It had been a week and a half and the brothers now lovers could've never been happier. They had confessed their feelings for one another and now lived peacefully with them, and what calmed the situation more was that their father and sensei had blessed their affections towards each other. Nothing could go wrong at this point they thought and things would get better between them as well. In some way they were, Raph was more tolerant and patient with Mikey now that they were dating, but that didn't mean the red clad turtle couldn't have his outbursts once in a while because of his mate's pranks and tricks. Donnie didn't spend much time in his lab like he used to, now he was mostly seen the lair hanging out with Leo or going to his extra training to keep him company. They had slight changes, but nothing that could affect them deeply or drastically... or could there be?
Though, there was one thing that wasn't known to the older ones, both Don and Mikey have been hiding a certain thing from their mates so there could be no worries in the future, they have been feeling this weird illness after some days back. What was even weirder was that in only affected them very early in the morning and sometimes past midnight when everyone was already fast asleep. It was funny but neither did Donnie or Mikey tell each other, guess they really wanted it to be a secret.
In the morning, the calmer couple of the turtles, Leonardo and Donatello, were enjoying a moment to their selves, watching the SRMFF quietly and close together. Leo had an arm wrapped around Don's shoulders as the slimmer one had his head resting on the leader's shoulder with a smile on his face as he was so happy that now both were finally together the way he expected and having no need to hide it anymore.
But his thoughts were interrupted by a very unpleasant feeling in his stomach. He let a soft moan escape his throat as he could feel his face get paler than it already was. He slowly put a hand on Leo's chest to get his attention.
"L... Leo?" he stuttered groggily.
The oldest turned to his mate and instantly noticed the sudden change of his face and his uneasy breathing. "Hm? You doing alright there?" He asked looking cautiously at Donnie.
"I uh..." was all Donnie could say as he clamped his hand over his mouth and dashed to the bathroom.
"Donnie..?!" Leo shouted as he sprinted quickly from the couch and went after him.
When Donnie burst in, he didn't expect to see what was in the bathroom, Michelangelo was sitting in front of the toilet vomiting badly as he sweated cold sweat. Don didn't really have the time to think about it, but as he saw the toilet was already being used, he aimed for the sink and let his previous lunch make an uncomfortable exit from his body. He retched hard and got a tight grip from the edges of the sink for support.
Shortly after, Leo arrived to see what had happened a while ago. "Don, are you al-" He couldn't finish his question as he noticed his youngest brother retching as badly as his mate was. He was shocked that it wasn't only Don. But why?
Mikey afterwards finished and lifted his head up ever so slowly and shook madly as he held on to the toilet seat, letting a long moan out with a very pale almost white face.
As if it were on cue, Raphael had heard the commotion and decided to check out what was going on. He entered the bathroom to see Leo standing there and Donnie holding on to the sink with shaky legs.
"Hey what's goin'- Mikey?! What?! What happened?!" he shouted quickly sitting next to Mikey and starting to rub his shell for comfort.
The smaller one didn't really say anything, nor did he think he could right now. All he could manage to do was moan more as his face almost looked like a zombie and shortly let himself fall on his mate's chest as he felt Raph start to stroke his arm.
"Donnie!" Leo finally reacted and went beside his lover and rubbed his shell as he was still vomiting.
The taller soon finished and leaned on the sink panting and sweating from the sudden gross feeling he felt all over his body.
"Mikey, hey what's wrong with you? You okay?" Asked Raph concerned for his smaller mate.
"I don't know what it was that I ate, but my stomach is burning me like mad...!" he moaned.
"Honey..." Leo asked as he continued to rub his shell. "What's wrong? You feeling alright?"
Donnie panted slowly and looked to him with a sick expression "I don't know..." He managed to say with a groggily voice. "I've been feeling like this for 5 days."
"So something ain't right." Raph said as he turned to Mikey. "How long have you felt this, Mike?"
"Lemme think... at least 2 days after we spilled the beans to Splinter about us."
"You mean after the..." Raph remembered and soon his eyes got wide and looked at Mikey directly with a surprised expression. "... 'us' night?"
Although it didn't seem like it, Mikey knew exactly what his lover was thinking; it's as if it were written all over his face, in fact, all of them knew what their brother was referring to. He propped up and looked at Raph slightly scared at his thought.
