Updated March 14, 2020 - Grammar
Updated July 14, 2020 - Grammar
Rating: Teen
Warning[s]: Swearing
Show Timeline: Season 2 Episode 9
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***As of March 15, 2020, after Chapter 9: Can You Hear Me, I will no longer update "A Devil's Love" on this site. The reason being this site does not approve of second-person [you] stories. This story will be up for as long as the site allows. If you wish to continue reading past Chapter 9, please search AZookiex3 on AO3 or Wattpad, and you can search AZritesx3 on Tumblr. I've also started posting it on my DeviantArt [AZookiex3]! There is much more to this story, and I hope you continue to read!***
To say your first couple months back home was a walk in the park would be a big fat lie.
Nothing bad really happened. Well, except when your BFF got in that bad car accident and you swore up and down it had something to do with you, but she pushes you away and says she's fine and can't stand you and Lucifer taking the blame.
Why would Lucifer be taking the blame, you thought. So, you ask him. Like any sane person would do who was overprotective of their friends. If you ended up being wrong about this guy being "good" and "nice", you had to get him away from Chloe.
But no. He's not bad. Just crazy. What with continuing with his "Devil" shtick and claiming it was one of his "Angel" brothers trying to take what his father, aka "God", gave him in exchange for a favor.
And you thought you were crazy before, but it wasn't true for you, so why would it be true for him?
Oh, and after that whole fiasco poor Chloe finds out that her real father's killer has been free all this time. No reprimanding, no worries. Just a cop killer who got to continue his life freely. Turns out the killer was Warden Perry Smith, and he was responsible for many set up kills. You remember the failure you felt when Smith managed to destroy his scent from your hounds. The bastard didn't get far, though. Maze managed to easily capture him, and from then on became the LAPD's number one bounty hunter.
But, with all that bad came a lot of good. Not easily, of course. It's hard work trying to find a suitable building in the perfect location for your next veterinarian hospital. You, with the help of your trusty sidekick Alice, managed to find just that though.
Next, while you sorted out the building paperwork and searched for a good construction company, you had to find a place to live. That, thankfully, went much quicker than finding the next "Circle of Life Veterinary Clinic" building.
Chloe kept trying to convince you to move in with her instead of Maze, but you politely declined. You didn't want to be the one who made that badass fighter homeless. Besides, you like having your own space.
And to top all that off, you got your old job back as the Captain of the K9 division of the LAPD. You missed training your dogs & officers, plus having that paycheck, the paycheck from the "COL VC" in New York, and the future paycheck of the next "COL VC" building allowed you to not stress financially.
Currently, you are standing in "COL VC #2" watching the progress come along. You smile as you see how well, and fast, things are going. If this keeps up, you'll be able to open up within the month.
Which means you and Alice need to start hiring people.
You sigh to yourself and rub your forehead, closing your eyes. First things first, you had to find some way to properly thank Lucifer for giving you the name of this construction company.
"They are a fantastic company! Did very fine work in my club. Why not come see for yourself tonight?" Lucifer looked at you like he looked at Alice the first day.
"Not a chance." You smiled at him and crossed your arms, building up a barrier.
"Oooh, playing hard to get are we?" He licked his lips and looked you up and down, "I like it!"
"Ok. This was obviously a bad idea." You huffed and started to leave Chloe's desk.
"Wait, K9!" You stopped and turned back towards him, "I'm sorry, truly." he looked sincere and placed his right hand over his heart, "Here." He grabbed the yellow sticky notes and a pen from Chloe's desk and began to write.
"Just tell the owner that you're with me." He handed you the note and smiled, "He'll give you a large discount, I'm sure."
You looked down at the note and couldn't help the thought of how beautiful Lucifer's handwriting was, "Thank you, Lucifer." You looked up at him and smiled, a genuine one this time.
"You're quite welcome, my dear." He gave you a genuine smile back, then turned flirtatious again, "Though I would like you to come to my club, so you can see what those constructors are really capable of. It's so sad their talents will be wasted on an animal clinic."
"Uh-huh." You shook your head, still smiling, and walked away.
Your phone's ringtone knocks you back to the present. The call says it's Chloe, but when you answer it-
"SOME DADDY KILLER BOY IS GOING TO MAKE ME HOMELESS!" Lucifer's voice blares through your phone so loud that the workers around turn towards you and you swear your ear is bleeding.
