Trixie visits her mother's new office

(Positioned two weeks after the end of 5x16)

"See you in five days, Trix," Dan said, opening the door of his car for his daughter. He had halted in front of the Lux to bring Trixie to Chloe. Lucifer was down to meet them.

Trixie jumped out of the car. "Lucifer!" She wrapped her arms around his middle. Meanwhile Dan took his daughters backpack out of the car

Lucifer raised his hands making half a gesture as if he wanted to escape from her. "Hello, child. You're just in time. Maze was about to leave, but is still in the penthouse…"

"Maze!" Trixie yelled and ran for the elevator. Lucifer laughed and reached out one hand to take over Trixie's backpack. "Note to self: next time make sure the offspring has her luggage in her own hands before mentioning Mazikeen. Still ok, Daniel?"

"More or less. Thanking you every day I'm back. But my parents came over last Sunday and they drive me crazy and they drive Trixie crazy with all their preaching about God and the devil. And I can't match what they say with what I know of you or Maze."

"She is repeating the same prayer in the same sentences every time, Dan," Lucifer said. "Without any interest in her own words. Ignore her, just as I do. You're moving in the right direction." Lucifer hit Dan on the shoulder. "And the Detective will talk with the urchin tomorrow. Are you coming in for a drink?"

"I wish I could, but I've an appointment and I'm already late."

Lucifer followed Trixie, but had to wait for the elevator to come down again. When he entered the penthouse Trixie was already sitting on the couch with her mommy on one site and Maze on the other. "… and grandma and grandpa wanted that I go to church every Sunday with them."

"That's to daddy and me to decide, monkey," Chloe said.

"Grandma said you are an atheist and you made daddy loose his faith and that I will go to hell because I don't speak to God."

For a moment Chloe's expression showed irritation, then she sighed. "Grandma means well and she had a hard time when daddy was… eh, when daddy was away, monkey. Tomorrow we will talk about that after we have looked at my new office."

"What else did your granny tell you, Trix?" Maze asked when Chloe went silent.

"Grandma told me God and the devil hate each other and there will be a large fight at the end of time that will destroy the world. She also says that the devil is all day whispering tempting words in her ear to seduce her to sin, but that she always turns to God to be saved."

"Do you think the devil has nothing else to do than to talk all day to your granny?" Maze asked.

Trixie gave that question a good thought before she shook her head. "He must have more important things to do. But it's better not to tell grandma. Grandma says if you really believe in God as only she does, you feel him in your heart and you don't ask for proof that he exists."

"Ha. I know that kind of humans. I expect to see her in a few years." Maze smiled a wicked smile and then raised. "See you all tomorrow."

"Two floors down," Chloe said after next morning's breakfast. She and her daughter just entered the elevator. She touched a glass screen, waited for a green led to flash and then pressed the correct button. Trixie also touched the screen, but the led didn't react. She looked up to her mother.

"Fingerprint reader, monkey. Only a few persons can let the elevator stop at that floor. Here we are."

Chloe's office was a large room with an enormous desk and an oval table. One chair at the desk and six chairs around the table. Along the far wall were cabinets, most empty, a few filled with files. On the desk more files were spread. Three large windows on the left showed a magnificent view over LA and between the three windows were two doors. Trixie noticed both doors were off-white with no doorknobs. One was marked with a blue 'H', the other one with a red 'H'. For a moment Trixie wondered what the purpose of those doors in the outer wall could be, but her mother continued talking. "You have met Lucifer's dad. Well, he retired. But we found thousands of files in his workroom with projects he was working on. Half of my time I spent with reading them. Lucifer and I need to decide what to do with them, which ones we should continue and which ones we will change or end."

"And all these the folders are in the cabinets?" Trixie asked.

"O, just a few of them. In his workroom there are more…"

Chloe was interrupted by the elevator door that opened behind them.

"Maze," shouted Trixie.

After kissing both Trixie and Chloe Maze asked: "How much did you already tell her?"

"We just started, Maze. Come, monkey. We will show you that workroom. But first…" She took Trixie's hands in her hands. "You should not talk to anyone about what you are going to see."

"Why?" Trixie looked at the grave expression on her mother's face and nodded. "I promise, mommy."

