Author's Notes: As always thanks for all the comments from the last chapter. I tell you that Samael is one crazy mother. I always assumed you know if he was God's favorite son then he would be the one to do all the dirty deeds. He would be the one to punish, and he probably loved it a lot. I mean after all he was made ruler of hell. I think this will be the first one of my stories that makes it to the meaning of hell. I wanted to use the whole theory of the fall in all of my stories, and it seems like this one will be the first one that will make it to that revelation. So I just want to let you know you will probably hear this theory of mine again so don't get all angry if I mention it like months from now in Breathe or Devil Side two great stories that I will be getting back to, but I'm thinking you guys love this story for now so lets continue it shall we? On to the next
.Chapter 6: Madness
Chloe was stunned. Had that just happened, he had pulled his wing out of nowhere, and did he turn it into a weapon? He had cut that guy's hand off. It was gone now, and the man just stood there screaming obviously going into shock.
"Oh my god!" shrieked the bartender.
"Take my father's name in vain again and I'll cut out your tongue!" he spat pointing at the bartender.
"Lucifer!" Chloe shouted.
It was her. He had seen her earlier at the house. She was like a beam of brightness, and cookies. She gave him a warmth that he had never felt before, and he wanted to reach out to her. He wanted to go to her
"Chloe." He gasped.
RE*
Maze had finally come out of the hold that Lucifer had on her. It was Chloe. She didn't know what they were to each other, but she would figure that out later. Right now she had to help all of these people out of the bar. Amenadiel didn't have all of his powers, but maybe just maybe he could help change the minds of the people to what they were seeing right now. Even if they couldn't do that, they had to get them out of there and now.
"What are you doing?" Chloe asked again.
"I'm not the man I use to be detective. Father has decided that I'm worthy again, he's giving me back my grace, and although a part of me will miss freewill, a bigger part has realized my mistake. I'm not going back to hell, and he's allowing me to stay here so I shall, but I have to make him pay for what he did to Shep. He was my friend, and he didn't deserve it.
"Shep was a con artist, you don't know the real Shep, you only know the man that he was pretending to be, if you think that I'm bad, you'd cringe at Shep." He said through gritted teeth.
"Silence." Lucifer growled.
Chloe couldn't believe the coldness in this man. Sure, he was walking around in Lucifer clothes, but she could feel the coldness in him. This was not the man that she…that she… this was not the man that she loved. She was going to do whatever it took to help him. How could she help him though? Then it hit her.
"Lucifer Morningstar, I'm going to need you to step away from him and put your hands in the air. She said raising her gun.
"Really! You think that you can smite me, you tiny human you don't understand anything, I will strike you down!"
He rushed for her, and before she even thought about it she pulled the trigger.
He looked down shocked at the blood that began to pour from his leg, even with his wings back, she still had this power over him. How was this fair? Also, how was a part of him glad she done it.
"Chloe." He reached for her brokenly.
When she looked into his eyes now she could see her friend. He was scared, he didn't want to do this. He needed her.
"Lucifer?" she questioned.
Just like that it was if a light switched and he was back to the man they told her was Samael.
"You think you can save me? You think I'm going to go back to that? You really are a sad one, you'll stand by my side for as long as it takes to save him. You make me bleed, and I'll break your neck!"
"Lucifer!" Maze shouted.
"Don't you dare Mazikeen, I'm no weakling in need of a friend. That shadow that you tamed. I'm your lord and master, and you will obey. I healed you for you to fall in line, not help protect this woman. Besides, do you really want to be here fighting this fight when your little doctor is dying in her office?" he smirked.
"Linda, you bastard." Just liked that she blinked out of the bar.
"Chloe, we need to leave, and wait for backup." Dan added.
"I can't just leave him. Come on Lucifer, you're the better man you can fight this."
"There really is something about you Chloe Decker. You will be his downfall. If you are here on his side, I'll never be free. Right now, I want to stop all of this and let him go, and I will but not for you."
"Then why?" she asked. She was doing everything to keep his attention while they finally cleared the bar.
"You'll have to get him medical attention immediately because that's your job. I'll be off ruining every connection you ever had to me, tell me did you tell your daughter you loved her this morning?"
"Lucifer!" she screamed but he was already gone.
RE*
Trixie Espinoza was angry with her mother. They had plans today, but when Mrs. Smith dropped her off her babysitter Stacy was there and her mother was nowhere in sight. She knew that her mother had a busy job, and she understood that she did, but she had promised her that things were going to be different now, but it was yet another lie told her by an adult.
That was one of the things that had made her angry a lot lately. They went around her like she didn't matter, and at times she had to keep everything bottled inside. First her daddy had did something bad, and no one talked about it but she was stupid. She knew that for some reason he should be in jail, but he wasn't and she knew it was because of Lucifer he wasn't.
That's the other thing. Lucifer, he had said her from Malcolm, but she saw him get shot. They thought she was hiding, but she saw it. She had tried to tell her mother repeatedly but she didn't believe her. She just kept telling her that she was imagining it all. She knew the difference between what was real and imaginary, but that's because she also knew her mom couldn't see. She didn't see the real Lucifer. He was different. He had told her that he was the devil before and she told him that she believed it, but she knew he didn't think that she believed him. She did though. She could see his face peeking out sometimes, and she knew that she should be scared, but he was nice. Every time she thought that she should fear him, he would do something and then she knew that even though he had the face of a monster he was her friend and he would never hurt her.
She threw herself down on her bed, and was about to find a funny cat video on the internet, but then she heard the loudest sound, followed by the brightest light. When she could finally see again in her room Lucifer was there.
"Lucifer!" she shouted running towards him.
"Hello little human." He smiled devilishly.
"You have wings, are they real can I touch them?"
"All in good time dear, who is watching today?"
