Forty-Fifth Theory [Voice/Action]

[i_speak_softly]

[Donatello doesn't notice the announcement when it's made, and even after someone shows it to him, he won't bother addressing the 'commandant'. Instead, he'll send a locked message to someone much more important.]

Robert...

[Some time later, he'll add one more locked message.]

Kay, I think I'm going to have to reschedule.

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[Action]

[i_speak_softly]

[Don falls asleep quickly. In the morning he rises early and creeps out with ninja silence. When Robert wakes, he'll find a purple-and-white origami heart on the pillow, inscribed with "RH DH" and a complicated Chinese character.]

[Action]

[semper_cogitans]

[Robert normally wakes early, of course. But perhaps the exertion of the previous day, plus the desire to not lose that feeling of Don's presence, kept him asleep longer today.

But when he does wake, and sees that origami heart... he smiles, and holds it to his chest.

Maybe Don won't be with him for the next while.

But Robert... can let himself hope that he'll be okay. That everything will be okay.

Right now, that's all he wants.]