See Me As I Am

ChloePOV: Something Valuable

Chloe had just enough time to register the bullets headed straight for her and Lucifer moving towards her, before everything changed in an instant. Between one second and the next everyone in the room had moved.

Now Lucifer and Amenadiel were well across the room in opposite directions, but that was nothing compared to watching over a dozen grown men fall to the ground at the exact same time. Half of them were in the fetal position, holding their groins while the other half had fallen to the ground already unconscious. The bullets she'd felt so certain had been about to hit her, were nowhere in sight.

"It's quite elegant the way they all fall at once like that," Lucifer said with a sigh of enjoyment. "Really fun to watch."

"What just happened?" Chloe asked.

"Sorry Detective," Lucifer said, turning to her. "But Amenadiel had to freeze time again to save you and I from becoming riddled with lead."

"Right," she said slowly. "Okay, so that keeps happening then?"

"Yes, though hopefully not any more unless there are guns involved," Lucifer said pointedly to his brother. Chloe had a feeling this was part of a conversion she'd missed.

"She was helpful," Amenadiel grumbled. "There, is that what you want me to say?"

"For starters," Lucifer replied.

"Guys!" Chloe called. "Malcolm is here to steal money and disappear. We have to focus."

"Yes, right you are, Detective," Lucifer said. "We should split up. Cover more ground."

"Yes, good idea," Chloe said. She assumed this meant all three of them would go their own way, but just as Amenadiel was breaking off to go left, Lucifer followed her going right.

"I thought you said split up?" Chloe reminded him.

"Oh I did," Lucifer said. "But I think us bleeders should probably stick together."

Chloe didn't have anything to say to that. She'd already come to accept that there were things about Lucifer she would never understand, especially when it came to his motivations.

They hadn't gone that far when she heard a scuffle. Chloe turned around quickly and saw Malcolm. He was running along a metal staircase a ways ahead.

"Oi!" Lucifer called out. "You, stop!"

Of course, this just made Malcolm run faster. Why did the Devil have to be such an idiot?

"Don't worry, Detective," Lucifer said, his eyes fixed on his prey. "He won't get far."

When Chloe saw what the scuffle had been about she could hardly believe her eyes. Lucifer's brother was lying on the ground with a knife in his stomach. She had just seen Amenadiel take five rounds from a shotgun like it was nothing. Even if she'd never seen him freeze time, at this point she'd seen more than enough proof of it. As far as Chloe was concerned Amenadiel was far more powerful than Lucifer, yet he'd been stopped by a human.

"Lucifer," Chloe called out to him. When Lucifer turned around and saw his brother, Chloe could see the battle in his eyes. The Devil was torn. He wanted to hunt down Malcolm, but he also cared about his brother.

"Bloody hell," Lucifer said, giving up the chase to be at his brother's side. "There you go, spoiling my fun again."

"No you have to catch him," Amenadiel said. "Leave me. Go!"

"Who will I fight with then, hmm?" Lucifer said. "Besides I don't know what you are complaining about. It's just a flesh wound."

Chloe could tell from Lucifer's voice that it was far more than that. The invincible angel was dying. It wasn't until Chloe remembered something Lucifer had told her the first time she'd seen him bleed that she realized why.