Raphael froze in his tracks. Had Mikey waited up for him? Guilt settled in his chest. Recently he had been coming home later and later. With good reason, he just wasn’t ready to explain it. Especially not to Mikey since well…he was the reason, and he’d be finding out why soon.
Just not yet.
Mikey must really have been feeling concerned if he was wide awake. Raph thought back to all the times he’d found the other on the couch asleep when he got home. He must have been worrying for some time and he had been too dumb to see it.
“You idiot.” he whispered. Whether it was to himself or Mikey he didn’t know.
He exhaled, and said nothing till he had made it to Mikey and given him an affectionate nuzzle. “You’ve got nothin to worry about. I’m not goin on solo missions or anything.” He didn’t really know what else to say about causing Michelangelo of all people so much distress, but he hated the shadows in his eyes. Like he had been expecting Raph to..
“You,” he started but had to swallow, “ya didn’t think…I was-” He set Mikey down and stared at him wide eyed and unable to finish his sentence.
🐢 he felt weird just sitting here && blurting out to raph as he got home ; he didn’t really get why he kept leaving so much at night. none of them did anything of the ninja type anymore so .. it was worrying, especially when they came to the conclusion that they were seeing each other. it made the orange clad turtle anxious && worried && with so many doubts in his head.
he squinted at his whisper, unsure if it was to him or not which only furthered his anxiety as he sat up more on the couch, trying to find it in him to smile at the affectionate nuzzle. it almost made him cry because he hadn’t gotten much from raphael in a good long while.
❝ ... i dunno. you’ve barely talked to me a lot recently, raph. ‘n you just .. you go out a lot when you think ‘m asleep so what else was i gonna think ?? ❞