Ella starts up her spoiler policy in this chapter, after spoiling Lucifer.

Episode Eight – Wishful Thinking

Lucifer had two tumblers of whiskey on the coffee table ready by the time Ella arrived that night.

If she had wanted to celebrate the end of the first week, he could celebrate the start of a new one. Thursdays were now the beginnings for this event and he would remember that for the long time ahead of this slow and somewhat agonizing marathon he had gotten himself into.

Personally, he hoped that he was able to see the angels as just characters by the time the show ends, if the show ended while they were slowly going through it.

At least the first 3 seasons had gone by fast and this wasn't starting at the beginning. No, Ella decided to join in on the fun because of the angels, and especially because of him. Well, the show's version of him. He refused to quit. He made a bet and he was sticking to it even though he could end a bet if he wanted.

At least it hadn't been a full on deal. He always had an out.

And now his stupid brain was going in circles.

Ella got there late, with a scowl on her face. "Ugh, today has been all sorts of busy for me. Ooh, drink, thanks!"

She thumped herself down beside him and grabbed the drink in her normal place, before grinning at him. "Thankfully, as I said at the end of last night, this episode is another fun one of the curse kind. So this will cheer me up heaps. Well, except maybe the suicidal teddy bear. That actually kinda blows, but hey!"

He stared at her and let out a disbelieving laugh. "Suicidal teddy bear?"

She grinned at him. "Oh yeah. You better believe that is a thing that happens this episode. So, hurry up and put it on, so you can see for yourself!"

He grabbed the remote and put it on, as per her orders. He had to see how a teddy bear could possibly be suicidal.

He almost paused at the point where Dean took on the case just for the chance he got to see naked women. But he didn't to save Ella the rant he had gone on yesterday.

He frowned at the couple making out in the restaurant like they were about to strip off and start going at it in the middle of their Chinese food. That was weird. Then the whole ghost helping the woman up and complaining about his mum finding out.

He did pause it at the big foot sighting and the footprints. "Okay, this episode is really, really weird. Just like you said. And kind of fun in the weird way, which I like. But...what in the hell is going on in this town, because it is definitely something and not nothing, but nothing adds up to anything real."

She laughed and shook her head. "You'll just have to keep on watching, Lucifer. Trust me, you'll find out."

He pouted, but turned back to the screen. "Yeah, yeah, I know that. Maybe I just don't like you knowing when I don't. It kind of sucks."

She laughed at that. "Aww, I promise not to spoil things in episodes ever again and make sure that it goes better. Unless it was a big thing like Uriel yesterday."

"Yeah, warnings for Uriel would be nice. I can arm myself with emotional support the day after..."

"That's what therapy is for?"

"Yep!" And with that, he pushed the play button and got it going again.

He paused it again as soon as the little girl had dropped off her crate and rode herself home on her bike to laugh. It wasn't the thought of a pre pubescent girl looking at porn, because she didn't seem into it at all, thankfully. It wasn't the alcohol she obviously hadn't tried a drop of. Oh no, it was because of how the boys reacted to her.

Sam and his cute confused face. Dean with his wise crack about her being too young. It was so typically them.

But with the fur, the big foot feet and now this he figured out where the teddy bear came from but... "How is a teddy bear that big and wandering around? What did this girl do? Dump a soul into it? Eww. Is that even possible? Hmm, now I am wondering if it is possible. Huh, I wonder if one of the souls in hell would be willing to test it out and see..."

Ella punched him on the shoulder for that one. "Lucifer, no! Leave the souls alone."

"But it's an interesting idea! Now I need to know if it will work."

Ella rolled her eyes at him. "A little girl who has never seen a soul in her life is not going to suddenly drop one into a teddy bear. For one, she'd have no idea what a soul looked like, or what to do with it if she did."

He blinked, but had to give a conceding nod to that one. "True. Okay, it can wait until after anyway. Wanna watch?"

She shook her head. "No thank you. I'd prefer no to know what you do with Hell-bound souls in your spare time while you're out of Hell. It's bad enough with the whole torture shtick when you're there to work."

He grinned. "That.. is also true. Okay, turning it back on now."

He pushed play, interested in knowing what happened to this teddy and it's possible soul.

He awww'd at the thought of the two boys trying to make the girl feel better by telling her they were teddy bear doctors after she said she thought her bear was sick. That was actually really sweet of both of them.

He paused it again after Audrey said her mum wished that her parents were in Bali so that was where they were. "Okay, suddenly the title of this episode makes all the sense in the world. It's wishes coming true. Didn't anyone ever tell this town be careful what you wish for? Wishes are not meant to come true. Usually bad things happen. Curse or no. But this, oh yeah, this is a curse."

She looked at him with a puzzled look on her face. "Okay, I know I spoiled that one for you already, but how do you figure that?"

"Usually if a wish comes true it's singular, for one person only. This seems to be affecting the town as a whole, not just Audrey or her family. Unless the teacher at the beginning is somehow related to the girl."