"Wait dude... Y-you don't mean-!"
"How's that even possible?!" Leo panicked and looked at them. "We're turtles! Male mutant turtles!"
Donnie soon stood up straight and tried to ease his brothers before anything else that could happen. "Calm down! For starters we don't know if it's official, so I suggest we do a little test to find out."
"Donnie's right!" stated Leo. "We'll just run some tests and see how it goes."
Just as the leader finished, Mikey started to feel queasy again and barfs more in the toilet.
Raph glanced at him. "Right after he's done..."
Later in the day, the four brothers made it to Don's lab to test their theory if it was true or, they secretly wished, false. Mikey was shifting next to Raph feeling scared of what could happen to them if it was true, that would mean the end of their lives as they know it and the beginning of a new way of life that they didn't want to start now, it would be too early for any of them.
Don typed on his computer to configure the new information that would be registered and the settings for the exact results when the testing would be over.
"Okay so now we'll just need some samples from me and Mikey."
"And what kind of samples are you looking for to find out the results, Don?" asked Leo curiously.
Donnie looked away with a blush and shrugged a shoulder, "... Pee."
"A pee sample?!" Mikey shouted surprised.
"It's more efficient with pee so..." Donnie said to his little brother as he gave him a small plastic cup. "Off to the bathroom with you."
"Okay..." said Mikey and takes the cup blushing a little looking at the others. "But no peeking...!" he warned as he runs to the bathroom and goes do his business.
"I don't think anyone would want to." Donnie chuckled.
"Oh man, I did." Raph snickered.
"Of course, we know, Raph." said Leo as he turned to him and blushed.
"And after him, I go next." said the taller one as he looked at Leo. "Though I think I second what Mikey said."
All Leo did was laugh softly at the thought of what his mate said, making him giggle at his reaction and blush slightly. "What? It's kinda embarrassing." said his slim mate.
"So? Hehehe, you're still mine to look at." Leo said with a snicker at his shy mate.
Donnie just looked away with a smile and a blush from his leader. "Oh you."
"Hey, Mikey? Are you done?!" called out Raph getting impatient at why his prankster brother was taking too long.
The sound of a toilet flushing was heard from afar and later came out the little turtle with the cup in his hand as he stared at it with question. He arrived back to the lab with the rest of his brothers and gave the same curious look at them.
"It's so warm..."
Donnie held back a chuckle and looked at his little brother humorously. "It's supposed to, Mikey." He looked at his older brothers. "Okay it's my turn." He said calmly.
Later, the genius of the group left and headed towards the bathroom shutting the door softly and began doing his business.
"Hurry back...! A guy can't wait forever you know!" Mikey rushed.
"Right, right." Don called out from the other side of the door not taking seriously what Mikey said.
Leo chuckled a bit at them but his smile faded slowly as he looked at Raph doubtfully. He rubbed the back of his head and let out a small sigh.
"So uh..." He spoke softly. "Do you think it could be possible that... You know?"
Raph looked at him at the mention of the possibility of the situation. He scratched his arm nervously and didn't really know what to say. There were questions starting to pop up and neither of them had a direct answer, all he did was sigh and calm down a bit.
"I don't know... If it is... what do we do?"
"I don't know what I'll do, dudes! The thought of being fat for months has an effect on me!" Mikey said picturing himself in that image.
"Calm down!" Raph exclaimed as he held Mikey's shoulders softly. "We're not 100% sure if it's even that, so let's just wait for the results and then we think it out." He assured as his mate only nodded a few times but still freaked out about it.
Leo only sighed and said, "I wonder how this will affect our training if you and Donnie are..."
At the end of the sentence, Donatello emerged from the bathroom with his cup and went back with his brothers. Seeing their faces of worry and fear, he thought that maybe it was time to just go for the test and get the doubt answered.
"Okay I got my sample. Mikey hand me yours." said Donnie extending his hand to his brother.
Mikey nodded and handed him his cup to his smart brother and wiped his hand a little on his leg making the other chuckle at the scene.
Don took the samples and placed them on his desk next to special equipment for the examination. He typed a bit more in his computer to register his and Mikey's information so there would be no confusions for the results.
