As sunlight filtered through the penthouse windows, Chloe slowly blinked her eyes awake and stretched. She felt a delicious soreness from the previous nights' activities. She looked over at her devilish lover, who was still snoring softly.
He looks so innocent in his sleep, she thought. Without trying to wake him, she reached over Lucifer to grab her phone off the nightstand. It was already 9:00am, which meant she had little over an hour to get dressed and head into work.
Chloe leaned over and gave Lucifer a soft kiss on the cheek, causing him to stir and mumble. "Morning sleepyhead," she whispered. Lucifer cracked his eyes open slowly, his expression going from confused to delighted as the memories of their dating declaration and subsequent love making came back to him.
"Morning Love," he replied before giving her a gentle peck on the lips, "how did you sleep?"
"Pretty good, but then again who wouldn't when their boyfriend is a walking feather pillow," she snickered. During the night his wings had come out and wrapped around her, and she had never felt anything so soft and warm before.
"Haha, very funny Detective," he sniffed, "fancy having a spot of brekkie with me?".
"I can't today," she said apologetically, "I'll be late for work. Are you coming into the station with me?".
"I'll be in later. I have an appointment with Linda this morning". He looked at her a bit apprehensively before asking, "Is it alright if I discuss... us with her?". Despite the events of the prior evening, Lucifer was still afraid that Chloe was going to regret everything and run.
Chloe, sensing the rabbit hole of insecurity he was about to fall in, put a hand against his cheek. "Of course, you can tell Linda about us. You're not my dirty little secret, Lucifer". Her other hand moves to take his as she looks him in the eye. "I don't regret anything about last night or anything else between us".
The devil flashed her a brilliant grin before leaning down to press his lips to hers. Chloe regrettably broke away before it could get more heated and got dressed in a pair of leggings and one of Lucifer's silk dress shirts. "Well, well, detective, you look better in my clothes than I do" Lucifer purred as he wagged his eyebrows suggestively.
Chloe just rolled her eyes as she made her way to the elevator. "I'll see you at the precinct this afternoon," she told him, "and tell Linda I want to talk to her later!". After Lucifer had told her that Linda knew, she was determined to have a conversation with the other woman about all the Celestial madness that had dropped in her lap.
"Bye babe!" Chloe said as she blew a kiss. The flabbergasted look on her boyfriend's face kept her laughing the entire ride down the elevator.
The devil was in a jovial mood as he walked into Linda's office. The tiny therapist gave a look of bemusement at the excited energy her patient was exuding. "You look much better than the last time I saw you, Lucifer," she told him.
Lucifer gave her a brilliant smile as he settled onto the couch. "Things have been going quite swimmingly as of late! The sun is shining, murders need solving, I slept with the detective..."
"You WHAT?!" Linda shrieked.
"Right," Lucifer said with his brow furrowed, "probably should have led with that".
"Ahem right, "Linda cleared her throat, "Tell me everything from the beginning. Don't leave out any details, I need them for research". She just wanted to hear all the good romance gossip, but she wasn't about to tell him that.
"Well," he started, "as you know, the detective and I were together when that whole mess with Cain went down. I managed to end the bastard, and somehow that led to my devil face returning. I didn't even realize I had changed until I saw the shock on her face".
"That must have been quite upsetting, for someone you care about to see that side of you in the worst possible moment," she commented.
"Yes, well, it didn't help that before I could try and talk with her about it, the SWAT team had arrived," he shuddered, " luckily I was able to change back before they stormed in, but the damage was done". Lucifer poured himself a glass of water before continuing. "The next thing I know, she fled the country with her daughter and stayed gone for over a month".
"But she did come back?" the therapist questioned.
"Yes," he told her, "she said her time overseas had made her realize her priorities, and that she didn't want to lose me". "Doctor...she... she touched my devil face, and still wanted me".
"How did that make you feel, knowing Chloe was offering her acceptance? Linda asked.
