Chapter 4

Chloe's lungs burned and her eyes felt like sandpaper. She coughed roughly a few times before blinking away the feeling and sitting up. Her entire body was sore like she had hit the gym for a few days straight. She slowly opened her eyes and sat up, the face of a worried Lucifer staring back at her intently. His brows where drawn and his hands clasped in front of his face. When he spoke, his voice was low and cautious, almost like he was talking to someone he was afraid would disappear in an instant.

"Detective, why did you come here?"

"Wha-. I came for you! Why else would I be here? I came to try and figure out a way to bring you back home to Los Angeles with me."

Lucifer closed his eyes and exhaled, running his hands through his hair. Chloe noticed that he looked, powerful yet tired almost as if the entire universe was resting on his shoulders. Maybe it was.

"Dedec- Actually from this moment forward until the end of this conversation I am going to call you by your name. I hope by doing so you will see how severe and important this conversation is, Chloe. You need to go back to Los Angeles and stay there. I will return when I am able, but that time is no right now. Hell is in chaos; demons are rebelling, and I am having to remind them who is in charge around here so that what happened not so long ago does not happen again."

"No. I won't go. Amendiel said that you can come home, we just have to close the power gap here."

"And how do you plan to do that?"

"I-I don't know yet. But we will figure it out together Lucifer."

"The power gap here can only be closed one of two ways, a new ruler or all of the rebels wiped out. That's it. Theres no grand scheme that will show an option three."

Chloe looked down, Amendiel had told her the same thing, but she had thought that maybe coming down here she could convince Lucifer to just leave. That the power gap problem could be avoided all together. It was wishful thinking she knew, but she had to try. She took a shaky breath and got ready to propose the very thing that could either make or break everything. The one way out, the very way out Amendiel had proposed with a warning tone. She steadied her breath and looked Lucifer right in the eyes, her green flecks meeting his brown in an intense fight.

"What if there is an option three, but it will just take a very long time and challenge everything we both believe in?"

"Then I would say there is still no option three just because it challenges everything Chloe. I may be the Devil but as I've said time and time again; I punish evil not cause it."

"It's nothing like that Lucifer! Amendiel did some research into everything for me. He told me about how I was a miracle and how that made me special. That's how I can be here while I'm still alive. It does something else though."

"What is that?"

"Apparently Celestials can have kids with me since I am a miracle. Lucifer you could leave if you weren't the lord of Hell anymore."

"Are you seriously asking me to have a child and abandon it here?!"

"LUCIFER NO! I'm saying we raise a child for the purpose of ruling here, that might satisfy the gap. Even enough for us to leave on trips during upbringing so they can experience other places too; and once he or she is old enough to ascend with the right guidance by you then we go home. We visit regularly and they even visit us. To them this would be home, they would be comfortable here. It would be their kingdom. Unlike you were its your punishment."

"What about Trixie? You would be abandoning her."

"Never. I would never abandon her. Shes like me too according to Amendiel."

"So, you would bring Trixie here?"

"Eventually. She misses you."

Lucifer took a few meaningful strides towards Chloe until he was right in front of her. The conflict clear on his face. After a few seconds he wrapped his arms around her and exhaled slowly before placing a kiss lightly on the crown of her head.

"Chloe while I would love nothing more then for you to stay here with me for the rest of eternity. I fear you are still human miracle or not. You would waste your entire live waiting for me to be able to leave."

"Maybe so, but I don't think it would be a waste at all. Every moment would be a part of me living. We would be raising a child together, as much as you hate kids, I know you wouldn't abandon your own."

"If we do this crazy plan of your we do it on one condition."

"What is it?"

"I've waited years to hold, kiss, and do more devilish things to you. Though that's a spec in my many millennia of existence, I refuse to make the same mistake I made so many times over those many years again. If we are to sit here and build this insane life where you cohere me into fatherhood" Lucifer shuddered against her skin at the word and Chloe chuckled "Then I want a guarantee this will be forever, and not something as flimsy as human marriage. Though that might be a nice touch."

"Is this your way of proposing?"

"No. I am by far a man of style and grace. If we ever return to Los Angeles long enough for me to plan anything you would know when I am proposing. I'm asking for a contract, which is much more binding then a marriage. A contract bound in blood in the depths of Hell with one simple clause. For as long as we love each other we remain with each other."

"That's it? No fine print?"

"No Chloe. Like I said I simply want security if were going to do something this- drastic. I don't want to be left high and dry with a spawn, or worse have it taken from me, just because we get in a disagreement and I can't leave for everyone's safety."

"Fair enough, deal."

Lucifer's brows knit together but her quickly released the tension in them as he brought her face up to meet his. Chloe melted into his arms as they kissed, a familiar from when she first entered Hell began to spread through her from where their lips met. Her entire body began to heat up and turn numb as her vision blurred. All the heat began to pool in her shoulder blades, and then as quickly as the sensation came it was gone. Chloe put her hands-on Lucifer's chest and put light pressure on him.

"Are you okay?"

"I keep getting this weird sensation, it's really hot but not like fire hot. Just more like uncomfortable warmth throughout my entire body. The first time it made me pass out, this time it just made my vision blurry."

"Take off your clothes."

"What?!"

"Just do it, I need to see if your body is rejecting the atmosphere. At least the dress, theres a reason living humans don't come here."

Chloe nodded and stripped off her dress slowly letting it pool at her feet. Her thin matching back lace underwear and bra being the only thing keeping her modesty. Lucifer walked around to her back and stopped mid-stride pushing her hair to the side.

"What in the hell?"

"What is it?"

"Runic markings in celestial energy right where angel wings would extend."

"What does it mean?"

"I don't know…"

"Who would?"

"My father."