I'm kind of determined to get this all up before the next season starts, so I'm going to try and upload a chapter every few days now. No promises, I work very long hours so this does often get sidelined in favour of sleep.

Chapter 20: It's very Angsty

They arrived at the motel and Kevin went to check with the manager. Beckett handed her spare Kevlar to Chloe who immediately donned it over her shirt.

Castle already had his own vest on; Lucifer wore nothing but his expensive suit and good looks. Beckett flicked a glance at the LAPD consultant. "You need a vest?" She asked.

Lucifer looked disgusted. "I'd rather not. It you could convince the Detective to stay behind I wouldn't need one. Since I know that's an argument I'll lose I'll just try and stay out of the firing line."

Castle looked confused. "Why wouldn't you need one if Chloe isn't there?" He looked between the two of them.

Chloe rolled her eyes, but underneath the look of exasperation there was a flicker of uncertainty that made Beckett wonder. "Apparently if I'm not around Lucifer is immortal." She explained as she checked her gun.

"No apparently about it Detective." Lucifer said with frustration.

Beckett and Castle exchanged a look and then were distracted by Kevin and Javier appearing. Lucifer's bizarre ideals and the fact that the LAPD seemed to happily employ him was something to try and puzzle out later.

"What did you find?" Beckett asked Kevin.

Kevin fitted his Kevlar and nodded up to the second story. "Our guy is in room 18, as far as the manager knows he's still there."

Beckett nodded. "Alright let's go." They made their way quickly up the stairs, Javier and Kevin took one stair case, Beckett and Castle took the main way while Chloe and Lucifer covered the fire escape down the back. A lot of suspects liked to try and escape down the fire escape so it was nice this time to have enough people to cover all the options. However there was something the two from LA were hiding and Beckett needed people she could trust completely to go into an unknown situation with. Plus Lucifer's refusal to wear Kevlar made her nervous, if he got shot or stabbed on a takedown that was on her.

Beckett approached the door and knocked. "NYPD Mr. Thompson open the door." She yelled and stepped back slightly. Thompson's murders had all been done with a knife, but that didn't mean he wouldn't have a gun

She waited a moment before knocking again. "Mr Thompson, NYPD if you don't open the door we have a warrant to enter." After another beat of silence Beckett nodded to Kevin who had approached from the other angle and he opened the door with the manager's key.

They burst into the apartment to find Chloe and Lucifer already inside. The window to the fire escape was open. Chloe looked up and gave an apologetic smile. "He isn't here."

"How'd you get up?" Castle asked, hurrying over to the window and looking out.

Chloe holstered her gun. "He must have seen us coming because the fire escape was down. We climbed up in case he wasn't gone." She threw a glance at Lucifer who had a faintly smug look on his face and went back to looking around the motel room.

Beckett holstered her gun and looked around the room. The bed was unmade, the sheets rumpled in a pile. There was a small pile of clothes on the floor and several cartons of left-over take away in the bin. "See if you can find that feather his roommate was talking about. Or anything else that might help tell us where he might be going or who else he has been stalking." Beckett told them all.

They set to work tearing the room apart. Javier had called CSU, but they needed to work faster than the lab had. At best they had 24 hours before the next murder, it was likely to be much less.

Between the six of them it didn't take long to look everywhere. It was Castle who found their only clue. He pulled it out from behind a loose tile in the bathroom. They all gathered around the little table in the room while Castle opened the little pad of paper. It was covered in Enochian writing. Pages and pages of it. They all turned to look at Lucifer who looked frustrated. "It's like he's a hormonal teenage girl." Lucifer said with disgust and held his hand out for the book.

Beckett caught Castle's wrist before he handed it over to the bare handed consultant. "Gloves Lucifer, and it will need to be finger printed."

Lucifer rolled his eyes, but under the stern look of his Detective he pulled on a pair of the blue nitrile gloves and took the book. He flicked through a couple of pages. "Like I said, hormonal teenage girl. It's very angsty."

"How long to read it all?" Chloe asked. She glanced at her watch. "We're running out of time." Beckett was glad she wasn't the only one watching the clock.

Lucifer shrugged. "Not long Detective, but I'd like a drink before I delve too far into this sad excuse for a novel."

Chloe and Beckett exchanged a look before Beckett turned to Javier and Kevin. "You guys stay here, see what CSU finds. We'll take Lucifer back to the precinct and see if the notebook gives us anymore clues.

I had the previous chapter written originally from the point of view of Chloe, but other than the following scene I hated all of it. So I rewrote it all from Beckett's POV. I liked the idea of this little tidbit so here it is. This is how Chloe and Lucifer actually got into the apartment.

Chapter 20: Bonus Round

Beckett had sent them around the back to cover the fire escape which according to Castle was every New York criminal's favourite method of escaping the police. Chloe looked up at the edge of the ladder to the fire escape. Even with Lucifer's considerable height he wouldn't be able to reach it to pull the ladder down. She got the feeling that Beckett had put her and Lucifer out of harm's way. That was annoying.

She glanced at Lucifer who was looking at his phone. "Can you reach that?" She asked casually, pointing up at the ladder.

Lucifer flicked a look up. "I'm not that tall." He told her, though he put his phone away and gave her his full attention. That was such a change from previous. He used to only listen with half an ear, since…well since things had been revealed to her Lucifer tried to pay more attention when Chloe was talking.

"You know what I mean Lucifer."

Lucifer smirked, rolled his shoulders and unfolded his wings. It was a good thing they were down an alley because Lucifer hadn't even bothered to check if there was anyone looking their way.

With a whump of moved air Lucifer flapped his wings, shot up into the air and came back down pulling the ladder with him. The wings folded away and Lucifer mockingly bowed Chloe's way as she clambered up the fire escape. Chloe Decker was not someone who tolerated being sidelined.