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december 1st: water wings by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
01 Dec 2023
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prompt: safety
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“Do I really gotta wear these things?”
Mikey holds out his arms as an added emphasis, the rubber water wings make a hollow squeaky sound where they’re fitted snug to both his upper arms.
Raph shoots him a pointed look before answering his question.
“Michael,” he says rather diplomatically. “This pool is gonna have a deep end. Deeper than any sewer we’ve surfed. It’s better to just be safer rather than sorry.”
His eldest brother fiddles anxiously with the sports bag he’s got slung across his bulking shoulder. Any moment now and April was going to arrive, ready to lead them onto their secret midnight bust in of the local pool she’d taken to working at over the summer.
Leo floats up to his side, bumping his shoulder with his, he’s wearing his usual smug grin.
“Besides,” he says, leaning away from him to favor the doorframe behind him, bumping it with his shell. “We’ll have like, all the pool floaties to mess around with. You can chill on one of those big inflatable flamingos.”
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- Part 1 of december fic advent 2023
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december 2nd: piña coladas by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
02 Dec 2023
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prompt: karaoke
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“Man, what’s the point in celebrating your twenty first if you can’t go a little crazy?” Mikey says with a shake of his head.
Leo reaches over and adjusts the broach that’s on his jacket, straightening it slightly.
“Because we’re still responsible,” he reminds them. His mouth twitches into a smile. “Plus, I’m not carrying Mr Light Weight back home.”
Raph scoffs a second time. Donnie snorts a short laugh.
“That’s what you get for being short, dude.”
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- Part 2 of december fic advent 2023
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december 3rd: pea pods by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, TMNT (2007)
03 Dec 2023
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prompt: duo
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“You guys are weird.”
Leo snorts a laugh from where he’s sat beside him, still playing, he’s beating the snot out of Raph’s guy, a series of looped audio that contains phrases like ‘Ooh!’ and ‘Ouch!’. Raph just rolls his eyes.
“You’re just realizing that now?” His brother says once the screen declares his victory with a spray of bright, bold pixelated letters.
Donnie hums from his side of the room; he’s been tinkering about with Mike’s GameBoy for a good hour now, having torn it apart like some vulture, he’s got the back of it turned over in his hand when he says rather nonchalantly,
“Yeah. Twin stuff, y’know.”
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- Part 3 of december fic advent 2023
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december 4th: in your head by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
04 Dec 2023
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prompt: delirious
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There’s the sound of Mikey heaving again, and so Don nods his head towards the door behind him.
“Wanna take this one to make yourself feel better?”
Raph sighs, shrugging his hand off his shoulder, he nods slowly. “Sure. Gimme that.”
He takes the rag and braces himself as he enters the bathroom.
Mikey’s set up camp on the floor, lounging his head in a rather unsanitary halfway down the toilet bowl, he’d almost look somewhat relaxed if it weren’t for the odd angle he’d squeezed himself into given how cramped their bathroom was.
He lifts his head up and gives Raph a little half wave — his skin is a whole shade of green paler and his eyes are swollen looking in his head, no doubt from all the throwing up he’d been subjected to in the last half an hour.
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- Part 4 of december fic advent 2023
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december 5th: dear brother by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, TMNT (2007)
05 Dec 2023
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prompt: hugs
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“What’re you watching anyway?”
Leo runs a thumb over the rim of his can, collecting up beads of condensation along his skin before he shakes them away, he nonchalantly shrugs his shoulders as he looks towards the screen once again.
“Just some nature documentary,” he tells him. He then pauses, and shifts to face his brother a little better. “Would it be totally pathetic to say I mostly watch them because I get a little jungle sick every now at then?”
The corners of Mikey’s mouth curl into a faint smile, but he’s able to temper it as he takes a swig of his soda. Shaking his head as he swallows, he uses his free hand to slap his brother across his shoulders rather lightheadedly.
“Nah, man,” he tells him. Then, “Maybe a little pathetic but it’s a big change: jungle to New York.” He tucks a leg underneath himself. “You can’t expect to readjust in just a few weeks.”
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- Part 5 of december fic advent 2023
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december 6th: soup for leo by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
06 Dec 2023
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prompt: cooking
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Leo slumps back in his seat, careful not to knock his healing shell, his mouth manages to curl itself into a small, fleeting smile.
“When did you become so grown up?” He says, and there’s supposed to be some humor to his words but it seems to fall flat, what with the way he watches his brothers shoulders stiffen, his whole body bristling before he seems to roll it away with a shake of his hands, he tends to the soup a moment longer before he answers him.
