Not that I don't appreciate the constant input on every chapter and what I may or may not have spelt or said wrong. I believe this to be just fun and I don't exactly take it too seriously. I am fully aware if I miss spell a thing or two wrong and just over look it because frankly I don't give a damn and if you understand what I am trying to say in the chapter then that's good enough for me. I'm not publishing this; I'm not making money off of it so I am not going to be meticulous about every little thing because it is just for fun.

So even though I know you are all trying to be nice, and believe me I appreciate it, really I do but these should never be taken that seriously and if you want to leave me a comment about how great you think this story is, please feel free. However, please try and refrain from giving me spelling advice, or grammar corrections because it's not that big of a deal. And thank you to those who didn't give a shit either way! You're awesome! And just to warn you there are probably a handful in here because i wrote it at five in the morning and my brain was working a bit sluggish. So if I didn't catch any I apologize.

Anyways, with that being said. This is the last chapter.

The weather was horrible tonight. Raining with that harsh wind, making her shut all of her windows of her old one bedroom apartment. She wrapped a small fleece blanket around her shoulders while she sat at her desk, as the tea on her small stove started to bowl. The whistle broke her out of her daze, looking at a long list of pros and cons for the millionth time that night, mocking her. She sighed pushing herself from the chair that she sat in with her legs bent against her chest and walked into her kitchen.

Taking the kettle off the heat she leaned against her small counter, looking out towards her fire escape. The rain still fell harsh on her windowpane making a rhythmic noise like a unsteady heart beat as she felt a single tear drop down her cheek as she sniffed wiping it away.

"It's better this way." She sighed to herself turning back towards her cabinets and reached for a mug. She took out a tea bag from her tin, smelling it and smiling for a moment thinking of his scent. She sighed once more steeping the tea as she furrowed her brow hearing a slight louder rap against her window.

She turned over her shoulder squinting slightly to see through the rain and being welcomed by nothing but the darkness of the city, lights from sighs making bright colors glisten against the glass. She shrugged it off turning back towards her tea as she heard it again, louder this time. She put her tea down and walked slowly over to her fire escape window.

Opening the window the harsh wind and cold rain droplets forcing themselves over her exposed skin not being shielded by the blanket around her shoulders, under the blanket being nothing but a black tank top. Looking out towards the large city she felt a slight ping in her chest from the beautiful lights and roof tops around her. She took in a slow breath in and out through her nose and looked around her small platform of her fire escape seeing no one there. She furrowed her brow and with a "hm" she went to close it.

He landed on her fire escape, rain drops falling from his bandana and into his eyes as he wiped them away with his forearm. He waited a moment before knocking on her window and looked at her in her small kitchen. She leaned against the counter with something wrapped around her shoulders and wearing her old ratty jeans with the holes in them he hated. She was a beautiful girl but always wanted to wear the most ghastly of clothing and he couldn't wrap his head around why. Something about it being her style. He smirked a little shaking away the memory and taking a step closer to the window. He lifted his hand, touching the cold glass and stopping as he noticed her wipe away something from her cheek. Furrowing his brow he watched again for a moment and seeing her lips seem like they were moving as he squinted through the streaks of rain covered glass.

She turned back towards her cabinets as he sighed and tapped his knuckle slightly against the glass, almost not even loud enough for him to hear it. The ring of doubt came back through his mind as his skin touched the cool glass. He closed his eyes swallowing hard before opening them slowly and looking back through her apartment at her.

He noticed her turn none the less from the small knock and crinkled her brow in question. He felt a smile flow slowly over his face as he knocked a little louder this time. She walked slowly and cautiously over towards the window as he took a step back, climbing up the stairs to her fire escape a little.

The window opened as she popped her head out, looking towards the beautiful city lights as he smiled watching her. He should have known better, after all these years. He should have seen this before it happened, before either of them knew. He sighed softly as she made a soft noise herself. He picked his head up, remembering his place and stepped down the stairs to the window.

