CHAPTER 6
Lux - A bit before 7 pm
Lucifer was just out of his walk-in closet when he heard the characteristic "ding" that announced a new guest in his penthouse.
"I'm afraid this penthouse is closed for an undetermined time. But feel free to check out the club downstairs. I'm sure you'll find someone who fits your needs." He replies from the other side of the room.
"Then why did you invite me over?" The guest says.
He smiles as he recognises Maze's voice. "Don't take this the wrong way, but why would I formally invite you over? And since when do you need an invitation to enter anyway?" He walks over to his bar. "Besides I was supposed to leave thirty minutes ago but I couldn't decide…" He stops before he can say finish his sentence with "what to wear". "Never mind. Show me the text." He asks instead. "That's not my number." he states
"I know, but I figured you lost your phone again or changed it because of too many admirers sending you their nudes."
Lucifer is about to contradict her but realises she was right on both points. He shrugs. "How do I look by the way?"
"Fine, I guess." She replies. He frowns. "What's wrong with you? You never question your appearance. The only time you asked for advice was for this weird undercover thing you did with Decker."
"Forget I said anything." Then the possible sender of the text finally lights the right cells in his brain. "I'm actually on my way to the Detective's house for dinner, do you want to come with?"
"Are you offering me a threesome with Decker?"
"Dad no! The spawn will be here as well. I just thought you could enjoy yourself there as well."
Maze explodes in a loud laugh. "Is this why you asked me about your outfit? Are you nervous about this date?" She takes her best mocked-mom voice. "Do you want Mommy to hold your hand for your first date?"
"Please, I'm hardly a blushing schoolgirl." He pauses. "The reason why I asked you to come with is…" He looks for a reasonable explanation other than " I don't want you to meet up with Lilith, who is possibly the sender of this text " , and that wasn't a lie . "Because I might need you to keep the Urchin busy." He finally shares.
"Right." Maze is clearly unconvinced by his explanation.
"Besides, you haven't spent time with the Urchin in a while, so it's a win-win for both of us."
"Alright then." She agrees, dropping the matter for now. "Shall we go then?"
"After you."
About 30 minutes later - Chloe's condo
Lucifer did his best to ignore the smirk pasted on Maze's face during the whole drive to Chloe's. As he parks the car, he finally cracks.
"Enough Maze. I am NOT nervous!"
"Sure, whatever you need to tell yourself." She mocks him.
Lucifer sighs, aware there was no changing her, and knocks. The door flies open and Trixie crashes into him in a bear cub hug. The Devil kinda returns the embrace before he stirs her towards Maze. After a while, the three of them enter.
"Mom, it's so cool, Lucifer brought Maze with him for dinner."
"Okay," Chloe replies from the kitchen, surprised by his decision, but also happy about it since Maze hadn't been around for a while and Trixie missed her.
Lucifer hears the doubt in Chloe's reply. "It was a last-minute decision. Maze showed up as I was about to leave." He justifies himslef. He comes close to her ear. "I'll tell you later." He adds only for her to hear.
He resists the urge to kiss her, not sure where she stood or how to this sort of established relationship thing. She surprises him as she reaches for his lips. The kiss is short and light but full of promises for later nonetheless.
"Evening." She says as she lets go of his lips. She doesn't step away from him and enjoys the feel of his hand on her hips.
"Ewwww!" Comes the small voice of Trixie.
The blond woman can't help the light red that comes to her cheeks, both from the desire this simple kiss ignited, and the new situation it's been a while if not ever, that Trixie saw her mother kissing someone like this. She clears her throat.
"So… I thought we could have some Tacos. I ran a bit late so I couldn't prepare too much in advance." She continues, in an attempt to get her brain back on track.
Lucifer sheds his jacket on a nearby chair. "Just tell me what to do." He grins. "I'm at your service."
Chloe looks away from his eye as the possibilities of the Devil at her service sink in. She pushes the rush down her centre aside for now and grips the cutting broad harder than necessary. "You can chop the vegetables and condiments while I finish the guacamole and meat." She smiles. "As for the second part, we'll see what else you can do for me."
"Looking forward to it, Darling." He replies as he starts his task at hand and takes his place beside her like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Maze makes a weird face and turns to Trixie. "Come on, Trix'." She puts her hand on Trixie's shoulder. "I heard you made some kick-ass artwork at school and I can teach you new moves."
"Maze! Language please." Chloe says from the kitchen.
"I meant an amazing art project and some techniques to defend yourself."
Chloe smiles as the two of them disappear from her vision. In the meantime, Lucifer has been very efficient in the task Chloe assigned him.
"Detect… I mean Chloe, where's your pan? It's starting to get a bit crowded on here."
She turns to him and her eyes locked on with his. Inexorably her mind drifts away and her focus lands on his lips, his throat, his tongue. " What had he done to her ". She thinks quickly before she comes back to reality, leaving horny Chloe at the back of her mind for now.
"What?" She says.
"Your pan? For the vegetables." He repeats, fully aware where her thoughts went during her small absence. His were in the same place, except he hid it better.
"Up here." She says, pointing towards the cupboard above her head.
She reaches for it but he beats her to it and shifts closer to her, his tall and lean frame now towering her.
"I got it." He puts the pan behind the stove but makes no move to stand away from her.
Chloe isn't sure who started what, but the moment she feels him pressed against her she turns around and seals her lips with his as if possessed by a force she couldn't - nor wanted to - fight. It doesn't take long for the Devil to put his hands under her ass and lift her up on the counter near the sink, as the kiss intensifies. Chloe tugs at his shirt, horny Chloe now ruling the whole of her brain. They continue to get lost until one of them pushed the pan and plates off the counter. The loud crash is barely enough to break the moment. They separate just in time as Trixie runs in.
"Is everything alright?"
"Yes, Monkey" Chloe quickly replies. "We're just a bit clumsy and I dropped the pan and the plates." Lucifer smiles. "You can go back to your room, dinner should be ready soon."
Maze looks at the two of them and smirks as she sees Lucifer's bulge. "Come on, Kid, I'll show you how to use my knives to make sure your opponent doesn't run away!"
The rest of the dinner preparation went rather well, as did the meal itself and Lucifer even managed to pretend like he actually cared about Trixie's adventure with one of her classmates as they exited their maths class after a training fire alarm. Lucifer was content, thinking the dinner went almost too well. Just as Chloe was about to offer dessert the front door rang.
"Expecting anyone else?" He inquires, curious.
"Not that I'm aware of." She replies, hands full of plates. She turns to Trixie. "Can you get it, Monkey?"
"Sure". The small girl replies.
