This chapter is a bit longer than my first one and it goes through about half of Renée's first day. The next chapter should be up soon. I do write and update on my IPod, so I apologize for any oddly placed/misspelled words in all chapters

It didn't take long to get the lair and gather everyone up. April told them what she had seen and heard, which included the mutants name. The lizard was happy enough to sit on Aprils lap and study her newfound fingers or go off and explore, trying multiple times to stand and walk around. The four brothers quickly agreed to keep her with them, a decision that Splinter happily agreed with as well, after all, who better to raise a mutant than a mutant? April left shortly after and all attention turned to the child. "She's so little." Was the first thing Mikey said about her, which drew out a small chuckle from Splinter. "You were barely bigger than her when I first brought you here." A slight smile pulled at his lips as he fondly remembered the day he had brought his young sons to the lair. The family sat on the couch, watching the child roam around, stopping briefly by each of them and happily sitting on their laps for a few moments before waddling off. After a while, she stopped by Raph and held up her arms, begging to be held. He glanced at her over the top of the comic book he had been reading, then sighed softly and pulled her onto his lap. She snuggled happily against him and gazed up at the pictures of the book in his hands. "Soooo..." The red masked turtle drew the word out as he shut the book and set it aside. "What did April say her name was?" A amused smile fluttered across Leo's face as he answered. "Renée. She's about four. That's about all we know about her. That and the fact that she was a lizard, not a child, before she mutated." Raph nodded slightly, his gaze softening as it dropped down to the child, who was now nearly asleep on his lap. Leo and Donnie exchanged knowing looks, having only seen Raph look at one thing, Spike, that way, that was right before he claimed turtle as his own. Mikey missed out on the entire thing because he was silently trying to get the comic book away from Raph side without getting tackled.

A few short minutes after climbing into Raph's lap, Renée was sound asleep and Raph deemed himself stuck on his spot, not moving so that he wouldn't wake her. Donnie stood a short while later and dragged Leo off to prepare a room for their newest family member.

Most of the extra rooms had been filled with extra items long ago, weapons, pizza boxes(some still had a priece or two in them), prototypes of robots, and a bunch of miscellaneous junk. As they sorted and cleaned the room, which had been Aprils when she lived with them, Donnie turned to his older brother. "Did you see the way Raph was looking at Renée? It's been awhile since I've seen him look at anything like that." Leo chuckled slightly as he lifted a box of Mikey's old action figures and comics. "Not since he first got Spike. I have a feeling he is going to be protective over her, probably more so than he is over his pet." Don nodded slightly, gathering up a pile of his discarded robot parts. "Well, at least it isn't Mikey who will be." The two brothers glanced over at their younger brother, who was carrying the box that Leo had just put down back to his room. A relieved chuckle echoed between them. "Yeah, Raph will at least remember to feed her." Leo said as he pulled a pile of junk off the bed and into one of the empty boxes that were scattered on the floor. "It'll be kind of odd to have a child with us. We've been the only children that's ever lived down here, so it's defiantly a first for us." Donnie nodded in agreement and he dragged the dusty, stained covers off the bed. "But just think of all we get to teach her. We can teach her ninjutsu, weaponry, hand-to-hand combat. We get to train her to become a ninja, just like Master Splinter trained us. I bet its going to be fun." Leo piled the last of the boxes up and picked them up, carrying them past Donnie as they made their way to the door. "True, that's going to be fun, but we also have to teach her to talk. And I'm sure you are going to ingrain some math and sciencey stuff into her poor head." Donnie nodded to show that his brothers words were quite true. "Well, we don't want her to end up like Mikey. No brain and all..." Donnie stopped as he searched for a word to describe their brother. "Brainless." Leo said as he kicked the door to the other extra room open and dropped his pile of boxes. Donnie gave him a not-the-word-I-was-looking-for-but-it'll-work shrug and slung the dirty sheets over his shoulders. "Let's see if we can track down a clean blanket and pillow and free Raph from his prison." Leo nodded towards his room. "I think I have a couple extra pillows and a blanket or two I can spare in my room. I'll go get them." He darted over to him room, Donnie at his heels, and swung the door open. His brother stuck his head in and gazed around the room. It was sort of a unsaid rule amongst them that each others rooms were off limits, so he had never actually seen inside of Leo's room. It was pretty much as he imagined it, covered wall to wall with notes on how to perfect ninjutsu moves, diagrams of poses, and other stuff that was quite similar to those. The one thing that he hadn't expected was a picture, hanging by a couple of needles stuck into the wall, of Karai and Leo, side by side and smiling happily. Donnie's eyes widened slightly in surprise and he quickly withdrew his head as Leo stood with a pillow on top of a neatly folded blanket. "Here we go. These should work for her. Lets go make her bed and get Renée." Donnie nodded and whipped around, hoping to hide the smile that was creeping slowly across his face.

After preparing the bed for the child, the two brothers went to where they had left Raph and Renée. Raph was now laying on his back with Renée sleeping peacefully on his plastron, her small hand wrapped around the jagged, lightning shaped cut in it. The red masked turtle turned to face his brothers as they neared. Donnie and Leo barely suppressed a laugh at the sigh of their brother with the child sleeping peacefully on his chest. "What're you two smirking about?" He growled, though he obviously knew what had caused the smirks to appear. As be spoke, the child started stirring in her sleep, letting out unhappy hiss-like noises. She suddenly jerked upright and glanced around with wide, confused eyes, then started crying. Raph jerked upright and looked helplessly at his two brothers. "How to get her to stop crying?" The two others shrugged, just as unknowing as their brother. Master Splinter suddenly appeared behind the couch and scooped the wailing child into his arms, gently rocking her. "It works just as well for her as it did for you four." The rat said, a slight smile creeping onto his lips as the wailing quieted down to a gentle whimper, then faded away completely. The small lizard child buried her head into Splinters shoulder and wrapped her arms around his neck as if it were the only thing keeping her from her nightmares. "Hush now, child. Your safe here." He whispered gently to her as he swayed from side to side in and soothingly rubbed her back. After she released his neck and seemed to have settled down a bit, Splinter set her down and she wandered off to explore. He turned to Donnie, Raph and Leo. "You three. Go find Michelangelo and continue your scavenging. This child needs some toys to keep her entertained. The three turtles bowed respectfully to their Sensei and went off to locate their younger brother.

Splinter watched as his four sons went off, then led his new daughter over to the T.V and sat her down with one of the many Space Heroes episodes Leo had on it(though he rarely watched them anymore), then sat down to meditate as he awaited his son's to return.