Chloe focused really hard on what Dan was saying . His voice seemed to come from far, far away but she could see his lips moving. He had stormed down the stairs less than a minute ago, followed by the SWAT team - and by Ella who was not supposed to enter the building until it was declared safe but who clearly didn't care about rules and regulations at that very moment. Both Ella and Dan had tried to hug her at the same time before Ella left Dan to do the Chloe-hugging and proceeded to do the same to Lucifer. 'Thank God you're alright.' Dan had whispered over and over as he held her tight. Now he stepped back and was looking at her, a worried expression on his face. 'Are you alright?'

'No, I'm fine. Really…' she managed to say although not very convincingly. 'It's just been a lot to take in, you know… with Marcus and Charlotte.'

Chloe managed to turn her head enough to see Lucifer still enveloped in one of Ella's bear hugs. He seemed to wince slightly as if in pain. Lucifer in pain? Why was he in pain? The bullets hadn't left a scratch on him, she'd seen that with her very own eyes. So why was he in pain?

And then she saw them. Lots of them. Too many of them. On the floor just left of the stairs she was facing. Shit! Shit! Shit! Feathers. With blood on them. Feathers from Lucifer's wings. Panic set in as Chloe tried to figure out what would happen in the next few minutes: SWAT were still roaming the building for perpetrators but as soon as they gave the all clear, Ella and her team were going to go over the whole place with a fine toothcomb. And find all those feathers. With non-human, super-human blood on them. She simply could not let that happen. But what could she do? How could she make the feathers magically disappear?

And then, suddenly, a flashback to when Lucifer and her were staring down the barrel of a gun one second and then, the next, the gunman was standing on the other side of them. Another flashback of Lucifer standing in the corner of Ella's office, hands folded and calling his brother Amenadiel.

Amenadiel! That's it. Chloe knew what to do. She took a deep breath and turned back to Dan. ' Do me a favour, check on Lucifer? He's never killed someone before and I don't know how he'll cope…' Dan agreed straight away. He squeezed Chloe's arm and then let go.

Slowly, very slowly Chloe started walking out into the round, open space where Lucifer had saved her by shielding her from a rain of bullets with his bare wings. Saved her as he had done before. An involuntary sob escaped Chloe's lips as her heart filled with pure amazement at what he was willing to do to keep her safe. Pull yourself together, woman, there's time for tears later, she admonished herself as she took another few steps forward. Her plan better work!

Lucifer managed to convince Ella to let go of him - finally! - and felt a sense of relief as her arms stopped putting pressure on his sore back. His wings had started to heal as soon as he had been at the right distance from Chloe but had not healed completely before she had come close again and now they were throbbing inside him. He'd live, of course, but it was painful.

As soon as Lucifer had clawed his way out of Ella's embrace, Dan gave him a man hug and a few pats on the back. Humans really needed to learn about giving an injured fallen angel some space, Lucifer thought to himself grimly as he cautiously watched Chloe wander off to the left. His wings were throbbing, he didn't know how to explain how he could have survived the attack on them without as much as a visible scratch and he didn't know what the cosmic repercussions of an angel killing a human would be. But most of all he worried about Chloe. He was starting to believe that this was not a dream, that she had really seen him, his true face, and was still in the same room as him. At the same time, they hadn't had any time to talk and there was so much to talk about. Chloe was slowly moving out of Lucifer's field of vision and a mix of loss and panic washed over him. What if she panicked and ran away from him now? What if they could never be friends let alone lovers because of who he really was? What is she wouldn't let him see her every day at work, as he'd grown accustomed to? He could not, didn't want to live on this earth if she was not part of his life in some shape or form. Who was he kidding? He wanted her to love him the way he loved her. At the same time, he knew that might never happen. Especially after what she had just seen.

'OK, we can talk about how it all happened later' Lucifer heard Dan say and he tried hard to focus on the man in front of him. He knew he would have to answer so many questions and he didn't want to. But he also knew that was the only way to get to spend some time with Chloe to talk about bigger things once things were cleared up with the police. So let's do this and worry about the really big question later, Lucifer said to himself.

'That's the SWAT team giving the all cl-' Dan was saying to him when he froze mid-sentence. Lucifer stared at Dan for a split second before he heard the voice.

'Oh Luci, what have you done?' Even before turning to face his brother, Lucifer knew there were tears on Amenadiel's face. Lucifer turned and took in the magnificent sight that was Amenadiel with wings unfolded.

'Don't get me wrong, Cain had it coming after what he did to Charlotte but we're not supposed to ever, ever kill a human. Dad will be so mad…' Amenadiel looked genuinely worried.

'There was no other way. He was going to kill me and he didn't hesitate to go through Chloe to do so.' Lucifer tried to explain and then it hit him. 'Why are you here? Were you watching the whole thing from… above?' he asked.

'No, brother, I was busy with something else but Chloe's prayer was so intense I couldn't ignore it.'

Lucifer took a double turn. 'Chloe's prayer? What do you mean?'

'Come, brother' Amenadiel said instead of answering his question. Lucifer walked past the frozen shapes of Dan and Ella and could spot more frozen SWAT team members out of the corner of his eyes.

And there was Chloe, kneeling in the middle of the room where she had been shot at not long before. She was frozen like all other humans and in her hands she cradled one of feathers, from his wings smeared with blood.

'I have to say she did surprise me. But now I see why her praying was so frantic…' Amenadiel said as he kneeled down to come level with Chloe. 'How about we clean up after the mess you left, one feather at the time, to make sure the existence of the divine is not revealed to all mankind today?'

Lucifer nodded but wasn't really paying too much attention to Amenadiel. Instead, he stared in amazement at the statue-like beautiful woman in front of him. She had seen him, his devil face, less than fifteen minutes ago and even after that she had wanted to help him, help keep his secret. Perhaps there was hope for the two of them after all.