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Chapter 6:

Dan walked outside happily with his time with Lucifer. He didn't really notice the men who had been lurking in the dark corner of the alley.

"This is the one we needed. He has to be a close friend of the owner." One of them whispered while watching the male detective leave.

They had their victim, "Come on before he reaches his car." The other criminal pulled his buddy towards Dan who still had no clue. He was in 7th heaven right now. He was shocked when he felt a gun against his back.

"Give me your money or you will lose your life and I am warning you my trigger finger is itching." The criminal's voice was cold but Dan was trained for this and calmed down after the first shock.

"I don't have a lot of money with me." Dan didn't look behind him. He did feel hands roaming over his jacket and over his ass to look for his wallet. They didn't find it though.

"Where are you hiding it?" The criminal who searched him wanted to know.

"I think I forgot it at the penthouse. Let me get it." Dan tried to get away with it and warn his boyfriend.

"Nice try but that isn't going to work." The one with the gun pushed it deeper into Dan's back.

"I am trying to tell you. I forgot my wallet at the penthouse!" Dan was getting irritated by now but still, he had to stay calm.

"You are not going to warn your lover. We know who he is." The man with the gun was pretty sure about that.

"You don't know half of what you are dealing with." Dan challenged the men.

The criminal wanted to react but was stopped by a voice, "Leave the man alone!"

Mark, the criminal with the gun kept his gun trained on Dan while David turned around pulling from behind his back. The gun was hidden between his back and his pants. His hoodie pulled over it.

"Move along buddy before we shoot you both." David pointed his gun towards Damon.

For himself, he would be quick enough though but he feared for Dan's life right now.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. It's a waste of a bullet to shoot me." Damon grinned but he saw Dan's face going from calm to worried now.

"Don't push them." Dan tried to tell Damon but he was too late. David pulled the trigger which didn't affect Damon. It made Damon laugh, "I told you it was a waste."

"What the hell are you?" David was shocked that the man in front of him didn't have a wound although he was sure that he had hit the man.

"Let me give you a little hint." Damon showed his fangs and hissed in David's direction. The criminal was so shocked that his gun fell on the floor.

Mark on the other hand had been ready to shoot Dan if necessary, the shock and fear made him pull the trigger shooting Dan point-blank in the back. The detective fell to the ground with his face hitting the ground.

"Shit." both criminals said in union before running away from the vampire.

Damon felt the urge to show them just what they had done by challenging a vampire. It had been a while that he found the urge to rip a bad man to pieces. The only fact that Dan had not much time and the promise that he wouldn't eat bad guys anymore stopped him. So he kneeled down next to Dan.

"Can you help him?" Elena stood suddenly beside him. Jenna and Jeremy had decided to stay at home tonight until Damon and Elena would return for their nightly meals.

"I don't know." Damon looked worried, "All I can do is try. I mean he is the boyfriend of the devil. I don't want to mess with him." Damon turned Dan over. The human was barely alive. He bit in his wrist and let some blood drip inside Dan's mouth.

"I know this is going to hurt but there is no other way to save you right now," Damon said calmly. The fact that Dan started to scream out of pain was proof enough that it was working. The detective kept screaming and groaning in pain until the bullet was pushed out of the human's body in exactly the opposite way as he had entered him. Healing the organs that the bullet needed to go through in the process.

Dan was just healed when both of them heard a familiar, "Daniel!"

Elena and Damon looked up to see Lucifer running towards them.

"Come on, baby. I think it's time to leave." Elena helped Damon up and both of them disappeared.

He was about to go after them but Dan stopped him, "He saved me, Luce. I don't know how but I was as good as dead."

"Still I want to know what exactly he did to you." Lucifer meant business now, "Donald, take my car and drive Daniel to his apartment. Stay there until I arrive." Lucifer threw the keys of his Corvette. Donald was the only one on his team that was allowed to drive with his black beauty in emergencies.

"Yes, boss." Donald caught the keys and ran to the private parking spot. Minutes later the security man came back driving the black car Lucifer was so proud of.

"Lucifer, please." Dan placed his hand on the devil's arm, "I would be dead if it wasn't for him remember that." the detective didn't know that he would ever defend a vampire of all beings but he owed it to Damon.

"I will keep that in mind. I promise." Lucifer helped Daniel in the car and waited until they were out of sight. He was going to use something he had used for eons.

