Donnie thought he had the lost the ability to have nightmares when he had gotten better from all the years of having to be stuck in the dome of what the kraang had left on his family. Yes, him & his brothers defeated them and his blue idiotic brother sacrificed himself just to trap prime kraang to the prison dimension again were it should definitely rot there forever. Heck, they even witnessed yokais now being accepted in the world & with the humans when the Hidden city got pried open from the kraang attack, albeit with a few discrimination and prejudice. Ans yes, they had an unfortunate curse of having permanent trauma from that said invasion, both physical & mental. Donnie forgot the times how much he had endured seizures from when the technodrome entered in his brain and caused damage on both inside and outside his neck & head, and how he always felt fantom tendrils crawling in his shell like wet veins. His left arm always shake from the golden cracks when he and Raph helped Mikey on creating the portal for Leo to save him, and how he felt more paranoid and helpless and-

Donnie wakes up in a cold sweat. His lungs felt like deflated balloons, sweat rolled on his head as he tries so hard to breath, clutching on his shirt were the location of his heart should be, beating so fast and hard. And those damn fantom tendrils again, crawling like ghost touches on his shell, he tries hard not to rip off his favorite night-gown & just tries to curl on himself instead, scratching on the side of his neck and head where the itch just wouldn’t go away. He hears a stir on his left, snapping his head on your slowly waking form. Oh right, you slept over on his room when you had successfully made him sleep. Oh wow, look we’re it got him. Scared, paranoid, nearly having a heart attack, and might want to rip of his shell

“Go back to sleep,{{user}}”

*he growls as he hears you call his name, not in the right mind right now, still hugging his knees while *still scratching on his neck get it get it out GET IT OUT-