Epilogue:

Delaney was surprised that she could still trace some light scabs on her legs from some of the deeper gashes. It had been a good two months since their rush on the facility and the sentencing of Kanin and Grinford. She smiled at the thought as she repositioned her legs up on the living room table while a folder laid over her lap. She breathed out another frustrated sigh as she stared back at the new case and blew some of her hair out of her face.

"Something troubling you?" Michelangelo looked over her shoulder at the file in her lap, "Not another case, hon."

"Chief needs my help," she shrugged and closed the case log, "But I guess you're right."

"You need to worry about this file more right now," he put a wedding planning book on her lap, "You're still on vacation."

"I second that," Carson said as he entered the lair. Delaney looked up from her comfortable position and chuckled as Michelangelo handed over the missing file to her partner. He looked over the paper work inside to make sure everything was there and then scowled playfully at his partner, "I still don't know how you take these without my knowing."

"I'm a ninja," she reminded him, "I can do just about anything."

"Right…" he rolled his eyes. He then cleared his throat and then looked toward the entrance to the lair where another person walked in, "Speaking of anything."

"Good evening, Detective Chasin," Professor Grayden nodded his head to her and then to Michelangelo.

"How many times do I have to ask you to call me Delaney?" she asked and stood up from her comfortable position.

"A few more, I'm afraid," he chuckled light heartedly, "Are all members of the household here? I have an announcement that I think they would all like to hear."

"Yo! Dudes, Dudettes! Professor has some news!" Michelangelo yelled up the stairs to the top portion of the lair.

"I think they heard you in China, dear," Delaney poked at her ear and looked at the Professor, "What about the other mutants and hybrids at the shelter? Are they going to hear the news? I am thinking it concerns the mutagen, right?"

"They already know," Grayden nodded. The rest of the rescued mutants were put into a shelter away from prying eyes. The media caught on to the facility and the mutants that were the result of Kanin's experiments. The last month has been up and down on the way the world was taking the new species.

Grayden saw the rest of the turtles come down the stairs in pairs. He noticed fairly quickly that one of the female turtles had something in her arms. He titled his head to get a better look. He gasped at the bundle, "Is that what I think it is?"

"Yeah, Amity laid an egg a couple of days ago," Delaney chuckled a little under her breath, "It was a bit of a surprise. Donatello told us that it was part of the turtle DNA that we have. We may all have eggs at one point or another. Or live births. We don't know until it happens."

"I see," Grayden went up to Leonardo and Amity and shook Leonardo's hand, "Congratulations."

"Thank you," the proud father beamed and Amity rolled her eyes as his smile.

"Are you incubating it?"

"No, just following my instincts in keeping it a certain temperature with my body or blankets," Amity smiled and rotated the egg in her arms, "It's a mother thing, I guess."

"Told you that you would be a good mom," Delaney poked her in the side.

"It's becoming a zoo down here," Raphael groaned and looked at the two humans right by his soon to be niece or nephew.

"You said it," Callista lazily leaned on him.

"It's okay, I don't mind more faces in here," Eros smiled as she was hugged by Donatello from behind. Donatello just hummed an affirmative into her hair.

"Where's Coral?" Carson asked and looked at Delaney and Mikey.

"She's around her playing with Tracie," Delaney smiled. No sooner as she said something Klunk ran out from around a corner with a puppy on his tail and a fox hybrid after her.

Tracie grabbed up Coral and walked toward the group, "We heard the page."

"I see that," Delaney giggled and grabbed Coral from Tracie and twirled her in a circle.

Coral laughed and hugged Delaney tight.

"So what's the news from top side?" Donatello asked intrigued that they professor made his way down.

"I made a promise to Sandra before she died," Professor Grayden had a far off look in his eyes and then turned back to the group, "I promised her that I would find a way to reverse the mutagen."

"And?" Tracie asked with hope shining in her eyes.

"And I found one," he pulled out a purple colored small vile, "It's simple and quick acting. Some of the other hybrids and mutants have already taken it. They are half way human again."

"This is wonderful!" Tracie smiled and clapped her hands together again, "I can be a human again!"

"If that is what you would like, yes," Grayden nodded, "Your friend Rhonda has already taken it and her arms are almost normal despite a few extra stray feathers."

She smiled and looked at the turtles and the girls thinking that she would see more smiles, but the girls just looked confused, "Girls? Aren't you excited?"

"Delaney?" Michelangelo looked at her. Her eyes were focused on Coral who was wagging her tail at Tracie's happiness, but didn't fully understand why she was so happy. Delaney put her head to Coral's which made the puppy lick her face in a kiss.

"I don't want it," Delaney said suddenly and looked at the professor, "Thank you for all that you have done and the difference that you will make for the mutants and hybrids that will take it… but I don't want it."

"Delaney, you can be normal again," Michelangelo said and put a hand on her shell, "Are you sure?"

"Who needs to be normal?" she smiled at him, "It's not important. What's important is that I made a difference in people's lives as a detective and I can still. I mean the chief still has my position for me no matter what and somebody has got to take care of Caron's ass to make sure he doesn't get shot-"

"Hey!"

"- And family is important. I have you. We're going to get married. And I have the best little girl in my arms right now," she rubbed the edge of her beak with Coral's nose, "And I have my family that will be by my side and they have me on theirs no matter what they decide. What I look like doesn't make who I am. I am who I am regardless."

