Chapter 2:
Lucifer landed in Hell a few minutes after he had parked his car in the private parking place underneath Lux and went to the penthouse. He usually took the balcony as a sort of start platform, it was discreet and large enough to open his wings fully.
"Gazoch!" He yelled throughout the castle. The demon didn't answer immediately.
"Gazoch, where are you?" He growled agitated in his deep demonic voice.
A small demon came running inside the throne room where his lord was waiting for him.
"You called for me, my lord?" the demon said with fear in his voice, it was never a good thing to keep the lord of Hell waiting.
"Finally, there you are. Didn't you hear me the first time?" Lucifer said agitatedly.
"Forgive me, my lord." the demon bowed his head as a sign of respect for his king.
"Don't leave me waiting the next time," Lucifer growled, the case was on his mind the whole time, that made him more edgy than usual. He didn't trust this case. Now that he thought about it there was something he needed to test as soon as he came to earth.
If he had to believe his brother Amenadiel, he made himself vulnerable by falling in love with Chloe, her being a miracle didn't help the case either. He needed to see if he was immortal again around her because he had a feeling he was going to need it to protect her. He still cared for her and didn't want her to get hurt.
"No, my lord." The demon said with a shiver over his back. He had a big responsibility in Hell. He was the one who needed to answer every call of his king without letting him wait.
"Gazoch, I want to visit every one of the 6 generals to see if they don't miss a demon, you will be going with me," Lucifer said before he left the castle to start his round. It would be much easier to call them to him but he wanted it to be a surprise visit.
The visits took a long time but everywhere he received the same answer. Every demon in their care was still where they were supposed to be. He even visited the wasteland where the demons lived who were punished for refusing loyalty towards Lucifer. They were left there to die with hundreds of guards at the edge and the last general to meet.
"General Dalvas," Lucifer said in his demonic voice. In this piece of Hell, he automatically shifted into his devil form.
The broad-chested demon, who had been one of his oldest generals, therefore he had given the most responsibility, kneeled and bowed his head, "my lord."
"Report, general!" Lucifer said sternly.
"There are no changes, my lord. No escapees and I don't miss a guard." the general said still on one knee.
"What about Lilith?" Lucifer asked sternly. He had banned the mother of all demons here after her betrayal, she tried to dethrone him after she noticed that seducing the fallen angel hadn't worked as she wanted.
She wanted to be the queen of hell. She didn't know though that only a celestial being could rule Hell.
"Lilith didn't escape either, my lord. She is still chained at the furthest corner of the wasteland." The general responded to the question of his king.
"Bring me to her, general. I hope for your sake that you are right." Lucifer growled in a deep voice.
"Yes, my lord," Dalvas said before he ordered guards to protect their king with their lives while he visited their section.
The general, Gazoch and their king were surrounded by guards with hellhounds. They walked to that corner in Hell nobody wanted to be.
"Well, well. Changed your mind, my lord." Lillith said seductively.
"When hell freezes over, Lillith and even then I would find another demon to take the place as queen. So no, I am not here to share my kingdom with you. I just wanted to check if you were exactly where I left you." Lucifer grinned demonically.
"You will regret this one day, Samael!" Lillith mocked.
Lucifer who already had turned around to walk outside when he stopped abruptly. He opened his hand and fired a ball of hellfire right next to her head.
This shocked Lillith, she never thought that he would have it in him to hurt her.
"Be careful, Lillth next time I won't miss." The devil said coldly before he left the prison cell and walked again to the edge of the wastelands.
"You are dismissed, general!" Lucifer said, happy that Hell was exactly like he left it, "You are dismissed also Gazoch, good work."
Lucifer left Hell again and flew directly towards the station, he landed in an alley and furled his wings by one shrug of his shoulders. He walked straight to the desk of his partner.
He was pulled inside the interrogation room by his partner the moment she saw him, who had been waiting for him impatiently, she didn't want to have to deal with escaped demons again.
"Well, what can you tell me, Lucifer?" Chloe asked curiously and maybe a bit afraid of the answer.
"Don't worry, detective, everything is like I left it. There is no demon escape from Hell. It didn't feel angelic so one of my siblings is out of the question because fallen or not I would have sensed that." Lucifer said with a sigh. They weren't a step further to the solution.
"Thank you, Lucifer, we'll just have to wait for Ella and the autopsy and keep our eyes open and you, your senses.
"I will detective, I will," Lucifer said, Chloe saw a bit of pain in his eyes.
"Detective, there is something I want to test right now." Lucifer reached into his pocket and pulled out a little pocketknife.
