#scribbly fics

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 “Holly Blue’s in danger.”  His father’s anger vanished in an instant. “What? What happened?”  “I’ll explain when everyone else gets here.” In the meantime, he’d make some tea.   It didn’t take long for the others to arrive. Casey got there in record time on her bike. Draxum and Junior arrived a beat later through a portal. April got there last, but she brought Sunita with her. Everyone lingered in the main room, some sipping on tea. Donatello told them all Holly Blue was in trouble, but he saved the details until everyone got there.   “I… made a mistake.” He started with that. 

And people who like throwing Donnie down the stairs too I suppose

Approaching half a mil huh, p rad. I gotta keep these habits when I swing back to my original works.

 Frida left the conversation as Monty whispered nearby.   “Hey, Blue, you see that?”  Leo hummed out his question.  Frida turned around this time and watched both ghosts stare up at the roof of the building they walked past. Not as tall as some of the skyscrapers in the city, only about five floors. Leo immediately shot up to the top of it, a trail of light flowing behind him as he vanished over it.  Only a beat later he rushed back down and practically glued himself to her side. “You guys have company.”

 Frida watched him in utter silence. He glanced at her a few times to even make sure she was still there. Her gaze often drifted around the lab, sometimes fixing on a spot just above him.  His fingers tensed on the keyboard. Were his brothers in here?  He didn’t ask her that. He didn’t want to know.   But then Frida suddenly said, “Donatello, can I ask you something?”  He huffed a breath out through his nose. “Scoff. Technically you just did.”  “Hilarious. Let me rephrase then. Are you feeling chatty?”  “That highly depends on the topic.” He quit trying to type in numbers, no longer able to focus on them properly.  “Your brothers. Just how did they… die?” 

 “Donatello, your father is he… dead?”  The turtle flinched so hard that the screwdriver plunged into the pieces he was trying to pry apart. One of them went flying into the air.  “Apologies.” Her heart already ached. “It’s just that he was a dear friend of mine and I never—”  “He’s not dead.” Donatello interrupted as he got up to get the wayward piece of plastic. “At least he wasn’t when I… left.”  Holly Blue jerked back a bit. “He let you come down here? To fight? Lou would never—”  “He didn’t let me do anything. I just…” He kept his head low as he shuffled back to his work. The speed at which he sat down and got back to work startled her. He didn’t look up.  “Donatello, does he not know you’re down here?”  Silence.

 Frida closed the comic book. “Should I ask him or you what happened?”  Mikey turned his head. “What do you mean?”  “How you died.” She might as well be blunt. “I assume the kraang invasion was the cause, but of course we never learned any details.”   “I mean, I’d tell you. But if it slipped that you already knew…”  Right, then Donnie would presume where she learned it from and wouldn’t be happy about it. “Why is he so afraid of you?”  “He’s not afraid of us! He just… I don’t know. I’m usually good at figuring these kinds of things out, but I don’t know. Seeing us upsets him a lot. I guess knowing we’re around does too. Maybe he’s still mad at us.”  “Mad at you?”  “For leaving him behind.” The box turtle kicked at nothing in the air.