/Second Chances/ ROTTMNT!Donnie x reader

Breaking Routine

Y/n's POV

Y'know, I obviously expected that raising an infant wouldn't be easy, like at all,

But that doesn't mean I was prepared for just how much I still underestimated this responsibility.

The week that me and Vinnie was at April's was probably the hardest for both me and April. That first night when Donnie came over, it had in fact not been a peaceful night.

It was for the two of us, but that's because somehow we slept through Vinnie waking April up a couple times.

By the beginning of the second week, we carefully introduced Lavinia to the sewers and the lair. Mikey and Leo had tons of fun maticulously placing pillows and blankets all over the floo66r of the TV room so they could lay on their plastrons and play with Vinnie.

Raph had also tried spending time around her, but he asked to not be left alone with her. I knew he was just anxious about hurting the small 'human', and I tried comforting him and convincing him that it would be alright, but he still refused to believe he wouldn't accidentally hurt her, and he even said he wouldn't trust himself around her until she was at least four years old.

We had all tried to make a schedule and routine for watching and caring for Vinnie, not only so she could get used to and bond with all of us, but to also give me breaks since my shoulder was still healing.

I uh.. kind of ruined it for everyone. I refused to let myself relax, only leaving Vinnie alone if two or more people were around her. It's not that I didn't trust the others, I trusted them all with my life.

I was just scared. Lavinia is m/n's child, just like me. Which means she likely has mystic powers. And in my case, those mystic powers caused me to have a stuck-in-the-past ancestor who believes I need to feel pain so I can rely on my family more and not be so selfish as to keep it all in.

And in a weird twisted way... His logic makes sense.

Doesn't mean I'm going to concede and listen to him, but still.

That is why I'm terrified of him transferring to Vinnie, or somehow using me to hurt her like he tried to do to Donnie and Raph. Or worse, a second him appearing cuz of the whole space time continuum shit.

He said he was around me because I'm the one who inherited his power. But, I'm from a different timeline. What if Vinnie also somehow inherited his power because she was technically supposed to be me in six years time before I got involved in m/n's life?

So, I did what any normal big sibling/guardian would do. I did exactly the opposite of what my ancestor wants from me.

I honestly don't know why my logic said this was the right decision, but I stayed around Vinnie as much as humanly possible. I only ate or got rest when she was asleep or with April, or even when she was being fed by one of the others.

Everyone else caught on after a while, which is why they decided that they'd have teams again so Vinnie would always have at least two people around.

The teams always varied depending on who was around, but the one consistency was that I was only allowed to be in a team if it was at most twice a week, or absolutely necessary.