Grandma's house, eight days earlier...

I'm afraid, he's drunk again. He smashed up the main bedroom now. I cant get anyone involved. She's coming back tomorrow, I don't know what to do L x

Take the kids and RUN! You can't go back home so you can stay with us, you are family now A x

I don't know, we have a security detail watching us L x

The kids own mother is happy to let her daughter think she is dead, the kids dad is dangerous. Your partner has run out on you. Humans and angels are asshats, protect yourselves A x

I can take the car, you are only an hour away. How do I lose the detail? L x

Let us keep them busy A x

Next day...

Bang, bang, bang.

Dan woke with a start. His head was pounding and he felt sick.

Bang, bang, bang.

Dan groaned and raised his head off the pillow. Memories of the night before came flooding back and he groaned. The place was a mess, and his ex mother-in-law was due back today. He raised his head off the pillow. Shock stopped his movements, the sight of the dead bodies around him rendered him immobile.

Bang, bang, bang.

Blood everywhere. Dan's training kicked in, Trixie!

Bang!

Police came crashing in and grabbed hold of Dan. They dragged him kicking and screaming from the house. The detective part of his brain noticed the bodies of the security detail littered around and it took particular note of the note written in blood in the hallway, "praise Lilith."

Compound outside of LA, eight days later...

Linda paced the room frantically. They had taken her phone away and had locked the three of them in a bedroom in a large house in its own grounds from what she had seen of it so far. She cursed herself for being so stupid, for trusting virtual strangers. They hadn't hurt her or the children and they provided them with everything they needed, apart from freedom. Linda's heart had broken when Trixie had said in a matter-of-fact way that they needed to keep quiet and hope, because thats what happens when bad people kidnap you. A child that young shouldn't have that sort of knowledge and it was Linda's fault she was in that position again.

That fucking Amelia! Linda kicked a bed leg, quietly so she wouldn't wake either Charlie or Trixie.

She had put them in that room and told her that she would come round to their way of thinking. Linda saw the insanity in her eyes then, Amelia really thought she was protecting them by posting an unknown number of angel/human hybrids to guard them. It was when Amelia had shown her the photos of what they had done to their security detail that Linda got really really scared. She had brought them to a true devil.

Offices of Deckerstar Inc, same day...

Lucifer sat at the head of the long table facing every person who held power in LA. There were men and women of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds looking back at him. They ranged from people in government to the heads of every organised criminal gang who operated in the city. He had gathered everyone who held a stake in the future of the city.

He stood up and addressed his captive audience.

"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming. I have called you here today to address the crisis that threatens our city. You all know what I am, but your human brains have buried it deeply. It is time to confront that reality."

Lucifer put on his devil face.

There were screams and people started running for the door. A small woman stood there and everyone stopped when the wings sprouted from her back.

"SIT DOWN."

Lucifer bellowed in his devil voice and everyone sat down in quiet shock. The young woman put her wings away and Lucifer went back to his normal human looking himself.

"Now I have your attention. I'm sorry that I need to break your fragile human brains, but you need to understand that divine is real. The threat from Lilith is real and she is here in your city. I saw what happened at Sodom and Gomorrah, but we didn't act to stop it and now we are intervening. She will destroy our city, your city. She is controlling humans and we can hurt her army, but we can take her out."

The humans in the room just stared at him, he sighed.

"Go make plans to defend your city. Work together, play nice."

Still no movement of sound.

"CHOP CHOP."

There was a stampede for the door.

Lucifer sat down and put his feet up on the table. He lit a cigarette and took a big draw. The small woman walked up to him.

"Thanks for your help RaeRae."

"I hope you know what you are doing Lu."

He took another drag of his cigarette.

"Me too. Before you go back to work, can you send Remy down to replace Amendial . I need him back here."

"What about your pet demon?"

"Leave her, I don't want her within a 100 miles of Lilith. Remy will rub her up the wrong way, but Maze will the challenge."

He smiled a joyless smile.

"I promise to look after Miss Lopez. I suspect she is now immortal until the prophecy comes to pass thanks to the efforts of the detective. So I wouldn't worry too much."

Azrael nodded and in one beat of her wings she was gone. Lucifer took a drink from his hipflask and smoked away staring at the wall in deep thought.

Precinct...

The captain watched Pierce from behind the two way mirror. He hadn't said anything in all the weeks he had been in the cells. Anyone they locked up with him for the night ended up a blubbering mess the next morning and no officer wanted to question him, citing the creepiness factor. So he had been left in a cell to rot.

He walked into the interrogation room and sat in front of Marcus. The other mans intense gaze watching him closely. The captain took out a key and unlocked his cuffs. Pierce's eyes went wide when he saw the captain had slipped him an address.

Penthouse same time...

Chloe sat on the couch and flicked between channels on the TV. She was frustrated. She had let Lucifer keep her wrapped up in a bubble for too long. Ella was asleep in the apartment downstairs after her vacation in LA with Azrael. She had come to terms with the fact that her oldest friend was the Angel of Death and the whole existence of the divine. In Ella's typical way she had accepted that she was now a part of the apocalypse through the will of God and treated her and Lucifer in the same way as before. Chloe knew that Ella didn't hold a grudge against her for what she did.

The relationship between her and Lucifer had turned into a deep need for each other over the last few weeks. It had gotten to a place that they couldn't bear to spend time away from each other, the emotional bond had replaced the frantic physical couplings of before. They held each other all night and traded words of love. Decker wished that there could be more, but he had taken on the weight of the world and she still wasn't sure that after it all he wouldn't be going back to Hell. A big part of

Chloe wished that she could stay as pregnant as she was now forever. The whole superpower thing was great and she could pretend that there was a way she could visit Lucifer when she wanted. The alternative future of being a single mother of an angel baby was less appealing. She missed Trixie, but she knew she was safer where she was. The urge to text or phone Linda and Dan was overwhelming but this time she had kept them out of danger.

Chloe's phone vibrated and she picked it up. She saw it was from Linda and with a confused expression she opened the picture message. It was a picture of Linda cuddling Charlie and Trixie whilst crying. The message on the attachment just gave an address that was just outside the city. Chloe dropped her phone with a cry and ran out onto the balcony where she disappeared in a shower of feathers.

Offices of Deckerstar Inc...

Lucifer's phone rang and he flipped it open without paying too much attention.

"Lucifer speaking"

There was a loud squawking from the telephone.

"Daniel? Slow down."

More squawking .Lucifer's whole manner changed from relaxed to alert.

"Give me the address Daniel and I will meet you there."

Authors Note

Thank you for sticking with this. I just wanted to say that I intend to wrap this up in the next three chapters. Enjoy x