These two will never have a fight they can't get over in a short period of time in this fic.
Episode Twenty – The Rapture
The fight from last night seemed to be over if the wide grin and buzzing excitement of Ella was an indication.
"You seem to be in a good mood, Miss Lopez."
She nodded. "Oh yeah, tonight is the episode about Jimmy!"
He frowned. He had looked at the title and he had no idea what a guy called Jimmy had anything to do with the price of salt. "Who is Jimmy?"
"Castiel's vessel! The guy he's possessing, that's Jimmy."
He raised his eyebrows, suddenly interested in knowing where this episode was going to go. "Huh. Okay, I am now officially interested."
They both sat down in their usual seats and he picked up the remote and pushed the play button, ready to get this Jimmy show on the road.
He paused it at the title sequence after the Winchesters find Jimmy sans Castiel and frowned. "Wait, did the other angels kill him?! You said that he can die!"
Ella frowned. "No, he's not dead. He was taken away from his vessel."
He frowned and nodded. "I have a really bad feeling about this episode."
"Yeah, poor Jimmy. I love him though, if for no other reason than saying yes for Cass."
"Hmm," he replied to that, not able to think of words right then in worry for his brother on screen. He pushed play again, needing to know what happened to Cassie.
He paused it again after Jimmy had his seizure after Castiel talked to him the first time. "Oh no. He really didn't deserve that at all."
Ella nodded by his side. "Yeah, angels in this show are dicks."
Lucifer snorted and grinned at her saying that. "Hey, angels are pretty much dicks in this real world too, you know?"
She grinned at him. "Well, I haven't met many of you. And you're only a dick by accident to people you like. And a deliberate dick to very, very bad people. So you don't count."
He shrugged and gave her that one. It was true, after all. "Yeah. How about Amenadiel. You've met him."
She frowned at that one. "Hmm, I haven't met him enough times to fully know him that well, but I do like him. I wouldn't know how much of a dick he is without further interactions."
He nodded at that. "Ah, very wise, Miss Lopez. For one of my brother's he's alright, when he isn't threatening to dismember, slaughter, start war with or hurt me in other ways. Oh, and he once called me evil to my face when I was helping him get a prized possession back he lost to a mugger. Fat lot of thanks I get...'
She blinked at him, surprised. "Wait, he actually called you evil to your face, while you were helping him with something he deemed important but you didn't? Okay, yeah, he's officially a dick."
He grinned. "Thank you."
He pushed play again.
He paused it when Sam was snacking down on demon blood at the drink vendor machine. He closed his eyes. "Oh great. That's... He really is addicted to the stuff. No wonder he told Chuck he couldn't stop. Great. Perfect time."
Ella sighed. "Yeah, it's a shame it's an addiction. Sam's usually not the one to fall for such things. Dean's the alcoholic. He should stick to the addictions."
He nodded. "Yep. On the other hand, good on Jimmy for getting out when he saw the chance and sneaking past Sam while he was otherwise occupied. Demon blood is bad, y'all."
Ella giggled at his side. "I can't believe you just said y'all like that about demon blood. That's ridiculous."
He grinned and pushed play.
He paused it and closed his eyes at the second flashback. "Oh, Jimmy. Your wife and kid are going to think you nuts."
Again Ella sighed at his side. "Poor Jimmy just can't win."
He sighed back. "This is interesting and nice to know, but also depressing."
"Yep. This show does that."
He nodded. "Yes, yes it does."
He paused it again when Jimmy's wife threatened to leave him and take the kid with her if he didn't get psychiatric help for a problem he didn't actually have. He rubbed at his face and let out his breath in a rush. "The more I learn about Jimmy, the more I wish that vessels weren't a thing for angels in this series, because this is seriously disturbing. Look at this. Castiel is tearing this usually happy family apart..."
Ella patted his shoulder. "It sucks, yeah."
He sighed again and pushed play, because he was fast running out of words for what to say right now. Jimmy's life from the moment he was chosen as a vessel sucked and was rather tragic.
He paused it again at Sam's call to Ruby and his twitchy behaviour. He threw up his hands a moaned in displeasure. "No! Get off of it, Sammy. Stop with the blood. Get off of it before things turn worse than they already are. This is going to be the episode Dean finds out, isn't it? Oh no, I am so not looking forward to that conversation."
