The Letter - Act 2 - Chapter 1
Author's Notes:
First off: Thank you to all the people who reviewed the first chapter of this story just within a few hours of my posting it. *HUGS TO ALL* This is for Ona, Elina, julieann. and the others who left lovely comments asking for more. Thank You Netflix for picking Lucifer up! Sad about only one more season though. :(
Secondly: I don't normally like to publish my stories until they are completed. However, my muse has decided to take a sabbatical and only checks in once in a while and never long enough for me to write anything down. I am hoping that you, dear readers, can persuade her to come back so that I can finish this story the way it is supposed to be finished (with perhaps a hint o' lime ^_~).
Thirdly: If you have not read "The Letter" by me (Hellz Blaze) I suggest that you do so. You might get a little lost as to what is going on. The first story was based just after Season 2 Episode 13 and takes a left turn off the episode path from there. There are potential spoilers for following episodes in this sequel. ^_^
Last: Lucifer and its cast are not mine, I write purely for the enjoyment of myself, my muse and others. No infringement intended. Now! On with the Show!
Ever since he left 3 months ago, she had been coming back to his apartment at Lux once a week just to keep his memory alive. The furniture was still covered in the white sheets, all save for the piano, it was the one thing she couldn't bear to cover, and keeping it covered meant he wasn't coming back. Chloe opened the balcony doors a little to let the warm May evening breeze curl through the apartment before shedding her jacket and pulling on the royal blue dress shirt from his closet. She then sat at the bench of the piano and ran her fingers over the fallboard before gazing at the frame sitting on top of the baby grand. Lucifer's letter sat within the metal and glass frame next to a bottle of his favourite whiskey and a tumbler on a coaster.
She lifted up the cover over the ivory keys and gently caressed them, she had been on light duty since the ordeal with seeing the doctor slit his own throat after poisoning her and then her recovery, and for once she didn't mind it. During that time she did a lot of soul searching, and taught herself some piano to keep just another part of Lucifer close to her. She hit a few keys on the piano, the first few notes of Far Away by Nickelback coming easy to her now. Losing herself to the music she recalled the confrontation that she had with Maze a couple weeks after Lucifer left, it had been spectacular, Chloe was just glad that Trixie had been at Dan's that night. It got loud, and then it got real.
"Decker, you have got to stop doing this," Maze huffed as she came into the living room after Dan had picked up Trixie that night. She and Dan had been getting along decently lately but Chloe suspected that it was more to do with Dan trying to win her back than them actually getting on.
"Doing what Maze?" Chloe asked with a sigh, they had had a few conversations like this lately and it was beginning to wear on Chloe's nerves.
Maze swallowed the drink that she poured herself in one go before thumping the glass on the counter a little harshly. "You know exactly what Decker," Maze flung her arm out towards the door. "Feeling sorry for yourself. Hanging out with Dan of all people. You know that he is only trying to get you back cause…"
Chloe was tired of this. It was the same speech over and over again, like Maze was trying to tell her something but was keeping an ace up her sleeve. She had had enough, "Cause what Maze? Because Lucifer isn't here? He isn't. He left. So what if Dan is being nicer than usual. What is the harm in that, huh? He is the father of my daughter, so what if we get along?"
"Because Decker you know that is not all that he wants. When Lucifer gets back he will be pissed!"
"And just when will that be Maze? Huh? When is Lucifer coming back? Is he coming back at all? Where did he even go? Why won't you tell me?!" Chloe ranted as she grabbed a throw pillow from the couch and began shaking it in Maze's direction needing something to do with her hands. She really hadn't meant to let go of the pillow, but it slipped from her tenuous grasp and smacked the other woman square in the face.
Maze had a moment of stunned shock before she growled low in her throat and bent to pick up the pillow. "You are so dead Decker." Chloe grabbed another pillow to defend herself as Maze leapt over the couch with speed that should have surprised Chloe, but didn't, to bat at her with the pillow. "When will you get it through your thick human head that Lucifer would do anything for you?" Each word was punctuated with a swift thwap with the pillow in Maze's hands.
"How do I know that?" Chloe defended with her own thwaps, "He left Maze. He didn't even say goodbye or that he was going. He was my partner, I thought we got past him keeping things from me."
Maze swiped Chloe's legs out from under her and she landed with a thud on the floor. Maze quickly pinned Chloe to the floor and growled at her again. "You are an Idiot Decker. Lucifer knew that if he saw you, you would try to stop him. He is going up against God this time, he might not make it back."
"You mean his father," Chloe wriggled trying to get loose of Maze's grasp but she was too strong. "Why do you both insist on saying that Lucifer's father is God?! I mean I can kind of understand his father complex but you too?!"
Maze huffed an annoyed breath in the Detective's face. "Because He ~is~ God Decker. Lucifer is the Devil and I am one of Lucifer's demons."
Chloe scoffed, "Please Maze. I have known you long enough you can drop the whole act. It is getting a little tiring."
Maze growled low and deep, her face flickering momentarily to her demon side. "It isn't an act Chloe." Maze got up off of Chloe and stalked to the other side of the living room while Chloe continued to lay stunned on the floor. After a few minutes staring at the blankness of the living room ceiling Chloe slowly came back to her senses and sat on the couch.
