A/N: Here's an interesting one...Oh, and Don's speech is blending more now because he's saying more at once. Before he only would say a word or two, now he's focusing on whole sentences at once and his brain's faster than his mouth.

Disclaimer: *singing* "It'd be the hard knock life, for them, if I owned the tur-tles!" *stops singing* ...Any guesses what our musical is?

"Sp'rrow."

Master Splinter opened his eyes at the sound of Donatello's voice and was somewhat surprised to see the child sitting in front of him while a huge smile.

"What do you mean, my son?"

"Can you t'll m' sp'rrow story?" ("Can you tell me [the] sparrow story?")

Splinter honestly didn't know when his second youngest started speaking full sentences. All he knew was that he just randomly started one day, though he was more prone to blending or even skipping words than his brothers.

"Donatello, I'm sure you know that story better than I do."

"No, 'get s'me'f eh det'ls." ("No, [I] forget some of the details.")

"Alright, come here then..."

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"'It w's now eh beg'ning'f s'mm'r, 'nd each day eh s'n blazed m'r fiercely'," ("'It was now the beginning of summer, and each day the sun blazed more fiercely'.") Don recited to his younger brother as he laid on the floor, staring at the ceiling, while Mikey sat nearby and placed pieces of paper on his brother's face and plastron.

"Why did the sun do that?"

"D' no. I think it'z j'st wh't eh s'n d's." ("Don't know. I think it's just what the sun does.")

"That's not very nice."

"Few th'ngs'r'. Anyw'y: 'One m'rn'n', eh he't w's'o b'd, eh st'n'-c'tt'r c'd sc'rcely bre'the,'-" (Few Things are. Anyway: 'One morning, the heat was so bad, the stone-cutter could scarcely breathe.")

"How does that work?"

"Hm...n't quite sure..."

"What are you boys up to?" At the sound of his father's voice, the older turtle sat up (causing all the papers to fall to the ground) and Mikey sat up a bit more.

"Donnie's telling stories!"

"Is he, now?"

"Yeah, he's doing what you told him to: he's talking and developing his speech!"

The rat let out a small chuckle at his youngest's energy then asked, "What story are you sharing, Donatello?"

"'Eh St'ne-C'tt'r', It w's in th't book oo g've us..." ("'The Stone-Cutter', it was in that book you gave us...")

Splinter couldn't help but be a bit surprised at this. How did his intelligent son learn a story he had first read a few days ago quicker than a story he had heard every night for the past several years?

A/N: The "sparrow story" is "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow", which is my favorite in a book of Japanese fairy tales I have, and "The Stone-Cutter" is in one of my many English fairy tale books...For that one I just picked one I knew before I downloaded them because it would be reasonable for it to be in a random fairy tale book...

Anyway, yay, Don's talking in full sentences! ...Mostly.