She's Got The Devil's Eyes - Deckerstar (Completed)

Chapter IX

Two weeks had gone by since the devil had come back to earth and chosen to stay. Two weeks of what to him had been pure bliss, pure happiness, days of love, sex, work, two whole weeks of Chloe all to himself. Those two weeks had been filled with cuddle time, with learning to know each other all over again, he just had his heart so full it was going to burst. Hell, he was so in love that he planned a date for him, his detective and her spawn. When he told Chloe where they would be going and that he planned it all around what nine years old could and couldn't do, Chloe almost burst into tears of joy, loving the fact that Lucifer was actually making an effort to connect with Trixie. Now, if it only meant he would take the news of his impending fatherhood any better... Still, he was happy inside his ignorance, the happiest he had ever been, and he wouldn't trade that for anything.

Chloe, as expected, hadn't told him about the baby. She just couldn't give in, everything was so perfect, sweet and idyllic that she had to keep the secret to herself for just a little while longer. She was so afraid Lucifer would reject her that she plainly suppressed any kind of thought about her baby in order to be able to enjoy all the beauty of the honeymoon stage they were in. She wasn't ready to give him up, to have him run away from her again. If he ever did that, which was highly likely, then blame her for wanting to make all the memories possible before it happened. For her, it had been two weeks of enjoying everything their relationship gave her, making memories and holding on to him as tightly as possible because deep inside her heart, she knew that what they had wouldn't be endless.

In those two weeks that had gone by, the slight curve that made her belly during afternoons and evenings had turned into a small, really tiny bump on her lower abdomen. All her baby needed was fourteen days to change, to grow and make her pregnancy a constant, even if she wanted to forget about it. There was no moment of the day where that tiny bump wouldn't be present, she would wake up with it, slightly smaller because she wasn't bloated, and often go to sleep with it in its full size. Truth to be told, she was afraid Lucifer would notice since he seemed to know her body so well, he was so aware of it. She loved her baby so much but sometimes she just wished it would freeze its growth and give her and Lucifer more time to be just the two of them. Sadly, biology didn't work that way, not even the celestial kind. Deep inside her heart, she knew she would have to tell him rather sooner than later.

Regarding work, well... everyone had already figured out they were together. Let's say they weren't the best at keeping things at bay, especially PDAs, and if we're being completely honest, most of them were on Lucifer. All it took was for the devil to sneak a peck on Chloe's lips during work hours and Ella walking in on them for the whole precinct to finally have the confirmation that deckerstar was a thing. That had been a day full of teasing, laughs and "I told you so's" but more than that, they had been showered with congratulations and love from their workmates, making them feel like maybe it wasn't so bad sharing bits of their personal lives anymore. However, they were really glad that the overexcitement eventually died down... three days later but still, they felt like they could breathe again once they weren't the centre of attention anymore.

Coming back to the present, Chloe and Lucifer were trying to figure out a new routine. Working together was slightly easier when there wasn't a relationship in between them, and now that there was, they also had to handle a whole new aspect of life that wasn't there before. Sometimes, fighting over a case would make ugly feelings linger for longer and affect their personal lives, or vice-versa, which was something they were still learning how to handle. They had to focus on how not to act all lovey-dovey while working if they wanted to have a healthy relationship.

Their current situation was a rather comical one. Chloe was doing police work and paperwork on the case of a woman in her late thirties murdered by blunt force trauma to the head, all while Lucifer was sat beside her, whining about how boring it was, whispering dirty things in her ear or playing with her stapler. Outsiders might wonder how they managed to work like that but truth to be told, Chloe was completely immune to it, she had grown so used to him that he was like an appendix. Might have been the two years they have been working together.