"Lucifer no!" Chloe said as Lucifer held up a tiny speedo that would show off all of his….assets for her to see.

"C'mon detective. You love it." Lucifer waggled his eyebrows at her.

Chloe pointed her finger at the offending garment. "Not child-friendly. You can't wear that in public."

Lucifer lowered his voice. "How about in private?" He asked sultrily.

Chloe bit her bottom lip as her cheeks turned red. Leo came wondering into their room which was one of two bedrooms in their hotel suite. He gazed up at his mother adoringly. "You look pretty when your face is red mommy!"

Chloe cleared her throat. "Um…thanks baby. Did you need something?"

"Me and Trixie can't find our beach stuff."

"Would you like daddy to help you?"

Leo nodded happily. "Yeah! I want daddy!"

Chloe smirked at Lucifer. "You're on speedo boy."

Lucifer smirked at her as he took Leo by the hand and left the room. "Not yet, but I will be later."

Chloe rolled her eyes behind his retreating back.

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"This is so cool!" Trixie shouted as she and her brother ran ahead of their parents on the Ocean City boardwalk.

Lucifer and Chloe followed hand in hand. "Don't run up to far ahead!" Chloe turned to Lucifer. "They're going to be so distracted by all the lights and music we have to pass to get to beach."

Lucifer had in fact been distracted by the exact thing she had just described. "Huh?" He mumbled.

Chloe giggled. "Never mind."

They reached the beach and set up their towels and umbrellas. The kids immediately ran to the water. "Stay where I can see you and don't go past your waist!" Chloe called after them. "Let's go play in the water with them." Chloe said to Lucifer.

Lucifer grimaced. "Must we?"

"Since when don't you like beaches?"

"Beaches I like just fine, but this place is riddled with offspring." Lucifer made a sweeping gesture with his arm indicating the beach and the dozens of kids surrounding them.

"Including yours." Chloe said pointedly.
Lucifer sighed. His offspring weren't the problem or even the ones they regularly choose to associate with. His children were fantastic judges of character for their age and tended to stay away from the truly horrible children, the biters and screamers and bedwetters. Still though, he was disinclined to voluntarily be around strange spawn.

"Ours are not the problem my love. It's the other sticky ones I'm wary of."

Chloe laughed and tugged him by the hand. "C'mon." They met the kids down by the water where both met them and attempted to tackle their parents.

"Daddy! Take me deep into the ocean!" Trixie said excitingly. Lucifer picked his daughter up and hoisted her onto his shoulders.

Leo jumped up and down, splashing water everywhere. "I wanna go too!"

His antics made his mother laugh. How funny was is that so much of her five-year-old son's behavior paralleled his father's? "C'mere my little monkey. Mommy will take you. We won't be able to go as deep as daddy and Trixie." Chloe picked up her little boy and with a pang realized he wasn't that little anymore. She only had a few more years where she could pick him up like this. Her eyes glanced to her husband and daughter. At least their kids could ride on his shoulders for as long as they wanted. Him and his supernatural strength. After successfully placing him on her shoulders, they headed out behind Trixie and Lucifer past where the waves started to break.

They spent about ten minutes out there watching the waves break ahead of them until the kids started to get bored and demanded to be put down. Chloe and Lucifer went more inland before they were able to set the kids down where would actually be able to stand up. As the kids splashed around them Chloe took the time to relax and let herself float in the water. She smiled happily as she watched her children play.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Lucifer said from her side.

Chloe smiled at him. "I'm just….happy. I'm really happy." Lucifer grabbed her hand and placed a kiss on her palm. She continued. "We don't always get as much time as a family as I'd like you know? And they're starting kindergarten in the fall and with Lux and my job there's going to be less time for moments like this. And they're just growing up to fast."

"Darling, it's not a bad thing. They're starting to be more independent and form into their own people but they still need us. You especially. They'll always need their mother."

Chloe nodded. "Sometimes I just wish I could freeze time though."

Lucifer looked at her with a thoughtful expression. "I know the feeling."

Before Chloe could ask him to clarify what he meant, the kids barreled into their mother. "Mommy can you teach me to dive through the wave!" Trixie asked. "You've done it at the beach before!"

Chloe smiled at her daughter and son who both had their arms wrapped around her waist. "Absolutely and daddy's gonna help me." It was always so amusing to see him get soaking wet and than get indignant about his destroyed hair. She preferred him rumpled. With a roll of his eyes, Lucifer hiked Leo up to his shoulder and headed to where waves began to crest. Chloe and Lucifer proceeded to show the kids how to dive into the waves and hold their breathes to avoid the waves hitting them and wiping them off their feet. Another hour was spent in the water until the kids became bored and decided to return to the sand to make sand castles.

Of course, since they were five-year-olds, the regular sand wasn't messy enough and they spent the rest of the morning making mud castles by the water. They roped their father into their mischief as Chloe laid on a beach blanket and got some tanning done.

Lucifer enjoyed watching his wife in a bikini sunbathing and other men did too. Of course Lucifer hated that. Likewise, Chloe enjoyed Lucifer in his swim trunks and so did other women and Chloe hated that.

Trixie and Leo were oblivious to the whole thing as kids often were and were to busy with their sand castles. When the kids got hungry, the family of four packed up their beach gear and dropped It off at the hotel where they washed up and changed before heading to get some lunch.

Over pizza, the twins expressed their desire to go on the rides on Wonderland's pier. Lucifer expressed his skepticism at such a venture.

"Daddy's just being silly. Of course we can go on the rides tonight. Daddy will take you on whatever rides you want. Even the spinny ones."

Lucifer had never liked those.

Chloe raised an eyebrow at him, as if challenging him to question her on this.

Lucifer wisely agreed with her. "Yeah, that's me. I'm just silly old dad. What rides do you desire to go on spawn?"

The twins started talking rapidly in excitement, one over the other.

Chloe hid her smile behind her napkin.

Her devil could be such a pushover.