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Hell Bent?

Maze stared at her housemate in disbelief. She knew the detective had been through a lot. Finding out that she was sharing her home with a demon, that Lucifer was exactly who he had told her he was and that his brother was Amenadiel, also an angel had to be a lot to process. She had been surprised that Trixie had accepted everything so easily while the adults had been the ones freaked out by the whole thing.

"What?"

"He's gone." Chloe looked at her. Maze frowned slightly.

"Where?"

"Back. He's gone back there."

"What did he say exactly?" Amenadiel asked as he cradled the baby in his arms. Chloe took a deep breath.

"He said there was no way he was going to risk someone, anyone coming after Charlie. Not again. That this time we got lucky. He wouldn't listen. He just." She shrugged her shoulders. "He said they needed a king. That they would keep coming for us if they didn't have one. Hell needs a king to control the carnage."

"Oh my God." Linda hung her head in her hands as Maze shook her head, refusing to believe her friend had done the one thing he had said he would never do. "He quit therapy. Gave me a gift, saying his work was done."

Maze threw her hands up in the air. "Chloe, you let him? You let him go?"

"He said the prophecy was wrong. That Eve was never his first true love. He said, he loved me and he had to go." Tears began running down her cheeks as she realised it wasn't just her heart he had broken by leaving them. Charlie gurgled in his father's arms as Maze stared at Chloe in disbelief.

"You let him go?"

"Maze." Amenadial stopped. "You know Lucy. There is no way he would listen to anyone once his mind has been set on something. That's how he ended up in Hell in the first place. Dad thought he would return to the Silver City with his tail between his legs."

"I saw the books. I saw what he did. In the past." Chloe paused, remembering the religious texts she had read in the Vatican. "The images."

"Not him." Amenadial sighed. "He was sent to Hell but the religious texts paint him as so much worse than what he was. Besides, it was a long time ago. Millenia ago. He never wanted to go back there. He was determined to stay here. In LA."

Linda nodded. "Until." She paused. "People he cared about. Loved. Were put in danger. You know? He did this to save us. He loves Chloe, Trixie and Charlie. He loves his family and friends. If he was evil, really and truly evil there is no way he would go back there when he didn't want to. He did it for us. To save us."

"Yeah." Chloe ran a hand over her face as she tried not to show how distraught she really was.

"Question is." Maze looked at her friends. "How do we get him back?"

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