chapter 8:

"I will, love. Don't worry. You know what we agreed to, right?" Lucifer just wanted to be sure.

"Yes, babe don't worry. I won't leave the place. If I need something I will send Patrick and in case of emergency, I have to pray to you. I am not a kid anymore, Lucifer." Daniel said before kissing his devil one last time.

Lucifer smiled, he took the keys of his car and left the penthouse. Still, he left the place with a strange feeling, a feeling he couldn't describe.

He sighed when he took place behind the wheel. Chloe noticed something was off. He had told her what had happened to Dan.

"He is fine here, Lucifer. Nothing will happen to him. He is safe. Now let's go and get this over with." Chloe placed her hand on his leg.

Lucifer smiled sadly while turning the key of the car and driving off in his typical Lucifer style.

The corvette stopped at the house where the vampires lived. Chloe felt herself tense up. She didn't know why though, Her partner was the actual devil so how bad could a couple of vampires be?

"Don't worry, detective. They won't bite you. They promised me that." Lucifer tried to comfort her but she knew he was a man of his word but that didn't mean they were.

"You trust me right?" Lucifer said in a soft tone of voice.

Chloe nodded, "Yes, I trust you with my life."

"Well, trust me now that I will keep you safe." Lucifer countered back.

"Let's get this over with." Chloe sighed and stepped out of the car.

Lucifer did the same thing, they both walked towards the front door. It was Lucifer who pushed the doorbell.

The door opened and a beautiful dark-haired woman came into view, "Hello Elena, how are you doing on this fine day?" Lucifer said charmingly.

"Lucifer, it's good to see you." Elena smiled, "The others are waiting on the back porch for you and your partner."

"Thank you, darling. This is my partner and my best friend, detective Chloe Decker." Lucifer started, "detective, this is Elena Salvatore, Damon's wife."

"It's nice to meet you, miss Decker," Elena said politely, "Please come in." Elena took a step aside and Lucifer gave Chloe a little push inside before following her. He kept his hand on her back as a sign of comfort.

They both followed the vampire outside, where another woman and two men were waiting for them.

"These are my husband Damon, my aunt Jenna and my cousin Jeremy." Elena introduced them all, "This is Lucifer's partner and friend, Detective Chloe Decker."

"It's nice to meet you," Jenna smiled friendly, "I am sure you have a lot of questions."

"Yeah, I do have some questions. Lucifer filled me in on the basics. Aren't you supposed to stay out of the sun though?" seeing that Jenna and Elena were wearing a two-piece bathing suit.

Elena shook her head, "no, we are all wearing special daylight rings. As long as we wear those we can live a pretty normal life. We even can eat human food if we want to, you know to blend in. Oh, I am sorry it's so rude of me, do you want something to drink? We know what Lucifer likes already."

"I will have some water, please." Chloe smiled as Jenna walked inside the house again to get a glass of water.

"That sounds interesting. Lucifer told me that you four don't kill us? Humans I mean." Chloe asked curiously.

"You know I don't lie, detective." Lucifer jumped in feeling a bit offended that she didn't believe him.

"I don't think it's your word she doubts, Lucifer," Damon said before taking a sip from his bourbon. Damon didn't trust humans that easily.

"I didn't mean to offend any of you. I just want to understand everything. Being in the know of celestials was hard enough as it is, being in the know of more supernatural beings is even harder." Chloe stayed calm when she said this although her heart was banging in her chest. She did feel a bit nervous coming here.

"Oh, we are not offended, Chloe, I understand you all too well. I think Damon sometimes forgets that he was human once too. I mean I don't blame him. He has been a vampire longer than he has been a human. We are all young vampires." Elena tried to calm Chloe's nerves a bit as they all sensed it and heard it through her heartbeat.

"What I want to know is what this has to do with the case we are working on. I know I saw you there a few times." Chloe always being the detective came straight to the point, "Lucifer said that it was best that you explained it to me."

