After Elizabeth and Lucifer left and Janelle satisfied Lucivar that she was fine, Azazeal lead the boys away for private conversation. All the while Lucivar was growling to himself angrily.

"He wouldn't know intimidation if it bit him on the balls," he muttered.

Azazeal chuckled, "I think you are well aware of the female power that has nothing to do with physical or psychic strength, Lucivar. Besides, she has a temper you wouldn't expect."

Lucivar just rolled his eyes and Azazeal laughed again.

"Now, what was that about?" Azazeal asked smoothly.

"He's crazy!" Lucivar exclaimed.

Azazeal looked at Daemon, but Daemon just gave him an even stare, so Azazeal said to him, "Well, Lucifer may have exaggerated his point and his pronouncement may have been colored by his own feelings about…service, but he is rarely wrong."

Daemon continued to hold Azazeal's eyes and said finally, "Witch is not someone to be trifled with and I will not stand for that kind of behavior around my Queen."

Azazeal smiled in understanding. Daemon and Lucivar's minds had gone as far as they were going to go in considering Lucifer's point. In their world, that kind of female behavior made sense in the context of their society and their Protocol. It wasn't meant to confuse the males…it was just how the females were and the males were not going to stop fussing or obeying or digging their heels in when necessary, simply because a female got snarly with them when they chose the wrong one.

"When I see him next, I'm going to pound him in to the ground," Lucivar said still preoccupied with fighting rather than considering the matter.

"You can try," Azazeal said.

Jaenelle sat across from Cassie quietly and thought about what Lucifer had said about her.

"Is he right?" she finally asked Cassie.

"I don't really know, dear, but…when he 'knows' something like that…he generally has a valid point." Cassie squirmed a bit and Janelle considered this. She was very familiar with dealing with his outbursts that often revealed truths that you didn't want to hear.

"I just don't want them to get hurt!" Jaenelle said almost in tears. She knew exactly what Lucifer was talking about "I get so angry when they do something stupid that could get them hurt…and their need to serve and obey and protect is often the cause. All I want to protect them and I end up scaring them because Witch…."

Cassie frowned, "I can't say I feel that way about Azazeal, but…my children, they have more power then I do, but I still fuss over them like they're little kids when they put themselves in danger…and they do, being his and all. They hate it but they put up with it because they know that I need to do it."

Jaenelle smiled back, "I would like to meet them someday."

"Oh, you will. I couldn't keep them away if I tried. And, Jaenelle, trying to protect the ones you love is never wrong, but sometimes we need to consider how we're doing it, I guess."

About two hours later, Elizabeth and Lucifer returned, not really expecting Jaenelle and the boys to still be there. Elizabeth went immediately to Jaenelle and Cassie, while Lucifer strolled towards where Azazeal was entertaining Daemon and Lucivar.

No soon had Lucivar seen Lucifer, than he unleashed an Ebon-Gray blast that sent him hurdling onto a coffee table, smashing it under him. Lucifer rose slowly and casually, while Lucivar marched over to him with a nasty looking Eyrian blade now firmly in his right hand, ready to cut him to pieces.

Just as he reached Lucifer, who was still standing over the destroyed coffee table, and raised the sharp and glistening blade to cut him from shoulder to hip, Jaenelle and Elizabeth both yelled, "NO!" and Lucivar stopped. His eyes were slightly glazed with killing fury as he held the blade just over Lucifer's shoulder, but it wasn't the Ladies protest that stopped him.

"Why aren't you fighting back?" he growled suspiciously.

Lucifer regarded him benevolently, "She said you deserved to vent your anger. She said what I did was wrong."

"Lucifer, I didn't mean like that," Elizabeth said approaching with the other Ladies trailing behind her and he turned his head to look at her as she shoved a confused Lucivar out of the way, ignoring his menacing war blade.

"How could you ever think….? You think I would really…? Agh!" Elizabeth said.

Cassie and Janelle shared a glance of mutual amusement and understanding as Elizabeth displayed her own anger at seeing Lucifer almost injured…well as much as one can injure an angel who will just heal himself later.

"Just because that one time with Azazeal…that was different…You'd seduced me and I was testing a theory…Agh!" She said again and punched him in the shoulder playfully but not softly.

"Ow," he said with a warm smile.

"Oh, that didn't hurt," she said but she rubbed her hand over where she had hit him and reached up to give him a kiss.

"Well, it wouldn't have if you hadn't…"

"Yes," she interrupted him, "But I'm not the one who likes to keep the marks. Now, are you boys going to play nice?" She added as she and the Ladies eyed the boys, clearly indicating that their desire was that the fighting should stop.

A smile was twitching at Daemon's lips, Azazeal was giving Lucifer an indulgent smile, Lucivar was still not sure what to think about the fact that Lucifer would have let him slice him open, but they all agreed to a truce, like boys caught in a scuffle on the play ground.

"Why?" Lucivar asked when they were alone again.

"She said it didn't matter if what I said were true or not, I went too far," he said simply.

Lucivar eyed him, "And you think our Queen is severe!"

"I told you," Lucifer said, "She is everything. I obey her in everything and it is much more simple than…your relationship with your Queen and she understands that. But I am sorry if I offended you or Jaenelle."

Lucivar considered this and thought that it must be true that Elizabeth understood because if Lucifer was one of Jaenelle's males and he'd done something that ridiculous, she would have scolded him until his ears were ringing. Then Lucivar nodded in approval and soon they were talking about ruling territories as a Warlord Prince and the sights Cassie had been promising Jaenelle that they would see on one of their next visits.