Okay lets get started.

Because I didn't update since forever on the last chapter, I decided to update this pretty quickly.


Chapter 7: Disfigured

Flames surrounded the pair. They rose higher and higher, and the heat was intense if a human was here they would have melted immediately. Michael lowered Lucifer's body onto the ground.

Tears stung in his eyes. As he lay Lucifer down, he gently closed his eyes. "I know you can hear me. This is a warning, my brother. Your death and return to hell or Chloe's death and she is destroyed no heaven or hell. In one months time, I will return for your answer."

Michael stood up from his brother's unconscious body. He raised his magnificent wings and took flight. His wings fanned the flames, and they slowly spread towards the unconscious man. Michael flew above Lucifer's body as it was engulfed in flames. After, his body was fully dunked in flames Michael decided to leave.

"Now to get the child."

Michael sped up his flight, and he found the child a few hundred feet away from the plant, laying on the concrete. He picked up the small human, and he saw human authorities there. He pulled his wings in.

"Excuse me, sir?" The cop looked up from his com link. "One minute please."

He cop placed his com back into the car.

"Yes, what can I do for you?" The cop asked.

"Officer... Watson... This girl was found near the plant." Michael informed the cop.

"Is she harmed?" The officer questioned.

"No."

"Okay then place the girl in the back seat there." He pointed to his car.

"Bowser! Watch the girl." He shouted at the other cop. The cop turned back to Michael.

"Thank you, sir."

The cop turned and picked up the com link again from his vehicle, "Unit 967, requesting ambulance. A small girl age 7 to 9 found at scene."

There was a small noise from the link. "Thank you."

As officer Watson turned from his car to Michael, Michael was long gone.

"Hey, Watson who told you about the child?" Officer Bowser asked.

"I have no idea."


As Chloe ran towards the ambulance, Maze desperately searched for a small child named Beatrice. She walked up to the other ambulance there.

"You." Maze grabbed the woman in uniform, "Was there a girl here? Small, named Trixie? Heaven sent child?"

The brunette women looked up at Maze in fear. "Yes a small child in there."

The woman pointed with her thumb to the ambulance behind her.

"Small human!" Maze called out.

"Maze?!" A high pitched voice yelled out.

"Trixe!" Maze shoved the woman away and ran to the voice.

Trixe was siting with a male paramedic who was showing her his stethoscope.

"Maze." Trixie ran to the demon and hugged her tightly.

"Miss, how are you related to the girl?" The man asked as he stuffed the stethoscope into his bag.

"I'm her babysitter." Maze informed as she glared daggers that could kill, at the man who dared question her.

"Ah... I see." He managed in fear. His knees shaking.

"Come on small human." Maze picked up Trixie. "Let's go to your mother."

Maze held Trixie, the whole way to the other ambulance. "Decker!"

Chloe was about to enter the ambulance, when Maze called her. "Maze, what-"

Chloe interrupted herself. "Trixie!"

Maze let the small human down. Trixie basically jumped out of Maze's arms. "Mommy!"

Chloe crouched down and hugged the small human tightly, an embrace that was tight but comforting. Her eyes closed in content. "I'm so glad you're okay."

"The other cops told me that a man with blond hair brought me to safety. They said that I was asleep when he did." Trixie explained to her mom.

Michael. Chloe released her daughter from her embrace, she looked up to Maze. "Maze, I'm going to ask you to have Dan take Trixie."

"Mommy, why can't I go home?" Trixie inquired innocently.

"Home isn't safe right now, okay. We can go back home in a while." Chloe soothed.

Maze went with Trixie, and soon returned. Chloe still hadn't entered the ambulance and she slowly paced back and forth at the entrance.

"Miss, we have to take this man to the hospital." The paramedic informed.

"One more minute please." Chloe pleaded to the paramedic, and they nodded.

Maze returned a moment later. "Maze can you take my father to Lux, please. And make sure no one sees him."

