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Chapter 4

"What in Hell happened here?!"

"Ah, Mazikeen. Imagine this, I've just been shot and I'm bleeding!" Lucifer sounded almost delighted and Chloe stared at him in disbelief.

"What the Hell, who did this to you?" the bartender scowled, and in a second a dark curved blade appeared in her hand, making Chloe jumped.

"The culprit ran away of course." Lucifer retorted matter-of-factly.

"I'm on it."

And just like that, in a flash of black leather and sharp blade, the woman was gone again. Chloe blinked, surprised, then lowered her gaze to watch Lucifer. "What was that, where's she going?"

"Well to find the man, obviously." He answered with a frown in her direction.

"What? Oh my… please tell she's not going to kill him…? We need him alive to understand what he wants."

"Don't worry she knows better than that, why kill him when she can torture him?"

Chloe stared, very unsure whether or not he was joking. She opened her mouth but the medics stepped in the room just then and she quickly whispered in Lucifer's ear: "Please, listen to them, even if you check out early afterwards please just go to the hospital with them."

Lucifer raised his eyebrows at her with curious eyes. "Are you… worried about me?"

Chloe gave him a blank look. "Well duh. You got shot, of course I am. It's not nothing no matter what you say."

"We're taking things from here ma'am, thanks." One of the guys said. She let go of the blanket and watched as they hauled Lucifer up on a wheelchair. To her great surprise, he showed no resistance as they did, his dark eyes deeply fixed on her the whole time, just like he was trying to read her mind. She felt herself blush but luckily a third medic came to her side, shining a bright light in her eye and asking all kind of questions to make sure she was okay. She answered distantly, trying to hear what Lucifer was saying on the other side of the room. She could hear his rumbling voice but could not for the life of her make out a word of what he was saying. The man gave her a glass of water and a couple of dry biscuits that she munched on, perfectly aware of the fact that she would probably soon experience hypoglycemia due to the shock.

"How about a whiskey then? No? Come on, meet me in the middle here!"

Chloe watched as the medic slowly shook his head, "I'm sorry sir but it would not be…"

"Oh alright then." Lucifer grumbled, his eyes meeting Chloe's. She bit her lips in an amused smile and he sighed. "See what you have me get through?" He falsely whined to her. As the medic started rolling him out of the room, he shouted in her direction and she couldn't help but chuckle: "I'll see you tomorrow then, Detective!"

"Oh so you're a cop?"

She turned to face a man in uniform looking at her with narrowing eyes. "Um, yes, well, almost, I just finished my training in –"

"I'm gonna need your full statement of what happened here." he interrupted sharply and Chloe gritted her teeth. That man clearly looked like he thought he had better things to do than taking her statement, which was really rude and unprofessional in her opinion.

"Yes, of course." She said obligingly, already thinking to herself how she would have handled things if she had been the officer in charge here. "Anything to help you find who did this."

"The man who got shot… is his name really Lucifer Morningstar?" the man asked, looking at his notepad, clearly oblivious to whatever she would say.

"Um, yes. Yes it is."

"Wow. I mean, we're in Vegas sure, but that's one weird stage name if you ask me. Anyway. Talk me through what happened ma'am, please."

She answered his questions as quickly as possible, eyeing Candy who was getting questioned as well by another man in uniform. The woman seemed shaken to her core but still cautious and Chloe guessed that she would not mention her own misadventure, so she decided to leave that part out as well. First figure out if the two shootings were connected, then inform the detective in charge. No need to involve them into anything that was possibly not related. Plus she didn't like at all the way the man acted towards her, dismissive and a little disrespectful as well.

"You said the bullet got through him but there's no bullet here anywhere, how do you explain that?" he scolded, inquisitively pointing his pen in her direction. She had no answer for that and she just shrugged, clenching her teeth. He narrowed his eyes at her with obvious suspicion and she barely held back a sigh. He concluded the 'interrogation' with a sharp "Don't leave the state." then finally left. Soon enough Candy and Chloe were left alone in the suite and they stared at each other for a second. Candy seemed quite unsure of what to do and still in shock, so Chloe decided to take the lead.

"Let's find you some clothes, yeah? Then we can go to my hotel room, I'll get us an Uber, I think it's safer than staying here."

