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You were beating on the Kraang with your long time friends the turtles just having a grand old time. You were in the upper quartile when it came to fighting skills. You dodged a punch but then got tripped. You fall on the ground but a hand reached to help you up.

"Careful sweetheart, don't want you to bruise your beautiful face." You look to see Mikey smiling at you with his characteristic grin. You roll your eyes smiling and accept his helping hand.

"Even if I got bruised you'd still love me." You peck his cheek. "But thank you." The two of you then launch back into battle side by side. Everything was fine and the battle finished but when you started heading back home you noticed Mikey was way behind. In fact, it didn't even look like he started running. You walk up to him.

"You okay Mikey?" You ask in a concerned tone. Mikey nods.

"Y-yeah I'm fine (y/n) just a little-" he gets interrupted when he looks sounds like he's about to throw up. But he stops it. "Nauseous..." He starts to try and walk but you find that he is more stumbling rather than walking. He's about to fall over when you catch him. You look at him to find that he does look pretty bad, his eyes were bloodshot, he looked greener than usual, as weird as that sounds. And he just wasn't very coordinated. It concerns you deeply, Mikey almost never got sick, and when he did it would usually just be a two to three day light cold. He got really sick a lot when he was a little kid so it helped build immunity.

"Well....just take it easy okay..?" You ask softly. Mikey nods and groans grabbing his head. You put his arm around you to support him and the two of you slowly make your way back home.

"What took you guys so long?" Raph calls looking up from a comic book as he hears footsteps approaching the lair entrance. The two of you get in and slowly make your way down the stairover to the couch. The other turtles look at you and suddenly grow concerned. Raph walks up to Mikey sitting by him. "Hey, you okay...?" Mikey had his eyes half open when you sleepily waved his hand as if to say "don't worry about it."

"What happened?" Leo asks. Mikey groans loudly and holds his head in one of his hands.

"(Y/n), can you get me off the desk chair please...? I don't really wanna spin right now..."

"You're not, on a desk chair Mikey..." Don informs his brother.

"Really? Cause it sure feels like-" Mikey suddenly throws up and all of you recoil slightly at the sight of half digested anchovie, jellybean and jalapeño pizza. "It..." He finishes quietly. Don goes down and collects a sample of it for analyzing.

"Hey Mikey, I'm gonna go ahead and take a blood sample from you okay?" Don asks quietly trying to keep his nerves from showing. Mikey just leans back on the couch and groans again, Donnie quickly heads to his lab grabs some supplies. When he comes back he gets the sample and heads to his lab to begin the analyzation. After a few minutes you make sure the others are watching Mikey you head over to the lab to check on Don's progress.

"But this just doesn't make any sense! How come it didn't come up sooner?" Don mutters to himself as he works.

"What do you mean Don?" You ask coming up next to him. Startled slightly he fumbles around for a second and sighs.

"Mikey seems to have been exposed to some kind of evolved carcinogen."

"W-wait, don't those cause cancer...?!" Donnie looks at you and nods, many negative emotions visible in his expression. He turns back to his work.

"Somehow it's managed to stay hidden all this time and we couldn't catch it...but where did I come from? The culture here shows that this is nothing like anything we could find on earth. It somehow manages to turn the cells themselves into a type of bacteria which make the host sick...maybe it was from dimension x...."

"But that was months ago! Don't you think you would've found something sooner than that?!"

"Like I said (y/n), it is some sort of evolved cancer. And some cancers take years for people to develop symptoms...the time differential in demension x very well means that years maybe even decades could've passed by now." He glances down and your eyes widen.

"B-but...you can still fix him right? You'll still try and fix him?!" You ask frantically. He looks at you, sadness and fear hinted in his eyes.

"I'll try..." He says quietly. Tears were threatening to form in your eyes. You knew you couldn't ask anything more from him but come on! You slowly get up and make your way back outside allowing Don to focus. You see that Mikey was still on the couch this time laying down. You find Leo sitting next to him, he looks to see you and moves so you can sit next to Mikey.

"What did you find out?" Leo asks quietly. Tears were in your eyes as you lean over and explain what Don had told you to Leo. Trying to keep Mikey from hearing. His eyes widen as he looks to his ailing youngest brother...he looks afraid. Unbeknown to you Raph was close, and even though he had to strain to hear he heard everything. He grinds his teeth and clenches his fists and he quickly and quietly makes his way to the dojo and starts beating the crap out of the punching bag. Trying to keep his voice as low as possible as to not be heard. Before long it was time for bed. You got up to leave.

"(Y/n)...." Mikey barely whispers. You quickly look at him and crouch next to him on the couch. You didn't bother to move him since it seemed even the slightest movement would trigger nausea.

"Yeah Mikey?" You ask softly.

"Stay with me....?" He asks in a weak tone. You nod.

