"Lucifer, she's coming. The baby….she's coming" Chloe panted over the phone. Lucifer went into panic mode, looking up at Detective Douche and shoving people out of the way around him.

"Lucifer, what is it?" Dan called

"Chloe's in labor" Lucifer called back in concern

"Okay, wait. Wait!" Dan yelled. Lucifer spun around, his jacket flap flying out, clutching the phone to his ear. "You're gonna need a police escort to get to her faster." He said. Lucifer took a second to breathe and turned his attention back to Chloe's heavy breathing on the line.

"Chloe, I'm coming." Lucifer said, trying to sound calmer than he actually was.

"Okay" She groaned, forcing the words out as she nodded.

"How far apart are your contractions?" Lucifer asked

"We have time, Lucifer. They're pretty far apart."

"Then how do you know you're giving birth?"

"My water just broke." Chloe replied. Lucifer nodded to himself and put the cellphone in the plug-in in his car. Dan wasn't far behind.

"Dan's helping me get to you faster." Lucifer said as he pulled out of his parking spot.

"That's good, that's good. When you guys get out tell him to pick up Ella." Chloe replied. There was a moment of silence and Lucifer looked at the phone in concern.

"Are you alright?" He asked

"The contraction just stopped. Feeling like I just wet myself doesn't make me that much more comfortable but I can manage until you get here." She replied.

"Right." Lucifer said. He pressed on the gas, seeing Dan's flashing lights behind him. He knew Dan would've been ahead of him if he thought he would be faster, but they had had a drag race a few months before Chloe got pregnant. Lucifer won with flying flaming colors.

So Dan tried to keep up with the frantic new husband of his ex, who was about to share the same kind of birth experience with Chloe that he'd had when Trix was born. And they were keeping the child's name a secret from everyone in case the baby was a different gender. He couldn't believe the man that blew all the rules to hell the first day he and Chloe met the guy, was the guy married to her now. The guy that was making her smile and laugh, cry with, for, yell at and torture like she never did with him. It was different. He wasn't jealous, but it astounded him that a reckless man like Lucifer turned into the best guy for Chloe in the end.

They parked by the Lux and Lucifer flew out of the car. Dan struggled out of the car and tripped over the curb, sprinting in after the longer-legged guy running like a bat outta hell. Maze grinned at Dan as he flew past her and began to race him, quickly beating him. As soon as they got upstairs to the kitchen where Chloe was panting, Lucifer was hovering, in her face and asking the routine worried-husband questions;

"Are you alright?"

"Are you breathing? Keep breathing"

"Are you alright to move?"

As Lucifer slowly thought to himself Dan caught him glancing at Maze, and realized Lucifer was too panicked to think. Maze immediately sprung into action and began leading Chloe to the stairs, Dan called the hospital to get a room ready for her and Lucifer tried not to be left at the back of the herd but it looked like he had no other choice. He watched his pregnant, human wife that he was madly in love with, try to make it to the hospital while being in labor with his child.

He never thought he'd be doing this. He had gotten girls pregnant before, it was in the bible and in other stories. Girls that were nothing like Chloe and women he felt nothing for, unlike Chloe. So as he watched the woman he loved slowly get down the stairs, paramedics wheeling a stretcher in and waiting for her to reach the bottom, he imagined what those girls went through when they were in this situation. Did they have people like he and Chloe did? Were they alone, cursing his name every time they pushed? Were they confined to asylums for having children out of wedlock and the baby being raised by someone who had no idea of its origins, or was the child loved by a father that wasn't their own. He didn't have an answer for those questions, mostly because memories he had that correlated with them flew out of his mind. Chloe Morningstar was his wife. He had a wedding ring that was stuck on his finger to prove it. Chloe had a ring on her finger she never took off and when it glinted in the sunlight it always made him smile. When Chloe introduced him as her husband he felt loved and wanted again, another reason to stay on earth. Chloe's called him her husband 6,524 times. He tries to match that number but there's never a time or place for it, really.

Chloe was on the stretcher finally, and Lucifer flew down the stairs, tripping over the last one and gluing himself to her side, holding the small steady hand she'd held out for him.

"You're shaking a lot, Lucifer" Chloe noted

"I'm worried." He replied after a moment. There was no point trying to hide his thoughts. And he still has never lied to her. Chloe smiled at him.

"There's nothing to worry about, I feel fine. Our baby's gonna be fine, I know it. We've got everything set up for a boy or a girl, whichever it is-"

"Even though we think it's a girl" He interjected

"Right. But everything that could potentially happen, any weird appearance changes, and the baby having a red tail with a spike at the end of it…"Chloe said. Lucifer glanced at a paramedic giving her a weird look

"Don't worry, she's in labor, she'd say anything." Lucifer told him. Chloe hit him with his own hand playfully and he smirked.

