Leo groaned, holding and pressing both of his pillows against his head as his phone rang out continuously. Everytime it stopped there was a brief moment of silence before it would start all over again. "Take the hint, take the hint" he chanted. The constant ringing was driving the pregnant turtle crazy. He was tired and had already struggled to fall asleep in the first place. He strived to ignore call but it was next to impossible, the ringing wouldn't stop.

Cracking his eyes open, Leo stared wearily at the device's glowing light. With every second that passed Leo felt the anger toward his genius brother and the phone he had created. Donnie had made it so the phone was unable to go on silent, do not disturb or airplane while its location was in the lair.

Finally, Leo couldn't take it anymore, picking up the phone, he threw it at the wall furthest to him. The device smashed upon impact, falling silent. Now maybe Leo could fall back to sleep. Closing his eyes, Leo felt the warm embrace of sleep calling him but suddenly he felt a kick. Michelangelo was awake. "No, no go back to sleep" Leo begged the little foetus, rubbing his stomach, trying to soothe the now restless child. "Awe man" Leo sat up, knowing that his consciousness wasn't going anywhere.

It wasn't ten minutes later when a knocking came from the other side of the door. "Come in, Sensei. Mikey's up now anyway" Leo sighed, heavily, he knew his brothers must have called the cheese phone since he didn't pick up.

When Splinter entered the room, he found that Leo definitely wasn't happy with the sleep disruption; his arms were folded across his chest, his face was distorted in to a scowl and Michelangelo's movements were very much apparent now. "You're brothers apologise for waking you but an attack has apparently rendered them unable to make it home. You know that I wouldn't ask this of you if it wasn't necessary" pouting, Leo agreed to go and get his brothers. It wasn't like he was going to sleep now anyway. After being helped up off his bed, Leo grabbed his hoodie off the back of his desk chair and then his set of keys hanging by the door. "I'll bring them home but whether they'll be alive is another request"

As Leo sat down in the party wagon, he felt an odd sensation in his lower abdomen. It was only brief but Leo was still flummoxed, however he brushed it off as false labour contractions, though it would still be in the back of his mind. Turning the key, Leo started the vehicle and began driving.

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"Oof, Mikey... you seem just as unhappy as I do" Leo ran one of his hands up and down his swollen stomach. It really started to feel as though Michelangelo was just as anxious for his father to go back to bed as he was. It wasn't just his son who was trying to prompt Leo back to bed, it was the quiet city, three-thirty am. The roads were lacking cars, paths were empty of people and most buildings were dark. Leo couldn't believe he was out this late again. This was now the third time this week that he had to venture out of the lair to get his brothers and bring them home. "I know, I know. See we're here now. Not that you can see"

Leo pulled in to the alley beside April's apartment building and waited for the others to show. He tried desperately not to think about what his brothers possibly looked like right now. All he knew was that they were injured and were in need of assistance to make it home. Leo suddenly hissed as the pain returned. "Ooh ow" the pain was definitely too short for it to be labour contractions or even Braxton Hicks contractions, it was like some kind of twinge. 'Okay, maybe it's just the position he's in'. "Yeah, just my organs shifting" Leo sat back in his seat, running both of his hands up and down his stomach, sighing contently, satisfied with his reasoning.

It wasn't long before Leo heard voices coming from outside the party wagon. It sounded as though they were laughing and chatting. The door opened for the others to be met with quite a disapproving scowl. Leo glared at his brothers and their smiles dropped. "H.. hey bro" Donnie spoke nervously, Leo's eyes narrowed at the two younger turtles. He was hardly in the mood for this.

"Don't hey bro me. Mikey was calm tonight, I was asleep. I was dreaming, I had the nicest brothers that were considerate of my condition and they actually listened when I begged them to stay at home the first night that this happened!" Donnie went to speak, trying to defend the two of them but Leo shut him down. "Save it, just get in before I leave you here" Leo sniffed, holding back his tears.

The drive home had been awkward, it had been done in complete silence. Leo had remained angry at the two younger turtles throughout and passed the duration. The boys climbed out of the vehicle, being greeted and helped by master Splinter. "Leo, thanks for coming to get us again" Raph said, leaning on his pregnant brother for support, he tried giving a smile, chuckling as he did but Leo wasn't having any of it, not until he could finally go to bed. "Yeah and we did take your request in to consideration but you see you're crazy at the moment." Yes it sounded insensitve but Donnie couldn't help it, he felt as though Leo needed to know.

"Did you really just pull a Mikey?" Raph asked as Leo helped him down in to the pit to sit down, the hothead instantly recognised the expression on Leo's face.

"No, that's not pulling a Mikey. Pulling a Mikey means telling the truth without thinking-- Donnie didn't get to finish his sentence as Leo interupted.

"Number one, you can no longer us my son's name an expression and number two, I'm pregnant, I'm allowed to be--" Leo wasn't able to finish his sentence as he felt that pain returning but it was stronger. It wasn't enough to make him fall to the floor, but it was enough to make him lean on the sofa for support. "Leonardo/ Leo!" Master Splinter, Donnie and Raph cried rushing to the pregnant turtle's aid. They were by his side in an instant. Leo was crying, he was scared, he shouldn't have ignored the pain before. "Please don't be labour, please, he can't come now"

While master Splinter tended to Raph's wounds, Leo and Donnie were in the lab. Leo lay on the examination bed, waiting to hear anything from Donnie's poking around. It felt like it was taking forever. Then Donnie finally spoke. "There's no sign of dialation or your water breaking" Leo could finally relax, believing that he was out of the woods. A smile drew across his face, relief fluttered in to his heart. "So, he's okay?" Leo could feel himself starting to panic again; was Michelangelo in danger? Was Leo going to lose his son again? Leo could hear the rise in his own heartbeat as Donnie gave no reassuring smile while finally giving him some answers. "For now he's okay, but his heartbeat is a little over the normal" Donnie felt like nothing more than a failure, he had let his brother down, he had let his nephew down. "I'm gonna have to put you on bed rest"

Leo was finally taken back to his room, honesty with the way everything ached whenever he moved, he welcomed the bed rest. Already, he had plans as to how he was going to deal with doing nothing as Leo wasn't a do nothing person. "Ugh" Leo practically fell on to his bed, looking forward to be laying down again at last. Donnie couldn't stop looking guilty as he helped his brother down. "This is all my fault" the genius spoke up.

"Donnie, I did this to myself. We might not be related by blood but you guys are my little brothers, I'm your leader, I'm supposed to protect you but right now I... can't" Leo sighed, both of his hands ran up and down his bump. "It scares me knowing that I'm not out there with you but I'm too tired to wait up. I'm begging you to stay home at least until Mikey's born, for his little growing body and brain please" Donnie agreed, he would do anything to make sure his brother and his nephew were safe and keeping well. The genius lay his head upon his brother's stomach, he could feel his nephew's movements underneath it. "We'll stay... for you Mikey"