"Just Stacy, you've met her before, right?"
"Indeed, I have, why don't you and I go and tell her to run along, and then we can work on a special surprise for your mommy."
"I don't know, I mean how are you going to explain how you got in? Are you going to show her your wings too?" she asked hopeful.
"I tell you what, why don't you go ahead and have yourself a little feel." He watched gleefully as she began to stroke his feathers. The children were always the easiest. This was going to be fun.
"Careful Beatrice, they can be very sharp. Now let's see if we can send Stacy on her way." He smiled as he exited her room with her.
RE*
She didn't know how long she had been screaming and banging on the door. She knew it had to be over an hour, but still no one had come to rescue her. She looked down again at her phone, and saw that it was still scrambled. This was something that she cursed herself for now, every time the light comes on in her office she scrambled the cellphone signals. Cellphones had become distractions, and with Lucifer alone no matter when it rang he always picked up. Now she would kill for a signal.
"Linda!" Maze shouted.
"I'm in here." Came a voice from the closet.
Maze rushed to the closet and pulled her friend out. She gasped when she saw that her eye was swollen shut, but besides that she seemed to be unhurt. Her hands had been tied though.
"He did this to you, I'm going to kill him!" she shouted heading towards the door.
"Wait! Is Lucifer alright?" she asked.
Maze couldn't believe what she was hearing. He had assaulted her, and locked her in a closet, but she wanted to know if he was okay? No, he wasn't okay, but that should be the furthest from her mind right now.
"What?" she asked confused.
"It was Lucifer when he came in and we were talking about Chloe and what she could mean to him, but it was like he wasn't him anymore. He said that if she was sent by his father then he'd kill her. He said he'd kill Chloe, and I don't know what I said exactly but he snapped. He back handed me, and then he was on me so fast I got so scared, but then he was Lucifer again. He grabbed me and he apologized, and he shoved me in this closet. He said he was going to tell you where I was, but it had been hours. He said he had to leave before he took over. He said that he needed to remove his wings, to give back his grace. What does that mean?" she asked.
"He's going to cut the wings off, he's trying to get back his freewill.
RE*
Chloe didn't know what to expect when she went to her house. Dan, she was sure behind her, but she had to get there first. There was this pull telling her that she had to get there before he did, and it frightened her beyond belief. She knew immediately something was wrong when she was met by a frightened Stacy running from the house.
"What happened?" she asked her.
"He's a monster, I couldn't stop him, she wouldn't come with me!" she pulled away and took off running. She didn't even get in her car.
When she entered the house, she couldn't hold back the gasp. The couch was thrown everywhere, and somehow the television had been broken. She walked through the kitchen and she saw a bloody handprint on the counter. It was a small hand.
"Trixie!" she shouted.
She heard her daughter scream, and that was it. She was on her feet, and up the stairs in a blink o an eye.
"Trixie, where are you?" she shouted.
"In here mommy!" Trixie shouted from her bedroom.
When she went inside, at first, she didn't see her. She had huddled in the corner, and had put her desk in front of her. She had made herself smaller than she had seen her in a while, but when she saw that it was really her. She jumped up and rushed in her arms. She hugged her tightly, and that's when she felt the stickiness of blood. She was covered in blood!
"Oh my god! Did he hurt you monkey? Where is he? I'll kill him!" she shouted.
"Mommy he's in the bathroom. You have to help him mommy he's really sick." He daughter cried.
"Monkey what are you talking about? Didn't Lucifer try to hurt you, who's blood is this? Did he hurt Stacy, I could barely see she ran out of here so fast?"
"Lucifer's an angel mommy. A real angel with wings, and he showed them to me. He was acting strange when he came, but he told me that he was sick and he needed me to do him a favor. He wanted me to cut the off, but I couldn't mommy. Why would an angel want to cut off their wings? He got mad, and he told me to come in here and hide, he told me he wasn't going to be himself much longer and he wanted me to okay. Then he went in the bathroom, and there were lots of screaming and then it stopped. I went and looked, you got to help him all of this blood is his!" she told her frantically.
"Get back in your hiding space, don't come out unless your father and I come and get you.
"What about Lucifer?" she asked.
"Not unless I'm with him! Lucifer needs us to help him.
Chloe heard the shower running when she entered the bathroom, but she immediately saw that it was empty.
"Lucifer?" she called out.
"You have to get out of here detective!"
"You got my little girl pretty scared, come out of there so we can figure this out."
"I have figured it out now detective, my father's plan all along. He wanted you to see the torturer that I use to be and to turn you against me. I've assaulted a man right before your eyes, thrown my doctor in a closet, and I think I may have emotionally destroyed young Beatrice more than either of us are ready for right now. If you ever give me the chance to be near her again, I might be able to make her forget. I'm in control for now, but that will probably on last a little while longer."
"It's ridiculous talking through a shower curtain don't you think you wanna get out of the tub and face me, Trixie had blood on her shirt. Are you hurt?" she asked.
"Yes, but I deserve to be hurt detective. I'm a monster." He sobbed.
She was torn. So much crazy things had happened today. He hadn't hurt her daughter though, when it came to that he had got control of himself. She had to remember that, he didn't hurt Trixie, and even at the bar he could've hurt her and he didn't. She had to help him, whatever was going on they could face it together.
She pulled the curtain back, and nothing could compare her for what she saw. He had burns on his chest, they were just starting to scab over. She knew they weren't there earlier. His left wing was completely gone, but the one that remained was just spasming over and over.
"Lucifer what happened to you?"
"When I cut it off, I reverted to how I was in the desert, but that's not the worst part."
"What is?"
"It keeps growing back."
Just as soon as the words were from his lips, there was a shimmer of motion and his wings were back untouched.
"Oh my god!"