"Of course I can." You go quickly and grab a sleeping bag and set it up right by the couch.

"Thank you..." He whispers. You peck his forehead.

"Not a problem..." You get comfortable and by that time you already heard him snoring quietly. Throughout the coming days Splinter and the others would do what they could to make him comfortable, but the only thing that really made him feel remotely okay was when you were with him, so you never left his side. You'd always send one of the turtles to go get something while you had stayed to comfort Mikey. Raph was probably the most attentive out of all of them. You and him would always try to do things with him. Weather that be reading him comic books or just talking. The TV and video games he would normally like had gave him a really bad headache due to the light and loud noise so you always made sure the others were quiet around him. Don would always give him a daily check up to check on his progress and then shut himself in the lair trying to develop a cure. But every time he's about to come up with a breakthrough something in the virus changes and he's set back. You all were scared, worried, sad, even angry to a certain extent. Raph especially. Whenever he wasn't taking care of Mikey he'd be in the dojo "blowing of steam" as he put it. Mikey was basically bed ridden and even though he was sick as he was he kept a slight smile on his face when you and the others were with him hanging out with him. Or at least. He tried to. He seemed to have been in a lot of pain. Don's examinations revealed that he had a severely sore throat, throbbing vascular headache and severe nausea with a few pains on his body that would go and come back randomly every few hours. You hated it, he was hooked up to a heart monitor after the first day and he had a constant supply of medicine to try and help with certain pains but even those didn't help too much. You wanted to scream, you wanted to cry. But you had to stay strong for Mikey. He needed you and you intend to be there for him. Tonight you were reading him a comic book One night you were woken up by a violent coughing fit. You look to your side to see Mikey's heart monitor beating rapidly. Your eyes widen as you start panicking.

"D-DONNIE! GET IN HERE NOW!" You shout, within seconds everyone was up and within moments of seeing Mikey Don had raced to his lab to get emergency supplies and he and sensei started getting to work. Leo and Raph just standing there shocked. Raph however quickly got angry. Panting as he clenches his fists, Leo puts a shoulder on him to clam him down. After a few more seconds the coughing stops and Mikey groans loudly holding his head in one of his hands.

"Make it stop spinning...." Mikey groans weakly.

"W-We're doin' the best we c-can Mikey..." Don says trying to keep himself calm. Over the next minute or so don and sensei had continued to work, when they were done they stepped away and the heart monitor stabilizes slightly but Mikey barely looked any better...in fact...he didn't look better at all.

"I am afraid that we have done all we can..." Sensei says in a hushed, sad tone. Your eyes widen even more.

"That's it? Th-that can't be it! Look at him!" You shout gesturing to Mikey, sensei and Don hang their heads.

"That really is all we could do...I'm sorry (y/n)..." Don says, his voice getting progressively quieter. Tears start to well in your eyes as you look at Mikey. You sink to your knees beside him, your head hanging low as you try to choke back your tears.

"H-hey..." Mikey weakly reaches a hand up and caresses your cheek. You put your hand on top of his as you raise your head to look at him. You now see how pale he actually looks. He looks almost like a ghost version of himself. "Don't cry...i-it's okay...."

"B-but Mikey..." You whimper.

"I'll always be with you (y/n), you know that right...?"

"Don't talk like that...!" You whimper, Mikey only looks at you. "W-well yeah you may be with me but not...not literally! I-i want you here...i want you to be able to t-touch me and talk to m-me..." You whimper again.

"I-I know...it's gonna suck for me too...but promise me you'll try and keep being happy when this is all over...okay? I promise I'll be watching to make sure you guys are safe...like a guardian..." He he says hoarsely with a slight smile but his eyes seemed to be begging, the tears were starting to fall now despite you trying to stop them. Mikey looks around at his family then back to you. With seemingly all his remaining strength he pulls himself up just enough to peck your cheek. He lays back down slowly as you squeeze the hand on your cheek tight. "I love you..." He musters quietly, his eyes slowly close as the monitor flatlines and his body goes limp. You let go of his hand and it falls to his side hanging off the edge of the couch. Your eyes widen again.

"Mikey..?" You whimper quietly as you shake him a little. He's unresponsive. You grab his shoulders and shake him harder. "MIKEY?!?" You shout...he still didn't respond. Why wasn't he talking to you?! Oh who were you kidding...you knew why...you throw your arms around him as you start crying. Leo and Donnie hang their heads and sensei's ears go down. All of them seem to have tears welling in their eyes. Raph starts panting again. He walks over to the wall slamming his fists against it, hard. He whimpers as he slowly sinks to his knees, his fists loosen as he tries to hold back his sobs. "I LOVE YOU TOO!" You cry out. Where ever he is, you just hope that your now guardian angel can hear you...

