Co-writer: @bloominglifedyinglife
Fandom: Rise of the Teenage Ninja Turtles
Relationships: Donnie & Future Donnie (Othello), Leo & Donnie, Future Leo & Future Donnie
Tags: Donnie-Centirc, Misccomunication, Disabled Othello, Hard Of Hearing Othello, Donnie and Leo are twins, Fluff, Slice of Life
Notes: this chapter is almost entirely slice of life and set up for the series. and it's longer than the entire series so far! (previous chapter and bringing you with me) it's nearly TWICE as long with 25.7k words!
Rain: There's lots of fluff, adorableness, and just as much seriousness!!
shoutout to @hoples for being our rubber duck and helping us through the writing obstacles
Future Don (Othello) wants to take care of Donnie. Donnie to take care of himself.
Donnie wants his future self to please give him some attention even if it’s bad to stop ignoring him and to get some answers.
They both do and don’t get what they wanted. And more than they bargained for.
aka the Donnie and Othello story.
When Leonardo is sent back to the past, he decides he's not going to live on and start a new life. Not without his family. So he brings his three brothers back from the dead!
Now these turtles from the apocalypse must learn how to live in this world after so long and how to take care of their 5 new kids. With new lives, come new names: Leonidas, Mysticangelo, Othello, and Rad.
Meanwhile, Donnie is hiding a lot more than insecurities.
Donnie and Othello build the sleepshell.
Bonding is unfortunately not a straight line.
Chapter TWarnings: trouble eating; miscommunication; internalized ableism, hand spasms; weird biology, animal instincts; talk of death; mentions of blood; medical inaccuracies; negative thinking patterns, mainly in the form of catastrophizing and personalization.
Chapter Song: Dear Theodosia
Despite the two working on it for hours, they did not finish project SADS in one day or even two.
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Overall things were going smoothly. This is what Othello would say, if it wasn't for two things getting in the way of their bonding time.
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For some yet unknown reason, every little thing Donnie did was pissing him off.
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It isn’t until they both reach to use the same tool and are physically snarling at each other and hissing, that it clicks.
"Territory battles," Othello mutters in realization. Finding himself unable to stop baring his teeth, he turns away and marches out of the lab.
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"Othello?" comes Nidas' annoying voice as Othello passes. "What’s wro-"
"TERRITORY BATTLES!" Othello shrieks, throwing his arms up in anger as he storms towards his 'room'. (Four curtains dividing one of the train platforms with a mattress and desk in the middle wasn't a room.) He slams his curtain closed and begins pacing. He grinds his teeth and begins snapping his fingers, waving his arms to get out the restless energy.
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"So," Nidas begins, "that sucks. I don't think I can relate. I haven't had a real 'territory' in years and I think the parental instincts killed any territory instincts I had left."
Othello growls, shoving Nidas blindly. "I hate you. Live." That earns him a laugh from his dumdum twin. It was so nice to be able to hear him laugh again.
"I don't think that's how that expression goes."
"Ordering you to live is a much more effective curse," Othello retorts
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Donnie doesn’t know what to do. When Othello left the lab... well he wouldn't say he panicked per se.... he had a perfectly normal stress response to the adrenaline leaving. He curled up in a ball and started rocking while biting his arm.
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He had messed up terribly and Othello had left. He drove him away. So he resolved to fix it.
End notes: the next story might be a while, and I think our next plan is to move onto the Leo story, so that's going backwards in the timeline.
hope you enjoyed!
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