Before she can get there, Lucifer stands up. "You know what, Spawn, why don't you help your Mother clear the dishes and I'll get the door." He says, already half-way to the front entrance. He opens it and then comes back to the living room, relieved. "It was only a package for Maze." He finishes as he hands the parcel to the demon and resumes his place at the table as Chloe brings the chocolate cake she bought on the way home.
After dessert, Trixie goes to her room to get ready for bed and Maze's bedtime story before Chloe tucks her in as dinner went on quite long and tomorrow was still a school day. While Chloe is gone, Lucifer settles on the sofa, a magazine on his lap. Chloe startles him as she comes back into the room.
"Why were you so adamant to get the door earlier?"
"Oh, I just wanted to avoid the Urchin opening it and stumble on any dangerous guest."
"Why would anyone dangerous come to my doorstep?" Then she realises there was one who could show up. "Wait, do you think" she lowers her voice "Lilith" then she resumes her normal volume "would actually come here?"
He looks a bit uneasy. "It's what I wanted to talk to you about this morning."
"Go on."
"Before I came to the precinct, I dropped by and Trixie opened the door and then proceeded to tell me a woman looking for Maze dropped by"
"And you're sharing this with me only now why exactly?" She replies, pissed.
"I was about to tell you about it when I joined you at the precinct but then we talked and things were good again between us and we met in the interrogation room, and I didn't want to ruin the moment." Chloe looks unconvinced by his explanation. "I honestly thought it was just this but then Maze got a text from me, which I didn't send, and I was afraid she would try to meet Maze at Lux while I was away"
"So you invited her over tonight." She completes. "So if Maze hadn't told you about the text, I would have never known about this?"
"Well, not exactly. I would have told you at some point, probably once all this was over."
"What if Lilith had harmed Trixie." She tries to make him understand, while she does her best to keep her fear-induced anger at bay.
Lucifer opens his mouth and closes it again, out of argument. But before she can get madder at Lucifer, Maze steps in.
"Did you just say Lilith is this plane?"
"This is none of your concern, Maze." His voice is clearly dismissive. He doesn't add " You can go back to your room " or " You're dismissed ", but his tone left no room for any doubts in Maze's mind.
But the demon refused to let this go. "Were you planning on telling me?" She asks, furious.
"No, I wasn't." He states, matter of factly.
Chloe rubs her temple. This was not going to end well. She opens her mouth to voice her concern but Maze is quicker.
"You are fucking unbelievable and an asshole!" She balls her fists. "First of all, you don't get to decide what I can or can't handle. And second, you can't order me around and I will see her if I want to. I'm not at your service anymore, Lucifer!"
He snickers. "When it comes to Lilith, you tend to be a lot more unreasonable than usual, so yes, I had to make a decision for all our sakes." He pauses. "You clearly have a blind spot when she's involved."
"Like you don't have any blinders on yourself when it comes to Chloe."
"Of course I don't."
"Hey, don't drag me into this." Chloe protests. But this only serves to draw Maze's attention back on her.
"Did you know?"
"I did, but…"
Maze slams her fist on the coffee table near the couch, making it creak. "And I thought we were supposed to be a tribe and have each other's back."
"Maze, wait, it's not like that." Chloe defends herself.
"I can't be here right now." She simply adds. "I'll pick the rest of my stuff tomorrow."
"Maze, don't go." Chloe pleads. "Let's talk this through." She continues, walking after her.
Maze doesn't look back at Chloe and opens the front door only to fall face to face with the woman she thought a minute ago was still in Hell.
"Lilith, I mean Mother, what are you doing here?"
Both Lucifer and Chloe frown as they hear the word "Mother". It seemed so out of character for the demon. But they don't have much time to ponder about this as Lilith speaks.
"I came to find you myself since Lucifer refused to let me see you despite my many attempts in the last days.
"You sent the text, and he knew it."
"Yes, I did. You're still the smartest I see."
"But how did you escape Hell?"
"Let's not dwell on the past, shall we? What matters now is us, my Child. And I have plans for us. Big plans actually."
"Maze," Lucifer warns her. "Don't follow her. Remember what she put you through."
"What about what you put her through, Luci? What kind of person prevents a child from seeing her parent?"
"I should have obliterated you when I had the chance." He hisses, a fiery red now seeping under his skin.
"Enough!" Maze intervenes.
"You're right, my Darling." Lilith softly says. "Lets go now. We have a lot to catch up on."
"I forbid you to go with her!" Lucifer interjects, his voice as humanly close to his Devil one as possible.
"And I don't have to obey you anymore, remember."
"Maze…" His tone is menacing.
Chloe tries to defuse the situation before it gets out of hands and she positions herself between Maze and Lilith. She grabs Lilith's arm.
"I told you not to touch me, Human!" She counters as she grabs the knife from the counter.
However, Lucifer is quicker to react and shields Chloe from the blade. It penetrates his skin easily and he groans as he covers his side, as his shirt reddens with his blood. Chloe redirects her focus to Lucifer for a moment. Lilith smirks.
"Interesting." She simply remarks. "Come on, Mazikeen, let's go now. We've spent enough time with them."
Maze looks at Lucifer one more time, but as if mesmerised by Lilith, she follows her and closes the door. Soon after Lucifer sits down on the floor, his hand still on his wound. He laughs.
"See, this is why I didn't want them to meet. I knew it wouldn't end well and…"
"Don't talk." Chloe silences him. "We need to get you stitched up and get you to a hospital."
"There's no need." He painfully says. "You just need to get a few feet away from me for a moment and I'll heal."
Chloe doesn't listen to him, too focused on rummaging through her drawers to look for some first aid supplies, other than Wonder Woman bandaids. "She fucking stabbed you. I can't believe it." She mumbles. She turns to him. "I'll help you up to the bedroom and then I'll run over to the drugstore to get what I need." She helps him up and sits him on the bed. "Now stay still and don't wake up Trixie." She says as a joke to lighten the situation as well as her worries when she sees the bleeding still doesn't stop.
"Chloe, it's fine." He repeats.
But she doesn't register and rushes nonetheless out of the house as soon as Lucifer is settled on the bed. She comes back fifteen minutes later, all her supplies in hand. She can't help but check on her daughter on the way to her room. The child is in a deep sleep, oblivious to the drama that unfolded. Chloe softly brushes her hair before she drops a kiss on her head and exit. She closes the door quietly. As she enters her bedroom, she finds the Devil seated on her rocking chair, as if nothing had happened. She drops the supplies on the floor near him.
"How are you feeling?"
"I'm fine." He answers.
"Let me take a look."
