Chapter 34

Luce's P.O.V.

"You should definitely take this one!" Arriane holds up a red tank-top with a way to deep cleavage. I knew this was a bad idea. Like why would someone go shopping for a night out that was just supposed to be a cover for finding an evil power? But Arriane had insisted that I couldn't wear the sweatshirt to a club, it would attract attention. No one had argued with that so me, Arriane and Annabelle had gone shopping while the guys went back to the hotel to check us in for another night.

"Come on, try it on! It will look amazing with the jeans." She doesn't give me time to protest just shoves me towards the fitting rooms, and Annabelle just smiles at me and follows. "Come out and show us when you're done." Arriane says and then shuts the door. I sight and take off my jacket, then when I'm about to take off my sweatshirt I catch my reflection in the mirror. I look tired, and like I haven't brushed my hair for ages. My dark, long hair is all over the place and I can't believe that no one has told me about it. So I take the ribbon that I have around my wrist and tie up the mess in a high ponytail. It looks a little better, but not much. "Are you done?" I hear Arriane ask impatiently and I quickly take off the sweatshirt and put the tank-top on. Not wanting to lose my courage I don't look in the mirror before opening the door. "So can I take it off?" They both look at me like I'm crazy. "No, you are so buying that." Annabelle says and Arriane agrees. "Daniel will lose it when he sees you in that." She says and something in the way she says it suggest that she thinks that I should get some revenge for him sleeping with someone else. "I don't look ridiculous in it then?" I tug at one of the thicker straps to pull it up a little. "I mean I don't have much of a cleavage so maybe this is just too much…" Both of them shake their heads. "No, you're buying that, end of discussion." Arriane says and gestures at me to go back into the fitting room. I do as she wants and once I'm in I manage to gain courage to look at myself. To my surprise I actually look good, the tank-top's loose fabric falls perfectly down my body and the cleavage looks really...sexy. I decide that I should definitely wear my hair up in this outfit because it makes me look even sexier, dangerous even. It's strange that I think in this area, I never have before, but there's a first time for everything.

Since I don't have any money on me I hand Arriane the tank-top, plus a white, simple tank-top, and she walks off to pay. Annabelle and I walk out from the shop to wait for her. "What do you think will happen tonight?" Annabelle suddenly asks. "I don't know, I just hope that we will get some clue to where the power is, or what it is." I say and look in her face after some sign of fear or something similar to that. But I don't find anything, it looks more like she just wants to be prepared. Before I get the chance to ask her what she's thinking of Arriane comes out and joins us. Together we walk towards the bar street and on the way they shove me into an alley so that I can change into the new tank-top. Once we're at the street the sun has began to go down and more and more people appear – the whole town must be here for sure. " They are at the bar where we found the trace." Annabelle says and pushes me to the left so that I get in the right direction. "Do you think we'll get the chance to have some real fun tonight?" Arriane sounds excited and flips her short hair back when she notices a guy looking at her. Well, it seems like she does it for the guy, but she's actually doing it for the girl that walks beside him. "Focus Arriane, we're not here to party!" Annabelle scolds her. "Come on, when was the last time any of you did something crazy and fun?" She bursts out. When thinking about it I can't remember one single time when I have been getting myself really drunk, but I don't think this is the right place or time to change that. But Arriane does have a point, if we don't get a single trace of the power then what's the harm in having some fun for one night?

There's no one out waiting for us when we get to the bar so I let Arriane and Annabelle take the led when we go in. The first thing I see is a drunk guy hitting on some girl, the second thing is how sloppy it is. The wooden material it's made of has rotten in most places and the whole place looks like it will collapse any minute. And then there's the smell, the strong odor of alcohol, vomit and sweat makes me want to turn around and leave then and there. That is, until I see Daniel. He tilts himself at one of the walls next to the bar where Cam, Roland and Lucifer sit. I can't help but admire the way his muscles tense under his black T-shirt, the way his hair lies perfectly against his face and the way he smiles at me when he notice me staring. I sense a redness spreading on my cheeks and turn my face away so he won't catch me. "Come on." Annabelle tugs at my arm and pulls me towards them. "Luce, I'm not kidding but you should see everybody's faces right now." She whispers and I can hear how she's about to laugh. I look around me and to my surprise I see how several faces turn away when I catch them. "Why are they looking at me?" I whisper back to Annabelle. She rolls her eyes at me, like I should know.

"Wow Luce, there's hope after all." Cam says and eyes me up and down with an approving look. I but my arms over my chest and roll my eyes at him. "Nice touch Cam, always the sensitive one." I fire back and he laughs. "No but seriously Luce, you look incredible hot." This makes both me and Daniel react, I by blushing and Daniel by glaring warningly to Cam who just shrugs his shoulders and downs a shot. Funny that he would be drinking when we're out on a mission to find an evil power, but that's Cam. Daniel walks up besides me and puts an arm around my back, and it feels like he's marking me as his territory. How typical. "Have anyone seen anything suspicious yet?" I say to change the subject. Everybody shakes their heads and I catch Lucifer looking at me constantly when he's shaking his head. Not knowing how I should feel about all the attention I'm getting I lean further to Daniel which causes Lucifer to turn to his drink. Why must they both, and Arriane to apparently who downs a shot, drink when it's this serious? But at the same time I think it's horrible and stupid to it right now I too want to try. I want to be a little wild and crazy, isn't that the reason to why I decided to buy this tank-top? "I have a plan though," Arriane starts, "We could just wait another hour and if we don't see anything strange we could just get totally wasted." Nobody seems to disagree with her type of plan so we wait at the bar for an hour, just chatting with each other and Lucifer, Cam and Arriane drinking. When an hour precise has passed Arriane hands me a shot. "Now, let's have some fun." Her speak is a bit slurry and I guess that she's already drunk. I look at the shot in front of me as she downs another one. I have never drunk before and at the same time that I'm excited I'm nervous to how I will react. Everybody else around me have been doing this before and they are now looking curiously at me. "You don't have to if you don't want." Daniel tells me assuringly, but he too is looking at me. I decide that what the hell, I may be dead tomorrow anyway. I take the tiny glass and put it to my lips and then yerks my head backwards, just as I have seen Arriane do in the past hour. The liquid burns down my throat and I put the glass down on the bar again. I hear how they cheer at me and someone hands me another drink. Without thinking I take it and down it in a second. Once again the liquid burns down my throat and I lean on Daniel for support. "How are you feeling?" He whispers in my ear. I fight back the giggle and tells him I'm just fine. "So, let's get the party started." Arriane screams and Cam joins her and orders another round.

Two hours later I'm drunk, drunk like I can't walk straight and when I speak it's pathetic. But I'm having fun and I have been dancing with Arriane and Annabelle, taking too much shots with Cam and Lucifer as well as I have been making out with Daniel who I think have been drinking as much as me, but then again I'm drunk. I stumble towards the bar again and land in Cam's arms. Giggling I try to straighten myself up but I just end up in Lucifer's arms. "I think you have had enough." He says and holds me steady so that I won't fall. Who is he to tell me when I have had enough? The way I see it, he has had quite enough himself, or wait I haven't seen him drinking for hours. So maybe I've had enough. "Luce, how are you feeling?" Cam asks and touches my arm. Why is he asking that? I'm as fine as you can get. Just as I'm about to tell him that the world starts to spin all around me. But it's not the kind of spin you would expect from being drunk, it's something else. I can't put my finger on it but somewhere in my mind I remember the feeling from another time. The spinning gets worse and I stop trying to straighten myself, instead I lean on Lucifer for support. Between the spinning and the fight to keep myself from puking I hear someone asking me how I feel and another voice telling the first voice to get Daniel. Minutes later he appears and I can feel my body shift position, which has to mean that I'm in his arms. "Come on Luce, let's get you out of here." He whisperes in my ear and tries to lead me away from the bar. But I can't move, the world is spinning too much. From the corner of my eye I see a glas and without thinking I reach for it in hope of that it will be water, and surprisingly no one stops me when I put the glass to my lips and down it. When the liquor hits my throat I sense the now familiar taste of vodka and in my drunken state I curse myself for being so stupid that I would think that someone put a glass of water in a bar at midnight. "Daniel" I groan and can hear that he's saying something back but I can't hear what and then I feel like I'm flying and then fresh air hits me.

