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Title: Borrowing a Memory
Author: Jordan Herbert
Warnings: Spoilers for the episode 'Same as it Never Was' season three
Pairing: Mentioning of Raph/Don
Fandom: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Rating: Pg-13
Word Count: 370
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and that makes me sad sometimes until I realize I can still write using them. Yay!
Author's Note: Written for 100_situationsprompt # 13: Borrow and based off of this picture drawn by the ever talented AmeMusashi

He rarely visited the lair anymore. It was too depressing to see the remains of what use to be a fully functional home below the city. It made Raph angry to think of all the wasted technology collecting dust; all of Don’s hard work going unused. If he was at all technologically smart he would have tried to use some of the electrical gizmos.

Instead, he was ransacking what was once his room for another bandana. He finally found the small collection of cloth and grinned triumphantly. Now all he had to do was sew one of the eye holes closed and he’d have the spares he desperately needed.

As he walked through the main part of his departed home, he stopped and stared at the open room that was Donnie’s. He missed his brother so much it seemed to physically hurt his heart.

He slowly walked to the room and inhaled the smell of sweat, dust, and what was once Don’s own scent. Maybe he’d be lucky enough to find Don’s old bandanas and grab one as a keepsake.

Raph pillaged through Don’s closet and lucked out better than he had thought when he pulled out an old jacket. He took the jacket out and frowned as he stared at a broken spare Bo Staff that was serving as a makeshift hanger. Raph thumbed the Bo Staff and stared at the jacket. He remembered when Don had worn the article of clothing when they had gone out one night to try and get into a club. Raph wanted to go for the chance to dance with Don. Don had wanted to go just to make Raph happy. It had been a wonderful night.

Pressing the jacket to his face, Raph inhaled deeply. “Donnie,” he whispered as he stroked the soft cloth. The smell was only of Don. “You may be gone, but I’ll still have a piece of you with me.” Raph decided as he pulled the jacket on and stuffed his bandanas into the pocket. He knew that Don’s scent wouldn’t last but Raph was sure that, soon enough, his and Don’s smell would blend together. In the time that their combined smell lasted, he would be happy.

Title: Sweet Kiss of Death
Author: Jordan Herbert
Warnings: Spoilers for the episode 'Same as it Never Was' season three
Pairing: Hinting OT4
Fandom: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Rating: Pg-13 for death
Word Count: 600
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and that makes me sad sometimes until I realize I can still write using them. Yay!
Author's Note: Written for 100_situationsprompt # 22: Beggar and the idea is purely candiedsquirrelfrom this post; I just wrote it out for her! <3

If he still had the ability to talk, he would be wailing for his fallen brothers. Donatello can only hope that he will regain his missing voice when he joins his brothers in the after world. Hopefully, he’ll get the missing half of his shell back from Bishop there as well.

Bishop; the man had caused so much more damage than he had ever expected. Instead of protecting the earth from aliens, he had abducted Donatello thirty years prior to the current moment and allowed an alien dictator to take over the world with a cruel hand.

It was not the time to dwell on the past though. All of Donatello’ focus is on the present and his future, which he is planning on cutting short. He holds the knife to his wrist and prepares to make the necessary cut only to have the knife go through his wrist. His arm has become translucent. In fact, his entire body has for a moment.

And then he is in the lair; the lair thirty years ago and looking at his family, his entire family, including a younger version of himself. No one says anything at first and he knows he’s unable to so he simply starts to sign, knowing that he taught himself the mute language at the very age he was seeing himself at.

The younger Donatello’s eyes widen and then focus on his hand as he begins to sign out his tale. He tells his younger version of the world he came from and how his brothers are dead only to be stopped. “I know,” the younger Don drops his eyes to the floor as his family all focuses on him. “I was, I was transported there by Ultimate Drako. Your brothers, they helped me, they took down the Shredder before they,” he couldn’t continue, not with his brothers and father all staring at him.

“Follow me, please,” his younger version ignores the questions his family throws at him. He follows his younger self into their lab. There he tells the entire horrible story of being Bishop’s lab experiment for thirty years and learns the story of what became of his brothers due to his disappearance.

Donatello warns his younger self of how he got captured by Bishop in the first place. Donatello remembers how his brothers had come to him and confessed their feelings to him and how they wished for him to join them. He tells of how he went away, to think it over because he had to think everything over, it was who he was, only to be taken away permanently. The younger Donatello frowned and concluded that his brothers didn’t try to search for him due to the idea that he had been disgusted and left on his own.

