'Here's your drink, gorgeous' the red-haired bar tender said with a lustful smile as she eyed the handsome stranger who had ordered ten drinks from her in the last forty minutes and still didn't seem drunk.

'So what brings you to San Francisco?'

Her words interrupted his reveries. Lucifer stared back at her and then gave her a faint smile. When he had left Los Angeles two months earlier, his intention had been to get as far away from his deceitful family as possible. But the thought of Chloe still recovering from her near-death experience, of her vulnerability somehow made him stay relatively close by. He was pretty sure that Maze, Amenadiel and his mother were looking for him but they would focus on big cities with plenty of nightclubs and never find the small villa on the beach that he had rented about an hour's drive from San Francisco. He had spent the last eight weeks planning his revenge on his father and trying to get a handle on his feelings for Chloe. His revenge plans were coming along nicely but he was not very successful in keeping his love for Chloe under control. No matter how much whisky he drank, she was always there. He had tried sex with other women but had stopped just minutes into the act of seduction on both accounts because he had only felt sadness at not being able to be with Chloe.

'Oh, just getting some supplies in for a quiet weekend at my beach villa' he replied and in order to avoid her eyes he pretended to be interested in the news shown on the TV screen to his left. It seemed to work as the bar tender left him be. As the news moved on to entertainment and sport, Lucifer slipped out of his seat ready to leave the rather squalid bar when a name on the TV screen caught his attention: 'Decker'.

'Can you turn the volume up on that, please, love?' he urged the bar tender as he moved closer to the TV. The tension in his voice made her comply quickly. A tall, blond journalist was replying to the anchor's question.

'Yes, Pete, as you have just said, for the first time in a long time a live transmission of a cultural event was interrupted last night as beloved actress Penelope Decker was taken ill last night during the Los Angeles Film Critics Association gala while she was accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award. The whole scene was aired live and the video of Ms Decker's collapse on stage has been shared on social media hundreds of times since. This is unconfirmed but it looks like Penelope Decker may have suffered a massive heart attack and she is in intensive care as we speak. Let us take you through the footage from last night which ends in quite an emotional scene involving Penelope's family who were obviously also there to celebrate her achievement…'

'Oh, Chloe' was all Lucifer could think.

He stared at the screen as they played the footage: the camera swung from the host doing Penelope's laudatio to Penelope's table. A close-up of Penelope during the speech and one of Chloe's beautiful face followed. Just seeing her on the TV screen caused Lucifer to inhale sharply.

As the host called her up onto the stage, everyone stood up and applauded her. Penelope turned to Chloe and gave her a hug before kissing Trixie on the head. Seeing the little urchin like that made Lucifer realize that he missed even her.

The reporter then moved on to commenting the footage of the actual collapse:

'Penelope was already holding her left arm as she walked up the steps and about two and a half minutes into her speech, just as she was thanking her daughter Chloe for 'putting up with a mother who was both absent a lot and pushy at the same time', she collapsed into a heap on the stage. As we can see, within seconds her daughter is at her side, followed by her granddaughter Beatrice and several other people intent on helping. This man, later identified as Beatrice's father Daniel Espinoza, is trying to get the distraught 9 year old away from her grandmother while we can hear Chloe Decker yelling for an ambulance as well as for people to turn the cameras off. The live transmission was in fact terminated just as the paramedics arrived on scene.'

The live recording stopped at exactly the moment a tall, blond paramedic bent over Penelope's limp body. She only looked into the camera for a split second but that was enough for Lucifer to recognize her.

His heart was racing as he left the bar in a hurry. He needed to get to Los Angeles as fast as possible. As he started the engine, he quickly looked the video up again on Youtube and double-checked although he knew already what he had seen: his sister Azrael, the Angel of Death, bent of Penelope and only inches away from his beloved Chloe.