-kissing-Don because of mutual regret over the direction of the thread. Original version will stay there because of the muns' laziness and determination to never delete anything.]

Robert whimpers faintly at the obvious - even for his crippled emotional abilities - display of desire, reciprocating with gentle but sensual touches to Don's body, caressing the smooth scales like each one is some kind of priceless gem, and kissing wetly, hungrily at his beak until Don breaks away.

It doesn't make sense. Everything was going right, wasn't it? He wasn't doing a bad job, right?

... Right?

"D-Don...?" Robert mewls, looking up at him almost piteously as the other turtle stumbles out of the bathtub like he suddenly doesn't want to be in Robert's proximity anymore. "What... what's wrong?" Did I do something you didn't want?

Suddenly Robert is hideously ashamed of himself. Did he let this desperate need, this need that reminds him so much of the drugs, take over him and make him do something stupid, yet again?

Even as Donatello makes for the door, Robert makes an abortive attempt to sort of reach over to him. Obviously he isn't going to be able to make any kind of contact, and his hand halts mid-trajectory.

Defeatedly, he whispers, "I'm... sorry..." to nobody, and then just curls back against the tub.

How could he have been such a barbarian?

Don almost moves back to the tub when Robert reaches out, as though that hand were exerting a magnetic force, but he stops himself, instead grabbing a towel and busying his own hands with it.

"Nothing's wrong. Just - " He squeezes his eyes closed. "Not during an experiment. Never during an experiment..." He turns abruptly, pressing himself against the door, and chokes out a few more words. "I want my first time to be with you..."

Then he jerks the door open and flings himself through it. He pulls it closed again behind him, but too hard, and it bounces back to crash against the opposite wall before wobbling to a halt, half ajar, leaving Robert with a view of Don's rapidly-retreating shell.

Robert is honestly stymied by those last, hurried, hushed words. 'With you'. With... his human self? With the body that wasn't what would probably be more ideal for Don?

...

What did that mean? Did... Was he actually...

It's nearly unfathomable. If Don knew what Robert was thinking about, and took into account how he'd questioned earlier how a human could be interested in him, he might appreciate the irony of Robert now wondering how Don could be interested in... well... the human body he normally had.

He wasn't anything interesting to look at as a human. Frankly he was pretty unappealing. At least as a turtle he had interesting colour patterns and his chest wasn't nearly so horribly scrawny...

Robert doesn't really have any words that wouldn't be an endless diatribe of questions. But instead of asking any of them, he sits there and watches Don walk away and feels some strange little pain in his stomach. It's a confused blend of... elation and surprise and desire and shame and irrational guilt for not being something specifically existing for the purpose of fulfilling every facet of Don's existence.

Robert's going to need some serious therapy one of these days.

He may need more therapy once Splinter is done with him. Splinter had overheard more than he had ever wanted to, and it was not good. While he knew that Donatello and Robert would eventually engage in intimate contact, they were not ready. And they had ignored his explicit instructions about that matter!

Splinter hadn't heard the entire thing, but had heard enough to know who had started it all. Donatello had merely succumbed to his hormones, then successfully fought against him. Robert had been the instigator.

Suddenly, Splinter is in the doorway, then stepping through the doorway, and finally closing the door behind him. He does not look pleased. The rat steps just to the edge of the pool of water splashed onto the floor, leaning on his can, and stares at Robert.

The rat doesn't say anything. He just stares. And stares. And stares.

It takes Robert quite awhile to realize that Splinter's even there. That's how absorbed he is in the enormity of the statement. Don... likes his human body...

Does Don find him attractive like that? It'd be the first time in such a long time that he felt attractive to anybody...

Eventually he glances up and notices Splinter's presence. No, he does not look happy. But Robert doesn't know why.

His gray, striped eyes slide up to meet the rat's gaze. He holds it for a few moments before social anxiety makes him drop it again.

"... Ah. Master Splinter, sir.

... Salutations?"