"Sit down, head between your legs and breathe." After some minutes out in the cool air I can finally hear what he's saying and I do as I'm told. The world continues to spin as I inhale deeply, but at least I can understand what people around me is saying and to my horror I understand that there's three more persons standing next to Daniel; Cam, Annabelle and Lucifer. The embarrassment over being seen in this pathetic state, or maybe it's the alcohol, makes my insides turn inside out and I puke down on the ground. I'm thankful for that my hair is somehow intact in the ponytail as I empty my stomach in the night.

Daniel's P.O.V

How could she have gotten this drunk? I've watched her for most of the night and she has seemed fine then, apart from her lips tasting alcohol when we kissed. But I didn't think that she drank so much so that she would get sick. "What should we do?" Cam asks and looks down at Luce as she sits with her head between her legs. "Yeah Cam, what do you usually do to someone who have had too much to drink?" Annabelle responds. Cam's about to answer when we hear a puking sound. I instantly walks over to Luce and start to caress her back to help her feel a little better. I hate to see her like this, she looks so vulnerable sitting here puking and I damn myself for not keeping a better eye on her, after all it was her first time drinking like this. "It's going to be okay Luce." I whisper in her ear and then remember that I should keep a little distance since my breath probably smells like alcohol, and I can imagine that she doesn't appreciate that smell right now. Her body shakes, but it doesn't seem like it's from the alcohol. Then she looks up – and it's not Luce's eyes. Well, it is her eyes but it's not the blurry gaze she had seconds before. This gaze is crystal clear, calculated and has the same darkness that she had when she attacked Lucifer. What is going on? Without a word, or trouble, she gets up, like she's not drunk at all.

Luce's P.O.V.

I have no idea what's happening, it's me – except it's not. I remember the feeling from Turkey and I get scared, scared that I will repeat the events of what happened back then. Not knowing how to control the feeling of darkness in me that threatens to come out, it's like everything I see is a threat that can make me snap at any moment. Gone is the drunkenness I felt just minutes ago and I keep my eyes on the end of the alley to keep focus from the fire starting to burn in me. As I look at it the darkness inside of me gets bigger, like it's drawn to something, or someone, in that direction. The only thing I can think of to do is move in that direction, and that is fast. I almost run and the closer I get to the street, the bigger the darkness gets. But thankfully I can still control it so I don't snap when I hear of Annabelle, Cam, Daniel and Lucifer follow me.

When I'm out on the street I look around to see in which direction the darkness wants to go, then I lock eyes on a tall, dark figure. He's walking away from me, but all my body wants to do is run after him – and there's something about him. "Him." I manage to get out and I can hear how ice-cold my voice sounds. From the corner of my eye I see how Daniel search after who I'm talking about, until he sees him. "That's Remy." He says. The name sounds extremely familiar, but i can't put my finger on it. "You sure?" I hear Cam asks and Daniel nods. "What is it about him Luce?" Lucifer asks, but I can't stay to answer him – I have to see that Remy. I start to run, driven by the darkness but he's hard to follow. He must sense that I'm after him because he speeds up his steps and takes a lot of turns. That the street is as crowded as it is doesn't quite help. Suddenly I can't hear the other's steps behind me and I know that I lost them, but I don't care. All I can think of is that the darkness inside of me drives me to seek out Remy.

I take a left turn into an alley and finally I see Remy standing at the end of it, with his face facing the wall. I run towards him and just as I'm at the wall he disappears. I come to an halt and turn around towards the way I came from. Where could he have gone and how? But the darkness is still enormous inside of me so he must be somewhere near – and then I see him. He comes out of the shadows and looks at me. His eyes are dark, nearly black and his hair likewise. The darkness fills with energy and I can hardly control myself. "The famous Lucinda, I thought you would be faster in finding me. After all you have a tracking machine inside of you." I have absolutely no idea of what he's talking about but the smile on his face tells me that it's no good. Suddenly I regret running so fast. "What are you talking about?" He looks at me like I'm stupid. "The most famous angel of all, and she's not even bright." He chuckles and I feel the fire inside of me taking over the darkness, I'm mad. "And who are you if I may ask? My question gets him to stop laughing. "You know my name, don't you?" I nod. "Well, I'm Remy. The guy that you have been looking for." He takes a little bow, like he's proud over it. "You must be stupid to reveal yourself like that, cause you know that I will have to kill you." I find it incredible hard to believe that Remy would be the one I'm looking for. "My dear Lucinda. I'm hosting the power and you and your party is just disturbing the power's plan. So I would appreciate if we could just get over with this ridiculousness." I'm stunned, Remy hosts the power. I believe every word he's saying, because the darkness inside of me tells me to do so, it recognizes the darkness inside of the man standing in front of me. "I'm going to give you an offer, cause I know you want to save your friends from a certain death, not that it will matter – they will soon die anyway. The power has a plan you see, a plan where every living thing on the planet gets erased. In that way it will get increible more stronger and then there's endless possibilities. But now I'm getting ahead of myself. The offer is that tomorrow I will be at an island where I assembled all of the Announcers – the power needs energy you know – and you are most welcomed to join me. I know you have pictured to have an epic fight or something, but let me assure you that that won't be the case. I'm just giving you an opportunity to let your friends live a little longer, of course you can have them join us if you want." I can't find any words to talk back to him. My mouth is dry as sandpaper. I thought I would get more time. I thought that it would take longer to find the power, I didn't thought it would go as quick as this. My thought was that I would have time to prepare myself for this, prepare myself for how to save as many lives as possible. But now the moment is here, and I don't have any time to consider my options. This man in front of me is terrifying and the power radiates from him. No way I'm letting anyone else than me get close to him. "I'll be there." My words are final and they weigh a ton. But now when I have said them there's no turning back.

Remy gives me a wicked smile. "I'm looking forward to it, the island is a two hour south from here. You know it when you see it." The fire I had burning in me has disappeared from the shock of the sudden turn of events. He turns around to walk away, but then turns back again. "Almost forgot, one more thing." He raises out his hand towards me and I feel how something is dragged out of me. It hurts and I lose my breath. But I manage to see a dark trail going out from my stomach and into Remy's hand. "That darkness didn't belong to you." He says and I know, and feel, that the darkness in my body is gone. I'm back to having full control over my body.

"Lucinda!" Suddenly I hear Daniel's voice shouting. I look up to see him running towards me, followed by Annabelle, Roland, Lucifer, Cam and Arriane. How can she run with all of the alcohol she consumed? And how can all of the alcohol be gone from my body already? I don't get much time to think about the answers to my questions because Remy opens his mouth. "Well, maybe I'll see them tomorrow. But for now, goodbye Lucinda." Then he's gone. My legs shakes slightly from the effort my body had to go through when Remy dragged the darkness from my body and I lean against the wall.

