About a week later, Elizabeth and Lucifer went to collect Sara so that Cassie and Azazeal could really be alone together for the first time in a long time.

As Cassie and Elizabeth help Sara get herself together, Lucifer said to Azazeal. "Now you have a real opportunity to stretch your wings."

"Don't you think I know that?" Azazeal responded with an amused smile.

"Well, you've never been what I would call fun. You're too much like the mortals, too much in control all the time."

"Not everyone shares your flare for the outrageous."

"That's true," Lucifer said smugly, but then added, "When we toured the world, we did nothing but what Elizabeth wanted and her imagination wasn't…what it is now," he said with a raise of his eyebrows, "You should give Cassie some good stories to bring home."

"Don't you worry about that," Azazeal assured him with a laugh.

"Oh, I'm not worried, I just want to hear some juicy stories and I didn't have to create myself."

"You just make sure my Sara's taken care of."

"Don't you worry about that," Lucifer said as he wandered off.

"Cassie." Lucifer had managed to catch her alone and sneak up behind her. She jumped and gave him an irrigated look.

"You know, you haven't even scratched the surface of what he's capable of," he said in a low voice.

"Really?" She said, being snotty.

"Neither of you are any fun at all, I don't know why I bother," he said but he didn't leave.

"What do you suggest then?"

"I wouldn't want to intrude. I just think you should expand your mind. The more you understand what he's capable of the more you'll understand him.

"And what makes you think I don't understand him just fine?"

"Cassie, I know you try but, really, you still have a lot to learn," he said with a wicked smile and with that he left her.

Lucifer then walked directly over to Sara and Elizabeth and inserted himself between them on the couch the where they were sitting. Putting his arms around them both he said, "And how are you, ladies?"

"What have you been up to?" Elizabeth asked him with playful suspicion.

"Just dispensing a little relationship advise."

"Oh my, that can't be good!"

"Believe me, they need it," he said and leaned over to kiss her.

"Why?" Sara asked.

Turning to Sara, after having gotten his kiss, Lucifer told her, "They need a little spice in their life, darling, and every once in a while, you need to cause a little stir in the world, just to let them know you're still here."

Elizabeth rolled her eyes and left them to seek out Cassie only to find herself alone with Azazeal which was a rare occurrence.

"Doesn't she come with her own security team?" Elizabeth teased Azazeal, as she had found out that Sara only would be coming with them.

"There is no need," he responded.

"Aren't you worried we might hold her hostage or something?"

Smiling he said, "I think you misunderstood me before."

"Yes, I think I maybe I did," and she looked at him to explain.

"Your position needed to be acknowledged. He listens to you, which is significant and somewhat…unexpected." After a pause he added quietly, "And now I know why."

Elizabeth still did know quite what to think but he seemed to just want to make sure that she knew he was aware of her influence and that he respected it. But she wasn't sure she liked the insight into their relationship he now suggested that he had because of the dream.

"We should be back by Christmas, I should think," Cassie told Elizabeth.

"So soon?" She asked since it was autumn already.

"That's a lot of time and I really don't think I'll want to be away from Malachi and Sara for too much longer."

"Well, have a great time, relax and don't worry about Sara."

And after a few teary goodbyes, they finally managed to extract themselves and Sara and get back to Elizabeth's house.

Sara was delighted by Luke, who she'd only seen once, and loved the new environment. She was very interested in all of the books, pictures, and items in Elizabeth's house and she loved following Elizabeth around as she gardened, cooked, painted, and did her normal activities.

"Aren't you bored?"

"No."

"Well, tomorrow we're going to get out of the house and do California things, okay?"

"Okay," Sara responded brightly.

"But you have to remember, no powers around the mortals," Elizabeth said in a teasing voice because Sara knew better but often forgot.

"I promise," she giggled, "Why don't you use yours ever?"

"Because, my dear, I don't have any."