Chloe kissed her and whispered. "You don't have to promise, monkey. You will not talk about it. Come." She walked to the door with the blue 'H'. She placed her hand on the character and the door opened. Trixie came with her but then stopped one yard from the door. Her eyes went from the door to the window just next to it and back.

"How…" Through the window she could see the roofs of the buildings around the Lux, the boulevards below with the traffic. Through the door she saw a green lawn with a large fountain, a wooden building between two high trees. "That can't be real."

"Why not?" Maze asked.

"If you go through that door, you would fall down and hit the street below."

"Shall we try?" Maze offered Trixie a hand and stepped through the door. Trixie hesitated, put one foot forwards and stomped with it on the ground her eyes saw on the other side of the doorstep.

"It's ok," Chloe said. "Go."

On the lawn behind the door Trixie looked around. The door they just passed was a door in a small cabin. To the left there were silver with withe buildings, to the right the landscape descended to a winding river. From a distance Trixie could see people picnicking or playing games along the border of the river. Enormous trees around them provided a pleasant shade on the lawn. The branches of the trees were carrying green and silver leaves.

"A door to another place," Trixie whispered. "That only exists in stories, such as the wardrobe to Narnia."

"Not only in stories," Maze answered. "You just stepped through one."

"Can we go back?"

Her mother gestured to the door that was still open and showed her office in the Lux. "Any time."

"Where are we?"

"They call the city on our left Silver City. This is the garden where Lucifer's dad liked to be and there in front of us is his workroom." She pointed to the wooden building. Trixie now noticed the door was open and a woman appeared from inside.

"She was in the hospital when daddy came back," Trixie said.

"Her name is Raziel," Maze said. "She is my cousin."

"And she is helping with sorting and going through all the files," Chloe said.

After hugging all three of them Raziel invited them to come with her. Inside there was a big desk and in the back of the room there were six rows of bookcases that seemed to run for miles and miles deeper into the building. "My father used to work at this desk.. Well we think he did, for he never allowed any of us in. But we found notes and files here for us after he retired. I now use it to do the paperwork that is needed. But come." She leaded Trixie to one of the aisles between two rows of bookcases. They bookcases were densely packed with folders as far as she could see.

"How long is this aisle?" Trixie asked.

"I walked down it for three hours and still didn't see an end. The folders are in chronological order and by then inscriptions on the back showed dates seventeen century's back."

"Wow," Trixie said. She looked at her mother. "Do you have to read all of that?"

"We don't think so, monkey. Most of the project in those folders will be finished or are concerning people and places that don't exist anymore," Chloe answered.

Raziel nodded and with her eyes wide added: "At least: that is what we hope."

There was not that more to see so they went back to the lawn outside. Trixie saw two women next to the fountain… two women with wings. Between them was something that looked like a white, small, slender pony drinking from the fountain. One of the woman spread her wings and flew up. The wings of the second woman did clap together and disappeared behind her back.

"That is… that was… an angel?" Trixie stammered.

"My sisters," Raziel answered softly. "Saraqael is still there. Gabriel just left."

"If your sisters are angels…" Trixie looked at Raziel.

"Then I'm also one." Raziel smiled. "Look little human." Wings spread out from behind her back.

"Then…" Trixie looked around. "this place…"

"Is heaven, monkey," her mother finished the sentence.

"But you are not an angel, mommy."

"No, monkey. Neither is Maze."

"So heaven really exists."

"And so does God," Maze added. "And the devil. And your mother talks each day with both of them."

Meanwhile the animal that Trixie thought to be a pony finished drinking and raised its head.

"A unicorn," Trixie shouted. "May I pet her?"

"Of course." Raziel preceded them to the fountain where Saraqael clearly was waiting for them.

"Hello, Maze." The angel smiled a bit uncertain at Maze, swallowed and then turned to Chloe. "Hi. I hope all is well."

"It is, Saraqael."

"Good, good. I expected so." The angel nodded and took a deep breath. "And that is your daughter? My pleasure to meet you, little human. I think you came to see my unicorn."

It took twenty minutes before Trixie could say goodbye the unicorn and they could go back to her mother's office in the Lux. As soon as the door was closed, Trixie said: "You never believed in the Bible and God, mommy."

Chloe chuckled. "I didn't, monkey. Not until I saw proof that the devil exists, so according to grandma Espinoza I will never believe."

Trixie frowned. "But you don't go to church and you don't want me to go."