She blinked and stared at the paused screen. "Huh, not that I know of. Good reasoning there, buddy. You should be a detective."

He chuckled at that. He didn't need to be a detective to do detective work. And besides, he already worked with one daily. That was all he needed.

He unpaused it to see what else was going to happen, because he was truly finding this episode fascinating.

He let out a loud "hah!" and pointed at the screen at Sam's common sense of knowing a wish fulfillment was actually a bad thing with a price attached.

He paused it after Sam sent the invisible kid packing to wince. "Ouch. Okay, that explains everything then. That poor kid. He can't afford the internet."

"The internet?"

"Well, he is underage so can't buy porn mags, can he? Sooo.."

"Oh, internet porn, of course. Well, I will continue thinking him a creep for wanting that as a wish."

"Creep he may be, but no one is a creep like that without reason. See I can see Dean wishing for something like that, because he just likes ogling naked women. Especially if they're Asian. But at the same time, even Dean has morals that would stop that, because he prefers things to be consensual, or looks at porn."

"So you're saying if it was just to look at ladies to get off, you'd say he'd do it, but morals stand in the way? And a teen boy would have less morals about such things."

He nodded. "True, especially one that can't find his way to porn. But note no other boy has wished the same thing. It's just this one. Horny or not. They would have girlfriends, or boyfriends, or know how to find porn and so have no need to."

Ella winced. "Okay, kind of seeing the point, but still stuck on creeper who would sneak in on girls showering."

He shrugged. "Point. I'll shut up now."

He paused it again after Wes admitted to throwing the coin into the well and the boys were taking him to the restaurant. He pointed at the screen. "Now that guy right there. He is a grade A creeper. All he cared about was that one woman and did everything to get her to fall madly in love with him Mind you, emphasis on the mad part of that. And he still doesn't want to end it, even though he knows the wishes go bad. Even though he is clearly uncomfortable with it, simply because the woman he had a crush on would have sex with him. Now that right there, that is gross. That is...he has completely taken her free will away. That woman is raped every time they have sex. That woman has no say in anything, because she literally can't help herself. Hell, that's the reason I never got with the Detective."

"Whoa wait, what about you not getting with Chloe being about free will?"

He grimaced. "Yeah, I found out the end of last year that she was literally made for me. As in, no choice, she would love me. No choice I would love her. We wouldn't have even met each other if my Dad hadn't intervened and shoved her in my path. And all this was set up with neither of us knowing it just so I would go for it. But I found out and the moment I did, she was off the menu for me. I just...can't."

"Oh shit that's just...kind of sweet of you and at the same time horrifying. Seriously, she was literally made to love you?"

"Yep."

"Oh...eww. Wow, here I thought she was massively crushing on Pierce. I want those two to get together since I never knew why you and her never got together."

"Well, now you know."

"Yeah. Ouch."

He sighed and pushed play, really wanting to get off the topic of his failed perfect love.

He paused it one more time right near the end after Wes lifted the coin out of the well when he found out Hope didn't remember a thing just so he could put his head in his hands and groan. "That arse just made her lose a month of time, because he was too busy thinking with his dick. I...I don't think I have hated anyone in this show more than I have Wes..."

Ella grinned at him. "Good. He's what a true bad guy is. And you didn't change your mind because he lifted the curse because Hope wanted one person dead because of him. She only wanted Sam dead because of Wes in the first place. And oh yeah, it is really gross."

"Why does the show play it like it is a tragedy that the guy lost the girl? She was never his to begin with."

"i don't know, dude. I do not know."

He shook his head and pushed play again to watch until the end.

He turned it off after the episode finished and grinned. "Hah, finally. Yes, Dean, you remember everything and you'll never forget. About damn time you admitted that to Sam or Bobby out loud. Good. So! You were right, besides all the absolute creepiness of the main bad guy in the episode, that was actually a fun episode about a curse, just as you said. So! Want to celebrate the start of a new week?"

She grinned widely at him and nodded. "Sure! I have nothing else planned tonight. So, Lux or stay up here and get me drunk?"

He laughed at that. "Nah, let's go down to Lux. I am in the mood to drink, dance and mingle with humanity tonight."

"Mingling with humanity sounds like a good thing. Come on, you. Let's go."

With that, he got up, turned off the television and joined her in the lift down to his club.

A good episode, good company and a good time afterwards. Tonight was, definitely, a good one.

Headcanon - No, Lucifer, just because you retconned yourself to make Deckerstar even remotely work, doesn't mean the huge problems I have with it are gone. The main one being this. Chloe was literally made for Lucifer. She freely chose Dan and Marcus, but with Lucifer, she has no choice. Also, God still intervened just so these two even crossed paths with each other, otherwise they never would have met.

Headcanon - God still intervened in Lucifer's life in the alternate universe, simply because Chloe exists. The only way an alternate would be free of His influence towards Lucifer's romantic life would be to not make him a girlfriend/wife. Because EWW.