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#on a zoom call with family so they can say goodbye to Chloe and he’s going on about how bad she is sees I’m trying not to cry and says
icterid-rubus · 16 days
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#scheduled my cat to be put down this Friday#don’t wanna make a post about it but I wanna talk about it#asked my mom to come with to drive me and do the talking. dad asked to come too#except he doesn’t do earnest emotions well and says really stupid and insensitive shit when people are emoting#and I will be sobbing through all this. I already am#on a zoom call with family so they can say goodbye to Chloe and he’s going on about how bad she is sees I’m trying not to cry and says#gee! I don’t think she’ll make it through this! hohoho!#I don’t want anyone to be there with me at all but I know I just won’t be able to talk to the vet and pay#really just a fucked up year. ducked up like 6 years running but whatever#really tired but I can’t sleep. don’t want to talk to people but isolated#I want Chloe’s suffering to be over but I don’t want to let her go.#meanwhile I have bumble person on discord talking to me and it feels like such a slog. I want to ghost. I’m just tired in them and having#to keep up this like essays long reply chain about the minutia of our lives that doesn’t change ever#but that also feels mean because they haven’t been pushy and have been really considerate even when they asked to meet again and I said to#hold off because of my cat and it’s been like two weeks#I haven’t been in instagram because I don’t want fish store person to ask me out#trying to get stuff done for friends baby but realized in all this mess I forgot to block anything. feel like such a failure at everything#making baby presents. keeping my cat alive. making connections#I just don’t want to be perceived at all. I feel like such a non entity#or rather I feel like I should be a non entity. a picture on the wall of a disused room.#I’m so tired.
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magical-xirl-4 · 5 years
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Now that every episode of S3 has aired, I’m going to be watching Heart Hunter/Loveater and Miracle Queen. And so, I present to you, my thoughts on Battle of The Miraculous:
Ahem,
I WAS LITERALLY IN THE PROCESS OF WRITING MY THOUGHTS ON HEART HUNTER BUT MY LAPTOP SHUT DOWN AND DECIDED TO UPDATE
Which was super annoying, cause I was halfway through the episode. But I’ve managed to remember most of it
Anyway, that was annoying, but I still remember what I wrote:
- Marinette narrating in the beginning about loss, was honestly a big oof, since I know what happens in these two episodes
- Ugh, Cat was being petty about making LB jealous for sure
- Luka and LUKANETTE WAS SO CUTE I’M-- I love him so much, and I love them. They’re the light of my life right now. (also when he finishes Marinette’s melody, it’s totally going to be the theme of the show) THE BIKE RIDING AND CHEEK KISS WAS CUTE TOO
- Heart Hunter’s design is bad (Gabriel also totally gave them that cloak so they’d get pissed at each other)
- Adrigaminette rights!!!
- Adrien has a crush on both Ladybug, Kagami and Marinette, change my mind (He was smitten when he saw her with her hair out, like seriously) Rip to him scrolling through LB’s photos too, I felt bad but I had to laugh
- Kagami watching Adrien play piano is the softest shit, I died (Kagami and Adrigami in general is great in this episode)
- Also I freaked out when Adrien was grabbing Mari’s hand, and just hers. Like boy stop denying your feelings.
- Andre didn’t say poly rights but he did say Kagaminette rights
And now, back to where I left off in the episode:
- MARI’S GETTING SAD ABOUT THEM-
- ooof now things be getting intense, Hawkmoth’s figured out that she goes to Fu whenever she’s stuck
- RIP she saw Adrigami in action
- uh oh... she didn’t de-transform
- NO don’t choose Kagami, ffs this is like what happened in Desperada, don’t let your personal agenda interfere!
- Okay but Hawkmoth standing in front of the merry-go-round window is kinda funny
- POCKY GAME ADRIGAMI- oh never mind it’s just a kiss anyway
- Ladybug just straight up kidnapped her. Anyway we got some Ladygami/Kagamibug because she was carrying her :3
- I like how Mari was actually making her voice a little deeper to conceal herself... I’ve noticed that she does that in this season more often (her voice does change slightly when she’s LB, but not like what she used to sound like in S1)
- ARE WE GETTING A RYUUKO TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE OR WHAT? Like, a full one. PLEASE.
