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Dream World - A Sibling!Mutant!Reader Story - Part 4

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Pairings: None

Characters included: Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael

Warnings: n/a

Series: Yes, this is part 4

Summary: Y/N wakes up again and luckily Mikey is there to finally save them from the boredom of the infirmary, giving them a chance to investigate their own room.

Word count: 4498

Authors Note: It’s family bonding time haha, no I didn’t write this while procrastinating work

When Y/N woke up this time they didn’t even question the at this point familiar backdrop of cement. What they were surprised by, was the green blanket that laid across them and the muffled conversation outside the room.

They slowly moved their legs off the edge of the stretcher, pulling the blanket closer around their shoulder as they strained their ears to catch what might be going on outside of the infirmary.

“-freaked out because of their body!”

Something told them that the conversation was about them.

“It’s just a hypothesis but if I’m correct then we have something to work off of!”

“What if it’s too much? What if it does more damage!”

“Leo, that there is basically a different person in the body of our sibling but if I’m correct they are still in there! We just have to… coax them out.”

“Not like this though! Donnie, I literally had to sedate them last time!”

“We don’t have anything else to go off of though!”

“You said it yourself it’s just a hypothesis. What if you are wrong and we will just make it worse?”

“Well, do you have a better idea?”

“…No. Let me think about it, okay? Just… let me think on it.”

Those two voices definitely belonged to Donnie and Leo, obviously discussing Y/N’s condition. They had to wince at how serious their tones were. Somehow, they couldn’t help themself to think that this didn’t fit them. Much preferring their light heartedness from before.

Seeing how their voice slowly became quieter until they couldn’t hear them anymore, Y/N assumed that they walked away from the door. This surprised them a little bit assuming that they stood there to begin with to maybe check up on them. Then again maybe they did already check up on them and were already in the process of walking away.

Feeling a bit restless Y/N began swinging their legs softly around. Taking a good look at how their new legs and feet moved around in their vision.

Taking a deep breath in Y/N slowly lowered one of their feet onto the cold ground. The second foot joined the other as they sat at the very edge of the stretcher. With another shaky breath they finally pushed themself off, balancing their full weight on their new legs.

As they figured beforehand, their body didn’t have any trouble keeping them up. Which made sense in a way, especially after seeing how the other turtles had no problem moving around. There were just a few moments where it was still difficult to wrap their mind around everything.

Carefully Y/N took one step. Watching how their feet moved and reacted as they slowly took a step after step. The green blanket was at this point draped over their shoulders and back, or rather their shell. It was weird knowing that there was a shell on their back. They could feel the soft blanket on their shell, keeping it warm. Even though it was a new addition to their body, it didn’t feel… different. Same thing with the plastron on their chest and stomach. It was just normal.

Y/N was now standing in front of the counter. It looked weird how there was just food standing next to various kinds of medical equipment. There were clamps, gauzes, scissors and even scalpels stored away in see through boxes. Once again though Y/N’s attention was drawn to the random little paintbrush.

They took it inside their hand. Running the bristles along their palms. It was soft. A few speckles of different colors were on the handle of the brush. Some pink, orange, red, green, purple or blue. Yet it still looked like someone took care to properly clean the bristles.

“Oh, nice! You’re awake!”

Y/N whirled around, spotting Mikey standing in front of them. Now that Y/N was standing upright they could tell that they themself were taller than him. Only by a few inches though. The orange spots on his body were almost as bright as the smile that he was giving them.

“Uh, yeah. Sorry, I just…” They placed the brush back down, feeling like they have been caught doing something they shouldn’t.

Mikey didn’t seem to care though “That’s my brush. Normally you would be annoyed that I left that here.”

“I would?”

His smile faltered for a moment only to return into full swing “Yeah but that’s not important right now. I just saw some movement through the door and wanted to check up on you. See if you need anything.”

“Just woke up a second ago… Um, I couldn’t help but overhear Donnie and Leo fighting.” They didn’t know where exactly they wanted to go with this conversation. On one hand they felt a tiny bit guilty that the two were arguing because of them but on the other hand it sounded like they might have an idea what is going on.

Yet when they stopped themself to actually think about how to approach this subject, they saw how Mikey’s eyebrow ridge was pulled down. Oh yikes, he looked annoyed.