"Okay," the woman nodded shyly, eyeing her with what seemed to be surprise. They went inside Lucifer's bedroom and looked around for suitable clothes. Chloe couldn't hide a hard blush as she stumbled on his very extended collection of sex-toys in one of the drawers but luckily Candy was busy looking inside the wardrobe and didn't notice. She found a dress that wasn't too revealing and went to change in the bathroom. In one of the bedside tables Chloe came upon a dark wig that might have been part of a Cleopatra costume and, when Candy got out of the bathroom, she suggested she should put it on for safety measures.

"In case that guy's still surveying the hotel, you know."

"Good idea," Candy nodded, looking surprised at her again. "Why are you being so nice to me?"

Chloe hesitated for a second. "Well I mean, you're one of Lucifer's… friends, so I guess I'm just, well… I don't know, that's what I do?"

"No wonder he likes you." Candy said, so quietly Chloe thought she might have heard her wrong.

She opened her mouth to ask, curious, but then her phone rang, telling her the Uber she had ordered was ready to pick them up. The two women grabbed their things and got out of the room, closing the door behind them. The drive to Chloe's motel was very silent but fairly quick. Linda wasn't back yet, which surprised Chloe a tad. Checking her watch, she realized it barely was 11PM so it wasn't that surprising after all. Maybe Amenadiel and her had hit it off. She winced at the idea, wondering what to make of it.

Trying to keep herself busy to avoid thinking, she opened her travel bag and offered one of her shirt to Candy. "Here, this might be a little more comfortable to sleep in than… this."

Candy chuckled as Chloe pointed to her barely covering dress. "Are you sure? I mean I can sleep like that it's not a problem."

"It's okay, call me nuts but I always take two nightshirts just in case so, yeah, here." She gave her the shirt, smiling nervously. "You can sleep in this bed, I'll share with –"

Cutting her, the door suddenly opened, revealing a very disheveled Linda. She stumbled on her way in and stared at Chloe as she realized she was there. "Chloe! Wow, you're here already, I thought you'd…" She stopped abruptly, her eyes widening. "Oh my God what happened, is that blood?!"

Chloe looked down at herself, just realizing there was in fact blood all over her shirt. She pulled a face and quickly explained: "Um, yeah, that's blood, but don't worry it's not mine, it's Lucifer's –"

"What?!"

"No, no I mean, he's okay, he's in the hospital but he's fine really he's –"

"What did you do?!" Her friend looked at her in absolute shock.

"Me? Nothing! Calm down Linda please, let me explain okay?" She had her sit and grabbed a bottle of water out of her bag to give her. She had never seen her friend in such a frantic state, but then again, she was covered in blood so, yeah it made sense. She gave her a minute to calm down then explained what happened, introducing her to a very surprised Candy in the meantime. After a moment Linda seemed to take it all in, even though she still looked quite lost at things.

"So the guy that shot Lucifer might be the same guy that tried to shoot you, Candy."

"Maybe yeah, that's what we have to figure out." Chloe nodded pensively. She turned to Candy, who was siting cross-legged on one of the bed. "Do you have any surveillance cameras around Fletcher's?"

"We have one in the back alley yes," Candy nodded. "But I'm not sure if it's recording or just there to scare away drug dealers and stuff."

"We'll go down there tomorrow morning to check. In the meantime, can you think of anyone who would want to hurt you?"

"Well..." The woman bit her lower lip, clearly pondering her words. "There's this guy… Louie Pagliani, a loan shark my father owed money to. When my dad died he threatened to take our club, Fletcher's, if I didn't pay the money back immediately. Lucifer paid him off but…"

"Maybe he realized there were more where that came from," Chloe finished.

"Yes, especially now with the grand opening of Lux. A lot of clubs around town are worried it may impact their business, we all know how well it does in LA."

"So what they're trying to scare Lucifer off?" Linda said with a frown.

"Yeah, they don't know him well, do they…" Chloe nodded with a stern look. "As if getting shot would make him run away. But what I don't understand is how you're linked into all this." She thought for a while before a yawn took her and she shook her head: "I guess we'll have to see tomorrow if I can identify Fletcher's shooter or not. And maybe pay a visit to that loan shark. There's also the missing bullet at Lucifer's place that seems weird… We'll have to ask him about that tomorrow."

