Chapter 6

The morning after they rescued Uncle Dan, Harry woke up to the smell of his Dad's cooking. He promptly burst into tears. Mom and Dad didn't go back to Paris. Instead they were here taking care of him. He felt absolutely miserable.

There was a light tap on his door. He rubbed his eyes and got out of bed.

His Dad stood there and looked at him with love and worry. "Why are you so sad, my son?"

"I ruined your vacation with Mom," said Harry softly.

Lucifer, the King of Hell looked astonished, then picked up his son and carried him into the kitchen. He sat him down at the table where Mom and Trixie were now also looking worried and sat next to him.

"Harry," said his Dad, "First of all, you did nothing wrong. If I blame anyone for interrupting my time with your mother, it will be the evil men who hurt your Uncle Dan so badly. Them I blame absolutely. You, Harry, you are not to blame." Hereupon he gave Harry one of his hugs. They were very special to Harry, so he started to feel a bit better. Then his Dad continued, "You are trying too hard to help everyone. What you did yesterday was the act of a hero. Trixie was a hero too. Your uncle Amenadiel was even a hero, but you, beloved, were the biggest hero. You cannot fix everything. Your Mother and I had a lovely time, and we will go back to Paris and will visit other places. Our little vacation made me realize that I've been limiting myself too much. That was all your idea, Harry and I'm grateful for it, but Harry, you have worried yourself sick."

He sat back and looked at Harry. "I know you have grown up a great deal, Harry. But you don't have to grow up all the way. You still should have fun and be taken care of. While I am in true awe of everything you have done, I am beginning to think I've been remiss. Perhaps you and I should go to therapy, or you should got to therapy or perhaps, my wonderful son, you need a vacation yourself. This has been a lot for grownups to bear, therefore it might be a tad overwhelming to my incredible children."

"My darling," he said, "What do you think? Our wonderful children deserve a break. We also have to deal with those who betrayed Uncle Dan."

Mum smiled at them all, and then looked thoughtful. "We have Uncle Dan under protection. Auntie Ella is really excited about the evidence you brought in."

Harry nodded, "Yes, it was all real, Mom, but also the memory of the rooms was put into video form by magic."

"Wow," Mom smiled. "You have excellent police instincts. I think first you need some time off. You and Trixie have gone through a lot and need to be spoiled some. Then Uncle Dan needs to be protected and healed and helped. Uncle Amenadiel informed me he's going to stay with him at the hospital and has gotten some of your relatives who were born after your family hurt you to help him watch over Uncle Dan. Is this good with you?" She looked at her husband for confirmation.

Lucifer smiled at her incredible thoughtfulness of his feelings, "Yes"

"Okay. First we go to school and let them know what is happening."

Harry cringed, remembering Trixie's teacher. Then he snarled, "Mr. Houston tried to physically restrain me. I sort of gave him an electric shock with a protection ward."

"Oh well done," said his Dad happily. Mom rolled her eyes and shook her head but then frowned. "He touched you?" she asked.

Dad was the Devil and supposedly very scary, but Mom was much scarier when she got mad.

"I told him Uncle Dan was in danger, and he didn't believe me."

Mom nodded thoughtfully, "Let's make sure we visit him. I have a few things to say."

Then Dad's phone rang. He pulled it out of his pocket and answered.

"Mrs. Edwards," he said, smiling, "I haven't given you this number yet, how did you get it?"

He nodded, "You dreamed it. Well, of course. What is wrong, do you need help?"

Suddenly Dad snarled, "You say someone with a gun is coming into the hospital to kill Uncle Dan. You are such a delight, my dear. Thank you."

He turned off the phone, and his wings popped out.

"Your Mom and I are going to the hospital," he said, and Harry stood tall.

"I can help." He said. Dad's magic was much more powerful, but Harry was incredible at special application.

"You can, but when I call upon you, not before. Let an old devil deal with this."

He got on the phone again. "Auntie Ella. Can you help us?" he asked.

Auntie Ella apparently agreed, because she now stood before them.

"Wow good spell work, Dad," said Harry.

Auntie Ella opened her mouth to scream, and Lucifer said, "Ella, you know what I am, time's wasting. You watch the children. Dan is in danger."

Then Dad and Mom were gone. Auntie Ella was cool. She dragged them to the couch and held them both. Harry quietly told her what was going on, and Ella snuggled them. She called the school and told them that they were still in the middle of a family emergency.

XXX

In the hospital secure ward, a janitor was making his way through his rounds. He did a terrible job, but didn't care. He was going to shoot a cop tonight and kill him. That was the job he needed to do well.

XXX

Lucifer Morningstar was furious tonight. First because he hadn't realized that Harry thought he was responsible for literally everything that went wrong. Lucifer, of course, felt a bit the same. He was, after all, the scapegoat for humanity, but he was dealing with it. Having actual human beings love him and care about him was the most wonderful thing he had ever experienced. But knowing that precious little boy had cried because he thought he had failed broke his heart. Also, knowing that Uncle Dan (who apparently had grown from being Dan the Douche) had apologized and accepted him without the usual fear was precious and marked Uncle Dan as his. No one messed with those that belonged to the Devil.

