Refreshing

[Donatello]

(OCC: Tara/Donatello friendship thread. March 16th, around the afternoon)

Punch. Kick. Backfist. Front kick. Crouching Dragon. Repeat

Donny, ever since the return of his two other brothers, have improved with his determination to fight. So his training sessions by himself or with others seemed to increase. The need to get his brothers back was enough to get into training yet now that he had them, he felt as if he needed to KEEP them here. And not only that, he had Leo to get back still. Which took even more preparation. His training was more of a obsession to get his family all back together more than anything. He cared about his family more than ever. This war was not one to mess with.

Yet that wasn't the only reason he was outside. He needed a breath of fresh air. Due to the most unsettling fact that his brother was now human. Mikey was magically transformed. He accepted his brother of course, he would be arrogant not to, but the whole thing made him hate Facilier, as if he didn't enough already. As if Mikey didn't go through enough problems this crap had to be put on him. It made him need to take out his frustration. He wished Tara was here. She, despite his family being great, was a aura of comfort. She was actually one of his only personal friends here. He didn't hang out with people much due to being so busy with the lab or spending his free time with family. Tara though he tried to keep up with. He somehow didn't succeed. If only today could change that.

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Unlike Donatello, Tara didn't have a single family member in this war. Honestly, if she was thankful for anything, it was that. Her mother was unfit to handle a war and her uncle had a family of his own to worry about. She didn't want either of them to get stuck in a war. Of course, she missed them dearly, but she never wanted to see them pop up out of the blue.

She couldn't bring herself to think about how hard it must have been for those with family members on the battlefield.

The Bostonian rolled her shoulders around, grunting as she did so. That last fight hurt pretty bad. Her arms were coated with bandages, but they weren't visible thanks to the navy blue sweatshirt she threw on. Even after a day had passed, she was still remarkably sore. With a sigh, she wandered aimlessly through the suburbs when a familiar face appeared.

"Hey Turtle Man, what are you doing out here?" she called out, stopping in place. Her hands were shoved into her sweatshirt pocket and she looked at the turtle expectantly. Maybe today wouldn't turn out to be so bad.

[Donatello]

Donny was so focused with his moves, he didn't expect Tara. Therefore her calling out caused Donny to immediately jump. He turned and saw it was only his friend, so instead of shock, it was quickly replaced with happiness. Although he didn't want her to be here due to her injuries, he had no authority to tell her what to do, so he would take what he could out of it. He beamed "Tara! I thought you'd be back at the medical bay!" It didn't sound like he was being rude, it was more or less out of surprise but a positive type of surprise. It was almost as if Donny was commending tara to be here.

"Oh" He said at first when he realized Tara asked him a question "I..." What could he say? That he was taking out his anger by leaving and taking it out with fists? That was more Raph's thing. He wasn't angry, well not entirely, maybe it was more of fear that caused him to be here. But he wasn't too sure to tell Tara that. He trusted her, but she was already having enough problems right now, he didn't need to add his. "I was just fixing up on some of old moves my sensei taught me. He's still recuperating a bit. He's almost done but that digimon vampire really took a hit on him. And I just wanted to get better because of these battles and all" It wasn't a lie but it wasn't the main truth. It wasn't just because he was training for himself, he was training for his family. Again, he was here because of his fear for them.

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Tara gave a short chuckle at Donny's surprise. She glanced down at her feet, then back up at the turtle. "Me? Sit on my ass all day? C'mon now Donny Boy, that's not my style," she replied, pink lips splitting apart to reveal a huge grin. Her mouth closed once more after a moment. Sullivan watched as the turtle tried to figure out what to say. Once he explained what he was doing, she let out a "huh" in confirmation of his words. "Alright, so you're just out here training. I don't blame you. I mean, I got my ass kicked the last time I went out for a battle, so a little training shouldn't hurt, right?" She paused briefly. Digimon vampire? She never thought that she'd hear those words coming out of somebody's mouth. Mentally shrugging it off, she continued talking.