"I'm going to run the tests." He said as he pointed to the printer. "And the results will be there. It may take a while so I suggest you guys go do something until I call you back and announce if it's true or not."
"Ohh... I don't think I can wait much longer..." whined Mikey in his place.
"You'll have to, so I can start working."
"Come on, Mikey. Maybe we can play a videogame or something while we wait." said Raph wrapping arm around him and slowly lead him out the lab with a frown.
Mikey sighed and looked at Raph. "Alright, just hope my stomach will last long enough."
"I'll stay with Donnie until the tests are finished." said Leo putting a hand on his lover's shoulder.
Donnie gave him a small smile and a chuckle. "If you want to." After that, he began the testing of the very delicate problem they could or couldn't have gotten their selves into.
1 hour later...
It had been a whole hour of doubts, thoughts, fears, nerves, and anything else that could be included with negative emotions; they didn't really concentrate in anything at all. Raph and Mikey were playing their game but they weren't paying attention to it, pressing buttons, moving joysticks but with blank expressions. Raphael looked at his little lover and sighed silently as he saw his worried face as he played the game not even blinking or looking at any other direction; he decided that it would be best to break the silence between them.
"You think they'll be done anytime soon?"
"I hope so." said Mikey finally looking at him feeling a shiver down his spine. "I can't wait any longer; it's driving me crazy..!"
When Raph was about to say something, the sound of the lab doors creaking open were heard, he turned his head to see the other two turtles coming out the lab slowly.
Mikey turned to them as well but more scared than nervous, he saw them remain silent and couldn't take it anymore and wanted them to just say what they had to say! Was it positive? Negative? What?! He sat up straight and tapped his fingers on the edge of the couch.
Donnie stood beside Leo with his eyes wide and his mouth slightly open as he stared at his other brothers in the living room and held on to Leo's shoulder as if he were to fall at any minute.
"Well?! What is it?!" Raph yelled not taking much more of the suspense.
Leo looked to Donnie all nervous as he then looked to the others and tries to speak in an understandable and yet not too direct way to not scare his brothers with the news they would receive.
"Mikey...?" he said softly.
"Y-yeah..?"
What seemed like an eternity to wait for the answer all eyes turned to Donnie as he finally moved a hand. And what they didn't expect was that he looked down and placed it on his stomach softly and later looked back to the others with the same surprised expression he had at the beginning.
As Mikey saw Donnie's actions, his eyes soon begin to widen and bug out, he started to shake uncontrollably in his place and shook his head quickly.
"No... You mean... we're...?"
Leo closed his eyes and finally said it.
"Yes, Mikey... Both you and Donnie are pregnant."
Raph's eyes widened as well and looked at Leo with a shocked face and tried to make the words come out of his mouth as he stuttered. "...I- I'm... I'm g-gonna be a... dad?"
Leo breathed deeply and looked up to see his brother. "Afraid so... And so am I..."
The youngest freaked out badly; he sweated coldly until he suddenly fainted next to Raphael. Just as soon as Raph saw him collapse he darted next to him and took a hold of his little mate feeling shaky as well.
"Mikey!" Raph called out.
Upon seeing their reactions, Donnie shrunk in his place, let go of Leo's shoulder and left his side. Leo noticed this and turned to the slimmer one as he went into the kitchen letting out small sobs on his way there.
"Donnie?" he said as he followed him there.
Leo entered and saw Don covering his head with his arms as it rested on the table and sobbed quietly to himself. The leader in blue didn't want to see him like this and walked slowly to him, hugging him from the back of his shell. Leo rested his head on his shell and rocked him gently to try and comfort his scared mate as he shushed him softly.
The purple clad turtle without lifting his head, felt the embrace of his lover as it was slowly helping him to calm down, well a little at least. He sniffled and let out a small hiccup.
"I'm going to be a mother..." he said with a breaking voice.
"Hey... It's going to be okay." Leo said stroking his shell. "We're all gonna get through this somehow."
Donnie looked up with tears stained on his bandana and sniffled once more, he looked mostly scared than anything else.
"I don't know if I'm ready for this... and there's no turning back..." he said feeling the tears slide down his cheeks.
