Poisoned and black
Chapter 1: Black feathers
"Lucifer?" He jumped as the detective's voice pulled him out of his thoughts when she placed her hand on his arm. No, not thoughts, he hadn't thought about anything, he was tired and feels off. A few minutes of doing and thinking nothing hadn't help ether. The look on his partner's face told him that this wasn't the first time she had called him.
They were at a crime scene, Ella looked over a body and was taking pictures with her huge camera, Dan was interviewing a witness and Chloe, she was staring at him. "What?" Lucifer responded.
"Lucifer you don't look good, maybe you should go home or to a doctor. You have been pale the whole week and it isn't getting better. I can bring you home, Dan can cover for me the crime scene." Lucifer feels like he's burdening Chloe with an uncessary task and doesn't want her to take off of work for him. He's the devil after all, he doesn't get sick!.
"No need for that Darling, I'm perfectly healthy and ready to punish who ever took that poor fellow's life." He does his best to sound like his normal self, but it was exhausting and he was relieved as Chloe turns back to the body. Lucifer tries to be helpful, gets bored and ends up attempting to flirt with women and men alike but there was no passion, no fire behind his words and as the afternoon ends he was falling asleep in Chloe's car.
Chloe watches Lucifer closely and it doesn't surprise her that her partner falls asleep on the way back to the station. She turns the car and drives them to Lux. Whatever Lucifer was thinking he looked sick, really sick. But some men stay at home for a week because they had sneezed, while others go to work with broken bones and 'maybe' they will visit a doctor. Chloe rolls her eyes, apparently Lucifer belongs to the second kind of man.
As they arrive at Lux, Chloe shakes him awake. With tired eyes he looked around and needed a few seconds to understand where they were. "Why are you bringing me home detective?"
She could tell him because he was sick or fell asleep but she decided to approach it with another tactic. "We are done for the day I thought I give you a lift. Come on, you own me a drink." Lucifer didn't fight her as she helped him out of the car or comment on the fact that they wanted to visit a suspect after they checked out the evidence at the station. A sign how off he is, as the lift opens his doors to the penthouse, Lucifer was hanging with most of his weight on her shoulder. "Okay let's get you to bed." Lucifer had gone still and as she sat him down he was sleeping again almost instantly. She had hoped for one of his comments about her in his bed, anything, but there was nothing. Sighing, she takes of his jacket and vest, opens another button on his shirt and she lays him down. Chloe takes his shoes off and places the blanket over him. From the bar she gets a glass of water and places it on the nightstand next to him.
"Sleep well." She caresses her partner's hair and left. Maybe a bit of sleep would help.
Chloe calls Dan and ask him to take Trixie for the night. After her shift she wants to go back to Lucifer, not comfortable with the thought of leaving him alone in this state.
Lucifer wakes up after a few hours, alone in his bedroom. Next to him is a glass of water he takes and empties in one go. Still thirsty, he decided that refilling his glass is worth standing up for. His body feels heavy and his wings ache. Because he is alone he let them out, stretching them and walking over to the bar. After another two glasses of water he felt better. Finally he notice the clothes he is wearing. Still in his shirt and trousers from earlier in the day, they were winkled from sleeping in them. Lucifer goes back into his bedroom, changes into some pajamas. He feels exhausted again from only walking between the rooms and changing clothes.
Blearily, he remembers that Chloe had brought him home telling him they were done for the day he decided that he could go back to bed. He folded his wings again and let them disappear. Lucifer is asleep before his head hit the pillow.
Chloe arrives an hour later. She finds a sleeping Lucifer who had changed his clothes and she places a new glass of water next to him, In case he wakes and is thirsty again. Next she picks up his clothes and lays them on a chair. On the way to the living area she finds more than one feather on the floor. Were they from a cushion fight with one or more overnight guest?. Chloe holds one of the feathers in her hand, they had a beautiful black color.
She makes herself comfortable on the sofa with a blanket, some tea and the case file for the night watch.