There were a lot of things that Maze would be happy to see upon walking into Lux. A party, sure. An orgy? Great. But what she did not expect was to see Detective Chloe Decker standing with a cardboard box of liquor in her arms, staring at a tall handsome man who was chatting with her animatedly.

"What's going on here?" Maze demanded. On one hand, it would be thrilling to see Chloe Decker finally get some. On the other hand, it had been less than a day since Lucifer had left. That was a little early to be moving on, especially since Maze had just told her that Lucifer would probably be coming back.

"Oh, hi!" Chloe exclaimed, clearly flustered. "I was just grabbing some stuff for Lucifer."

Maze walked closer. "How are you going to send it to Hell?"

"Oh, Amenadiel offered to take it," Chloe said. "Actually, I was trying to get everyone to write a note for Lucifer, do you think you could maybe-"

"And who are you?" Maze demanded, stepping closer to the strange man as she whipped out her demon blades, ready to attack.

"Whoa, whoa, Maze," Chloe said, pushing her friend's arm down. "This is just Gab-"

"Gabe," Gabriel said, extending his hand towards Maze. "I'm a friend of Lucifer's."

"Right," she said. "I know all of Lucifer's friends, and you aren't one of them."

Gabriel chuckled. "We aren't that close. He just did me a favor a while back, and called me recently asking if I could return the favor."

This was interesting. "What exaclty did he ask you to do?" Maze asked curiously.

Gabriel shrugged. Ugh. So unhelpful. "I don't know, he just told me to swing by Lux so he could tell me what he wanted. Do you happen to know where he is?"

"He's in Hell," Maze said. "And I don't think he'll be needing a favor from you."

Chloe laughed like a demented witch on crack. "I'm sorry, what my friend is trying to say is that Lucifer's in a… bad place right now. He has some family issues he needs to take care of."

"Ah," Gabriel said, smiling at Chloe. "Yes, I can understand that. From what he's told me, he has a pretty messed up family."

Chloe laughed. "That's an understatement."

Maze ignored their conversation, and stared deeply into Gabriel's face. He stared back, completely confused. "Um…"

"You look familiar," she whispered. There was something about his face that she couldn't put a finger on. Of course, coming from Hell, she had seen millions of faces. Most of them were covered in tears and snot, or distorted in screams, so it was kind of hard to tell. But something about his eyes, his smile… it gave her an uneasy feeling.

"I don't think we've met before," he said. "I never forget a face."

This irked Maze more than anything. That's what Amenadiela and Lucifer would always say, and it bothered her that he acted like he as in any way similar to either of them. If Chloe was even mildly attracted to him, that meant he had to go down.

"Good for you," she said roughly, before grabbing Chloe's arm and leading her towards the elevator. "But we really have to get going."

"It was nice meeting you!" Chloe shouted over her shoulder to the Gabriel, who was standing in the same place, looking mildly confused.

"Hopefully I'll see you again soon," he called out to her as the elevator doors slid shut.

"What the Hell, Decker?!" Maze shouted, punching the button to go back down the ground floor.

Chloe looked unnerved. "Maze, I'm just getting a gift for Lucifer-"

"No, I mean, what was that?!" she demanded. "Why were you getting all flirty with that piece of filth?"

Chloe scoffed. "I wasn't flirting… trust me, Maze. I'm not like that."

Maze jammed her finger into Chloe's chest. "You better not, because I won't let you break Lucifer's heart again!"

Chloe took a step back. "So that's what this is all about! You still think he's going to come back!"

"Of course he is," Maze said, but uncertainty crept into her. Time moved slower in Hell, so if he did have a plan, he should be coming back any day now.

Chloe sighed. "I had Amenadiel go down and talk to him. And he says that he's never coming back."

That information hit Maze like a ton of bricks. Not coming back? Why would Lucifer give up like that? It just wasn't like him. He could have at least left himself a way out, a loophole, just in case he ever decided to return, even if it was in a couple days, a couple years, or maybe even a millenia.

"Never coming back?" she echoed.

"I'm sorry, Maze," Chloe said, and Maze could tell that she truly meant it.

"So… what? You're just going to forget him?" she rounded on Chloe again. "Pretend like it all never happened?"

Maze saw the tears sparkling in Chloe's eyes and immediately regretted what she said. But she couldn't show weakness by breaking down and crying, or hugging her friend and apologizing.

