Disclaimer: I do not own the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

A/N: this is written in junction with dondena. The idea is hers. She is beta as well. Also these turtles are based off of the 1987 old toon turtles. It takes place after the 'Red Sky'. Shredder and Krang, and Lord Dregg are all long gone.

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Donatello was relieved. There was no teasing. Or at least done to his face. He didn't care. He had more things to worry about than his brothers teasing him. In the past maybe it would have bothered him, but he had matured since then. He almost couldn't believe how much had happened.

After the Christmas party, which he was internally grateful for, he felt like he could relax. His interest in machinery came back. He would work back in his lab with renewed vigor. Though what he was working on was not his normal gadgets and inventions. They were advanced toys and such for the unborn turtles he was carrying. He even included two cradles where they would sleep. He had the time.

No longer did Master Splinter make him train. Splinter had him to do his katas and exercise, but to do any sparring with his bros, that was cut entirely. But he also needed to think about defense as well. He had to protect his stomach in a battle at all costs if he wanted to be the parent that he wanted to be. Being a scientist full of knowledge, he knew if he didn't keep up with his training, eventually his muscles would become out of shape and flabby. Caring for his body was important, although he wasn't always into the ninja exercise thing, he still did it anyway.

He had been practicing for almost an hour when his turtle com beeped. He paused and took a deep breath. This morning was hard on him. He had woke up tired and sick to his stomach. He knew he would have to bring it up at the next appointment with Jane and Tanya. It was coming up soon. In about two weeks after the first of January he had his next appointment with them. Two days after the party Tanya had called and told him that he needed to come in and they set it for the sixteenth that following month.

Donatello caught his breath and pulled out the com. Clicking it open he saw April's face smiling up at him. "Hey, April. What's up?"

"Oh nothing much. Just wondering if you are up to coming over. Without the others." She said as a smile crossed her face.

"Why?" He asked as he put up his practice bo.

The picture on the com shifted as April's shocked voice cried out. "Hey Tanya, give that back!"

Tanya's mocha colored face came into view. She grinned at Donatello. "Hey daom."

Donatello had to cock his head and gave her a confused look. "Daom?"

"Yeah. You are both. A dad and a mom. So Daom." She said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Ok. So what did you want?"

"You are to bring all three of you over here to April's." Tanya said as her grin became bigger.

"Why?" He asked, ever curious.

"Don't you dare tell him!" April's voice shouted out.

The camera shifted again as Tanya moved out of April's lunge. Donatello had to smirk as the two female humans fought over the turtle com. Though April was taller and thinner, Tanya was stronger and for a chubby girl she could move fast. She won the war and blurted out, "We are throwing you a Baby Shower!"

Two voices rang out, that Donatello recognized as April's and Jane. "Tanya!"

"What? I was never one to keep surprises secret! You should have known better then to tell me before we told him." Tanya yelled back at the two women. She looked back at Donatello.

Donatello was shocked. "A what?!"

"A baby shower. So come on over." April said after she wrestled the com back from Tanya.

Donatello shrugged and nodded. "All right. The fresh air could do me some good. I'll be there in ten." He closed the com and walked out of his lab. He passed by his bros who were watching the TV. Raphael turned his head when he saw Donatello walk by. He snickered. "Saw you comin' before I even saw your face. How much bigger are you going to get?"

"Where you going, Donatello?" Michelangelo asked, dragging the a out on in Donatello's name.

"I'm going to April's. She asked me to come over." He said as he tried his best to ignore them.

"So you going to do what? Paint your toenails?" Leonardo put in while snickering.

"I'm ignoring you. Don't talk to me." Donatello said as he glared at the brothers. He turned his back on them and walked out the door, before the threatening tears in his eyes fell in front of his brothers.

XX

When he got to April's and opened the door, there was a large banner hanging from her ceiling. Large pink and blue letters spelled 'Baby Shower". Donatello couldn't help but laugh as he became teary eyed.

"April thought you needed something to cheer you up," Jane said gently while smiling at him.

"Yeah, even though you are still male at heart, you will be a mother and every mother needs a baby shower. Not to mention babies require supplies," Tanya said as she gave him a hug, Donatello surprising himself when he hugged her back.