"To which church, monkey? Different religions explain what God want us to do slightly different or even completely different."

"Which one does know what God really wants, mommy?"

"None of them."

"And besides," Maze said, "as I already told you, your mom speaks with him daily. If she needs to know what God wants, she can just ask him." Maze grinned and added: "Or, more likely, she tells him what he should want."

Trixie thought that over while her eyes went from her mother to Maze and to Raziel who had come with them.

"You talked with Lucifer's dad. He was God," Chloe said.

Trixie looked eyes wide open at her mom.

"But he retired. Since two weeks there is a new God and as you now know, I'm helping him with the paperwork."

Trixie inhaled deep and stared ahead. Her gaze past the two doors. Suddenly her look lingered at the door with the red 'H'. "Where does that door go? Does it go to…"

"To hell," Raziel answered. "Not a nice place for a young girl to visit. Billions and billions of souls screaming and crying."

Chloe knelt besides Trixie and put her arm around her shoulders. "On those souls I spent the other half of my time. We want to give them all a second change to reach heaven. Everyone deserves a second change."

Trixie looked at her. "You've always said everyone deserves a second change. And now you try to help a billion people? Or souls?" She smiled first and then whispered: "Is the devil angry you take souls away from him?"

"Since two weeks there is also a new devil," Maze answered. "And the new devil supports your mother. Would you like a quick look in hell too? Only to a scene that is not too frightening."

"Will you all come with me?"

"All three," Chloe promised het daughter. "Maze and I will hold your hand."

The door with the red 'H' let them to a large hall. The only light came from a fire that burned around a large throne at the far side of the hall. The throne, ceiling, floor, walls and pillars in the hall were so dark that Trixie couldn't tell whether everything was really black or only looked black in the dim light of the fire.

"The devil's throne," Maze told her with a smile. "But the devil is busy doing other things at the moment, so it is empty." She guided Trixie through a corridor to a gallery above a deep cave. "Don't be afraid for Borgar, the demon that will meet us." It was again dark though torches were burning at regular distances. Deep down Trixie noticed fires, screaming and wining echoed through the cave. A tall, skinny creature appeared, four tusks were sticking out his muzzle. Trixie squeezed the hands of Maze and her mother. "That's Borgar," Maze said. The being knelt.

"Which hell loop should the little one see, my queen?" The demon asked.

"Bring us to Egill Sturluson," Maze answered. They followed Borgar to a door that he opened for them.

Inside Trixie saw a man drinking beer from a large mug. He stood up and started to walk unsteady. He clearly had been drinking too much. To Trixie's surprise the walking didn't move the man, instead the walls in the room changed to show a snow landscape that slipped by as if he was walking in a movie. He passed some houses before entering one. The walls of the room changed to show the inside. A woman and a small girl were laying on the ground in pools of blood. There eyes were open without blinking. The man yelled, dropped on the floor and shook the woman as if he tried to wake her. He started to cry, took the little girl in his arms and kissed her.

Maze closed the door. "This man lived in the tenth century in Norway. He had been drinking beer with friends when burglars came to his house and killed his wife and daughter. He still feels guilty for not being at home when that happened. He is experiencing these ten minutes ever since."

"For more than thousand years?" Trixie asked.

Maze nodded.

"But that is terrible. That is not fair."

"It isn't," her mother answered. "That is why we have people, well souls, trying to find his wife and daughter to bring them together and hopefully end this."

"Your mother is organizing this," Raziel said. "We could free sixteen souls a day last week, we reached almost a thousand yesterday and your mom thinks we will manage to free 200,000 each day by next year."

"How any people are in hell?" Trixie asked.

"A bit more than 63 billion." Chloe answered. "I will need to scale it up even further."

Trixie pulled Maze and her mom closer and whispered: "Can I see grandpa? I mean your dad."

"He is not in hell," Chloe answered. "Never been."

"But grandma…"

"Don't mention that woman again," Maze interrupted. "I can't wait until I can lay my hands on her. But come. If you want prove, we will ask for you."

Maze brought them through the throne-hall to another corridor and into an area where someone was sitting on a high stool at a lectern. The person was easy the fattest man Trixie had ever seen. He had six arms. A ream of paper appeared out of a hole next to his lectern and disappeared some place at the other side that Trixie couldn't see. With two arms the creature moved the paper over the lectern while he was writing with four pencils in four hands all at the same time. "That is Maxwell, the demon who brings order in the chaos that hell tends to be. He keeps track of who comes in and where they are."