"Of course I'm not," Chloe sputtered. "I don't think I'll ever be able to forget Lucifer, or be able to move on from him. I'm barely holding myself together, Maze. I can't bring myself to go to work. I can't take care of myself, much less Trixie. I can't be at Lux, or around you, or Amenadiel, without thinking of anything but him. I've considered killing myself, just to go down to Hell and see him, and there's not much that's holding me back. And of course I wasn't flirting with Gabriel, I was just trying to do something, anything, to get my mind off of Lucifer. You think this is easy for me? You think I don't care about him? Well, I do. And I will never stop trying to get him back, even if he doesn't want to come back. Even if he doesn't want to see me again."

Maze stood there in silence for a moment, before embracing her friend. Chloe looked shocked, but she relaxed into Maze, the tears spilling over her cheeks. Maze felt slightly uncomfortable: hugging definitely wasn't her thing. But she could tell that Chloe needed it right now. She deserved some love.

But one word of Chloe's speech had resonated with her… Gabriel. Hadn't he introduced himself as Gabe? She remembered that Lucifer had a brother named Gabriel… that could hardly be a coincidence, him arriving the day after Lucifer left. What if another angel came down to Earth?

"Don't worry," she said, patting Chloe's back awkwardly. "I'm going to help you save Lucifer. But nobody's going to die because of it."

"Thank you," Chloe choked out. Maze smiled, and took a swig from one of the bottles before putting it back in the carboard box. She had some work ahead of her.

After sending an emotional Chloe back to her car, and instructing her to relax for a moment and think of nothing but herself, Maze stepped back in the elevator and rose up to the penthouse.

"Hello, Gabriel," she said scathingly as soon as the doors opened, but stopped short as she saw another familiar someone standing by him. Well, there was nothing familiar about this girl besides the large gray wings protruding from her back.

"Mazikeen," the new angel said as she swept her short brown hair out of her face. "Can we talk?"

"Sure," Maze replied threateningly, spinning her demon knives around her hands as she stepped forwards. She pointed one at Gabriel. "Who the Hell are you?"

"Gabriel," he said. "I came down to Earth for a quick visit."

Maze scoffed, taking a couple steps closer while staring him down. "Very convenient timing there."

He sighed. "Look, Maze-"

"You can call me Mazikeen," she interuppted.

He persisted. "Mazikeen, I'm here to help Lucifer."

This was not the answer she expected. "Help Lucifer? But you're an angel." She turned to the other angel, whose wings had folded neatly back into her back. "And so are you."

"I'm Azrael," the angel said. "Nice to meet you."

Maze chewed on the inside of her cheek. She generally followed a very specific rule that served her quite well for years: angels equal enemies. She spun her knives around threateningly, but considered her options. Why were these two focused on helping Lucifer? What would they possibly have to gain?

"None of Lucifer's siblings ever visited him in Hell the first time around," Maze said, her voice shaking with anger. Sure, she and Lucifer had their differences, and she was usually angry at him, but she hated to see him abandoned and hurt. "What changed this time?"

"Well, I guess this time I didn't wait as long," Azrael said, pushing her glasses up her nose. "Last time I got kind of busy… I know that's no excuse, but I decided to do it better this time."

Maze turned to Gabriel. "And what about you? Why did you suddenly decide to help Lucifer?"

"Look…" Gabriel began. "After Lucifer's rebellion, I thought Father was right in sending him to Hell. But now I realize how unfair that was, and that Lucifer deserves better. And-" he cut himself off. "Yeah."

"Why should I trust either of you?" she demanded.

Azrael sighed. "Look, Maze, I just went down to Hell and talked to Lucifer. He's not doing too well. He's kind of given up. And I'm not going to let my favorite brother suffer like that anymore."

"He's your favorite brother?" Gabriel asked, clearly quite hurt.

Azrael looked uncomfortable. "I mean-"

"What did Lucifer say?" Maze asked. "Is he planning on coming back?"

Azrael shrugged. "He said he was originally planning on returning, but after being back down there he realized that… it was where he needed to be. He wasn't really willing to come with me to talk to God-"

"You want to talk to God?" Gabriel asked, and for some reason a smile crossed over his face. "Convince him to forgive Lucifer and stop his punishment?"

"Do you have a better idea?" Azrael asked, a little defensively.

He was originally planning on returning… but Chloe said that Amenadiel told her that Lucifer was never coming back to Earth. Had Amenadiel lied?

"Did Lucifer say anything about Amenadiel?" Maze asked Azrael slowly, ignoring the siblings' bickering.

"Well, he said that he was disappointed that Amenadiel hadn't come down to see him," Azrael said. "I was thinking that we could go talk to Amenadiel next, and try to recruit him into-"

"Yeah," said Maze, spinning her knives around in her hands again. "Let's go talk to Amenadiel."