An unwelcome visit
After arriving at the police station, Lucifer seemed to have regained his composure. While Chloe reported the successful arrest to Lt. Pierce, Lucifer watched Daniel completing the case files. At times, Lucifer enjoyed the simplicity of Detective Douche, and perhaps he should slowly come up with a new nickname. Since the relationship between Chloe and Dan finally came to an end, something like mutual respect had developed between them. Maybe Detective Dick ... Ella joined them.
„Geez, it was the sister after all? ", she said while rolling her eyes. "Not that I wouldn't understand it. When you grow up with 4 brothers you don't lose your patience just once."
„Yes, but our little Ella hasn't made it to a murderer yet. ", Dan smiled.
"Do not praise the day before the evening. How many times did I caught myself thinking; One less, what the hell, you have three others left, but each one has its own place in my heart. Lucifer certainly knows that."
„What?" - Lucifer asked, startled.
He had just watched frowning Pierce and Chloe, who got along far too well for his taste. Why had she laughed? What could be funny about a murder report? „Excuse me, what were you talking about?"
"I meant," Ella continued with a grin, because of course she had noticed the direction of his gaze, "that you and your brother may not always be one heart and soul."
„Oh Amenadiel and I had our differences, that's right. But you would also be pissed, if your brother dragged you back to hell all the time. And now that he knows he's Dad's favorite son, he's become even more intolerable."
„Haha, 'hell' I know what you mean," laughed Dan. „My little sister used to tell me on my parents; the strict call from the kitchen and the time on her lap, my mother with a big spoon in her hand. Hell, I tell you!"
, Uiihh Detective Douche has a sister? If your family is into spanking you should introduce me to her. I'm a master of punishment when it comes to ... „ - "What are you guys talking about?" Chloe had just arrived to their little conversation.
„Oh Lucifer just wants to chastise my little sister, the usual.", replied Dan with a pouting face.
Chloe grimaced and Lucifer actually blushed a bit. „That was not... I just wanted to tell you how good I am at punishing young women...", he tried to explain himself.
„Gross, do we really want to hear that? ", sighed Chloe.
"Actually," interposed Ella, "it was more about what we would like to do to our siblings, if they drive us up the wall. My brother Lou, for example, once connected a car battery to our eldest brothers toe at night because..."
„ WHAT THE HELL"?
Ella fell silent and everyone turned to look at Lucifer, whose eyes were fixed on the gallery entrance. His exclamation seemed to apply to a man, who was standing there. He leaned on the rail and stared at the little group of friends with a mixture of curiosity and contempt. Chloe was baffled. They rarely had such good-looking visitors in the precinct. The man was tall, muscular, and seemed to be around 40. His tight dark-blue shirt showed off all his muscles and the jeans completed this elegant, yet casual look Chloe used to like on Dan. His ash-blond, hand length hair was combed to one side, only a strand hung over his steel-blue eyes, which seemed fixed on her.
No, not on her.
On Lucifer -
- who stood directly behind her. Chloe took her eyes off of the fascinating newcomer and turned to her partner. Lucifer seemed frozen. She had never seen him so tense before. She could swear his hands were clenched in his pockets. But his face was strangely expressionless.
„Lucifer, do you know this man?", asked Ella, who had also noticed the penetrating gaze of the newcomer.
„Hardly." managed Lucifer to get out between gritted teeth. „He's only my brother. Excuse me." And with a short nod in their direction, he hurried up the stairs.
"What? His brother?", Ella asked, puzzled. „I thought Amenadiel was black. Or were you just pulling my leg? I was already wondering how this should work..."
„No, Ella", interrupted Dan. "That's definitely not Amenadiel. And I already told you that they´re adopted, so..."
„Did you know that Lucifer has another brother?", Chloe interjected, eyeing the two men in the gallery. For brothers, they seemed strangely alien, they had not even shaken hands for greeting and were now talking more like two businessmen would, with due distance between them.
„No.", said Dan, "And I thought I knew everything about him. After all, I didn´t fill up three folders about his life for nothing."
Chloe looked at him amused.
„What? I already told you, I'm sorry that I checked him back then. I just couldn't stand how this stranger meddled in your police work. But I know nothing about another brother. They don't even look alike either. Maybe another adopted brother?"
„I know he has a sister.", Ella said. „He once told me about it when I did a thing for him ... oh, you know… that does not matter…", she hum and haw.
Chloe and Dan gave her questioning glances.
„It was nothing illegal!", Ella raised her hands placatingly. „I should just identify someone's footprint who had stolen a sword or something from him. And that probably belonged to his sister Azrael originally."
„Why does everyone in Lucifer's family has such weird names.", sighed Dan.
Chloe was beginning to wonder the same. „Maybe they were raised by some cult?", she said conspiratorially, and the three of them stuck their heads together to whisper.
"That would at least explain the biblical references and Lucifer's delusion he's the devil. Maybe they're not his real adopted siblings after all, but more his religious 'brothers and sisters', you know?" - her gaze wandered back to the gallery, after she heard loud voices behind her.
"The way these two quarrel, they seem to be blood relatives.", Ella pointed out, also observing the two brothers, who seemed to be engaged in a now quieter, but fierce battle of words.
Chloe could only see the stranger's back, but his gestures were abrupt and tense. And Lucifer's face, directed toward them, had solidified into a grim mask. Without saying another word to his opponent, he turned away in an attempt to leave, but the stranger grabbed his arm. Lucifer jerked back and pushed his arm away. The stranger stumbled backward a few paces.
„I do not care what Dad wants!", rang it down to them from an obviously furious Lucifer, "Leave me alone Gabriel, or you'll regret it."
And with that he turned to go.
„Is that an invitation?", shouted the stranger (who apparently was called Gabriel) and sprinted towards Lucifer. Before he could turn around Gabriel grabbed him by the waistcoat and threw him over the railing.
Chloe and Ella screamed.
