A/N Thanks again for everyone who is reading this and has sent in some lovely reviews and messages, always means a great deal to me.
Let's see if some of your guesses were correct!
Some of me wanted to hold this chapter back for a while but I just couldn't, so no cheating people! :-)
"OH BLOODY HELL!"
The Team braced themselves for the worst.
"Miss Snow? Miss Danvers told me that you are medical doctor, do you have a place where we can go?"Lucifer had risen from his crouched position but his wings still blocked their view of the new arrival,
"Yes of course, follow me!"Caitlin was moving, she had heard the distress in Lucifer's voice, and he just followed her lead and disappeared out of view,
"Should we follow them?"Kara's voice was full of worry,
"No, let's give them a little space, I think Lucifer knows this person, I take it you all heard the concern in his voice?"Barry asked the group, they all nodded,
"Also he did look very protective over, whoever this may be!"Cisco chimed in,
"Ok, so we wait!"Kara took a seat, clearly torn in wanting to help and support her new friend but also understanding that crowding the Devil may not be the best move right now,
"Let Caitlin do her thing, she will give us an update when she can!"They all nodded again and began the hopefully not that long a wait until they had some answers.
As soon has she had awoken, she knew that once again she was in a hospital bed, the bleeping of the machines was always a dead giveaway, for once though, she was still dressed in her regular clothes and not one of those itchy hospital gowns she hated so much, so she was she was honest with herself, she felt pretty ok, no pain, maybe she was on some seriously good drugs but then again she didn't feel out of control or spaced out in any way, so she quickly discarded that idea, "you got this girl!Time to rise and shine!"So she carefully opened her took a few seconds for her vision to clear but what she saw was a young attractive face looking down on her with nothing but kindness and caring concern, she felt her hand receive a gentle squeeze, she liked this woman already.
"I'm Caitlin, I will be your doctor today!"Caitlin gave the young woman a warm smile,
"Oh, hey I'm….."She had sat up a little too quickly and had to flop back into the pillow as her head swam, she was seeing stars and nope! She was from Chicago, not going to pass out now, "errr very, very dizzy!"She responded,
"It's ok, take your time, you have been through a rather unusual ordeal, do you know your name?"Caitlin asked with tenderness,
"Oh Miss Lopez, what in blazes are you doing here?"Lucifer asked as he swept back into the infirmary, "not that your presence is not unwanted, just surprising!"Caitlin could see that he was torn about the young woman's of an answer Ella just held her arms out, much to Lucifer's dismay, it was very reminiscent of the spawns approach to these sort of things, when she was sad or upset, clearly Ella had picked up some truly evil talents, so he did all he could do and huffed and then embraced the young woman."It's ok little one, I've got you!"Lucficer gave the young woman a small kiss on the top of head.
Caitlin gave the two a little space.
Less than thirty minutes after the excitement, Caitlin walked back into the hub, to meet three sets of eyes on her, she couldn't help but smile,
"So what do we have?"Barry barely let her get into the room before he jumped in,
"Actually, something quite lovely in fact!"Caitlin responded with a beautiful smile, one which only widened when she saw the confused looks on her friends faces, "for once guys, our new guest is not a threat!"Confusion was still evident on their faces but she did see them visibly relax.
"So who is it?"Cisco asked,
"You are going to have to wait!"Caitlin patter Cisco's shoulder.
Kara, Cisco and Barry were once again sitting in the conference room, waiting for their mystery guest to join them for the first time, Caitlin joined them and quickly took her seat and she was still others would soon realise that the young woman who was about to great them was like a whirlwind of cheer and joy, something she knew they all could do with a bit of.
The mysterious woman was next to come almost bounding in, her ponytail swishing as she moved, Lucifer was flanking her protectively but her grin was infectious and our three hero's couldn't help but return it,
"Okay, guys, this place is so cool!Granted I have only seen like three rooms, and, and a whole lot of corridors, but wow!I am so coming back here for my next vacation!Oh I'm Ella by the way!"Ella was already hugging Barry, Cisco and Kara, "Love your hair!"She whispered into Kara's ear before letting go of the blonde,
"Thanks?!"Kara was giggling, whatever they had been expecting this woman was surely not even close to being on their saw both Caitlin and Lucifer smirk at each other, she knew Lucifer was obviously well used to this but relished it none the less and well Caitlin had probably experienced it when she was checking Ella over one thing Kara hadn't missed was the love in Lucifer's eyes for this young woman, one who he compared her too not so long ago and that made her heart swell, "let's talk once we are done here!"Kara couldn't help wanting to get to know this woman better,
"You got it sister!"Ella responded with a big grin on her face,
"Miss Lopez!Could we focus for a minute?"Lucifer's tone was firm but still had the amusement he felt at the current interaction, "how is it you have come to join us here?"
Ella locked eyes with Lucifer and quietly asked. "Are we really in some kind of parallel universe, which is like so cool by the way and do these people know who you really are?"Lucifer nodded, "and they aren't doing the whole running and screaming thing?"
"Not so much, apparently they deal with stuff like this all the time, so, please tell the whole story, no need to leave anything out!"Lucifer put his arm around her,
"Okay bro, well….. I got a call from Amenadiel, and he was well, laughing his ass off!"Ella looked a little sheepish,
"Huh, I knew he would be, didn't I say that?"Lucifer looked smug as he took in the nods of the hero's,
"Any hoo, he told me that he had just finished lecturing you about 'looking where you leap' and 'keeping your feet on the ground'!So you walking straight into a sub-space vortex after that, well was kinda funny!"Ella was giggling but hung her head in shame a little,
"Yes, well, I wasn't expecting one to be there!"Lucifer defended himself even if it was a pathetic attempt,
"Yeah well, Amenadiel, wasn't overly concerned," Ella held up her hands at the look Lucifer shot her, "Not like that Lucifer, it was more that the vortex hadn't taken you by force, more that you had walked into it, so wasn't like you had been shomehow summoned or forced to be somewhere, more of an accident!"Ella hoped that would make some kind of sense to the Devil, he gave a small nod, the rest of the hero's just sat in silence,
"Amenadiel believed that you could always return home if you wanted, so assumed you were investigating what had happened?"Ella queried,
"For once my idiot brother is correct!"Lucifer responded.
"You can return home whenever you want?"Barry blurted out,
"Yes, of course Mr Allen, that is not the issue here, but I still want to know how you have ended up here Miss Lopez?"Lucifer pushed for an answer.
"Weeeeellllllllllll…"Ella looked really sheepish,
"Ah….. So you made Amenadiel open another breach, so you could send me a message, a message that you knew I was doing some important work and I shouldn't worry about you all back home?"Lucifer was serious again,
"How did you know?"Ella was surprised,
"I'm the Devil darling, I know everything!"Lucifer was firm,
"You so don't!"Ella challenged,
"I know that you once ate an entire pot of peanut butter with your fingers and not a spoon!"To the outside it looked as if Lucifer was staring directly into this petit woman's soul,
"Na huh, have you been speaking to Ray-Ray?"Ella looked horrified!
Lucifer just started laughing, "Of course I have my dear Miss Lopez and she has many stories to tell!"
"Dam that angel!"Ella grumbled to herself,
"So you did what I did and accidently walked into the vortex?"Lucifer had sobered but still gave Ella a triumphant smile, Ella just nodded, knowing that the Devil had beaten her, well at least this time!
"Yes, I did the exact same thing Lucifer, not disappointed though!"Ella answered,
"Oh Miss Lopez, you haven't seen anything yet!"
A/N – I really enjoyed writing this chapter, hope you did too J