The two others nodded, then agreed to call it a night. Chloe went inside the little bathroom to change and freshen up. She enjoyed the feeling of cold water on her face, wondering how in Hell everything had gone so wrong so quickly. She stared at her face for a moment, her hands shaking a bit on each side of the sink. She looked exhausted, her eyes were a bit red and her hair quite a mess. She couldn't believe earlier that evening she had finally given in and kissed Lucifer. She wondered what would've happened if they hadn't been interrupted, and blushed at the thought. Nothing more, probably, since Candy was here. Not that it would have stopped Lucifer, she thought after a second, shaking her head. He would have probably offered her to join. Maybe it was for the best that they were interrupted. Well, apart from the fact that Lucifer had been shot.

What a mess…

She took off her clothes and slipped into her nightshirt. Staring at her bloody top she drenched it in cold water to remove the stains and let it sit there for the night. Once done, she got out and was surprised to find a very tensed room, with Mazikeen sitting on the small desk in the corner, acting like she owned the place and doing an angry staring contest with Linda. She turned her dark eyes towards Chloe as soon as she opened the bathroom door and jumped out of the desk to face her.

"You. I couldn't find the guy. Where is Lucifer?"

"Um, I uh, well he's in the hospital I –"

"What the Hell?! Erh." And she stormed out again, slamming the door behind her.

"She's really got to stop doing that," Chloe mumbled to herself, staring at the closed door. "Okay, time to get some rest now."

Chloe woke up around 8 the next day. She stayed still in her bed for a moment, a bit confused and unsure whether the events of the night had really happened or if it was just a dream. Linda was still fast asleep next to her, and so was Candy in the other bed. All true then. Her mind quickly jumped to Lucifer, hoping he was okay. She silently got out of bed, grabbed her phone and put on some jeans, before discreetly getting out of the room not to wake Linda and Candy up.

She winced as the sun shone brightly over the city and covered her face with one hand, dialing Lucifer's number with her other hand and pulling the phone to her ear. It rang twice before she heard a car pulling over behind her, and a familiar ringtone.

"I'm on a highway to Hell…"

She turned around to watch as Lucifer got out of his red Corvette with his devilish smile on. She shook her head, astonished. He was wearing a new dark suit and looked absolutely stunning. Clearly not like someone who had just been shot the night before. She frowned as he came to a stop right next to her, smiling brightly at her, four disposable cups of coffee in one hand.

"What are you doing here?"

"And hello to you too, Detective," he retorted playfully but when she didn't react he sighed. "Ah, yes, well, I'm all patched up, you needn't worry about me now."

"You checked out early." she tried not to sound too reproachful but failed completely.

"I did." He nodded quietly, his eyes fixed in hers. "But I promise I'm fine, it was just a scratch really."

"Just as scratch?!" She repeated in disbelief. "It was a bullet wound! And you changed –"

"And brought coffee," he added with a proud smile she ignored.

"– which means you had time to go home, when exactly did they let you out?"

Lucifer pursed his lips and looked down at his feet with a shrug. "Um, well, 10 minutes after we arrived there, give or take."

Chloe opened her mouth in shock, feeling cold anger rising inside her chest. "I don't believe you!" she exclaimed. "Are you that inconsiderate of your own body, I mean you were shot God damn it Lucifer!"

He frowned, clearly taken aback by her anger. "I assure you I'm perfectly fine I –"

"I don't believe you," she snapped before he could say anything else. She was so angry with him she couldn't even think straight. That idiot was endangering himself because he was too proud to stay in a freaking hospital, how dumb did he have to be to do that?! She clenched her fists, furious, not exactly knowing what to do. He was a grown up man after all, who was she to judge? Except she cared about him and didn't want to see him hurt himself. Before she could stop herself, she suddenly whispered through her clenched teeth: "Let me see."

She reached for his jacket, popped off the button and pushed the lapels aside. She could feel his dark gaze on her and felt a slow blush invading her face but she ignored it completely. "Well, well, well, I must admit I did not expect that of you, Miss Decker," he practically purred as she started unbuttoning his waistcoat as well, then his shirt, "Public display of affection, are you trying to get me arrested? Mind you, I wouldn't mind at all getting arrested by you really…"

"Stop talking now." She only took off three buttons of his shirt, deeming it enough for what she intended to do. Taking a deep breath, she moved the soft fabric of the shirt aside to take a look at his wound. Her heart dropped in her chest. He had been shot in the left shoulder right? She wasn't that stupid, it wasn't the right shoulder she was sure of it. She checked nonetheless, her heart pounding in her chest. But there was nothing, anywhere. Nothing but smooth, clean skin. No blood, no scars, no nothing.

