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He really does.

[It's exhausting to think about. He kinda gets it, he can bring out the Hopium sometimes, but not nearly as often as Mikey is able to just dispense it.]

We'll be fine.

We will. I'm not going to give up.

[No matter how exhausting it is.]

I have to many people I care about to give up.

But this is making it easier.

hm.

[He leans, nudging shoulders with Donnie.]

I'm not either. Got enough plans in the works to make it all work out.

You do?

[Leans more against him.]

Yeah? Dee, it's me. I always have plans in the works, trust me.

It'll be fine.

....

I wasn't sure.

You seemed so....

Resigned.

Yeah, because I had the after parts all worked out. You just kept focusing on how upset you were so I never got to explain it before.

Of course I was upset! How could I not be upset?

Just-

What is the plan?

I go with Hunter back to the Boiling Isles. Hunter explained they have a stable portal door there they use to go to Connecticut, then I can just portal hop my way to Manhattan whenever.

[Except part of Leo's problem is thinking they're different New York's-]

....

Yes, that is part of my plans to making sure we can see everyone after this. Between Hunter's knowledge, the knowledge back home, Viktor, and Choco-chan and Wash can apparently just...dimension hop themselves.

The parts are all there for interdimensional travel for everyone.

Yeah. Exactly. So. It's all worked out.

Well, the idea. Still have to get it all together and find all the locations.

All very doable, it just takes time.

And maybe mystic trackers.

[Don still not trusting Leo has it. It really is that simple, but Leo waves him off in favor of watching the crowd looping below.]

I've got it so don't worry about it.

You have a way to find Eve and our other friends?

Working on that one still, just need a few details worked out.

Details like you have an idea, or need an idea.

Details like don't rush genius.

....

Nardo, is there a reason you don't want my help? Because I do have ideas.

Because every time this comes up, you get upset and I'm talking to a brick wall, and nothing gets done because you have to be the one to fix it.

This has literally come up ONCE before because you kept it to yourself, and of course I got upset. Are you saying you would have been calm in my place?

[How many times have they talked about Leo being dead, of Donnie being so dead set being the one to fix it? Enough times that they're talking past each other now.

It isn't worth it. He wants to just ... not.]

I don't know, to be honest. Wouldn't know unless it happened.

[It had been a different context. Not knowing Leo thought he was an alternate. Of course he had to dismiss it under the premise of being the same timeline.]

Judging by past reactions, you would not have been rational. [Namely when they lost Raph. Or Gram-Gram.]

I just....

[He sits up. Lifts up his legs and wraps his arms around them.]

I don't understand why you're shutting me out. Portals are doable, we know that. Your idea works for you, but we need to find others and I have ideas. I don't-

I get why most anyone else doesn't want to work with me, but you-

You know how I am. [His voice is quieter, staring out at the city]

Has my work really been that disappointing?

Am I really so...unbearable to rely on?

Did I say either of those things?

No, I did not. I said to trust me.

I do trust you, but it feels like you don't trust me.

[He presses his face to his knees.]

It hasn't felt like you have in a very long time.

[He wants to just let it go, say it's not his problem. Because it's not. He trusts Donnie, but Donnie doesn't trust him to have his own situation handled. Every conversation has been Leo beating his head against the brick wall that is Donnie's stubbornness to make Leo's situation about him somehow, like Leo has no agency in any part of it.

But looking at his brother right now.... Not the time. Instead, he reaches an arm to drape over Don's shoulders, easy to shrug off but there if he wants the comfort.]

This place keeps messing with us.

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