An abrupt, sharp laugh expels out of his brother, seemingly forced, he swallows it down before he turns to face him, this time with a bowl of steaming soup.
“Plenty of opportunities so far, dude,” he tells him, a brief melancholy look flashing across his face before he’s quickly rearranging it to something more neutral.
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- Part 6 of december fic advent 2023
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december 7th: pretty when i cry by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, TMNT (2007)
07 Dec 2023
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prompt: home
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Mikey doesn’t want a fight, that’s the point.
His heart kicks up in his chest, making his palms sweat and his head swim.
“You have work in the morning,” Donnie reminds him. “What about that?”
Mikey’s chest squeezes, like he’s about to have a heart attack. It frightens him for a moment.
“Screw work,” he spits.
It’s then that Splinter emerges, his snout wrinkling with distaste, he’s quick to chastise his son.
“Michelangelo,” he says sharply. “Do not use such language in his home.”
A frustrated laughter bubbles out of Mikey, bringing with his fresh tears. His whole chest feels like it weighs a thousand pounds, and if he weren’t so angry and hurt right now, he might just crawl over to Donnie and tell him what was wrong.
Was he dying? He thinks. Was this it?
“This isn’t a home,” he tells his father rather bitterly. “None of you act like it anymore so why should I?”
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- Part 7 of december fic advent 2023
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december 8th: turtles best friend by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
08 Dec 2023
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prompt: peanut butter
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The dog happily trots along at his side, her nose every now and then brushing across his leg as she turns to look up towards him just to make sure he was still walking right beside her.
She does it all the way home, keeping up with his even with her bad paw and his bad ribs, Raph seems to have made it back home without creating total hell and chaos because Donnie doesn’t look all too concerned when he strolls in through the entrance.
Not until he notices the dog and the way Raph seems to be clutching his side, he moves in an instant, face pulled taut with concern, he asks him with a stern voice,
“Oh man. What did you do this time, Raph?”
Raphael has no time to really actually explain himself because Mikey is bounding through the room with all the energy of a tornado, he stops dead in his tracks to gasp at the dog, eyes lighting up in an instant, he’s already bouncing on the balls of his feet when he says, voice all high and pitchy like it always is when he gets a tad overexcited.
“Oh my gosh! Is that a puppy?”
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- Part 8 of december fic advent 2023
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december 9th: a whole person by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
09 Dec 2023
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prompt: paint
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The cramping sensation, having finally subdued, allows his fingers to stretch back out again. They tremble slightly still as he rests them flat, splayed across his knees. An etching of pain still creeps up through his wrists, like there’s a heat burning beneath his skin. He sighs, heavily, lifting his gaze to face Leo who is more delicately setting down the canvas.
“No,” he tells him, eyes pricking with fresh tears. “Stupid hands again. Might need some more painkillers.”
Leo hums. If anything, Mikey might guess that the reason his older brother was poking around near his room was probably because he’d had an inkling that he was due a top up. The last few days had been hard, and Mikey, like the rest of his family, was still trying to cope with the fall out of saving the world.
He glances down at his hands. Scarred up and shaking lightly still, a wave of fear crashes into him.
What if… what if they never stopped shaking?
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- Part 9 of december fic advent 2023
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december 10th: polaroid by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
10 Dec 2023
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prompt: nostalgia
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It’s a blurry old polaroid. Left between unwritten pages, there staring up at him are the faces of his brothers and his father, smiles taking up most of the frame, green and furry heads squished in together, his heart kicks up again, a little heavier in his chest than before as he traces a thumb over those familiar faces.
Leo’s face, untouched by the effects of war. Mikey’s smile wide and true, he holds up a peace sign with the hand that’d since been blown apart from his body. Splinter’s eyes, sparking with life and love, such a touch away from when he saw them last, as he laid in the dirt, soulless and dead.
And Donnie. There, in the middle of the photograph. So real and present.
He sucks in a shaky breath, blinking away rising tears that burn the backs of his eyes.
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- Part 10 of december fic advent 2023
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december 11th: baking whilst bonding by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
11 Dec 2023
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prompt: ebelskiver
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“Raph does not seem fine.”
The larger turtle sighs, sagging his weight against the countertop; his whisked eggs have been entirely abandoned now. Chances are he’ll have to start again later but this conversation must come first.
“You’re right,” he admits, voice comically small. “Raph is not fine.”