"I told you, Chloe, I'm fine." he repeats
"Lucifer, please." She says. She needed to check for herself he was really okay and not bleeding to death.
"Fine." He finally agrees. He stands up and hisses a bit as his skin moves against the cotton of the garment. He swiftly removed his shirt and drops it on the chair.
"It's almost healed." She observes, surprised he could actually heal in such a short time. But again he is the Devil. She gently runs her fingers over the wound, now barely more than a small cut. At this moment, she also fully realises what it meant for him to be close to her.
"See, no more than a scratch."
"It still needs to be cleaned though, or you'll scar." She replies.
Before he can protest any of this, Chloe applies a cotton ball dipped in disinfectant and the Devil can't help the small sharp intake of breath linked to the surprise caused by the mild pain. Chloe then places a bandaid on the cut and drops a small kiss, out of reflex, just like she would do for Trixie.
"See all good, now." She looks up to him. "It wasn't so hard, now was…" She stops mid-sentence as she sees his pupils stare back at her. His eyes were all but innocent at that instant. She slowly realises the position she's in. She hadn't realised that she dropped on her knees to be at the same level as his wound, too caught up in her own fear after what happened. But now, she sees very clearly how the situation looks and what her eyes have in direct sight. She slowly stands up, her fingers lingering on his graze, the tension created by previous events so thick it could be cut through with a knife. Once she's on her feet again, she clears her throat to get out of the fog but Lucifer crashes his lips on hers, almost desperate, before she even has a chance to get her brain out of the gutter, the tension, interruptions and frustrations of the last days pouring into this very moment. It doesn't take long for Chloe to be as desperate as the Devil, if not more. She removes her top automatically, eager to feel his skin against her, and breaks away from his lips for just the necessary time. Lucifer follows the column of her neck as Chloe directs him towards the bed until he sits on the edge. She takes this opportunity to straddle him and his hands press down on her hips, fingers tight around her waist. Chloe takes the upper hand and pushes him down to lie on the bed - still mindful of his wound -, their middle pressed together. She can feel his now hard member and the sensation of him against her hot core, despite the clothing, brings a fresh wave of anticipation as she recalls the last time they were intimate.
She removes his trousers and underwear in one go before she settles on his hips again. She then proceeds to grind her still clothed centre against him. She increases the pace, Lucifer hands accompanying her movements and groaning as the friction grows. Chloe stops for a second, both to rein in her own desire and to warn him of her daughter's room proximity while her brain is still plugged in. She puts a finger on his mouth as he's about to protest.
"You'll need to be quiet." She finally gets out in between breaths.
He chuckles as he lowers his voice. "Last I remember, voicing seemed to be more your issue than mine."
He turns the table on them and switches their position to finally have them on equal footing. Her jeans and tenga land somewhere on the floor behind them. He looks at her in awe, Lilith and all the wreckage that followed her far away from them at this moment. Right now all that mattered was the woman beneath him and her pleasure. He starts to tease her a bit, his breath hot and cold against her skin, but her needier whimpers than usual end his resolve to drag this sweet torture indefinitely. However, the Devil likes to play a little before he gives in. He places his mouth directly on her clit but doesn't move yet, as a long finger enters her very slowly. Chloe arches her back slightly to meet him, her pleasure spiking as his lips finally move against her. Her free hand goes over her mouth in an attempt to stiffen the sinful sounds bound to escape her. The Devil smiles, proud of himself, and adds a second finger in, scratching her right behind her wall, reaching that very sensitive spot. He brings her almost over the cliff in only a couple of minutes but stops all movements or contacts as he feels her wall start to tighten before she can reach the finish line.
She blinks in frustration as her brain slowly comes out of her haze and current bliss.
"Seriously Lucifer! You have to stop doing that!" She struggles to find more complicated words than this, already happy to have made a coherent sentence, given her current brain capacities.
"I believe I just did, Darling."
"I meant you have to stop stopping what you were doing." Then she finally gets he is just playing around like a cat about to eat his prey. She groans in frustration as she feels his fingers barely grazing her skin. "You're very lucky I'm super horny right now, but you're gonna pay for this!"
"Looking forward to it, Love."
"Please stop teasing and finish what you started." She begs past caring, as her only goal is to arrive at her blissful moment.
This time he doesn't play and devours her until she finally stumbles over, hand still on her mouth while the other grips the sheet beside her hip. He gives her but a minute to recover before his lips find her stomach, then over her torso only to stop on her neck where he started the journey, as he did so often lately. Chloe, still sensitive from before, feels the fire roar in her veins again and lets out a low moan, partly muffled by her pillows, as she squirms beneath his attention. He teases her centre a bit further and Chloe can't help the buck of her hips each time he touches her.
"Lucifer…" She pleads.
But that's all it takes for him to give in to his own desire as he finally slides into her, his control slipping away from him. He moves slowly at first as if trying to prolong the moment, but after a few thrusts, he can't fight it anymore and picks up the pace. He relocates one of his hands from beside her head to her pelvis and presses down on her clit in synch with his hips. As an even stronger wave builds inside of Chloe, she links her legs behind him and squeezes his ass to urge him on, all concerns about being quiet forgotten as a new orgasm builds within her. Lucifer switches their position and puts Chloe on her side. As he spoons her, he feels her walls tighten, telling him she's very close. His left hand remains on her centre with relentless but exquisite pressure, while his right hand snakes around her torso and pulls her as close as he can to his body, his hips now also chasing his own release.
"I'm almost there, Love." He breathes out, his voice closer to a growl than a human sound. "Come for me, Detective!" His voice is now very low.
This pushes Chloe to her downfall and the strongest release she has ever experienced so far overtakes her complete body, the power of it rendering her speechless as her mouth opens in a silent cry. As she regains the earthly plane, she hears Lucifer's groan in her ear as he pumps a few more time deep inside her as his orgasm finally hits.
The two of them lay as they were for a moment until the fog lifts. Lucifer chuckles and Chloe turns around to face him, his cock now against her stomach.
"What is it?" She asks, not even bothering to point out he's already semi-hard despite the fact he just fell into oblivion five minutes ago.
"I guess quiet isn't your thing after all."
She laughs, the endorphins not yet fully dissipated. She can deal with the consequences of this not-so-quiet night later on if there are any. "It's your fault, really."
"How so, Darling?" He replies. Never let it be said the Devil shied away from praise.
"Well, you have to make sure you're always above average, no matter the topic. And that concerns your annoyance level as well." She finishes, smirking.
"Ow! How you wound me, Chloe." He banters before he pulls her on top of him. "I'd like to think I'm way above average in all areas."