She wrinkled her brow deeper when she tried pushing down on the window harder to close it, and it not moving. She tired shaking it at little until she noticed green fingers curled around the bottom of the white chipped wood. She stopped loosening her facial expression and trying to keep it from anything but surprise as she lifted her eyes to his brown ones with always the slightly bit of gold speckled throughout them she had been thinking about for hours now.

That blue mask that circled those intense eyes of brown, now stuck to his glistening green skin in the heavy moonlight over heard, even through the rain clouds. She felt her heart catch in her throat a little as she thought over and over again, reading that list up and down all night. Now he was here, on this night she thought earlier to be horrible after coming to the decision to let him go. She wanted to cry, she wanted to hold him, she wanted to feel his lips on hers but she couldn't. She had already made her decision and it was for the better.

"Leo." She said softly as he smirked a little.

"May I come in?"

"Yeah, of course, you must be freezing?" She asked taking the blanket from her shoulders and offering it to him as he stepped through the window. He smiled and denied it. "I have some tea, would you like some?" She asked looking over her shoulder to the steeping tea on her kitchen counter as he shook his head once more.

"No, I didn't come here for tea." He said keeping eye contact with her. She furrowed her brow for a moment looking into his eyes.

"Oh…" She said unsure of what else to say. "Did you and Raph have a fight?" She asked trying to figure out the reasoning for him being there.

"Why didn't you tell me?" He asked crossing his arms. Her furrowed brow only deepened as she tried to figure out what he was talking about. She dropped her eyes from his for a moment, letting them dance along her old rug as she brought them back to his.

"Didn't tell you what?" She asked thinking maybe this had to do with one of his brothers, a secret she might have known and he finally pried out of them.

"How long?" He asked ignoring her question completely and taking a step closer to her. She felt the coolness of his rain coated skin wash against hers as goose bumps rolled over it.

"I-I don't…" She felt her heart start to pound, catching in her throat and making it hard to swallow. This couldn't be what she thought it was. This has to be a misunderstanding. He is most likely upset about something with one of his brothers and one of their secrets. She searched for brain for any kind of information that would get him this upset and came up with nothing.

He took another step closer to her as she met his eyes and wanted to take a step back from them. She tired not to tremble, she tired not to stammer but his eyes worn into hers with an unknown intensity she'd never seen them have. Different than before, different than the eyes she'd always known him to have. They were covered in something she couldn't place, something he felt nervous about but would never let off that he was.

His jaw clenched slightly as his hands gripped into fists at his sides making his muscles flex. She looked down at the floor again, trying to keep her mind on the matter at hand, what he might have been talking about, what he might be feeling. She shook away the want for him, deep down in her stomach where she had always stored it and brought strong and steady eyes back to his.

"How long have you loved me?" He asked point blank as her mouth fell open. She furrowed her brow slowly dropping her eyes to the floor again as she tired to figure out who might have told him.

"Who…"

"Does that matter? I know and I want to know how long." He said in a demand as she narrowed her eyes now, snapping her head up to his.

"What does that matter? You're all of the sudden in love with me because I love you? It doesn't work that way Leo! I've seen it for years and had to live with it for years and now all of a sudden because one of your brother's was more aware of it than you were you love me back?" She said raising her voice with irritation as he narrowed his eyes to the accusations.

"First of all, I never said anything about me loving you back. Second, for years Megan? Years you've been in love with me and didn't have the thought to tell me, or talk to me about it? You go to Donnie with it instead? I thought you could have trusted me better."

"It has nothing to do with trust." She says back just as loud, ignoring her years of reasoning with herself, her pages and pages of lists that had made about that's what love comes down to, is trust.

"It has everything to do with trust! I built my life around people that I knew I could trust, that I let into my life because I knew they wouldn't expose my family for some ridiculous reason. We have people looking for our heads on a platter every damn day and I trust you with that! I trust you with the lives of my family! You don't think I would love you back for that?" He asks, raising his voice a few more octaves.