He then took extra time to look at the decorations. Pink and blue balloons and streamers and other pastel baby decorations hung everywhere. The care and utmost thought had gone into everything. If only his bros would care. They had been doing the teasing behind his shell and every time he would try to join them in watching TV or another thing they used to do they would just try to hide their grins. Tonight they had done the teasing to his face. He sighed and then smiled again and looked around at the human females. "This is wonderful. Thank you."

Tanya grabbed Donatello's arm and led him over to a long table that was laid out with food. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no pizza. Wow, never thought I'd actually think that. He thought as he began to snack on fruits, veggies, and even some fish. His craving for fish had escalated into a down right obsession. He turned when he heard a giggle and saw Tanya holding a half eaten banana. She shrugged.

"What? It's just that I've never seen anyone so crazy about fish." She said after she took a bite of the banana.

"Oh. It's just that I've been-"

"Craving it? I know. I remember the fish sticks you downed at the Christmas party. I couldn't help but wonder, then I remembered, it's about time for the crazy cravings, or as Mom calls it the Crazy C. She said that she craved strawberries and fresh dirt with me. Other than fish is there anything else you've been craving?" She asked as she picked up an orange next but just tossed it from one hand to the other.

"No, just fish and milk. It surprised me though. I didn't like milk very much and I hate fish except on pizza and I haven't even wanted pizza." Donatello said after he looked down at the plate of baked salmon he held.

Tanya laughed. "Yeah, April told me about the pizza obsessions you and your brothers have. Be glad you can eat fish and shellfish. I'm allergic to it. Milk, huh? I bet that is due to the babies. They are growing fast and they need the calcium."

"Could be. I can't help but wonder what they will look like. I have the suspicion that human eggs were used, as well as…" Donatello paused and blushed. Even though he was a scientist he couldn't help but be embarrassed about some things. "Well, you know. Will they look more human or more like me?"

Tanya stopped rolling the orange and tapped her chin thoughtfully. "I can't answer that, Donatello, but soon we'll be able to tell what they look like better. So are you excited?"

Donatello nodded, a bright smile on his beak, "Yes. Very. I can't help but to be." His smile faded, "I just wish my family would be too. Splinter is supportive, he gives me advice, and you all are wonderful, but my bros… they aren't so much."

Tanya tossed the orange on the table and walked up to him and put an arm around his shoulders. She was only a few inches taller than him, so this was done comfortably. Donatello's first instinct was to tense, his past prejudice and mistrust of humans threatening to rise, but it was only there and gone in a flash, almost like it wasn't there. He liked her. She was so much like his other bros. Loyal, but fun loving and snarky as well.

She did a sweeping motion, indicating the decorations. "Do you like the decorations?" She asked.

Donatello blinked at the question. "Yes. Though why blue and pink? Are they…?"

She shook her head and giggled. "We can't tell yet. It's too early to see. It was Raphael's idea." She laughed again at his shocked look.

"They know about the baby shower?" He asked, not believing it.

"Yep. It was Michelangelo and April's idea. He and the others got the decorations. Raphael choose the two colors because they weren't sure what the twins were, so he said to get both colors and have it covered. They also got you presents… speaking of presents. It's time to turn this into a shower." She removed her arm and stepped away then looked back at Donatello's still shocked face. She giggled and gave him a peck on the cheek. "You're cute when you're speechless, Donatello." She then hurried off and grabbed April and whispered something to her.

Donatello was indeed shocked. They did care. But why didn't they show it? He then figured that it was probably due to the fact that this was all new for them and their way of showing that they cared was the best way they all knew how. By teasing. Soon Donatello was showered with gifts. There were the normal necessaries. Baby radios. Clothes to keep the tiny babies warm and other things that Donatello knew he would need badly.

Blankets, books, bottles, lullaby tapes, diapers, toys, a name book . He was making his own cradles already for the twins so there were no beds for the babies there. It was still too soon to buy food for the babies. It would still be awhile until they were due really.