"Lucinda! Are you okay? What happened?" Daniel demands to know when he gets to me. "Better question is, how can nobody of us be drunk? Shouldn't we all be stumbling right now?" I ask. Daniel looks at me like I have lost my mind. But I want to know, for another moment I want things to be a little normal. "Our bodies get rid of alcohol really really fast. So when we don't consume it in about 20 minutes it leaves the system, or it disappears." Arriane answers as she scans the alley for traces of Remy, but there's none. "Back to you, what happened?" Daniel asks. Since I barely have had any time realizing that for myself I don't quite understand how I should be able to tell anyone else. But I know as much as I need to lie about some parts. "Remy is hosting the power, and he wasn't shy about it." They all look shocked. "Are you for real? He told you that? He let us find him? Why?" The doubt in Roland's voice is clear, I understand him. "Yes, he told me that – and he proved it to. He dragged out the darkness inside of me and absorbed it to himself. The power is inside of him and it plans to destroy every living thing on the earth to gain more power." The words coming out of my mouth sounds absolutely surreal, but they're true. "So you are saying that you are free from the darkness that caused you to attack Lucifer so fiercely before?" Annabelle asks. "Yes, and he also told me that he want to get rid of us. So he invited us to meet him at an island tomorrow." This causes them all to be silent for several minutes. I look at Daniel, who looks at me. How will I be able to leave him? I don't know how that will be possible, but I know that I want to spend every minute of my remaining time with him – in his arms.

When none of us have spoken for what feels like an eternity I decide to say something. "Who is Remy? I heard you saying his name, so do any of you know him?" At first no one answers but then Cam does. "He's an angel without wings. He lost them a long time ago and is famous for the coma-like state he was in, the same you was in back at Shoreline academy. He was a very low-ranking angel and I think he chose hell." It's not much information, but it's interesting that he lost his wings but I don't ask any further questions. They wouldn't matter anyway. "Can we just get back to the hotel? I need to rest." I finally say after some further time has passed. They all nod and we take off into the night sky.

I sit on the bed in my and Daniel's room. After we had arrived at the hotel nobody really knew what to say so we decided that we all should get some rest so we said goodnight and retrived to our rooms. Daniel leans himself towards one of the walls and we just look at eachother. There's so much left to say, and yet there's nothing. We have loved each other almost since the beginning of time and suddenly we're faced with the fact that it could end. "Please say something." I plead to him, I need to hear his voice otherwise I will go mad. "I love you." That's all he says and that's all he needs to say to get me to get up from the bed and walk over to him. I put my arms around his neck and kiss him. The kiss is passionate and filled with love. I let it deepen and feel how Daniel puts his arm around my waist to pull me closer to him. Then he pulls back a little. "I'm not sure that this is the right time." His breath comes out fast and I know that he wants this as much as I do. "One night Daniel. Let us have one night when we're just us. One night." As I say it I can almost hear how he surrenders to the part of him that wants the same and he kisses me hard and lifts me over to the bed. And then when the moment that we both have been waiting for for thousands of years comes, I'm filled with the purest love and more happiness that some gets to experience in a whole lifetime.

Afterwards I lie in his arms and listen to his even breathing, he fell asleep quite fast I must say. I watch at his peaceful face, he still has that smile on his lips. The same smile he had when he came out of me and told me he loved me over and over again. The pure happiness I felt, and still feel, warmed my body to the core and gave me that extra strenght I will need in a few hours. I can't believe it really, here I lie with Daniel and in just a few hours I will be facing Remy. The thought of it is not enough to subdue my happiness, but it's enough to get myself out of the bed, put on underclothes, jeans and one of the simple white tank-tops that I bought earlier today. Then I walk over to the little desk that stands by the window. I open the drawer in search for paper, but it's empty. I sight and decides to go down to the reception and ask. I put on my sneakers and quietly leave the room, sure not to wake Daniel.

Thankfully the reception has paper and a pen and I took a bunt of papers. Then I find a quiet corner and start to write the hardest letters I will ever have to write. But I don't cry, somehow I manage to hold them back. When I'm done I go back to the reception and ask for six envelopes, one for each of the persons I'm writing to. I get them and carefully put each of the letters into an envelope. On the envelopes I write six names: Roland, Annabelle, Arriane, Cam, Lucifer and Daniel. They are meant to be my farewell letters if my meeting with Remy doesn't go as planned. I just wonder who I will give them to, but I'll figure that out later. Right now I just go back to Daniel, put the letters in my inner jacket pocket along with a small knife that I will need later. My whole being shudders at the plan I have made out during the three hours it took for me to finish the letters. But I decide not to think of it any further, I just lie down next to Daniel in my underwear and fall asleep.

When I wake up Daniel is already dressed and sits on the edge of the bed. I instantly sits up and look around for any sign that something new has happened, but I can't see any sign of it. "Daniel…" I allow my voice to be as soft as I can make it and then I scoop over to him and put my head on one of his shoulders. He leans towards me. "Last night was everything and more." I whisper into his ear and hope that he hears the love in my voice. He finally turns around to me and places a hand on my cheek. "Yes it was." He mumbles and kisses me softly. It's a perfect moment, but the shadow of the seriousness of this day hangs over us and we have to disrupt our kiss when Arriane knocks on the door and says that everybody is ready to go. I pull away and look into his eyes. "It's going to be okay." I say and put my forehead to his. Then I put on my clothes, make sure that the knife and the envelopes are there and then we go down to the lobby and meet everyone. Most of all I would just want to gossip with Arriane and Annabelle of that I have lost my virginity, but there's no time for that.

I lead them into a park just a block away from the hotel, and they slowly walk after me, all knowing what's going to happen. Even though it's two o'clock nobody's out. Daniel holds my hand tight in his and when I look over to his face I see that his lips are pressed together in a tight line. When I think that we're on a safe place from people overhearing I stop and turn around to the others. "I know where he is, and I'm going to fight him, today." That's not a lie, I do know where he is and I am going to fight him, I just won't give them the right information to where exactly this fight is going to take place. Arriane looks serious at me, and I can see that she's ready to fight with me and as I look over on the others faces I see the same in their eyes. "Tell us then so that we can get going." Lucifer says and folds his arms over his chest. This is the hard part, the part where I will have to lie. And if I succeed with the lie, I won't even get to say a proper goodbye to them. I swallow and concentrate on my hand in Daniel's. "He's on an island, 2 hours flight away from here. The island is called Heldon and lies in the north direction of here, in the sea between Italy and Greece." They all nod, but something catches my attention. In Lucifer's eyes I can see that he knows I'm not telling the truth, and for a moment I think that he will out me in front of the others. But then I see a flicker of something in his eyes, sadness maybe, and with that I understand that he won't tell the others, he will let me go. I send a quiet 'thank you' to him and then continue to tell the others about my plan. "My plan is like this, Roland, Annabelle, Cam, Lucifer and Arriane, you will fly there, but you will take a longer path so that it takes a little more time for you to get there. In the meantime I and Daniel will take the short rode and keep Remly occupied as much as we can. Then you will come there and help, and then we take it from that." As I speak I can hear how stupid my plan really sounds, it sounded so much better in my head. I just hope that they will buy it, because if they don't…"Okay, it's not perfect but it works." Lucifer's approval of my plan silence whatever doubt someone could have had, and once again I send a 'thank you' to him. I wonder why he's doing this, why he lets me get away. He surely must know what can happen, and I know that he actually still loves me. Maybe it's because of that he allows me to do this.

