Ella and Lucifer had returned to their suite after being practically thrown out by Sam and Alex. In silence, he had poured a glass of tequila for her and the usual whiskey for himself. They stood on the balcony enjoying themselves and the silence with an arm wrapped around each other's waists.
"Ella dear, we haven't really talked about this in detail yet because of the speed at which everything is moving forward, but what do you really think about this trip of five hundred years that we are going to take?"
After taking a sip she replied:
"Lu, I don't know what to think. I'm still human remember, we do not live to become five hundred years old. Everything has moved so terribly ridiculously fast and continues to move forward at lightning speed. That son of yours and his Goddess are just a force of nature. Well yes, they are the God and Goddess, so they command the forces of nature, but you get what I mean. Nothing can stop those two. He offered to make me an Angel because he knows we belong together. Because of that offer, no, because of that unimaginable gift, we can be together forever. That which makes me most nervous but at the same time most excited, we will be part of the group that will do something gigantic. Even his mams and paps have said it, has never been done before. Building a completely new civilization in a completely new universe."
She had to giggle for a moment and continued speaking:
"Your Alex is brilliant and completely crazy at the same time. Tell him something is not possible, and he will raise an eyebrow and say…"
She imitated Alex's expression and his heavier voice when she said:
"Da fuck it is!"
Lucifer had to laugh at that and she spoke on:
"I've heard of thinking outside the box, but I can't describe this. This is so far outside the box that you can't even see the box anymore. I think Alex doesn't even know a box exists or just completely ignores it because it simply cannot apply to him at all. I enjoy his brain and the solutions he comes up with and at the same time, I am perplexed every time. Our universe is going to be completely destroyed! No problem, stay calm, and don't panic because I have an idea. Why don't we move the whole universe to another universe, Dad and Mom can shake one out of their sleeves without a problem or breaking a sweat. If I told this to anyone on Earth, they would immediately lock me up in a lunatic asylum with very heavy medication."
Lucifer laughed at this for a moment:
"There would have been a time where I would not have said no to those drugs."
But said a moment later in a sad tone:
"I never expected to sit with a double feeling now that this Heaven is going to be destroyed. On the one hand, I hate this place like the plague. The misery, pain, and sorrow I have experienced here at the hands of my father and mother makes me hate this place with a vengeance. That has caused me to spend thousands of years being someone I am not. Alexander has driven that old fool out, and you see this city flourishing more and more every day. And my feelings change with it, become purer, allow me to see the other stuff as well. Everyday day just a little more"
He pointed in the direction of the city:
"Speak to any Angel and you will hear the same thing over and over again. Yes, it is unfortunate that this city and universe are going to be destroyed but look on the bright side our crazy God and Goddess are giving us a brand-new Universe, Heaven and City. Everyone is working their asses off with smiles on their faces and they are finding it damn exciting. I bet there is not a single Angel in this Heaven who would not follow our God and Goddess no matter how bizarre their next little idea would be. From what I understand from Celine, those two are equally popular in Samantha's universe and are pretty much adored in their Dis."
He shook his head for a moment and took a sip. He sighed:
"Somehow I am also grieving that all this will be gone in ten years."
Ella laid her head on his chest and said:
"That's normal Lu. This was your home where you felt good until your parents started going crazy."
"I know love."
They stood there in silence for a few minutes until Lucifer said:
"I have been walking among people for thousands of years now and yet I never fell in love until I met you. When you gave me that first kiss it was like something exploded in my head. When I think that Godfry and his toy stole four years from us I get sad. In the past, I would have become enraged and gone to work on the souls of some very horrible people in Hell. Fair is fair I was angry with Alex for a very short time after the coup. He had known for some time that Decker was poison to my mind, my thinking, and my feelings. Now when I am confronted with what was at stake nothing can be blamed on him. In the beginning, it was knocking Father off the throne and saving what remained of the Angels and the innocent souls from Hell. What it has become is a bloody full-scale nightmare."
He looked deeply into Ella's eyes:
"I just know he particularly likes you Ella as does Sam. He must have hated having his hands tied for four years. That is why he has now offered you immortality. He wants to elevate you not just to an Angel but to an Archangel. The highest rank in the Angelic Choir. As a result, we become equals. Alex's dream for Angels, Demons, and Humans. Everyone is equal, everyone is treated the same way. The Hell project does not require that humans would live in the city with the transportation system he has devised. They could live quietly in the human fields and go from there to the medical zone and back. When I pointed that out to him, he asked me if I felt so superior to Humans or to Demons like Anna, Celine, Bearus, and Belios. That I didn't want Humans or Demons in the city. And if I did feel so superior, why had I shared the bed with his mother, an inferior mammal."