Maze nodded. "Is Lucifer?"

"I don't know." Chloe turned from the demon, and she opened the doors to the ambulance van. Maze watched the ambulance doors shut behind the Detective. "Time to have fun with Daddy Decker."


Chloe entered the back of the ambulance van, a male paramedic tending to him. As Chloe entered, the man smacked on the wall separating the driver from the passengers.

The vehicle started to move. Though, all Chloe could focus on was the scene before her.

The man was burned and bruised all over, and his face was barely recognizable. But she knew who it was. Chloe sat down on the opposite side of the paramedic. He was checking the oxygen mask attached to the patient.

"This man has inhaled a serious amount of smoke, his burns are 3nd degree, and judging by the contorted torso and coloring there are broken ribs. Looking at the bruising on the face and body, this man was in a fight. Before the flames erupted in the power plant. But the tissue around the heart, it was if someone stuck something thick, like a hand in his chest, and then removed it."

Chloe was half-way listening to the man, as the sight before caused pain in her chest. It was if a metal clamp had shut itself around her chest. Uneasiness pooled into her belly. She was afraid to touch him, in fear that she would make the burns worse. She stayed quiet the whole ride there, and once they had reached the hospital Chloe simply watched as they rolled him away on the stretcher. He went in to the Emergency room, a place where Chloe could not follow.

Chloe sat outside of the Emergency room for hours, finally Lucifer was being rolled out of the Emergency room into Intensive care. She followed him, as the Nurses hooked him into the room. They left after they were finished. Chloe sat on the chair nearest to the bed as she watched Lucifer lay there. His face had small bandages on his face and larger ones down his body. The hospital was the same one she was in when she was poisoned. The room she stayed in was a few rooms away. Chloe checked the clock, it was 9:12 am. Has it been that long ago?

She shook her head lightly. A nurse walked in and checked Lucifer's vitals and wrote them down on a board that she held in her hand. The nurse looked at Chloe, "Miss, if you want I can bring in some blankets, the Nurse on the shift before me, told me you've been here for a few hours."

"Thank you." Chloe smiled at the women, but her heart wasn't in it. The Nurse nodded her head, and she left the room quietly. A few minutes later she came back with two blankets and a pillow. Chloe didn't want to fall asleep, but sleep had other plans. She fell into a dreamless sleep.


Lucifer awoke in a dark place. He could see candles lining the walls, and lighting the dim room. Lucifer sat up and he lay in a dark bed, with black silk sheets. He gazed around the rook, a large fire pit in front of him, shielded with metal gates. The fire was roaring behind the gates. He looked around banners decorated the walls. He flopped his legs over the side of the bed. He was shirtless save for a pair of black trousers. Lucifer studied his hands. They were red and scarred, he was in his devil form. He stood and stretched his shoulders by placing his arms in front of him and leaning his back away. He left the the room through a large black wooden door decorated with elaborate patterns. He stood in his office. There was a dark brown desk in the middle of the room. The fire place behind the chair, that was in a matching dark wood. On the far side of the wall were scrolls and books lining the wall. On the wall closest to him was a large portrait, with no defining shapes simply red and black in different shades. Lucifer walked over and sat in the cushioned chair with red velvet, with the heat of hellfire behind him. He placed his head in his hands.

"My lord."

Lucifer looked up. It was a demon named Dantalion. (Dahn - tel- lee- on) Dantalion had dark chocolate hair with amethyst eyes. He was dressed in a casual suit, and his most defining feature was his mouth. It was torn, as if someone had ripped his jaw off, and only left it dangling loosely. The area around his mouth was burned to his cheeks. The area around his eyes and cheekbones looked human. His ears were elongated, and ripped similar to his mouth.

"I bring a message from your brother. You were asleep when we received it, so I waited till now to deliver it. " Dantalion informed, though his mouth did not move, only sound escaped.