As the baby shower came to a close, Donatello began to feel really tired and have sharp back pains. He was looking through a baby name book with the women when he grabbed his belly and cried out. Everything then happened in a blur. Jane had Tanya bring her car around and as she did that Jane had Donatello lay on his shell. She began to press lightly on his lower stomach, stopping when he cried out in pain. Through pain and tear stained eyes he saw Jane curse lightly. "What's wrong?!" He cried out in pain.

"I was afraid of this. Donatello, I will tell you this, but you have to promise not to panic. Promise me?!" Jane voice was high and intense. Her black eyes sharp as she stared down at Donatello.

He nodded.

"You are in danger of a miscarriage. And since you are still male in all other aspects, there is no way to dispel the fetuses. Your body is rejecting them and is filling up with toxins, killing the fetuses. You and they can die!"

Donatello looked up at her in shock. He didn't want to lose these babies and he was going to make sure that everything that could be done to save these babies could be done. He was not having an abortion! Of course he wanted to live too.

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The next ten minutes was agony for Donatello. He tried to keep the cries of pain in but every so often he would whimper and cry out. He kept a hand on his stomach the whole time. April had already called Splinter and his bros and had drove ahead with Tanya to prep the clinic's room. Donatello was laying in the backseat of Jane's car as she drove as fast as she could.

Finally there, Tanya and April were waiting outside with a table to move Donatello onto. Once he was on the table and Tanya and Jane disappeared into the clinic with him, the Turtle Van drove up and the other turtles plus Splinter jumped out.

"We got your call April. What's wrong with Donatello," Leonardo asked as they approached April.

April wiped away some tears. "They say he having a possible miscarriage and that he and the babies could die!"

"What!" The turtles shouted.

"How?" Michelangelo asked.

"I don't know." April said as she collapsed into a chair. "He was feeling fine at the party then suddenly he grabbed his belly and cried out in pain like something was wrong."

Suddenly the door to the room that Tanya and Jane had taken Donatello in swung open. They all looked to see Tanya look around at them in a mild panic. "You. Leonardo. Come with me, now!" She marched up to him and grabbed him by the arm and drug him out the door and threw him into her car.

"What was that for and what is happing with Donatello?" Leonardo asked as the crazed young woman drove through the streets.

"Ok. Donatello is stable, for now. Mother is ridding his body of the toxins that was building up. You guys are apparently human enough to have human blood types. Donatello is RH A-. In males that's fine, but in women, it is bad. If the father is positive and the mother is negative, the woman's body can reject the fetuses. That's what Donatello's body is doing. Where the pregnancy is not natural his blood type and body is recognizing the twins as foreign objects and is trying to kill them. Since Donatello can't pass them like a woman would if she miscarries, his body is filling up with even more toxins."

"Wow. Would it better to say do the… abortion like Donatello planned in the beginning?" Leonardo asked, his mind reeling with this news. His bro was possibly dying and he was supposed to be his brother and the leader of his family, and all he had done was tease him about being pregnant. At that moment Leo knew things would have to change.

Tanya sighed and spared a glance over at the turtle. "Sad to say…yes. But Donatello had put his foot down and said no. He wants us to try to save the babies. That's why you are here. You are the best ninja out of your brothers. I need you so sneak into the fifth floor of the hospital and go to the lab and get this." She handed Leonardo a slip of paper. "I can't get it because, well, they'll never believe me and since I'm a vet and animals don't need it, the hospital will never hand it over."

Leo looked down at the slip of paper. Rhogam it said. At first Leonardo balked, "I can't steal from a hospital. No. No that would be bad. It isn't honorable."

"Leonardo!" Tanya barked, causing him to jump.

Wow. For a short sweet looking girl, she sure could melt steel with her glare. "Your brother could be dying and you're worrying about honor? I may not know a lot about all that ninja junk, but is it honorable to let your brother and his two unborn babies die because you wouldn't use your ninja training to grab a few vials of medicine?" Tanya snarled as she took a sharp turn.

"No. It is not." He took a deep breath and nodded. "I'll get it."

Tanya pulled up to the hospital. "Hurry Leonardo. Time is of the essence."

Leonardo nodded once and disappeared out the door.