"For that Leo? Just that? After all these years and you're using that as an excuse for your love for me? That is friendship! Trust and bonds of friendship and nothing more, so there is no need to convince yourself that you might have loved me or do love me! You love me as a friend! Nothing more than just a trusting, loyal…"

He rushed at her, wrapping her arms around her shoulders tightly and pressing his lips hard against hers. She cut off her sentence with muffled noises as his lips smashed into her, bending back from the impact. She brought her hands that were tight to his sides from his arms around her up to grip into his biceps. Her finger nails clenching and digging into his green skin. He adjusted his arms around her back fisting the fabric of her thin tank top their bodies still held tight as he brought her body back upright against his, their lips never faltering from one another.

She clenched her eyes shut, trying to hold back tears as that chocked up feeling catch in her throat. Her hands released themselves from her grip around his biceps as they glided over his slick skin, up and around his shoulders.

He pulled away moving her bangs that framed her face back as the rest was pulled back in a messy bun, kissing her lips once more and dragging his beak slowly along her cheek bone leaving soft featherlike kisses across it. She sighed closing her eyes and opening them quickly to make sure this wasn't a dream.

"Two years." She spoke in almost a whisper as he picked his head up and looked at her, her eyes glossed over with tears. "I've loved you for two years." She finished just as soft as an embarrassed smile slowly covering her face, him giving one back and leaning his forehead down against hers.

"Eight." He said softly before kissing her lips again.

"Eight?" She asked furrowing her brow and pulling back slightly. He nodded his head trying to keep her near him as she kept back moving her hand down his shoulders and placing one palm down on his chest plate. Her fingers curved around the top as she pushed him back at arms length. "You were screaming at me for not telling you? Leonardo, you have been in love with me for that long and…"

"I had reasons." He said in his defense as she let out a breath in disagreement.

"Reasons, for what?" She scoffed crossing her arms. He narrowed his eyes slightly crossing his own.

"I had protection and duty as leader for my brothers, for my family not to get wrapped up in something that might not have been true."

"So you went on believing this for eight years and never thought to tell me?"

"It was harder than you might realize…"

"Oh please, enlighten my Leo. I would love to hear how hard it was for you to tell me the truth since you have so much trust in me. I died a little inside every time I looked at you and kept this from you. I wanted you to know, I wanted to tell you, my best friend, but I didn't know how to come about it. I could have just walked up to you one day and said 'oh by the way I'm in love with you. Alright, have a good one!' It doesn't work like that!"

"It wasn't any easier for me." He sighed as she did as well, taking a step closer to him.

"So, we both love each other?" She asked looking up to him as he nodded his head slowly letting his eyes dance across hers. She smiled a little stepping closer as her body brushed against his crossed arms. He let them fall, his hands slowly gliding themselves over the thin fabric of her tank top and around her waist, pulling her body tighter to his. He sighed, leaning his head down on her shoulder and taking in a breath of her scent. "Are you sure you want this Leo?" she asked softly as he picked his head up to meet her graze nodding his head slowly.

"I've always wanted it." He said leaning in and letting his lips brush softly against hers. She closed her eyes, letting his beak grace against her soft skin as she held her breath. She felt his lips touch hers and she touched his back just as soft, waiting for him to come closer. She moved herself into him, pressing her lips tightly to his as her mouth opened having him follow.

"That is something I really should be asking you." He said pulling away from her lips as her eyes were still closed from the lingering feeling. She opened her eyes slowly on his as the tops of his fingers slowly brushed her cheeks again, tucking her brunette bangs behind her ears.

"What? If I want this?" She asked motioning towards their bodies still tight against each other. He nodded his head, letting his eyes wonder ever curve of her face and soft, sensitive skin on her neck.

She closed her eyes again, letting out a soft breath as his strong fingers danced along the curve of her neck and down to the tops of her shoulders as the blanket fell to the floor behind her from his body connected with hers moments ago. She bit her lip trying to figure out how he knew just where to touch her as she met his eyes again. He smiled as her chest rose and fell with harsh breaths.

"I can't really think of anything I want more." She said in a husky tone as he kept his eyes on hers for another moment longer.

He watched the pleasure grow behind them with every light brush of his skin against hers. He didn't know why, he'd never seen her face up this close before in this way. He couldn't help but want to touch her. He had a need for it now and with every soft noise that left those perfect lips he wanted to give her more.

