Chapter 10:
They all stepped inside the elevator to go to the private garage where his collection of cars stood.
"Would you be so kind to push the button that says -1, Mrs. Salvatore?" Lucifer's voice was growing colder by the minute.
Elena nodded, she understood why he was so cold all of a sudden. He was carrying his dead boyfriend in his arms after all.
"I am so sorry that this happened but there is a positive side to all of this." Elena tried to break the ice.
"Positive? I can't think of anything positive about this. Daniel is still dead." Lucifer growled in his demonic voice.
Elena jumped back a bit at hearing this voice. She almost forgot that she was dealing with the fallen angel here. A fallen angel that felt pain and was grieving not knowing for sure if he would ever see his boyfriend again.
"He is still carrying my blood inside him," Damon growled back, going in defensive mode after seeing Elena's reaction. He wasn't afraid of Lucifer, "So he will live again in a few hours."
Lucifer huffed before saying, "This should never have happened, he should have been safe in the penthouse." Lucifer growled back, "He shouldn't have to need to make the choice about living as a vampire or stay dead."
"Everything will be fine." Elena said trying to bring the peace back between the two men after her first shock had passed, "living a life as a vampire isn't so bad as you think, especially when he learns to control it properly."
Lucifer sighed deeply, fighting them was stupid right now. He knew it wasn't their fault either. They didn't order Stefan to go on a killing streak, "That's not what is bothering me at all. I mean if I can have him longer with me that's great but I broke my promise to him. I said that he was safe here. That nothing would happen to him."
"I don't think he will be angry about it, Lucifer. I think he will see this as an opportunity to be with you for a very very long time." Elena smiled.
Lucifer knew she was right he had talked about it with Dan after all but that was not what was bothering him the most.
"You don't get it to do you?" Lucifer snapped back, "I never ever break a promise. I am a devil of my word. What will happen now?"
"Now, we are driving to the mansion in the forest I told you about. We need to drive fast if we want Stefan locked up in time for him to wake up. We need to turn his humanity back on as soon as possible."
"How are you planning to do that?" Lucifer asked, "And what about Daniel?"
"Turning the humanity back on is never easy. You see vampires don't feel emotions like guilt and pain, for instance, so life is so much easier to live. Vampires' emotions magnify so feeling guilt, pain and compassion is a hard thing for a vampire. Most of us don't even try to live a life without the killing." Damon said, "That's why Stefan is special. He wanted a life without ending others even with him being a ripper. That's why I know he is a good vampire and worth saving."
"I understand that and I will do anything to help as long as you want to help Daniel too if he decides to become a vampire that is." Lucifer now much calmer and warmer than before, "Why is it so hard for them to turn their humanity back on?"
"You will feel all the guilt and pain you suppressed for so long but not only that but there is also the guilt and the pain about the things you have done so keeping it off makes that they don't feel a thing," Elena explained, happy that the peace had returned.
"How do you turn it back on?" Lucifer asked curiously now.
"There is only one way and maybe you can help us with that," Damon said cryptically. Maybe being friends with the devil wasn't so bad.
"How so?" Lucifer asked confused while they walked through his collection of cars.
"The only way is torture," Damon said.
"Why torture?" Lucifer asked. He hated to be a torturer so why would they do that in the first place?
"He needs to feel that with humanity on is better than without it. He needs to follow our commands and do as he is told." Damon said, "I don't like it but this is the only way to do it."
"What about Daniel?" Lucifer asked again.
Damon sighed, "I didn't think of that. We need someone to practice on and you are invulnerable so that is not an option. We are vampires so we are not an option either. Do you think Chloe would mind? We need someone in the know before we learn him to wipe away all that has happened to them."
"You want me to ask Chloe…?" Lucifer started, "No, no, no."
"Please ask her," Elena begged him.
Lucifer sighed. He didn't have to like it but he had fought too hard for free will to refuse Chloe hers, so he took his phone out of his pocket and called her.
"Yes, Lucifer. Is something wrong?"
Lucifer stayed silent.
"Lucifer, what's wrong. You know you can tell me." Chloe said at the other end of the phone, she was starting to get worried.
"I think we need your help but it has to be your decision, detective." Lucifer sighed deeply.
"How can I help?" Chloe asked.
"Well, Daniel will need a person he trusts to practice on eating without killing. Damon will be there the whole time but if you don't want to I understand. They can't use me because I am invulnerable." Lucifer hated to ask this of her.
