The insistent buzzing of his phone is what draws the drowsy King of Hell from a rather restful slumber.

"What?" the devil yawns but even Chloe could hear the annoyed bite behind his husky tone at being woken so early. Rather than listen in the blonde turns over onto her other side to give her now awake lover some semblance of privacy as she tries to go back to sleep.

"Oh, hello darling."

That does have Chloe rolling back toward the much more awake and cheerful Lord of Hell.

"Rory, Rory darling slow down." Lucifer insists before transferring the call to speakerphone as Chloe too sits upright in their shard bed. "and maybe talk a tad louder, it's a bit difficult to hear you down here."

"Sorry, but I can't be too loud else Ken will hear me, and I don't want her feeling guilty about this considering she didn't even what me to know about it in the first place," their daughter was ranting when the call clicked over to where both parents could hear her a guilty note in her soft voice. "it's just T is a bit of a blabbermouth when she's on one of her chocolate highs and she tipped me off."

"Tipped you off about what exactly?" Lucifer wonders the same time Chloe gives a coaxing "Take a breath, Moonbeam." hearing the uneven breaths on the other end of the open line. The mother even coaching a few breathing exercises herself before catching the distinct sounds of their daughter currently ruffling through the cabinets for something before the sounds of a freezer door opens then closes.

"Rocky road?" Chloe questions

"Dark Side of the moon." Rory counters followed with the sounds of two bowls being put onto the countertop. "Ken needs some dark cocoa swirl right about now."

"That's my girl." Chloe grins mirroring the proud grin Lucifer was sporting as he fixes the tangled sheet around their clothes-less bodies. "now what's going on?" his detective of a partner questions with a thankful blush in the devil's direction at the added covering as they talk with their not so little, little girl.

"Kenzi wants to sign up for a therapy dog only Dush-pool Logan won't approve it because apparently, Ken's insurance wouldn't cover one thanks to these new statues they threw in after you—well you know."

"As in cut-rate Logan?" Chloe probes earning an amused grin from the devil at her side at the bitter anger simmering in her voice. "They seriously gave him my old job?"

"that's the one." Rory affirms. "and trust me Mom, he wasn't even in the top 50 to take over from you but until they pick someone more permanent he gets to run the place." Rory grumbles around another bite of ice cream. "Oh, and they are already digging into him so he's trying to make himself extra squeaky clean for the bosses-" she says trying to talk around the spoon so the words were harder to understand.

"Yeah, and sacrificing good workers as a result." Chloe laments running a hand through her already tousled hair.

"Rory, darling does your Kenzi have a specific breed of dog in mind?" Lucifer cuts in earning a not-so-trusting glance from the cop sharing his bed.

"Well, she can't really decide between a Rhodesian Ridgeback or a GSD." Rory admits her tone also mirroring her mothers on the sudden giddiness of her father's voice. "She originally wanted a Golden but then T sent her all these cute pics over Pinsta and well it snowballed from there." Rory laughs her first real hint of humor since decided to call in the first place.

"Why not mix, best of all three?" Lucifer concludes

"because even if we do get her one the department won't—" Rory starts to remind

"Oh, have your Uncle A take care of the paperwork side of things." Lucifer cuts in clapping his hands together with a rather pleased look on his face.

"Char is already working on it himself actually, but you know how he is." Rory confesses talking more toward her mother rather than her father now.

"Hang on, hang on, hang on. You're saying Charlie is actually, willingly doing paperwork?" Chloe laughs aloud at that one. "don't get me wrong I love that boy to pieces but honestly?" she defends at the flash of guilt as her narrowed eyes follow her now retreating devil of a lover as he stands from the bed, his discarded pants back around his hips as he moves toward the rotary phone across from the raised platform of the bedroom.

Rory gives an agreeing hum over the open line herself before she answers. "he said he'd suffer the headache of legal silver city channels if it ends up helping Ken." Rory tells them.