The leader cupped his cheek gently and tried to soothe Donnie from all this they're taking up. "All I know is that I'll be right there beside you the whole way..."
Don holds his hand gives it a gentle squeeze as he looked up to him. "Do you think everything will be okay?"
Leo sighed at him and continued to stroke his shell softly. "Let's hope so... We'll have to explain this to Master Splinter when we do see him again."
Out of fear and nerves, he took a hold of the sides of his head and shook it as he sobbed more. "Mikey and I just ruined our lives!" he said slamming his fists on the table, making Leo move from behind him to his side to take his hand and stroke it with his thumb.
"No...No. You guys didn't. Especially you... You're the one who had these feelings for me, and I accept it. Just like how Mikey felt the same way for Raph. It's neither any of your faults, Donnie."
The smart one wiped his eye and looked at his mate. "Really?"
"Yes." Leo said as he smiles a little to him.
Donnie half smiled at him but soon frowned again and looked at the floor with more thoughts in his head. "But... how is it possible...?" he asked softly.
"I don't know... Maybe with us being mutant turtles has some kind of effect from the mutagen that lets us become pregnant?"
"Could be... but... I don't know if it should've happened."
"Who knows?" Leo said taking both his hands and looks at him directly into his eyes and smiled softly at him. "Maybe it's a good thing this happened. And I guarantee it'll all work out in the end."
Don, after a small pause, warmly smiled at Leo and hugged him for showing a lot support for their little slip up. It made him feel so relieved that he didn't freak out or deny the whole thing like he saw so many people do it on TV; he really was a great leader, brother and boyfriend to him. He finished hugging Leo and looked into his eyes for a little while as his mate did the same.
"Thank you..." he said calmly and cuddled to the blue leader.
Leonardo soon pulled him close and wrapped an arm around him as he cuddled back to his smart mate. He leaned close to Don's ear and said the words that he always loved to hear.
"I love you, Donnie."
Although it always made the bo wielder squeal on the inside to hear him say that, he didn't do anything else but giggle at it. He lifted his head and looked at Leo with a shy smile as he moved away a bit.
"I don't think it'll only be me the one you'll love now." Donnie said with a giggle as he started to rub his still flat stomach and look down at it.
All Leo could do now was laugh with him and placed his hand over Don's stomach and let his fingertips trace small circles on it.
"You're right," he said with a smile.
Donatello remained with his eyes on his stomach and tilted his head a little as he put his hand over Leo's. His smile never left his face and slowly blinked at what would be part of their lives now. "So... mommy and daddy huh? The same with Mikey and Raph."
"Guess that's how it's going to be." Leo smiled brightly to him after thinking it clearly.
"I'm starting to get impatient now." Donnie smiled back as he lightened up.
"Well, it'll take time as the months pass." Leo answered with a chuckle seeing the sudden change of emotion from Don. Guess the pregnancy is starting to do its effect.
"Yeah... Maybe we should go tell Splinter that he's going to be a grandpa." Donnie giggled.
Leo nodded to him and offered a hand to his genius lover. "Let's go get the others and we'll all tell him."
Don took a hold of his hand and got up. The couple left the kitchen to go reunite with the other couple that was still in the living room. When they arrived, they saw Raphael was still in his place with his mouth agape and frozen in his place as he was still shocked at finding out he impregnated Mikey, his little brother and mate, and to also see that the prankster was still unconscious on the couch.
Leo moved forward with Don right behind him and cleared his throat out loud so it would break the trance his red clad brother was still in.
"Um... guys... I think it's best that we all tell Splinter about our little dilemma before we end up having to wait too long after a few months." he said hoping Raph heard his words.
By the looks of it, it did. Raph turned his head ever so slowly to the leader but with the same expression, he didn't say anything, only stare at him. Words were something impossible for the moment and it was clear for the other two standing next to him.
To break the moment, the orange clad turtle stirred and shook his head as he started to sit up from the surprise and shock he went through. Raph noticed this and looked at his little lover.
"Mikey! You're up!" Raph got closer to him and checked if he was 100% okay.
"Whoaaaa... What just happened...?" the youngest asked rubbing his head.
"Donnie just found out that you and he are going to have a child." said the leader getting his attention.