“I’m sorry that the two idiots woke you up.” He grumbled as he crossed his arms in front of his plastron.

It was funny, the way he looked disappointedly and angrily at the door, they could swear that Mikey was the older brother who was annoyed with his younger brothers’ antics.

“It’s fine. I did enough sleeping anyhow. I actually feel kind of restless.”

He eyed them as a response for a second “Honestly, I am glad to see you up and about. I was really worried about you last time I saw you, you were really pale. Well as pale as we can get, but if you are up how about a shower and then we can see what to do? Can’t have you die of boredom.”

Y/N nodded slowly “Yeah, a shower sounds nice.” They couldn’t help themself as a soft smirk appeared on their face “Are you saying, I smell?”

Mikey’s happy expression was exchanged with a pout “Aw, come on, Y/N! I’m trying to be nice and accommodating towards you while you are clearly going through it, and you tease me. I can’t fight back!”

Though as soon as his playful pout appeared, his smile returned. An earnest almost relieved smile “But can’t say I’m glad seeing you making jokes. You must be doing better than I thought.”

Yeah, they were inclined to agree. After the first shock of waking up in a new place, in a new body with new people wore off, they couldn’t help but almost feel comfortable. Y/N attributed it towards the fact that the people here had been trying their best to be actually nice. No matter how they tried to look for any bad signs, red flags, there was this small voice inside their head that told them that it was okay to trust them. That everything will be fine.

As they followed Mikey out of the room, they couldn’t help but grasp the blanket closer around their shoulders. Not sure what to expect when Mikey opened the infirmary door for them.

They were inside a tunnel that led into a huge open room. An atrium, maybe? There were skateboarding ramps. Graffiti all across the walls. More tunnels that presumably lead to different rooms. There were train tracks and a few subway cars parked. Honestly when the word lair popped inside their head to describe this place before, they didn’t think much about it. Now they had to think that this word fit this place rather well.

Mikey led Y/N past what they assumed must be the living room. There was a sofa. Beanbags, a couch and a ton of pillows. A projector on a small table. A few more subway cars were stationed here as well.

So, this was definitely an old subway system that probably led further into the sewer system.

There was a door that Mikey stopped in front of.

“Here we are. Take whatever you need, I’ll be just chilling over there where the projector was, so when you are done, we can think about what to do next. Take your time though!”

“Thanks, Mikey.”

And with this Y/N pushed the door open to a surprisingly clean looking bathroom. They weren’t really sure what they expected since this was in an old subway system, but they were glad, nonetheless. Seeing how Leo treated Donnie as the smartest of them all, they assumed this was his doing.

The bathroom had both a shower and a tub, but Y/N didn’t dare to fill a whole bath right now. A simple shower should be fine. Next to the sink, on a small cupboard, were a few differently colored towels placed. They couldn’t help but realize how colorful everything here was. Though seeing how they were mutants stuck in a sewer system only able to really go out at night, it did kind of make sense.

That said their mind was occupied with something else in the room. There was a mirror above the sink.

On one hand Y/N wanted to see what they really looked like now but on the other hand they were scared that inspecting themself like this would make it more real somehow. Yet before they could really think this problem through, their feet moved on their own. It seemed their curiosity won this fight.

They didn’t expect the weird emotions crashing down on them when they stood in front of the mirror. It was a mix of not recognizing the person, or mutant, in front of them but there was also this unmistakable thought of that this was indeed them.

Y/N couldn’t properly explain it even if they wanted to but maybe it was the form of their face. The way their eyes looked. The color of their eyes. This were things they recognized.

They let their blanket fall on the ground so they could take a proper look at their body. There was a dark green mutant with an almost black shell staring back at them. White small spots were littering their body and shell, while a light-yellow plastron covered the front. As they turned their body a bit, so they could take a better look at the shell, they couldn’t help but kind of think how the dark shell together with the white spots looked like stars in the night. Maybe if they connected the dots there would be some star constellations hidden.

It was a good sign to them that they weren’t freaking out in this moment. They did feel a bit queasy at all of this, but they didn’t feel a new panic attack sneaking up on them.

Maybe it did really help that even though their body changed they seemed to somewhat recognize their facial features. They couldn’t rightly place if this was weird, maybe even creepy or if they should somehow be glad about that.

