Heavenly Hellions, Hellish Angels, Human Bodies
Story By: Maeleana
Disclaimer: Meow.
Chapter 13: Epilogue
Duo looked around the living room. He was sitting on the loveseat with Heero and Trowa on either side of him. Michael was sitting in the recliner with an eye raised at one of Gabriel's comments. Uriel was rolling his eyes at Gabriel while patting his hand patronizingly. Metatron was, not surprisingly, absent. Lucifer kept making faces at Michael, whenever Heaven's ruler wasn't looking, just to see who noticed. WuFei was sitting on the couch laughing with Lailah, and Quatre.
It had been several months and Quatre was doing a lot better. He had accepted being an angel and decided to join Heaven. Raphael's healing of Quatre's mind had almost been miraculous and, since the truce, an understanding had been reached that if Quatre felt himself slipping he could go to purgatory and engage an excremental in combat to wear himself down enough for a healer to assist him.
Raphael sat a bit away from the immediate circle watching everyone. He lightly smiled and raised his glass in salute when he noticed Duo looking at him. Duo smiled, Michael might be in charge of Heaven but it was Raphael everyone saw as the new 'Father'.
It was thanks to Raphael that Duo was able to sit there and enjoy this company.
Once word had reached Heaven that the former angel Abbadon was the anti-Christ, Angels of all levels wanted to take action and destroy him. But Raphael, in an impressive display, informed them that if they destroyed Abbadon they would be destroying Compassion as well.
Now everyone in Heaven and Hell knew that Duo was a child born of love between Lucifer and Lailah, and of course no one wanted to make Lailah upset, and few wanted to piss off Lucifer.
Duo chuckled lightly as Michael threw a spoon at Lucifer while never taking his attention from talking to Trowa.
It had been a rough couple of months that brought them to this, but Duo felt it was worth it. He now had a mom, a dad, a few uncles, a brother, two lovers, and Metatron. Nobody could describe how they felt about Metatron, but as WuFei so simply put it "Metatron is like an slightly annoying sibling or cousin that moves in and won't leave."
Everyone was happier now because just last month Michael and Lucifer had allowed the five former Gundam pilots to see their departed loved ones.
Heero got to meet his birth parents and find out what had happened. It seemed that his father was a soldier who had been killed in battle and his mother had come down with a serious illness shortly after Heero's birth and had sent him to a relative, but that relative had given Heero to someone else. After being passed around like that he had somehow ended up with Odin Lowe. Heero got to speak briefly with Odin as well, so now all his personal demons were laid to rest...well except for Trowa and Duo.
Trowa had seen his parents who had told him that he had a sister named, get this, Catherine. Trowa then checked into it and found out that the Catherine Bloom who mothered over him at the circus was indeed his blood sister. When Duo suggested that Trowa tell Cathy, Trowa declined saying that Catherine had been through so much and yet she had managed to put it behind her and move on. Telling her would only serve to re-open those wounds. No one argued, it was after all Trowa's choice.
Quatre had seen his father and, surprise, his mother. He had yet to speak to them though, he said he had a lot to make up for before he was worthy of facing them. Quatre had almost gone overboard 'making it up' to everyone, especially Lailah. It was almost amusing to see Quatre ready to cater to her every whim, but Lailah asked nothing from him.
WuFei was the surprising one. Seeing his loved ones had sobered him greatly. His parents and siblings were, as he had expected, in Heaven and proud of him. But his wife Meiran... It turned out that she was residing in Hell. Apparently she had committed a few major sins before dying. One of which was denouncing womanhood in favor of battle. Another was being defiant to her husband. She also, technically, committed suicide, so she was consigned to Hell.
Lucifer admitted that some of the definitions were antiquated, but there was nothing he could do to change them unless God wanted them changed. His newest project was negotiating with Michael on new definitions of Sin.
WuFei was still somberly silent most of the time but now he smiled more often as if, slowly, he was allowing himself to enjoy his life.
Duo himself was very happy. He got to visit Heaven's side of Purgatory to talk to Sister Helen and Father Maxwell. They told him they were very happy that he had found himself, and that they were not surprised that he had become a Fallen Angel. Sister Helen said it fit with his inquisitive nature. In Hell he'd gotten to talk to Solo.
That was a sobering experience for Duo, he never saw the stealing the old gang did as evil but according to the rules and definitions stealing, even to survive, was a sin. So Solo was in Hell. That was another reason Lucifer was petitioning for a change.
Duo came out of his reverie when the hall clock chimed. In synchronization everyone raised their glasses in a silent toast. They were toasting life, death, their health and happiness.
In that moment absolute peace was felt throughout the entire Universe.
El Fin.
Mae: ...That ending sucked.
Beytra: That's what you get for listening to Phil.
Phil: That's not true. When she listens to me she ends up with no ending.
Mae: True, Phil makes things go on forever. Well that's the end of the story itself, although I'm adding another chapter, but it's an explanation of who's related to whom and who likes whom.
Beytra: Just so those of you who were lost can catch up.
Mae: Before I forget my note: Since this is from Duo's POV, he's saying that he and Trowa are two of Heero's personal demons. And I will not go into details because that would make this chapter a Lemon.
Beytra: And you're a prude.
Mae :P
