Report 012 [Action (especially for fellow House 55 people)/Voice] | Backdated somewhat to morning

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[Action, timed before Helios' post]

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[Some time in the morning, Leo's waking up with a start. In the back room usually belonging to Robert. Memories of the last week flash through his mind, and he groans. What a mess that was. But his mind is distracted by the pain in his shoulder making itself known. Feeling like he was impaled all over again. But fortunately this time there's no bleeding. He closes his eyes, working to work the pain down. He can't stay in here forever, someone's likely to come looking for him. He finally manages to get it down enough to push himself up out of bed.

He grits his teeth, when finds the rest of his muscles sore too, from being in the wrong places for the last week. He heads out of the room. He has to find Don, and make sure he's all right. He goes to their shared room and opens the door quickly. He's relieved to find his brother there, sleeping.

The sound of the front door opening abruptly, and Robert's shout has him turning though, and heading for the living room.]

We're here Robert.

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[Relief floods Robert a moment at the sight of Leo and the sound of his voice. They're okay. They're here and they remember him. This isn't some strange, sick parody of Leo like that "Rodney" was, some mockery of him wearing his face and body like the mask Robert saw at his side earlier.]

Wh-where is Don...? [He sways slightly, dizzily; Robert clearly looks exhausted and sick, weak enough to qualify as anemic. Over twenty years of trained muscle, gone in an instant; and organs reshuffled, and the loss of a balancing tail...

... Needless to say, he's completely out of sorts.]

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[A voice wafts out from the bedroom.]

I'm up.

[He's not up. He hurts too much to be up. Too much to remember quite why he hurts, or how far from normal everything has been for the past week. Give him a minute to relocate reality.]

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[Leo's taking in Robert too. No tail, no weird looking skin. No anger toward him.]

He's in--

[Be then Don answers for him. He heads back to the bedroom. Trying to determine if Don is back to normal too.]

Don, where are you from? [He vaguely remembers that convo in the labs. If Leo was anybody else, he probably wouldn't be up either. But he's determined to check on everyone before he lets himself relax again.]

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[At first, the question strikes Robert as ridiculous, but it only takes him a second to realize why Leo is asking. Obviously, it'd be harder to tell what Don was like than himself - whose changes were both external and internal.]

... I... I need to record what I r-remember, Leonardo... ... b-before I forget.

[But he'll wait, to see if Don is alright, before he does.]

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[Blearily:] What?

[What kind of question is that, Leo, and why are you asking it when Don is only half-awake?]

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[He nods to Robert. He'll let Robert past, if the man wants, before he leans on the door frame.]

Definitely a good idea. [He looks back to his half awake brother. He's just trying to get straight who you are Don.]

Just seeing if you're you, Don.

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[That answer is... kind of classic Don, actually. But in the meantime, Robert is going to head over to his room - slowly, with every wobbly step being a fairly large effort.

He stops himself and leans against the frame of the hall to stave off any weakness-induced dizziness, as well as to catch Don's proper answer.]

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I wish I wasn't. [He pushes himself up, slowly.] I feel like I wrestled a sewer croc last night.

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I feel like I wrestled three. [At once. He'll push off the door frame.]

I should check in with Master Splinter. [He stops though, trying to remember when the last time was, that he saw their father.]

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[... Robert hasn't heard the sounds of Splinter at all since he came in. That's odd.

But maybe he's affected too, like the others. So Robert continues to push himself to his room, finally limping in, only to discover his nanocomputer isn't there.]

... Wh-where did my nanocomputer go...?

[... And why is his lab coat still there? It's been moved, but it hasn't been hurt or anything.

Could one of the others had moved it? It seems like they'd been living in the house during the week. Audubon had never even gone near it...]

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[Show-off.]

[Don makes a further attempt to get up, but stops when Leo does, reading his brother's unease. It's beginning to dawn on him that something feels very wrong with his sense of time.]

Guys, what were we doing last night?

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[Yeah yeah, we'll celebrate later.]

It doesn't feel like just one night. [It feels like longer. He's trying to make sense, but between the pain and the memories leaking back in, it's tricky.]

But I was here, with you. But...it wasn't me or you. [Ugh, they'll have to figure this out. But first...]

Something's not right. I need to find Master Splinter. [Where was he/ Why isn't he here, surely he had to hear them being up, right?]

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[Robert remembers, but it's just his luck he's gotten himself far enough away that he doesn't quite know what they're saying. Still, he's hobbling back now, evidently out-of-sorts even from that short walk.

He's trying to make it back to the others, but Leo's distress stops him.]

... L-Leonardo...?

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[Ignoring the all-over soreness, Don rolls out of bed and follows Leo.]

I'll feel better when I see him too.

[Aside from the niggling sense of wrongness, the mere fact that Splinter hasn't already sensed his sons' mysterious aches and shown up with herbal tea is worrying.]

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Robert, you haven't seen Splinter, have you?

[He's possibly not just meaning since he got here. Her's kind of hoping maybe Splinter can clear things up. Assuming he's not affected.]