"Bloody terrified, that's how!" he shouted. Lucifer stood up and walked over to the window in Linda's office, "I just don't understand how she could want something so monstrous, and I'm afraid she's going to come to her senses at any moment and leave again".
Linda straightened her glasses before she responded. "I don't think that Chloe is going to leave you, especially now that you both have taken such a large step". Linda paused to let her patient absorb this insight, "it's perfectly normal to be afraid emotional intimacy. Now that Chloe knows everything, the barrier that you used to surround yourself is no longer there. You can't keep your distance like before, and that's okay!", she smiled at him, "part of a healthy relationship is being able to be vulnerable emotionally with the other person and trusting them not to take advantage of that".
"So, I should..." Lucifer looked at her uncertain.
"Take it slowly, and trust in Chloe's feelings for you and yours for her" Linda said, giving the devil a knowing smile.
Lucifer remained quiet as he seemed to consider her words. A ding on his phone broke him out of his reverie, "that would be the detective, looks like its time for me to head out".
"Oh, before you go, Lucifer," Linda sounded rather embarrassed now," have you seen Amenadiel?"
"Not since before he flew Charlotte up to heaven, "he told her, "why do you ask?"
"Oh well, I need to speak with him about an important matter," she said nervously.
"What sort of important matter could my brother possibly help with, Doctor?" he asked.
"He can help with the fact that he got me pregnant!" she said a little too loudly.
"HE DID WHAT?!!"
"Yeah, I probably should have led with that" she admitted sheepishly.
At the station, Chloe was attempting to catch up on paperwork while fielding knowing looks from Ella. "So, Decker," Ella purred, "I noticed that you're wearing Lucifer's shirt. Is there something you want to tell me?". The forensic scientist waggled her eyebrows in a suggestive manner.
Chloe rolled her eyes at her friend. "There's not much to tell. Lucifer and I simply decided to take the next step in our relationship and become official".
"And did that step include fantastic sex?" Ella winked.
"Yes, Ella" she replied while blushing furiously, "it included fantastic sex".
Chloe thought Ella's face was going to get stuck from the huge grin plastered across it.
"Freaking Finally!", she yelled, "I've been waiting for you two to hook up for forever!"
"What about the whole 'beautiful Pecker babies' phase you went through a few months ago?" she asked the lab tech with an amused grin.
It was Ella's turn to blush then. "Let's just blame that whole mess on the Tequila and never speak on it again," then she burst into giggles, followed by Chloe. While the two women were laughing, a delivery man came up to the detective's desk.
"I got a package here for Chloe Decker?" he said, looking between the two women. "That's me," Chloe said as she signed for the delivery, "thank you".
She opened the box to find a dozen long-stemmed roses with a diamond tennis bracelet wrapped around them. Laying on top of the gift was a note that read:
I have found the one whom my soul loves- Song of Solomon 3:4
"Whoa, nice gift," Ella noted, "think it's from Lucifer?"
"I doubt it," Chloe said with a frown, "there's no way he'd leave a bible quote with it...plus he knows I hate roses".
"That is totally weird, dude," Ella said. Before Chloe could respond, her phone started ringing. The caller ID showed Lucifer grinning cheekily. "Ha! Speak of the Devil, Later Chlo!" Ella said as she walked back to her lab.
Chloe smiled as she answered the phone. "Hey babe, what's up?" she asked him.
"I'll be a bit late coming to the precinct," he replied, "apparently there's a delivery at Lux that only I can accept".
Chloe could practically hear the eye-roll accompanying that sentence. "It's fine, Lucifer, we don't have a case just yet. How long do you think you'll be?"
"Not long, Darling, I just picked it up," Lucifer frowned at the box, "that's odd, there's no return address on this packaging".
Chloe was about to ask him what was inside when the sound of an explosion rocked the speaker of her phone, followed by dead silence.
"LUCIFER?!!"