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You were beating on the Kraang with your long time friends the turtles just having a grand old time. You were in the upper quartile when it came to fighting skills. You dodged a punch but then got tripped. You fall on the ground but a hand reached to help you up.

"Careful sweetheart, don't want you to bruise your beautiful face." You look to see Mikey smiling at you with his characteristic grin. You roll your eyes smiling and accept his helping hand.

"Even if I got bruised you'd still love me." You peck his cheek. "But thank you." The two of you then launch back into battle side by side. Everything was fine and the battle finished but when you started heading back home you noticed Mikey was way behind. In fact, it didn't even look like he started running. You walk up to him.

"You okay Mikey?" You ask in a concerned tone. Mikey nods.

"Y-yeah I'm fine (y/n) just a little-" he gets interrupted when he looks sounds like he's about to throw up. But he stops it. "Nauseous..." He starts to try and walk but you find that he is more stumbling rather than walking. He's about to fall over when you catch him. You look at him to find that he does look pretty bad, his eyes were bloodshot, he looked greener than usual, as weird as that sounds. And he just wasn't very coordinated. It concerns you deeply, Mikey almost never got sick, and when he did it would usually just be a two to three day light cold. He got really sick a lot when he was a little kid so it helped build immunity.

"Well....just take it easy okay..?" You ask softly. Mikey nods and groans grabbing his head. You put his arm around you to support him and the two of you slowly make your way back home.

"What took you guys so long?" Raph calls looking up from a comic book as he hears footsteps approaching the lair entrance. The two of you get in and slowly make your way down the stairover to the couch. The other turtles look at you and suddenly grow concerned. Raph walks up to Mikey sitting by him. "Hey, you okay...?" Mikey had his eyes half open when you sleepily waved his hand as if to say "don't worry about it."

"What happened?" Leo asks. Mikey groans loudly and holds his head in one of his hands.

"(Y/n), can you get me off the desk chair please...? I don't really wanna spin right now..."

"You're not, on a desk chair Mikey..." Don informs his brother.

"Really? Cause it sure feels like-" Mikey suddenly throws up and all of you recoil slightly at the sight of half digested anchovie, jellybean and jalapeño pizza. "It..." He finishes quietly. Don goes down and collects a sample of it for analyzing.

"Hey Mikey, I'm gonna go ahead and take a blood sample from you okay?" Don asks quietly trying to keep his nerves from showing. Mikey just leans back on the couch and groans again, Donnie quickly heads to his lab grabs some supplies. When he comes back he gets the sample and heads to his lab to begin the analyzation. After a few minutes you make sure the others are watching Mikey you head over to the lab to check on Don's progress.

"But this just doesn't make any sense! How come it didn't come up sooner?" Don mutters to himself as he works.

"What do you mean Don?" You ask coming up next to him. Startled slightly he fumbles around for a second and sighs.

"Mikey seems to have been exposed to some kind of evolved carcinogen."

"W-wait, don't those cause cancer...?!" Donnie looks at you and nods, many negative emotions visible in his expression. He turns back to his work.

"Somehow it's managed to stay hidden all this time and we couldn't catch it...but where did I come from? The culture here shows that this is nothing like anything we could find on earth. It somehow manages to turn the cells themselves into a type of bacteria which make the host sick...maybe it was from dimension x...."

"But that was months ago! Don't you think you would've found something sooner than that?!"

"Like I said (y/n), it is some sort of evolved cancer. And some cancers take years for people to develop symptoms...the time differential in demension x very well means that years maybe even decades could've passed by now." He glances down and your eyes widen.

"B-but...you can still fix him right? You'll still try and fix him?!" You ask frantically. He looks at you, sadness and fear hinted in his eyes.

"I'll try..." He says quietly. Tears were threatening to form in your eyes. You knew you couldn't ask anything more from him but come on! You slowly get up and make your way back outside allowing Don to focus. You see that Mikey was still on the couch this time laying down. You find Leo sitting next to him, he looks to see you and moves so you can sit next to Mikey.

"What did you find out?" Leo asks quietly. Tears were in your eyes as you lean over and explain what Don had told you to Leo. Trying to keep Mikey from hearing. His eyes widen as he looks to his ailing youngest brother...he looks afraid. Unbeknown to you Raph was close, and even though he had to strain to hear he heard everything. He grinds his teeth and clenches his fists and he quickly and quietly makes his way to the dojo and starts beating the crap out of the punching bag. Trying to keep his voice as low as possible as to not be heard. Before long it was time for bed. You got up to leave.

"(Y/n)...." Mikey barely whispers. You quickly look at him and crouch next to him on the couch. You didn't bother to move him since it seemed even the slightest movement would trigger nausea.

"Yeah Mikey?" You ask softly.

"Stay with me....?" He asks in a weak tone. You nod.

