dime_liora | The Luck of Job Epilogue

I don't know where,
I don't know where,
Where my path will lead, but I'll follow my feet and
hopefully they'll keep me on the ground and I'll be walking to the sound
Follow, follow, follow my feet.
Follow, follow, follow your feet.

And thus ends the new gospel, the history of the 179^th devil Jensen Ackles, who was conscripted into service at the age of thirty-two, and escaped it over a hundred years later by falling in love and going after that love.

Why God, in his infinite wisdom, could not explain to Jensen his purposes, or why he was chosen in the first place, will sadly remain a mystery to all. But if there is a lesson here, it is surely that above all else comes love and-

Dumah is now informing me that if I end the gospel in such a sappy way I will be the laughingstock of all of Heaven. I would smartly retort that while this may be true, the point of this gospel is not to gain notoriety or respect; it is to accurately reflect what happened at the end of Jensen’s reign in Hell.

I am now being told that I am a fool. Which may be true, and I may also be a hopeless romantic of the lowest stripe, but I am welcomed into social gatherings already whereas Dumah is often left resting on his heels and cooling his wings.

Here would be a good place for an epilogue I suppose, if I cannot discuss the larger ramifications of the tale.

The fallen angel Sariel was given a new devil to mentor and care for. She likes him infinitely less than she did Jensen, but that was to be expected. He was, after all, her favorite since the beginning of the Pit. She does have more control over the new devil, as I am told he is much weaker and less assertive than Jensen was. Which means that she is given more passes to the surface, and that she can use them to visit her old friend and his new life. Sariel is very pleased with this outcome. Jensen pretends that he is not.

Gen and Danni are still together, still happy, and still a holy terror to anyone who questions them. They had a ceremony in Massachusetts that resulted in Jensen calling upon his years of experience with manipulation to avoid several arrests. The pictures are somewhat legendary, and have been used to create several memes. Gen thinks this is delightful. Danni thinks that it’s just nice that her wife is so happy about it.

As for Jared and Jensen?

They are very happy. Jensen fumbled a bit while trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. At first he made an incredible amount of money working for the actual Skymall, but it was quickly evident that this was not the sort of thing he should continue doing if he wished to change and grow along with Jared. As a result he tried a number of different positions before finding that it was easy to turn his skills towards bettering the world. Jensen began to work for charities, twisting and coercing rich men and women into donating to good causes. It was surprisingly easy even though it was, in essence, the opposite of what he had done for so long. The goal of accumulating wealth was replaced with accumulating glory and immortality through their donations.

Jared on the other hand continued on with things as they had been before. Very little changed. Once a month Jared still went to church. A new one, as his old church was going through a fair number of struggles since their pastor was found with a teenager. And then arrested. Jensen pointed out the silliness of Jared’s habit and that he had no reason to be particularly grateful to God one way or another. Jared thinks this is a foolish assertion, as God brought Jensen to him. Much arguing has occurred from that response. Even with all of that said, Jared had changed some. He was a little less idealistic, a little less naïve, and those weren’t bad things when paired with hope. Certainly nothing bordering on jaded or bitter.

They are settled together, comfortable and happy, and both of them have grown. For in the end-

Dumah is telling me that I have run out of time and space. Allow me to simply say this then. The world is a very big place full of very different people. They come and go, pass by you with sometimes a smile and a kind word, sometimes a scowl and silence, but a whole life of their own carried on their shoulders.

It’s easy to break them down further. Easy to take apart what it took them so long to build. And you could do that and feel accomplished and whole. You could be apathetic to their plights and simply allow them to continue to struggle under the weight of all that consciousness.

Or, like Jared, you could instill in them a little bit of hope and faith. Something that will turn their heads, change their points of view, and cause them to spread the same hope and faith into the rest of the world.

Also, for the record of this gospel, Dumah wouldn’t know a hanging participle if it bit him in the buttocks.

Part 4
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