Nobody wastes any more time on saying goodbye or questioning my plan, they all spread their wings and prepare for take-off. I suddenly get a lump in my throat, I really want to say goodbye to them – but I can't. If I would do that they would understand that something is wrong, and they would stop me. So I just look at them with a smile on my face, they're all such amazing persons. They will forgive me for this, they have to. "Good wingspeed y'll" Arriane says. "Be safe." I say and swallow the lump in my throat. Then they take off and I watch, with Daniel's hand in mine, as they soar through the sky.

"Are you ready to do this?"Daniel asks me a minute later. I decide that it's time for him to get hear the one little lie that will set everything in motion. "Remy asked, no demanded me to come alone." At first he doesn't react to my words, but then when the realization hits him he turns to face me, with a face pale as snow. "But I'm coming with you right?" When I don't answer him he enfolds me in a hug.

He holds me tight, scared that I'm going to leave. "Promise me you stay, we can figure this out just promise me you stay. I don't care if the world ends, I just want you with me for as long as possible." He mumbles into my hair and my heart twists, I don't want to do this. But I can't do what he's asking me, I can't turn my back on the world like The Throne has done. Yet, I tell him what he wants to hear. "I promise that I will stay for as long as possible." The words seem to calm him down and I do wish with all my heart that I wouldn't have to do this, that I would get my happy ending. But the world doesn't work that way and I slowly pull out the knife that lies under my jacket. He doesn't notice the movement and I close my fingers around the knife a little tighter. "I'm so so sorry, I love you and I hope that you will understand." I say and before he can react I drive the knife into his gut. He groans and bends over and I catch him before he falls to the ground. His eyes looks at me with shock and surprise in them and I can clearly see that he didn't see this coming, and that hurts even more than driving the dagger through him. His t-shirt is starting to get wet from the blood and I can see that he's about to lose conscious. "I love you, always have always will." He tries to say something back to me but I silence him with a kiss to his lips. I don't let go until I can feel him drifting away, then I pull away, rise and walk away from his body. Tears are streaming from my face and I can't get myself to look back to his body, even though this might be the last time I see him. I hope not, but then again, it could be.

When I get to the park-gate I can see a tall, lean and dark figure leaning against it. There's only one person that could so I dry my tears before he can see them. "Did you really have to do that?" Cam asks and looks darkly, it's truly impressive of how much he's started to care about his brother. "There was no other way for me to get away, you know that." Even though I know it's the truth I'm still wondering if there couldn't have been some other way, a way that didn't involve me stabbing Daniel. "How did you know that I would be here? And why aren't you with the others?" I say, I thought that it was just Lucifer that figured out that I lied, but clearly I was wrong.

Cam straightens himself and walk up so that he stands just in my way, I hope that he won't try to stop me because after what I just did I don't know if I have any limit to what I will do if he tries. But he doesn't seem to be making any effort to suggest that he won't let me go, he merely looks at me with sadness. "Come on Luce, I know you. I know you wouldn't tell the others where he would be. You rather lie and send them in the wrong direction than seeing them trying to stop you on this one." He makes a short pause and I use it to fill in the gap that even Cam isn't cold-hearted enough to say. "And you knew this and yet you didn't say anything to the others, you know that this is my quest and that they would just walk into the death with me if they joined. You know all of this and that's why you didn't tell anyone, but you won't stop me, you will let me go." He nods at my conclusion but I can see through the darkness that he has tears in his eyes. "You are, just like the last time, the only one who can stop this. I don't want you to die Luce, I have never wanted you to die. So could you just promise me one thing? I know that you have given up any hope of surviving this but please, fight. Fight with all you've got and try to survive, damn it if you manage to complete the task or not but just fight. Give him all you've got and make him pay for this. Could you promise me this?" His voice breaks during his speech and I can't help myself and I embrace him. He sobs into my hair and for the second time today my heart breaks. I realize that I can't give up, not when Cam, who almost never cries, begs me to fight even though the chance of surviving is small. My chances are small, but they are there and I can't understand why I haven't thought of it before, but I can actually survive this or at least go down fighting and taking him with me. "I promise Cam, I will fight and I will defeat him. And if I can, I will come back. I promise you that Cam, and in exchange for that you'll have to promise me something." He pulls back and lets me see his tear-stained face. "Anything." I take a deep breath, this is so much harder than I thought it would be. "I need you to promise me that if I do not return, you will save Daniel from himself. Promise me that you will not let him kill himself, that you will help him through it and stand by his side." I stare into his eyes, begging him to not ask any questions or telling me that I can tell him myself when I come back because we both know that the chances of me doing so is small, and I just really need him to promise me this right now. "I promise Lucinda." The relief I feel over this is indescribable and I flash Cam a small smile and then reach into my jacket and grab the letters that are in there. He looks painfully at me as I hand them to him, but he takes them and shove them into his black leather jacket. I know what will happen next and I feel the tears forming in my eyes. And then I flung myself around his neck. "Thank you Cam. Thank you for everything, you're my best friend. I love you." I sob to his shoulder and I feel how his arms tighten against me. "Thank you Luce." That's all he says, and it's enough. I let go of him and without looking him in the eye again I turn around and spread my wings and take off. He doesn't follow me and I let my tears flow freely on my cheeks until I reach such a speed that I can't feel them anymore.

After a two hours flight I finally reach the island, and the first thing I see is horrifying. The whole island is surrounded by darkness, a floating darkness that seems to be alive which means that it's the Announcers. Due to the massive amount of darkness I assume that all of the Announcers left in the world have been gathered, or captured, here, all of them waiting for what's going to happen next. Remy, or rather the power, surely have them under his control. My stomach tightens for the thought of that I'm going in there, but my promise to Cam is still fresh in my memory and I know that there's a chance that I will be getting out of there. So I descend into the darkness, and while flying through it I can feel the Announcers begging me to touch them, to use them, to save them. But I ignore the urge to do as they say and dives faster through them and then finally touch ground. The moment my feet are touches the sand an electric pulse shoots through my feet and then further through my body. It's so strong that it brings me to my knees, panting for air through the pain. "So you came. Well I knew you would come but I'd figured that you would bring your little friends with you, bring them to death." His voice is pure evil and poison and I grit my teeth at his words, trying to regain control over my body and force it to ignore the pain. "Don't want them to get the honor for killing you." I manage to get out. Remy only laughs at me and suddenly the electricity disappears from my body I'm left shaking on the ground. "Get up then." There's no mistaking on the contempt in his voice and it triggers me to rise to my feet. The moment I'm up I definitely meet his gaze, it's dark but all things regarding him is dark. There's also no emotion in his eyes, only darkness and a promise of death. All of my being tells me to run, to get as far away from this darkness as possible, but the voice in my head tells me to stay – to fight.

I raise my hand and let a blue fireball appear in my palm, and before he can react I throw it at him. But the fireball, that should burn him hard, just disappears right before it even hits him, and once again he is laughing at me. "It's that all you can do? Pathetic, you're really pathetic." Then he raises his palm at me and then I'm sent flying through the air. The impact from where I land hurts like hell through my back, and I'm pretty sure that I'm bleeding from my head. While struggling to stand I see Remy coming at me, already ready to attack again. I need to come up with something good or this will be over before it's even started. "You're wings was taken from you, right?" It's the first thing I can come up with but it doesn't seem to slow him down, so I throw a fireball at the ground right before him which to my pleasure catches him off guard and he slows down for just a second and that's all I need. "That's why you agreed to hosting the power, it promised you new wings and revenge. You wanted revenge on all the other angels that hadn't helped you when you needed them to." This seems to catch his attention and he looks curiously at me. "Where are you getting with all of this? Do you think that if you reach out to me it will change my mind? Are you that dumb?" On the last part of the sentence he throws a ball of darkness at me and I throw myself to the side trying to avoid being hit, but I'm not fast enough. The ball hits my upper-left arm and tears the flesh apart, it hurts, God it hurts. I don't dare to look at my arm, because if I do the pain will surely feels worse and I can't afford that right now. So I get up and look at him again, and in the back of my mind something reacts to something he said just before hitting me, but the pain makes it to hard to formulate a good thought about it.