Chloe can't be to upset considering that while her Devil had put his pants back on before getting completely out of bed, Lucifer hadn't thought to do the same with his shirt before leaving both her and the bedroom. And despite having healed over after he's accepted his role as God her eyes still trace the outline of the curled scars, she'd once seen marring the velvety iron that was Lucifers broad back.

The muscle expanse of exposed skin now marked with new scars, these one created by Chloe's own fingernails from the night before…

"Mom? Mooommm? Mom, are you even listening to me?"

"Huh?" Chloe asked taring her eyes away from the now smug face of her grinning devil once he'd turned around phone in hand to give her a new view of his toned chest. "Sorry Rory, what were you saying?"

Lucifer's sinfully smug grin only widened as he continued holding the phone receiver to his ear when his dazed detective stuck her tongue out at him before physically turning her back to him before his half-nakedness completely turned her brain turned to mush.

"Hang on, Mom…..yeah, I'm coming back, no need to worry." Rory answers followed by the clattering of twin bowls being hastily collected and a quick "be right back" before the phone was set down.

Chloe ends up needing that break herself when she takes another lingering look at the half-naked fancy British man now pacing the lower living space behind her.

"Sorry, Ken was getting antsy I'd decided to eat all her ice cream myself." Rory comes back before getting right back to business with a whispered "and I was asking if you knew what Dad is scheming."

Chloe chewed on her lower lip chancing yet another longing glance over her shoulder as she pulled the sheet up higher around her own naked chest before she answers. "Knowing him something devilish."

At the same moment, Lucifer catches her eyes giving a playful wink before turning away once more to continue his own phone call.

"I knew this was a bad idea." Rory huffed in her ear.

"No, sweetheart, no." Chloe insists dragging her eyes away from the hypnotic movements of her pacing devil. All the grace and coiled powered of a jungle cat wearing high-priced Italian silk suit pants.

"it's just I needed someone to talk to and with T still cramming for her masters and Auntie Maze and Aunt Eve off with another bounty I just... I didn't know who else to call at 3 at night."

"So, you called Hell?"

That final earned the laugh Chloe had been hoping for.

"Yes?" was the amused yet hesitant answer as a proud-looking Devil swept back into the bedroom of his and Chloe's hell sweet.

"Good news starlight, your Kenzi's gift will be properly delivered bright and early tomorrow morning before she heads in for work."

"Seriously?!"

Mother and daughter ask this at the same time, yet Rory's was far more muted rather than risking detection.

"I promise." Lucifer answers to both of them with one of his softer charming smiles.

"I could kiss you right now." Chloe sighs her fingers toying with the chain of the bullet necklace he'd gifted her all those years ago.

"Thanks, Dad, for whatever it was you did," Rory agrees "Okay have to go before my grumpy girlfriend makes me sleep out on the couch again." She adds after a muffled call sounds from her end of the open line.

"Love you, Rory." Her parents say together before the call was disconnected.

"So, what did you end up sending her?" Chloe questioned rolling up onto her knees against the mattress to link her hands behind her dark-haired devil's head. Her fingers twisting into the shorter hairs at the back of his neck.

"Oh, just the smallest from Cocoa's newest litter." Lucifer shrugs "Only the best for our little girl's chosen partner."

Chloe's brain stalled for a moment considering Lucifer had told her this whilst in the middle of shedding his pants once more. A fair trade considering he was still in his underwear and she still clade in the bedsheets.

"you sent our daughter's girlfriend a hell hound for her ESA?"

Lucifer clicks his tongue at the scold in his detective's tone as he leans in more against the edge of the bed. "No, Detective I sent our daughter's girlfriend a hellhound puppy for her ESA." The devil clarifies tapping his fingertip to the end of her nose as his other hand tugs at the separating sheet between them as Chloe's fingers teasingly trace at the waistband of his silken boxers. "much easier to train for a therapy dog when they're young rather than risk Kenzi or Rory being hurt in sending up a full-grown one right off the bat."

Rather than answer with stammered words Chloe pulls him in for one long searching kiss as they fall back onto the bed.