[Just stopping a feeling is kind of hard to do. But the other thing Leo had to learn that day was how to listen to his team. So now he bites back what he wants to say and listens.
Donnie feels like Leo doubts him. And... maybe he's right. Maybe Leo does doubt him. Not in a direct way, but every time he loses track of Donnie, all he can see is Donnie buried under all that rubble in the museum, or the images his mind conjures up of Donnie being caught by a mob boss who hates metas...
His battleshell smashed to bits by a Krang tentacle, his body hurled toward the ground hundreds of feet below...
It's hard not to think that if he's not there, then no one is going to protect Donnie from all of that. It's a feeling that extends to Mikey and Raph and April too, but they aren't here, so Donnie gets the full brunt of Leo's new worrywort tendencies.
But if Donnie's going to stop telling him anything because of it, it's backfiring on Leo. And... well, he remembers when he felt like none of them trusted him. It sucked. He doesn't want to do that to Donnie.
He takes another deep breath and lets it out before he says anything else.]
...I don't know if just stopping is in the cards.
[He might as well be honest about that.]
But... yeah. I should have given you a chance. That's my bad.
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Donnie feels like Leo doubts him. And... maybe he's right. Maybe Leo does doubt him. Not in a direct way, but every time he loses track of Donnie, all he can see is Donnie buried under all that rubble in the museum, or the images his mind conjures up of Donnie being caught by a mob boss who hates metas...
His battleshell smashed to bits by a Krang tentacle, his body hurled toward the ground hundreds of feet below...
It's hard not to think that if he's not there, then no one is going to protect Donnie from all of that. It's a feeling that extends to Mikey and Raph and April too, but they aren't here, so Donnie gets the full brunt of Leo's new worrywort tendencies.
But if Donnie's going to stop telling him anything because of it, it's backfiring on Leo. And... well, he remembers when he felt like none of them trusted him. It sucked. He doesn't want to do that to Donnie.
He takes another deep breath and lets it out before he says anything else.]
...I don't know if just stopping is in the cards.
[He might as well be honest about that.]
But... yeah. I should have given you a chance. That's my bad.