The Demon Inside part 16 Finale

The Demon Inside part 16 Finale


Leo couldn’t remember ever feeling as content as he did in this very moment hovering over Mikey at the pond’s edge. Mikey made him feel whole in a way that sharing a body with the demon never had. As long as he lived, Leo never wanted this feeling to end.

Eventually their bodies began to cool down from the raging inferno that they had felt while they were making love together and they felt it was time to leave. As Leo stood up and reached out a hand to help Mikey to his feet, he couldn’t help but glance behind him to look at the water.

Just below the surface a dark shadow surged and rolled angrily. Wasting no more time on the shadow, Leo took Mikey’s hand in his as they began to walk home. The demon had taken the past fourteen years from him and he wasn’t about to give it another minute.

As they walked hand in hand Leo couldn’t help but compare how he felt now to how he had when he had been possessed. When the demon had been a part of him, Leo had always felt cold. Now all he could sense was Mikey, not just next to him but inside him as well.

Mikey’s spirit was nothing like that of the demon’s. The younger turtle was warm and welcoming and felt like he had always been a part of Leonardo. The part that the forest green turtle had always been missing and now had been found. Now that Le had found his love and the missing part of himself, he was never going to let Mikey go.

The walk back home reminded Leo of the night that he had first agreed to allow the demon inside of him but there were stark differences between now and then and that was a huge comfort to Leo. This time he was moving at a walk instead of a run and the sun shining down on him and the feeling of absolute panic was missing.

Beyond just the obvious differences, Leo felt completely different. The whole reasons that he had ended up walking in the forest that night was because of his desire to leave home and start his own life on his own. Now the only place in the world that he could picture himself being was with his brothers and lover in the house that he had grown up in.

Leo couldn’t wait to get to the farmhouse and great his brothers freely for the first time since this whole fiasco had started. He knew that he had been distant and frightening to Raph and Don ever since he had returned to them but he hoped that now that he was free he’d be able to start healing their relationship so that they could be a family once more.

The only thing that Leo wished for that he couldn’t have would be to have his father back just so that he could show him that everything had been fixed and that he had his son back now. All Leo could hope for was that his father somehow knew this even in the afterlife.

The future looked a whole lot brighter to Leo now. After all, he no longer had a demon inside of him. Now he had an angel.

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