With his story and mistakes understood, Donatello begs his younger self for the ability to join his fallen brothers. He asks for sweet death. The pain of living without his brothers, now that he is aware that he can not get to them again after thirty long years of surviving with them in his mind, is too much for him to bear.

His younger version puts an IV into his arm and grants his wish. As he settles on his dismantled shell, his younger self leaves him alone with his thoughts for his last few moments. He can hear the voices of his family, all five of them, and with his dying thoughts, he prays they do not suffer the same fate. He hopes his world will be something different, something that will never be.

Comments

[head-voices-xd.livejournal.com]

Oh, ow ;.; *sniffs, goes off to cry now*

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

Sorry. *hands you box of tissues*

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked them, despite the sadness! *offers tissue*

[scoopgirl79.livejournal.com]

*graps kleenx not far away* oh man that's so sad. Even though both are so very awesome, and yet carry a lot of sad emtions between Raph's and Don's... I like your idea of Bishop kidnapping Donnie and that's why he wasn't there instead of the other one...
awesome work... :) XD... Plus that episode is awesome... :)

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

Actually, the idea of Bishop kidnapping Donnie is all Candiedsquirrel's; I just wrote it out for her. Still, I'm glad you enjoyed the drabbles! And it's no secret that I agree with you when I say that episode is pure awesome!

[candiedsquirrel.livejournal.com]

*Lip wibbles* Yup. That's sad. Very good sad...but sad. *Hugs tons* But a small part of me is jumping cause my idea got turned into a drabble woot!

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

*hugs back* Thank you so much for the plot bunny and motivation to get some of these challenges done! You ever have another idea, feel free to post about it again!~

[lotr-jedi.livejournal.com]

Great job. I really wish the show had actually told us what had happened to the other Donatello. Thirty years is a long time to not know what's happened to someone, even with a war going on. Of course, that just gives us fan fiction writers all the more room for experimenting. I'm even trying my hand at a SAINW fic for the first time.

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

Actually, the idea of Bishop kidnapping Donnie is all Candiedsquirrel's; I just wrote it out for her. But I do enjoy exploring the different possibilities of what had become of Donnie in that universe. It's something that is often on my mind, which is kind of sad since it was just one episode. :0 Oh well, I'm pathetic! XD

[lotr-jedi.livejournal.com]

Dude! (sorry, Mikey-moment, lol) wouldn't it be awesome if there was a mini-series based on all the little loose ends of the series? The main parts that is, not the FF/BTTS off-shoots. Sorry to anyone that that might offend, but I just couldn't get into those so much, especially BTTS. The disappearance of alternate-Donatello in "SAINW" would have to be one of the episodes. It's at the top of my list of questions that will probably never be answered. Apparently, I'm not alone there. Aw, well, one can dream. And where that fails, one can write fan fiction about it!

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

That would just be so awesome if that ever happened!~ <3 Honestly, they do have a few loose ends to tie up. But I have to disagree with you on the FF part because I *so* very badly want to know what happened to the Dark Clones in that series. Not so much BTTS thought, I agree with you there.

[lotr-jedi.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, forgot about them. Good point. BTTS tried too hard to connect to the fourth movie. Suddenly the turtles had pupils and eye colors for one thing. That was a bit sudden, don't ya think?

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

BTTS was trying to do their own style but I have to admit that the sudden pupils were kind of freaky. I like the turtles having magical masks that make their eyes all white.

[lotr-jedi.livejournal.com]

It's like the old Batman, etc. cartoons, the whole white eyes-in-mask thing. And when you did see their eyes they were just black spots rather than any color. FF tried the technique of giving the turtles eye colors, too, but I think it was only in the first episode. The rest of the time they're wearing the masks Cody gives them. And even then, you can't really tell what the colors are. I don't think we appreciate how easy those different colored masks make it to identify them. I was lost most of the time unless a name was said to single them out. And it would have been even more confusing if they'd gone with the original comic design of all four having red masks and the same skin tone, too, I think.

[xnaraxcrazyassx.livejournal.com]

*crys* om mah god! its so wonderfuly written....but so sad! ya words amk me cry!

[aloneindarknes7.livejournal.com]

Sorry about making you cry. Still, I hope you liked them nonetheless!