"Is that so?" Her hips start to move of their own accord against his midsection, a renewed wave of arousal, despite her two previous extremely satisfying orgasms, running through her vein. "Care to prove it?" She teases, fully aware she's playing with a very hot fire, but eager to get burnt.
"With pleasure." He whispers as he slides into her effortlessly.
Chloe welcomes the now-familiar sensation but is surprised when Lucifer remains completely still. He quirks his eyebrow at her, letting her take the lead on this for now. And to his utter surprise he doesn't mind one bit. As the Detective realises the new turn in their current situation, she flashes him a grin almost as devilish as his and grabs his wrists. She places them above his head and brings her lips near his ear as she decides to make the most of it. Her voice would have been inaudible for anyone else but him. She dropped an open-mouthed kiss on his pulse.
"Lucifer, stay! Good Devil!"
He locks onto her eyes, mischief evident and a smile plastered on his cocky face, pleasantly surprised. "I take it you brought your cuffs home then?"
"I always bring them home."
"I see, you naughty little Detective."
"But…" She stops him and puts a finger on his lips. "Where would be the fun in that." She trails her lips along his stubble. "You said you were well above average. Well I want to see if this concerns your self-control as well." She moves her hips ever so slightly. "As you've already proven you were right on some topics." She places his wrists above his head. "You can't move your hands or hips until I say so."
He smirks widely, a flame faintly visible at the back of his pupil. "Let the test begin then."
"Perfect." She says as she removes herself from his hips.
The Devil lets out a very out-of-character whine as he loses the contact of her skin. He doesn't have to mourn his loss long as she feels her lips leaving a trail of heat along his torso - as well a yet common but still puzzling sensation - on him. His mind dwells on the last point - or at least the part that isn't fogged yet by the desire she ignited in him as she took over - and he wonders why she feels so different from all the others and why despite her rather vanilla approach to sex, she somehow seems to be enough him. With all the others, no matter what he did with them, they all bored him after a night or two. Yet when it comes to her, he craves her like she's his oxygen and can't tire of all this. She makes him mortal and he knows this plays a part in how he feels when it comes to her as she arises new sensations when he runs, gets hurt or such. And yet this isn't enough to explain why every time she touches him it's both different and exhilarating. And yet, last time he hurt himself on the corner of Ella's desk when Chloe was near and it didn't even hold a candle to how he feels when her skin simply grazes his. " Could this be what these humans call Love? " he asks himself. " Has the Devil finally met his match and succumbed to this very human disease? " He asks himself as his eyes finally drift down to Chloe who continues to make her way south of his body.
She raises her eyes to meet his and as they connect he feels a warmth fill his chest, that has nothing to do with his current lust, not the position she's in. It's different he tells himslef, as he thinks about what he just debated internally and the extent of his revelation as he realises he would go to the end of the world, if necessary, discovering in the process that he would trust her with his life. He smiles. " Yes the Devil was in love with a human, but what a human she was. "
But all coherent thoughts die as he sees and feels her lips wrap around his cock, and suddenly his primal brain overpowers the rest of his brain and lets a low, vibrating moan as she starts to move up and down, her fingers following the rhythm to cover the rest. Lucifer goes to wrap his fingers in her hair but then remembers her directive. He fights his instinct to reach for her. However, he can't help the buck of his hips towards her. She lets him go and smiles as she sees his stomach contract and his chest heave. She crawls back up his body to settle on his hips, his member resting against her ass. She rubs her heated centre against his lower stomach, her smirk a mix of mischief and pleasure.
"You're being very good, Lucifer. I'm pleasantly surprised." She teases him as her hips keep moving against his skin.
She feels her desire almost at its peak, and soon it replaces her teasing mood. She takes his erection in her left hand and positions it right at her entrance. She slowly sinks down and the pleasure sounds he makes as she does so go straight to her very core. She hears the wood of the headboard creaks as he tightens his grip on it to stick to his words. She picks up the pace and sees Lucifer's stomach contracts as he reaches his breaking point and his hands fly to her hips to push her down as he meets her thrusts. She follows him soon after and collapses by his side, head on his chest. She remains still or a moment before she seeks his face in the dim light coming through the curtains. She drops a kiss on his throat.
"A penny for your thoughts, Mr Devil?"
Lucifer blinks a few times before he looks back at her. "I'm not sure actually."
"Try me." She challenges him.
"Earlier on, I was trying to figure out what made all of this different and why I just can't seem to get enough of you." He says, now lost in his own train of thoughts. "I thought it was only the mortality factor, but it's something different. And I couldn't put my finger on it until now. I would go to Hell and back if it meant keeping you beside me." He continues, then relaxes as he finally accepts the truth. "I believe you achieved the impossible, Love." He swallows as he's about to take the biggest leap of faith since he existed. "You made the Devil fall in love, and as if it wasn't enough, it had to be for a human." He finishes.
He doesn't dare look at her yet, afraid of what he'll find there if he does. Rarely in his life had he been so naked, and that was in all senses of the word. He hears Chloe's heavy breath as well as her attempt to speak but no words come out. He takes her silence as rejection and quickly reconstructs his carefully torn down walls.
"Never mind what I said." He starts. "I was just…"
Chloe stops his rambling with her lips as she tries to convey all she wants to say to make up for what her brain refused to express. After she lets him go, she finds her voice again.
"I don't know what to say."
"As I said, forget I said anything…" He repeats.
"What I meant was, I don't know what to say because saying I love you seems so not enough right now." Then she laughs.
"What?"
"Can you believe it has taken this long?" He looks puzzled. "Despite my chemical repulsion of your person at the beginning, I think I fell head over heels for you the time I saw at that piano after Delilah's murder." She comes close to his ear to make sure he does hear every word. "I love you, Lucifer Morningstar, for all that you are, were or will be." She finally says.
The Devil feels a burden lifted off his shoulders the moment he hears her words and they both fall into a content sleep.
The next morning - Chloe's room
The Detective awakes slowly, tired due to the very few hours of sleep she got, but somehow more rested than she had in a very long time. And this was not just because of the many orgasms she had that night. Each of them had been stronger than the other, and if this was going to be her new sexual standards, she wasn't about to complain. Also what Lucifer had admitted the night before shut all her fears about their relationship. She had no doubt there would be many challenges, but she now rested assured they could face them.
Out of reflex, she looks at her phone, only to realise her alarm hadn't gone off yet. She slowly wakes up fully as she feels Lucifer's stubble on her shoulders, his lips going from the top of her neck to her shoulder blades in languid kisses. His free hand follows the valley of her breasts, down her stomach until he reaches her mound, teasing her into full consciousness.
"Good morning." She says, face still pressed down her pillow as a heavy breath escapes her.