"And I love you all the more for it," he hugged both her and Coral in his arms and kissed her gently. He looked back at Grayden, "I guess she's not taking it."

"Neither am I," Amity said from beside Leonardo with the egg in her arms, "My little one needs a mother who could understand them. Inside and out. And I may be sacrificing some things, but it is worth it. My family is worth it."

Leonardo hugged her close and kissed her head, "So be it."

"Ah, who needs pink skin anyway?" Callista rolled her eyes and leaned further back against Raphael, "I looked better in green and red anyway. I can always design in the sewers. Have before. Besides, now I can have a tough hide on the outside just like what I have inside."

Raphael only chuckled behind her.

"Eros?" Delaney turned to her friend. For the longest time her looks meant a lot to her. She could have them back. Eros thought as she looked at her hands and then looked back at Donatello.

"It's your choice," he told her, "I will love you regardless."

"I…" she looked back at her hands and then at her family, "I refuse to be labeled by what I look like anymore. I am staying the way I am."

"Good for you," Delaney smiled.

"There are others who have refused," Grayden said softly, "There will be hard paths ahead for you and them. But I think you all have a very good chance."

"I think so too," Delaney nodded.

Delaney shrugged a little as a wet nose kept sniffing right by her face. Delaney opened one eye to see Coral's face right in front of hers as she laid precariously on the ledge of Michelangelo's loft bed.

"Morning!" she smiled big for her adopted mother.

"Morning, baby girl," she smiled and turned only to be stilled by Michelangelo's hand around her side. She smiled and ran her hand over his to feel the large gold ring that was over his finger and then looked over to see her other hand that also had a ring as well. It did happen that Carson's dad was a reverend turned out to be a good thing. Michelangelo groaned against her in protest of waking up.

"Morning, husband," she patted him on his leg and looked over the side of the bed where Coral was carefully climbing down, "Remind me to remind you to get a lower bed."

"Hm," he moaned into the pillow before he yawned and sat up with her.

"Come on!" Coral yelled from the side of the bed, "They're waiting!"

"Who's waiting, honey?" Michelangelo asked as he helped Delaney down from the bed.

"Uncle Leo and Am! The baby's waiting too!"

Once Delaney got to the ground she and Michelangelo looked at each other in the eyes and laughed. They ran toward the stairs with Michelangelo grabbing Coral on the way. They looked over the railing where the rest of the family was down in the living room with Amity holding the moving egg in her hands.

"About time," Amity laughed up at Delaney.

"Sorry, had to wake up," she smiled brightly.

The egg rumbled in her hands and Coral sat on Michelangelo's lap as she watched the egg's shell crack a little and move in her Aunt's arms.

"Where's Carson?" Delaney asked with a swipe at her brow.

"Out pick up Tracie from her new job at the mutant shelter, they will be down as soon as they can," Eros answered and shut her shell cell from a call, "They say to say hi to the new bundle if they don't make it down in time."

Suddenly the shell cracked along the top and a piece fell to the floor when a brown eye peeked up at its parents. Delaney and Eros squealed in delight as Amity and Leonardo both helped their baby out from its shell. The top of its head had a dark brown tint to it where very short, dark baby hairs were sprouting. The shell seemed a little soft and fitted to curve of the baby's back, but it was too soon to tell if that was a trait that it would have, or if the shell would fill out later. It looked at all the people around it and let out a gurgle like a small cry when it set its eyes on Amity and was quiet.

"Aw, she knows you're her mama," Eros cooed.

"A boy," Amity corrected and pointed it out. She cuddled the baby who cooed back at her and then handed him over to his father, "Here Leo. Say hello to your son."

"Hey there Jacob," he said quietly as little hands reached up to touch his face. He looked at everyone else and laughed a little in surprise, "I'm a father."

"I looks like it," Delaney smiled.

"Baby…" Coral leaned toward the bundle in Leonardo's arms. She sniffed at the head of the baby and then looked at the young face. She giggled and sat back against Michelangelo before looking up at him, "Daddy?"

"Yup?" Michelangelo smiled proudly at the name that Coral had bestowed on him once he and Delaney got back from the facility the last time over six months prior.

"Is our baby going to look like that?" she pointed at who she would later consider her young cousin. Michelangelo's cheeks reddened and looked to Delaney for help.

"Our baby will be a lot like your cousin," Delaney nodded and patted her stomach where a small lump was starting to show. She was a few months into the pregnancy now and it looked like she wasn't going to lay an egg like Amity had. She thought that the concentration of mutagen in Mikey's blood was a little less than what it was in Leonardo's.

"Our baby is gonna be cute," Coral giggled and crawled into Delaney's lap to talk to the lump in Delaney's belly. Delaney laughed with her and hugged her close.

"So what next?" Raphael asked from his side of the circle as he looked at the baby from his view point. Callista leaned over to look over the bundle with Eros next to her.

"Whatever may come," Leonardo shrugged, "I look forward to it."

"At least we know, we aren't walking alone anymore," Michelangelo hugged his girls to him and the family began to plan for the new faces to come.

A/N: So this is the last to-do. It has been quite a journey, that took me too long to finish. Thank you again to all those who asked me to continue and finish this. I hope I did well for you and that the ending fit. Happy reading, as always.