"Of course I can." You go quickly and grab a sleeping bag and set it up right by the couch.

"Thank you..." He whispers. You peck his forehead.

"Not a problem..." You get comfortable and by that time you already heard him snoring quietly. Throughout the coming days Splinter and the others would do what they could to make him comfortable, but the only thing that really made him feel remotely okay was when you were with him, so you never left his side. You'd always send one of the turtles to go get something while you had stayed to comfort Mikey. Raph was probably the most attentive out of all of them. You and him would always try to do things with him. Weather that be reading him comic books or just talking. The TV and video games he would normally like had gave him a really bad headache due to the light and loud noise so you always made sure the others were quiet around him. Don would always give him a daily check up to check on his progress and then shut himself in the lair trying to develop a cure. But every time he's about to come up with a breakthrough something in the virus changes and he's set back. You all were scared, worried, sad, even angry to a certain extent. Raph especially. Whenever he wasn't taking care of Mikey he'd be in the dojo "blowing of steam" as he put it. Mikey was basically bed ridden and even though he was sick as he was he kept a slight smile on his face when you and the others were with him hanging out with him. Or at least. He tried to. He seemed to have been in a lot of pain. Don's examinations revealed that he had a severely sore throat, throbbing vascular headache and severe nausea with a few pains on his body that would go and come back randomly every few hours. You hated it, he was hooked up to a heart monitor after the first day and he had a constant supply of medicine to try and help with certain pains but even those didn't help too much. You wanted to scream, you wanted to cry. But you had to stay strong for Mikey. He needed you and you intend to be there for him. Tonight you were reading him a comic book One night you were woken up by a violent coughing fit. You look to your side to see Mikey's heart monitor beating rapidly. Your eyes widen as you start panicking.

"D-DONNIE! GET IN HERE NOW!" You shout, within seconds everyone was up and within moments of seeing Mikey Don had raced to his lab to get emergency supplies and he and sensei started getting to work. Leo and Raph just standing there shocked. Raph however quickly got angry. Panting as he clenches his fists, Leo puts a shoulder on him to clam him down. After a few more seconds the coughing stops and Mikey groans loudly holding his head in one of his hands.

"Make it stop spinning...." Mikey groans weakly.

"W-We're doin' the best we c-can Mikey..." Don says trying to keep himself calm. Over the next minute or so don and sensei had continued to work, when they were done they stepped away and the heart monitor stabilizes slightly but Mikey barely looked any better...in fact...he didn't look better at all.

"I am afraid that we have done all we can..." Sensei says in a hushed, sad tone. Your eyes widen even more.

"That's it? Th-that can't be it! Look at him!" You shout gesturing to Mikey, sensei and Don hang their heads.

"That really is all we could do...I'm sorry (y/n)..." Don says, his voice getting progressively quieter. Tears start to well in your eyes as you look at Mikey. You sink to your knees beside him, your head hanging low as you try to choke back your tears.

"H-hey..." Mikey weakly reaches a hand up and caresses your cheek. You put your hand on top of his as you raise your head to look at him. You now see how pale he actually looks. He looks almost like a ghost version of himself. "Don't cry...i-it's okay...."

"B-but Mikey..." You whimper.

"I'll always be with you (y/n), you know that right...?"

"Don't talk like that...!" You whimper, Mikey only looks at you. "W-well yeah you may be with me but not...not literally! I-i want you here...i want you to be able to t-touch me and talk to m-me..." You whimper again.

"I-I know...it's gonna suck for me too...but promise me you'll try and keep being happy when this is all over...okay? I promise I'll be watching to make sure you guys are safe...like a guardian..." He he says hoarsely with a slight smile but his eyes seemed to be begging, the tears were starting to fall now despite you trying to stop them. Mikey looks around at his family then back to you. With seemingly all his remaining strength he pulls himself up just enough to peck your cheek. He lays back down slowly as you squeeze the hand on your cheek tight. "I love you..." He musters quietly, his eyes slowly close as the monitor flatlines and his body goes limp. You let go of his hand and it falls to his side hanging off the edge of the couch. Your eyes widen again.

"Mikey..?" You whimper quietly as you shake him a little. He's unresponsive. You grab his shoulders and shake him harder. "MIKEY?!?" You shout...he still didn't respond. Why wasn't he talking to you?! Oh who were you kidding...you knew why...you throw your arms around him as you start crying. Leo and Donnie hang their heads and sensei's ears go down. All of them seem to have tears welling in their eyes. Raph starts panting again. He walks over to the wall slamming his fists against it, hard. He whimpers as he slowly sinks to his knees, his fists loosen as he tries to hold back his sobs. "I LOVE YOU TOO!" You cry out. Where ever he is, you just hope that your now guardian angel can hear you...