Four Days Ago

I opened the door and looked at Lilith with a scoff. Funny for her to be here after completely fucking everything up. "What the hell do you want?" I asked as I crossed my arms.

She looked to the left and right as if she was about to be caught and then looked back at me. "We can still kill Syn."

That sentence made my ears perk. I was still pissed at what happened at their dinner. How dare he propose to her in front of me? After everything that happened, I was thirsty for revenge. Revenge on Queen. She took everything from me and we needed to be even.

"Come in," I said.

She strode in quickly and I closed the door. I looked back at her to see her looking at Felix and I walked toward them. "Talk, Lilith."

"Queen took my powers as I'm sure you both know."

How could we forget? It was one of the more...eventful things that happened at the dinner. Eventful but incredibly embarrassing. I was ashamed for it to be known that I was working with her afterward.

"Yeah, we saw," Felix muttered. "Why are you here?"

"Because our plan does not have to be over," she said in a rushed voice.

"Didn't you already give them the gun?" Felix asked dryly.

"No, I gave them a fake but they don't know it."

Felix immediately stood up and looked at her. "Where is the real gun?"

"Your parents still have it," Lilith said to me. "If I can get it I can still have someone kill Syn at the wedding."

"Syn and I are no longer getting married," I said.

"What do you mean?"

"He proposed to Queen. They're getting married in a few days," I said as I looked at Felix.

Lilith screamed and gripped her hair in frustration. A few moments later she took a few deep breaths and looked at us. "Then we'll do it at his wedding. Are the two of you still up for it?"

"Of course," I answered. I looked at Felix who had a large grin on his face as he nodded.

"I'm in too. We could be King and Queen," he said excitedly, taking my hands into his. I looked back to Lilith considering there was only one question left to determine. Felix and I couldn't pull the trigger if we wanted to be the future King and Queen. We could have no parts in this.

"If we get caught we won't be able to be King and Queen," I spoke up.

"No need to worry about that. They think they have the real gun so there is no need to suspect us. Besides, the both of you won't even be in Jeradua when it goes down," Lilith said.

Felix glanced at me in confusion and turned back to Lilith. "So who will shoot the gun if we're not here?"

"I have someone for that."

Present Day

I ran to Queen who was on the floor bleeding out, her eyes fluttering shut. Syn caught her in his arms and he was screaming for her to wake up. Her eyes fluttered open, but it looked like she was barely holding on. Syn pulled her to his chest and looked at me with tears streaming down his face. "Get the necklace, please!"

"Syn, I can't just leave!" I cried.

"Xavier, I'm begging you." He sobbed as he held Queen. I ignored the tears streaming down my face and looked at Syn. "Where is it?"

"Nightstand," he said weakly.

My heart broke to leave them but I couldn't say no when I saw the look in his eyes. I've never seen it before with him, but I've seen it plenty of other times with other people. It was fear.

I pushed through the crowd that was running out of the room and rushed to Syn's room. As soon as I hit the halls my legs sprung into action and I raced to Syn's room. It was me against time and I'd be damned if I didn't beat it.

"Queen!" I said in a frightened tone as I tapped her cheeks. She was awake but her heartbeat was getting weaker and weaker by the second. Syn looked desperate as he tried to hold her wound on her stomach, but she was bleeding out profusely.

Lucifer ran to my side and his eyes went to Syn. "The binding spell, Syn don't tell me-"

My eyes went to Syn who looked at his father with a weak expression and when I looked down at his stomach I screamed when I noticed the same wound on him. "Syn, why didn't you say anything?!"

I tore a part of my dress and held it over Syn's wound. Cleo and Caspian came by our side to help us, but nothing was working to stop the bleeding. Syn looked up and I turned to see Xavier running toward us with a necklace in his hand.

Syn coughed up blood as he reached for the necklace. "Mom, put it on Queen," he commanded as he passed it to me, his bloody hands shaking.

"What will this do?" I asked with a sob.

"Please," he begged.

Through watery eyes, I moved Queen's hair and put the necklace around her neck. Xavier went to Syn's side and wrapped his arm around him as he tried to comfort him. "Everything will be okay." I didn't know if he believed those words because he seemed to be breaking down himself.

Xavier's eyes fell on where my hand was moving to hold Syn's wound and his eyes widened in shock. "No, no, no, no!" He reached his hand down to help me, but Syn stopped him.

"Don't."

The pain in my stomach was unbearable but it was the last thing on my mind as I held Queen in my arms. I had no idea if she or the baby would be okay, but I wouldn't be letting her die today.

Everyone was crying around me and I wished that they wouldn't. This was hard enough without seeing everybody break down.

