Aaah, the beginnings of a spoiler policy. Ella starts one very soon and sticks to it. It both pleases and annoys the hell out of Lucifer. One exception so far is Uriel.

Episode Five - Monster Movie

Talking things out with Linda both helped and didn't. But at least he was in a less shitty mood after having helped the Detective catch the killer they had been after for the past week.

So, he was in a much better mood than the day before when Ella came around. He was still not sure if he was ready for Dean being a douche to Sam, but he was in a much better emotional place to weather that storm if it happened.

Ella didn't seem too worried, in fact she had a huge grin on her face.

"Lucifer! Good news! Tonight's episode is probably one you'll actually enjoy! It's a fun one."

That made him perk up a bit more. He liked when the show went fun. He had enjoyed the episodes with the Trickster, who he was pretty sure was Loki. Yeah, okay, he had a soft spot for Tricksters. He had no idea where that came from, since he hadn't actually met one in real life before.

"Ooh, really? Like, Trickster fun or silly curse fun?"

She grinned. "More like poking fun at genre fun. Like, the episode is called Monster Movie after the old black and white monster movies. So the entire episode is in black and white. It's fun!"

He grinned, because that did sound fun and he hadn't watched anything in black and white for quite a while. They really don't make television like that anymore. "Hah, I remember good old telly when everything was classed as theater being filmed. It's so different today."

Ella nodded at him, before flopping herself down on the couch in front of his television. "So! Want to get started already? Come on, sit down."

He went and took the seat by her side and reached out for the remote on the coffee table. "Alright, let's see how this black and white episode goes then!" He pushed play, oddly looking forward to this now.

It made a nice change.

He had to pause it as soon as the Pennsylvania sign went by in, as Ella had so nicely told him, black and white. She hadn't mentioned the classically old fashioned monster movie music, the stye being that of the classics or even the silly effects like the lightning flashing in the background as the Impala was driven along on a dark and stormy night.

'Oh Dad, you're right. I am going to love this episode. I think I love it already. They've done a great job of everything. Why did I not know they would do this? It's perfect!"

Ella threw back her head and laughed. "I know, right? I grew up with old fashioned monster movies, since my dad was a big fan. This episode was the best thing. At some stage, they also do Scooby Doo and a musical episode where their life is made into a high school play. I am not kidding you. It's perfection. Oh, there is also an episode which is a Supernatural convention, but you'll have to watch further to figure that one out. That and the high school musical. It actually makes in canon sense. Even the Scooby Doo crossover, because oh yeah, it's a full on crossover and it is glorious."

He grinned at her enthusiasm and looked forward to knowing how exactly the characters in Supernatural could end up at a convention about their characters. It was odd, but sounded absurd and interesting. "Okay, enough with the spoilers, let's just watch more, shall we?"

She nodded her head and turned towards the screen. For once she was paying more attention to it than his reactions. That also made a nice change.

He laughed out loud when he found out the music was actually playing on the radio in the car. That was a very nice touch between the old fashioned and the new.

He let out the most ridiculous sound at the transition between the dark and stormy night in the car to village during the day. And Dean's comment about it being a black and white case. He was pretty sure he'd end up in a very good mood by this episode, which definitely made him feel better about not giving up on the show after last night's episode, which he had seriously considered.

Oddly, Linda talked hm out of quitting. He thought she would like that thought. She seemed to have gotten it into her head that this show might actually get him to process some of his problems.

Like the way Dean treating Sam was similar to how his parents had treated him...

That had hurt when Linda had him figure that one out. Ouch.

He frowned when the dead body was found with two puncture wounds like a movie vampire when the vampires in the show were so different. "That's not normal."

"Nope! Shhh."

He rolled his eyes, but went back to watching. At least he hadn't paused it to say that. He wished he had popcorn for this episode. He'd have to remember it for next episode.

He did pause it at Dean's Rehymenated comments to laugh. Only Dean would find that a problem. He found the whole thing hilarious. He still didn't like the way Dean treated women like possessions. Which was weird coming from him, but he treated each person he slept with like the individual treasure that they are.

As it was, Ella laughed right along with him and didn't mind he had stopped it this time. Plus.

He paused it again when it got to the couple in the car, after the boy (he refused to called that guy a man...) tried to get under his girlfriend's clothes without her permission. He stared at him. "Oh, wow, what an absolute douche! He is seriously guilting his girlfriend into sex by telling her he has to have sex or he'd get 'medical problems'? Boy, whatever your name is, that's what masturbation is for, you dick!"

Ella stared at him for that one. He turned to her and blinked. "What?!"

"It is weird to hear you say masturbation."

He got confused by that. "Uh, why?"

She shrugged and looked at the screen. "I don't know, maybe because you have sex like...twice a day. If my counting is right."

He frowned, even more confused. "Okay...but what does having sex with other people got anything to do with masturbation. And I don't have sex every day. Just most days. And that won't stop me from masturbating."

Ella covered her face with her hands. "Dude, TMI! I really don't need to know about your sex life, with or without other people involved."

He shrugged. "Okay, but it's not like I can lie about it or anything."

She hit him on the shoulder and pointed to the television. "Back on, now. Before I do bodily harm to your penis so you won't have any fun tonight at all."

He took the hint and pushed play.

He didn't pause it again for a while. In fact he was about to pause it after the chase scene between Dean and the Dracula wannabe when the Intermission sign come up and whatever he was about to say went flying out of his head just in time for a loud laughing fit instead. Holy crap, this episode was marvellous and he was loving it dearly.

In fact, he didn't pause ti again for the rest of the show, letting it run through with no commentary from him until after the credits rolled. And he loved the theme kept gong even into the end credits, that was a nice touch.

He turned off the show and stared at the screen because for what it was worth, it was a pretty downer ending. Yet again, he understood what it was like to spend your life being called a monster, evil, different, bad, wrong...

He found himself sympathising with the monster having a hard life. That hadn't given him an excuse to murder whoever he wanted though, and that's where he and the Shapeshifter differed. Lucifer may be a lot of things, but an unfeeling killer was not one of them. He would kill in defense but that was about it. And it was forbidden to kill humans as it was for an angel. A rule even he diligently followed to the best of his ability.

He knew he had the power to kill though, and he knew there were situations he could get in where he would say screw the rules and kill.

His friends were that important to him.

"You okay? You look like you're stuck in deep thoughts there, buddy."

He blinked and looked to Ella. "Oh, no, I'm fine. Just thinking of how different I could have turned out if I had decided to become what people actually thought of me instead of just being myself."

Ella grimaced at that one. "Yeah, I guess you would kind of relate there. But still, you're not a monster, Lucifer. Devil you may be, but that doesn't make you a bad guy. Anyway, I gotta go! I promised a friend I would go have drinks later on this evening. So, have fun."

He grinned at her and nodded. "You too. Night Ella."

"Night Lucifer!"

He had no idea what Ella would be doing for the rest of the night but he was now in the mood for some good sex.