"Sooo, you think the perfect way to stop this 'Daddy Killer Boy' is to make me go deaf? Well, you're doing very well so far." You bring your phone to your none deaf ear and rub the now deaf one.
"The Detective won't help me-" you can hear Chloe yelling at him in the background saying to give back her phone. You hear a bit of a scuffle, and can imagine Chloe shaking her head as she gets her phone.
"Sorry about that, Earth. Calling you is the only way I can think of to help Lucifer." You can tell Chloe is saying that last part to him directly, and can just imagine his eye roll.
"What's going on?"
"Our new case victim is Dean Cooper."
"That LA real-estate tycoon guy?"
"Yup. It looks like he died having dinner with his possible killer. The killer looks to have shattered a champagne glass and stuck a shard in Dean's throat."
"Ouch."
"Ella's still at the crime scene trying to piece the glass back together in order to get fingerprints."
"Oh, Ella." You smile and shake your head, "What a good little scientist."
"Agreed, if a bit crazy." Chloe holds in a laugh, "Well, Mr. Cooper was the one who owned the block that Lucifer's nightclub is on and it seems like Mr. Eric Cooper, Dean's son, is pretty quick in reclaiming his father's properties."
"I see…So I'm guessing he's suspect numero uno?"
"Yes, but this is why I'm calling you," Chloe gives an audible stressful sigh, "I just...I can't seem to keep my mind on this case with the court on Perry Smith right around the corner. Plus, with my mom flying in tonight and Dan being busy with a bomb case-"
"You don't need to say anymore, Chlo. I'll take care of this. Just send me the address to the crime scene and I'll take over."
"Thank you, Earth." You can just hear the weight lift off your BFF's shoulder, "I'll text you the details right now. I owe you one."
"This is what friends do for each other, Chloe. You should know that by now." Before you hang up you can hear Lucifer in the background, "Hurry along, K9! Every minute I get closer to homelessness!"
"Proper thank you, here I come."
As you pull up to the crime scene you see the medics carrying away a body bag, aka Dean Cooper. So there will be no need to worry about seeing a dead man, but there is an angry British man heading straight towards you.
"Finally! Does my homelessness mean nothing to you?" Lucifer says, but despite being upset he still opens your car door and helps you out.
"Lucifer you're, like, a zillionaire or whatever." You nod your thanks and you both head inside the dead man's house, "I highly doubt you'd let yourself be 'homeless' for more than an hour, at most."
"But this is LUX, K9." You try to ignore Lucifer's desperation and come up beside Ella, who was just about to complete the champagne glass puzzle.
"Annnd, that's how we do it!" Ella manages to place the last piece perfectly, stands up and shoves her fist in front of your face, "Ta'vonlu!"
"A puzzle solver and a Trekkie?" You laugh and smile, "Ella, I'm liking you more and more each day."
"Woohoo! Fellow Trekkie!" Ella's hand goes from a fist to the Vulcan greeting and you return it. Lucifer's eye roll is incredibly loud.
Ella gets back to work on scanning the glass for fingerprints and in the meantime, an officer hands you a folder of all info found about Dean Cooper. As you skim through the words you become disappointed, and impressed. It was amazing that a shark like Cooper had no record whatsoever.
"So, can we go to this baby shark now to arrest him and get my home back?" Lucifer stands in front of you, hands intertwined together in front of him.
"We don't have any proof with which to arrest Eric." You look at him as you hand the folder back to the officer.
"He has motive. That's all the proof you need!"
"Actually, you may have more than that!" Ella calls out and you go to her. She points to her laptop screen where it clearly states that Eric Cooper's fingerprints were on the glass that killed his father.
"There you go! Come on chop chop!" Lucifer pushes you by the small of your back out the door and to your car, "We've got a baby shark to arrest!"
You barley park and shut off the engine before Lucifer is out and heading towards the Cooper building, "Lucifer wait!"
"You know, you drive just as slow as the Detective?" Lucifer stops and waits for you to catch up.
"If by slow you mean 'following traffic laws' then yeah." Lucifer just scoffs, "Look, Lucifer." he looks at you with a bit of interest, he's never heard you sound serious before.
"I understand how you're feeling right now, I do," you lightly touch his arm, "but Chloe has told me how you get sometimes and let me tell you: threatening to tear this guy up or torture him is not going to help you get LUX back, or this case."
