AN/ This story starts at end of season 3 but with my own twist. This is a Douchifer story.

Chapter 1:

"Are you alright?" Dan asked over the phone, he was only a few blocks away at the penthouse with Ella holding one of Pierce his tugs.

"I am, I don't know how but I am or maybe I do know… Maybe I have been avoiding the biggest truth… I have to go…" Chloe said a bit shocked after hearing gunshots.

Dan knew back then that Chloe had figured out something he already knew that her partner Lucifer Morningstar had never lied to her. He had his suspicions after looking back at what was right in front of him. From surviving things that were impossible to survive to have the ability to make a blubbering mess of even the toughest guys. Not to speak of confessions the man pulled out of men who were known to form to withstand everything the police threw at them, men who no matter what, always stuck to their story.

He knew that if Chloe's suspicion got confirmed she was in for a major freak out, she would survive it but he wasn't sure if the devil would survive his partners freak out. He didn't know back then, that he could be so wrong. He didn't know how he underestimated the whole thing at that moment.

The moment he arrived he saw an EMT bringing out a shocked Chloe. His gut told him she had figured it out.

He stormed inside but outside Pierce and his tugs, there was no proof that Lucifer had even been here.

That was until something caught Dan's eyes from behind a column. It was a large white feather. Nothing unusual if it wasn't so large and razor-sharp covered in blood. No bird feather was this sharp or this long. He knew because studying birds had been a passion when he was a child.

He didn't know what he would find but he knew something was wrong. Lucifer wasn't the person to disappear like that, he could charm himself out of everything and he wouldn't hesitate to do it. No, if this feather was an indication. He was hiding and he needed to be found. To give him the reassurance that not everyone would walk away from him.

He may have cursed Lucifer a lot of times and acted as he hated him because that's what it was an act to hide certain things from himself and from the world.

He started walking through the many hallways until after an hour of searching he found a figure sitting in the shadows.

"Stay away, Daniel." The deep voice with the familiar British accent said. Dan could hear the sadness in his voice.

"I am not going to leave you here all by yourself, Lucifer." Dan tried to be firm but gentle. He didn't know what he could expect from this side of Lucifer.

"Why wouldn't you, if I take one step out of the darkness you will run just like everyone does." Pain could be heard in the devil's voice especially when he continued, "Everyone leaves me, it's how it's been since my fall billions of years ago.

"I won't run because I know who or what you are Lucifer. I have known for a while now." Dan said gently taking steps in the devil's direction. "Did I freak out? Hell yeah, but I also examined the time you have spent with me or at the precinct. You may be the devil but you are not evil."

Lucifer just huffed, still sitting in a dark corner with his knees pulled up, his arms wrapped around him, and the feathers he had lost beside him.

Dan swallowed briefly as he stepped closer. The darkness that made Lucifer almost invisible from a distance was now fading and Dan saw why Chloe had been so shocked.

He shook his head and crouched down in front of the devil, taking in the red burned, scarred skin and the hellish red eyes showing flames in the middle.

"Like I told you I am not running and you can't stay here forever. Let me help you." Dan said placing his hand over Lucifer's burned one.

"How could you possibly help me? Look at me I can even change back. I am a monster." Lucifer sighed.

"Promise me you will stay right here. I will be right back. I have an idea." Dan smiled, "but I need your word that you will wait for me."

Lucifer sighed again but more deeply this time, "I will give you my word that I won't leave."

That was enough for the male detective. He knew Lucifer was a man of his word. He stood up and walked away only to come back minutes later with a hoodie in one hand a large trash bag in the other.

"This is what we will do. We wait until this evening to walk out of here…" Dan was interrupted by Lucifer.

"Bloody hell, Daniel, I can't walk out not like this."

"Wait until you hear everything, Lucifer. Like I was saying we wait until it's dark to walk out of here but you will be wearing this." He showed the hoodie and inside the hoodie was a cap. "It will cover most of your face for the few blocks we have to do it's good enough."

"If you think this will work but there is one thing I don't understand, Daniel. Why are you helping me? I thought you hated me." Lucifer asked a little shocked.

"I know you hate lying and I am sorry," Dan said shyly.

"You lied to me about hating me why?" Lucifer asked a bit taken back by this.

"I was…," Dan took a deep breath and tried again, "I was lying not only to you but also to myself because I was ashamed."

"Ashamed? Why?" Lucifer asked. They still had a few hours before it would be dark enough to go so they better spend that time talking.

"Ashamed of who I am," Dan said he just couldn't get the word out of his mouth.

"You can be a douche, yes and you did try some dirty cop stuff but hardly something to hate yourself for but I don't understand what has that to do with you lying about hating me?" Lucifer asked.

"My whole life is a lie, Lucifer. You are the second person I tell this too but I… I…," Dan took another deep breath this was harder than he thought, "I am gay."

Whatever the devil was expecting he wasn't expecting this.

"Why should you be ashamed of liking men over women? Hello, you were acting like you hated me to hide your feelings isn't it?" For the first time since the detective found out a little smirk appeared on his face.

Dan took a seat next to him and buried his head in his hands while he nodded, "Especially since I found out that you weren't lying. Call me crazy if you want but the pieces of the puzzle fell into place. I… I don't expect anything from you. The only thing I ask is that you keep this our secret and maybe let me be your friend?"

"You have my word that I am not going to tell a soul about our conversation. I would like you to be my friend. Hell, I want to know you, Daniel Espinoza. Really know you." Lucifer said placing his hand on the man's knee. Truth to be told there was something about Daniel that fascinated him. It was one thing to be drawn to his human form but here he was comforting the monster he was.

The evening came quickly, they had a long talk, and the more they talked to each other the more sparks jumped over.

"Come on, take off your jacket, and put this hoodie on." Dan smiled he tried to be gentle because Lucifer could react like a frightened animal at any moment now.

Lucifer put on the black hoodie, the hoodie didn't have any print on it, as last he put on the black baseball cap over his bald, scarred head. The cap was decorated with a big white Nike sign. He placed the hood over the cap, his face disappeared almost completely. As of the last thing he gave Lucifer a set of gloves that he took from Ella when she wasn't looking.

Like Dan had predicted nobody had noticed how the devil looked. They used the private elevator to reach the safety of the penthouse.

"Thank you, Dan, I appreciate this," Lucifer said gently but there was obvious pain in voice but that wasn't the only thing Dan heard. He heard a gentleness in his tone he only heard from him when he talked to Chloe in the past or was this his imagination.

Whatever it was Dan was going to help his friend through this. He was brought out of his thinking by the ringing of his phone. It was his ex-wife, Chloe.

TBC