But this also gave them the chance to see. Yep, no eyebrows. Now that they really thought about it how was it even possible that Donnie had eyebrows on his mask.

Finally, they tore their eyes off the reflection. Their concentration back on the task at hand. A shower.

It was a bit weird to just straight up step into the shower since they didn’t need to shed any clothing. But once they stood in the shower and warm water began raining down on them, they relaxed. They had to admit it was rather nice. Especially the way it pattered down on their shell.

And for a moment their mind was quiet. Just enjoying the peace.

That moment passed though as they grabbed for the soap. Lathering it up on their body. The smell was nice. Actually, as they took a tentative sniff at the soap, they realized that it was one of their favorite scents. Maybe this was Y/N Hamato’s doing? Maybe the two had indeed a few similarities. Or, more likely, it was a coincidence.

As they washed the suds off their arms and plastron they had to wonder. Should they try to wash their shell? Was it even possible? Was it necessary? They tried a little bit but gave up when they realized they couldn’t properly reach it anyhow. This should do for now.

Y/N turned off the warm water only to immediately miss said warmth. Not wasting any time, they grabbed a towel and dried themself off. Once they were satisfied, they hung up the towel and laid the blanket back across their shoulders.

They sighed satisfied. Indeed, feeling a bit refreshed after the shower.

A bit nervously they opened the door of the bathroom to step out back into the rest of the lair, immediately making their way towards the living space. It was really just around the corner, but they couldn’t help but be happy to not get lost.

Mikey was laying on the ground, reading a comic. Lazily turning to the next page.

Y/N stepped closer to look at the comic, but Mikey noticed their shadow suddenly. Shrieking in surprise, throwing the comic into the air.

“Oh my gosh, Y/N!” He said accusingly, staring at them with his hand on his chest “You scared me!”

“Sorry, Mikey.” A nervous chuckle following their apology. It was a bit funny.

He scrambled off the ground “I know we are all ninja and stuff, but I always forget how quiet you can be.”

“Seriously. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to sneak up on you.” They really didn’t. Mikey was probably just too concentrated on his comic to notice them.

“I feel like at least once a month you give me a heart attack.” He laughed lightly only to be met by Y/N’s confused expression.

“Right. Memory stuff. Anyway, I had the idea I’d show you your room! Probably more comfortable than the nasty infirmary.”

Somehow Y/N felt slightly offended at that. The infirmary wasn’t that bad, but a proper bed did sound better. Besides they were a bit curious to see how their supposed room looked like here.

“Lead the way.”

And that he did. Leading them away to one of the parked subway cars. Opening the door for them so Y/N would be the first to step in.

The first thing they noticed was how messy the room was. It wasn’t the kind of mess that made the place look nasty, but it actually somehow added to the comfy feel of the room.

There was a bed with a few teddy bears and fluffy big pillows. A ton of different kind of bits and pieces decorated the room. They were mostly action hero related. There were a few movie posters of movies they didn’t recognize.

Jupiter Jim and the Robo-Buggy Derby? Sounded… interesting.

Though there were also a few posters on the walls of Lou Jitzu and his movies. Their father if Y/N remembered correctly. It was kind of weird to think about that apparently a movie star was the father of five mutant turtles. But he was a mutant as well, wasn’t he?

But what really caught Y/N’s attention was that there were a ton of instruments in this room. A keyboard, a ukulele, a guitar, a recorder and a violin? So, Y/N Hamato loved music, huh.

Mikey bounced over towards the bed to sit down. He did it so naturally, Y/N assumed this was his go to spot in the room.

“So, this is your room. You can hang out here from now on. I mean it is your room.”

“That’s a lot of instruments.” Y/N spoke as they walked over to the keyboard. Lightly brushing their hands on the surface of it.

When they looked back towards Mikey, he gave them a big nod “Yep! The virtuoso of the family.”

Their gaze fell back on their hand that was still on top of the keyboard “That’s… How? Aren’t like most instruments made for people with, you know, ten fingers.”

Mikey shrugged at that “We all asked ourselves that as well! But I think you found your own way past that problem. Something something you don’t always need all ten fingers for a lot…I still think it is the magic of music that let you overcome this problem.”

