The next day, Leo woke up on the couch in the lair. He had slept the whole night, and not even movements from the twins had disturbed him. But he was feeling them now. They were probably hungry. He got up off the couch and went to his room for a brief moment to see his old room and see what time it was.

It was still a little early for anyone to be awake. It was about the time he would usually get up to do his morning meditation and some workouts before the real training began. Leo also noticed that he still didn't have his gear on.

He saw that his room was the same way he had left it before his kidnapping, then went down to the dojo to get his gear. He had missed wearing his katanas for so long.

He found his katanas on the wall, where his family would have left them for him to find no doubt. But they had never found his other gear. He didn't even know where his belt or elbow and knee pads were. It didn't matter though. He donned more pads on his body and put the sword harness on over himself.

Leo breathed in a big breath of air as he wore his katanas again. But he didn't know if wearing a belt now was such a good idea. He would have to keep on loosening it as the twins grew and he would have to keep it loose anyway to not cause restriction to the twins. But he hoped wearing the sword harness wouldn't be any trouble.

Leo then felt a good kick in the gut and was reminded that his little ones were hungry. "Alright, alright. I'll get something for you."

He left the dojo and went to the kitchen to start a pot of tea, something he hadn't done in a long time. But he remembered how to do it. He got the water and pot settled then went through the remnants of food in the fridge from last night. Cold pizza most of all, but he didn't want any of that right now. He closed the fridge door after grabbing the milk. He knew they needed the calcium.

He popped a prenatal vitamin before making some cereal for breakfast. He might want more later, but right now, he just wanted to settle the twins down. His first morning routine back was not the same, but he would do all he could to make the twins happy.

When the pot went off, he made himself some green tea. It had been too long since the last time he was able to enjoy a cup. He hoped the babies would be ok with it.

After having his tea and cereal, he went back to the dojo to do some morning meditation.

He got an hour in before he heard the sounds of his family coming into the dojo. He saw his father come in first as usual.

"Good morning, Leonardo."

"Good morning, Father."

"How are you this morning?" Splinter asked.

"I'm fine. Had to settle the twins down before I could meditate." Leo replied.

"What do you mean, settle them down? Do you feel them?"

"Yes. I started feeling them move inside me last week. I'm nineteen weeks along and their movements are getting stronger. I had my usual morning tea and some cereal to try to make them happy."

"You know that you are not going to be training with your brothers, Leonardo."

"I know. I just want to be in here to watch them train and just wanted to meditate in here is all." Leo said.

Then Leo's brothers came into the dojo. They were all sleepy eyed, but were ready for training.

Raph was second in line, and spoke up when he saw Leo already in there. "Just like clockwork. You're still in here even when you've been gone for so long."

"I still did kind of keep my usual time of getting up early even when I was gone, Raph. At least after I woke up from the three month sedation." Leo said.

"You're not going to be able to train with us, Leo." Don said. "After training, at least shortly after breakfast or something, we are going to Leatherhead's for the scan."

"I know I'm not sparring with you, but I am going to watch. I was just in here for morning meditation. And yes, I know. Sometime today for the scan." Leo replied. "I do want to see how they're doing now."

The three brothers watched Leo get up from the mat, a little slower than he used to, but he managed without help. They all still couldn't help but look at what made that happen: Leo's belly.

"They aren't too heavy, are they?" Mikey asked.

"No, but if I try to move too quick too fast and I can easily lose my balance. I did the first time I tried to get up after I woke up." Leo said. He bowed to his father then and stepped aside for his brothers to line up and bow as well to begin their training.

Splinter knew he would be making transitions in training with the three sons that could still train, but he had been doing this for months now.

"If Leo can't train, then what can he still do?" Raph asked.

Leo knew Raph was going to have a hard time accepting his new condition. "I can still do some light katas, and some yoga and walking exercises."

"Well, for today, I just want you to be scanned first before you do any of that, Leo." Don said.

"I know." He sighed.

