Cain POV
After the bloody battle with the angels, in which the hotel was destroyed, while everyone was rejoicing that they had won the battle and driven out the angels, I was looking for my brother.
"Abel where are you" I shouted hoping to find him. I was looking for him until I heard someone calling me "Cain…" I went to the place where the one who called me was.
My brother Abel was there under the rubble, he was covered in blood and had a pierced arm and leg.
"Abel you seem to be injured" I said with a smirk at the obvious fact, I knew that if he died he would resurrect in his cube so I didn't attach much importance to it. That was my main mistake.
"The time has come Cain… I have something to tell you and it is something that should have been done a long time ago." He said I did not understand what he was talking about.
"In what sense has the time come…" As soon as I realized what he was talking about, the smile disappeared from my face.
Don't you dare do that now. We've already lost Pentius, I don't want you to go too.
"I kept thinking after we made up how I could forgive you."
The runes on Abel's body began to glow. I understood how this would end and began to cry without the strength to stop it.
"When I was resurrected, I had a desire to kill everything, especially you, because you took everything from me: my family, my life, and even heaven, but with each year after that, this desire diminished," he told me, slowly dying.
With tears in my eyes I spoke the following: "I was young and jealous. I am older. Time has carved its wisdom into me. I am here now because… because I still love you. Please, Abel, don't leave me." I pulled him out of the wreckage of the hotel to hug my brother tightly. He continued speaking.
"It especially fell when I ended up in the Foundation where I met one agent who took away almost this wish." His runes began to glow even more strongly "And how I ended up in hell and after I saw Charlie it finally died out and now I can say with complete confidence…"
"Cain, Abel, where are you?" Charlie was looking for us after the battle.
"We're here Charlie," I said with tears in my eyes.
"It's good that you're alive… What happened to Abel, why is his tattoo glowing?" Charlie said in horror, watching me hug Abel who was covered in blood.
"Charlie… I'm glad you're here" Abel said with the pain he felt "First of all I want to thank you for reconciling me with my brother" Charlie started to cry watching Abel die "And secondly thank you for giving me back the faith I lost a long time ago you honestly predicted me when I was young, when I was still a shepherd." Charlie fell to her knees next to me with tears in her eyes she didn't know what to say to that.
"And now you have Cain" This is what I was afraid of most of all "How I wanted to say…" These seconds I would like for them to be an eternity so that he wouldn't say this "I forgive you, Cain"
The runes stopped glowing on Abel’s body.
“There is one more thing I want to ask you, three wishes.” I began to listen carefully, as did Charlie.
"1. Please bury me next to my mother and brother, you know where that is.
2. Also, if you ever see Iris, tell her that I'm sorry for what I did to her and Omega-7.
3. And please stop torturing yourself, Cain, if not for your sake, then for my sake. Charlie believes in you, and I believe you can find redemption for yourself."
I heard this with a pain I didn't want to imagine.
"One more thing, if I still remember, I will say hello to Seth from you, Cain." Abel let go of me and fell to the ground and said the following.
"Farewell my beloved elder brother."
These were Abel's last words before his death.
"He…" Charlie couldn't get the words out.
"Yes Charlie, he died." I got down on my knees and Charlie started crying even more and hugged me.
In my thoughts I prayed to all the gods that he would get into the cube again, but this did not happen, the corpse did not turn to dust.
“Well, why did you forgive me before you died? You could do it later." I thought, not understanding why he did this. “Why did you leave me after we met again?” I told Abel's corpse.
"Cain… Abel wanted it himself" I looked at Charlie with incomprehension
"Cain, think about it, he didn't call for help, he left his dying wish, it seems to me that he himself knew that he didn't have long left," Charlie said, I wanted to object, but I realized that she was right.
"You're right, it's hypocritical, he finally found peace and I want him to just… I just want to be with him a little longer," I said to Charlie, but what did she say?
"Don't worry, his sacrifice will not be in vain." I stopped crying.
"Thanks for that Charlie. Can you please send your father I want to ask you something."
"Of course," Charlie said as she left, and I sat down on my knees in front of my brother and said.
"Your wishes will be fulfilled, brother, I promise."
Lucifer POV
"Why did you want me to open a portal to the human world here?" I asked Cain.
It was a forest that looked as if no human foot had stepped through for many decades.
"And look who is buried here." Said Cain, holding Abel's corpse in his hands.
I looked around and saw four tombstones, I walked up to them and saw an inscription on the first one.
"Adam"
"He is immortalized for who he was, not who he became."
I was surprised to see Adam's tombstones and the next one.
"Eve"
"She was much loved. Her beauty will not be forgotten."
These are Eva's tombstones, I feel sorry for her. I looked at the next one.
"Abel"
"He believed in a bright future, his faith will not be forgotten"
Abel? Now I understand why Cain told me to open a portal to this place. I looked at the last tombstones.
"Sif"
"He left the seed that gave birth to humanity. This cemetery was created by his order."
"Now you understand why I want to bury him here," Cain said as he approached the third tombstone.
“But how do I know they are all buried in other places? I said, knowing that everyone who is written here has a different burial place.”
"It used to be like that, but not anymore. They were all reburied here. I am the only one alive who still knows about this place." He answered me.
“I understand this, just as I understood your family cemetery,” I asked Cain.
"Something like that, can I ask you one more thing Sir Morningstar?" I listened to him carefully.
"Can you dig up the earth on Abel's tombstone with your own strength?" he said.
"Oh yeah right" I used my powers to pick up the earth from the spot and when I did there was a coffin down there.
“I didn’t think he’d be in the casket a second time,” Cain said before placing him in the casket
"So what next?" I asked Cain, but instead of answering he began to sing a lullaby.
He sang for two minutes, it was a beautiful lullaby, I didn't want to interrupt him but when he finished he said the following:
"Abel, even though you forgave me for killing you, I still feel guilty even after what you said, but I guess I'll never stop feeling guilty and that I deserve redemption. But if you believe in my redemption, then I'll believe it too." Cain was silent for a few seconds and said the last phrase.
"Sleep peacefully my brother" after that he stood for another minute without speaking and after that he closed the coffin and came up to me.
"You can put the earth back in place"
"Of course." I filled the hole with earth and after I finished, Cain spoke to me.
"We can go back to hell, the longer I stay here, the more the forest dies." I didn't understand what he meant until I looked around.
The whole land around Cain became dead, and this effect only gets worse.
"Okay, I'm opening the portal, but I wanted to ask if you feel better now?" Cain looked at me with his eyes.
“I don’t know, I’m still sad, but it was his wish and I had to do it.”
"Okay, I get it, let's go." I opened a portal, and Cain entered. I looked back, looking at Adam's tombstones.
"You may be a piece of shit Adam but your sons were good people" I thought before entering the portal
Somewhere in heaven.
Two seraphim were shocked that a sinner went to heaven.
One was very happy, the other was shocked that it was possible.
But behind the snake someone else with short light hair appeared.
"Who are you and where am I?" asked the stranger. "Wait, I recognize that voice, it's you, Abel," said the big snake.
"And how do you know me, snake?" he asked him.
He forgot everything.