Day 145: Missing

Missing
Summary: Mikey thinks about strange things
Pairing: Leo/Mikey
Prompt: Missing
Day: August 9
Disclaimer: TMNT does not belong to me.


Mikey was often underestimated by his brothers in his ability to think deeply about subjects outside of his comics and video game. He knew that this simply wasn’t true however. He more than had the ability to concentrate and analyze whatever he needed to. He just didn’t if the moment didn’t require it. The way Mikey saw it, that meant there was more time to wonder about any topic that popped into his head.

This was exactly what Mikey was doing when Leo walked into the living room to try and get his mate to come to bed. What Leo saw was his boyfriend laying back on the couch staring
at his hands and feet with a focused look on his face.

At first Leo just stood there waiting for Mikey to do something that would give him more of a clue as to what his mate was doing but when Mikey just continued to stare Leo realized that  he was going to have to start the conversation.

“What are you doing Mikey?” Leo asked as he leaned over the back of the couch to see if perhaps his brother had spilled something all over himself.

“Did you ever wonder about the fact that we’re missing fingers and toes?” Mikey said very calming without looking away from his appendages.

Now Leo was ever more confused as to what was going on. Mikey had some out there ideas every now and again but so far nothing this strange.

“We’ve always had three fingers and two toes Mikey,” Leo said slowly beginning to wonder if perhaps Mikey was already asleep and was sleepwalking. “You aren’t missing any.”

For the first time since Leo entered the room Mikey looked away from his hands and feet to turn his attention towards his brother who obviously wasn’t getting what he was trying to say.

“I know we’ve always had three fingers and two toes Leo,” Mikey responded in a tone that was similar to that of someone stating the truly obvious. “We’re still missing some though. Regular turtle had five claws on their hands and feet and humans have five fingers and five toes and we’re sort of a combination of both because of the mutagen and yet we only have three fingers and two toes. Where did the rest go?”

Leo was speechless after hearing Mikey’s reasoning. He had never really thought about it before since they had always been this way and there had never been any cause to wonder if they could be different since that wasn’t an option.

When Mikey saw that he had Leo’s attention he decided to continue on with his line of thinking.

“I mean we all started out as normal turtles which means that we had to have had five fingers and toes before we got covered in the mutagen so what happened? Did they just fall off or something? Why are they missing? Are there baby turtle claws floating somewhere in the sewers?”

The implication of what Mikey was saying were so strange that Leo was having trouble fully wrapping his head around them. He had never bothered to think of himself as missing fingers and toes but now that Mikey mentioned it he couldn’t stop thinking about it.

Leo just shook his head determined to put it out of his mind since there was nothing that he could do about it and nothing truly needed to be done since that was how they could always remember being and they had gotten along just fine.

“Let’s go to bed now Mikey,” Leo said grabbing onto his brother’s wrist with his three fingered hand. “It’s too late to be having strange discussions like this.”

Mikey just grinned happily as he followed along behind his insistent brother, pleased that he was able to throw Leo off of his game for at least a minute. He may not put a lot of thought into the topics that his brothers thought were important but that didn’t mean that he couldn’t put thought into anything.