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TMNT - Into the Light (Part 2) - Welcome to Heaven

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Donnie and Raph watched in distress as Leo’s chest suddenly stopped rising and falling. “No.” Donnie whispered running over to Leo. He started CPR immediately. “No. No. Leo, you can’t die.” Donnie shouted tears streaming down his face, pressing against Leo’s chest with all the force he could muster up, “I’m not gonna let you die.”

Raph sighed and stood off the chair he was sitting in. He crept up to Donnie and put his hands on either side of his carapace. Upon being touched, Donnie stopped immediately and turned around. He looked at Raph with watery eyes and a quivering frown. Raph frowned and looked him in the eyes, crying himself, “It’s over Donnie.” Donatello broke down, falling to his knees and holding his head in his hands.

“It can’t be over. He can’t be gone. He’s gonna come back.” Donnie spoke between deep sobs.

Raph felt sorry for his brother. He semi-understood the relationship they shared and he knew he could never replace Leo in their lives. But he would try his best. He wrapped his arms tightly around Donnie and pushed him close. “I’m sorry Donnie.”

Donnie nested his head in the crook of Raph’s neck, “He was my best friend. He was my role-model. He was my big brother.” He cried even more, “He can’t be gone.”

Splinter heard the commotion from his room. It shocked him out of his meditation and he rushed into Leo’s room. “My sons. What is this commotion?” He asked upon entering. Only then did he realize that the green was slowly becoming a gray in Leonardo’s face. His fatherly instinct told him to remove Raph and Donnie from the scene. He had experienced watching a loved one die and was already too late with his sons. He wished he could turn back time and remove them before they watched Leo die. He thought they had more time. He thought Leo had more time. But time can be a bitch.

He pushed Donnie and Raph into the hallway and closed the door. Splinter took the lonesome to mourn over his son’s body. He thought that Leo would be strong enough to survive. He would have the will to survive. But he was wrong. He pulled the covers over his son’s body, unwilling to dispose of the carcass so soon. “We will miss you, Leonardo.” A tear dropped from the tip of his nose onto the blanket over Leo’s face. He knelt beside the bed and sobbed into his arms.

Donnie and Raph stood in the hallway sobbing. Raph continued to try to calm Donnie down as he cried into his shell. Raph moved to take Donnie into the living room. He sat him on the sofa and continued to hold him close. “Everything will be alright. I promise.” Raph pressed his forehead to Donnie’s and looked him in the eyes, forcing the most sincere smile he could afford.

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Leo took a deep breath and looked into the door. “Goodbye Faith.” He whispered before walking through the large doorway. The light in the room blinded Leonardo. As soon as the light passed, he saw an endless pink cloud filled with many homes. Everything seemed so peaceful. So perfect. It was the way he expected the afterlife to be.

But he knew he couldn’t stay. He had to return to earth; to his family; to his life. He was approached by the owner of the deep voice calling his name from the white room.

“Welcome to Heaven, Leonardo. Let me show you around.” He put his muscular hand around Leo.

“Thank you, sir. But I’m afraid I can’t stay.” He half smiled.

The man laughed, “And where else would you go? Don’t you understand where you are?”

“I understand, but I’m hoping there is some way I can go back. You see, my brothers need me. My family needs me.” He explained.

The man cocked a brow in interest, “And you think you can just return to life after you have already died.”

“I’ve heard it happen before.” Leo retorted matter-of-factly, “I’ve seen documentaries on people who were dead, then came back to life.”

“Those are all fake, Leonardo. Those thing just don’t happen.” He explained.

“Please. I belong on Earth. This has to be some kind of mistake. I have the will to survive. I want to live. I need to be with my family. They are probably devastated without me. You must have lost someone before you ended up here. You have to understand how they must feel.” Leo argued.

“Leonardo, do you know who I am?” He opened his hand offering it to him.

“Um, no. It hasn’t really crossed my mind” He shrugged.

The man chuckled, “Leonardo. I am God Almighty.”


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As Raph consoled Donnie on the couch, Mikey walked through the turnstile. He noticed the tears running down his brother’s cheeks and the depression engraved on their face. He immediately understood their purpose. “No.” he shook his head running to Leo’s room. Raph tried to stop him by chasing after him, but Donnie continued to cling onto him.

Mikey burst into the room to see his father leaning over the bed. Splinter turned around to see his orange clad son standing behind him, tears building up in his eyes. “Michelangelo, you should not be in here.” Splinter stood up and blocked his son’s view of the body, still with watery eyes himself.

