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Everyone’s been invited to the wedding of the Sinners and the Saints—figuratively. In truth, Grace Lowery of the Saints and Isaiah Faust of the Sinners are getting married! It’s been too long and, now that the fighting is done, at last the two can tie the knot for what’s left of the world to see. Everything, down to the short-notice invitations, is beautiful, with gold foil writing and petal pink accents alongside hints of winter, like camellias and pinecones.

The main room is lit up, each tree its own bastion of light and life and hope lining the aisle to the altar. It would be the first wedding Raziel has ever presided over, though Lucifer isn’t to be outdone, standing beside Isaiah as his best man. He lovingly looks at Amalthea in the front row any time he thinks people aren’t looking. Adele shines as maid of honour, glowing and gorgeous. The feeling in the air is hopeful and adoring, like a wish realized.

After all, January 13th is “Make your dreams come true” Day.

And everything looks a dream. In the lobby, there are hors d'oeuvres in petite form; crabs cakes and bruschettas and spinach puffs and more. Pink champagne on ice travels by in tall, modern crystal flute glasses, cherry blossoms perched on the rims. Copper kettles offer hot cider and hot chocolate, along with shots of Kahlua, Maker’s, and Bailey’s if preferred. At dinner, even the place settings are dipped in gold.

It is a day to be joyous and proud. It is an excellent day to be married.

For being in the wrong place at the right time, the world takes pity on the vessels of the Horsemen. They didn’t stand a chance and had no choice in what overtook them, throwing off any semblance of agency for their own life and desires. A horrific, but forgivable, situation. And so, God and the Devil join hands to rectify what is within their now-full power.

Kiara, the first Horseman, was once a girl descended from the angel Raphael. She had dreams of medicine, of caring for the sick and those in need. Raziel takes Kiara’s lifeless body and elevates her to an Envoy angel of the Third Sphere, giving her the mantle of her ancestor: the angel of healing.

Belial, the second Horseman, had been born a demon and never wanted anything more than to experience a human life, that which had always been denied him. Lucifer grants this, recreating Belial as Benjamin Yaogui, a human child in Los Angeles with no memory of his life before.

Donato, the third Horseman, wanted nothing in this world. He didn’t want to live forever and he hated being an angel; nor did he seek the realms of Hell. Together, Raziel and Lucifer join to set both Donato and his beloved Lucrezia in the sky together forever as constellations, a story for the ages.

Talia, who gave her life to stop Death’s integration, Lucifer elevated to a demon henceforth known as Amalthea. Josh, who fought valiantly and succeeded when he was needed, was brought back to life by Magda and Raziel three days later, using the same ritual as for Jesus the first time.

Satan, for finally doing the right thing and with the right intentions, is reinstated as Prince of Pains. Crowley, for her effort during the war, is given the once-vacant title of Prince of Chaos. Babylon is given a special gift for her efforts, her work as Prince of Lures remarkable. 

The white-robed vengeance spirits, the martyrs of the past, rally one last time to give up their own lingering spirits. As their final act, they move their energy into the martyrs of today, raising them up and bringing those martyrs who died in war back to life. In this way, they find peace.

“Tabbycat,” There’s a pause, her father’s voice is cracking, faltering in a way that she’s never heard before. “It’s your mom, an accident. I -”

There are very few ways that she can explain her relationship with her parents, “They love me,” Tabitha says “And I love them -” There’s always that pause, always the pause and the ‘but’ that follows after. 

She doesn’t have to close her eyes to recall so many, “Yes but we love you as you are Tabby,” 

It was meant to soothe but it only whispered in the back of her mind, “We love you even though you’re defective,” 

It was for them that Tabitha hoped for an easy fix that would never come.

Her mother loved her the most, but it hurt the worst when her mother did not understand why she had to go. Why she ran all over and then more, just to try and slip her way out of a world that loved a person who Tabby couldn’t be anymore.

“I love you,” Tabby promised over the phone to her mother, sometimes it would be true and sometimes it rang hollow. 

There’s no way to explain, not really - the sense of relief and the sense of guilt that immediately overwhelms her.

Neither can exist without the other.