"It doesn't bother you that I'm…"

"It never has." She said still keeping the husk to her voice as he took in a slow, deep breath himself, those fingers that lazily dragged across her back and down her sides slowly. She wanted to whimper to his touch but tired to concentrate on the conversation as her mind wondered into places she didn't want to venture with him yet. His fingers, his hands were so skilled in so many things.

She closed her eyes once more leaning her body forward into his as their cheeks brushed against each other. She placed her forehead on his shoulder, taking in his scent as a smile went across her face. She pouted her lips into a kiss against his shoulder muscle as she heard a breath hitch slightly in his lungs. She smiled wider leaving another as he put his hands to her shoulders lifting her back to look at him.

"This is really going to happen then?" He asked as she smiled.

"If you want it too?" She shrugged slightly.

"All I want is you."

"You can have me Leo." She said as he sighed taking a step back from her.

"This isn't going to be the same thing as dating a human." He said walking away from her a few steps more, and turning back towards her in a pace. She nodded her head watching him as he went back and forth.

"I'm aware." She said simply as he ignored it.

"We can't go out as much, on dates and things of that nature. We are most likely going to be spending all our time together in the lair or in your apartment…" He said, his thoughts drifting a bit as he started pacing the floor again.

"That is normally what I do with my spare time anyways. I don't see how now would be any…"

"We can't be a normal couple." He said cutting her off with his rant. "I am going to still be patrolling and you, if we're seen together, can be a very big target for people that are out there looking for me and my family. Are you willing to risk all that for me?" He asked stopping in his pace and turning towards her. She smiled a little and walked towards him taking his large hands in hers.

"Leo, you see this scar?" She asked tilting her neck towards him as he looked it over and nodded. "That is from the time I got captured. Shredder got me with his forearm as he sung my body back against a wall. It's a constant reminder of how real this situation is with you, including your brothers and I am still here. I'm not going anywhere, especially now. I know what you do every night and I know that you put yourself in danger every night, all of you do. I hope to the Gods that you return safely and with minimal damage. You're Ninja. You and your brothers protect this city and not only is it the most honorable thing I have ever dreamed to hear of but," She smirked a wicked kind of smile as she ran her finger tips slowly down his arms from his shoulders as she watched them "It's also the sexiest." She said raising her eyes back to his as his expression made her giggle. "You're a hero Leo. You and your brothers all are. At least you are to me." She said her smile remaining as one came over his face now.

"Hero huh?" He asked wrapping his arms around her waist as she nodded her head, biting her bottom lip. "You're willing to put up with all of this?"

"And then some." She chuckled. He put his head down with a small one himself. "It's going to be hard and we're going to have fights and falling outs but that's the fun of it."

"Doesn't sound as though it would be fun?" He said arching an eye ridge as she chuckled once more.

"Well, the fighting itself will be horrible but when we make up that's usually the fun." She said with that smile again as he smirked. "I already know you. I know everything there is to know about you. Your moods, your signs when something is bothering you when to talk to you, when you want to be alone I know them all. Just as you know mine. This isn't like it's new to us or we're dating and trying each other out. I know the consequences of my actions in taking you in my heart, why do you think it took me so damn long to tell you?" She chuckled as he smiled giving another slight bit of laughter back. "Believe me Leo if I wasn't in, and I'm all in I would have been done with this years ago. I wouldn't have wasted my time. You are worth all the time in the world to me." She said softly as she brought her face against his.

She nuzzled her cheek against his skin for a moment before turning her lips to brush against his. He caught them in a kiss, soft at first but became more passionate with each breath they took in. She moved her arms back around his shoulders as his hands pressed flat on her lower back, pushing her body tighter against his. She made a small noise in her throat from the movement as she sighed softly from him opening his lips against hers deepening their passionate kiss.

He pulled back from her lips in a breath pressing their foreheads together as they stood panting for a moment.