"I'm just curious, why did you let the power take over your body?" I try the question-method again, just to keep him occupied and allow myself to regain some strength. "You can't see it, but I'm filled with power. Every cell of my body is pumping with power. Do you know what it's like to have access to that sort of power? To know that everything you've ever wanted is yours for taking?" I shake my head slowly. He's crazy, he must be crazy for thinking that he actually controls the power. That much power is not meant for this earth and I can't even imagine that it would let anybody control it, but from the cocky smile on Remy's face it seems like he's actually believing that what he's saying is true. "That much power will destroy you! What do you think will happen when this world is gone? Do you honestly think that the power will let you live? You will die with the rest of us." I shout but he merely just smiles a slight, half-smile at me and shakes his head. "I think we've done enough talking." He says darkly and walks closer to me. I put up a wall of fire, but he wag it away and walks through it. So I assemble fire knives with my unharmed arm and throws them to him. The first one doesn't make it to his skin, but I keep throwing them at him and I get two good hits at him. He spits out a curse and I use his temporary lack of focus to manifest the fire on his clothes and then onto his skin. I can smell the smell of burnt flesh and it triggers me increase the warmth of the fire and Remy curse further. Keeping the fire burning on him I start to heat up the sand under his feet. That with the electricity in the sand makes lighting bolts shoot up and onto his legs and body. A scream escapes his mouth and I keep resisting the exhaustion that comes with using this much power. I just need to hold on a little longer, just so long that he will lose conscious so that I can get close enough to mix our bloods. But my body is screaming at me to stop, and I feel that I will run out of power very soon but at the same time I keep hearing Cam begging me to fight and I can hear Daniel's voice telling me that he won't survive without me. The thought of Daniel, and the way I left him, hurts and for a short moment that pain makes all of the other pain go away and I get some extra power. With that extra power follows another scream from Remy, because he may be taken over by the power but he's still an angel, an angel that only can take that much pain before fainting.

I take a faltering step towards his burning body on the ground and feels how weak this use of power make me, and it's only a matter of time before I will burn-out. Hopefully Remy will faint before I. I take a deep breath and take another step toward him. "I will kill you!" It's the first thing he has said since I set him up in flames and I almost can't make out the words due to his voice being drained by the sound of burning flesh, but I can't mistake the hate in his voice. I put the last of my almost drained power into the flames and finally he loses conscious, but I keep burning him until I get right next to him. Then I fall down to my knees, panting after my breath. The pain from exhaustion runs through my body and mixes with the pain in my arm and back and I my head starts to spin. I just want to lie down and sleep, but I can't so with shaking hands I bring out the knife from my jacket and makes a deep cut on his wrist. While trying not to look at his burnt body I press my fingers around the cut to make the blood flow faster. Then I close my eyes and bring my fingers to the wound in my arm. Pain shoots hard and sharp through my body, but I resist it and keep going. With my blood on my hand I bring it back to his wrist and am just about to mix them together when his hand closes around my wrist. I'm so shocked that I don't have time to react when he moves his hand to my throat and then stands up. I feel my feet leaving the ground and it's first then I manage to bring my eyes to his. He looks furious and I realize that he somehow have healed completely in just a matter of minutes. "You thought it would be that easy?" He tightens the grip around my throat and I gasp for breath. "How?" I get out and he rewards me with a wicked smile. "I told you that every cell in my body is burning with power, power that heal." After he finish he seems to gets bored of just strangling me and instead he throws me into the ground and I can hear of something in my head cracks and I want to give in to the darkness that comes with it. But to my horror I'm not allowed to do so, not by some voice in my head, but by Remy who straddles me and picks up the knife that I laid in the sand. He places the egg of the knife to my right collarbone, not hard enough to pinch it just enough to let me know what to expect once he decides to pinch it. There's something in the way that he taunts me that awakens the thought I had earlier about missing something in what he said, something about the control he seems to have. And then I get it, it was never Lucifer's fault that the power got activated. "It was you." He raises a questioning eyebrow at me. "You activated the power. It was never activated by Lucifer and it never looked for a host body, it didn't need to. You took it for yourself the moment it was activated, it became a part of you, you control it." It's so clear now, that's why Remy doesn't seem bothered by someone else making decisions, because there's no one, and that's why the earth is still here, because Remy doesn't allow the power to destroy it. But why would he do that? Why not just let the power destroy earth? "You want to overthrow the Throne." For a moment his eyes widen in shock, which indicates that I'm right, but I do want to hear him say it. Because if it's true it's even worse than destroying earth, everybody will become slaves under him and there will be no one to stop him. The realization of that awakens a burning fire inside me, a fire that doesn't seem like anything else I ever felt. With my new found powers I place my hands on his wrists and let the fire get full control over me and it does exactly what I want it to do, it burns him. For a moment it seems like he will let go but then that moment is gone and he presses the knife into the skin by my collarbones and the new pain makes me lose focus and the fire dies. I scream as he drags the knife over my chest, the pain is indescribable and all I see is red. Black dots are dancing in the corner of my vision and I can't focus on anything else but the pain. "Scream all you want darling, it won't help." I despise his voice, I hate him and I hate the world for making this happen. I hate that this will be my end, that I can't stop him that everybody will suffer for my weakness. "NO!" I scream angrily, I can't let it happen. I made a promise to Cam to fight, and I made a promise to myself a long time ago that I will stop him, and I will.

Remy seems momentarily startled by sudden outburst and I use it to unfurl my wings. The power that comes with unfurling my wings sends him flying and I take a wingbeat up into the sky. Ignoring the pain, and the darkness that threatens to swallow me whole, I fly over to his body and launch myself at him with full force, slamming his head to the ground. Then it's my turn to straddle him, but unlike him I don't waste any time on taunting him. Instead I take a stone from the sand and shoves it into the scar after the previous wound on his wrist, making it bleed once again, only this time it bleeds faster and forms a puddle in the sand. Remy starts to move under my, using both the power and his physical strength to try to get rid of me. But the power that came to me moments ago hasn't disappeared and I use it to slightly burn his body under me, making it harder for him to escape. Afterwards I take the stone up to the wound on my chest, covering it in my blood. Doing this results in the pain taking over my mind and body for a moment, and that's all he needs. Before I can put the stone in the puddle he has switched place on our bodies and in the sudden movement I can hear a crack from my left wing, telling me that it just broke. But I don't have the time to focus on the new addition to my body of pain, all I can think of is staying conscious.

"I have just about had it with you." Remy says through gritted teeth and right there I know that I only have minutes on my to complete this. So with one final great effort I drop the stone into the puddle and by that mixing our blood. Then I move my right wingtip towards it, and God it hurts, but at least Remy seems not to notice and then, finally my wingtip touches the puddle. "I did it." That one thought is all I manage before seeing something silver in Remy's hand, a starshot. Seeing the starshot makes me realize that this is the end. But there's so much I still want to do. I want to laugh with Arriane one more time, kiss Daniel, hear one of Cam's dirty jokes, have a deep conversation with Roland, smile with Annabelle and I want to tell Lucifer that this wasn't his fault, he didn't do this.