"Good morning to you too, Love." He replies, his fingers now applying more pressure, as his other hand entwines with her under the pillow.
Chloe concentrates really hard to find a way to tell him their fun is going to be cut short very soon as it is almost 7:00 and Trixie is going to be up to get ready for school, but as she feels the evidence of his desire for her pressed against her back, all reasonable thoughts simply fly out of the window and she reaches behind her to stroke him slowly. He chuckles against her neck and his fingers copy the pace she set up as they enter her wet folds. She shifts her position a bit to give him more space to work his magic.
"Whatever you have done to me, Chloe, please don't undo it." He bites lightly at her pulse. "I just can't seem to tire of you. And I thought I was addictive." He adds as he removes his fingers and positions himself instead.
But as planned, at 7:01, the door of her bedroom flies open and Trixie rushes is, not used to having someone else in bed with her mother in the morning. As she runs towards them, Chloe breaks apart from Lucifer, grateful for the thick duvet that covers both themselves and Lucifer's bulge. Even though Trixie was old enough to understand such things, it would have been a very painful conversation she was not ready to have. As Trixie sits on the bed looking at the both of them, Chloe can hear some complaints Lucifer voices in another language. She smiles.
"Hi, Mommy." The small girl turns to Lucifer. "Hi Lucifer, did you sleep well?"
"Hey Monkey," Chloe replies as she opens her arms from Trixie to give her a hug. "Why don't you go watch some TV and I'll get your breakfast ready soon, Okay?"
"Cool!" She beams, happy to be allowed to watch TV on a school morning. "Fairly Odd Parents is about to start." She finishes as she dashes out as she did when she ran in.
"Sorry about this." Chloe then turns to Lucifer. "Maybe I should have warned you beforehand."
He laughs. "Just a minor set back." He says, surprised at his own not-so-present disgust towards the Spawn's attention.
He reaches out to Chloe and brings her back to his body, but she slips out of his grasp before her traitorous limbic system makes her do otherwise. He pouts as she walks away from him.
She smiles. "I'll tell her not to barge in the future to avoid any awkward situation."
"What's so awkward between two adults sharing their love with each other?" He asks as innocent as he can.
"Imagine you're in the position of Trixie and you walk in on your Mother…"
"Huh!" He complains. "Stop there… I don't need any more of these horrible images."
"As much as I'd love to stay in bed with you all morning and share our love , on school days especially, I do have some other priorities." She looks at his still obvious desire. She bends down and kisses him softly. "However, today is Friday, and Trixie is at her Dad's for the weekend. I could come over at Lux and we can spend all Saturday morning or day in bed if you so wish." He scoffs. "Because I wouldn't mind at all. I still need to find out just how vast your knowledge and stamina are." She winks. "But right now, I need to take a shower and get everything ready before Trixie leaves for school and we leave for work."
Lucifer grabs her wrist before she slips away from him again. She turns to him. "I could always join you."
Chloe is almost tempted to say yes as she sees his eyebrows wiggle, but then it occurs to her the lock to the bathroom was currently out of order, and they wouldn't have done much cleaning, had he joined her. She feels Lucifer's finger on her skin but frees her wrist from his touch as she bends down to gather her clothes and grab some fresh one.
"As tempting as this sounds, I need to be out of here in ten minutes max and the lock is broken. Maze was supposed to…" As she mentions her friend, memories of the previous night come crashing down and she looks at the lock of the bathroom. "Anyway." She quickly completes. "Take your time and I'll get everything ready in the meantime. Then we can head for the precinct."
The Devil nods, reality also catching up to him now. "Of course." He grabs his phone. "I'll try to call Maze as well while you get yourself and the spawn ready."
Chloe gives him one last peck before she heads for her shower.
Thirty minutes later - Chloe's kitchen
"Good morning everyone." Lucifer greets as he arrives pressed and dressed in the kitchen.
He grabs one of the mugs on the counter as smells the delicious black gold inside. Coffee was one of Human's greatest invention he thinks as he sips it. He looks for the child but doesn't find her. Before he can ask, she runs through the house to rush to get her bus.
"Bye Mom, Bye Lucifer!"
"Bye Child/Monkey." They both reply.
After the door closes, they enjoy the calm for a while until the silence becomes too heavy.
"So…" They say simultaneously.
"You first," Lucifer replies.
"Any reply from Maze?"
"Apart from the fact that the demon is blatantly ignoring me?" Chloe bites back a " Can you blame her " and waits for him to continue. "Can you believe she picked the phone, said "Go to Hell!" and then hung up on me?" He adds, outraged. "Then I tried to call again but went straight to voicemail."
"She just needs to calm down." She puts her mug in the sink. "You hid major information from her and from what I could understand, Lilith is a very sensitive topic. You hurt her feelings, Lucifer."
"I wanted to protect her from Lilith." He adds, more to himself.
"I'm sure she'll come around." She reassures him. She takes his hand. "Just give her time. But if it makes you feel any better, I'll call her later, see if she's alright. If she doesn't give news, I'll reach out to Linda."
Lucifer nods. "I believe we're almost late." Chloe looks at her watch. "After you, Detective." He opens the door, his facade back on.
LAPD Precinct - A bit before 5 pm
Lucifer had left the precinct at the end of the morning to tend to some business meeting at Lux and had told Chloe he would return at the end of the afternoon to help her wrap up her paperwork so they could then head for Lux and make good on her promise from this morning. He's surprised as he doesn't see her at her desk. He decides to go ask Ella. He knocks before he enters her lab.
"Hello, Miss Lopez."
"Hey!" She hugs him quickly. "So whatup Lucifer? How are things with Chloe? Did you guys patch things up?"
"The Detective and I are very good, thank you for asking."
"Cool. You two are so cute together."
"Thank you, I guess." He answers. "Speaking of the Detective, do you know where she is?"
"Not sure." Ella pauses to recall when she last saw Chloe. "She dropped by a bit before lunch, asking if I had heard from Maze lately." She walks over to her computer to take a look at the analysis on the screen. "Then she got a text from Maze I believe and she left in a hurry."
"Any idea where she went?"
"She didn't say." Lucifer goes to exit, but Ella catches up to him. "Lucifer, what's happening. If Chloe met up with Maze somewhere, she's safe." He doesn't reply. "What's happening?" She repeats as she closes the door. "You look worried and you're NEVER worried. Spill it Buddy!"
"It's complicated." He answers honestly. "Can you please let me know if she calls you or if you hear anything?"
Ella knows not to push too hard and right now is one of those time. She steps back. "Of course I will. And if you need any help whatsoever, let me know. Leap of faith, remember."