Really, why does Splinter look so angry?

Splinter is angry, yes. But it is only a momentary angry, and not one that will fester for a long time. They were stupid, but hormones were partially to blame. A cold comfort, really--except that Robert didn't know him well enough to tell the difference.

"I believe I remember wishing for you two to be discreet," Splinter states, making sure to pronounce every word. "For neither of you are ready."

"My apologies, sir. I did not think we would be a... disturbance. But I am relatively clumsy in this body, and I suppose hitting my shell on things was unpleasantly loud...

That and I suppose I am... unaccustomed to the intensity of these hormonal surges..." Robert lets a striped hand meander to his chin. His tone is so even, it's as though he was talking about something completely mundane.

The next thing kind of makes him blink in confusion and some mild apprehension. "With all due respect, sir, wouldn't it be up to Don's and my discretion as to whether we were "ready" for any particular part of a relationship?

... Granted, all of it would of course have to be mutually agreed-upon, and at any rate I feel Don should have the authority to dictate when he feels comfortable..." He was the less experienced one. The logic would thus run that Don would be the one who would need a greater adjustment period. But this is something Robert is entirely prepared to accept.

Splinter makes a rather odd expression during the course of Robert's reply. He'd rather not think about it in detail. He'd really rather not think about it in detail.

"Perhaps if you were in your body. It is Spring, and your hormones are--" Splinter makes an awkward gesture with his hand, trying to remain angry through his embarrassment; he stops speaking for a few moments before he starts again. "Donatello's... body... is telling him he is ready when he is not. It would be inappropriate and rude to push this further so soon."

There. He managed to say it.

Robert, with his brilliant inability to read expressions and emotions, has absolutely no idea that Splinter finds the topic bothersome at all, in any way, shape, or form. He doesn't even see any reason why it should be bothersome.

"He did explain to me that this is technically mating season for his subspecies," Robert notes almost brightly, still in a manner that indicates that this is a completely normal thing to be talking about. "Theoretically, at least. It certainly explained why I was feeling aroused all the time..." He muses a little to himself, still candid as ever. "It's quite a bit different from a human body, in that sense. Fascinating..."

He sobers a little. "But I don't wish to be a bother to him. If he would be uncomfortable with the prospect, then the only ethical thing to do would be to wait for a point where he felt comfortable with sexuality." Even if Robert's body is hungry for it, he's not going to push the issue, ever. He just isn't that kind of person.

"... Besides, he specifically stipulated that it should not happen during an experiment." And while Robert isn't sure why Don would prefer his skinny, pale, scarred, unpleasant-by-most-accounts human body over this foreign-but-considerably-nicer-looking turtle frame, he wants to make Don happy. He wants to make Don loved.

"... But if you have any other concerns..."

Robert doesn't realize the entire situation is a concern to Splinter.

Splinter stared at Robert. Throughout this entire conversation, Splinter had been faintly horrified that Robert was being so candid about this matter. However, now the conversation was straying into the territory of things Splinter did not wish to know about his son's boyfriend. He had left the opening for Robert to elaborate, but he was still incapable of comprehending someone without the least bit of discretion regarding sexual matters.

There were things that should be discussed with partners and never with said partner's father.

A good ninja knew when to strategically retreat. This was a perfect example of when to do so.

"No, no," Splinter spoke quickly. "My concerns are alleviated for now. Please, enjoy your bath."

That lack of discretion comes mostly from the fact that Robert both expects and appreciates the idea of Splinter wanting to know his son's sexual history. To him, it's as mundane as asking what time he's going to come back home from a social function - it's something that, as Don's father, he should express interest in purely because it's something that factors into the health of his child.

And he has no way of knowing otherwise.

"Ah, well, I'm glad to hear that...

If you ever have any other concerns, please feel free to voice them."

Robert is left with the distinct impression that something he didn't quite get has occurred again.

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Ignore the alternate timeline up there. This is what really happens.

Blame me, I am a moron

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