It’s then that Mikey moves forward with all the force of a small tornado, barreling into him, he’s not able to wrap his arms around him entirely but he tries anyway, holding him tight where his cheek presses up against his chest plate.
“Baking is really not your thing, man,” Mikey mumbles. “The egg whites have gone stiff.”
Raph gently peels his brother away from him, scrubbing a hand down his face, he takes a breath.
“Yeah. It’s not as good of a coping mechanism as it is for you.”
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- Part 11 of december fic advent 2023
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december 12th: friend date by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
12 Dec 2023
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prompt: ice skating
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Donnie pauses, wrench twisted, he feels a smile creep across his face.
“You? Took me? Ice skating? As a date?”
April playfully rolls her eyes. “Oh, c’mon, Donnie. It’ll just be as friends. Two birds, one stone kinda thing.”
Donnie isn’t so sure. His butterflies have all died out and now the inside of him is just empty and cold and a little bit unsure.
“Won’t we be seen?” He asks.
April waves him off. “You’ve been in more crowded places with a coat, hat and scarf.”
That was true.
“But what about Casey?” Is his second question.
He likes his human friend. A lot. Would this be crossing a line at all? Was this breaking the quote on quote bro code?
April laughs, all bubbly like a shaken up soda can that stops all of Donnie’s runaway thoughts in its tracks.
“Oh, please. It’s not like it’s an actual date, Donnie. Just two friends hanging out.” She smiles. “Plus I wanna know if this place is worth the twenty dollars it’ll take to get us in.”
Donnie sighs. The heater only needs a couple more tweaking and it should be fine.
One night out wouldn’t hurt… would it?
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- Part 12 of december fic advent 2023
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december 13th: the doe by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
13 Dec 2023
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prompt: freezing
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He’s in between two thoughts; what to eat when he gets home and what comic he should either start or finish when he makes a terrible, unpredictable mistake.
He boot hits something large and metal, and suddenly the snow beneath his footstep jumps up, huge metal teeth protruding from underneath, they sink themselves into the flesh of his ankle, white hot pain renders him entirely mute as he stands on one leg, blinded by the pain that jerks through his lower half of his body.
He falls into the snow, his trapped leg now bent at an odd angle, courtesy of the weight of the bear trap he’s stepped in that keeps it from tipping over, his face pressed against melted snow and that’s when he finally screams.
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- Part 13 of december fic advent 2023
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december 14th: breaking bread by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
14 Dec 2023
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prompt: baked bread
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Raph turns over in his bed, pausing to listen out to the sounds of his fathers feet hurrying across the room to separate them before their argument could grow physical, he fails to hear him over the sound of Donnie huffing and puffing, whining and crying, Raph feels his gut just sink.
Over the sounds of Leo and Donnie arguing over whatever it is the other one wanted, Mikey starts to kick up a fuss too.
It was mostly because Mikey was still little and at that age where he tended to copy his brothers, for better or worse, if one of them was crying and on the edge of a tantrum, Mike was sure to follow.
“Shuddup Mike!” Donnie whines, upset that his moment was being foiled by his little brother. “This isn’t about you!”
There’s the sound of Mikey sucking in a deep breath to no doubt retaliate, Raph moves quickly to ensure it stops before he can let out one of his high pitched screams he had a habit of bellowing out to gain any kind of attention, Raph is met with the cool air of the lair as soon as he disentangles himself with his bedsheets to meet his brothers.
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- Part 14 of december fic advent 2023
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december 15th: with the tide by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
15 Dec 2023
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prompt: full moon
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Total darkness surrounds her, enveloping her every sense, she tries to move around, to feel sometning. Maybe the edge of a bed, or a comforting hand wrapped up in hers.
She reaches and she reaches but there’s nothing to hold. Nothing to grab.
It’s then that she realises that she’s floating, nothing above and nothing below, she kicks out with her feet but she does not move; suspended in the darkness, panic does not swell despite it.
Tiny pinpricks of silver light poke through the dark. Like fireflies— no, she corrects herself instantly.
Like stars.
Tang Shen can see now. Ahead of her is a tinted blue marble, swirling with rich colors, it spins so delicately in her darkness, she wants to reach out and touch it. To hold it.
She still cannot move. She can only observe.
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- Part 15 of december fic advent 2023
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december 16th: silver, red, white and gold lining by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
16 Dec 2023
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prompt: lights
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It’s nearly Christmas.
