Chapter 9:
Dan was walking around in the penthouse, he was wearing sweatpants and a shirt from the movie series, both he and his boyfriend loved, Bodybags. He took his phone out of his pocket and called Patrick, who was working in the club on the main floor.
"With Patrick." A voice sounded on the other side of the line. Patrick knew the orders, his boss had paid him an extra month's pay to make sure that his boyfriend didn't need to leave the penthouse or meet other people, especially when Lucifer wasn't around. He didn't know why, but if he learned something at Lux, it was that you never ask questions. It was what gave him the job of the head bartender since Mazikeen chose a life as a bounty hunter.
"Hey Patrick, I just called for a pizza, I told him that Lucifer would pay it next time and that he had to deliver it to you. Can you bring it up as soon as it arrives?" Dan asked politely, he hated that he needed to keep Patrick from his work for things like this.
"No problem, Dan. I will bring it up as soon as it arrives." Patrick answered.
"Thanks, Patrick, I am sorry to trouble you with all of this." Dan felt a bit guilty that he had to ask the head bartender for simple things like that but he had made a promise to Lucifer and if there was something you better didn't do was breaking a promise with the devil, even if he loved that person. Dan knew that.
"I don't think you need to eat anymore!" came a sudden voice from the direction of the balcony.
Dan turned around and saw a brown-haired man looking at him with coldness in his eyes, "Who are you and how did you come up here? Are you one of Lucifer's brothers? You sure as hell don't look like one."
"Why would I be one of his brothers? I can tell you with certainty I am not. Another thing I do know is that someone is getting close to my heels. Him and that female detective of his need a warning and who do they have in common?" Stefan said in an icey voice, "You of course."
"You still didn't tell me how you managed to come up here. If you aren't a brother of Lucifer then who are you?" Dan asked, he dealt with the devil daily and he knew the fallen angel was only a prayer away that alone gave him courage.
"Does it matter who I am or how I got up here? You won't live long enough to tell a soul anyway." Stefan grinned while walking slowly inside the penthouse.
"I warn you, my boyfriend isn't someone you want mad at you." Dan stepped backward until he hit the side of the piano. Dan started walking sideways towards the elevator but Stefan was much and much quicker.
The vampire smashed Dan against the floor, "You wanted to know what I am? Well, I will tell you. I will grant you this last wish before I suck all the blood out of your body." Stefan changed his face from that of a human to that of a vampire. His fangs appeared while he made a hissing sound. His face became pale and ugly. The face itself didn't shock him. He had sex with Lucifer in his devil form for devil's sake.
"Shit!" Dan thought, "I must warn Lucifer." Before panic struck him. He tried to run to the elevator but Stefan was much faster with his vampire speed.
"Booh!" He yelled to Dan. Whom stopped abruptly and turned around to run towards the other side, it was no use, when Dan looked around over his shoulder, the vampire was gone, he froze when he looked in front of him where Stefan was waiting again, "This is rather boring and I am starting to get hungry."
Dan started walking backward, fear noticeable in his eyes. Until his back hit the piano. He walked around it, letting the huge instrument be a sort of buffer between them, it was no use.
The vampire started walking, throwing the piano aside. He walked slowly at first until the younger Salvatore was tired of playing with his meal. He used his speed to take Dan down.
He took Dan by the throat and worked him on the ground without effort. He didn't want to use compulsion this time. He wanted the man to suffer. One hand stayed at the male detective's throat while he held the rest of the body down with one knee.
Stefan smashed his teeth into Dan's neck without any form of guilt and started sucking, his hand on top of Dan's mouth to stop the screaming.
"Lucifer… Samael… vampire…" were the only words Dan could pray to his boyfriend before his light went out.
Stefan was enjoying his meal, so he didn't hear the woosh coming from the balcony. Before he knew it, he was pulled off his victim.
Damon had jumped out of Lucifer's arms even before he stood steadily on the ground. He pulled Stefan off Dan and smashed his fist into his face.
"Come on, brother, enjoy this meal with me. I know you want to turn your humanity off." Stefan grinned, "It's so freeing." Stefan sat on top of Damon when he said this.