"I will come straight to the point, Chloe. My brother is behind the murders, but my brother is sick. It would be a disaster when he would be arrested. We need to find him to help him. I can get him back in control but I need to find him first." Damon didn't winch when he told her about it.

"What kind of sickness does your brother have and does it happen a lot?" Chloe stayed in detective mode now.

"My brother is what we call a ripper. He kills people and rips the heads of the body only to drink them empty and place the head back on the shoulders, the disease is very rare for vampires. He can lose control when he drinks human blood and gets stressed. The guilt of losing control makes sure that he shuts his humanity off." Damon answered calmly, "He was in control for years now but something made him lose that control."

"How are you going to help him?" Chloe just wanted to understand as much as possible, "What happens when your humanity is turned off?"

"The hardest thing is to make his turn humanity back on, you see when it's shut down you don't feel a thing no guilt with what you are doing. Stefan has a huge guilt complex and to be honest it will take time and a miracle." Damon sighed now. This was a hard topic for him.

"You are in luck, Damon, Chloe is a miracle." Lucifer jumped in.

"That's not what he meant, Lucifer. I don't think this was what your father had in mind when he blessed my mother with my birth." Chloe countered back. She didn't want to give the vampires false hope.

"What do you mean?" Jenna asked curiously.

"The detective is an actual miracle. She saw me for who I am and wasn't mislead by her feelings of desire for me." Lucifer explained, "My father sent my brother to bless her mother. In short, she wasn't planned to be born but was brought on earth with help of my father."

"That explains a lot," Elena said suddenly.

"What do you mean?" Jenna asked curiously.

"Well, I talked to Bonnie a few days ago and she said the bringer of light and punisher of darkness would bring a special human who was going to lead us to Stefan and was going to be a great help with helping him once and for all." Elena explained, "The bringer of light and the punisher of darkness must be Lucifer."

"That sounds like him, before his fall he was known as the Lightbringer and now he punishes evil in Hell," Chloe responded before Lucifer could say a thing.

"I don't understand the last thing she said though. I mean your boyfriend is a human right?" Elena asked.

"Yes, why do you ask? I made sure he was safe up at my penthouse. Nothing can happen to him today." Lucifer was confused. What had Dan to do with all of this?

"It must be nothing but there will be a big change in the life who carries the heart of the bringer of light." Elena sighed, "At least that's what my friend said anyway."

"Who is that friend? A psychic or something?" Lucifer was shocked that she knew his old title at all. He made the stars so he was the bringer of light.

"She is a witch, who made mine and Jenna and Jeremy's daylight rings, she comes from a very powerful family of witches and I believe her word." Elena almost yelled, jumping in her friend's defense.

Lucifer wanted to respond to Elena but was stopped by a sudden voice in his head. His face turned from calm to worry.

Chloe knew her friend very well and saw immediately that something was wrong, "What's wrong Lucifer?"

"It's Daniel! He needs my help!" Lucifer wanted to take off but was stopped by Damon.

"Is it my brother?" Damon had a hunch that this was serious.

"That or my siblings, someone else can't enter the penthouse without knowing the code to the elevator." Lucifer was very worried now.

"Damon and I are going with you just in case." Elena said, "Why don't you and Damon go first. I am going to get vervain and I'll be there soon enough too."

"Elena be careful with that injection." Damon wasn't happy that his wife would run with vervain with her.

"That's why I am coming too. Dan is my ex-husband and the father of my daughter. I will carry the vervain if that makes you feel better, Damon. I won't take no for an answer so no lecture Lucifer." She said before her partner could respond.

"But detective…" Lucifer tried but was stopped by Chloe.

"No buts, Lucifer! Now unfurl your wings and don't forget to take Damon with you." Chloe said to her partner. She knew she was the only one who could speak to him this way.

"I am pretty fast myself." Damon wasn't eager to be held in the arms of another man like some princess that was just rescued from a dragon.

"Not fast enough. We lost enough time as it is." Lucifer rolled his shoulders to reveal his bright white wings. He took Damon in his arms and took off towards his penthouse. He only hoped that he wasn't too late yet.

TBC