It doesn’t hold a huge amount of importance in their home but Splinter feels a creeping of dread dance up his spine when he hears the dulcet tones of carollers on the street above, their voices floating down the storm drains; the last thing he wants right now is the boys getting aggy over a holiday.
He hasn’t much for them: he hasn’t spent nearly enough time roaming the streets for discarded toys and books slung outside thrift store doors. There’d been too much to worry about that he’s afraid he hasn’t left an awful lot of time to even think about it.
In the future,he thinks to himself. When they’re older, they’ll understand this moment. They’ll understand why I couldn’t give them a Christmas this one time.
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- Part 16 of december fic advent 2023
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december 17th: the one (i’m sure) i love by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
17 Dec 2023
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prompt: gloves/mittens
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Raph is in the middle of a sentence, something about different thickness of needles when he pauses, leaning himself forward in his seat, he narrows his eyes at Leo.
“Hey. Are you listening?”
Leo swallows thickly, his throat bobbing. “Yeah. Sorry.” He looks at his own work, nowhere near as good as what Raph had already started. He huffs a laugh. “This is gonna be a disaster.”
Raphael seems to think for a moment before he speaks, setting his needles down on his lap, he shrugs his shoulders nonchalantly before he tells him,
“Well, it’s the thought that counts, right?”
Leo nods his head, picking apart the stitch that was already falling apart.
“Yeah,” he says with a breath. Glancing upwards towards his brother, he forces his mouth into a smile.
“Just wanted it to be… better, y’know.”
Raph smiles. It’s kind and well tempered. Not one he wears very often but the kind that suits him well
“You know what I think?” He doesn’t let Leo answer him. “I think if he likes you as much as you like him, he’s gonna love it.”
Leo feels his insides go cold.
“Huh?”
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- Part 17 of december fic advent 2023
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december 18th: a feeling deep down by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
18 Dec 2023
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prompt: static
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He’s standing by the stove, poking around a small pancake in the pan when he feels it; like television static clinging to his skin, it’s a small, tiny jolt of electricity dancing up and down his nerves that makes him jerk backwards, the spatula in his hand lands on the countertop with a clatter.
Raphael looks up from where he was poring over his T-Phone, brow ridge knitted together.
“Hey,” he says, setting his device down. “You good?”
Mikey picks up the spatula, tight, white knuckled grip on the handle to force his hands to stop their shaking.
He nods his head, swallowing hard.
“Uh huh. Just the oil spat at me,” he lies. “That’s all.”
He’s not entirely sure if Raph bought it or not, but he continues anyway, not bothering to turn around and face him on the account that his face usually gave him away in such scenarios.
He just finishes up breakfast and tries to ignore the voice in the back of his head that tells him that something isn’t quite right here.
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- Part 18 of december fic advent 2023
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december 19th: with you by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, TMNT (2007)
19 Dec 2023
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prompt: explosion
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“What the hell happened?”
Donnie rubs at his head tiredly. The last thing he could remember was the roaring sound of water rushing through their home and the shrill sound of all his alarm systems tripping at once.
“Looks like a mains burst,” he tells him, dropping his hand heavily into his lap. “The structure was weak anyway, the water was enough to cause it to collapse, though, I don’t suspect it did too much damage too far down.”
The last thing they needed now was a bunch of city sewer workers getting hyped up down here, looking for trouble.
Raph sniffs. “Kay.” Then, “We need to find the others. Did’ya see where they were?”
Donnie shakes his head. He was standing in the garage with Raph. He thinks maybe Mikey was poking about in the kitchen and there’s a chance Leo and Sensei were hauled up in the dojo together.
C’mon then,” Raph tells him, nudging him slightly. “Sitting on our asses ain’t gonna find them. Can you stand?”
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- Part 19 of december fic advent 2023
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december 20th: what you know by angelmichelangelo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Movie 2023)
20 Dec 2023
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prompt: restaurant
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For all his rushing about and need for speed, the second they pull up at the restaurant, Splinter seems to freeze.
Mikey unbuckles his belt, ready to leap out of the car, he frowns. “Hey. Are we going in or what?”
Outside on the sidewalk, crowds of people bustle by without care for the old sedan that’s packed full of four mutant teenagers and an old, humansized rat.
Leo watches carefully as his fathers wiry whiskers give a weak twitch.
“Yes,” he says after a beat of silence, his voice raspy. “Come.”
They pile out of the car together, getting a few heads turning in their direction as they stand there on the side of the parking lot entrance, looking entirely out of place amongst the rest of the people here.
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- Part 20 of december fic advent 2023