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Leaning in, Lucifer looks into her harsh green eyes, swallowing him up and engulfing the shiny surfaces of lux around him. Chloe always made him vulnerable, he knew that, but this felt different – he felt relaxed, himself. He could just about see his reflection in her eyes, his soft dark hair complimenting his dark eyes in the light of the fire. Then, a flicker of red replaced his deep irises and earned a startled look from the detective.
"What?" She started.
"Please" He begged, startled and confused as a trembling hand reached to cover his increasingly morphing features, turning his back on her.
"Don't, please, oh father, please don't look!" He pleaded again, this time raising a shaking arm and blocking Chloe from inspecting further.
The detective's eyes widened in shock and her jaw dropped, however, she remained still, without making noise, and only changed her expression when Lucifer hesitantly turned back to face her, his burnt crimson face seemingly quivering in terror. The fallen angel never desired to reveal his true identity like this, their first intimate moment interrupted by the monster that dwells in his mind, and his body. Despite his fear, he could do nothing but stare into her stunned eyes, longing for acceptance.
A gentle noise of doors sliding open caused both heads to whip round to face the creature in the doorway of the lift, her onyx-black hair and midnight blades sending a wave of relief and surprise through Lucifer, and new-found fear through the detective. Lucifer began to speak, struggling to find the words to describe the mess he's gotten into, while Maze strides up to the pair of them, an increasingly worried expression forming on her face.
"You showed her, didn't you" Maze stated, not asking the obvious.
Lucifer's face had started to return to its human form and he tried to hide his emotions by faking a gleeful smirk towards Chloe and standing up to confront Maze, his impressive height towering over his hellish bartender. Whatever just happened, Lucifer was keen to forget and return to normality, no matter how brief. His anger was building and he did not try to pretend anymore, Maze had forgotten her place. His smirk quickly left his face and a harsh look replaced it.
Maze was unfazed and inched closer to him, close enough to whisper.
"You think that you can just show her without any repercussions whatsoever, and she'll still love you? That you'll happily confess your adoration for her and you'll live happily ever after?"
She backed away slightly and raised her voice. "I knew this would happen, stop dreaming- you belong in Hell! I belong in Hell, coming here was a mistake! I knew from the beginning, but you were deluded, too weak to see it!"
A stony silence filled the room when, abruptly and unnaturally fast, Lucifer clenched her arm and began crushing the demon in front of him.
"Do. Not. Ever disgrace my presence with those absurd and foul suggestions." Lucifer growled, his voice low and gravely, shaking with fury, his pupils becoming obsidian-black slits which seemed to be surrounded by the fires of hell itself. Both Maze and Chloe knew his temper changed dramatically, but this was still extreme for Lucifer.
His grip on her arm was tightening, and Mazikeen felt an entirely foreign emotion: intense fear. In particular, of her boss, no – her master. She was nauseous with panic, for the first time in her life she felt weak.
Neither Maze nor Chloe uttered a word to reason with the Morningstar, but they did not need to, for Lucifer continued slowly, with increased aggression.
"I am above the pathetic mortals that crawl this planet!" He almost spat the words out, whilst turning slowly towards Chloe. Her heart started pounding. She looked him dead in the eye, desperately trying to see him as a person, not the Devil.
"Please" Chloe softly whispered.
Then, his voice and expression softened and he whipped his head back towards Maze, the snarl on his lips gone, but Mazikeen sensed madness, insanity even. Whatever just happened to Lucifer, it had changed him.
"You were right Maze, I have weakness."
However, as soon as it had gone, his savage snarl was back on his lips as he snapped his head round to look at Chloe, his head burnt and glowed like the embers of a fire, the flames around his skull snapped at her like rabid dogs.
His snarl stretched into a manic grin. "So I shall eliminate that weakness."
Chloe screamed.