elena's story

chapter 19

you know what happens next from the last book. Vox gets fixed, addam attempts to trick gabriel to his death but is stopped by God who turns addam into a demon, And I tell James that for this redemption thing to work I'm gonna have to sacrafice myself.

Currently I was preparing to be sacraficed. I had vivien tie me to an old cross. She kept telling me that she would find a way to get me back, even if it means finding God herself. But I was about to find out she wouldn't have to because I was already going to find God (again). I was also going to find out that addam is going to be the one to kill me.

a crowd of demons had gathered around my cross, but none of them wanted to be the ones to sacrafice me; not even the ones who used to kill people on crosses as punishment. apparently everything I had done had touched the hearts of demons and angels alike.

charlie came outside and was upset that I was trying to do this. she was about to try and untie my ropes when finally a demon, addam, vollunteared to kill me. "yo fucking biches! She clearly wants to be killed on that dead piece of fucking wood! so I'll kill her if you assholes won't!"

addam came at me with his sword and stabbed me in the side, I wached weakly as my blood drained on the ground and addam whispered something. "you have no idea how long I've waited to kill gabriel's daughter. did you honestly think I wouldn't figure it out?"

I smiled because addam, in his attempt to make gabriel upset and ruin everything we worked so hard for, just made it all happen.suddenly, my body convulsed as my heart ruptured. And I was plunged into darkness, I couldn't feel, hear, see, or smell anything. all there was was an infinate emptiness for what felt like milenias, but was really just 2.8 seconds.

I woke up gasping for air in a familiar dimly lit room. I was confused to be looking at the face of God. then she spoke to me, like actually spoke to me. she didn't use an electronic speaker like before. "you didn't think your sacrafice would mean you were copletely non-existant anymore, did you?"

"I'm confused."

"when a sinner dies they either become an angel or a demon. if a demon or an angel dies, now that is when they trully never come back."

"But I was..."

"you were a half angel, but you were also half human, that's why I couldn't risk actually speaking to you before because earthlings cannot trully hear my voice and survive it. when you sacraficed yourself, it was that half of you that died. And it is that half that remanifested as a demon."

I stepped off the bed I had apparently been laying on and looked at myself in the mirror. "But I look..."

"like an angel? I know, because you are in heaven. you're human half remanifested as a demon but you're angel half was never killed. so when you are in heaven, you will look like this. but when you are in hell, you will take on your demonic form."

"whoah,"

"I know, cool, isn't it? you are the first ever person to be able to choose where you live; in heaven or in hell. I hope you choose wisely where you want to live."

"I've already decided, and... it's not what most people would expect."