Disclaimer: In all this hairy business, I own nothing more than the arrangement of words.

Characters: Chloe, Trixie, Dan

A/N:Because (safe for the last one, hopefully...) this has happened to all of us, too.

Hairy Business

I

Chloe cursed the bad luck she'd been having that day already that led to this situation: She had overslept, Trixie had managed to soak her school bag through with a not-quite tightly screwed bottle with juice, the car hadn't started at first... - And when she finally had made it to the Precinct, she and Lucifer had been called on a new case before she had had any time to really deal with her bed-head. She had merely shoved her hair through the hair band directly after washing – and now the band was stuck, and with every tug her scalp hurt worse and the hair band only got stuck worse.

Tears were running down Chloe's cheeks while she determinedly gathered all her strength for one last, violent tug - "Ouch!"

II

"I can't even imagine how you did this", Chloe sighed in exasperation. She was combing through Trixie's hair, carefully working on the strands with bubble gum in them.

"You're hurting me, Mommy!", Trixie wailed.

Chloe stopped for a moment, her eyes narrowing: "If you had been a bit more careful, this wouldn't have happened – and its either me removing the gum, or we go and get your hair cut short."

Trixie immediately fell silent and waited for her mum to continue her work. She much rather liked her hair long.

III
"... and now you slide that gun over toward me with your foot. Slowly."

Dan obeyed, his eyes fixed on Chloe's face. While she looked as determined and calm as one could with a knife at one's throat, Dan knew himself to have gone deathly pale. It should have been a normal dinner out as friends, the first time since their divorce, but they had to run straight into a robbery, of course; and since they were cops and at least Chloe was always on duty, something like this had to happen sooner or later.

But Dan wasn't going to let Chloe get harmed, he...

Watched, dumbstruck and frozen, as Chloe seemed to faint, forcing the man to rearrange his grip, and while he did so, she pulled out the hairpin that had been holding her bun, and while her blonde strands cascaded around her face, she stabbed the man in his hand with so much force he let her go with a yell of pain.

Before Dan had any time to realise what had happened, Chloe was holding the gun and aimed it at the surprised would-be bank robber.