He shook his head again and drank the rest of his glass:
"That boy of mine can hit everyone over the head with words alone but it makes you think every time. I have never felt superior to Humans. Quite often the opposite. Humans are inventive, they are resourceful but above all capable of unbridled love. Until Alex appeared in Hell, I was terrible against all Demons. They along with certain souls were my outlet. He pretty much immediately claimed Anna, Belios, and Bearus and told me to leave Anthony alone. Unlike me, he never entered a Hell loop to give that soul some additional punishment. He never vented his anger towards the Demons except those of the absolutely lowest circles to prevent rebellions or wars between the Demons themselves. He never prescribed to me how to treat people or Demons. He didn't have to, he just showed me how to do it. He treated Belios and Bearus like brothers and Anna like a little sister. I am billions of years old, and that kid is still teaching me things. Now that he has his Goddess beside him, they will be absolutely unstoppable."
He took Ella firmly and kissed her softly on the mouth. She could sense he was thinking about something which is why she asked:
"What are you fretting about Love?"
"About the past and the future and about dinner this evening."
"What about dinner? It was very pleasant after all."
A smile appeared around his mouth:
"Alexander never does anything without a reason darling. Now that Samantha is here and won't leave his side there is no stopping him, he is already working on his next project, and we don't even see or know that we are part of it. I would not be surprised if in his brain he is already thinking three moves ahead. Did you pay attention to who was sitting where at the table?"
"Of course, everyone sat across from someone they seemingly got along with, some even very well."
"Hmmm, and where did we sit darling?"
"Across from Sam and Alex. What about that?"
"The kids address us as Grandpa Lu and Grandma El. So why weren't we sitting next to the kids like Salome and Robert?"
"I hadn't thought of it that way. Then what is his reason for putting us there?"
"Exactly what he said. I need to make you Mrs. Morningstar as soon as possible. If I had been sitting at the side of the table, he would have hardly been able to look into my eyes all evening. Something he could now and believe me when those green eyes of his bore into your eyes you notice."
He fell silent for a moment, kissing her:
"Stay here for a moment Ella, I'll be right back!"
He disappeared into their suite and in no time he was back. Lucifer got down on one knee in front of Ella, opened a box containing a beautiful antique ring, and said:
"My darling Angel, will you marry me please?"
Ella had a hand clasped in front of her mouth and could only nod as tears of joy ran down her cheeks. Finally, she found her voice again:
"Yes Lu, yes I absolutely want to marry you."
He took the ring from the box and slid it on her finger where it fit perfectly. He said:
"I have owned this ring for over a thousand years. When I bought it, it was with the intention of sliding it on the finger of the first one I was really in love with. I'm sure this ring has been waiting for you for over a thousand years."
That story about the ring she now wore was rewarded by Ella with a rather passionate kiss.
"Carry me to our bed Lu."
"How could I refuse anything to the most beautiful bride-to-be in the universe."
On the way to the bedroom, Ella said as she wrapped her arms around his neck:
"I want to get married in this universe Lu now that it will be home for a few more days."
"I'll speak to Alex tomorrow darling, your wish will come true."
After Sam and Alex had pretty much thrown everyone else out of the suite they had rushed to their bedroom. Alex had said a quick prayer in hopes that none of the children would have a nightmare that night. Sam had soundproofed the bedroom including the bathroom. They were barely shuffling toward the bathroom while making out when the clothes where already flying off. Finally, they were standing in front of the shower, and he held her at arm's length for a moment to admire her. She had indeed kept her word, under her silk dress she had a tiny lace set that left nothing to the imagination. Once in the shower, the wall indeed did not last long against their more than passionate lust. They had just completely destroyed the wall.
A long time later, they lay tired but content to catch their breath in each other's arms. Suddenly Samantha said dreamily:
"I don't care what they think but Michael and Celine are going to hand over that famous pin on our wedding day. If we just now could fuck that whole shower to smithereens, then we can definitely completely destroy our old bedroom."
This caused Alex to burst into a roar of laughter. After a few minutes of silence, he asked:
"What are you thinking about darling other than sex?"
"Love you do know that a dirty mind is a joy forever."
"If I didn't know that after six thousand years of dreaming about you Red."
She straightened up a little and said:
"I was thinking about the future. As of the day after tomorrow, we have a potential of thousands of new couples. That's not counting the tens of thousands of souls you wanted to bring to town. I'm just getting dizzy with the possibilities. For the first time, there will be Angels living in the city who are not siblings. A new generation is going to be born not created. I just feel bad for Celine and Michael and maybe other future couples if I read the table right tonight, Bearus and Azrael, Jo and Belios, Anna and Gabe. Celine will never say it, but she loves children and now that she has found the love of her existence, she cannot have children with Michael."
