Author's Notes: I know look at me starting another story. The other's will be updated this week. I've been under the weather and in and out of the hospital. That's why I've been away, but come on who couldn't write something after that finale. I mean the new season has so many possibilities, and I think show is still going to be a cop show, but the supernatural is about to take over more. So, let's have some fun shall we.
Chapter 1: What the Fuck?
It had been two months. It had been two months since the life of Chloe Decker got complicated. First, her partner's stepmother was almost arrested for crimes done by the drug cartel, but what's even stranger is that she can't remember being her partner's stepmom. At first Chloe was skeptical she thought that it was all some ploy that she had come up with to escape from going to prison, but she had been examined by many doctors, and they too said that it was like that life had been wiped from her memory. That maybe it was some type of retrograde amnesia, and she had just tried to escape to another life. She didn't even remember Amenadiel, and then there was Lucifer.
She knew that Lucifer had gone to see Linda, she had been attacked, but then he had left a message on her service. She must've listened to it over a hundred times now. He was coming over, he had something to tell her and it was going to explain everything. She was finally going to get her answers, but he never showed. She thought it was going to be Las Vegas all over again, but then they found his car still parked in the hospital parking lot, and then they found one of his shoes, about two miles down the road. Then it was as if he fell off the face of the earth. His case was still open, and she would do everything she could to make sure it didn't get closed. Then there was Maze, now that was something entirely different, and it had her scared.
Trixie slowly crept in Maze's room making sure not to wake up Amenadiel who slept soundly in a chair. She didn't know why the two of them just didn't admit they were boyfriend and girlfriend, everyone knew, and no one cared. She often thought maybe they wanted to wait for Lucifer to come back because he was Amen's brother and Maze's daddy but that was their secret.
That was why Trixie liked Maze so much. She had showed her the mask on Halloween and she thought it was so cool. Now that Lucifer was gone, Maze was sick. That's why she told her what she did about Lucifer. She told her that Lucifer had made her, and they had to be together or she'd get sick and die. She had told her mom, but she didn't believe her now. It started with a cough, and now Maze could barely sit up for long. She said that it's because she can't feel Lucifer anymore, that he's just gone and when she reaches for him, her reach snaps back like a rubber band. Something like it's a boomerang that is just bouncing around because it can't find where it came, and she needs him cause she's so cold.
She climbed on the bed and shuffled under the blankets to face Maze. She was thrilled that she was awake, but she was wearing her Halloween mask again.
"Are you awake?" Trixie whispered quietly.
"Good morning small human, are you ready for school?" Maze smiled back at her the best she could.
"Almost. Mommy told me not to come in this morning but I had to see you. I wanted to tell you about my dream. Why are you wearing your mask?"
Maze reached up and that when she realized her glamor had crumbled. It was getting harder and harder to keep it up without Lucifer. Amenadiel had been helping her, but he was fast asleep.
"Monkey, what if I told you that this was my real face, and it had to be another secret just between us girls like with Lucifer?"
"Cool, and that's why I came? I have to tell you about this dream that I had and Lucifer was there."
"Okay, what did you dream?" she smiled encouraging her.
"Well it was weird. Lucifer was fighting off all these bad guys. He had a sword sometimes, and other times, it was like he was strong. He was defeating them with his bare hands, and just when I thought this big monster was going to get him these huge big white wings came out of his back! He used them to pin down this guy, and then…"
Trixie stopped when she took in the look on Maze's, she didn't look good. She didn't look good at all.
"Mommy!" she screamed.
*RE*
They never quite knew where they'd find him. For such a big man, it was if sometimes he would move without taking a step. You would look to your left and he'd be there, and then you went to another floor, and somehow, he was there too. Yet he never used the elevator, they didn't even know if he knew how to use an elevator. He was mute. Well not totally, some people said at times they could hear him singing to the young ones in the nursery, everyone knew he screamed though because of the nightmares.
Someone had brought him in because we were the closest hospital. He didn't have any fingerprints, he had been burned all over, and someone had burned his fingertips off, but they had sent a photo out to the bigger cities in Los Angeles but still no one had identified him yet. He was so handsome, someone had to miss him.
Nurse Becky Abrams was working the nightshift as always, and she had a chocolate cupcake just for him. They called him Jamie, because they didn't want him to be just another John Doe. They didn't know where he had come from but he was a real angel. He would help them out, and he was the only adult patient in the whole facility. They knew that should have let him go, but he was broken when he got there, that by the time he was well enough to leave he loved it there, they couldn't take him from his only home.
She quickly looked in his room, and when she found it empty she knew there was only one other place he would be this time of night. He would be down in Marcus Sheppard's office. Marcus was the handy man, and he would show Jamie how to tinker with things in his shop that he kept on the grounds. They were best friends which everyone found adorable. Considering Marcus had to be in his early sixties, and no one could tell how old Jamie was, at times he could look at you and look so young, but when you saw the scars on his body, or how he cried out at night you knew that he was indeed an old soul. Every night he cried out for one thing. She had only heard him say one word, but he had already said it over a hundred times since she known him. She'd do anything to find that one thing for him.
She grabbed another cupcake from the bundle, and even a couple of cups of ice cream and headed out to see what the two scamps had gotten into. She was halfway there when she heard something sounding like a gunshot. She took off at full speed until she reached the door. She knew something was wrong before she entered.
"Oh, my God!" she screamed.