Xavier tried desperately to help my mother stop the bleeding, but I knew it was too late for me. I already knew how it felt to be killed by Cain's artifacts and I felt the same nauseating metallic feeling from within me. "Don't," I said as I looked at Xavier.

"Syn, you're bleeding," he cried out loud.

"It's okay," I said.

He shook his head and tried again. "It's not okay, Syn. Please let me try! You can't die again!"

"Xavier," I said.

"What?" He asked frantically as he tried to help me.

"I loved having you as my best friend," I said with a smile.

He shook his head once again and turned his attention to my wound. As I felt my life slipping away from me, I heard Queen's heart begin to beat again. I smiled at the sound and I knew she'd live. I knew she'd be hurt that I'd no longer be with her when she woke, but thankfully I prepared for this...just in case.

I felt a familiar rumble in my chest as the world around me began to blur. "So now you've decided to join the party," I whispered weakly, acknowledging the presence re-emerging in my body.

"Well, I'd be a fool to miss out on this."

I laughed weakly at my wolf's undying sense of humor and winced as the sharp pain in my abdomen increased. I could vividly see everyone around me trying to get my attention, but it was like watching them from behind a glass. I was there, but I wasn't fully with them. Their worried expressions and sobs were hard to watch like this.

"I'm sorry," I said to my wolf. "I wish I could've l-let you out more."

"I was out when I needed to be," he said. I rolled my eyes, knowing he was referring to Queen and he let out a deep chuckle. "What? I told you she was the one. Maybe you'll start listening to me from here on out."

"Maybe," I whispered as my eyes fluttered.

My eyes closed and my body became weak as I felt Xavier trying to shake me. "Syn no!" He screamed. The only thing that let me go peacefully amidst all the chaos was the sound of Queen's heartbeat getting stronger as I drifted off into the darkness.

I didn't think it'd be possible to feel pain as great as the one I was feeling right now. I dropped to my knees and screamed as my body was wracked with sobs. The sound of Genesis screaming and trying to wake up Syn broke me even more. I did something in my eternity of living that I had never done before. Never for my father, never for Lilith, never for Genesis. Not even for myself. I cried for the first time in my life as Syn's lifeless body tore my heart apart.

We knew one of us dying was a possibility, but I prayed that it would be me. I went as far as to beg God that I'd be the one instead of Syn. I didn't think I could survive his death and here I was not being able to survive. I wanted to vanish from the earth.

I looked to Genesis who was now being held back by Cleo as they cried in each other's arms. The only things keeping me going were her and my grandchild. I forced myself up and walked to Genesis. I pulled her into my arms and she screamed into my chest as she began to fall to the floor. I held her tightly in my arms and cried with her.

Over her shoulder, I watched as Cain took Queen from Syn's lifeless body and held her against him as he cried. "What's going on?" Cain muttered in a broken voice as he looked down at Queen. We all turned and watched as the necklace around her neck began to glow a bright red. A few moments later her eyes opened with a large gasp.

"Queen," Genesis cried.

Queen looked confused as she saw all of us crying, but when her eyes landed on Syn, it was all over.

I quickly removed myself from Cain's hold and crawled to Syn as quickly as I could. "Syn!" I screamed as I shook him. He remained still and lifeless as I looked at him and I cried. "Do something!" I begged as I looked around at everyone.

They remained still as they cried in each other's arms and I looked at Xavier who had Syn's hand in his. He was sobbing and I shook my head. "No," I said as tears streamed down my face. I refused to believe that Syn was gone after everything, I just couldn't.

I shook him once again, but when I was met with nothing but silence I wrapped my arms around him. I cried against his chest and Cain tried to pull me away, but I resisted and clung to Syn with all my power, somehow hoping that he'd take a piece of my soul and come back to me.

I didn't want to let him go...I didn't want to. This wasn't supposed to be our ending. We just got married, we were having a baby...our baby. I pulled away slowly and my eyes moved down to my bloody stomach. I couldn't survive if I lost Syn and Xavia both.

"Who did this?!" I screamed.

"We don't know," Jess answered sadly.

I looked around the now empty room and my eyes landed on my parents. My father seemed unfazed and my mother was sobbing on the floor. I made eye contact with my dad and something in me snapped. "You."

I stood up on shaky legs and walked to him. "What did you do?" I seethed.

"I came to a wedding," he said simply. Even if he had nothing to do with this, why did he seem so heartless? The man I was about to marry just died and he had no reaction to my pain.

My body vibrated with a fit of foreign anger and he looked at me in fear. Before I could think twice, my hand was in his chest and he was coughing up blood. My hand squeezed his heart and I watched him, a feeling of nothingness filling me as he fell to his knees.