"No, I won't do that again!" Damon said and flipped his brother over while the devil ran towards his boyfriend.
"Love?" Lucifer shook Dan's shoulder, the detective didn't react one bit, his body lying lifelessly on the ground, "Daniel?" He brought his fingers to Dan's neck to search for a pulse, even if it would be a faint one, he felt nothing.
Lucifer held Dan's head in his arms, tears running over his cheek. He made a loud demonically sound, a roar that would have scared a T-rex away if they still had lived. Chloe had put her fingers in her ear, as well as Elena. Damon couldn't let close his ears and was going to remember this for a very, very long time.
Those tears soon turned into bright red eyes. He was feeling a rage that he hadn't felt in a very very long time.
He changed his hand into the hand of the monster that he hid inside of him. A 3rd degree burned arm with claws at the end of his fingers. He started breathing heavily, this was usually the sign for Dan and Chloe that he needed to be stopped. The sign that soon the devil would come out and play.
He opened the palm of his hand, a blue and orange intertwined flame appeared, "Out of the way, Damon." He growled in a deep and demonic voice.
"Lucifer, no!" Chloe yelled suddenly from the balcony. She ran immediately towards her best friend, while Elena ran to help a struggling Damon, the injection with vervain in her hand.
"Lucifer, stop!" Chloe placed her hands on the devil's chest, "Remember, Lucifer, Damon's brother is sick."
"Out of my way, Chloe! This creature needs to be punished for Daniel's death." Lucifer growled with a deep voice. His eyes were big and red. She looked into his eyes, where she could normally see warmth, she now saw coldness. The use of her first name shocked her. He meant business.
Damon had injected Stefan with the vervain and had broken his neck just to be sure.
"No, Lucifer, I will not take a step back and see how the darkness surrounds you. Dan wouldn't have wanted that." Chloe tried to bring her friend back, and the fact that Damon stood threateningly in the opposite direction of Lucifer, looking him in the eyes with his vampire's face on didn't help her at all.
"I will not let you kill my brother!" Damon growled, "Stefan is sick and can be brought in control again."
"He killed my boyfriend, the one person who loved me for who and what I am," Lucifer growled, taking a step forward.
Elena stepped towards the devil. Damon tried to stop her, but it was no use. "Lucifer, we can help both of them, we don't have much time. The vervain isn't going to keep Stefan down for a very long time, and if Dan still has blood inside him, he will make the transition if he chooses. Come on, follow us and we will help you. Now please let Stefan live."
Lucifer's jaw tightened, he closed his hand and changed it back, "Alright, but if Daniel stays dead and can't be helped, you are all going to wish you never met me." Lucifer warned, "And just to be clear, that is a promise."
Chloe swallowed. She never saw her best friends this angry. He would bring Hell to earth if he had to. He cared that much for Dan.
"I hope you are right, Elena. I really do hope you are right." Chloe said in a whisper before turning to Lucifer, "Azrael hasn't collected Dan's soul, has she?"
Lucifer shook his head, "No, I don't think so. Strangely, he is dead, but still, no trail of Rae Rae, and I would have sensed if she had been here."
"That's because Dan is turning now, Lucifer." Damon felt at ease again. The devil had calmed down for now, "Like Elena said we don't have much time. A few hours top, but it's best if your partner stays behind. If Dan chooses to turn, then he won't be in control until he learns to do so."
Chloe looked at Lucifer, who sighed, "I will call you when the coast is clear and when Damon says it's safe for you to come."
Chloe nodded, she understood, although she didn't have to like it.
"Where are you taking him?" Chloe asked curiously.
"To a house deep in the forest of Los Angeles. A house I bought from another vampire family who were going to move again." Damon responded, "Lucifer, do you have a car big enough for all of us?"
"Yes, but it will cost you a new piano, Mr. Salvatore." Lucifer still meant business. He was calm now on the outside, on the inside though, he was still raging, "Follow me." He said in a cold voice, before picking Dan up from the floor. Damon doing the same with his brother. Everyone followed him, everyone except Chloe, who stayed behind in the penthouse.
TBC