"We're ready. For anything. And now we are going to the hospital, and you're going to be there while I have this baby." Chloe said. Lucifer smiled and thought back to when they agreed that. They were by the fire, sitting on the ground and opening baby gifts, laughing at the corny clothes, the personalities of the other women at the shower. And he leaned down, holding Chloe's hand tightly to stop the stretcher, and kissed her on the mouth. When he pulled away Chloe smiled at him.

"I love you." He murmured.

"I love you too." She replied giddily.

They went out to the ambulance and Lucifer climbed in with them, regaining Chloe's hand once he sat down. The vehicle began to move fast and Chloe's grip tightened.

"Whoa, are you feeling a contraction?" Lucifer asked.

"Relax. I don't think this baby is going to come out in an ambulance. Stop worrying." Chloe scolded. Lucifer blushed at the smirk the paramedic had and looked away.

"We never did decide on a boy name"

"That's because you won't accept my boy name"

"I just don't think we should call our child Amenadiel. Think of how many times the teachers at school are going to spell that wrong."

"Well what about a human name? George, Nathan? Fonz…"

"Shut up" She laughed.

Dan could see Lucifer talking to Chloe in the ambulance as he followed it. Everyone steered way clear of a rushing ambulance, not to mention a police car following it. But he had to go and get Trixie, and she was getting babysat by Lucifer's brother Amenadiel. The last time he's done so Dan walked in on Amendiel wearing a pink fuzzy tiara on his bald black head and Trix is in high school now. That was a confusing experience.

When he turned off to go and get Trix, he wondered how she was really feeling about a new baby in the family. She had been in the spotlight, the most cared for over anyone, since she was born. Now she was getting a sibling. She seemed fine with it, awestruck by the fact Lucifer was her stepdad and that he was giving her a sibling. Trix was old enough now to see Lucifer for who he really was, but as long as the guy kept calling himself a devil's name, she wouldn't see him as anymore than that.

The ambulance shifted and everyone in the back did too, making Chloe yelp. Lucifer gripped her hand tighter and looked out the window.

"We're almost there, love, hold on." He told her. She closed her eyes and breathed normally after a minute. The vehicle came to an abrupt halt and the doors opened immediately, Lucifer trying to keep a hold of Chloe as best he could. He jumped from the back of the ambulance and ran with the paramedics, only to have hospital forms shoved in his chest.

"Stop!" Chloe cried and the stretcher stopped, Chloe trying to shift to see Lucifer having to calm himself down with white papers against him. "Screw all that you can deal with those after the baby comes."

"Ma'am..." The nurse began and turned around to see Lucifer.

"She said..." Lucifer growled, his appearance changing for a brief moment "we are waiting. Now back off" The nurse scurried away and Lucifer put the forms down on the counter, rushing to join Chloe again and they found the delivery room, the front of the stretcher crashing into the wall, making Chloe yell out. Two nurses came to help Chloe lift her body and they moved her to the bed next to the stretcher, complete with pillows and blankets. Lucifer waited until the rabble moved away then he took Chloe's hand again.

"Okay now the contractions are really close, she's coming out now" Chloe moaned, and Lucifer stared ahead. This was really happening. He was really going to be a father. This same realization came when Chloe told him she was pregnant, but it was never more poignant than now. Lucifer looked back to Chloe, whose feet had been pushed into stirrups, and he grabbed her knee, pressing his shoulder against hers and looking at her belly.

"I kind of forgot...how painful this is" Chloe panted

"Can't we do anything for the pain?" Lucifer asked one of the nurses shakily

"No time, if Mrs. Morningstar had taken longer to dilate and her contractions were farther apart, we would've been able to give her something." The woman replied. Lucifer looked back slowly at Chloe, her eyelids fluttering and she smiled at him.

"It's okay, we're okay" Chloe panted. "Just help me push"

Dad, the grip that tiny little detective Chloe had was unbelievable. She couldn't wrap her hand around his fully but the side of his hand felt numb after a few good squeezes. Lucifer pulled Chloe's leg in tighter to her body and helped her remember to breathe, imitating the motion with his own mouth. It seemed time slowed down, differently than it had when he was running hell. Things were much less time-constrictive, there was no need to rush anything. Here, it was like time slowed down so they could appreciate the moment. Because there would be very few like this for them ever again.

A sound of a small cry came from underneath the blanket and Lucifer gasped, grinning. He looked at Chloe and kissed her sweat-drenched temple, looking back at the baby covered in Dad-knows what. The umbilical cord still stuck to the tiny little thing, and the two looked at their child.