He lets out a small smile. "I'll remember that, Miss Lopez. Thank you."
Lucifer's penthouse - An hour later
As if moved by a very bad feeling, he rushes towards his safe as soon as he steps into his penthouse, only to find it empty of two very important items.
"Shit!" He curses. The only other person to have the access code to the safe was Maze. "What are you up to Maze?" He asks aloud, as he contemplates the place where the two demon daggers should have been.
Even if they were a gift from Lucifer to her, and she had every right to claim them back, the fact she did without telling him, after she gave them back to him, claiming she didn't need them anymore, worried him. She gifted them back to him as they remained a symbol of her servitude to him, which wasn't the case anymore, so he couldn't find any good reason why she would remove them from their storage place. He shuts the safe door angrily and decides to pay his brother a visit, just in case.
Amenadiel's Office - Short after
Lucifer pushes the door of Amenadiel's apartment/office only to find an empty waiting room. He doesn't bother to knock before he enters his living-room.
"Wow! I see business is booming, Brother." He mocks him. "Your counselling office has really taken off."
Amenadiel closes his book. "What do you want, Lucifer?"
"You know I could put in a good word for your practice to those who come to see me. I'll even cut you the family discount and I'll name the favour before you accept my help."
Amenadiel pushes down the contempt he holds for his brother, and simply reiterates his previous statement. "What is is you want, Brother?"
"Straight to business, I see." He replies. "You've heard about Lilith if I recall."
"Yes, I have and I told you she was a bad omen."
He snickers. "As it turns out, Maze and that poisonous snake seem to be in cahoots again." His jaw clenches as he thinks of the betrayal. "And I seemed to have misplaced two very specific daggers." He takes a step and puts his hands on his desk. "You wouldn't happen to have any knowledge of this in case it allowed you to send me back to Hell, now would you?"
Amenadiel rolls his eyes. "I'm way past this, Brother."
"I hope so for your sake. Because now Chloe is missing and apparently she last talk to Maze."
"I promise you, I don't know anything about this."
"You better, because if you took any part in this and either of them gets hurt because of you in the process, angel or not, I will rip you apart." He finishes, his frustration and anger burning his skin.
Amenadiel doesn't reply to his threat, fully aware he needed someone to take it out on. "Where are you going?" He asks as Lucifer's turns away from, getting his inner Devil under control.
"To do something I should have done aeons ago." He looks puzzled. "I'm going to put an end to Lilith's miserable life and once this is done, I'll deal with Maze to find a fit punishment for her betrayal."
LAPD precinct - Ella's Lab
Lucifer tries to figure out where the Detective could have gone off to but soon realises he wouldn't be able to do this on his own. On the way to the LAPD, he tries to call Maze a few more times but his call is again redirected to her voicemail. He slams his hand on the wheel. He wastes no time once he gets to the precinct and heads for Ella's lab. As he sees her lab door, he recalls the time Chloe traced him after he took off with her service car. Ella turns to him as soon as she sees the door open.
"So no news yet?" She deduces.
"No, but do you know if the Detective's car still has a tracer? I'm no specialist but you can't track a dead phone, right?."
"Well duh Ella!" She says to herself. "Why didn't I think of it earlier. I can get her location in a couple of minutes." They both wait for what seems to be longer than just a few minutes. The screen blinks green. "Got it." Then she looks at the GPS point blinking. "But it's weird, it's near a very luxurious ranch if I believe the map, in Thousands Oaks."
"Let me see." He says, almost pushing her out of the way in his precipitation. "Maze wouldn't dare do this." He mumbles. "Miss Lopez, thank you for your help." She looks puzzled. "I own this ranch and I'm probably the only, along with Maze, to know this. We used in the past for various parties." He finishes. "Chloe has no idea this place is mine so I don't see how she would have gotten there without someone giving the address." He hesitates.
"What is it?"
"You said you were ready to take a leap of faith?"
"What can I do to help?"
"I could use some back-up." He pauses. "However, just so you're aware of it, although it won't be dangerous for your physical health, you might witness things which could be beyond your understanding, and to some extent impact how you see things." She remains silent. "But no matter what you hear, or see, rest assured that I will never hurt you, Miss Lopez." He warns her, not sure what was going to happen at the house, or how much he would be forced to show, even with Ella around.
"Dude, you're already the Devil, how scarier can it get!"
He opens his eyes wide. "You know?"
"I work for the LAPD, Lucifer." He still looks surprised. "At first I thought you were just a damn good actor, but then some weird stuff happened and you just refused to break out of character. Then after this night at the club when you went to get Chloe, she came back really weird and I just knew something happened. I just wasn't sure what. And then Chloe came to me to ask me a whole bunch of religious questions regarding the Devil and all. So I put two and two together."
"Really?"
"And I tested a sample of your blood as well." She adds, smiling.
"And you're okay with it?"
"Yes, I mean, what did you do that was so bad? Rebelled against your father and wanted to choose your own path… We've all been there, Man." He chuckles. "But I have like a million questions to ask you now that the cat is out of the bag. I mean of course when all this is behind us and all."
"Alright. Let's go then."
Lucifer's second estate - Thousand Oaks
Lucifer parks a bit ahead of the entrance and turns to Ella.
"Please stay here Miss Lopez, until at least it's over. Things could get messy and you'll be safe here."
"OK." She agrees. Then she hands him a small device. "Push this button if you need any help." She shows him the matching pager in her other hand. "I'll call for back-up before I jump into the action to save your ass." She winks.
He nods and heads for the ranch at a running pace. He passes Chloe's car in front of the house but decides to use the back entrance. He arrives directly in the kitchen and calls out for Maze.
"Mazikeen?" His senses are now fully awake, his Devil form pushing through as he feels the thrill of the hunt, despite the situation. He checks the first floor but doesn't find anything. He continues to the second and last floor. He can see the shadow of two people behind the curtain that shields the huge balcony that partly goes over the hill. He quickly opens the bay window to find both Maze and Chloe, unconscious and sitting against the guardrail, their fall to the depth below only prevented by said railing. He goes to free both of them when a voice stops him in his tracks.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." He turns around to see Lilith calmy laying on a deck chair.
"Lilith." He hisses. "What do you want? Let them go!" He orders.