"Queen," he said in a weak voice, gripping my wrist in an attempt to make me less go, but this was far overdue.

I crushed his heart in my hands and watched as the life disappeared from his eyes. His body dropped to the floor with a thud and I cried as I fell onto my knees. Lucifer came by my side and pulled me into a hug as my tears rolled down my face. "We'll get them all, Queen. They'll all pay."

Cleo rushed to me along with Caspian and pointed to my stomach. "The baby."

Lucifer laid his hand on my stomach and closed his eyes. After a few moments, he pulled away and let out a small breath. "She's okay."

I was relieved at that, but my heart still pained. How was I going to tell my daughter that her father was dead? I didn't even want to live anymore after this, but how could I leave her?

Lucifer turned my face to him as if he could see the internal fight within me. He looked me directly in my eyes and shook his head. "My son, with his last dying breath decided to bring you back to life with that necklace. Don't let his sacrifice be for nothing." Tears streamed down my face as I nodded at his words, trying to find the small flicker of Will telling me to go on.

He looked back at the room and stood up. "Where are Xyla and Felix?!" He screamed. "I'm going to kill every single one of them!"

"No, you can't do that!" Genesis argued.

"Why the hell not?!"

"Felix is my son!" Genesis yelled back. "You can't kill him!"

"What about our son?" Lucifer croaked as he pointed to Syn whose body was lying against a column. I looked at him once again and the reality of tonight set in once again, making another round of sobs erupt in me as I slowly walked to his side. I dropped to his side, wrapping his arm around my body, and leaned into his hold for one last time as the arguing continued.

"I can't lose another son," Genesis sobbed in a broken voice, glancing towards where I was laying with Syn.

Lucifer scoffed and staggered backward from Gen as if she were hurting him. Footsteps at the entrance made us turn to it and we saw Julius reluctantly walk in. When he saw Syn's body on the floor he covered his mouth in shock. He held onto a seat to keep himself from falling and I closed my eyes.

Through my closed eyes, I felt a painfully bright light that made the room bursts into gasps. I opened my eyes to see the Seers standing in front of Syn and I, looking down at us with apologetic smiles.

"I'm sorry for your loss," Mary said sadly. "But unfortunately since Syn is no longer alive, there is no balance. Meaning we'll need to get rid of your daughter."

"No!" I screamed as I moved away from them. "Please no!"

Eve stepped forward and smirked down at me. "Sorry girl, but you don't have a choice." Everyone in the palace began yelling and trying to fight them, but with a snap from Mary, they were all silenced and glued to their spots.

"Queen," she said. "We wish we didn't have to do this, but the future of the Universe lies in our hands."

I tried to use any of my powers, but nothing was working on them. Jesus stepped forward with a sigh and came to my side. I tried to fight him off but he was a lot stronger as he kissed his fingers and pressed them against my forehead. "I'm sorry, Queen. Sleep."

꧁꧂

I woke up in the sunflower place I had met my daughter and looked around. My eyes landed on my father holding her in his arms as tears streamed down his face. I got up from the floor, running to them as my heart splintered and I went to her side.

"Xavia," I cried.

"Hi, mom," she said weakly. "What's going on?"

I looked back up at my father who had a pained expression on his face. "Is there anything you can do?!"

"I can only protect her from dangers within here," he whispered.

I held back tears as I pulled her into my arms. She still had a smile on her face and I wondered how she was feeling. Was she in pain? I couldn't bear the fact that this would be our final moments together. I was on the verge of sobbing again, but I didn't want her to be scared.

"Where is dad?" She asked as she looked around. "Is he okay?"

"He's fine, sweetheart," I lied.

She grinned and let out a weak laugh. "Can you tell him to stop reading me the story with the elephant? It makes me sad."

"I'll tell him." I sniffled. "He loves that story."

She groaned and I held her tightly. "Why am I hurting?" She asked.

I couldn't answer her question, but I kissed her on the forehead and she smiled once again. "I love you, Xavia and so does your dad," I said in a strained voice.

"I love you both too," she said as she struggled to keep her eyes open. My dad covered his mouth to stop from crying and I closed my eyes, leaning my head against hers. "I can't wait to be in the real world with you and da-..."

Her body went limp in my arms and I opened my eyes, finally letting out the sobs I was holding back. I held her body to me and screamed loudly. My daughter was gone, Syn was gone...there was nothing for me to live for anymore.

The only thing keeping me from not going to join them wherever they may be was Lucifer's words to me. Syn gave up his chance for survival so that I could live. I couldn't let that go to waste.

My mind focused on what was left for me in this world, and a burning switch went off in me. It ignited a small seed inside of me that was growing and wrapping its roots throughout my body and mind, repeatedly whispering one word:

Revenge.