is this the conversation you wanna have? (джен)

TMNTtober Day 1: Mutants.
“...We don’t know anything,” Raphael finally says, voice small and resigned. “Shell, I can’t wrap my head around any of it. You tripled in size. You had glowing eyes. You were drooling and roaring and trying to eat Mikey’s freakin’ leg.”
Donnie remembers very little of the events that transpired. He remembers the searing pain in his leg hitting breaking point - remembers the sound of bones and sinew crunching, popping, shifting as he grew, and remembers desperately trying to tell April and Casey to run far from him before something more sinister, more animalistic took hold.
Then it all gets very fuzzy.
“You scared us, Don. We were scared FOR you. What was I-” Raph’s voice cracks. He swallows. “What were we supposed to do if we couldn’t fix you up, huh?”