She laughs. "You're in no position to make demands, my Dear." She replies. "As for what I want, well not much really." Hate replaces her graceful features. She takes a step towards him, a small black box in hand, as Maze, then Chloe slowly comes back to their senses. "I just want you to suffer as much as I did back in Hell." She finishes as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. She waves the black box in front of him before she sits back on the deckchair. "You see when I first got here, I wanted to inflict physical pain on you, but the more I looked into what could hurt you the most, the more I realised you were too used to physical pain. I mean it's kinda hard to top what you felt when you fell. You got burnt so deep the scars never healed." She shrugs her shoulders. "But then as I got to learn a bit more about your work and life on Earth and I grew convinced you'd be your own torture. I just needed to find what would wreck you. And you gave the answer when I saw how protective you were towards this human." She motions to Chloe. "But also how you reacted when I told you I wanted to see Maze again. I never thought you'd still be this protective over her after all this time. The rest was child's play to put into place." She smiles. "Your love makes you weak, Luci. And now it's time to choose who lives and who dies."
Maze stirs in the background as Lilith continues with her monologue. The demoness tried to free herself of her ropes, while Chloe still struggled to get her brain to work again and process it all. As the two women tried to move, they realised their hands had been tied up to the railing directly. As Lilith keeps on talking, Lucifer discreetly presses the button on the pager in his pocket, now convinced that no matter his celestial capacities, he would never be able to save both of them. Lilith heads for the guardrail.
"You see," She goes on. "I have bound both Mazikeen and your human pet to each railing and I have here" She shows him the black box. "a lovely device that allows me to detach either the rail where Maze is tied or the one where Chloe is, or the both of them." Her thumb hovers over the three buttons. "And this one here will release the two of them together."
"What have you done?"
"I've installed tiny bombs to the railing." She says, matter of factly. "You have two minutes to decide or they both die." She presses the countdown on her phone. "It's really amazing what technology allows you to do nowadays."
Lucifer looks at both women, not willing to let any of them die. " There is always a third way. " He tells himself. " Come on, Miss Lopez, where are you. " He thinks.
As if to answer his prayers, he hears three gunshots and turns towards the noise. He sees Lilith stumble backwards as she recovers from the bullet, the box controlling the bomb now a few feets away from her on the floor. Ella's gun still smoking. Lucifer rushes to Chloe to free her hands from her ropes as Ella does the same for Maze before Lilith can grab the device and detonate the small bombs attached to the railings. They manage to get the women out of the way just as Lilith presses the red button. The blast sends two of the railings flying down over the balcony. Lucifer's form pierces as he grabs Chloe just in time to bring her back up. Ella looks at his form, curious, but not scared. Maze who had already partly removed her ropes as Ella came to help her stands up as the bomb goes off. She turns to Lucifer.
"Get Decker and Lopez out of here." She tells him, not leaving any room for argument. For once the Devil agrees to follow her lead. He nods. "Mother and I have some things to discuss." She finishes as she grabs the two daggers from the floor under the deckchair.
"I'll be back as soon as I can." He says, but Maze already attacks Lilith both before she can fully recover and to give him the necessary time to vacate the house safely. He lifts Chloe up in his arms as Ella follows straight after him, a worried look towards Maze.
As he reaches his car he puts Chloe in the front seat, as she slowly comes back to her senses after the shock of the last hours. He can already hear distant sirens coming up. He hands his car keys to Ella.
"You should drive up the road and keep them away from the house."
"What about you?"
"I need to go back to help Maze. We'll meet there once all is over." He adds, more for his benefit than to Ella's still shaken by the sight of Maze almost dying. He always felt protective of her, but never had he imagined she could die this way, and that Lilith would go this far to achieve her goal.
He's pulled out of his contemplation as he hears a sharp cry of pain coming from upstairs. Not sure who it was, he rushes to the second floor. He sees the two women fighting and smiles as Maze finally gets the upper hand on Lilith. Maze kicks her in the stomach and sends her flying against the railing, cracking the glass, one of the dagger dropping out of her hand. Lilith now lies on the floor, motionless, many cuts and bruises on her slim body. Maze is in pretty bad shape as well but her wounds, unlike Litlith's, are only superficial.
"Told you I'd be fine." She says as she sees him rush in.
"Pardon the pun, but you look like Hell." He replies, happy to see she managed to stand her ground.
"You should see the other one." She banters.
"So what do you wanna do with her?"
"Nothing." She puts the dagger away in her trousers' belt. "The wounds were inflicted with the dagger and are beyond healing. She'll just go back to Hell, except this time it won't be on a vacation."
"Maze, you know…"
But before he finishes his sentence, Maze catches at the corner of her eyes some movement from where Lilith laid a second ago. She sees her fingers reach for the dagger, and gathering her last strengths, she throws the knife and aims for Lucifer's chest. Maze pushes him out of the way as she shields him from the demonic weapon. By the time Lucifer realises what happened, the knife is deep inside Maze's chest and she falls to the floor. The devil barely catches her before her head hits the hard balcony.
"No! No! NO!" He repeats, hand on her wound to somehow try to stop the bleeding.
Maze removes the dagger herself and drops it near her, the blade and her hand bloodied. "Lucifer…"
"Mazikeen, don't you dare die on me!" He looks at her face. "Help is going to be here soon. Why on Earth would you do this?!" His mind circles back on that time when Father Frank did the same thing and sacrificed himself for someone else.
"I finally fulfilled my duty to you." Her breathing painful. "And they need you more than they need me." She finishes as her eyes closed and she faints.
As Lucifer helplessly watches his friend fade away from, the same rage he felt when the Spider pulled the trigger fill him, except this time Chloe isn't around to calm his anger down, besides, Maze would have wanted Lucifer to avenge her. He shifts to his full Devil form and walks towards Lilith. The woman tries to step away from him but she's too weak and Lucifer grabs her by the neck to send her flying against the opposite wall of the penthouse. He lifts her up in an instant, his clawed hand squeezes her throat. Lilith tries to fight his strength but can't. She kicks her feet in the air in an attempt to free herself from his iron grip. His fingers tighten in response, and would have crushed her frail throat if not for this tiny voice telling him there were other ways to bring down human justice. He releases her for barely a second before he tells himself that Lilith was no human. He takes out the dagger that killed his best friend and plunges it deep into her flesh, as his hand squeezes her neck until not a breath is left in her. He unceremoniously lets her body drop on the floor and heads towards the kitchen to prepare the second part of his plan. He spills all the bottles of his bar on the furniture, curtain and every possible surface that can burn up on all floors. He brings in the gas barbecue inside and opens the gas cylinder. He grabs Maze's body and brings her down outside. He lays her against a tree and walks back into the house one last time to light it on fire, Lilith's body in the middle of the inferno.
By the time he reaches the patrol cars, flames are already devouring the penthouse and the gas canister is about to blow up just as he puts Maze on a stretcher. As soon as Chloe sees him, she stands up and walks over to him, completely oblivious to the medic's order to stay still. Then she sees Maze's body, a dark patch on her leather where the blade hit.
