Surrender

Chapter 2

"You're awfully quiet today."

"Oh, sorry. Here comes the chatty devil."

Lucifer half smiled at the detective. Even though he was confused since she had asked him earlier to stop being too loud, he obliged and talked about how boring the case was.

Chloe couldn't help but frown at his behavior. She clearly remembered telling him to keep quiet and he did, full on obedience, too much for her liking. She knew enough to realize her partner was clearly not himself. It was unsettling. The last time he acted up, he stood in front of a sniper and almost got himself killed. Only by some miracle did the shooter not give in to his taunting.

"... And look at his attire! Horrendous! He must have - -"

"Did you speak with Dr. Martin?" Chloe abruptly cut him off mid-sentence. She definitely had to get to the bottom of this unLuciferness .

"Yes I did." The devil confirmed, quite proud of himself.

"And how was it?"

"It was fine." He replied promptly, brushing off a non-existent lint on his suit.

"Okay…"

"Look, Detective, you need not worry about me. I am as I should be, ready to punch the lights out of anyone who wants to harm you, and play handsome devil cop and solve cases with you; boring or otherwise. Like I said, my life is yours."

The consultant reiterated once more just in case the Detective is still doubting his pledge.

"Your life is yours , Lucifer." Decker retorted, even though she knew it would not reach him as she intended. Not now that he's deep into whatever he's going through.

"Beg to differ."

The blonde detective wanted to scream. She had just about had it with his insistence on his literal life offering and would have pushed for a confrontation, had it not been for the case. Chloe made a mental note to give it a go at a later time.

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After gathering all the details, the detective and her consultant made their way to the suspect's location. With Chloe leading the way, they carefully entered the premises cautiously, as the perp had previous violent run-ins with the law based on intel.

"What a maze." Lucifer whispered. Most of their miscreants seemed to love dark warehouses. Couldn't they be less predictable?

"Huh? Maze is here?" His partner asked while surveying the area.

"No, this place is. How fun." The ex-lord of hell grinned menacingly and Chloe thought he was finally back to his old self.

"Why don't we split up Detective, to cover more ground?" He suggested and the detective approved. Off he went in the blink of an eye.

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Gil Arnaiz adjusted the scope of his rifle and observed the intruders from a suspended scaffolding that was strategically obscured from view. The culprit set his sights on the blonde woman the moment she parted ways with her partner. He was about to pull the trigger when a whooshing sound and a thud brought him out of focus as the scaffolding wobbled at the new weight.