"Well, it's nice to see that somebody else didn't get transformed into something. It seems like everyone else is something they're not supposed to be, you know? It's refreshing to see a familiar, unchanged face. Unless you're not really Donny, and you just happened to turn into a turtle who looks just like him."

[Donatello]

Donny chuckled in return, shaking his head "You're right. It isn't. I was just assuming is all, my bad" Again, Donny was always apologetic over things he was wrong about, even if it wasn't his fault. It was just part of his personality. He couldn't help it no matter how hard he tried or others tried to help with it. He then saw Tara confirm his response and he was glad she didn't push him. If she did, he was worried he might spill out details he didn't want her to know. "No it shouldn't. And I wouldn't blame you for wanting to train or be outside after that last battle, you worked really hard from what I heard" He sounded regretful. His friend and brother were out there and he wasn't. He felt super guilty for being such a fool and not be helpful. Then again he was at the lab, making sure the house was safe, should there be any brave/foolish villain to come after their house.

"Oh I assure you" Donny smiled teasingly, giving a rather amused look "There is no-one on earth that has my cruddy looks. Except my brothers, but even then it's not the same. Their pigments are different than mine" He chuckled again, trying to not appear so guilty and instead give himself and his friend some light-heartedness. That was what he did. Be nice about things or extremely supportive, not brooding. He then rubbed his arms and responded "I kind of wish I DID get something out of this. I mean I got out scot-free. It's not really good to be that way" He mumbled to himself, he hoped tara didn't hear it, but if she did(Which she probably would, since he wasn't really sutble), he probably would've been a bit careful with what he meant.

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"Hey, you don't have to say sorry," Tara said, casually shugging her shoulders. She didn't think what he said was something to get upset over. She clicked her tongue before she started talking again. "Yeah. Things just go wrong sometimes. Maybe if I trained a little more and spent a little less time sitting around, I wouldn't be all bandaged up," she ranted, going on about how she could have done better. She always found flaws, ways she could have done better. She could have trained herself on how to dodge, she could have prepared better, there were a hundred things she could have done.

But she didn't, and now she was suffering for it.

"Jeez, what's with the low self-esteem you've got going on?" An eyebrow quirked up as she looked at the turtle. "I don't think you really want to be like everybody who got changed around. I mean, I don't know how anyone is adjusting to being different. It's gotta suck. Don't be so hard on yourself, Turtle Man."

[Donatello]

Donny was glad his skin was green, otherwise his blush would've been very noticeable. Why WAS he apologizing? Again, he couldn't help it, as was his part of his personality. "Right. Noted" He said, struggling not to apologize for apologizing. Tara was his friend, she wasn't making judgments or anything like that, why did he need to be so sorry for whatever he said. It had been a while since he saw her and he was acting like a awkward idiot. Again. Ah shell. This is how it went with April for a while too, so hopefully, after a while, he and tara would be away from his awkwardness

Hearing Tara rant about how she should've trained more that way she would've been safe made Donny have a need to be assuring "Tara, I don't think you should blame yourself because of what happened. You're a hard-working person from what I can tell. Sure maybe things would've ended up different if you did more, but in the end, the person who attacked you is the one to be blamed" He then coughed softly, feeling worried he would over-step his boundaries. Sure donny and tara were friends but to be fair, the two did not know each other for a very long time like he did with april or tara did with whomever. He didn't want to unknowingly get tara ruffled.

He then paused as he heard Tara be surprised with his lack of self-esteem. It was true. He hadn't had his self-esteem issues be so extroverted before. The war, unknowingly, was getting to him as much as he didn't want to admit it. He listened and nodded to Tara. She was right. He shouldn't be so hard on himself because he didn't get changed. That he probably wouldn't be in a good position if he was changed too. "I know. You're right. I don't know what caused me to say that" Actually he did. It was his brother's transformation. He didn't want to see mikey suffer. "I don't know how my brother is handling it. He's a human now. I shouldn't be thinking the way I do when he's handling this nonsense" Donny paused, trying his best not to pour out his issues. Yet they were unleashing slowly.