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A/N: Thanks so much for the reviews, guys! Sorry that it's taking longer than usual. One of my bosses found out thatI like to write stories on the internet, so he forbade me to use the work computer for 'personal' uses at work. He even stopped me from scouting out other apartments (Need another room due to coming baby!) The other day it was so slow that the nurse and I drilled holes in our head with our eyes we stared at each other so long. Of course, I might spend more than half my week at work, but my boss only works 'normal working hours' so I have about four hours after he leaves to work on it, of course two of those are our busiest hours. I don't blame him really, others were complaining about computer time of workers, and since I write silly ninja turtle stories, I was a prime candidate. Ah, well. Don't mind me, I'm just complaining. Wa-wa-wa.

In any case, I hope that you like what I've got cooked up for this chapter here. Bouncing babies? Well, let's see...

Chapter 28

The Stork a Cometh

Ya know what's funny about us? We never really get a break. I mean, you know that saying 'when it rains it pours?' Yeah. Well that's us pretty much 24/7. If it's not the Shredder, or Stockman, or Bishop, or Karai, or Hun, or the Purple Dragons, or crazed hunters, or monsters of some sort, or aliens, or the citizens we protect, justpretty much anyone else, it's something! Always something! I mean, look at us now! Our allies were chained up, our enemy is immensly powerful, Mikey's been knocked out, Don's mind is being controlled, Leo's stuck protecting me because I'm in LABOR, and ALL AT THE SAME FRIGGIN TIME! I mean, what does a guy have to do to order a shot around here! Just a friggin shot! Something to sizzle the lining of my throat clean away! Is that so much to friggin ask! HMPH! Well, I'm sure that you find all of this trouble for us very exciting for you (Damn pussies) so here; let me continue the story of our eternal torment!


Leo backed up and accidently stepped on my foot. Well, and my calf, and my knee, and my thigh. Alright already, he tripped over me and landed in my lap. Er...or more accurately cradeled between my legs.

Don followed him, knife shining dully in his grasp, and eyes shining with fear and regret. He just couldn't stop. I could see Leo (how could I not, the position he was in?) he wasn't about to attack his brother, even to save himself. Well, what about me goddamnit!

Luckily it didn't really come to Don and Leo duking it out. Apparently when Amuke got free, the others weren't far behind. The first to come, in a bright flash of bright red, was Heartfelt. Before any of us had a chance to react she grabbed Donny's face, jerking it towards her so fast I'm surprised she didn't crack his neck, and kissed him. I don't mean just a peck on the cheek, I mean one of those slobber running down your neck, tongue missing in lost places, and mouths locked together kind of kiss. Sickening, isn't it? (Looks down guiltily. Hehehe, never mind.)

Well, Donny kind of froze for a second, the surprise registered in his eyes before he slowly closed his eyelids. But apparently his orders included all 'good guys,' because the knife in his hand started to come up. Immediately his eyes popped open and he looked at Heartfelt fearfully. Something must have registered becuase she broke the kiss right away, just in time to avoid the slashing steel. She locked her hands around his wrists and pushed him away gently before looking back at Leo with a nod. As though she was dealing with crystal china, she slowly led Donny away, staying forever out of his knive's reach.

The next one to reach us made my heart leap for joy. Uh, wait I mean, (Looks around nervously to see if anyone heard) I was just a little glad to see her. Yeah, that's it. Glad to see her. Aw, who the hell am I kidding! She's my wife!

She came to my side and clung to it, wrapping her hands around my bicep warmly. The arm that she had in a sling before hung limply at her side at a slightly wrong angle, but her smile was warm. Her hair was frazzled, her face was dirty and her clothing was bloodstained. I didn't give a damn. I wasn't in love with those things, didn't give a crap about her hair. It was her that I wanted with me right now.

All thought patterns ceased to exist as another contraction came on. Vivid clung to my hand as I pushed, groaning out enough curse words to make a sailor blush. This brought on another tumult of some kind of fluid, which gushed itself liberally on Leo, who was still lying between my legs in somewhat of a shock.

I swear I never saw him get up so fast! Now that will be an image to treasure! He just kind of stood there, looking at the stuff dribbling down his arm and his side before Vivid interrupted as she peered over to have a look at my, uh...um...my privates. Gently breaking her hand from my grasp she scooted over enough that she could lean over between my legs.

Well, now isn't this an odd situation? Normally, I wouldn't have any problem with her doing this, but unfortunately at this time I knew that there was nothing sexual at all about what she was doing. Yeah, I know, typical male egotism wellwhogives a fu#k.So, naturally I had to object.

Immediately my legs started to close and I opened my mouth to protest. But then she took a look at me, and it made me stop for some reason. I knew why. It's not like she was doing this to make me uncomfortable or anything, it just had to be done. And she looked so cute, damn I wanted to bang her. So instead I took out all my fury on Leo, still standing there uncomfortably. I used every word under the sun, tore him up and down, threatened his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of all happy things, and told him explicitly how nice his lips would look hanging on my wall if he ever dared to mention this to anyone. All at the same time I felt her fingers probing, feeling in me, but they didn't go as far as I thought that they would.

She took out her fingers and I calmed down just a little. Then she motioned over to Leo, who nervously approached a little closer. Damn he looked like a fresh schoolboy. "We're going to have to deliver the baby, it's almost here."

His eyes went as wide as saucers at her words and his words stammered out of numb lips. "W-w-wh-what! B-but I can't! I-"

Vivid interrupted him with a raised hand and a stern look. With a jabbing motion she pointed at her lifeless arm. "How am I supposed to catch a baby or help it out it an arm broken at the elbow? Babies are slippery critters, sometimes even two hand's aren't enough. But it'll have to do. Come on, Leonardo."

