He stumbles back at the shove this time, his shell hitting the wall and tearing another gasp of pain from his throat. Leo hunches forward, raising a trembling hand to grip at his left arm.
They've hurt each other plenty of times before. Really hurt each other more times than he will ever forgive himself for. But that was new. That was personal. That was digging up every cell of scar tissue to the surface and slashing it into newly-blooded meat, sewing it shut with barbed wire and leaving it to fester in the cold, open air.
His teeth grit together so hard it presses all of the stars in his eyes into one flat line. He bares them in another snarl at Raphael, and this time the pain in his voice is gone, ground into dust under the weight of cold fury.
"The only one around here acting like Karai and the Shredder is you."
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They've hurt each other plenty of times before. Really hurt each other more times than he will ever forgive himself for. But that was new. That was personal. That was digging up every cell of scar tissue to the surface and slashing it into newly-blooded meat, sewing it shut with barbed wire and leaving it to fester in the cold, open air.
His teeth grit together so hard it presses all of the stars in his eyes into one flat line. He bares them in another snarl at Raphael, and this time the pain in his voice is gone, ground into dust under the weight of cold fury.
"The only one around here acting like Karai and the Shredder is you."