Here's my second one-shot attempt for Lucifer! :)
Contactable
It is the doctor's idea.
Personally, Lucifer never thought it was necessary but Dr. Linda Martin has a point. He is difficult to reach for her to reschedule appointments. Lux is connected by phones, of course, but he is not always there in the afternoons, contrary to popular belief, nor is he often at his Penthouse either.
After all, he is a consultant to the LAPD now. He has a job which takes him away from Lux and keeps him busy.
His job….
Lucifer smirks. Having a job that does not involve him lording over Hell and dishing out torture makes him feel good about himself… makes him feel normal.
And normal people have phones on their person that they take with them everywhere they go. Even to the washroom which he finds quite disturbing.
So he gets one. Since he has one now, he decides that Maze should too, if only to fully immerse themselves with the experience of living on Earth. It has nothing to do with the fact that getting Maze a phone is a potential for him to annoy her further.
Owning a phone proved not to be a mistake. He quite enjoyed it.
As he soon learnt, there are numerous applications on the phone for him to download from boring things that tell him of the weather to games that pits him against Maze. Those are always fun. Maze is always far too competitive for her own good.
The device even has a voice recognition function. Imagine his surprise.
"Call Maze," he instructs once.
Much to his glee, he discovers truly amusing videos of human stupidity on the Internet and their obsession with videos of cat left him snorting. Such contemptuous creature and yet humans seem to have a soft spot for them. He finds the porn eventually.
However, it takes Maze snatching his phone away for him to set a password.
It doesn't take Lucifer long to set one. He chooses a word he can easily remember, nothing that has to do with his birthday or anything equally predictable but something he enjoys.
Carnal, with a capital 'C'.
He chuckles to himself.
It is only natural now that he has a phone, he wants to tell the detective of it. He cannot wait to tell her that if she is to drive off and leave him behind at some suspect's house, he will have no problem at all calling an Uber.
Lucifer is just about to text when he realises that, of course, they have never exchanged number before. It is always her contacting him to alert him to a new case but he has never tried to call her.
Well, now that he is easily contactable he shall rectify that problem.
It isn't difficult to get her. His call to the station solves the problem and with her number in his phone, he saves her contact – The Detective. While he is at it, he saves the number for Detective Douche, too.
Then he sends Chloe a text. A simple one, really.
Detective.
He waits, a little excited to know the detective's reaction to his almost ambiguous text.
Who is this?
Lucifer grins. His finger is already sliding to unlock his phone to type a reply. He sends her the emoji – purple horned devil – with an accompanying text that says, "Yours truly."
For a while, he stares at the emoji. What is it with humans and their obsession with the devil having horns? He doesn't even understand why it has to be purple. The last time he checked he is all flesh and torn skin and bloodied which makes him red.
Lucifer! Finally did the sensible thing and bought a phone. You bought it, didn't you?
Have I ever stolen anything?
Come down to the precinct, he reads her text. There's a case.
The detective is always all business. Still, it will be rude to leave her hanging so he replies with yet another emoticon, a thumbs' up this time.
If she was impressed, Chloe doesn't show it but Lucifer chuckles at the look on her face when he tells her his password. She draws the line and confiscates his phone when he facetime Maze to show her around the murder scene.
"Lucifer, this is a crime scene," the detective hisses. "I'll give you back your phone when you start behaving more appropriately."
"Now, Detective," he says with an easy going smile, "have you ever known me to be appropriate? Please, may I have my phone back?"