I didn't think it could happen, but it did. His eyes got even wider. It was friggin hilarious. "But what about the others? I-I can't-"

Once again Vivid interrupted him. The fact that she could do so without ticking him off spelled testament to how nervous he was. Rolling her eyes she spoke "Don's having his mind controlled, Mikey's knocked out, Daddy's keeping Honor at bay, Heartfelt is keeping Donny at bay, do you have anyone else in mind?"

He looked around as though someone else would step forward and volunteer.Frustrated, Vivid reached up with her good hand and jerked him down next to me just as my umpteenth contraction came about.

It was about then, when I looked down and saw Leo down there where he shouldn't be that it ceased to be funny. Immediately I became pissed off. What the Hell was he doing there!

Vivid distracted me, or should I say made me concentrate. Grabbing my hand, which was digging grooves in the tile as the pain shot through me, and made me grab my thigh. She did the same with the other hand. "Now, just pull your legs towards you. Men aren't naturally big-hipped so the baby needs all the extra room it can get. Plus, it gives Leo more room to work."

This wasn't exactly what I wanted to hear at the moment, and I was close to cussing her out. But I've never said a cross word against her, ever. So once again I turned it on Leo. "You sorry little sad sack of ---- you sun of a fu#king b---h with all the-" Yeah, and it goes on.

I guess that this wasn't helping his nerves at all, his hands were shaking like a rattlesnake tail. Some more fluid gushed out and somehow his eyes got wider. Frantically he looked at Vivid. "I see something! What do I do? What do I do? I don't know what to do!"

Vivid was busily occupied keeping me from outright attacking Leo, so all she did was glance at him and say "Well, grab it!"

You might as well have told him to stick his hand in a meat blender. He was terrified. "But, it's coming out of his tail! Out of-of...a hole that...we don't even have!" I leaned my head back and groaned. I can't quite describe how it felt but I felt an immense pressure, a weight or something right in my hip and I wanted it gone! I could hardly move my legs!

"I don't care, if the baby's crowning, you're going to have to catch it! If it starts coming out, you're going to have to help it out!"

He was trembling like a nervous chihuahua. "I...I have to touch him? There?"

Vivid shot him a look that spelled imminent death without immediate action so he nervously reached down, trying to avert his gaze at the same time. I didn't feel a thing, I guess that he was touching that parasite that's frigging doing all of this to me!

Many agonizing seconds, perhaps minutes I don't know passed by. I was pushing and no one said a word. Leo stared at it. "It-it's not moving!"

"Are you sure, what can you see?"

He licked his lips and blinked hard. Prespiration beaded on his face. "I-I don't know. Half an orange? Round, the head? It's poking out a little, but I can't see a face or anything, and it hasn't moved..."

"Pull it out!"

We both did a sharp intake of breath at this one. What the hell did she just say? "It can't stay in there too long, we need to get it out!"

"Um, uh, h-h-h-h-ho-how?"

"Just slide your fingers between the head and the opening, try to get a good grasp and pull gently."

He looked at her as though she just pulled an parrot from her nose. Then he looked at, um, me in a very similar manner. Tentatively, he reached his hands down and touched me. Then he kept on going! It felt like someone had just grabbed an open wound in my skin with two hands and tried to make it bigger by ripping it. He was lucky that I had a hard time movin my legs because I was about to kick him! It burned! It hurt like friggin hell!

"FU#K!"

I was about to gnaw through my lip and Leo looked like he was about to cry. Then suddenly it was like a pressure was released, unloaded, like that big poop that I've been squeezing out has just been let go into the glory of the toilet. The pressure and pain wasn't completely gone, but it was lessened a great deal.

Leo was looking at his hands as though he sprouted twelve new fingers. Vivid yelled something and Leo began doing something with the thing that he had in his hands. Probably was that friggin parasite, the little monster, the dumb little...

Suddenly a loud squall pierced the air and I could feel the pressure going for good. I felt something slide out of me along with an awful lot of fluid. Then Leo slowly stood a little higher on his knees, with a squirming pile of something in his arms. He was looking at it in wonderment. I arched my neck to see the thing, but Leo was already bringing it over.

He laid it on my chest as though it were the most precious china. I didn't really see the point, I mean it's not like it mattered. It's not like...

Then I laid eyes on it. It had a round little face with a light fuzz ofblack hair. It's skin was an emerald green, the lightest of shades. It's little eyes were shut and it's mouth worked up as it prepared a fresh squall. The head was pretty big in comparison to the body, no wonder it hurt so friggin much. It had tiny, chubby little arms with four tiny fingers balled up in a fist. It's shell was very slight and I could already tell that it wouldn't be nearly as thick or as bony as mine. Right now it was soft, like wet foam. The plastron was only the slightest hint of patterned gold, once again much more slight than mine. I'm sure that that's because of the, uh, birthing process. It had chubby little legs with four tiny toes.

It was beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Slowly I brought up my hand and stroked it's cheek, the crumpled face finally broke into a fresh squall and I couldn't help but feel a litlte warm inside at the sound of those healthy lungs. Only a turtle like this could produce such a little tyke!

It was then that I realized that I've been calling this little baby 'it' all this time and gently raised the leg and smiled.

She looked up at me with her big brown eyes. Those were Honor's eyes, but for a moment nothing mattered. Honor didn't matter, because my baby girl was here with me.


A/N: I hope that it wasn't too gushy for you. It's just a big turnaround for Raph, I wasn't actually going to have him hate the baby, c'mon! Still, I think that he has a right to be mushy right now, don't you think? Well, let me know! What do you think? Don't worry, this is nowhere near the last chapter and I still have a few more surprises in store for you.

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