Donnie had originally thought that he’d been in the office of a huge building inside the kame settlement, but now he was outside he could see that each ‘room’ was a separate building. All the buildings were connected by the same roof that covered the walkways, making the streets feel more like one huge hallway.
Donnie couldn’t help feeling nervous as they walked away from the room he’d been in since his capture; as they walked he could see the outside wall of the settlement, but he wouldn’t even attempt to escape without his brothers.
People were stopping to stare and whispering about them as they passed, and Donnie found himself walking even closer to Venus due to the lewd looks that Kame, both male and female were giving him.
As they approached the huge decorative doors in front of them, Donnie realised that Mikey must be being held in Leonardo’s personal living quarters.
Inside the building was a wide hallway, there was a door on each side of the corridor and one of them was left partly open; showing what looked like a small bedroom inside. Down the hall in front of them was another set of double doors.
The room behind the double doors was like nothing Donnie had ever seen before. The whole living quarters was open plan.
The four poster bed was raised up on a dais, with four steps all the way around the perimeter. On the left was a room that Donnie assumed to be the bathroom, and a comfortable sitting area around a grand fireplace. The right hand side of the room had a small kitchen and fair size dining area.
Stood at the edge of the kitchen, fidgeting nervously was his baby brother.
“Mikey!” Donnie didn’t wait for permission before running up to him and pulling him into a tight hug.
“It’s good to see you too Donnie.” Mikey laughed, nuzzling against him gently.
“Are you ok?” Donnie pulled away slowly, keeping Mikey at arm’s length so that he could look over him for any damage.
Mikey was dressed in a light orange kimono, like Donnie he had a blue collar around his neck, but his was different. Instead of having thick strips of fabric connecting the two ends at the back, and crossing over his chest like Donnie had; Mikey had the two loops at the front, connected by a shiny name tag. He didn’t have any injuries or new scars as far as he could see.
“I’m fine Donnie.” Mikey smiled, shrugging his brother’s hands away. His eyes flicked nervously towards the two Kame on the other side of the room.
“Perhaps, it would be best to give them some privacy.” Venus suggested, sympathetically. “This is going to be difficult enough without us here.”
Leo raised an eyebrow shrugging his shoulders at her, he was still only just learning English, and he didn’t understand what she’d said. Her eyes narrowed and she elbowed him hard, jerking her head towards the two turtles. Leonardo followed her gaze to see the awkward way that they kept glancing over at them.
“Would you like us to leave you two alone?” Leo asked, his voice softer then Donnie had ever heard it before as their Master noticed Mikey fidgeting nervously.
Mikey nodded awkwardly, suddenly seeming worried about something. “I’ll take Donnie into my room.” He grabbed his brother’s hand and quickly started to pull him back out into the hallway.
Leo reached out as Mikey walked passed, stopping him to tilt his head upward and place a chaste kiss on his lips. “We will be here if you need us.”
“Thank you. But this is something I must tell him on my own.” Mikey brought his hand up to Leo’s, gently moving if off his face before continuing out of the room with Donnie.
Donnie didn’t understand what they were saying, but he wasn’t surprised to hear his brother speaking in perfect Kame, Mikey had been fluent in the language since they were children. Learning English was compulsory in their clan, but learning other languages was optional; Donnie could speak very little, and as far as they knew Raph couldn’t speak any at all.
As soon as they got to the smaller bedroom Mikey let go of Donnie’s hand, heading over to a table in the corner of the room. Donnie sat on the end of the bed and watched his brother, Mikey seemed nervous, but he clearly wasn’t suffering from being held captive.
“How you holding up?” Mikey asked, pouring two cups of herbal tea from a thermos on the table.
“I’m…coping.” Donnie couldn’t think of a better answer to give him. He was far from okay; he was a sex slave for the leader of an enemy clan, his little brother was clearly a pet, and he didn’t even want to think about what had happed to Raph.
“Here.” Mikey passed him one of the cups, sitting next to him on the bed with his legs crossed.
“Thanks.” Donnie smiled gratefully, the tea was exactly how Donnie liked it, and he hadn’t had anything to drink except water since his capture. “So…Are you okay, really?”
“I’m fine Donnie.” Mikey smiled sadly, but his eyes locked onto Donnie’s letting him know he was telling the truth. Mikey was an amazing liar, but he’d never been able to look Donnie in the eye and lie to him; they’d been friends for too long to be able to fool each other.