"It really is a girl" Chloe said in awe.

"Beautiful little girl" Lucifer agreed, holding Chloe's hand still as a habit. The nurses cut the cord and turned away with the child. "Where is she going?" Lucifer asked in concern.

"She's just going to get cleaned" Chloe laughed. "Trixie was bigger than her."

"Seems we do indeed have a name then" Lucifer replied. He took in Chloe's features as he'd done millions of times before. When she was asleep in his bed, home from work sick or asleep from making love all night. She was absolutely exhausted, the strands of her blonde hair sticking to her face, her mouth hanging open slightly, and her chest rising and falling every heavily.

"You did so well" He breathed, leaning in and kissing her forehead again, pressing his to her. Chloe shakily brought Lucifer's hand to her lips and kissed his knuckles

"Thank you for being here with me" She breathed, her eyes closed.

"I wouldn't have missed it for anything, darling" Lucifer replied. The nurses turned back, the baby girl swaddled in a pink blanket. "Are you ready to meet our little Lyla?" He asked. Chloe' eyelids fluttered open and he let go of her hand, her arms stretching out to take in Lyla Linda Morningstar. Her small eyes, puffy and taking up a third of her face, were still closed. Her chubby cheeks were painfully adorable, and her tiny mouth closed. Lyla's hands peeked from the blanket, showing her comfortably asleep. Chloe rocked Lyla lightly, and looked at Lucifer, grinning. Their baby daughter had on a pink cap, covering her to where her eyebrows would grown in, her tiny ears halfway hidden by the fabric. Chloe took the cap off and ran her fingers over the little girl's bald head. Lyla looked absolutely perfect.

Chloe looked back at Lucifer to see his eyes clouding up, but not trying to reach out to his daughter.

"You wanna hold her?" She asked. Lucifer looked at her fearfully and then back at Lyla. "What's wrong?"

"She's just so, tiny...I...I don't want to hurt her" Lucifer managed. From the look in his eye Chloe knew that wasn't it but she didn't push it.

"You'll do fine." Chloe replied, holding Lyla up to him. Lucifer shakily reached down and picked up the small child, holding her head as she slept, and turning her to face him. He stared at her, and Lyla's arms moved slightly, making him think she was waking up. Startled, he pulled her into his body, and put her in the crook of his arm.

"Hello" Lucifer greeted his daughter, his voice breaking. Lyla moved again, her arms disappearing into the blanket and her head turning, her mouth opening and closing. Lyla's eyes still didn't open. "It's so nice to finally meet you." He murmured to her. Lyla cooed and he gasped.

"She-she's awake?" He asked Chloe. Chloe grinned.

"Babies' eyes don't always open as soon as they're born. It'll take her a minute." She replied.

"Of course" Lucifer laughed "It's not like I haven't watched babies come into the world"

"What did that happen?" Chloe asked

"It was centuries ago, love. Customs were much different then."

"Men not allowed in the room, women definitely not having pain killers" Chloe prompted

"Exactly." Lucifer murmured.

Lyla's eyes opened. The depth of her dark eyes made him gasp once again. Her eyes were more Chloe's color, but the secrets behind her eyes were much more like him. He smiled at her.

"Hi" He murmured. Lyla cooed again, her arms opening and her mouth stretching into a toothless smile. He chuckled and held her tiny head up, pecking her forehead. He looked at Chloe who was watching the whole thing.

"Mom!" Trixie greeted as she walked into the room. Dan followed close behind

"Hey, monkey" Chloe replied, opening her arms to her older daughter.

"So what's the kid's name?" Dan asked, his hands on his hips.

"Lyla" Chloe replied. Trixie pulled back and looked at her stepdad.

"Could I hold her?" Trixie asked, coming around to join Lucifer.

"Alright, but be careful" Lucifer said, and gently placed Lyla in Trixie's outstretched arms. Trixie looked down at her new half sister and grinned at her mother, who grinned back. Dan came to one side of Chloe's bed and took her hand, while Lucifer sat back down and pressed his shoulder back to hers. Trixie came closer to her mother and started talking to Lyla. As Lyla cooed again Chloe and Lucifer laughed, Dan grinning.

Maze rushed into the room followed by Amenadiel. She stood by Dan and looked at the new human slash angel. It would be getting louder around the Lux. Amenadiel stood up Maze's side and gripped her shoulders in an embrace.

Lucifer looked up at everyone, tearing his eyes away from his baby daughter.

This was definitely a weird little family. But it was the best one he'd ever had.