"Of course, I want to help you. Where are you?" Chloe said immediately.
"We are still in my private garage, you will see a red Rolls Royce Cullinan. A customized SUV.
"Wait there for me, I will be down in a minute." She hung up the phone before Lucifer could change his mind and tried to talk her out of it. Dan was still the father of her daughter if he was a vampire or not. So she was going to help him in every step of his learning process.
"She is on her way down here. Where are we placing Daniel and your brother?" Lucifer asked.
"I assume you will be driving?" Damon said, "So I will give you directions from the seat behind you. Chloe will be sitting next to you. I will have Stefan beside me. If I say so I want Chloe to give me the injection with the vervain. I am strong enough to hold him plus I can break his neck to spare us some seconds. Elena will be sitting behind me with your boyfriend. I don't expect him to wake up before we arrive there but if he does, she will be able to calm him down. There is no problem as long as Chloe doesn't bleed." Damon said.
Lucifer nodded and placed Dan in the back of the car. Elena took her seat next to him on the expensive, black leather. Placing Dan's head on her lap. Damon placed his brother in the seat in front of Elena before taking his seat next to him.
At that moment Chloe arrived at the car. She didn't have to search long because an SUV was hard to miss next to all the sports cars the devil owned. Lucifer being the gentleman opened the front door for her. His best friend smiled and took a seat.
The drive itself took about 30 minutes, a drive that usually took about an hour but then again Lucifer was behind the wheel, and he was known not to hold himself to the speed limits. This time Chloe didn't complain because she knew they didn't have all the time in the world.
They stopped before a large mansion in the middle of a big forest. The house was built in Victorian style with small, stone stairs in front of the front door.
Damon stepped out of the car and took Stefan in his arms, "Take Dan and follow me." He said to Lucifer.
Lucifer nodded and did as he was told. So he took Dan's lifeless body in his arms and followed the vampire.
Elena opened the door for her husband. Chloe walked next to Lucifer.
"Elena, why don't you show Lucifer and Chloe the living room and where he can place his boyfriend so that he wakes up comfortably?" Damon said before he walked to the other part of the house. He didn't like it either but he had to chain Stefan up.
Elena walked towards the living room, "Why don't you place Dan on this couch? It's new and the best one in the whole building."
Lucifer nodded, "Here you go, baby." He said, trying to hide his worries but failing miserably.
Chloe placed his hands on Lucifer's back. She tried to comfort him while watching her ex-husband.
Damon came up a while later and found them like that.
"Stefan is chained to the wall." He said softly to Elena, "Now we can focus completely on Dan's transition."
Chloe turned around, "How do you know he will wake up and not stay dead?"
"We vampires have a sort of sixth sense for that. We feel the difference in the body. Dan is dead but his body is changing to let him be able to live on without the beating of a heart. We sense those changes." Damon explained watching how carefully Lucifer lifted Dan's head before sitting down and placing his head in his lap. He started to caress his hair and sing softly. Not that Dan would hear him at this moment but for Lucifer, this was his way to cope with everything. Nobody understood a word he was singing because for the first time in what would have been eons he was singing in his native tongue, Enochian.
"What do you mean without the beating of a heart? How the hell do you get your blood around your body?" Chloe asked while she listened how beautiful the language was. She reminded herself to ask later what he was singing and in which language.
Damon chuckled, "Nobody asked that question before. It's simple really. Everything changes when turning even your blood, that's why he can change in the first place. I will try to explain it. Take your blood for instance. Your blood needs to be pushed forward or it stops running. Our blood, on the other hand, doesn't have that push so it moves on its own like a snake if you will. It also purifies itself."
"What if you give blood to someone like you did with Dan?" Chloe asked curiously.
"Well, that's the biggest reason why we eat the blood. To keep our blood amount leveled up because if we don't we desiccate." Elena explained now.
"What does it mean if you desiccate? Is it bad?" Chloe couldn't help but ask.
"It's when your blood level is way too low and you get trapped in your own mind without the ability to move, breathe and you will be in agonizing pain," Elena said watching her husband walk to Lucifer.
"Hey, he will wake up, Lucifer. We just have no real idea when. It can be now or in a few hours. When his body is ready he will wake up." Damon placed his hand on Lucifer's shoulder.
Lucifer sighed deeply, "I hope you are right, Damon. I really hope you are right." Before he kissed Dan's cold forehead.
TBC