This pregnancy was going to be making him restricted to a lot later on and Leo wanted to make the most of his time to be able to exercise for as long as he could, as well as being able to go places. Patrol was out of the question. He couldn't risk the stress of a serious fight and getting a hit to the stomach or being kidnapped again. He knew Agents Bishop and Johnson would stop it nothing to get him back for what he carried for them.

Master Splinter snapped his sons out of it and continued the trio on with their training.

Leo leaned back on his arms and watched. He winced a little when he felt a few good movements from inside him. He didn't want his little ones to feel cramped, but there wasn't much he could do about that.

Don, Raph, and Mikey had to take different turns against each other, or at times, against Splinter. Leo wished very much that he could be in there training alongside them. If he wasn't in this condition, he would be even on his first day back in here.

After training, the others all went to have breakfast together. Leo followed and decided he would have some of Mikey's delicious cooking. Cereal could wear off kind of fast.

Mikey made a good sized pancake and egg breakfast in Leo's honor.

Leo usually didn't eat all that much before, but now, he had a good sized appetite. He took three pancakes and a good helping of the eggs and sausage. The others almost couldn't believe how much he was eating. Good thing Mikey had made a good bunch of them, he would also eat about that much too.

Don, Raph, and Splinter had some smaller portions but still loved Mikey's pancake breakfasts as well.

After breakfast, Don went and called Leatherhead to tell him that Leo was back and that they needed to come over to use his scanner to find out something about Leo, and that he had a very unusual condition.

LH consented that they could come over and use his machine.

Don went and told Leo that their croc friend was waiting.

Leo had wanted to do some meditation and watch Raph do some weight lifting, maybe even do some light ones himself, but he knew Don wouldn't budge on this. It was now or never.

They told Splinter where they were going and their father consented. Mikey was too over enthused to not want to go and he went with them. Raph stayed at home. He didn't want to go.

The three turtles walked to Leatherhead's home. "I hope one of the babies is mine!" Mikey said happily.

"We won't know that until it's born." Leo said.

When LH greeted them, he wasn't expecting Leo to look as he did in the stomach.

"So what's wrong? Donatello said that you have a condition."

"Don, you didn't tell him did you?" Leo asked.

"No. I just said it was an unusual condition. I wanted the rest to be a surprise." Don said shyly. "He's pregnant, Leatherhead."

"How did it happen?" The big croc asked after a long silence.

"Agent Bishop had me put under sedation and they did it using old DNA from us from one other time they were able to get it from us and used alien DNA to make the wombs. I've already lost two of them. I don't want to lose the two I have left. And they said it's possible I could carry them to about nine months. I'm already getting close to twenty weeks." Leo explained.

LH growled at the thought of that man, but then said, "If you were still carrying all four, that would be a much higher risk pregnancy and they might have to be born much sooner. But twins have more of a chance at making it to full term. But let's get you examined to see what these babies look like and where they are inside you."

The big croc went to the controls of the machine and got it turned on. Then he instructed Leonardo to go lie down on the sliding bed. Leo had taken his swords off for this.

Once he was lying down, Don put a soft, white lightweight blanket over Leo and began sliding him into the scanner.

Leo was kind of glad this time that he wasn't getting an ultrasound, but knew he might be getting one in the near future. He closed his eyes as he entered the machine. He didn't know when the red laser would pass over him, but it soon did, starting at his head and made its way down his body. This way did manage to give him a slight chill as it still felt like an experiment.

They took a couple of scans of him and when it was done, the scanner brought Leo out the other side. He wanted so much to get off this thing. He got up slowly and went to see what the others were seeing. He wanted to see the more detailed look of the twins.

When he was allowed to see the babies, he saw that the wombs that held them were now beside each other and LH and his turtle friends were looking at two little turtles nestled in those alien wombs.

"Awww!" They all couldn't help but say, and Leo couldn't help it that his eyes welled with tears. This was the most detailed picture he had seen of them yet.

