This is a continuance of Growing up Fast. It would be wise to read that on first.

Again written with dondena, though containing the story was my idea.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Turtles regular or mutated.

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Donatello opened his eyes. He then closed them, savoring the last moments of peace before…the door flew open and two green blurs raced across the room and leaped into the air with growing ninja grace and landed in the bed. Donatello bounced all the while hearing the sound of light giggling. When he finally stilled he sat up to look at his two daughters. They were looking at him with bright eyes.

Both already had their bandanas on and could barely contain their excitement. "Come on Dad. You said after training this morning we could go to the movies." Benedetta said as she took her father's hand and gave a slight pull.

"Please Daddy?" Carina turned her big maroon colored eyes to him.

While Donatello loved both his children dearly, he had a special bond with Carina. She was his 'little girl' and always following him everywhere. He nodded. "Yes, I did promise. But after training and after breakfast." Donatello's eyes strayed to the other side of the bed and gave a sigh. He turned back to his daughters. "Alright, go meet with Uncle Leonardo. I'm positive that he's already down in the dojo."

Benedetta grabbed her sister's hand and pulled her out of the room and Donatello could hear the footsteps of his two daughters as they headed down to the dojo. Both Splinter and Leonardo were training his daughters in ninjitsu; though it was mostly Leonardo, as Master Splinter was getting older not very gracefully, though the old human rat was still ever aware. He mostly helped coach from a pillow because he was moving slower than before…sometimes needing to be carried when his aching joints stiffened too much, and his cinnamon brown fur had long since shifted to gray. Though Donatello and his brothers had never called Splinter 'Father,' his daughters imprinted him as their Grandfather.

As Donatello reflected on these thoughts he donned his pads and mask. He then headed downstairs to where Jane Goodfellow was sitting drinking a cup of coffee and reading the paper. Five years ago when Splinter started getting a cough Tanya and Jane told him that the damp sewer is not good for him and the twins. Since the two humans had become part of the family they had told the turtles that they had more then enough room for all the turtles and Splinter. So renovating the basement of Jane and Tanya's building, they split the basement up. One half for Donny's lab and the other half for a dojo. They then split up the three floors of the apartment building. The first floor had two bedrooms plus the kitchen, den and a storage room. One bedroom was Jane's. They gave the other to Splinter. Both bedrooms had private bathrooms. The second floor had been mostly empty. The third floor that was always empty and used for storage consisted of three bedrooms and one full bathroom and one half bathroom. The whole third floor was given to the brothers.

Jane nodded to Donatello. "Morning. The girls do their daily alarm clock?"

Donatello nodded. "No need to buy a clock to get out of bed. Just have them jump on the bed a few times. It'll get anyone up." He rolled his eyes while smiling.

Jane laughed. She looked back to the paper as Donatello poured a cup of coffee himself. "So what did you promise them to have even Carina to hurry to morning lessons?" Jane asked as she scanned the paper.

"An afternoon movie. It's Wednesday and the crowds will be small." Donatello said as he took a sip of the strong black coffee.

"Maybe. It's summer and the fair out on Coony Island opened today." Jane informed when she saw the full-page ad staring at her when she turned the paper. She put it down and slid it across the table to Donatello.

He picked it up and scanned the page. "Hmm…so I see. Maybe we should wait then."

Jane shook her head. "Take them. They're eight, old enough to mind. Just don't tell them about the fair…I'm going to take them."

Donatello laughed. "You keep on…you're going to spoil them."

The sound of a giggle drew the two's attention to see Tanya walk into the kitchen with a black leather suitcase. "If you two haven't noticed…you're both spoiling them." She smiled.

Donatello smiled then frowned when he saw the suitcase, remembering how heavy it can be sometimes. He stood and took the case from her while kissing her forehead. "No lifting anything heavy, remember?" In taking the suitcase he was right, it was heavy.

Tanya smiled fondly though she gave a small roll of her eyes. "But, I do have to carry it," she protested. "And I'm pregnant…. not crippled."

"I don't care," Donatello said. " I want what's best for you and unlike many males I do know what's like. So…just humor me, will you, please? Indulge me?"

Jane laughed softly into her coffee. "You better do what he says honey..."

Tanya sighed and nodded. "Fine." She smiled fondly at him and walked over to the coffee pot and poured herself a cup of coffee. She lifted the cup to her lips when…

"Donatello, give me back my coffee."