"That's impossible…"

She brushed her fingers where she had applied the blanket the night before to stop the bleeding. His skin was soft and hot and oh so smooth. Her heart dropped a few beats as she realized he immediately reacted to her touch. Goosebumps raised on his skin and suddenly she felt engulfed by the heat emanating from his body. She looked up and met his raw gaze, and oh my he looked like he was about to devour her. She had never seen such a burning desire in his eyes before, and a delighted shiver ran through her body as she realized that she was the one doing this to him. Oh, this was bad… or was it?

"Hey guys, what's up?"

Chloe jumped back like she was just burned, her hands dropping Lucifer's shirt, her cheeks blushing pretty hard. She turned to face the very exuberant Ella Lopez and smiled sheepishly at the woman, avoiding at all cost Lucifer's gaze and looking at her feet instead.

"Oh my, are you two lovebirds finally going at it?!" Ella exclaimed with a large smile, looking back and forth between Lucifer and Chloe.

"Well we would be if it weren't for you, wouldn't we?" Lucifer retorted playfully, with a mischievous wink that had Chloe blush even harder and Ella burst out laughing.

"Oops, sorry guys I –"

"Okay let's just, okay, go, thanks, this way…" Chloe cut her, pretty sure she was going to start rambling about some stuff like she always did. She pushed her towards the door of the room and opened it to let her inside. She tried to follow her but Lucifer grabbed her hand and pulled her back, leaving the door to close on itself. She turned with a frown to ask what that was all about but couldn't even open her mouth.

Suddenly his body was unto her, pressing her against the wall, his lips crashing against hers in a mind blowing kiss that left her so disoriented and breathless she didn't even register it had only lasted a second before he'd opened the door again and pushed her inside the room. She stood there, stunned, blinking to adjust her vision to the dark room. She caught a couple of gazes staring at her before turning to face a very smiling, very satisfied Lucifer.

"Please don't do that again," she whispered to him, trying to calm her poor heart down.

He frowned at her, tilting his head to the side. "What? Why not? You seemed to enjoy it." He nodded to her shirt and she realized her nipples were straining against the soft fabric. She stood there for a second, mortified. She could have slapped him but she was so bewildered still she couldn't even think straight.

"Yes, well I mean, I need to focus on finding who's after you and that's…" She caught her breath under his dark gaze, shivers running down her spine. "That's… clearly not helping at all."

Lucifer narrowed his eyes at her, lips pursed, then finally shrugged. "Fine, I won't do it again… for now."

She let out a little sigh of relief, laying a hand on his arm for support. She took a deep breath then finally smiled thankfully at him. Then she realized what he'd just said and she pursed her lips too, amused at his 'for now' that was a clear dodge to avoid lying. "You're really into this not lying thing, aren't you?" she teased him.

She was startled by the rawness of his gaze once again, as he whispered very seriously, his eyes looking deep into her soul: "Yes, I will never lie to you."

She fought the sudden urge to kiss him, thinking to herself it really made no sense to do so when she'd just asked him to not do it. But he was so irresistible, she felt drawn to him like a moth to a flame. There were better, cuter metaphors to describe it but that was the one that came to her mind. Although she wasn't scared to burn herself, on the contrary, she longed to feel the heat of his skin against her, his lips against hers, his hands all over her… But not now! Not the place, not the time.

Not.

Now.

Stop it.

Luckily, Linda and Ella manifested themselves with some "awww"s and "so sweet"s and quickly brought her back to reality. She shared a sheepish stare with Lucifer then took another deep breath to calm down. She realized she had been pressing herself against him without even thinking and she took a few steps back, bumping her hip against the small desk in the process. She sat down on the chair in front of it, thinking to herself putting distance between her and him would probably help. She felt the eyes of everyone on her and she tried to avoid the elephant in the room, focusing on what was important now: the case.

"Okay, guys, we have a lot to do."

Et voilà!

Hope you guys liked this one, I don't know when I'll publish chapter 5, I'm on it but I'm writing in Lucifer's POV which clearly does not come as easily as it does with Chloe. It's taking me a lot more time but I think it goes well with the story so, yeah. I have to ponder each and every word I write, wondering endlessly WWLD, which is fun haha

Anyhoo, feel free to review, I love to read what you guys think of this :D