He smiled at her with his well-known smirk and said:
"Whoever said that as being an established fact has no imagination at all."
She looked at him doubtfully and the smirk on his face betrayed that he was waiting for the word impossible. Samantha was in conflict. Was she going to address him as her mom did when he once again misbehaved with her father as an accomplice? Or would she give in to his smirk that she found so incredibly sexy? With that smirk on his face, his eyes always began to sparkle incredibly, and she could drown in those eyes over and over again. So, she said:
"Okay love, I'll bite. Making Angel and Demon babies, impossible."
"Well now that you bring it up my incredibly hot Goddess, it can be done. If I can raise Humans and souls to Angels, why couldn't I make a new kind of Angel or Demon."
She sat studying him for a while and then suddenly her eyes flew wide open:
"You little sneaky brat! This was in that brain of yours from the beginning!"
Now he got a rather sneaky smile on his mouth:
"Darling Red, I complimented you just now and now you speak to me like that. You should be ashamed of yourself!"
Instead of answering this, she gave him a very passionate French kiss which silenced him in a very pleasant way.
"When did you come up with that idea Love?"
"I think five or ten minutes after I met Celine when she sat down next to Micky in Fuzzy's garden. The idea kept gnawing at me because I could have absolutely no certainty before I was bound to the throne."
"During your trip, did you ever talk about it with her?"
He shook his head:
"I didn't want to break her heart. During that first meeting with Celine, I immediately realized what you are and what you mean to her. I immediately felt that she was not just your nanny and bodyguard Red. You know it, your mom knows it, your dad knows it. Anyone with two brain cells knows that you grew up with two mothers who took care of you. During our trip, she once told me that when you turned twelve, she thought of returning to her home in Dis. Then she quickly found out that Dis was not her home anymore. That being with you was her home. Every time she came to see you your dad offered her to just stay in Heaven, near you."
He laughed for a moment and said:
"She once told me that as a Demon she only prayed to the Goddess once and that was to thank her for having brought that little brat into her Hellion's life. That was all the motivation she needed to come back to live in the palace."
Samantha, who had not yet heard this sat there smiling. He spoke further:
"Michael is the love of her existence and now that they can truly move forward together through their existence then she would indeed want babies with him. If I had told her six thousand years ago that I intended to do such a thing and we reach our final goal of that journey and I suddenly had to say that it is not possible after all? It would have broken her completely."
Softly she asked him:
"How is it supposed to work?"
Alex replied:
"It can be done in two ways. The first is to modify the womb so that it is compatible with the male seed. The second is to elevate both, and then both become a new species, half Angel and half Demon and thus compatible with each other. The result remains the same, the children born are half Angel and half Demon."
Sam said:
"The ultimate proof that unification between Angels and Demons is possible."
"Yep."
After another few minutes of comfortable silence, Alex asked:
"How long have we been married in our hearts now Red, without anyone really knowing, well not counting your mom and dad?"
She laughed and said:
"You know that very precisely Love. Since the day you gave me that beautiful ring you had made by Eloch."
He turned away from her for a moment and took something from his nightstand. With a box in his hand, he turned back to her:
"My beautiful, sweet, gorgeous Samantha I know that in our hearts, in our souls we have been married to each other for a long time. Now we are finally going to get our ceremony, my father is going to bless it, all our family will be there, and all twenty thousand Angels will Enthusiastically want to follow."
He opened the little box in which was a beautiful ring. The ring itself was white gold and it looked like it was woven. On top was placed a beautiful blue diamond surrounded by thirteen smaller green diamonds. The tears of happiness soon gave way to moans of pleasure. When they were back in each other's arms sometime later and Samantha had been studying the ring for a while she suddenly shot up.
"This is Freya's cake. My half of the cake and these little diamonds are your candles. There is a tiny mechanism here to clip your half on. little blue diamonds and a bigger green one. That's why this blue one is set so strangely against the edge and has a flat side. The green one will slide perfectly against it."
"Yep…"
She giggled for a moment and said:
"If Eloch is going to see this ring he is probably going to get jealous because you had it made by someone else. Where did you have this one made Love?"
"Russia, by a jeweler named Faberge."
"Isn't that the one with the eggs for the tsar?"
"True, but he only made the ring."
"Then where did the stones come from?"
"This ring has been three thousand years in the making Sam. First, I bumped into the big blue stone. A few centuries later the green one. A thousand years later the smaller blue stones, and a few centuries later the green. Then it was centuries again waiting for the technique of diamond cutting to be perfected because I didn't want to take any chances with these stones. This is how I have carried you with me every day and step by step for the last three thousand years."