Ella slowly nodded at his side. "Um, yep, that happens. And so does something else, but no spoilers there, because it is huge for the next two episodes."
He sighed at that, nodding his assent of not being told, before pushing play again. He was beginning to dread the rest of this episode.
He paused it again after the fight. The truth about Sam's blood drinking got out to Dean and Castiel. Claire had turned vessel for Castiel and the family minus Jimmy was reunited from demon and angel attack.
He just stared at his screen at the words Cassie had just said. "What happened to him in Heaven?! Anna said it was something big and powerful and painful. But... what was it?"
Ella sighed and shook her head. "Honestly? You don't find out what happens to angels taken back to Heaven for re education until season 8 or 9. Can't remember which one exactly, but one of those. But, yeah, you do find out what exactly happens. In a way it gets worse afterwards, because of Michael..."
Lucifer growled. "Of course my biggest dick of a brother had something to do with it. Figures. Why can't he let the younger ones just not get in trouble or figure out their own path."
Ella frowned and shrugged. "I don't know. Show Michael may be nothing like your brother Michael, but from what I hear, he's as much a dick as any."
Lucifer rubbed at his face. "Uugh, I am not looking forward to the fallout now."
Ella grinned, reached over him and pushed play herself to spare him from doing it. "There, you big baby."
He shoved her as lightly as possible to show his disagreement with what she had just done. "My remote. Mine."
"Shh, show's back on."
He grumbled to himself, but turned back to watch the train wreck that was about to happen.
The episode ended on the worst note possible, and that includes the time Sam died in Dean's arms. His jaw dropped open.
"Okay, I get shit like that from Dean, but Bobby?!"
Ella sighed. "Think about it. He's been guzzling demon blood, Dean and Bobby have no idea what to do, Dean's figuring it out as some kind of addiction, hence the ups and downs and Sam's shaky behaviour and the panic room is a safe place with a bed and water that he can detox safely."
He blinked at that. "Yeah I get that. It's the closing the window on him and not telling him what they had planned. Did none of them think to ask?!"
Ella blinked at him. "Huh. Okay, no they didn't and yeah, they really should have. Point."
"Like I said. I can understand that shit coming from Dean, but not Bobby. Bobby is upfront with shit like this to the boys. He would have said something. Instead, Dean went behind Sam's back, said something nasty about what Sam is doing and got Bobby to go behind Sam's back to lock him up without consent. Anyone knows that a forced detox doesn't exactly work. You need to want to quit and get better for it to work properly, and even then there's always the chance of falling off the wagon."
Ella nodded again. "Okay, another point."
He crossed his arms under his chest and growled. "Now I want Bobby and Sam after he is clean to stuff Dean in there and get him off the alcohol to see how he likes it."
Ella winced. "Ouch. Okay, you really hated that end."
"Yes. Because Dean is dragging Bobby down with him, and I love Bobby."
Ella sighed and got up. "Okay, well, I will leave you to your thoughts. I have a date tonight at 9 I don't want to be late for and I just remembered that I left straight from work. I was excited about this one, because downer or not, it's really good."
He blinked at that and nodded. "Okay, point to you. It was good despite the downer parts and the horrific ending. Enjoy your date. Anyone I know?"
She grinned "Anne from parking."
He grinned back. "Well, enjoy."
She nodded. "Oh, I will! I will enjoy."
And with that, she waved merrily at him and almost skipped her way to the lift going down to the club.
It was a slow Tuesday today, or so he thought it would be from the rain that had started up not too long before knocking off at the police station.
He may as well get social tonight and spend it schmoozing with the clientele down in the club.
He was oddly not in the mood for sex.
Headcanon - Castiel healed Jimmy of Epilepsy before taking him as a vessel. The seizure he had in the episode was because of Castiel talking to him in his true voice the first time, but he knew how to deal with the aftermath of seizures and so did his wife and Claire.
Headcanon - The demon blood thing as an addiction didn't happen immediately and generated into an addiction over time. Now he's addicted though his body will always crave it.