"Very well." He returns his hand to your lower back and guides you, "I solemnly promise that the man will remain unthreatened and unharmed."
The sound of a crash and a car alarm blaring causes you both to stop and turn around.
Eric Cooper lays on top of some poor civilian's car. His body bleeding from almost every pore.
"Not me." Lucifer holds up his hands in fake surrender.
"Well, shit."
You did miss solving cases. Really, you did.
But this one was turning into a real sack of ass.
Eric Cooper was hospitalized for a full twenty-four hours before the hospital allowed his wife, Christi Cooper, to take him home.
A whole twenty-four hours closer to Lucifer's homelessness, and he would not shut up about it.
You and Lucifer arrive at the Cooper house to question Eric and Christi, but all you two got was another real estate shark's name, Eleanor Bloom. Plus an extra case of nausea for both of you at the sappy love between Eric and Christi.
Eleanor, it turns out, was a real shark. Making sure Eric wasted no time in selling her that property that his father had been sitting on. That property in question was LUX, and even with Lucifer's charm she was not giving up that land.
Which pissed Lucifer enough to abandon you with this case. Chloe offered to help, but with her father's killer's court so close there was no way you were going to burden her even more. You already swore you would solve this case for her, and you meant it.
You follow up on Eleanor's lead, alone, about some shady numbers found in her accountant's books that looked like someone was hiding money. Turns out that money went to some private investigator Dean had hired to investigate someone, but the man wouldn't tell you who. You had a hunch though.
Your hunch had to be put on hold though as one of your officers comes up to you. He says they got a call about an illegal party happening at a building that was supposed to be abandoned by now.
Of course he would.
You stand before the "supposed to be abandoned" LUX nightclub with an entourage of your officers, and just sigh.
Here we go.
You have your men walk in first with you close behind, and you can hear the music cut off and people booing as soon as they see your men.
"Awww!" You hear Lucifer's voice clearly over the crowd, "Stormtroopers have arrived, everyone! Don't worry I'll deal with the boys in blue." Lucifer walks towards the officers, "You are the boys in blue, yes? The fun boys in blue aren't due for another hour." He chuckles and shows a wad of cash in front of your main guy, Officer Miller.
Miller just gives Lucifer a side smile and looks to his side. Lucifer follows his eye movement and his smile disappears as you walk up.
"K9?"
"I know him, Miller. I got it from here." You ignore Lucifer and look to your officer.
"You're sure ma'am?"
"Oh yeah." Now you look at Lucifer as you pat Miller on the shoulder, "He's harmless." You don't speak again until all the officers have left, "I got to say Lucifer, I'm disappointed."
You think your eyes might be deceiving you, but Lucifer Morningstar actually looks ashamed. You don't know why, but you actually can't stand to see him like that.
"I mean," you throw your hands up and turn around a full 360, "this is the first time I come to your club and you've got no music playing, and no one dancing around with no worries?"
You smile at him, cross your arms and raise a brow, "Tisk tisk. I may have to leave a one-star review afterall."
"Oh ho ho!" Lucifer's light returns in him, "Well, I can't have that now can I?" He's smiling ear to ear now, "TURN IT UP!"
The crowd cheers as the music comes back full blast. Everyone resumes their dancing, drinking, laughing, and you can't help but laugh right along with them.
"K9!" You turn to Lucifer who gives you that beautiful smile, "I didn't know you had it in you!"
"There's a lot you don't know about me, Lucifer." You smile back at him.
"Evidently! Come on," Lucifer grabs your arm and pulls you to the dance floor.
"Oh no, I really shou-"
"Come on, K9!" Lucifer laughs and drags you to the dance floor, "Show me all I don't know!"
"Oh, now that's interesting." Linda watches you and Lucifer dance away together.
"What is?" Mrs. Charlotte Richards, well actually the body of Charlotte Richards that now belongs to the Goddess of all Creation [aka God's ex-wife and Lucifer's mother], looks down at the tiny doctor.
"Oh, nothing much." Linda looks at her and gives a small smile before turning her attention back on you two, "I just thought of something I have to ask a patient of mine about."
As Linda drinks her martini the Goddess follows her eye line sight and stares at you dancing with her son. Her eye twitches.
"My son was right about you, Doctor." The Goddess smiles wickedly, "You are incredibly insightful."