So this can't real, it can't be, thought the pain that I feel tells me that it most certainly is. I groan as the pain increases in my body and I have to force a big amount of power to be able to from one single, but very important, question. " Just tell me, was I right?" I ask, and almost want to laugh at myself for asking that in the finale moments of my life, but looking Remy in the eyes when asking. He meets my eyes and I can't quite read the expression that he has in his eyes, but it seems like he's got the memo that he too will die. But still, he decides to answer my question. " Yes you were right, like you always have been." I can't help to feel a little proud over myself, I figured it out. As the pain starts to make me fall unconscious I can't help to hope that Daniel is fine and that he will forgive me for doing this. And in my thoughts I beg Cam for forgiveness, forgiveness for that I couldn't hold my promise. I just hope that he will give the others their letters, they need to know why I did like I did, Daniel needs to know. A tear rolls down my cheek when I think of Daniel, I'm going to leave him. But still I don't regret any of my decisions and I would do it all again, and with a smile through my tears I close my eyes and then feels the pain when the starshot goes through my body.

Daniel's P.O.V.

I barely notice the pain in my stomach from the dagger she drove through me, I'm too occupied flying towards her. When Cam found me he told me where she gone, I have no idea how he knew it, but I don't care. Once I tackled him down I set off after her, not quite believing what she's done.

Finally I see an island in the ocean and without a second thought I dive down towards it. When I'm just above it I can see two figures lying on the shore, one of them lies a bit away from the other and I fly faster towards them. Then I see it, one of the figures has dark, long hair and big, beautiful wings that are spread around it and it lies in a puddle of blood. "Lucinda!" I yell and touches ground just besides her, throwing myself at her. I place her head in my lap and strike her wet hair from her face. "Lucinda! Luce, answer me, please answer me." I sob and desperately looks for something to wipe the blood away from her face, but it's not only at her face, it's everywhere. Her whole body is covered in blood, and then I see it. A starshot is driven through her stomach. It's impossible, an angel can't be pierced with a starshot and not turn into dust, but she's still here.

I can feel a slight movement against my hands and I turn my gaze directly to her head. I am met by her eyes. "Daniel?" Her voice is barely a whisper and my tears start to flow uncontrollably. "Yes, it's me. Why did you do this Luce? Why did you leave me?" I cry. "I had to do it Daniel, this was my task to complete. And I did, the power is gone, you're safe, you're okay." She sounds so exhausted. "And you're going to be okay to Luce. You will get through this and we will go away, far away from here. You and I will have our happy ending. Just don't give up Luce, stay with me." She smiles at me and tears appears in her eyes. "It's okay Daniel, this was how it would end.." Her voice trails off and fear takes over my body. "No Luce, stay with me. Don't go!"

Luce's P.O.V

Daniel sounds desperate, and his voice is dry from all of his tears. He begs me to stay, but doesn't he get it? I can't stay, I want to but the darkness is pulling me against it and the pain in my body is too much to handle. It's just really a miracle that I'm not dead yet, I guess Remy made something with the starshot so that I wouldn't die right away, so that I would suffer first. Guess he didn't think that I would get one finale meeting with Daniel.

"Daniel, my beautiful love. I love you, with all of my heart and soul. Believe me, I want forever with you, but our love story wasn't meant to be a happy one." I swallow away the pain and tears, he needs to hear this. "Everything I did today was for you and the rest of the world. You may not understand this right now, but you will." The darkness starts to pull harder on me. "No, Luce, no. I love you Luce, I can't do this without you." My beautiful Daniel's face is covered in tears and I want to reach up my hand and wipe them away. "You don't have to, I will stay with you, always and forever." That's where my words stops, I just don't have the power to continue, but it's okay I said the most important things and the rest he knows. "I love you Luce, so so much. You're so brave and I love you." He has stopped sobbing and his voice sounds heavenly, like the most perfect music. "I love you." I whisper and then my eyes closes and the last thing I hear on this earth is Daniel's voice that keeps telling me that he loves me and I let go.

Daniel's P.O.V.

She's dead, I can feel that her soul has left her body. And I break down in tears.

Cam's P.O.V

Daniel's sobbing tells me what I don't want to know, her light is out. I can't take another step towards her dead body in Daniel's arms, all I can do is collapse onto my knees. What if I hadn't tried to stop Daniel? What if we both would have flown here directly instead of him flying first and me following once I regained conscious, would she be alive? Could we have saved her? I don't know the answer and I will never know so all I can do right now is cry. I cry for her horrible death, I cry for Daniel who has lost the love of his existence, I cry for their sad love story and I cry because I will never see her again.

It could have been minutes or hours or days but suddenly I hear wing beats over my head. I look up, somehow preparing myself for battle. But it's Arriane, Annabelle, Roland and Lucifer. "Where is she? What happened? Why is Remy lying over there?" Arriane sounds hysterical and her watery eyes are searching the whole island for Luce, and then the searching stops. Her gaze is locked on Daniel's back. "No no no no no." Her cry is heart breaking and she runs towards Daniel. I don't do anything to stop her and I hear how she breaks down completely once she sees her body.

My gaze is focused on the three remaining angels that stands above me. Roland and Annabelle looks like they haven't figured it out yet, they just stands there, barely breathing. I look at Lucifer who seems like, well, like nothing. It looks like he has shut down. But then, in just a matter of seconds he walks over to Daniel and Luce, and that's when I finally react. I get up and follow him quickly even though everything in my want to avoid seeing her dead body, because if I see it I will know for sure that it's true.

"Lucinda…" Lucifer's voice is so low that I can barely make out the word over Arriane's crying. Lucifer sits down on the other side of Lucinda's body and reaches out a hand to touch her cheek, but he stops himself. I guess he got a look from Daniel, but I don't look at Daniel to see if that's the case. All I can see is Luce's broken body covered in blood. Her hair is still wet from the blood, her otherwise silver grey wings is now a dark-red color, her chest is ripped open by a big, ugly wound and from her stomach a starshot stands out. But on her face a small smile lies, she actually smiled when she died. The thought of it makes my tears return and once again I collapse down on my knees. "How could her body still be here? Why isn't she turned into dust?" I choke out, not even caring about of pathetic I sound. "For the same reason she was alive when I found her, Remy cast a dark spell on the starshot and therefore dooming her to a slow death." Daniel sounds completely emotionless and his voice is dry from all of his tears. "Stop it! Just stop it!" Arriane cries out. She scoops closer to Luce's body, and ignoring the warning look on Daniel's face, she touches Luce's wrist. "Why did she do it? Why would she let herself be killed?" No one answers Lucifer's question and soon we are joined by Roland and Annabelle. And then I see something that I never thought I would see, but Lucifer starts to cry. Tears are streaming uncontrollably from his eyes, and for the first time ever the devil actually seems broken.

It's been two days since Luce died, four days since we didn't even know who Remy was. Two days in which Roland manage to tell me how it come that they got to the island without me or Daniel telling them. The Throne had appeared to them and told them that they should go here, so they had.

In these two days Daniel hasn't moved away from Luce. He hasn't cried any more since the time when he found her. In fact all of us has stopped crying, we don't have any tears left in us we have just been walking around on the shore, cleaning up all of the blood. Lucifer has also turned Remy's body on fire because none of us really wanted to think what we should do to his corpse. I don't even think that Lucifer looked at the body when it burned into ashes, guess that not even the devil would want to look at the person that killed the love of his life longer than necessary.

"We need to bury her." Annabelle sound utterly exhausted and her face tells me that she really doesn't want to take this discussion, but that she knows that it has to be done. "I tell him." She nods and walks over to where Arriane, Roland and Lucifer sit. I turn my footsteps over to where Daniel is.