Maxwell looked up. His head was almost a sphere, white and with no hair. He had no lips and his teeth were big, yellow and dirty. His eyes were faceted eyes as enormously enlarged eyes of a fly. "What is your wish, my queen?"

"We are looking for a Johnathan Decker. He died in 2000 and was married to Penelope."

Maxwell now used all six hands to move the ream of paper over his lectern at enormous speed. Suddenly he halted the paper. "We have two John Deckers married to a Penelope that came to us in 2000, my queen. On from Perth, Australia and one from Galway, Ireland."

"No. He lived in Los Angeles."

"Then he is not in hell, my queen."

Maze looked at Trixie. "Convinced? Your grandpa must be in heaven."

"He is," Raziel said. "Do you want to visit your mother's father? I can bring you to him."

When Trixie nodded enthusiastically, Maze said: "Let's go back to Earth."

Immediately after her mother opened the door to the Lux, Trixie heard Lucifer's voice: "...have to choose the other wifi network each time?"

Trixie stepped through the door and saw Lucifer and Ella sitting at the table talking.

"No," Ella answered. "Once your phone knows these networks it will automatically take the one it sees. That just as…"

"Lucifer!" Trixie called. "We have been…" Her throat suddenly refused to make a sound. She looked at Ella and couldn't say a word.

"It's ok, child," Lucifer said. "Ella knows. You can talk."

"We have been to hell and grandpa is not there," her voice continued. For a moment she blinked her eyes in surprise, but then continued: "And Raziel says he is in heaven and she can bring me to him and Raziel is an angel with wings."

On the lawn with the fountain in heaven Raziel lifted Trixie in her arms and spread her wings.

"Wow," Trixie said as they took off. The city on the left turned out to be much larger than she had anticipated. In the middle a large castle rose, sparkling in the sunlight, with many slender towers and walkways between the towers. The river on the right seemed to wind for ever. Further to the right were rolling hills and small lakes. "Is it far?"

"I can fly to any place in the universe in less than ten minutes," Raziel answered. "As all my siblings can."

"How is that possible?"

The angel woman frowned. "I don't know. That is how it has always been. None of us ever marveled about it and dad never explained it. Look there. Your grandpa."

Trixie noticed four men on a field playing horseshoe throwing. When Raziel landed all four turned to them and Trixie recognized one of them immediately from pictures that grandma Decker had all around in the house. He did a few steps in her direction then stretched his arms. "You are Trixie? Chloe's daughter?"

Trixie nodded and hugged him. "Grandpa!"

"Monkey. That what I called your mom."

"That is how mommy calls me." They both laughed.

One hour later Raziel was carrying Trixie back to the door to Earth. "You have seen a lot now, little human. Does it frighten you?"

"If you and mom and Maze are not afraid of God or the devil, then I don't have to be afraid either."

"That's true. They both love you."

"You're Lucifer's sister. Then your dad was the previous God."

"Also true."

"Are you the new God? And will I see the new devil?"

Raziel laughed. "No, I'm not God. But he spends a lot of his time on Earth and he asked me to act as the Steward of Heaven." With a gliding flight she landed at the door and put Trixie down. "You're ready. The time has come to ask your mother."

In the Lux they found Chloe, Maze and Ella sitting on the table while Lucifer just come out of the elevator with a tray of drinks. "Mommy, will I see God or the devil?" She was standing in front of her mother. Maze was sitting next to her mother less than the length of an arm away.

Chloe took one hand from Trixie and one from Maze and put them together. "Lucifer used to be the devil…"

"Really?"

"Yes, really. And Maze who is your best friend… is the new devil."

"Wow! Cool!" Trixie wrapped her arms around Maze' neck and whispered. "That's why the demons called you their queen."

Meanwhile Lucifer had put most drinks on the table. The second-last glass he put down with: "Cola with ice for you, urchin." The last glass he handed over to Maze. They exchanged smiles.

"And Lucifer succeeded his father. He now is God."

Trixie looked at him and frowned. "Do you want to be God rather then the devil?"

He grinned. "Yes."

"Well, fine." She hugged him. "Then I'm glad for you."