Y/N let out an amused snort “Sure. I can get behind that.”

“Also, over there are your medical books.”

Y/N turned around with a speed they were sure they could have hurt themself with “Wait, what?”

Mikey’s finger was pointing towards their desk and indeed there were a number of thick books placed all over it. There was a laptop resting next to the books.

They immediately strode over to take a look at the books. Anatomy, Virology and the like. Damn, Y/N Hamato is smart, huh.

“That’s a lot.” They noted as they looked at all the different medical books.

“Didn’t the others tell you that you are the medic of the team?” Mikey sounded genuinely surprised.

Y/N shook their head “No. I assumed Leo filled that role since he was the one who gave me my pain meds and sedated me and stuff.” Not going to lie it still felt weird that they were sedated in the first place. They did tell Leo that it was okay, but they weren’t entirely sure how they felt about it. They weren’t mad. Maybe surprised was the correct word?

“If you are the chief doctor… surgeon… or whatever these are called then Leo would be your nurse, I guess. You taught him here and there for emergencies and because he was interested, which was good because when you got knocked out like that, he could at least take care of your wounds without making it worse.”

“Well, I know nothing about that. I’m just a poor old design student.”

Mikey snickered at that “Yeah, I heard. Donnie was really sad about that.”

“He was?”

He nodded “Yep. You and him were always Team Smart. He concentrates on machines and the like while you loved medicine and did research on our whole mutant situation. So, when he heard that the you now, with these new memories, was a design student he felt like he lost his only non dumb dumb sibling.” As he spoke, he made sure to make air quotes with his hands while saying the words “dumb dumb”.

Well, this might explain Donnie’s weird reaction when he first heard about their major. They couldn’t help but chuckle at this. There were usually a lot of different reactions when people found out about their major. This was a new one for sure.

Y/N slowly opened up a green notebook. It was littered with stickers of skateboards, pizza, turtles and there were four different colored hearts. A red, blue, purple and orange one. The notebook was kind of cute and obviously well loved. There were also a ton of notes sticking out of the side of it. Maybe even some loose papers.

They randomly skipped to a page deep inside the notebook.

These were medical notes. Specifically, about mutagen. Curious to see if they understood anything Y/N took a closer look.

There were sketches of chemical make ups of what they assumed must have been mutagen and their bonds. Notes with how to release these bonds. Honestly it surprised them that they understood that. The way the notes were written down Y/N thought they looked very much like how they would do theirs. Seemed like Y/N Hamato and them had that in common.

They whistled, impressed “Damn. The me you know is smart.”

“You would always say that you learning this all was more out of necessity that later turned into curiosity. It’s not being smart just being dedicated.” At the end he changed his posture and voice.

It took Y/N a second before they realized “Were you trying to imitate… me?”

Mikey grinned “Yeah and doing an amazing job of it!”

“Sure.” It was the first real laugh they let out without feeling somehow guilty or surprised by it. It was just easy to chat with Mikey.

Closing the notebook again Y/N moved over to sit next to Mikey on the bed. Okay, the bed was definitely more comfortable than the stretcher in the infirmary.

They took a look at one of the teddy bears. Smiling at the cute little bear. A few differently colored patched littered his body. Y/N placed it on their lap as their fingers traced along its synthetic fur. Somehow it felt like home.

“Raph gave you this one when we were all kids. He has a ton of these but this one was the one you would always grab whenever you had the chance. So, Raph just gifted you this one. See these stitches? You wouldn’t trust anyone else but Raph to repair him whenever a tear would appear.”

A smile made its way on Y/N’s face. That’s adorable. Their heart swelling at the thought of little kid them running up to their big brother to repair their teddy bear. Not able to help themself, Y/N gave the cute bear a quick little hug before placing it back on the bed against the wall.

Y/N eyes traveled over to Mikey. He was at this point playing with his own hands. His face scrunched together, almost as if he wanted to say something but tried his best to hold back.

“Something on your mind?” Y/N asked, their eyebrows raised in surprise.

Mikey stared at his hands “Oh, just… I don’t know… You have been out for two weeks and all and I would really love to give you a hug because, yay my sibling is awake but… yeah… your memory is all frazzled.” That was one way to describe their memory situation from his perspective.

