Unexpected Gift

Chap 41

When Leo woke up again, he was hungry. Don brought him some soup that would be gentle on his stomach, after the surgery that he had, what he ate for right now needed to be gentle on his stomach.

Then it was time to feed the baby again. She had slept until after her dad had eaten. Leo loved feeding her.

Then after feeding time, everyone wanted to hold her again. Raph was the only one still hesitant about it, but held her last.

April and Casey came down to see how Leo and Shin were this morning. They could see Leo was feeling much better now. He was happier and not so moody with the baby out of him.

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Two days later, Don finally removed Leo's IV. Now he could move about the lair as he pleased. He kept on taking pain medicine to keep the pain he was in to a minimum. Though he did move about the lair on the lower floor, he still didn't spend too much time out of bed. His plastron was still mending.

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Once it was officially a week later, as it was getting colder down here, it was finally declared time to go up to the farmhouse.

The incubator was put in the Battle Shell. Leo was going to be laying down for this trip. And he wasn't about to let his daughter far from him. He wanted to be where he could see her.

April and Casey had been told to go on up there to go get the house warmed up by the time they got there.

And even during this last week, no one had been going out on patrol. They wanted to stay home with the new baby.

The truck finally pulled up to the house. Leo wanted to carry Tang Shin into the house. Once he was out of the truck, Mikey handed her his daughter. She had traveled rather well. The movement of the truck had been making her sleep. Don had drove, so there hadn't been so many pothole problems like there would have been if Raph had drove. Baby or not in the truck, Raph would hit every pothole on the way.

Don let Leo carry his baby into the house while he carried in the incubator. Mikey and Raph and Splinter carried in the other baby supplies they would need. She was well wrapped up.

Leo went in and sat down on the couch. It felt nice and warm in here. The fire in the living room was going. But the furnace was also working too. "We're finally here, Tang Shin." Leo said. The baby in his arm just cooed up at him. He smiled.

All the supplies were taken upstairs.

Don had taken a look at Leo's plastron before another bandage change back home, so his plastron was stable enough he could go up and down stairs now as needed. It was definitely hardening again too. It had gotten quite soft during the pregnancy to allow it to expand.

Leo didn't want to go upstairs straight away. He just wanted to stay here in the living room for awhile. And once all the supplies were upstairs, his family and friends joined him and Shin. They talked for awhile. They talked of how long they were going to be staying there.

It was too dangerous for Tang Shin to be raised in the sewers right now. She was too small and she needed to be in a warm place. If she was going to be out of her incubator for long, she needed a warm environment. The house was the perfect place for it.

Leo wasn't taking any chances. They would be spending the winter up here. Everything back home had been turned off. Sure, they would get homesick for the lair, but for Shin's sake, they were going to be staying here.

Maybe every once in a while, the grown turtles would take a visit to the city to do a patrol now and then for the winter, because they knew Raph especially liked doing it and bashing heads. But Leo wouldn't be going anywhere until his belly healed and he was back in training.

Course it would be a few years before his daughter would start her own training. Leo couldn't wait to start her, but until then, he would just enjoy her being his little girl.