"No."

"Now I can't have coffee?" Tanya asked as she crossed her arms and leaned back against the counter.

"You're close to the due date. You really need to stop." Donatello said as he finished the rest of his own coffee and began on the stolen cup.

"You allowed me to drink it before. Why stop me now?" Tanya asked as she glared at him.

Donatello sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose ridge. "I was lenient in allowing you the coffee. Remember we agreed to only three cups a day? And it's nine o'clock in the morning and you're just walking in the door? I know you were at your office."

Tanya sighed and looked away, then back at Donatello. "Yeah, so?"

"Yeah, ever since Jane retired you work too hard." He stopped and looked at Tanya. "And that's what you always say to me huh?"

Tanya grinned. It was. Whenever he got lost in a project he would forget everything around him. She nodded.

"Touché. But slow down ok?"

She nodded again. "That is actually why I was at the office early this morning." She walked over the table and eased into the chair.

Her mother stopped snickering. "Oh?"

"Yeah. I was finishing up a few things and filled out a leave. So now I have three months of maternity leave." Tanya looked at her watch. "The girls down in the dojo?"

Donatello nodded, sitting down beside her finishing the cup of coffee. "Yeah. They did their normal bed jumping to wake me."

Tanya laughed. "Don't they love doing that?"

Donatello snorted, "Yeah." He sounded annoyed but there was an amused look on his face.

Jane finished her own coffee. "So, Tanya, what's in the bag?" she asked, nodding at the brown shopping bag that Tanya had sat on the bag.

Tanya smiled. "It's something for the girls."

"Who's spoiling them now?" Donatello teased.

Tanya mocked glared. "I don't spoil them as much as you two do. Even Splinter and Michelangelo don't help."

Jane scoffed, "Me and Splinter have a reason. We're grandparents. And Michelangelo is-"

"Is the fun uncle!" Michelangelo announced as he burst through the door that led down to the dojo. "Hey there dudette." He greeted Tanya as he wrapped an arm around Tanya. He then turned to the bulging belly of Tanya and lightly patted it and then began baby talk.

Tanya raised an eyebrow at her mother and Donatello then smacked him on the end of the beak.

He shot straight up and rubbed his nose. "Ow! What was that for?"

"One, I hate having my belly touched." Tanya rolled her eyes, "you don't know how annoying it is to have total strangers come up and want to touch my belly. It's creepy. And two," here she glared at him, "I really hate the sound of babytalk."

"All right, all right." Michelangelo backed up, holding his hands up.

Raphael came out then from the door. Hearing the conversion, he grinned and slapped Michelangelo hard on the shell. "Come on bro, Mommy is in one of her moods again."

"Can it Raphael, or I'll get out the empathy pouch again." Tanya threatened.

That was all it took. With a wince, both turtles bolted from the room, remembering the time she had brought it out. They didn't know what it was at first but Donatello did and while he was grinning she had Raphael put it on. Then once he felt the extra weight and when Jane explained what it was, it was amusing in threatening the other two males to wear it.

Donatello laughed, "Too bad you hadn't found it when I was pregnant with the girls."

"I know but you got your revenge when you had them change their first diapers while you were recuperating."

All of the adults had a laugh at that. While they were laughing, the door to the basement opened again and the girls walked out. They looked confused as to why all of the grownups were laughing. But they forgot about it the moment they saw their 'mother'.

"Mommy!"

"Mom!"

Benedetta and Carina rushed across the kitchen to hug Tanya. After their greeting Carina pulled away and reached over for her father. He took her and Benedetta took advantage of the extra room to fully hug Tanya. Tanya smiled and picked her up, cradling her against her hip. Like Donatello with Carina, Tanya had a special bond with Benedetta. Benedetta looked up at her 'mother'. "So, after breakfast can we go to the movies?"

Tanya looked over at Donatello. He nodded. Tanya looked down at the girl turtle and nodded. "Yep. But first breakfast." Benedetta slid out of Tanya's arms and went around to sit at the table. Tanya got up groaning, holding her back. "So what do you girls want for breakfast?"

"Pizza!" came the reply. It seemed that the girls had inherited Donatello and his brothers' great tastes for pizza. Donatello himself was also back to eating it but could no longer stand fish or milk.