He did seem like a person with a big heart that probably loved hugs and to him, he had to watch his sibling comatose for two weeks. Y/N had to admit, they felt sympathetic.

So, they just turned their body towards Mikey and opened their arms, similar how they would always do when they tried to cheer one of their younger sisters up. An open invitation that they could either take up on or not.

The way Mikey’s unsure expression turned into a big happy one before he threw himself into their arms, made Y/N’s heart swell. He held strongly on to Y/N, almost crushing their ribs in the process.

“I missed you.” His voice was muffled as he pressed his face into their shoulder.

Y/N just begun rubbing soothing patterns against his shell. Their older sibling instinct kicking in as they tried to console him. They wanted to say something as well but what could they possibly say? “I missed you too?” Of course not. Only even knowing of his existence for maybe a day or two. But they also couldn’t help to feel protective over him as he seemingly reminded them of their own younger sisters. They held on to him as well. After all of this shock and confusion it was kind of nice to get hugged like that.

Suddenly there were loud footsteps and the door to the room got pushed open. A frantic looking turtle mutant scanned the room only to spot Y/N and Mikey. Mikey was almost holding on to them like a little monkey would to a tree.

The tall mutant wore a red bandana and had a spiky shell. The last of the brothers. This must be Raphael.

He immediately relaxed when he spotted the two “Man, here you are. We got really worried when we didn’t spot you in the infirmary, Y/N.” He chuckled.

Mikey decided to let go of Y/N so he could give Raph his full attention “Something tells me you were the only one worried.”

Raph’s face immediately contorted into a grimace that just screamed that Mikey hit the nail on the head “What? No.” He coughed to look back “Found them! They are in their room!”

“See, Hermano! I told you they would still be at home! Don’t think they feel confident enough to go out of the lair.” Leo spoke from behind, peering into the room.

Y/N nodded towards Leo “Yeah. That.”

“I just thought it would be nice for them if they stayed in their actual room. You know, it’s comfier here. Also, they were bored.” Mikey explained.

Raph nodded, accepting his reasoning “True enough. You doing okay, Y/N?”

They immediately nodded “Oh, yeah! All good! Mikey told me a few things about myself and stuff.” Well, it wasn’t necessarily them but continuing to say “the me you know” was getting tiring and complicated.

“And that wasn’t too much?” Raph seemed like a bit of a worrywart, Y/N noted.

“No. It was nice. Though quite the shocker to learn that the I was actually smart. The way they wrote their notes though is very similar how I do it.” They weren’t really sure why they told him all that, but it ended with a smile on his face.

“I’m glad to hear that. If you are okay, maybe we could do a bit of a movie marathon? Since you are bored and all.”

“And it’s our favorite family activity!” Mikey exclaimed happily.

“I do like my movies… besides something tells me that you guys won’t be happy to hear that I can’t seem to remember the Lou Jitzu movies and … Jupiter Jim? You know, judging how there are posters of these movies all over the room.”

There were three gasps and one pronounced “Gasp!” Seems like Donnie was also standing behind Raph.

“No, this… our own sibling! Betrayal! The pain!” Leonardo exclaimed dramatically, clutching his chest right where his heart is, letting himself flop forward. Raph reacted immediately, grabbing on to him so he wouldn’t smack right on to the floor.

Mikey held onto Y/N again, this time with glossy eyes “You don’t remember any Lou Jitzu or Jupiter Jim movies?!”

“The life you lived sounds like it sucked.” Donnie also exclaimed.

Wow, this hit them harder than Y/N expected.

“Just means you guys can see my first reaction to the movies… again? I guess? Kind of?” They tried to ease the minds of the other mutants.

“It’s emergency movie marathon time!” Raph exclaimed, immediately walking out of the room. Still holding on to Leo who was fake wailing. Donnie was close by as he followed his brothers.

These were sure some characters.

“Mikey, I can’t get up with you holding on to me like that.”

But he didn’t let go “You never saw any of these movies? For real?”

Y/N tentatively shook their head “As far as I know… these movies… don’t… exist… where… I’m… from…?”

Mikey’s hands clasped their face suddenly “This is the saddest thing I have ever heard.” His arms going back around their shoulders to keep holding on to them, as if they would fall apart if he didn’t.

This time Y/N patted his head and just said “There. There.”

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