“Do you know how Raph is?”
“No.” Mikey sighed, his eyes falling down to stare into his tea.
The two fell into an awkward silence as they drank their tea, occasional glancing up at each other; Donnie didn’t know what to say to Mikey, his brother was clearly nervous about telling him something but he didn’t know what it could be.
“I’m sorry.” Mikey finally sighed, placing his cup on the floor and hugging his legs to his plastron.
“For what?” Donnie placed his own half-full cup of tea next to his brothers, scooting closer to rub his hand across Mikey’s carapace comfortingly.
“You and Raph shouldn’t even be here.”
“Mikey. You were in trouble; it’s not your fault. ” Donnie tried to re-assure him.
“I wasn’t in trouble.”
“What do you mean?” Donnie pulled his hand away from his brother, not understanding what he meant. He’d seen Mikey getting kidnapped; Leonardo had practically knocked him unconscious before carrying him off.
Mikey turned his back on Donnie, too ashamed to face him. “I…” He shook his head, swallowing passed the lump in his throat. “Kidnapping was the only way for me to renounce the clan…without disgracing the Hamato name.”
“But…Why would you want to abandon the clan.” Donnie couldn’t believe that Mikey would want to leave willingly, and even if he did, Donnie didn’t understand why he hadn’t mentioned it before.
“I didn’t want you guy’s to find out.” Mikey muttered, pulling his legs tighter into his chest, curling into a ball the best his carapace allowed. “Leo…” Mikey took a breath, trying to force the fear and anxiety out of his voice. He lifted his head, turning slightly towards Donnie as he spoke. “Me and Leo are together.”
Donnie grabbed Mikey’s shoulder and spun him around to face him; his little brother couldn’t reach his eye.
Donnie’s heart pounded in his chest, he couldn’t believe what he was hearing, but he could tell that Mikey wasn’t lying to him.
“Stockholm syndrome?” Donnie breathed out half to himself. His mind frantically tried to come up with plausible scenarios to explain exactly how Mikey could be in a relationship with Leonardo.
“No!” Mikey growled defensively, shoving Donnie hard against his plastron. “I know what I’m doing Donnie. We’ve been dating for over three years now.”
“But. How?” Donnie’s head was swimming with this new information, as far as he was aware three years ago Mikey had been dating Raph, though in all honestly that hadn’t lasted very long.
“He caught me.” Mikey’s voice softened slightly. “I was in the middle of a robbery and…I don’t really remember how it happened.” He admitted quietly. “He helped me escape. I didn’t know who he was and… we arranged to keep in touch.”
Donnie laughed; he couldn’t take it all in. Mikey was in love with the leader of an enemy clan, he himself was a pleasure slave to that same leader, and god knows what had happened to Raph; and all this happened because Mikey decided that he needed to be kidnapped to save their honour.
“Donnie?” Mikey had run though dozens of different ways that he thought Donnie would take the news, but he hadn’t expected him to start laughing. “I’m being serious.”
“I know.” Donnie took a few deep breaths to try and control himself, leaning his head against the wall. “It’s just so ridiculous.” He chuckled to himself.
“If I’d known you’d react like this I’d of told you sooner.” Mikey muttered, feeling more awkward now that he didn’t know what to expect.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” Donnie’s voice faded into sadness. “I would have understood.”
“I was scared.” He admitted honestly. “I broke up with Raph because of it. And you know what Splinter thought of our relationship.”
Donnie nodded. Master Splinter disapproved of them dating full stop, he said that it interfered with their training. They didn’t know if he was homophobic or whether it was just because he thought it would prevent them as acting as a team, but he’d not been happy when he’d found out about Mikey and Raph.
“Yeah. Me and Raph decided not to let him know about us.” Donnie confessed.
Mikey’s eyes were wide as he stared at his brother. “You and Raph?!”
“Yeah. It’s still new.” Donnie looked away ashamed as he brought his hand up to touch the collar around his neck. “I don’t know if it matters anymore though.”
“Leo won’t let me see Raph. But maybe, I can convince him to let you see him?”
“Really?” Donnie smiled, pulling his brother back into a hug. “Thank you.”
“It’s the least I could do. After all it’s my fault in the first place.” Mikey squeezed Donnie tighter. “Do you think Raph’ll hate me?”
Donnie inhaled sharply. “I don’t know.” He answered honestly.
