Unexpected Gift

Chap 31

"OW!" Leo cried out first thing in the morning.

The baby had done a rather hard kick right into his internal organs behind the placenta and good punch to the front of his stomach as well. It was like it was trying to stretch out, but boy, did it have to be THAT painful?

Leo had snapped awake the instant he had felt the baby kick and punch him. "Did you have do that, Junior?" Leo asked as he rubbed his swollen belly. The baby seemed to answer as it kicked at his hand too.

Raph came into the room, as he had heard Leo's scream of pain. "What's wrong, Bro?" He asked.

"I'm fine Raph. I was just sleeping and the baby kicked me rather hard." Leo said.

Raph saw Leo rubbing his belly. "You sure that's all it was?"

"Yes. I'm fine, if not still tired."

"Well, go back to sleep then." Raph said.

"I don't know if I can. I might as well get up and go fix a snack. I just think Junior is hungry." Leo said.

"Amazing how you can put up with that."

"Put up with what?" Leo asked.

"The baby." Raph replied.

"Here we go again. Raph, don't ask me to get rid of it again."

"No, no. I wasn't going to say that, Leo. I was going to say how can you put up with the kicking?"

"I do because I have no choice Raph. The baby is going to move about inside me, whether I like it or not. If you were me, you'd have to put up with it too." Leo said.

"If it was me, I would have had it aborted a long time ago." Raph said. "I don't want to be pregnant." Raph was doing his best to just talk to his pregnant bro in a calm manner.

"You're lucky then that the Foot choose me, as much as I hated being their target turtle." Leo said. "Well, I'm going to go get my snack now. It might calm Junior down and let me sleep a bit more." He now began to move out of the room.

Raph went back to his room, hoping that a kick was all that had happened.

In the kitchen, Leo fixed himself a ham sandwich. He was craving it. He sat down to eat it at the table. It was still early yet, so everyone else was still in bed. Except Raph. But he was sure he was going back to bed.

Once he was done eating his sandwich, Leo sank back in the chair and looked down at his swollen stomach. The baby seemed to have settled down now. Why did he/she have to become so active when he tried to sleep?

Leo could just look at a calendar and it still seemed so long to the due date. It was now September. November or December still seemed like a long time off. He was ready to see his son or daughter already, but he knew they weren't fully developed yet. So he would have to stick to seeing him/her on ultrasound for now.

In a way, he was glad that he was just starting out with just one baby. Any more than one would have been real hard on his body. Then Leo knew that Don would have had him on complete bed-rest if he had been carrying twins attached to his intestine! Just how Leo wished the baby wasn't attached down there. If it just could have been in his abdominal cavity instead, it wouldn't be such a painful pregnancy.

When he felt assured that the baby was a little happier being fed, it seemed settled down, maybe he could get some sleep now. Leo went back to his room to try to get some more sleep.

By the time he woke up again, it was late morning. The others had trained already and had had breakfast while he had been sleeping, but Leo needed his sleep now more than ever. His family wasn't going to disturb him.