I do not own Lucifer.

Trixie time!

Lilith was minding her business and day drinking in Lux. Having her mother around made Lilith act out and give into her vices more. Charlotte was somewhere with Lucifer, they were having some mother son bonding time, Lilith guessed. Maze was not in sight.

She was lost in thought, she had to find a way to get her mother back to Hell. Was it going to solely rest on her shoulders?

Then her alone time was ruined when Chloe entered the club. "Is Lucifer here?"

"Nope." Lilith answered

"Great. I'm needed at a crime scene and the baby sitter canceled. Can you watch Trixie for an hour or so?"

"Nope."

Chloe must not have heard Lilith. "Thank you. Okay monkey, Lilith is going to watch you for a little while. Behave."

Lilith whirled around. "I said no."

"You're a lifesaver, Lilith." Chloe called over her shoulder as she left.

Trixie stared at Lilith. "You got better. I'm glad." She pulled herself up on the stool to sit next to Lilith. "Can I get a drink?

Lilith rolled her eyes and did lean across the bar. She searched for a soda. Trixie was a child and minors were not allowed to drink. Lilith knew the rules, she broke them constantly, but she knew them.

She poured a Coke and placed it in front of Trixie.

An awkward silence fell over them.

"You seem mad." Trixie observed.

"My mother is in town."

"Do you get along with her?"

"Nope. I want to get rid of her. I just need help."

Trixie sat there, pondering Lilith's words. "You know where I go when I need help?"

Lilith took a few guesses. "Your parents? A teacher? An older friend?" Then someone else dawned on her. "Please don't say it…" She half whined.

Ten minutes later, Lilith sat in a pew at the local church. She had never been so uncomfortable in her life. Her dark eyes scanned her surrounded, stained glass, statues and larger than life paintings.

Trixie was next to her, hands clasped together in prayer.

Lilith couldn't stay quiet any longer as she watched curiously. "Are you praying?"

The child nodded.

"Are you actually talking to God?"

Another nod.

"Does he answer you?"

Trixie none too nicely shushed her.

Well, that was a first. No one told Lilith to be quiet.

A heartbeat later, Trixie whispered on word. "Yes."

Lucky child. "I don't want to interrupt your conversation. I'll be over there." Lilith excused herself from the pew and began to wander the church.

She paused in front of a painting of Adam and Eve. She chuckled to herself, Adam had not looked anything like that. Tall, tones and perfectly proportioned. If he had looked even remotely like that, they might have had a chance together. Man had been created in God's image, not even close. At least all the errors had been fixed when Eve came around, Adam had been the rough draft.

Lilith continued her exploration, she didn't feel as cold as she did inside of Lux. One statue stopped her in her tracks, Jesus and the Virgin Mary. If Lilith had a heart, it would probably break. Instead all she had was jealously.

"Admiring the statue?" Came a sudden voice behind her.

Good thing Lilith didn't scare easily. "Hardly, I'm jealous." She turned to face … a priest. Well, she was in a church, she shouldn't be that surprised. Why was he talking to her? Maybe he thought she was a lost soul. He would be right.

"Jealous of our Savior?"

"He had a mother who cared about him, loved him, cried for him…"

"And let him go when the time was right."

Lilith chuckled . "Yeah, that too. But the bottom line is that He had the perfect mother and mine belongs in Hell."

"Honor thy mother and father."

Was he quoting Scripture to her? "Failed at that one and the other nine." She looked at him and slowly he understood what and who she was. Holy men could recognize Lucifer easier, he was the devil after all. The priest crossed himself. That make Lilith chuckle. "Don't worry, I'm not after your soul."

"Then why are you here?"

Good question, Lilith asked herself the same thing. So she went with a half-truth. Lilith tilted her head in Trixie's direction. "She's the kid of a…" Exactly what was Chloe to Lilith? The detective was Lucifer's friend of sorts. "Acquaintance." That worked.

The priest nodded, not sure how to proceed. He was unnerved because she was a fallen angel but at the same time curious because she was in a church with a child. "This is a place of faith, a place to ask for help."

"Then why have hospitals heard more prayers than churches?"

"People call out when they need help and forget to prayer when they are happy, to be thankful."

Lilith's dark eyes focused on the Virgin Mother again. And she wondered. "Father, do you think it's possible for a parent to know their child better than the child knows themselves?" That question had been clawing at her mind since her uncomfortable conversation with Charlotte.

"Our Father knows our heart before we were born and will know us until the end of time." He didn't bother mentioning human parents, he kept his answer divine.

"So they are waiting for the 'I told you so' moment. Lovely."

"Have you asked for help?"

"I used to, He hasn't answered me in so long." There was something that resembled sadness in her voice.

"Maybe you aren't asking the right questions." The priest remarked.

Lilith stared then shook her head. "I'm asking the questions I need the answers to. Like why my brother did what he did. I still don't understand why he went against everything he believed in." She had never let any doubt or disloyalty about Lucifer escape her lips.

"Maybe he was influenced by someone close to him."

Someone close to him? Who was there…? Then a person came to mind. And Lilith could feel rage burning in her and didn't care who saw. "I'm going to kill her."

The priest took a step back, now he was scared of what she could do.

But Trixie walked over to Lilith. "I'm ready to go."

Lilith forced herself to calm down. "It's about time. I'm taking you to your mother at the station. I am going to say and do things I don't want you seeing."

"Are you going to hurt someone?"

"Yes, just remember for the future, the guilty get punished for their misdeeds." Now she sounded liked Lucifer.

Lilith could still feel her blood boiling when she stormed into Lux. The club had just opened and it was already packed. She quickly found her target and pushed her way to the VIP section.

"We need to talk, Mother. Now." She harshly commanded.

Charlotte was surrounded by admires. She tended to draw the beautiful and the desperate. There was a moment of silence. The followers waited for their self-proclaimed leader to speak.

"You heard her, scoot before she torches this place, again." Charlotte told them. they all squirrelled away like rats. "Now what's troubling you, dear?"

Lilith waited for them to be out of ear shot before unloading everything on her mother. "Don't you dear me! It was all your fault! All this time!"

"I'm not sure I follow. What did I do?"

"It was your idea, wasn't it? Rebelling? You put the idea into Lucifer's head, hoping he would go through with it! Did you even think there would be ramifications? Forget blaming the devil for all your bad choices, blame his mother! She's the one mankind should be terrified of. Do you have any idea how much he suffered? He is still suffering for that! But it's all your fault yet you take none of the blame! He has been the scapegoat!"

"Careful with your tone, Lily."

"Do not call me that!"

"You forget your place. Did you forget who I am? I am the former Queen of the Angels, former Queen of Heaven."

Lilith wanted to roll her eyes. Charlotte sounded so much like Lucifer with that declaration of assumed power. And she decided to give the same answer. "It might have escaped your notice, Mother but we aren't in Heaven. You are nothing!"

Charlotte looked at her daughter with a quizzed eye. "I know where I am, Lilith. But I am still your mother no matter where we are."

"Hardly. You don't even deny it. So I'm right. You are the reason we lost everything!"

"Do I sense some resentment?"

Now there was no reason to control her anger. Lilith grabbed the table and flipped into Charlotte's direction.

Charlotte moved out of the way to avoid getting drinks poured on her. She stood then, studying her daughter then opened her mouth.

"One more word and I will torch this place." Lilith growled.

Charlotte only nodded and walked past Lilith. Her daughter had so much self-control. How much longer would that last?

Lilith slid into a chair and closed her eyes. Words rang in her ears and she wanted nothing more than to forget them.

So, interesting chapter. Getting into how Lilith views her mother and why.

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