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I beg you.”
    The fire shook.   THE DEAL IS ACCEPTED.   COME FORWARD, LUCIFER MORNINGSTAR, AND TAKE THE PLACE OF YOUR WHORE.   SHE WILL BE RELEASED UPON YOUR CAPTURE.   URIEL, RELEASE ANDREALPHUS, READY YOURSELF.   The fire left Michael.   The Archangel blinked and regained himself.   He smiled wickedly at Lucifer.
    Uriel threw Andy.   Belial caught him and carried him back to Helion and Whitney.
    Dahlia clutched her bleeding stomach.   “Do not do this, Lucifer!   You do not know what trade you make!   You do not know what you say!”
    Lucifer took a step towards her.   “I cannot send you back there.   I cannot.   This is my atonement.   This is what I should have offered from the beginning.”
    “No!”   Dahlia reached for him.   “No atonement is needed!   I have forgiven you a thousand times over.   Do not do this!   I can bear the prison.   I have survived it.   Do not, Lucifer!   Please!   Listen to me!”
    Michael squeezed her throat.   “Silence.   No words are needed from you .”   He gestured to Uriel.   “Grab him.”
    Uriel grinned.   Lucifer stopped and dropped to his knees.   Uriel smashed his fist into Lucifer’s face, breaking his nose and jaw.   Uriel slammed him into the ground.   He took hold of Lucifer by his hair and pulled him towards Michael.
    Dahlia struggled.   “Lucifer, fight!”
    Lucifer kept his head down.   He bent into the blow as Uriel slashed at his face.   He kept silent at the kick to his ribs.   He ground his teeth, knowing accepting this now meant they would let her go.   She would live and in doing this, he paid for what he had done to her so long ago.   He had failed to rescue her then, now at least he could begin to make up for his unforgivable actions.
    Michael watched and smiled.   Uriel broke Lucifer against the ground.   Michael did not want to release Dahlia.   He wanted to kill her, but he remained under compulsion.   He stabbed Dahlia instead and threw her to Berith.   “Take your trash back.”   He pointed the spear towards Lucifer.   “Stand.”
    Lucifer stood.   Blood poured out of his mouth in a steady stream.   He looked at Dahlia.   Berith held her against him.   Lucifer swallowed blood.   “I love you.”
    Dahlia reached for him, but she was too weak to speak.   She touched her chest instead.   Tears poured down her face.
    Michael looked to Raphael, Selaphiel, and Jegudiel.   “When we leave, go to the machine above.   Find Gabriel, heal him, and make him restart the weapon.   Return once this place has been obliterated.   I leave the hosts with you to insure that the Fallen do not attack you when we leave.”
    Belial snarled.   “You seek to still wipe us out!”  
    Michael sneered.   “Of course.”   He smiled at Lucifer.   “I am glad he is the one that we will get to keep in Heaven.   I always wanted him over her.”   He leaned in to Lucifer.   “She will die regardless and you will suffer knowing you left her here to that.   You always make the wrong choice, Lucifer.   You never think about what you do.”
    Lucifer’s eyes widened.   He jumped, but Michael speared him through the chest.   “Do not break another promise, another deal.   Not this time.”   Michael grabbed Lucifer’s wrist.   He jumped into the air, vanishing as he reached space.  
    Uriel sneered at the rest, his eyes lingering on Belial.   “If you come with me, I will keep you safe.”
    Belial held on to Andy.   “I’d rather die!”
    Uriel shrugged.   “Then die.”   He followed Michael.
    Dahlia sagged against Berith.   She stared at the spot Lucifer had stood.   She looked at his blood on the ground.   She felt him enter Heaven, felt the searing light on his skin.   She screamed and sank to the ice.   The blood loss and shock were too much; she fell unconscious.
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    Michael and Uriel arrived back in the Hall of the Throne, carrying Lucifer between them.   They tossed him to the ground