AN: I know the timelines are different but please go with the flow and think of it as it would happen in Lucifer's timeline.
I hope you enjoy this new creation of my muse.
Warning this will be a slash story so only Deckerstar friendship. The main couples will be Lucifer/Daniel and Tommy/Jason, also a little bit of Lucifer/Tommy in the beginning.
Chloe knows Lucifer is the devil in this story and accepted his friendship and professional partnership. There will be no monster fighting in this story so also readable for none power ranger fans.
Sum: Tommy decides to leave Angel Grove behind and ends up in Los Angeles. He tries to forget about the love he lost and the love he will never have or that's what he thinks. Lucifer regained Chloe's trust but tells him she could never be more to him as his best friend. She sets her own feelings aside because she noticed Lucifer has another human in mind. She wants to bring the two men closer together with the help of a long lost family member. On their turn, Lucifer and Chloe try to convince Tommy to talk with his secret love the moment he arrives in Los Angeles.
chapter 1:
The sun was going down on the streets of Los Angeles. Most people were in their houses watching television, other people were waiting in line to enter the most famous nightclub of the city of angels. Tommy was taking an evening walk, he had a rough week behind him. He had left Angel Grove and everything that remembered him about it behind, except some secret objects that remembered him at his time as Power Ranger.
Zordon had been very understanding about his reasons to give up his powers and was very happy with the successor. Tommy had asked his brother David Trueheart to take his place as the team leader. He was accepted by the rest only Kat had a hard time with the fact that she wasn't enough for Tommy to stay. She didn't know all the reasons though. Only a few people including Zordon and David knew the whole story. Tommy wanted to keep it that way for now.
That was his plan anyway. He had managed to leave Angel Grove but his mind still wandered to everything that happened, starting with the dear John letter he had received about two weeks ago.
He walked at the backside of Lux when someone pulled him into an alley, smashed down before he could react. Tommy jumped up. His pain threshold was larger not only by his black belt but also because of his time as a ranger. He immediately took his fighting position. He only now noticed that he was surrounded by ten broad-shouldered men. Tommy felt blood dripping from a wound on his forehead.
"We don't want you here." The tallest one, who was only slightly taller than Tommy, said.
"You don't even know me!" Tommy responded staying focused on every single movement.
"We got paid to remove you from Los Angeles and we always keep our word." A smaller man said.
"I assure you. You don't want to mess with me so leave me alone." Tommy growled. He was still a bit moody from the withdrawal of the Morphin grid power.
The first one attacked but Tommy was quicker and kicked him against the wall.
"Don't you stand there you idiots get him." The first man who was clearly the leader yelled while rubbing the back of his head in pain.
All nine men started to beat on Tommy. That was too much even for an ex-ranger.
"I thought the man asked to leave him alone," A deep voice said. The only thing Tommy saw were two fire-red eyes in the dark. It was something the other men had seen too because in a matter of seconds the alley was empty.
Tommy took his fighting stance again, being a ranger made him less scared for every weird thing he saw.
"Who are you? Did the Machine Empire send you?" Tommy asked sternly. He felt weak but didn't show it to the tall dark-haired man in front of him.
The man looked confused at first but responded, "My name is Lucifer Morningstar and I am the owner of the nightclub."
Tommy let his guard down he could sense that the man wasn't a threat.
"Lucifer Morningstar? Like the…" Tommy asked but the man stopped him.
"Like the devil, exactly," Lucifer smirked.
"Why did you help me? Aren't you supposed to be evil?" Tommy asked.
Lucifer shook his head, "I find free will very important and let's say I am not fond of gangs beating up humans and especially not near my club. Why did they attack you?"
Before Tommy could react his knees buckled and fell against the wall. Lucifer crouched next to him feeling if the young men with the ponytail were still alive.
The young man's pulse was barely readable but it was still there. He lifted the man into his arms and carried him in bridal style, through his private entrance to the penthouse and placed the man on a bed in his guest room.
Lucifer didn't know what to do at first. He wanted to call Dr. Linda when another familiar female voice stopped him.
"Lucifer? Lucifer are you up here?" echoed through the penthouse.
"I am in here detective," Lucifer yelled from the guest room.
"Lucifer, I wanted…" She stopped when she saw the unconscious Tommy.
"Lucifer, what happened?" Chloe asked shocked.
"The only thing I know is that a gang was beating him up in the alley beside the club. He wasn't even afraid of me although I am sure that he saw my eyes. Can you help him? I have a medical kit in the bathroom cabin." Lucifer asked.
"Alright. I will help you but I think we should call an ambulance." Chloe said softly not to disturb the man.
Tommy woke up just that moment, "That won't be needed I will be fine." Tommy didn't want his blood tested not yet. He was afraid that there would be still sparks of the power in his blood.
Chloe sighed, "Alright, I will see what I can do for you." She turns around and leaves the room in search of Lucifer's medical kit.
"Oh, my head." Tommy groaned hoarsely.
"Welcome back, Tommy." Lucifer grinned.
Tommy startled and tried to jump up but regretted that move immediately. Grabbing his head in pain, "What happened? Where am I? How did I get here?" He asked while looking around.
"I don't know how much you remembered before you blacked out but I am Lucifer Morningstar, devil, and owner of the nightclub Lux. You are now in a guest room of my penthouse above the nightclub and how you got here. Well, I carried you." Lucifer said like it was normal to be carried upstairs by the devil himself.
"I remember. So I wasn't hallucinating when I saw those red eyes?" Tommy asked curiously and without fear.
Lucifer shook his head, "I am the devil after all. But I am impressed, you weren't afraid of me. You even were willing to fight me even though you felt weak."
Tommy wasn't ready to break Zordon's trust, not yet. "That has to do with my past. I can't reveal too much without breaking a promise but I made me less afraid and not ready yet to get examined too closely."
"I will respect that but know that your secret is safe with me. I give you my word because I sense darkness inside you that I am not familiar with and yet your heart is pure. What happened out there?" Lucifer asked.
Tommy thought for a minute. He sensed that he could trust him with at least a part of the truth. Although he really believed that the man next to his bed was the actual devil, he was recruited by a witch that lived on the moon to destroy the power rangers only to end up being a ranger on the good side fighting under the command of a floating head and a robot, he didn't think the man was evil like religion told people. Call the instinct he had learned to trust over the years.
"The only thing the tallest one said that someone had paid them to scare me out of this city. I don't understand I only arrived a few days ago." Tommy said not really knowing what to think.
Chloe entered the room, "Lucifer I found it." looking straight in the face of an awake Tommy.
"Welcome back in the land of the living." Chloe smiled.
"Trust me, detective, he never left didn't sense Azrael near him," Lucifer responded.
Chloe rolled her eyes, "It's just a matter of speech Lucifer." She opened the kit and started to take care of Tommy's biggest wounds.
"I am Chloe, Lucifer's working partner, and best friend." The blond woman smiled.
Tommy hissed the moment Chloe touched the wound on his forehead. He only realized now how lucky he was to heal quickly during his ranger days, all thanks to the power of the Morphin Grid.
"I am Tommy, Tommy Oliver. I left my hometown, Angel Grove, a few days ago." Tommy said with a sad tone in his voice. He tried to hide it but didn't succeed.
"Some of those bruises are more than a few days old. What happened to you?" Chloe asked going into cop mode.
Tommy sighed, "I finally told my parents I was bi-sexual." fearing to be rejected again, "They threw me out."
TBC in Chapter 2.