They saw that the babies had wombs around them, had placentas that fed them, and were also growing in amniotic fluid. And of course the umbilical cords. And the twins were growing nicely. The only thing that couldn't be done on the scanner was that they couldn't hear the heartbeats. Leo had wanted to hear them again. They could always get a Doppler so that could listen to the hearts whenever he wanted.

But for now, Leatherhead did have Leo lay down on his bed and he let Don listen to Leo's heartbeat. Don put a stethoscope on Leo's stomach to see if he could find the heartbeats that way. Leo wasn't sure if they could be heard that way.

Don did indeed find a heartbeat. "Here's a heartbeat right here." Don said happily.

"I want to hear it!" Mikey said excitedly.

Leo had raised himself up on his elbows and saw where the stethoscope was on his belly and he watched as Mikey now put it on and he listened.

"So cool!" Mikey said.

LH also had a listen. It made him smile. Then he went about trying to find the second heartbeat. He found it on the other side. Faintly, but it was heard.

"Can I listen to them too?" Leo asked.

"Sure. You might want to sit up first."

Leo sat up and was handed the stethoscope. He put them on his ears and then he put the listener down to where he had seen the others listening. When he found the sound of the first one, he almost couldn't believe he was listening to them like this.

The babies' heartbeats were twice as fast as his. But after all the stress he had endured in trying to escape from Johnson, Leo was so glad that these two had made it. He would figure that one of them had to be his and he would be a strong baby.

When it was time to go, Leatherhead said Leo could take the stethoscope with him for the time being. He knew his friend would want to listen to the hearts as often as possible. Leo might even let his father and human friends listen if they wanted to.

"Thanks for the stethoscope, Leatherhead." Leo said on his way out.

"You're welcome, my friend. Take care of yourself and the babies."

"I will."

Leo went home with a picture of the twins as well, and it was a good looking scan.

Leo hung the picture on his wall in his room when he got home and placed the stethoscope in a drawer at his desk. He couldn't be more proud of the picture. But it still didn't tell him whose babies had survived.

When they had returned, Splinter asked how it went.

"They are little cuties, Master." Mikey said.

"I bet. You were all so cute when you were little." Splinter said.

"They are both alive and we all got to hear the heartbeats." Don said.

Raph couldn't believe he was hearing that nonsense. He figured they were just going to look forward to screaming and messy babies if they made it.

Sometime later that day when Leo was out of his room, Raph snuck into the room and got a look at the picture, just being curious. He normally wouldn't want to look at his brother's internal organs or anything, but seeing the babies was obviously a must.

He saw them in good detail. They were done forming, and looked like full-fledged mutant turtles, but they still weren't done growing. He just hoped these two little 'angels' weren't going to harm his brother. He left the room. He accepted they were little turtles, but he still wasn't ready to accept the change fully just yet. Things would change around the lair a lot even before the babies were born.

…

Later that day, Allison was welcomed to the lair for the first time. She had been invited for dinner. April and Casey were both there as well.

Casey had found it hard to believe there were going to be baby turtles coming into his friends' lives in just a few months. And what else, he had just found out that he was going to be new father too! April was just 8 weeks along in her pregnancy.

April made the announcement as the excitement of new babies was just in the air. The others all congratulated her and Casey.

"My kids will have a cousin." Leo said.

"Don't you mean 'our' kids?" Mikey stated.

"Yeah, that too."

Both the humans and turtles would be busy raising children. It was always assumed April and Casey would have kids someday, and the turtles wouldn't get that luxury without girls of their own, but Leo's kidnapping had changed that.

Leo took Ali on a tour of the lair and when he showed her his room, he showed her the scan from that morning.

"Leo, they are so adorable!" She said.

"Thank you. Well, I think that's the entire lair. How about we go for dinner now?" Leo said nervously.

"Sure."

They went and joined the family in the kitchen. There was spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread, some rice, and some mixed fruit on the table for dinner. Everyone couldn't seem to get enough of it. And Ali got to experience Mikey's wonderful cooking.

Beta read by Applepye.