"Don't." It's the first thing he has said in almost two days. I sit down next to him and he finally meets my gaze. The look in his eyes can't be described in words, it's just the look of someone who has lost everything. "She needs to be buried, she needs a finale closing." He shakes his head and looks back down on her face. It's like he can't see the way she has grown to pale, the way her hair has stiffened from the blood. "Daniel, it's what she would have wanted." Once again he shakes his head. "And what about what I wanted?" he whisperes, "Do you think I wanted her to drive a dagger in my stomach so that she could run off and get herself killed? No, I didn't want that, but we don't always get what we want." His words scares me, this broken man sitting in front of me doesn't sound like the Daniel I know. "She isn't there anymore, you need to let her body go." I choose my words carefully, trying to make him understand that it has to be done. "I can't Cam, I can't let her go one more time." My heart breaks a little more for the sadness in Daniel's voice, but it's an emotion at least. "You don't have to, not yet." That's all I say and then we sit there in silence.

Daniel's P.O.V.

"It's time." I hear what Cam is saying, but I can't bring myself to actually get up. He warned me about this yesterday, but I didn't think it would happen so quickly. But I also didn't think that I would ever have to do this for real. I have done it thousands of times before, but this time she won't be coming back to me. "Do you need help?" He asks and I shake my head not being able to speak since I'm completely focused on holding myself together. I really don't have a clue of how long time it has been since it happened, but it doesn't matter because I will never be ready for this.

On shaky legs I finally get up after several other minutes and then I lift her body up and hold it in my arms. It's cold, and heavy in the way a body is heavy when the person is fast asleep. I follow Cam as he walks across the beach and into the forest. He doesn't stop until he reaches a lake and then I see the others standing by the shore of it. Between them is a big hole and beside it there's flowers, a lot of flowers. My heart twists at the sight and I struggle to maintain myself standing. The hole is for Lucinda, my Lucinda. I can't handle it and for the first time since she died emotions awakens in me, and they hurt. "Daniel?" Somewhere I can hear Cam asking me how I am, but my whole mind is focused on Lucinda's body against mine and the all-consuming pain in my body, a pain that I can't make go away because it's the pain of losing Lucinda. And suddenly I fall to the ground, but thankfully Cam takes Luce away from me before I hit the ground. "Daniel." Arriane places her arms around me and hugs me tightly against her. I hear her tell Cam to do something and he leaves with Luce in his arms, but I can't find the strenght to go after him, I'm drained. I cry into Arriane's chest and she lets me do so without saying anything. "I can't." I cry and she hugs me tighter. "None of us can Daniel, but we have to, for Luce and for ourselves." "She is gone Arriane! Lucinda is gone and I have nothing to live for anymore!" The pain in my chest grows and it feels like I'm going to faint. "Right now you just need to do this. You need to do this." Arriane has never been one to cuddle anyone, but right now I wished she would have told me something else. Yet she is right and I need to do this, I need to give Luce the goodbye she deserves. "Help me get up." She takes a strong hold of me and practically lifts me up and I steady myself on her as I walk over to Luce's grave. Cam has put her besides the hole on a bed of roses and I can see that they have been cleaning her up while I had a short breakdown. Her black hair is now wet from the water and there's no blood on her. Somehow, I guess by Lucifer's hand, the scars and wounds have disappeared. She looks just as beautiful as ever.

"Do you want to lay her down?" Lucifer's voice is low and for the first time I realize how hard this must be for him, he loved Luce too. I nod and walk over to her body and just as I am about to pick her up I get an idea. "Do any of you have a knife?" Thankfully none of them ask any question and Roland just hands me a pocket-knife. I take it and then I take a piece of her hair. I put the knife to it and shop some off. Then I hand back the knife and put the little piece of hair in the inner-pocket of my jacket. I feel a little better knowing that I at least will have some of her hair with me. Then I pick her body up for the last time and step down into the grave. On the bottom of it there's flowers, she sometimes talked about wanting to sleep on a meadow of flowers and now she gets to do that sort of. I lay her body down and is struck by how beautiful the situation looks, of how the flowers make her hair and skin glow. Once I'm satisfied with the way her body lies I press a kiss to her forehead and tears once again starts to roll down my cheeks. This is the last kiss I will ever give her, the last time I will ever touch her and I don't know what to do. So without thinking more of it I get up from the hole and take my place between Arriane and Cam. "Anyone wants to say a few words?" I'm surprised that it's actually I who's asking. It's like my mind has shut down and I'm just going per automatic. "I think we all should say something." Cam says and I nod in agreement. Without further notice Arriane decides to start. "Luce, you were and still are my best friend. In every lifetime we have been close and you should know that I wished we would have gotten longer in this lifetime," she breaks off in tears for a minute, "I thought we would have the rest of eternity now. But I'm proud of you. You did the most noble thing, you sacrificed yourself. I will always be thankful for that Luce, and I will always remember you for the smart, good, wonderful and talented girl you were. Goodbye Luce." She starts to cry tremendously and I can't quite focus on what Roland, Annabelle and Cam says other than I hear some 'I love you' and things similar to what Arriane said, and they all break out in tears afterwards. Then it's Lucifer's turn to speak. "The most wonderful thing about you became your death, but you will always be remembered. I know what you wanted from me and I'm sorry that you didn't get it while you lived. But I promise that I will do it. That's my vow to you Lucinda." His words are cryptic, but I don't care. He said what he wanted to say and somewhat I feel glad that he will do whatever Luce wanted him to do, she got a sort of last wish.

"It's your turn Daniel." Annabelle whispers. At first I can't come up with a single word to say, cause what do you say to the one person you love more than anything when she can't hear you. But maybe she can hear me. I think of that to get me to open my mouth. "Where should I start Luce? You always knew me better than I knew myself. Every time I have needed you, you have been there. And I have tried to be there for you to, but you didn't let me this time. This time you went away on your own, you left me. I know why you did it and I love you even more for that, but how do you think I can survive without you?" My voice fades out and turn into sobs. But I manage to collect myself. "But I shouldn't talk about that, I should talk about all of the good memories you and I have. We beat the odds, we got through the curse and we had a lot of wonderful moments on the way. And in this lifetime, I think this lifetime is my favorite because you were so full of life, so passionate. You were the Luce I fell in love with in heaven. I don't know where you are now, because I refuse to believe that you're nowhere. But Luce, keep your light and I will try to keep mine. For you Luce, I will try. This is not the last time I see you, I know it. But until next time, I love you. I love you so much and there won't be a minute that I won't miss you. I love you." With those words I have said my goodbye and I watch as Roland and Cam covers her body in soil. And within minutes she's gone. We all look at the grave, none of us crying anymore. Because crying won't bring her back, and I think that I'm all out of tears.

I stare at her grave until something else catches my attention. It's Cam who's reaching into his jacket and brings out what looks like letters. He holds them in his hands and looks at them and then opens his mouth. "She gave these to me, told me to give them to you." At first I don't understand, when would she have written those. But then I decide that it doesn't matter, she did and with that she gave me a last conversation. Cam hands out the letters and I look at mine for a long time. I look at my name written in her handwriting. "I think we should open them by ourselves'" Annabelle says and stands up. The others follow her example and leaves me alone with my letter by her grave. I can't bare myself to open the letter. I don't know why but it's like when I do it the last thing I could expect from here will be gone. So I look at it for hours before I finally manage to open it.