"WHAAAAT?!" exclaimed Mikey as he pushed himself back and fell from the couch in surprise, now remembering what happened earlier.
"Hey! Easy, you can't do rough movements now!" The strongest went to him and help him up from the floor.
Don looked away with a hint of blush on his face and rubbed the back of his neck as he still felt awkward about the situation they just got their selves into.
"Raph's right," Leo said from where he was. "In yours and Don's condition, you can't do much that'll do harm to them."
"I can still work on my experiments and inventions, right?" asked Don not expecting to be completely restrained from everything and his favorite hobbies.
Leo turned to him with a smile. "Of course you can." He said after the added something else. "But the training and fighting against Shredder and the Kraang is a different story."
"Yeah you're right about that..." the taller sighed and turned to look at the dojo that also lead to Splinter's room. "So should we head for Master Splinter?"
"You think it's a good idea to tell him now?" added Raph feeling freaked out. "I mean he just found out about 'us'!" He nearly shouted getting a serious look from the oldest.
"That maybe, unless you wanna wait until he notices a little bump in their bellies?"
Donnie quickly looked at Leo and grunted in frustration and mostly annoyance at his comment. "Don't say it like that!" he whined. "It makes me feel fat already!"
"Me too!" Mikey added. "I can't even skateboard or show off my awesome ninja moves or my dances!" He moaned and gripped on his head and shook it out of pure disbelief. "This is just too hard for me to handle! And I don't think I could last that long!"
Raph went to his side and grabbed his hand to make him or at least try to him stop his actions, he looked into his eyes and tried to calm him down from his little episode.
"Like it or not Mikey you're gonna have to. I don't want you risking yourself into getting hurt or the baby getting hurt."
The now-in-hiatus prankster looked at him for a brief moment and, just as Donnie, his first mood swing kicked in and he started moan in disappointment and let small tears come out as he sobbed in front of Raph, making the bigger one look at him in surprise.
Raph didn't know why he would take it in such a bad way; he thought Mikey would actually be excited about the new member that would be added to the family aside from Leo and Donnie's. But it might just be for the first few days, and then before he knows it, he'll be thinking about how the baby will look like, if it will be a boy or a girl and all that. He just needs some time to relax.
"Hey, wait don't cry, babe." he said holding Mikey's hands. "It's going to be okay!" He hoped it would help to calm him down.
"But..." Mikey said as he thought of another problem that could happen. "What else are we supposed to do if we can't fight against the Foot?"
"We'll figure something out." Leo assured. "At least nothing else with our enemies is happening right this second in the streets."
The second oldest wiped a tear from his orange clad turtle and looked back at the leader. "Yeah, I mean the Foot aren't that big of a deal but I think for the both of us would be a bit of a handful." He looked away and gave a small sigh. "You think it'd be good to lay low until they're back in shape?"
"I think it's a good idea after they finally give birth."
"I guess so..." Don spoke up and looked at the ceiling with a frown. "Though it means that the city would be in a bit of chaos for the next 9 months."
"If it lasted like that for 15 years then I don't think there'd be a problem." Raph said as he looked at it logically in some way.
"Right." Leo said as he looked to all three of his little brothers. "So, we'll have to plan this through and hopefully there won't be any problems when the Kraang is up to something."
"Right..." Don was about to add something else to his comment but that gross and uncomfortable feeling came to his stomach again. He moaned unhappily and within a second he goes running to the bathroom again as the retching is heard from afar.
As if it were on a schedule whenever one goes the other has to, Michelangelo felt the same feeling in his gut and breathed uneasily.
"Oh no... Not again...!" He then dashes to the bathroom and the gross sounds were heard as they both vomited.
Raph went and stood next to Leo as they both had a disgusted look on their faces at what all four will have to go through, well, especially Donnie and Mikey as they're the carriers in all of this. He face palmed next to Leo and sighed.
"This is going to be a very long wait..." He said.
Leo didn't really have anything to say after that, he just nodded slowly and sighed, putting his head down.
They were going to start a new adventure and challenge none of them have ever considered they would have to pass through one day, let alone at a young age: Pregnancy and Parenthood.
Splinter's gonna love this...