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Lucifer rolled his eyes. He knew his little sister adored Amendial. The oldest of all the angels and Mum's favourite for a long time he knew his brother had an authority about him that none of the others did. He also had an understanding of what his brother was going through. Both had fallen head over heels in love with a human. Only Amendial had gone one step further and had a child with Dr Linda. Lucifer scratched his head, knowing that he would never be able to have the relationship with Chloe that his brother had with the psychiatrist.
"He never would have met her if it wasn't for me."
"You went into therapy." His sister smiled at him. "You told a human who you really were and she accepted it. That's special. Dr Linda wasn't a devout believer but she is now."
"Having a child by an angel, sort of proves the existence of Celestial Bodies."
"Yeah." She laughed. "I suppose so."
"Az."
"You wimped out." She turned to him. "I told you before. When Dad kicked you out no one was more upset than me. I told him I disagreed with him. That your place wasn't here."
"I know." He smiled slightly. He appreciated the fact she had thought that putting a good word in for him would help his cause. In the end it had made no difference at all. He got up and began pacing. "You never bothered to come visit before."
"I saw Ella. She told me you had gone. So I went to your apartment just in time to stop Maze and Amendial ripping each other to shreds. They need you."
He shook his head.
"Chloe does."
"I told you. Keep away from her."
"When she dies."
"I SAID."
"Whoa. She's human. It will happen." Azriel narrowed her eyes. "You know that. She wont be coming here."
"I know that." Lucifer turned on his heel to face her. "Little sister. I really do know how this works. A human baby is born, grows to adulthood and then to old age before shuffling off the mortal coil, unless you get to them first. Chloe will live to a very very old age. You will not intervene in that."
"If she doesn't get out of her depression soon then I might not have a choice."
"WHAT?"
"Cain was a nightmare. Made her mistrust herself. Then there is how she feels about you. Every man in her world has let her down. Her dad died when she was a child. Dan and her divorced, Cain now you have disappeared. Only so much rejection a woman can take."
"No." Lucifer glared. "She knows why I came here. She knows it was to protect her as much as Charlie. She would never leave Trixie. That child. Her daughter."
Azrael nodded. "She loves her daughter. Only I heard her tell Ella she wondered if Trixie might be better off without her. That she knew Dan would be there for her."
Lucifer was stunned. "No. No. Suicide. Not the Detective. Not my Detective."
Azrael raised an eyebrow watching the turmoil in her brother's eyes. She knew she had got under his skin. She just hoped it was enough. "We find Satan. We bring him back here and we close the Gates of Hell. For good."
Lucifer nodded, knowing that he had to do as his little sister said.
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Chloe pulled wet clothes from the washer as she listened to Maze and Trixie talking at the kitchen counter. She knew her little girl was heartbroken that Lucifer was gone. Even the thought of his name brought tears to her eyes, so she understood what Trixie said when she complained that his going away wasn't fair. The child was right, it wasn't fair. None of it was fair. The more she thought about it the more she realised it was all her fault. Amendial had been sent to Earth thirty six years earlier to ensure her parents met. She had been created just to be a match to Lucifer Morningstar. Now God seemed to think they were going to survive apart. She sighed as she put the clothes in the dryer. Pierce er, Cain, she corrected herself, her father, Dan and now Lucifer had all left her. It was clear that she was the problem. It was clear she was nothing more than a pawn in some celestial game. Well, she couldn't allow that to continue. It was not fair on any of them. So she turned the dryer on before heading into the bathroom knowing what she had to do.
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