“Is that Leo? Is he…” A tear streamed down his face. He moved around Splinter and pulled back the covers. Horrified, he collapsed to his knees and bawled his eyes out. “No.” He shouted to the heavens slamming his fists on the bed. “Why? Why?” He repeated over and over again.

“I am sorry, my son.” Splinter deeply sighed stifling his sob, “It is as it must be.” He put his hands on Mikey’s shoulders, tears falling silently down his face.

“I never got to say goodbye.” He sobbed, “I never got to say goodbye.”  Splinter pulled his son into a comforting embrace.

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Leo continued to argue that he belonged on Earth for what felt like days, “Well, your holiness, please allow me to return to my life. I swear I will do anything you ask of me.” He begged, “My brothers just really need me.”

“Come with me, let me show you something.” God walked Leo into his kingdom. He handed Leo a mirror. “Look into this. It will show you whatever you want to see on Earth.”

Leo looked into the mirror and he saw inside the lair. He saw Donnie and Raph comforting each other on the couch and his heart sank. The mirror then changed perspectives into his bedroom where Mikey cried into his father’s chest next to his dead body. “Please, please let me go back. Why did you show me this? Why would I want to see them like that?” If spirits could cry, he insisted that he would be doing so.

“Leonardo. Your family must learn to live without you. It is a natural part of life.”

“Please. I beg of you. Ask me to do anything, and I’ll do it. I just want to make my family happy again.”

God sighed, followed by a genuine smile. Leonardo’s words had touched his heart in a way that no one had ever done before, “Because you have shown that you are unselfish and virtuous, I will send you back.” he led Leo deeper into his kingdom. “It is incredibly rare that I send people back after they have died. You must consider yourself very lucky.”  

“I do. And I’m entirely grateful to you. I promise I will be more virtuous. Thank you. Thank you so much.” He wanted to hug him, but he was unsure if that is accepted or not. “I humbly thank you.”

“You are welcome. I will not allow you to cheat death again though. So please be more careful.” They approached a large room, “This is as far as I can go. Goodbye, Leo. You have to pass through this door and you will return to your body. To your life. To your family.” God smiled, “I have enjoyed our time together.”

“Until later, I suppose. Thanks again.” Leo smiled.

“Many years later, I hope. Enjoy life. And don’t tell anyone about this. I’ll be keeping a close watch on you.” God turned around to walk away.

Leo smiled as he started to turn the doorknob to return to his life, “Oh, wait. I almost forgot. May I ask something of you?” He asked quickly releasing the doorknob from his grasp.


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Mikey was still being consoled by Splinter. He continued to repeat his mistake, to the point where he sounded like a broken record. “I left without saying goodbye.” Splinter felt Mikey’s pain as he wept for the loss of his son as well. Splinter tried to get Mikey to leave the room in hopes it would alleviate some of the initial shock. As he did so, Mikey opened his eyes to see the color was returning to Leo’s skin.

He pushed Splinter out of his way as he went to further investigate. Leo’s chest began to rise and fall slowly as he regained his organ function. Mikey carefully pressed his hand to the middle of Leo’s chest. “He has a heartbeat, sensei. He’s alive.” Mikey rejoiced. He pulled the covers off entirely and checked the rest of his body. “He’s alive.”

“How can that be?” Splinter asked dumbfounded. In all his years of healing training, he had never heard of someone coming back from the dead.

“It doesn’t matter how. The important part is that he is alive.” Mikey held onto his brother’s hand and watched as his eyes fluttered a little. “He’s waking up. He’s gonna be okay.”

Splinter stood there watching this in disbelief. People do not rise from the dead. He moved closer to further comprehend the situation. He heard a soft moan of pain purse Leo’s lips. “I do not know how, but you are right. He is alive.” Splinter smiled joyously, tears of happiness dropped down his soft cheeks.

Donnie and Raph had heard the excitement from the living room and came to check it out. They were afraid to enter, afraid that Mikey was just delusional. They were wrong, however. Mikey was right. Leo was coming back from the dead.

Leo’s eyes shot open and he yelled in pain. The crack in his shell caused him much discomfort and he felt lightheaded due to the bloodloss. “Donatello, get something to ease Leonardo’s pain immediately.” Splinter commanded.

