CHAPTER 7: A GOOD FATHER.
Months later, Julie was now at the 8th month of pregnancy. Together with her friends and family, she'd bought clothes, toys, shoes and many other things that Miwa would've needed to feel welcome into the world. The little girl sometimes reminded her presence when she gave powerful kicks to poor Julie, and Mikey loved that. Mikey and Adrian had prepared a list of what to teach Miwa when she was born. Everyone was very excited and couldn't wait to see her.
One night, Julie was in the bed and giggled a bit at the first time Mikey felt one of Miwa's kicks:
"OH WOW! Now this is a freaking powerful ninja kick! I'm proud of you!" She laughed at it and closed her eyes. Leo walked in the room and laid down by her side and wrapped them both in the blanket. Julie felt his soft scent of mint and smiled saying with a sleepy voice:
"Leo?"
"Hm?" He answered imitating her sleepy voice, smirking and kissing her neck.
"Good night…" She said.
"Good night my love…" He closed his eyes and fell asleep.
But after some hours, a thought crossed his mind and he felt suddenly worried and completely awake. This thought was slowly filling his heart with anxiety. He decided to get up and try to calm down with some hot chocolate. He walked silently to the kitchen…
Raph rolled around in his bed, wide awake. Fantastic, another night without sleep! With an irritated sigh and dragged himself out of the bed and in to the kitchen to drink some water. But when he came in, he saw his eldest brother already sitting there at the table with an empty cup of hot chocolate.
"Leo? What are you doing awake at this time?" He asked rising his eyebrow. Leo snorted and gave his brother a small smile.
"Shouldn't I ask you the same thing? I think all of us sometimes have our 'no' nights." Raph sighed shaking his head. He knew his brother too well. There were just a few things that could worry Leonardo this much, and if he was worried, he knew from experience that it was something very bad.
"Ok, now listen: Now we sit down, drink hot chocolate with marshmallows as we did when we were 10 and then you spit out what worries you, understood?" He said taking Leo's cup and another one for himself and prepared hot chocolate and poured it together with marshmallows and gave one to Leo, who took it and said in surrender, smiling:
"You read me just like an open book…" Raph smiled back and said:
"So, will you tell me?"
"I don't know…it's a thought that came out suddenly…and what if I will be a terrible father? I'm not sure if I'll give Miwa a the childhood and future she need and deserves, I mean, look at me, I'm a turtle…will I ever give her a peaceful life? I'm so young, and I'm not human either, I'm scared, that's all…"
Raph remained more than surprised to hear Leonardo, the always fearless leader, saying he was scared. But he knew his brother wasn't lying. He had that lost and sad look and his eyes weren't sparkling anymore. He could see that Leo was close to fall, and he would never let him fall in the darkness.
"Now you listen to me, dumbhead: the Leonardo I know is a stubborn guy, who has always something brilliant in his head when the other needs it. If there's something blocking his way, he doesn't give a plain fuck, because he knows he can do it. He's a smart and proud guy, and he's done many fantastic things: He fixed Mikey's PlayStation when Donnie was sick; he helped Donnie to impress on April and was always there when Splinter needed him. Even if we were stupid and didn't listen to him, he continued leading us with enormous patient, he never gave up."
He smashed his fist in the table:
"And it's that strong Leo I want to see as Miwa's father! Because you're the best father Miwa could ever wish to have. Surely, he's done a lot for me, because is it wasn't for him, I would now be a monster lost in anger and fury. Miwa's future father has saved me a million times, and I'm grateful for that. Thank you…" He took breath.
"Do we understand each other?" Leo laughed and drank all his chocolate. He actually did feel better. Raphael always succeed in comforting him, because he understood him. Their bond was so deep that they knew each from head to toe. He knew Raph always would've been by his side, even in the future. He laid down his cup in the sink and said with gratitude:
"Thanks Raph, you're the best!" Raph giggled satisfied and smirked raising his eyebrow in a sexy way, and crossed his arms.
"I know. Now go back to your wife!" Leo laughed and walked back to his room. He saw Julie who was laying by one side and slept like an angel. He laid down by her side. Julie heard him and tiredly her eyes, which sparkled a bit and turned her head a bit towards him.
"Are you still awake honey? I thought you were sleeping!" He shook his head and caressed her hair, giggling a bit.
"Don't worry darling, go back to sleep…" She nodded and closed her eyes, while Leo wrapped his arms around her now big stomach, closing his eyes too. After some minutes of silence, Julie's eyes suddenly widened and she let out a small scream. Leo woke up and said:
"Julie! Has something happen? The baby, is it all right?" She turned around with eyes sparkling of joy.
"She's all right; sorry for waking you up…Miwa…she just kicked me!" Leo laughed sweetly and said sarcastic:
"And who'll listen to Mikey tomorrow!" Julie laughed:
"Ok, let's sleep now…" He nodded and hugged her again and they both closed their eyes, falling gently asleep.
A/N: Hi guys! How are you doing? I hope well ^^ this chapter had so much sweet bromance, I liked it! 3. Oh, I wanted to answer a guest review that I got recently on : Hi! Thank you for liking my story, you're awesome :D about the childbirth thing, I've already written this fic and the others in Italian in notebooks I have here at home, and the next chapter is about when Miwa gets born XDD but I'll try to make it shorter, since it's an important chapter that will, together with chapter 9, introduce all you readers to the second part of the fic, so I can't absolutely delete it completely, but I'll make it shorter, that's at least a thing :) Thank you for the review ^^
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