"Let's see if I still got it." Lucifer's eyes changed into a golden color, the gold was where normally a red color would appear when shifting his eyes into the one of his devil side.

"Bingo!" Lucifer saw a path of what was called a soul trail. It was like a fingerprint so it was unique. He needed to meet the human to be able to follow it. He never tried following a trail from a being he never met. These trails were even more special because they weren't marked to go to the silver city, which had a gold color, or to Hell which had a deep red color.

The undead had a specific mark or so that was what he always thought was a legend but clearly, it was the truth. He saw a trail of dark green which was the color of decay, vampires being undead but these were special though, their green was intertwined with silver. This was a rare sight and for Lucifer the proof that both of them were good.

Good or not he still wanted to talk to them. His eyes were still gold from the piece of Lightbringer that was still hidden deep inside of him. He knew it was still there but he refused to use it without a good reason and Dan's strange healing was reason enough to use it.

He rolled his shoulders, his beautiful white wings appeared. They were even brighter than normal. He took off into the sky. He didn't change his eyes, he needed the golden eyes to follow the trail until the trail stopped at a house near the beach.

Lucifer landed at the front door and rolled his shoulders to make his wings disappear again. He changed his eyes back to their normal dark brown color.

He sighed and knocked at the front door. He needed to remember the promise he had made to his boyfriend before he left.

It was Damon who opened the door, "How did you find us?"

"Hello to you too. I think we both need to talk don't we?" Lucifer's voice was calm but deadly serious.

"I have nothing to say to you!" Damon tried to close the door but Lucifer's strength prevented that.

"We are going to talk and don't think you can close the door for me. No lock can hold me or could prevent me from coming in," Lucifer warned the vampire.

Damon thought for a moment and opened the door to let the devil pass, "Okay, but on one condition. We will be honest but I expect the same thing from you."

"You have a deal because I never lie." Lucifer entered the hallway, waiting for Damon to follow him inside the living area.

"Why do I doubt that? I mean aren't you supposed to be the prince of lies?" It was something Damon had learned from his research.

"I still want to know which of my siblings is to blame for that name. I despise lies." Lucifer said before entering the large living room.

"Who was at the door, baby?" the devil heard how a familiar female voice asked with a curious tone in her voice.

"You will never guess who is at the door, 'Lena but please he is only here to talk to us," Damon reassured his wife.

The other vampires were all shocked when they saw Lucifer. Elena jumped up, "What is he doing here?"

"I am only here to talk, nothing more and nothing less." Lucifer said in a calm tone of voice, "I just want to know what happened to my boyfriend, in return, I am willing to answer the questions you might have. I can't promise I have the answer to every question but I can try."

"That's simple, we wanted to know everything about you so we kind of kept a watch on your place when we saw two criminals trying to rob your boyfriend, Daniel is what you called him right? Well, I tried to stop him but he has been shot anyway and I gave him some of my blood to heal." Damon explained to the devil.

"His name is Daniel, yes. What consequences will it have for him?" Lucifer watched Damon carefully. The devil wasn't happy that they were watching him but decided not to say something about it. It was thanks to them that his boyfriend was still alive after all.

"The only thing he needs to look out for is that he isn't getting himself killed within 4 days. The vampire blood in his body will turn him into a vampire." Damon poured a glass of bourbon for both him and his visitor.

"What do I need to do when he does get killed?" Lucifer needed to know because getting killed was a risk of the job as a detective.

"I will give you my number. You need to call me immediately. I will make sure that I am here when you arrive. Then it's up to him. If he wants to turn or die." Damon wrote down his number.

"I want to ask you to keep us in the loop for the things you will find about my brother. The murders, who has been going on. My brother is sick and we can get him back in control but you need to trust us." Damon wasn't sure how his guest would react though.

"I think I owe you as much for saving my boyfriend but I will have to explain it to my partner. Don't worry she knows what I am so she is not easily afraid anymore." Lucifer gave his number in return.

"Only your partner?" Elena asked, she didn't want humans to know they were vampires.

"Only my partner, Chloe Decker," Lucifer confirmed.

"Alright. We can live with that." Damon decided. The first step into trusting each other was made. They talked for hours. Lucifer tried to answer the questions they had until it was time for him to go to his boyfriend. He needed to keep an eye on him for the next couple of days. Although having him by his side for eternity sounded appealing. It wasn't his decision to make.

Not knowing that Dan would be facing a very great danger soon.

TBC