"Lucifer, is she…" She doesn't dare finish her sentence.
Lucifer doesn't reply but Chloe knows the answer when he averts his eyes from the body. The anger is still very present on his face and she notices some red patches on his skin. Then she hears the explosion coming from the house.
"And Lilith?" She asks before anyone can hear them.
"She got what she deserved. She was born with fire and she will disappear with it. I made sure she will stay in Hell this time and won't have a body to return to if she ever managed to escape once again." He answers, not willing, nor having the time, to go into further details. Then the medics bring Maze towards the ambulance to stick electrodes on her chest. Lucifer is about to tell them it was useless as she couldn't be alive, but then he hears a faint beep coming from the truck. Then another, and another, until the heartbeat is almost normal.
"How is this possible?" He asks himself as he heads for the ambulance, sure she had no pulse only a second ago.
Maze comes back to consciousness as Lucifer reaches her side. "How is this possible?" She says aloud. She tries to sit up but quickly falls back on the stretcher as she feels the sharp pain where the knife cut her deep.
One of the doctor present intervenes. "We need to bring her to a hospital and get her to the OR asap to stop the bleeding."
Lucifer looks back at Chloe. She takes his hand. "Go with her, I'm fine." She smiles at him. "We'll meet you there with Ella. There are going to be questions about what happened and Ella and I will make sure to cover it before we meet you at the hospital."
"I'll text you the address." He says as he climbs into the ambulance.
A couple of hours later - Los Angeles - Saint Mary Hospital
Chloe joins a rather worried Lucifer in the ER. His face lightens as soon as he sees her walk in.
"Hey." She says as he hugs her.
He kisses her deeply, onlookers be damned. The surgeon breaks the moment.
"Mr Smith?"
Lucifer turns. "Yes."
"Your…" He hesitates before he continues, given what he just witnessed. "wife is out of surgery." Lucifer smiles. "She'll need rest but she'll be okay. The projectile didn't reach any major artery or organ, so she'll keep a nasty scar but that's all. We'll need to keep her here for observation for a couple of days."
Lucifer shakes the surgeon's hand. "Thank you, Doctor."
"You're welcome." He looks at Chloe, then back at Lucifer. "She's awake now, you can see her. She's in room 66."
Lucifer takes a deep breath before he opens the door of room 66. As he turns the handle, he puts his facade back on.
"So Mazikeen, that was a close call." He startles the demon in the room.
She smiles at him, not sure where to start either. Feelings had never been their strong suit anyway. So a smile was as good as anything.
"It wasn't." She replies. "How is this possible? I should be dead by now. Not that I'm complaining, mind you."
"I have no idea." He answers honestly. "But I'll find out. In the meantime, I'm glad it happened." He looks uneasy.
"What?"
"Do you mind if Ella runs a few tests on your blood?"
"Sure. Whatever." She replies.
"You rest now." He chuckles. "I'll let everyone know you'll be sticking around a bit longer to annoy them."
"Bye Lucifer." Maze replies.
"Bye now. Glad you're not dead." He finishes as he closes the door.
A few days later - Chloe's condo
Maze was finally allowed to leave the hospital to go home and Trixie had been adamant to help the former demon heal since she got home. Lucifer, accompanied by Linda, in case the demon took the news he was about to share badly, decided to visit at the end of the day to see how she was doing, and also to have some privacy without Chloe or the Child around. At the moment, Chloe was waiting for him at the penthouse and the Urchin was with her Dad. So it was the perfect timing. He had talked to her on the phone but hadn't seen her since she got out of the hospital. She enters the Detective's condo, using his official key, and greets Maze as he reaches the living room.
"Hello, Maze!"
She jumps as she hears his voice. "For fuck's sake Lucifer, don't sneak up on me like that!"
He laughs and takes out a file. "I have Ella's result. I gave her your bloodied top and a sample of your blood from the hospital." Maze looks at him curious as to what she found out. "She found no abnormalities. I'm afraid you are now fully, and dully, human, Mazikeen."
"So this is my new life now?"
"It appears so," Linda adds.
"Are you saying I'm going to grow old?"
"Don't worry Grandma Maze, I'm sure grey hair will suit you just fine." Lucifer mocks her.
"Don't laugh too hard, Lucifer. Need I remind you, you're still mortal around the Detective. Who knows, maybe each you wake up by her side, you grow old and you don't even realise it."
"Very funny Maze." Then he turns to Linda. "Do you think it's possible, Doctor?"
"I'm not a celestial Doctor Lucifer. So yes it could be possible, or not." Then she sees Maze's wink. "But it's a possibility. I mean, you bleed around her, so your cells could age as well. You know." She touches his temple. "Is that a grey hair I see here?"
"Very funny." He still checks his reflection on his phone.
"Why don't you take advantage of the time you have with Chloe and live in the present. While Maze and I are going to test her newfound humanity in Lux, free of charge, of course." She then turns to Maze. "You're going to experience your first hangover!"
"Alright." He finally gives in. "More seriously though, I talked to Amenadiel about your new human condition. From what he was able to discover, it seems Dad somehow built a backdoor for demons when he created Hell."
"A backdoor?"
"Apparently if a demon, such qs your lovely self, sacrifices her life for a selfish reason, then the demon is granted redemption and a new life in the place and body where they died." He looks at Linda. "Since you decided to give up your life to save mine, knowing it would be a one-way ticket, and since it happened on Earth, you were somehow reincarnated in yourself, but as a mortal. What happens next is entirely up to you." Maze remains silent as she takes in his explanation. He grabs a bottle from Chloe's not so furnished bar. "A drink before you go?"
"Sure. Why not." They both reply.
Lucifer pours the three of them some whiskey. He lifts his glass.
"To you Maze. Enjoy your life and remember, you only live once, or twice in your case."
"To mortality," Linda says.
"To you being alive," Lucifer adds. "I almost forgot. I never got to thank you properly for what you did, so thank you Mazikeen." He takes out a gift. "I bought this for you."
She takes the present and opens it. She throws the book back to him. "Seriously, Lucifer? The Human Predicament: Towards an Understanding of the Human Condition? You could just kill me now."
"What?" He says. "Linda recommended it." Linda shrugs her shoulders.
They finish their drink, and both women stand up and head for the exit. "Enjoy your night girls and remember, for tomorrow, a lot of water and some ginger tea."
"Bye, Lucifer." The two women say as they exit.
! THE END !
And so here is the final chapter of this story!
Hope you enjoy it!
And a huge thank you to all of you for sticking to it despite the rather long update time :D.