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You were there. You had found us.
Michael.
You held your sword against his throat.
Victory at your grasp.
Kill me, Lucifer whispered, and you kill Gabrielle.
The demon held me in his arms, held the sword at my belly. He began to plunge the knife into me.
But time froze.
In that split second when the world stood still.
And you dropped the blade.
Pulled the devil’s sword away from me.
I fell to the ground.
Lucifer saw his chance and he slipped from your grasp.
I lived.
But you could have had your victory, Michael. We would have been rid of the demon that plagued our people, the demon that brought shame to the angels and cursed us into darkness. The demon who wanted Heaven for himself.
You should have let me die.
See what you did?
We believed you had vanquished the Dark Prince.
That you had sent him down to Hell.
But you did not.
You saved me instead.
We thought you had rid the world of evil, but instead evil was allowed to return to the world, allowed to fester. Allowed to return in the form of my lover so the two of us would become further estranged. Allowed to hunt our kind over the centuries. You knew why the Blue Bloods were dying. You knew the Silver brethren were responsible. You kept it from me. You let them take us. You allowed the vampires to be taken, to be sacrificed, to hide your failure. You trained the Petruvians to kill innocents, and so the war continued between our kind. As your weakness grew, the Gates of Hell weakened as well. The borders between the worlds disintegrated.
You were corrupted by your love.
By giving in to your love, you let evil flourish in our world.
And so I kept my secret. About the path that I had found
. Kept the secret of our salvation from you because I trusted you no longer. Especially when I saw them. The young ones. Drained. Full Consumption. That’s when I ran into the arms of my human familiar. That was when I finally stopped loving you.
This was your father’s great failure, Gabrielle whispered into Schuyler’s ear. Will it be yours? Will you choose love over all?
So this was the choice, Schuyler saw. This was her destiny. This was what her mother had prepared her for.
Schuyler struggled against it. This was different. It was not the same. She had Michael’s power and his sword. The wolves at her command. The Venators armed with the power of the Holy Spirit. She could save her love. She could save Jack, she knew she could, just as her father had saved Gabrielle. It was different this time. She would withdraw the sword. She could not sacrifice Jack. Not after everything they had been through; not after everything they had fought for. They had fought so hard to be together and she could still have both, victory and her love. She could still win, she knew it. There would be another chance. The battle was not over. She would not kill Lucifer right then. She could not sacrifice her love. Never. She could never lose Jack. She loved him too much. She would let the devil go.
My father’s failure.
My failure.