"Lucifer, what are you doing? What are you up too?" Chloe was trying to hide her panic. She knew that the devil was mortal in her presence.
Lucifer didn't say a thing and opened it by pushing the button. The blade jumped out of the butterfly knife.
He was about to place the blade on his arm when Chloe stopped him. "Are you crazy?"
"Trust me, detective. If we are dealing with the supernatural I want to be prepared. I want to know if I am still mortal in your presence." Lucifer said pushing the blade in his skin. The blade went over Lucifer's skin like nothing happened not one drop of blood left the devil's body.
Chloe left out a breath she didn't know she was holding. Lucifer laughed in relief, he was immortal again because he knew that Daniel was near too.
"How is this possible?" the detective wanted to know.
"If I have to believe Amenadiel I made myself mortal by loving you. I still care about you but I stopped making myself vulnerable when we decided to be friends and working partners. I just needed to be sure." Lucifer said in a serious tone she wasn't used to hearing from him.
"What about him?" Chloe asked Lucifer. He knew very well who the detective was talking about.
"It's safe to be around him too because he is in the same building as me," Lucifer responded.
"Did you talk to him yet?" Chloe asked in a whisper.
Lucifer shook his head, "no, I don't know how to tell him, detective. He hates me remember."
Chloe was going to help Lucifer with that because if she had to wait for him, the subject of his thoughts would be old and gray. She was going to plan for them to talk if the devil wanted or not. She knew something Lucifer didn't know, Dan didn't hate him, quite the opposite. He needed to make one of them talk to the other.
"Trust me this once, Lucifer. Talk to him, you will be surprised at what you find." Chloe smiled.
Lucifer didn't react but the sigh that left him said enough. She needed to push both of them.
Damon closed the door of his beach house near Malibu with a bang, almost ruin it in the process.
"Calm down, babe," Elena said towards her husband.
"Elena, my brother is on a ripper trip and you ask me to be calm?" Damon responded, "I don't even know if we are on the right path!"
"I take it that you didn't find him?" sounded the voice of Jenna from around the corner. She came to check when she heard the door slamming close with to much force for her liking.
Elena shook her head, "We didn't even see the scene, the cops were already there. So we don't know for sure if this was Stefan."
"I don't know how this is possible in the first place!" Damon sighed, "I mean he was in control for the last few years."
"There was something else though, a strange feeling about one of the cops or I presume he was a sort of detective." Damon continued, "I don't know he gave me shivers."
"Something that scared you, Damon Salvatore." Jeremy laughed, "I want to meet that guy. Was he a vampire?"
Elena shook her head, "No, his heart was beating strongly but he gave me the shivers too."
"I wouldn't laugh if I were you, Jeremy. It's your fault we are in this mess, to begin with." Damon growled angrily.
"How is this my fault?" Jeremy countered back.
"You were supposed to watch him while he is feeding. You should have seen that he was upset. You know that his mood can be a trigger, you know that. You should have thought with the head on your shoulders for once!" Damon yelled back.
"Blaming each other doesn't help us now, Damon. We need to find Stefan and we need to find him soon." Jenna said, trying to keep calm herself and her family.
Damon huffed before disappearing towards the beach in a blur. Elena going in a blur behind him.
"Give him time, Jeremy. Damon is just frustrated because he failed for a few days in a row to find his brother. He is afraid of what will happen if a human finds him before we do." Jenna tried to comfort her nephew.
"He is right, Aunt Jenna, I had to focus more on Stefan's mood. I know he will always be a risk, I became careless." Jeremy sighed looking towards the direction where Damon had disappeared too.
On the beach, Damon was leaning against some rocks. He was looking at the ocean.
"Did you have to be so hard on him?" Elena asked when she found him there.
Damon shrugged his shoulder, "What else should I have done? He knew he had to keep an eye out for Stefan's moods."
"We didn't see his bad mood either, babe, or I wouldn't have sent Jeremy with him." Elena tried to make her husband see that it could have happened with everyone who was on a feeding trip with Stefan. She wrapped her arms around his waist and placed her chin on his shoulder.
"Maybe you are right, 'lena." Damon sighed, "I am just worried that we will need to leave this amazing place that's all and I am worried about the humans that will cross paths with my brother."
"Don't forget that you are worried about your brother, too. I know you, Damon. We will find him, babe." Elena said kissing her husband on her cheek both enjoying the sunset.
"I hope you are right, honey." Damon sighed.
"Come on it's almost feeding time. Let's go to that great club. This is supposed to be the best club in town." Elena said with a smile, "Let's go to Lux."
TBC
