Second Chances

CH.2

4:23am

I completely forgot how hard it is to raise a child Splinter thinks as he rocks a screaming/crying Miwa in his arms. "Shhh shhh shhh" Splinter shushes not wanting to wake the boys up, however it really wouldn't surprise him if they were already awake, this had been the 5th time Miwa's woken up crying tonight. After a few minutes of listening to her crying, Splinter decided to see if she was hungry.

Walking into the kitchen Splinter slightly winced at the sight of his other four children with their heads down on the kitchen table trying to get a little more sleep while Mikey barely moved from exhaustion cooking breakfast for everyone.

Noticing Splinter walk in with Miwa, Mikey's face lit up and he practically ran up to them and slightly lifted baby Miwa from Splinters arms. By the way Miwa is wrapped up in a blanket with cartoon frogs all over it since they didn't really have any clothes for her yet "morning sensei, morning Miwa" Mikey says spinning her around in her arms causing Miwa and Mikey to giggle.

"Finally she shut the hell up" Raph yelled jumping up from his seat and heading to his room "i'm going back to bed" slamming his bedroom door shut as hard as he could.

"Yeah i'm gonna have to agree with Raph on this one" Leo chimes in before heading to his room as well, but shutting his door softly.

"Yay me and Miwa are gonna play all day today" Mikey says spinning her high in the sky again, making him and Miwa smile and laugh.

"Well if thats the case i'll leave you in charge of Miwa, Michelangelo" Splinter says happy he'll finally get to rest by meditating.

"Yay i'm in charge of Miwa" Mikey cheered.

"There must be something wrong with Ka..Miwa" Donnie theorized "here" he says holding his hands out for Mikey to hand her over "i'll try running a few more tests."

"No way dude" Mikey states holding Miwa away from Donnie's reach, "i'm in charge of her and I say were watching cartoons all day long."

"Mikey, she could be sick or worse in pain, i'll only need to test her for about 30 minutes then she's all yours" Donnie says slightly annoyed. Noticing he doesn't really have a choice Mikey hands her over, after a minute of thinking it through.Donnie then heads towards his lab "by the way Mikey your breakfast's on fire."

"Ahhh" Mikey screams noticing the fire, then getting the fire extinguisher, making both Miwa and Donnie laugh as they walked into the lab.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

5:02am

"Well theirs nothing wrong with your blood work" Donnie starts as he looks at the computer screen intensely "well you are a baby, and baby's do cry at night, maybe I shouldn't have worried so much" he says walking over towards the counter that had the bed she was sleeping on.

He debated waking her, because after taking her blood she cried for a good 10minutes it wasn't until Raph came in super annoyed screaming he was gonna murder Donnie for making her cry, but mostly for waking him up, then Raph calmly took her into his arms and after a minute or two she fell asleep. Donnie thought it must have been all his parenting baby Spike that made him an expert with children, "come on" he finally says waking her up "lets get you back to Mikey."

He walks out to see everyone in the kitchen about to start eating the new breakfast Mikey made considering he ruined the last one "here you go Mikey."

Mikey says very excited "alright lets go eat breakfast then watch an entire days worth of Crognard the Barbarian."

"Wait Mikey" Donnie stops him "K..Miwa's a baby she can't eat solid foods yet, wait here" he says running back to his lab, grabbing a baby bottle he found and fixed up a very long time, after washing it out in the sink a few times and grabbing some milk from the fridge. He filled it then handed it to Mikey "this will have to do for now, I think I can make a special formula that will provide her with all the nutrients she'll need but it'll take me a few days but for now I think it's fine to feed her this."