"Sure you do," and she glanced at Lucifer who was across the room, but he just put his finger to his lips conspiratorially.

"I'm sure I'd know if I did," Elizabeth said, not seeing this exchange.

"I guess so."

Sara was fascinated by Los Angeles, the beach, and the mall just as she should be. Elizabeth was happy to be able to give her some new experiences while she was still young because she was worried that the girl had spent too much time around the supernatural. It wasn't Cassie and Azazeal's fault, but unlike the wild Malachi, she had a harder time fitting in to the mundane world.

After a few days, Elizabeth decided that they should all move to the horse ranch that they now had in Central California, where they could have some fun and more company. She figured there Sara could get outside more and enjoy being a young lady because too soon she would reach her final age.

They had bought the ranch not long after taking ownership of her racehorse Lava Man…and she had discovered what a disgustingly large amount of money Lucifer had amassed over the eons. Elizabeth had finally admitted to herself that there was no reason to work and that living off of his money was actually better for the entire world's economy. Besides spending the money meant nothing to him, he just enjoyed the game of getting it.

Elizabeth had turned the ranch into a business that retrained retired racehorses for new owners, which she enjoyed a great deal. It had the added benefit of being a place where the angels could visit them, because Lucifer had become rather possessive of her family's house. No one was allowed to enter her home without express permission (which meant never) and the only people who had ever been inside were Cassie, Azazeal, Malachi and Ella…and Selith but he didn't count.

They also had a small entourage of guardians, at Lucifer's insistence, who followed them from the house to the ranch. Now that his angels were also funneling into society there were those, like Azazeal's Ramiel and Araqiel, who were most suited to doing whatever Lucifer wanted. They didn't seem to mind just watching over her or Luke, or running errands, or handling business for him. Elizabeth treated them more like companions and always welcomed them each by name when they would pop in and got to know each of their differing personalities. She enjoyed their quiet company when Lucifer was not around and allowed herself to feel protected because she knew how important it was to Lucifer.

There were also a myriad of other angels who would undoubtedly drop by the ranch, especially now that Cassie and Azazeal were "on vacation." Elizabeth's human staff were usually too busy to notice these visitors, who sometimes did make themselves visible, but had gotten quite used to the number of "friends" that she and her "husband" had. It was helpful that the horses chose not to react to an angel's neutral presence, however they would react if the angel applied positive or negative pressure. This had caused some strange occurrences in the pasture and barn that had made Elizabeth laugh and her staff to look at her strangely.

Cassie and Azazeal had decided to initially stay at a house in Australia away from too much civilization. Upon waking on the first morning, Azazael found that Cassie had gotten up already, so he put on his pants to go find her. When he did she was standing in front of the huge glass patio doors that looked out on the beautiful surrounding landscape. He smiled to himself as he saw that she was wearing only his crisp white shirt. He stared at her for a moment before quietly moving up behind her.

"I don't think we'll get far like this," he said and she jumped a little.

"We don't have to rush off just yet," she said turning towards him.

Looking down at her, he reached out a finger to pull at the one button that was holding the shirt across her body, but he didn't undo it.

"Are you trying to seduce me?" he said in a low voice.

"Not at all," she said but it wasn't true, "This was just the first thing I grabbed."

"Hmm," he said and started to kiss her.

They didn't make it out of the house that day and Cassie was happy that they had started with quiet, undemanding time together.

As soon as Luke was able to walk, Lucifer had started to steal him away for little adventures. They pretended that Elizabeth didn't know, but he always left her some indication that Luke was with him and she would find out later what they had done. These little adventures started small, like taking him back to the park near the house in California, but got bigger as Luke grew. After finding Luke a bit sandy one afternoon, she'd gotten Lucifer to admit that they had gone to make sand castles…on a small desert island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Elizabeth just smiled a shook her head at him. She had decided a while ago that since Luke was never going to be a normal child, he deserved to know his father in this way and she would not limit this activity unless it became a problem.