*RE*
Dan Espinoza was worried. He didn't get that way often, but the last two months have taken its toll on him. First there's his relationship with his daughter. He loves Trixie there's no doubt of that, and he'd lay down his life for her. The thing is, she's pretending. She pretending to be happy, and it's killing him. She misses him. He would admit that he missed him too, but Trixie missed him. His daughter had fallen in love with a man and no matter, how he wished he could take that love she had for him away, he couldn't. he just wished that he could bring the light back into his girl's eyes. Both even though the two of them weren't together anymore he knew a part of him would always love her. He had to help them, he had to find Lucifer.
"How is she?" he asked passing her a coffee.
"Amenadiel's with her. I'm sorry if I ruined your date last night. I mean she had sat around all day waiting for a change with Maze but there was none, and her face Dan, oh my God, I never knew about that."
"I asked Amenadiel about it. He had said that it was a childhood accident that happened when they were younger. He said that Lucifer was there, and he's always felt guilty about it, apparently, they have all been friends since childhood, he even said that Lucifer and Maze dated all through high school. They've been like brother and sister forever I suppose. You didn't ruin my date, Bianca got called away and Trixie comes first you know that." He added.
Hearing that Lucifer and Maze had been there for each other was nice, but it made her feel uneasy. Maze had told her that Lucifer was her everything, and that she'd die without him. She was proving that too her more and more every day. The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with her, and just sent her home after the seizure she had with Trixie.
"I know what's waiting for me when I get back home, and I hate to see this but I could do with some crime right now. What do we have?" she asked as they approached the hospital.
"This is a rehab for kids with brain injury. Last night Marcus Sheppard was gunned down in his office. It had to be by someone he knew because they are no signs of forced entry. Then again, it's a hospital you really can't force yourself into a place that's open. Marcus was one of the handymen here, most beloved apparently. A Jamie Doe was with him when it happened, said he had to be
"Jesus Dan, are you telling me some already altered kid saw the guy get shot. Is he even you know, will he make a good witness I need be?" she asked
"Oh, Jamie will be an excellent witness, I'm Nurse Beck Abrams by the way." She told them as she stuck her hand out.
"I'm Detective Chloe Decker, and this is my partner Dan Espinoza. What can you tell us about Marcus, and when do you think we could see Jamie is it? How old is he?" Chloe asked slipping into cop-mode.
"Marcus had been with us for the last ten years, he was getting up in year but not much breaks around here. He had a friendly face, which can be good for some of the children around here. He was like everyone's grandpa, if he wasn't fixing anything he would come out and just spend time with the little ones, especially those who never get a visitor here."
"I see this is a hospital for kids with Brain injury, what kind of injury does Jamie have?" Dan asked.
"Jamie's a special case." She smiled.
"How so?" Chloe asked prepared for the worst.
"Well it's kind of funny that you're here. About two months ago he was brought in very dehydrated and disoriented. Folks found him just wandering in the desert. The poor thing had burns all over, nothing too bad, but they were inflicted by someone. Someone had tortured the poor soul."
"Did you report it, what could he tell you? Why is he still here? A kid seems like someone would have reported him."
"Oh, we reported it, but we don't expect to hear anything. He's not a kid. He's a man, someone found him just wandering around as I said. Something bad has happened to him. The scans show that he might've suffered a stroke. He doesn't speak much, but he can hear just fine."
"A man, you all are letting a man run around here with all these children, you don't think he could be dangerous, I mean did they run his prints. I'm not saying that he is, but he could be a sex offender." Dan added.
He immediately felt ashamed when he got the look from his partner.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean that I'm sure that Jamie is harmless, but why didn't you send him to another facility, does he have a brain injury?" Dan asked
"As I said before he suffered from a stroke, and there was some damage to his shoulders that have the doctors baffled, we think that maybe they were broken and left to heal on their own. He still wears a sling for one of them sometimes. He's very good at recall, he can write down everything that happened in detail, it's just stuff about his life that he doesn't remember, but I think he might warm up to you Det. Decker."
"Well I thought that maybe he would want to speak with Dan, I don't understand why would he warm up to me?"
"Come on let me show you." She told her pulling her down a corridor.
The nurse led them to what she guesses was the playroom for the kids that could move. In the center of the room was a piano, and at it sat a man. His back was turned to her, but he was playing a nursery rhyme, and the kids that could were dancing and singing to the songs. He was smiling, and Chloe could only see half of it, but there was something about it that made her heart jump, and before she knew it she had let out an audible gasp.
"Chloe?" Dan asked concerned.
Just then Dan noticed the guy who he guesses was Jamie stopped playing and turned around towards them.
"Oh, my god!" Dan shouted.
Jamie stood up, but he hadn't come towards them. He was just staring, he knew them. He knew that man that stood before him, but how? Then he looked to her, and it was like a fog was being lifted from his mind. Memories and images that he couldn't comprehend were coming back full force, and maybe just maybe things would get better now. He could punish those who hurt Marcus.
"Lucifer." Chloe gasped as she touched the side of his cheek.
When she told him it was like that band snapped, and he thought he was going to be swallowed by the darkness, but he couldn't not now not yet.
"Chloe." He whispered, and then he reached for her losing his footing.
She caught him though, she caught him before he could hit the floor. His breaths were coming in gasps, and she thought the nurse said he was having a panic attack.
"It's okay, I've got you Lucifer. You're going to be alright I'm here, and I'm not going anywhere." She couldn't help it she started to run her hand through his hair, it was so curly.