"It's late." He said after a long swallow of breath. She nodded her head, their eyes closed as she pushed her lips back on his. He complied, kissing back as her body was pushed back against her living room wall. She gripped her fingers around his biceps as one of his hands held the back of her slender neck and then other keeping her body tight to his by her lower back. She made another noise softly as her back collided with the hard plaster. "I should go." He said again in between pants and opening his eyes on hers as she nodded her head again, grabbing his arms and pulling him back to her lips.

Lightning flashed in the sky, lighting up her dark apartment as that power flickered for a moment before going out. He moved his hands from her body, bracing them on either side of her head against her white walls. He moved his body closer by placing his forearms down on the wall, pinning her body in place between him and the wall.

He moved his lips from hers, kissing down her neck as she sighed, tilting her head to one side. She clenched her eyes shut from the shocks of pleasure being sent through her body from his lips nipping lightly at her sensitive skin. She moved her hands up from lightly running across the top of his plastron and chest to his arms leaning into one, kissing up his toned skin and bicep.

"It's getting worse out there." She said in between breaths as she opened her eyes noticing her pitch black apartment. He lifted his head as she felt his body move, looking around. "Maybe you should stay?"

"It's only rain." He shrugged as another loud crash of thunder and flash of lightning rumbled through the sky. She jumped to the sound as he wrapped his arms around her body with a chuckle. "I forgot you don't like storms." He said as she sighed from her ridiculous behavior. "I'll stay until it passes." He said leaning down and kissing her cheek. She smiled kissing his lips softly as they stopped for a moment, their eyes adjusting slowly to the darkness as another flash of lightning hit. Their eyes locked on one another's as she grabbed his arms again, pulling his body back hard on hers against the wall.

She felt his hands wonder along her body as she took them in her own, gliding him. He smiled against her lips for a moment as they opened and she let out a soft sigh to his rough palms touching the soft skin of her sides. She moved her hands from his, up his arms slowly feeling every flex in muscle and texture of skin, wrapping her arms up and around his shoulders. He reached down behind her thighs and pulled her body up against his as her back dragged against the wall. He pushed his body tight between hers as she giggled slightly from him learning to take direction very well.

He couldn't think of how, but soon enough he was laying between her legs as her clothing rubbed against his skin on her bed. His hands searching her body under his as she let him, moving and tilting to his touch. Her breathing was giving off intoxicating noises as they left her body, making him want to hear more.

His emotions were getting the better of him and he could feel all his blood rushing out of his head at once. He pushed himself off of her as she laid beneath him, panting in need of his body back against hers. She opened her eyes on his looking up at him in question.

"What's wrong?" She breathed as he looked out towards her bedroom window, the rain slowing down.

"The rain is slowing." He said turning his head back to her. She sighed looking out towards the window and nodded her head. "I should go."

"Wait." She said grabbing his arms and keeping them around her. He stopped and looked back down at her. "You're not going to stay?"

"It's better that I didn't." He sighed getting from the bed and adjusting his leather strap over his shoulder. She bit her bottom lip, nodding her head as she wrapped her arms around her body now feeling exposed to air touching it and not him. "It's not that I don't want to…" He said placing a hand to her cheek as she moved into his touch. "It's just that I think we should do this right." She smiled moving her face into his palm as she kissed it softly.

"You're right. I don't want to rush this."

"I'll come by later tomorrow." He said as she walked him to her fire escape window. She nodded her head as he opened the window and sat on the sill. She smiled leaning down and kissing his lips again. She tilted her head slightly as her mouth opened on his as he followed letting their tongues mingle together for just one last taste of one another before he left. She pulled back with a smile as he leaned forward kissing her once more. "Love you." He said softly as she smiled wider.

"Love you." She sighed happily as he stepped out onto the platform. He helped her close her window from the other side, giving her one last smile as she waved her fingers before he climbed to the roof top. She sighed once more, her smile taking up her face and she leaned her back against her windowpane. "Eight years…" She chuckled to herself. She shook her head, letting out another laugh as she pushed off the window and headed for bed.

Throwing out her pages and pages of lists on the way. She never felt doubt again of falling in love again.

FIN!