#stopgap measures fic

I drew so much this weekend. So much that I can't fit all of my pieces into one post because of the image limit. So this is actually part one of two, and instead of my typical yapping I'm just gonna label each piece with the relevant AUs. Come ask me about them if you wanna know more!

This Raph with the orange stripes is from TMNT: Haven. He featured in a collab hosted by @whatamidoin8 as a tot.

This Raph with the sai arm tattoos is from Talk The Talk.

These Raphs are from Spool of Life.

This one is a scene from Overwrite.

These scenes are from Suppon Nabe.

Oni from Once Upon A Dream.

Karai Red from The Collective Karai AU.

This big guy with the ninpo arms is Future Raph from In Case of Unforeseen Circumstances, Smash Glass!

This one is Future Raph from Home Sweet Home and his twin boys when they were hatchlings.

And THIS Future Raph is from Half-Alive.

This is Past Raph from Smash Glass!, immediately post-movie.

Superhero Raph from Spotlight.

This AU is unnamed, but it's a 2003 separated AU.

A preliminary design for The Girl & The Yokai.

Raph from a villain AU.

The scene's from early on in CRASHOUT.

This one's from Stopgap Measures.

And this one's from Kill Me Baby One More Time.

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Donatello & Leonardo & Michelangelo & Raphael (TMNT), Donatello & Leonardo (TMNT), Donatello & Casey Jones & Leonardo & Michelangelo & April O'Neil & Raphael (TMNT) Characters: Donatello (TMNT), Raphael (TMNT), Michelangelo (TMNT), Leonardo (TMNT), April O'Neil (TMNT), Casey Jones (TMNT) Additional Tags: Farmhouse Arc (TMNT 2012), Medic Leonardo (TMNT), Medic Donatello (TMNT), Medical Inaccuracies, probably I mean it's ninja turtle biology, Angst, Leader Donatello (TMNT), description of shell repair that involves drilling into Leo's shell, descriptions of tending wounds, Major Character Injury, Injury Recovery Summary:

"Don. Tell me what the drill's for."

It's for saving my brother's life, Donnie wants to scream, o-or doing my damn best to. It's for holding him together with literal fucking wire until I figure out what the hell I'm supposed to do now. It's for keeping him together long enough that the rest of us don't fall to miserable fucking pieces.

This is Leo's job.

All that comes out is a whisper; "Casey, please."

Casey's hand finally lands on his shoulder. It should probably feel like something grand. Like a lifeline to grab onto or an anchor to weigh him back down into his body. It doesn't. It's just a hand.

"Okay," Casey says. There's a hard edge to his voice now. "I'll get what I can."

"And the drill?"

"I'll get it."

(After being forced to flee New York City, Donnie struggles to bear the weight of Leo's job.)

Leo had pressed his thumbs into his eyes and taken one great big breath, and he'd told Donnie to sterilize a drill and a fistful of screws and a spool of wire. He'd read about shell cracks. He knew what to do.

Leo always knows what to do.

Leo is laying in front of him, half-dead, and Donnie doesn't know what to do."

Donnie remembers the day Mikey took this picture. Donnie had found one of those disposable tourist cameras in a dump on a scrap run. It still had some pictures left in it, so he brought it home.

Mikey had been so excited when Donnie showed him the camera. He spent all day planning out what pictures he wanted to take, then threw out half his ideas and winged it like he always did. He took pictures of his latest recipe, of Raph getting his ass handed to him by Sensei, of Donnie mid-science lesson.

Donnie didn't see Mikey take the picture of Leo. He only learned about it weeks later when he finally managed to pull together everything he needed to develop them. It was the very last picture on the roll, and Donnie had barked a surprised laugh when the shape of Leo's face began to form in the chemical bath.

It took until now, seeing it in Raph's offering hand, for Donnie to realize that he's never seen another picture in their home of just Leo."

He doesn't want her to see this, does he? He doesn't want her to see the lair torn to pieces any more than he wants to see it, any more than he wanted her to see Leo's body in the back of the van or the twisted pink mass of her mutated father's face. The lair was supposed to be safe, for all of them.

The lair had been home. For all of them."

Donnie folds his legs up tighter, knees pressing against his plastron. The stream of sunlight passes his toes by with an inch of space to spare.

'Raph?' Mikey whispers. 'Are we gonna be okay?'

Donnie glances up. Mikey looks scared, now, staring down at the blood dried onto his thighs. He looks like he might start to cry any minute.

Raph slings a bruised arm around Mikey's shoulders and pulls him against his side, leaning his cheek on top of Mikey's head. He says, 'Yeah, otouto. We're gonna be okay.'

He doesn't look like he believes it himself. He meets Donnie's eyes across the way.

Donnie looks away first, and says nothing at all."