Four years later

I soar through the air, just like Luce used to love to do. It's like everytime I do something that she loved it feels like she's there with me, and maybe she is. During the first year after her death I was devastated but then when I started to fly again the feeling of her being there came and it helped me, it helped me to slowly get back to being myself. Well I'm not the same person I was before, I can never be that person. And I miss her so much it hurts all the time, but I can finally enjoy laughing at some dumb joke made by Arriane or soaring through the air. The letter helped with that. I have read it almost everyday, sometimes twice a day when the loss almost has buried me alive. So the letter always lies in my inner jacket pocket in case that I would need it.

I finally land on the island, the same island that Luce died on four years ago. It feels hard to be here, but not as hard as I thought it would be, it gets easier every year I guess. A bit away on the beach I see Arriane, Roland, Annabelle, Cam and Lucifer. I walk over to them and we hug each other. Well, Lucifer doesn't hug anyone as usual. Then we walk in silence the path to her grave. No one has any flowers with them, we decided a long time ago that we wouldn't bring any, instead we would bring letters. Letters about anything, nobody had to tell anyone what they would have written. We do it in honour of the letters Luce gave us. I actually feel good about doing it, it makes me feel like I still communicate with her.

When we get to the grave I dig out the letter from my jacket and see as the others do the same. I look at Cam who looks back at me. I have grown closer to him these past years, he really was there to drag me out of the darkest days and talk to me about her. I felt like he was the only one that I could talk to who wouldn't judge me for anything, who would talk about her without being scared for how I would react. Now we stand here, each with a letter in our hands. In ordinary procedure Arriane leaves her letter under the rock first, then Annabelle, Roland, Cam, Lucifer and I. Then the letters is covered in the same sort of hide-spell Dee used on her library.

"Daniel, I made a deal for you." Lucifer whispers. I'm caught off guard, I didn't see that one coming. "What?" He just shakes his head, but there's something in his eyes, something I can't read. "We just need to go to the beach." I look at the others who look just as stunned and curious as I feel. But we follow Lucifer as he walks back to the beach. Once there he stops. With his eyes set on the horizon he starts to speak. "When angels die they don't just disappears from earth. There's a sort of heaven for us, The Throne lied when she said otherwise. But the thing is not all angels go there. It's true that some just turns into nothing – cease to exist." I can't understand where he's going with this, is he going to tell me that Luce is in a heaven for angels? I have known that since the day she died but hearing it would be nice. "Where are you going with this?" Cam asks. Then a light appears from the corner of my left eye. We all turn towards the light because we recognize it, it's The Throne.

None of us can really believe that she would be here, but we kneel anyway in pure admiration and let her light warm us. For a moment everything feels okay, in her light it feels okay. "Right on time." Lucifer mumbles. The Throne doesn't seem to care. "Rise you brave angels." She says and smiles warmly at us. "What is going on?" Arriane asks and I can see how much she loves The Throne just by looking at her skin, it radiates warmth and admiration. "Lucifer, why won't you tell them. After all it was you who made it possible." The Throne turns to Lucifer and he looks at her with a mix of despise and calmness. I can sort of understand him, when she let Luce die I lost a bit of my faith in her. "Daniel, she's here." And with those words my whole world is turned upside down. Is Luce here? I barely notice the shock that goes through our little group. "What do you mean?" I manage to whisper. Lucifer nods to The Throne and I turn my head to her. She takes a step to the left and I hold my breath as I see that someone is standing behind her, covered in light and in a white knee-long dress. I must be dreaming, it can't be her. But the longer I look the more I realize that it's her. And then I can't hold myself back anymore, I run towards her. Then I stop right before I collide into her. Her smile is beautiful, she is beautiful. "Is it you?" I whisper and reach out my hand to touch her cheek. "Yes Daniel, it's me." Her voice is as heavenly as always and I kiss her. It's like nothing I ever experienced before. She tastes like Luce, with all of her love, but there's light too. A light that burns with life. I put my arms around her waist and pulls her closer and she puts her arms around my neck. "You're here." I mumble over and over again to her lips until she has to pull away because of all the laughter that comes out from her lips. I take her face in my hands instead and look at her beautiful face, scared that she will go away if I look away.

"It's actually Lucifer's doing." I had totally forgotten that there were other people with us at the beach, all I can focus on is Luce, but The Throne's voice reminds me of my surrounding. "He found a way to assure that you, Daniel, could be with Lucinda forever. If that's what you want." Is she stupid? All I ever wanted is to be with her forever, I don't care where or how. "Yes, of course." I say and Luce smiles at me. "I'm not going anywhere Daniel. You can look at the others as well." She says warmly and after another minute I slowly turn around to face everybody else, with her hand in mine. I see that Cam, Annabelle, Arriane and Roland all look very shocked, shocked but happy. No one does any attempt to explain how I will be able to be with Luce forever, that is until Luce opens her mouth. "To be with me Daniel you need to give up life on earth. Because I'm not coming back, I died here four years ago and I can't come back. But you can come with me. If you want, if you're ready to give up life on earth you can come with me." I look at her, hearing what she's saying and understanding what she's asking for. "You don't have to, we will meet eventually again, but you can. I love you Daniel and I will continue to love you if you choose to stay. But Lucifer found a way to allow you to come with me without you having to die, and assure you that you come to the heaven I'm in. But you don't have to." She says it like I have a choice. But for me it is no choice, it's only her and I will always chose her. "Don't you understand yet? There will only be you, if I have a chance to be with you that's what I'll do. I chose you Luce, as I always have and always will." The light around her grows brighter and I lean down and kiss her softly.

"Then it's settled. I think it's time to say goodbye." The Throne says. With Luce's hand in mine we walk over to the others. The whole scenario reminds me of the time we became humans, but this is somehow more beautiful. Arriane is the first one to hug Luce and I let them get the goodbye they didn't get four years ago. Myself I turn to Cam. "The right thing to do?" I ask. "It's the only thing to do."He says and we hug each other. "Thank you, for everything." I say and he pats me on the back. Then I'm back holding Luce's hand in mine. I look at Arriane, she just smiles at me, happy that she got to say goodbye to Luce properly. I look at Roland and Annabelle who smiles brightly at me. None of us needs to say anything, all of us understands the words were not speaking. "We'll see each other some day again." Luce says and I know it's true, their time on earth just isn't up yet. But mine is and I couldn't be happier. With one final smile at each one of them we turn away and walk back to The Throne. On our way we pass Lucifer and Luce stops. "Thank you. And you know that my death wasn't your fault, right?" She says and he gives her a warm smile. "Have a wonderful life Lucinda, you deserve it." She lets go of my hand and hugs him. Then she lets go and put her hand in mine again. I nod a 'thank you' to Lucifer even though he deserves so much more than just a nod. But he seems to get the point and smiles at me.

We stand next to The Throne, surrounded by her loving light. "Let's go meet Gabbe, Molly and Dee again." Luce whispers, but I don't really care about them right now. "Let's spend forever together." I say and she leans her head to my shoulder. "That sounds like an adventure beyond imagining." I smile and with her I look one last time at our friends. They stand together and smile, they all look happy and I know that I will see them again. Then I'm swept in by light and then the beach is gone. I'm with the love of my life, I'm with Lucinda. I'm home.

That was it my friends. The end of my fanfiction about Luce and Daniel. What do you think? Was it good, was it bad? Did you see it coming?

Well, I do have a thought about the letters Luce wrote...do you want me to post a chapter with them? Do you want to know what she wrote? Let me know!

I want to thank everybody that has been following this story and I hope that you liked it. I must say that it has been a lot of fun to continue the wonderful story Lauren Kate created, I just hope I made it some justice.

I love you all!

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