"I know you can hear me. This is a warning, my brother. Your death and return to hell or Chloe's death and she is destroyed no heaven or hell. In one months time, I will return for your answer." Dantalion spoke in perfect impersonation of Michael, it chilled Lucifer's spine.

Lucifer simply stared straight forward. "I am here in spirit, not form correct?"

"Yes, sire." Dantalion answered. "You can return, although your physical body on earth is not in prime condition. It would seem as if something is keeping you here, my lord."

Lucifer motioned for him to continue his statement.

"I believe you on human anesthetics, but how they work on you is beyond me, sire." Dantalion explained.

Lucifer nodded. "Leave me alone."

"Yes sire, shall I inform you when your body is able to be returned to?" Dantalion questioned.

"Yes."

"As you wish." Dantalion left the room swiftly. Though double doors that were centered along with the fireplace behind.

Lucifer stood and poured him self a drink that was on the coffee table near the bookshelves. The drinks in Hell were far stronger, though he would not feel the affects as he was not there in form. Lucifer pulled out one of the scrolls on the bookshelf, it was a list of people that entered hell in the year 1789. He rolled it back up and placed it back on the book shelf, and He sat down on a cushion next to the coffee table.

He didn't know how long he sat there. It must have been at least an hour.

"My lord."

Lucifer looked up at Dantalion, his steward. "It is time."

"Very well." Lucifer walked over to the fire place and opened the metal gates, and stepped through the fire, that could not burn him.


Chloe woke to voice she was all to familiar with. "Thank you, my dear."

Her eyes opened slowly to the light of day, and she saw a nurse replacing Lucifer's IV. After, she was finished the Nurse left in a hurry.

"Lucifer!" Chloe gasped and all lingering sleepiness left her.

"Ah, you're up!" Lucifer smiled at her as if he wasn't nearly burned on every part of his body. His eyes were bright and only accented his white smile. Chloe stood up to hug him, but stopped herself in fear of hurting him.

"It's okay, Detective, It looks worse than it feels." Lucifer held an arm out for her. Chloe simply leaned forwards gently, however, Lucifer pulled her in tight.

Chloe said nothing, as she hugged him, only comforted by the fact that he was still alive. Lucifer soon let her go, and Chloe sat down back into her chair.

A silence dropped between them. It was a awkward and comforting silence.

They both tried to break it.

"Detective, I wanted-"

"Lucifer, I need to say-"

They both stopped themselves. "My apologies, Detective, you go first."

"OKay. Lucifer I wanted to ask you why didn't you call for help? You left without backup," Chloe asked with hurt seeping into her voice. "Trixie's life was on the line, I could have helped.

"Detective, you would have made it worse." Lucifer told her.

"How could I have made it worse, Lucifer? Look at yourself!" Chloe answered pained.

"As much fun as laying down, with you watching me is, I'd rather not Detective, this gown isn't exactly Devil approved. Honestly, what monster decided this dress helps people get better?" Lucifer scoffed.

"Lucifer, I'm being serious. Why would I have made it worse?"

"Because Detective, you make me vulnerable, and I mean literally make me exsanguinate. I would have been helpless against Michael, I mean he already can kill me. The one angel besides Amenadiel that could kill me." Lucifer explained never once looking at Chloe.

"Lucifer..." Chloe barely whispered his name.

"I couldn't risk that, if you did come, when I'm vulnerable I wouldn't be able to protect you." Lucifer continued his voice becoming soft.

The next thing that happened, it happened without Chloe thinking, just feeling what was right. Chloe leaned towards Lucifer, and gently grabbed his jaw and forced him to look up at her. She placed her forehead on his bandaged one.

Chloe spoke soothingly, "Then let me protect you."

Lucifer leaned up and his lips barely brushed hers, and Chloe pulled his face closer deepening the kiss. It was chaste and passionate.

They soon disconnected to breathe. Chloe kept close to his face, enjoying his company.

But Lucifer had to ruined the moment with brutal honesty. His voice only loud enough where she could hear.

"But you can't."