Devil May Care - Deckerstar

Chapter 5: The hardest beginning

"Chloe?" Lucifer was almost as quick as lighting to realize Chloe had stopped responding. It was obvious in the way her hands no longer tried to get the newborn baby girl up to her chest anymore, or in the way her eyes slowly but surely started to stare into nothingness. It was all in her eyes. "Detective? Wakey wakey, Detective, it's not time to go to sleep." Lucifer said in between the cries, but to no avail. "Bloody hell."

"Excuse me, sir?" He heard a voice from behind him and it was upon turning to face them that he realized just how gruesome the back of that car looked.

Chloe was oozing an unhealthy amount of blood, probably enough to explain her recent passing out, and he was covered in a mixture of human fluids that looked to be taken out straight of a horror movie. The baby was crying her lungs out sharply and highly, moving as much as she could within her mother's limp hands. At least the only smell there was that of blood.

It was then that it dawned on him. Chloe had just given birth to a child. His child. And she was now unconscious and making a pool of blood in the back of her car, with a baby girl crying on top of her limp body, looking paler by the second. He had just experienced that, and he was nothing short of in shock.

"Sir, we need..." and when the woman behind him caught a glimpse of how gruesome everything inside that car was, she got to moving. "Page nine one one, we're going to need an OR!" she yelled to the people under her command, and they all got to moving.

Lucifer felt as he was physically pushed away from inside the car, as some intern or someone he just couldn't care enough to notice moved him away to leave space for the medical professionals. He was left standing by the side of the door, watching as the woman that had first called him put two clamps on the baby girl's umbilical cord and cut it in a rush, separating mother and daughter completely.

"Where is all this blood coming from?" Bleeding after delivery was something normal. However, the amount of blood Chloe was losing was nothing short of deeply concerning.

Lucifer watched as the woman picked the baby girl up, the little bundle that couldn't possibly weigh more than six pounds, and wrapped her around Lucifer's suit jacket, handing her over to him in a hurry as they tried to deal with Chloe and how they were going to save her. Lucifer took her into his arms and he didn't care about his lack of experience, no. He was just instinctively following orders, doing what the doctors told him to even if not verbally.

Clover, as Chloe had named her, was still profusely crying in his arms. She was probably just as shocked as he was from the whole 'coming into the world' thing. They were both in a state of shock; he from the perspective of a man who delivered a child, and her from the perspective of being the child that was delivered. Lucifer found himself staring at her, trying to drown out the chaos and the nerves from the situation going on around him while staring at the newborn.

She had a fairly light skin color, if the redness of her skin right after birth told him something. There wasn't much hair coating her tiny head, but the hair that was there was of a light brown color, much like the color Chloe's hair would be if she didn't dye it blonde. Her eyes were a mystery, since she was crying so loudly and fiercely. They were shut closed very tightly as she still managed to find herself comfortable with breathing, and Lucifer suddenly found himself curious to know what color they were. She had long fingers that were curled into fists as she sought for comfort somewhere she wouldn't find it, and she was just so little. Lucifer was embezzled. He just couldn't believe it. That thing he had in his arms, that tiny, little girl crying her lungs out and breathing for the very first time had come from Chloe and him. It was completely unbelievable.

"How..." he was about to wonder how on earth had they been able to make that being come into existence with just one night. How? However, the medical team surrounding them had far better and more important things to do.