They both appeared at the hospital closed ward. He looked at his darling and she gave him a look that matched the sheer fury he contained.

He felt so proud. She, a blessed human, was adapting to him being the devil, to magic, and now to the new type of travel he'd developed with Harry's help. The type of magical travel the "magic" people used was horrible and had made Harry fall over many times. So this new form of magic, which used his wings, but didn't involve carrying anyone or flapping wings, or anything, just having the feathers present, was just lovely, and Chloe adapted to it with such poise. Harry had developed his own version, which didn't require wings.

Chloe took out her gun and walked with him, checking the rooms as they snuck up on Dan's room.

There was a man standing in the door, dressed like a janitor. He had a gun up to Amenadiel's head. Amenadiel had turned and was giving the man a look that reminded Lucifer more of angry Chloe than an angel. She was such a good influence.

Chloe calmly walked behind the man and put her gun to his head, "Surprise," she whispered. "I know a secret."

"I can take him out and the dumb cop before you can take me, Bitch."

Chloe's eyes burned, "He's invulnerable," she hissed, "You know why?"

Amenadiel smiled. Lucifer smiled too.

The man's whole body became tense, "Why?"

"Because he's an angel," hissed Chloe.

The man started to pull the trigger, and Chloe blew his brains out.

Amenadiel looked shocked. "Chloe, it would have hurt, but I would have survived."

"He said he would kill both of you," she said, "His gun was aligned to both shoot you but to shoot down at Dan as well."

"Oh," said Amenadiel.

A small Angel appeared and Lucifer realized she had been standing invisible between Amenadiel and Dan.

"I'm sorry, I'm not used to these type of situations. I was protecting Dan and I was afraid the evil man would hurt someone if I appeared," she whispered.

Chloe sighed, "You did the best you could," she said softly. "We both dealt with the situation with honor. Dan is protected, Amenadiel is not hurt, and this I*)*((_*_ ! is in hell."

She swallowed. Lucifer looked at her. "Darling?"

"It's unfortunate that I didn't know your baby sister was here in the room. We need to work on that in future, but Dan's life is worth it."

By this time the security guards in the hospital and orderlies were in the room. Chloe reached into her pocket and took out a clean glove and an evidence bag and in the presence of the security detail, explained what had happened, took all the bullets out and put the gun and the bullets in the bag. Then she took an evidence detail sheet and signed it and made the guards and her husband sign it.

Lucifer called a state senator who he knew to be trustworthy. He explained that there was a massive breach of trust here, and that they had just killed an assassin sent to silence Detective Dan Espinoza. Since Internal Affairs had muffed it, it was time to go higher. The good senator was appalled but also an ex police officer who had gone into politics because of situations like this.

The response was admirable. A team he had never met before were there within an hour, during which time he and Chloe had talked to the children and a very excited Ella. Their group they were given a room by the hospital and they gave their testimony about saving Dan. Lucifer noted that Dan slept through the whole event, and an investigation into the hospital staff revealed Dan had been given knock-out drops. Chloe was furious.

Everyone in the precinct was questioned and put on probation until the plot could be figured out. When Dan woke up he was transported to another hospital with Amenadiel and Chloe by his side. Meanwhile, Lucifer went home and made supper for Ella and the children. Ella had taught the children how to make empanadas, and Lucifer was grateful at the lack of damage to the kitchen area.

Harry handed his Dad a small figurine. "What's this?" Lucifer asked and stared with curiosity at the item.

"It's a new project. It will give Mom and Trixie the ability to pop like we do but only to prearranged areas. I made a list." Harry looked positively knackered and Lucifer knew the child was still trying to take care of them, but he couldn't fault him on his logic. Dan had been in danger again right after Harry had gone through a lot to rescue him.

He sat down with his one arm around Harry's shoulder. "I can see how this works. Harry, this is brilliant! Can you duplicate this onto something for your Mum?"

Harry calmly handed him a necklace. It had a heart on it that opened to show pictures of Harry, Trixie and himself. "Oh son this is lovely. It would be a wonderful gift for your Mom without the magic."

Harry smiled.

Harry showed his father a list of where the device would let you pop. Lucifer was surprised at the complexity of Harry's thoughts on this. Not only would it pop them into the Lux, but also to all members of their extended family, several hospitals and clinics, schools, police stations, and Mrs. Edward's house.

"Harry, do you trust Mrs. Edwards that much?" he asked.

Harry nodded, and suddenly looked cheerful. "Mrs. Edwards wants to adopt you, Dad. She's pretty cool."

Lucifer hugged his son. Apparently they were going to adopt Mrs. Edwards.

So Lucifer made a checklist:

1) Find out who betrayed Dan and punish them suitably

2) Let Chloe handle the Teacher who had grabbed Harry's shoulder. While he was pretty scary, in this situation Chloe was terrifying.

3) Spend time with Uncle Dan as a family.

4) Meet new to him sister

5) Arrange counseling for whole family – Get input from Chloe and Dr. Linda

6) Get Chloe to teach a seminar to all non-cop family members on dealing with hostage situations.

7) Plan getting Harry and Trixie to some fun events where hopefully no more murders would take place.

8) Possibly purchase Disneyland – but discuss with Chloe first.