"It is all real isn't it?" Chloe whispered out into the space between them before turning to the demon woman. "You aren't going to drag me to Hell or anything are you?"
Maze huffed and poured herself another drink before knocking it back swiftly and pouring another. "Are you crazy Decker? Even if I did want to go back there now, do you think that Lucifer would let me? He kinda rules the place you know. He would end my existence faster than snuffing out a candle flame if I tried. Besides, I promised that I would keep you safe until he came back, and I, for one, do NOT break my promises to the man who made me."
Chloe stared at Maze, her full human form back in place as Chloe continued to try to wrap her head around the fact that Lucifer was the Devil himself, but certainly not the Devil that the entire world had been led to believe was Evil incarnate. Chloe got up from the couch and walked over to the kitchen island grabbing herself a tumbler along the way. Pouring herself a drink from the bottle that Maze was drinking from she knocked back the shot and looked at the woman who was eyeing her a little warily. "Tell me everything you know…" she implored the demon.
Chloe smirked a little at the memory of drinking with Maze and learning so much. It had taken another couple of weeks before she wrapped her head around the whole thing, even the part about Amenadiel blessing her mom so that she could be born. Talking to Linda helped a lot since the therapist had already been down part of that road already. That had been a shock too, Linda knew about Lucifer's real face before Chloe did, however looking back on the conversations that she had with the man himself, he had told her that he worried that he had "broke his therapist".
Finding out as much information that she could on Lucifer's family dynamic, the hierarchy of Angels and Demons, Heaven and Hell had helped Chloe process everything. She worked it like a case, gathering information and building to a conclusion. She hadn't fully gotten to the end yet, obviously there were only things that she would be able to sort out after she talked to the man in question. There were a myriad of different theories and accounts to sort through. Chloe knew that most were conjecture from the times that Lucifer had scoffed at preconceived notions that the human race had, but there were a few things that the mortals had gotten right.
The music swirled around her from the baby grand, she wasn't as confident as Lucifer in her singing abilities but she was slowly letting the words come through, softly.
On my knees, I'll ask last chance for one last dance
'Cause with you, I'd withstand
All of hell to hold your hand
The soft ping of the elevator disappeared into the notes of the piano as a figure shuffled out of the car but stopped a few feet in as they noticed the woman playing on the piano. "Detective…"
Chloe stopped playing at the soft voice behind her. The tone was the same as that day on the beach. The day he told her he wasn't worth it, (now she knew why he had said such things) and she threw caution to the wind and kissed him. Turning sharply she looked at the figure in the dim light from the bar. "Lucifer?" she questioned as the figure stepped out into more light.
"Chloe." Her name was like a prayer upon his split lip as he all but collapsed unconscious to the floor.
"LUCIFER!" she cried out as she dashed from the piano to slide to her knees beside his head on the floor. "What happened to you?!" she breathed out as she lifted his head to pillow it on her lap. His lip was split and there was a cut under one closed eye that oozed sluggishly and another over the opposite eye. There was a spectacular bruise forming along his jaw and his clothes were completely disheveled. Chloe could only imagine what other injuries were under the Armani fabric. She knew that there was no way that she could lift him on her own, and if what Maze said was true, she was impeding his supernatural ability to heal just by being nearby so she did the only logical thing to do.
"Maze… Lucifer is back… no no you don't understand, he is here at Lux, at the apartment... He's hurt... Maze how soon can you get here? No, I'll call Dan to keep Trixie for another night… Yeah… yeah okay… See you soon Maze." Chloe hung up knowing the Maze would be there soon and they could assess what kind of damage had been done to Lucifer.
Chloe gently stroked her fingers through his dark hair as she continued to cradle his head on her lap. "Please be ok Lucifer, you have to be ok," she murmured to him as she waited for Maze to show up, making sure that she called Dan to keep Trixie over for another night, just telling him that her shoulder was acting up but not really going into too many details.
Thankfully she didn't have to wait long before the she-demon came barreling into the apartment. Between them they managed to get Lucifer up to his bedroom, his tattered clothing removed until he was down to his boxers, and tucked under the sheets. Chloe had to force herself not to react when she saw the multiple bruises blooming across his ribs and arms, the busted knuckles on both hands and the disturbing swelling to his left knee.
After they had gotten Lucifer settled Maze turned to Chloe and stated bluntly, "You have to go."
"Maze, wha?"
"No Decker, you know what your presence here is doing to him. You have to go so he can heal," Maze took Chloe by the shoulders and turned her towards the door before giving her a little nudge to start walking. "I will stay here and keep an eye on him, I will call in a couple hours."
Chloe was about halfway to the door when she suddenly stopped and turned around. "No Maze, I will be back in a couple hours," she gave the woman a look. "I will go now and be back in a couple hours. No calling and if he wakes up beforehand, you will keep him here. Deal?"
Maze stared hard at the Detective. "Fine, now go."
Chloe nodded once before grabbing her jacket and exiting the loft. Maze turned back to look at Lucifer once more. "What did you get yourself into Lucifer?" she murmured to the air before pouring herself a drink.
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