The Morningstars exited their cab in front of the Los Angeles Airport as Lucifer gave the driver a considerable tip. Lucifer unloaded his family's luggage out of the trunk. He scowled as his eyes took in the airport and the busy humans darting around quickly to their destinations.

"They're like flies." Lucifer groaned to his wife.

Her attention was focused on her five-year-olds, not the large man child standing next to her. "Let's see. Bags? Check. Water? Check. Sunblock, sunglasses, snack. Check. Do you guys see anything we're missing?"

"No mommy." Said Trixie.

"Nuh-uh." Said Leo.

Nodding happily, she outfitted both of her children with their backpacks and rolling suitcases. "Okay you two. We need to remember we don't leave our backpacks or suitcases lying around okay? If you get tired you tell me or daddy." Chloe grabbed Trixie's hand with one hand and her luggage in the other. "Leo, hold on to daddy's hand. Lucifer, I don't want any spectacles today. Let's just behave like a normal family for once okay?"

"What's the fun in that?" Lucifer grimaced as his son's hand met his. "Why are your hands sticky spawn?"

Leo whispered to his father. "Trixie gave me some candy, but I'm not supposed to tell mommy. It's a secret." A panicked expression quickly covered the boy's face. "Don't tell mommy, daddy! Please!"

Chloe and Trixie were a few steps ahead of them at this point as they approached the ticket counter to drop their bags off. Lucifer smiled widely at this son. "I don't tell mommy everything son. Your secret is safe with me."

Leo breathed out in relief. "Good, cause Trixie was gonna be mad at me. I really don't want my sister to be mad at me. She hits hard."

"Hmmm, yes. That's genetic." Lucifer's eyes drifted to the back of his wife's head in front of him.

They all approached the baggage claim and dropped their bags off with minimum fuss due to Chloe pinching Lucifer whenever he said something that might have caused them to be thrown out of the airport.

Or arrested.

She really had no desire for her children to see her or Lucifer taken away in handcuffs or stripped search because he didn't understand flying social norms.

They all reached the security gates with their carry-on bags. Chloe urged Lucifer to stand at the end of the long line that had formed in front of the metal detectors. Lucifer looked at her in horror. "What the bloody hell is this?"

"This is a metal detector and that's an x-ray machine. We have to go through it. Take all the bags off and get ready to take your shoes off. Leo's too."

"What?! We have to walk around this airport terminal in our socks? That's barbaric."

Chloe sighed. She should have prepped him before this.

"This is why I told you to wear socks. Please, don't make flying more difficult than necessary. Just do this for me okay?"

"Fine. You're going to owe me."

After a few more minutes they reached the metal detectors and x-ray machines and TSA agents. The agent in front of their line was a woman. Her attention directly turned to Lucifer and you could see her face morph into lust.

"Hello sir." The woman said. It sounded like an attempt to be seductive; but it failed miserably. "Put your shoes and your bag on the belt there to be x-rayed and step through the metal detector."

Lucifer huffed but did as he was told. The TSA agent eagerly went to look at the scan of him that the x ray machine had taken. It would give the whole image of the person naked. The woman frowned upon see the image that appeared when Lucifer walked through the machine. It was a blinding white light.

How odd.

She had Lucifer step through the machine again.

It happened again.

"Sir, can you please step to the side. There must be something wrong with the machine."

Lucifer grumbled but did as asked.

"Ma'am. Please step through." Chloe went through the machine and an image appeared of her as it should. The two children walked through and the same thing happened as Lucifer.

She was almost eager now. She was going to be able to pat down that delicious body. Yes, people of the same sex were supposed too. But what was this random guy going to do about it? Complain? Ha.

"We're going to have to pat down all of you. Do you want to do it our here or go in the back?"

Lucifer looked furious. "All of us? What do you mean you bloody power-hungry bureaucrat?"

"Not the woman. Just you and the children. You're both showing up as bright lights on our x-ray machine and it's suspicious."

Chloe sighed. You always get more flies with honey than with vinegar. "Look, I get you're doing your job. I'm in law enforcement too. I'm a detective with the L.A.P.D. But these guys are just five-years-old. What could you possibly accuse them of doing?"

The woman shrugged. "Terrorists can be any age ma'am."

What the fuck? Chloe's face heated up red. "You must be kidding me." She hissed.

"Failure to cooperate can resort in arrest or dismissal from the airport. Your choice."

Lucifer was right, they were power-hungry bureaucrats.

Chloe's eye darted to Lucifer, urging him to take care of this. Lucifer smiled charmingly at the woman and did his thing. "Come now darling. Don't be like that. They're only children after all. Now tell me, what do I have to do to make this go away? What do you desire?"

The woman was lost in his trance. "Sleep with me!" She shouted.

The people behind them in line snickered.

"Ah. No can do. I'm afraid I'm taken. What else? Money?"

A wide smile appeared on the woman's face. "Yes! We're so underpaid." She lowered her voice. "I take bribes all the time but you'll have to slip it to me covertly. If I get caught I can lose my job."

Lucifer smiled. "I can do covertly." He whispered back. He reached into his pockets and quickly folded a hundred dollar bill into his palm. He reached out to her and shook her hand, leaving the folded bill in it. "Pleasure meeting you."

The woman nodded. "I'm sorry for all the confusion, sir. There must have just been a malfunction with our machine. We'll make sure to get that fixed. You and your family have a nice flight."

Lucifer smiled at her. "Thank you." He quickly put his shoes back on and helped Leo do the same. Chloe likewise did so with Trixie.

The whole incident had put them behind schedule. They made it to their airport terminal but found out that their flight had been delayed.

Of course.

The kids were exhausted at this point. They had been lugging their backpacks all over a busy international airport for over an hour. Chloe urged them both to have a seat and try to take a nap. Leo fell asleep right away with his head in Chloe's lap. Chloe gave Trixie her phone to play some games. Chloe sat next to Lucifer and laid her head against his shoulder.

"Who would have thought we would fly into New Jersey voluntarily?" Lucifer said with a hint of disgust in his voice.

Chloe snuggled more deeply into him. "Technically, Philadelphia."

"Semantics."

Chloe shot him a smile. "That was quite a performance you put on today."

"You loved it."

"Hmmm." She said noncommittally. She had to admit she loved seeing Lucifer's powers at work.

Their flight was called and they boarded. The rows were two seats each so Trixie sat next to Lucifer and Leo next to Chloe.

Lucifer hated flying. After eons of using his own wings being stuck in a giant metal tube was just unnatural. That he, a son of god and an angel would be reduced to this was humiliating.

The things he suffered for his family.

The flight was fairly drama free despite some turbulence and Lucifer's general complaining. The kids slept through most of the six hour flight or watched movies.

When they landed and had claimed their baggage, they were met with much cooler weather than they had been experiencing.

Chloe sighed happily while holding on tightly to her son's hand. "At least the weather is beautiful, no sweltering heat the second you step outside."

Lucifer turned to look as a homeless man peed against the side of an airport entrance. Security promptly appeared and chased him away.

"Yes, very beautiful. It's certainly the city of brotherly love. Let's get our bloody rental car and be off. How far of a drive is it to our hotel?"

"An hour and 15 minutes."

"Bugger."

"Don't curse in front of the children."

Lucifer rolled his eyes. "They've heard worse. I see the rental car place there. Let's get this over with."

After getting their rental car and loading their luggage into it. Lucifer and Chloe set the twins up in car seats they had obtained from the rental kiosk. They hopped on the Atlantic City Expressway to quickly make their way to their hotel and their final destination.