Donnie ran out of the room and retrieved his emergency supply of morphine. He injected a fair amount into Leo’s arm to prevent Leo’s body from registering pain. “This should kick in pretty soon.” He smiled at his brother who minutes ago he wept over.

Leo moaned in discomfort, “thanks” he managed to force himself to say.

“It’s no problem at all.” Donnie smiled, more than thrilled to see his brother alive again.

Splinter took this opportunity to further examine the wounds covering Leonardo’s body, “These injuries will require months of healing. Now that you are alive, you can allow for the healing to begin.”

“Hai sensei.” Leo smiled seeing the smiles on everyone’s face. He knew he couldn’t tell any of them about what he did, but he could recall the entire experience himself and couldn’t help but smile.

“Come, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo, we must leave Leonardo to rest now.” Splinter escorted the boys out of the room.  

“See ya later Leo.” Mikey smiled before closing the door behind him.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6 months later ~~~~~~~~~~~~

Leo’s wounds had healed nicely in the past months. He had learned to live life to the fullest, because you never know when it’s going to end. He loved patrol even more than he did before, but remembered to be very careful when standing near an edge. He continued to fight the Kraang, maybe even with more momentum than he had previously, and was never going to give up crime fighting.

As he hopped across the rooftops one cold New York City night, he peeked into a window to see a familiar face. He stopped immediately, confusing his brothers.

“What’s the matter, Leo?” Mikey asked wondering why he suddenly stopped.

“You guys go on ahead. I’ll catch up.” Leo jumped across the street to the apartment complex.

“Suit yourself,” Raph shrugged and jumped across the remaining rooftops. Mikey and Donnie followed behind him.

Leo sat on the fire escape looking into the window trying not to be seen. He recognized the girl with auburn hair he met so many months ago. “Faith,” he murmured.

He sat there watching her until her company left the room. When he left, Leo knocked on the window to get her attention. “God, I hope she remembers me…” he muttered under his breath as she turned and looked towards the window.

She ran over to the window and pushed it open, “Leonardo?” She asked, hopping out onto the fire escape.

“Yeah, it’s me. The one and only.” He smiled…badly.

She laughed and wrapped her arms around him, “You shouldn’t be here. You died. I saw it. What happened?” She asked all in one big breath.

“I can’t tell you. I promised. What about you? You are finally out of that white room.” He gave her a once over.

“Yeah, it turns out I was in a coma. I had a heart attack on my wedding day or something, can you believe it? That explains all the wedding attire.” She joked. “Oh, it’s so good to see you. I had no idea you were alive.”

“Neither did I. We should hang out more sometime.” He grabbed her hand in his own.

“Yes, we should. You can visit whenever you’d like.” She shrieked in excitement.

“Babe, who are you talking to?” The male figure returned from the other room.

“Oh, no one. I’m on the phone.” She lied, “That’s my husband. Turns out he waited seven years to marry me.” She smiled.

“Awesome.” Leo turned around to see his brothers approaching, “I’m gonna have to go now. My brothers are coming. I’ll see you around?” He asked.

“Most definitely. Maybe sometime you can introduce me to your brothers. It’s Donatello, Raphael, and Angelo, right?”

“Michelangelo.” He corrected her.
“Right, Michelangelo. See you around.” She climbed back into her apartment and closed the window, waving goodbye as her husband wrapped his arms around her.

His brother hopped next to on the fire escape. “So, who is she?” Raph asked.

“A friend,” He smiled, “A really good friend.”
100 Theme Challenge - Theme 005 - Heaven.

Note: I'm not trying to push Catholicism here. I personally don't believe in Heaven or afterlife or anything really, and I'm not trying to convince you guys to believe anything either. It's just the story I came up with for this theme. But Heaven is the Catholic afterlife, so I guess the theme was a little biased to begin with.

I hope you guys don't hate me. But I think the overall consensus was was that I write death fics well, so I will continue to write them. I hope that's not a problem. :) Let me know what you guys think. More death fics? No more death fics? Did I write this well?

Also, I was considering killing off Faith and never using her again, but a lot of people want me to continue using her. I ended this fic with the possibility of making another story building off of this as a Leo and Faith friendship thing. Yay? Nay? Your choices people.

Can't wait to write more for you lovely people.

Disclaimer: I don't own TMNT from any world. I am not cool enough. D:


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YAYYYYY!!!! LEO MY BABY YOU ALIVE!!!I think I've fainted. :happybounce: :happybounce: :happybounce: :happybounce: