Mia thought dating apps were supposed to make the whole dating thing more fun but really it was just a different form of rejection.

The Vox Tech dating app definitely was like nothing she had seen before. It didn't ask for her age but had a required Your Sin section. Like, her guilty pleasure? Or was it asking if she had ever been arrested before? Since she had never been arrested before she went with her guilty pleasure.

'Drinking Wine like its Water.'

The bio was the hardest part though. She decided to go with funny.

'Why did the plants go to therapy?'

'To get to the root of their problems'

Names Mia and I have plants.

It's been a week and she didn't have a match and when she started to feel anxious about it she'd look at her profile and wonder if she should write more. Or if the venus fly trap icon was a bad choice. Perhaps an actual picture would have been better.

There were some... interesting people on the app. Most of them didn't use actual pictures of themselves and went with an animal or creature photograph instead. Took her back to when people would use anime characters for their profile photos.

It wasn't a negative for her though. It just meant that she'd be meeting people more on their personality versus their looks. One of the reasons she herself picked an icon.

But still, she was pacing the studio apartment versus working on her latest project. Biting her nail and looking down at her phone.

Maybe she just needed to be less picky about who she tried to match with. Or maybe just 'slide into someone's DMs'.

Scrolling through the different profiles and reading the bios and comparing the photo or icon to their words. She stops at a rubber duck icon.

" Lou Moore, Pride , I guess pride is technically a sin." She spoke aloud to no one but herself and her plants.

"If you like pina coladas

And gettin caught in the rain

If you're not into yoga

If you have half a brain

If you like makin' love at midnight

In the dunes on the cape

Then I'm the love that you've looked for

Write to me and escape"

She laughed to herself at the bio and went to message Lou.

" Yes, I like pina coladas

And gettin caught in the rain

I'm not much into health food

I am into champagne

I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon

And cut through all this red tape

At a bar called O'Malley's

Where we'll plan our escape "

She was surprised to see the Read pop up so soon after sending the message. Mia told herself to put the phone down and just walk away. To avoid the disappointment of being left on Read.

But then the three dots telling her that a response was coming her way showed up.

How was she excited and nervous at the same time? Her first interaction.

Oh no. She's going to fuck this up.

"HA! Suck on that." Lucifer exclaimed across the room to Angel Dust who was just leaving for the day.

He fist pumped in celebration and started to write back, " My daughters friends were saying that no one who uses dating apps would get it ."

Lucifer watched the beginnings of a conversation happen before his eyes.

"Oh. You have kids."

"Shit." He speaks aloud. Charlie and Angel had both said that bringing up your family so soon was a big no in dating, "Shit. Fuck." He started to pace.

"Messing up already." Husk laughs behind the bar.

"Noo." He tried not to pout.

"Did you already bring up Charlie?"

Lucifer pouted even more. His phone quacks and he looks down to see another message.

"I had a daughter but she's no longer with us."

His feelings went solemn. She responded to him. Guess the apps weren't as cut and dry with the do's and don'ts. She was pretty quick to bring up her kid.

" You know. Bringing up your kids is a dating no no. Guess we both fucked up."

He portals to his room. Surrounded by rubber ducks and newly acquired pictures of him and Charlie.

Lucifer couldn't bring his whole room from Morningstar Manor but he brought more than enough.

He lounges across his bed and looks down at the screen. At least this time he remembered to add the up. To fucked up.

"I dont think this is really a place where there are rules to dating. Most people just hook up."

They had a fair point. This was Hell after all.

He responds, " If I wanted to have sex I'd just go to the store."

Mia's face was flaming. How were they already talking about sex. Was this a trick? Was this a flirting technique?

She let out a deep breath.

" What are you looking for?"

Lounging on the couch and waits for his reply. It felt serious but then again she was on the app for a reason. It was better to know what they both were looking for.

" Someone to drink pina coladas with in the rain and then make love with at midnight. "

She snorted and bit her lip at his answer.

Lucifer waited for her response, "Stupid. Stupid." He threw a duck across the room with each word.

He hears the quack notification and looks down.

" Well, I do like pina coladas. "

"Flying Fuck Duck! I still got this." He jumps to standing on the mattress feeling confident in himself.

Things had only gone up from there. They were sending messages back and forth. Lucifer found that he couldn't really sit still during the whole thing.

Mia: "I have a project I'm supposed to be working on. It's a pretty good deal too."

Lou: "That what you do for work?"

Mia: "I'm an artist. But that just means I'm a tortured soul."

He sat at his deck with his latest duck project. In an effort to feel productive though he just needed to move. Her words were almost poetic.

Lou: "All the souls are tortured here. Yours seems pretty uplifting though."

He was squeezing the duck making it squeak. Flirting both came easy and not for him. He had what he called, 'misplaced charm'. He didn't remember it being this hard with Lily.

Mia: "I'm getting tired. I'm going to go to sleep."

Lucifer just realized that he had been messaging Mia all day. He didn't really want the conversation to end. He just got the nerve to flirt.

"Shit." He runs out of the room looking for his daughter, "Char-Char. Charlie! Apple Pie!"

"Dad?"

He thrusts the phone in her face, "What does this mean? What does this mean?"

She pulls her head back and gets a better look at the screen, "Uh. That they're tired and going to bed."

"That can't possibly be it. I sent this." He points to the ' Yours seems pretty uplifting ', "And now she's leaving."

Charlie scrolls through the screen and sees that this has been all day. A soft smile on her face, "You're worrying too much. Just tell her Goodnight."

Lucifer is dumbstruck, "That's it."

Charlie nods her head, "Yeah, Dad. That's it."

Mia couldn't keep her eyes open. No matter how much she wanted to. She learned Lou was a really supportive father for his daughter Charlie. She didn't mind him talking about her and her rehabilitation center.

Mia actually thought that what his daughter was doing was amazing work.

'Yours seems pretty uplifting '. Gosh, she wanted to flirt back but it was going to have to be at another time.

Plugging in her nearly dead phone and snuggles up to her pillow thinking about the rubber duck icon associated with Lou.

She hears a ping and can't help but force her eyes open to look at the message.

"Goodnight Mia"