-2024-2024 - Conclave

At 11:47 PM, the final ballot is cast. The result is read:

It seems you are asking for a proper story based on the title — possibly referring to the 2024 film Conclave (directed by Edward Berger, based on Robert Harris’s novel), but with an unusual date range. Conclave -2024-2024

Rome, January 15, 2024. Pope Innocent XIV dies of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. The Vatican announces a conclave to begin in fifteen days, as tradition dictates. But hidden deep in the Apostolic Archives is a document last touched in 1799: the Edict of Urgency , proclaimed during the Napoleonic chaos. It states: if a pope dies in a leap year before February 29, the conclave must conclude by midnight on February 28, or the election is void, and the Holy See remains vacant for ten years. At 11:47 PM, the final ballot is cast

She takes the name — the first female pope in history. The conclave ends at 11:59 PM, February 28, 2024. Pope Innocent XIV dies of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage

The Dean of the College of Cardinals, 82-year-old Italian Cardinal Matteo Conti, reads the edict in horror. The conclave must start immediately — not in fifteen days, but in forty-eight hours.