- NOOO we didn’t get one aghh
- YES BITCH, Jade Turtle let’s goo
- I am actually really enjoying this battle 
- Lmaoo Ladybug called out Cat’s flirting with Ryuuko 
- HOW DID CHLOE THROW THE HOW SPOTLIGHT AWAY
- Oh my jesus Hawkmoth and Chloe talking I CAN’T
- NOO POOR POLLEN
- Yeah I’m real worried about Fu’s whereabouts now
- OOF ADRIGAMI KISS. lmaoo Andre just staring at them
- oh shit. OH SHIT HERE IT COMES. LUKANETTE. I REPEAT LUKANETTE
- AHHHHH TEARS, IN MY EYES. 
- Mari crying is the worst BUT LUKA BEING SUPPORTIVE IS SO GOOD
...
Okay, now, after that, let’s finally move into the last episode: Miracle Queen.
- Oh my gosh, seeing everyone getting stung (families like Alya’s and Max’s especially) and Marinette narrating over it again... This shit is hurting
- AGh Luka saving her, I can’t do this
- I’m glad she thought to use Aqua Tikki. Anyway- OH. OH SHIT ADRIEN’S REJECTING KAGAMI?
- Well, ok, not really, but still...
- AH she saved him
- ANDRE WAS WATCHING THE ENTIRE TIME, EVEN WHEN HE TRANSFORMED 
- Seeing everyone being mind controlled is a bit worrying
- nNONONO MIRACLE QUEEN WANTS MIRACULOUS HOLDERS TO COME TO HER. NOW NO ONE’S GOING TO BE ABLE TO TRANSFORM AGAIN AFTER THIS
- SHE GRABBED ALYA’S GLASSES AND SMASHED THEM TF
- ahaha the first one who didn’t have glasses was Kim (”I thought that was a requirement”) oml that was actually funny
- SAY ANYTHING ABOUT LUKA AGAIN AND I’LL WHOOP YOUR ASS
- The Kwami’s aren’t going to do or say anything seeing them brainwashed??
- ew more Gabenath. THEIR BODIES ARE WAY TOO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER-
-  Noo she’s upset again ;-;
- OKAY THE LADYNOIR HUG WAS REALLY SWEET 
- YESSS FUCK YESSS. DRAGONBUG LET’S GOOO!!!
- SHE USED THE WATER DRAGON WITH HER YOYO, I’M SHOOK
- ohh shit Hawkmoth’s gonna use Fu to reveal their identity’s!
- YESS MAN, CAT NOIR AND LADYBUG TOGETHER!
- Okay but... Rena Rouge, Roy Singe, Pegase and especially Viperion are so deadly all together I have no idea how they’re going to win.
- NOO no. No. NO. I do not want to see Cat and Viperion fighting. Even if Luka is brain washed, I dont think I can handle it.
- OK NVM WHAT WAS EASY
- Was gonna say, poor Sass, but at least he got some food.
- Hell yeah SNAKE NOIR.
- WTF NO. ROY SINGE DAMMIT. DRAGONBUG NOOO.
- Thank fUCK for Second Chance
- YESS THAT WAS GENIUS YALL
- Can’t believe Chloe really thought she could get Akumatized AGAIN when LB is right there
- HEYEHEYEHHEYEY CHLOE WTF STOP. she has no idea that she literally can’t do that. she’ll crumble mentally is she uses all the miraculous
- anyway it’s super funny that all the Kwami’s are pissed at her. (Honey it don’t work like that, they’re not going to let you order them around)
- GUYS DO SOMETHING AND STOP THE SENTIMONSTER
- JUST GO UP THERE IT’S NOT HARD??
- OOF *that zoom on HM’s face when Fu said LB will be the next guardian aha*
- yeah.... the MIRACLE BOX JUST CHANGED WHAT THE HELL
- HAHA I like how Hawkmoth and Mayura just rode off on the Sentimonster
- Goodbye and good riddance, Chloe
- THEY’RE GONNA FIX THE PEACOCK MIRACULOUS?
- It’s sad hours now boys... Fu doesn’t remember anything... Wayzz’s face too, ugh :(
- MARINETTE’S NARRATION WAS FROM THE POV OF FU’S LETTER. HOLY SHIT. WHATTHE-
- Fu was ready to throw everything away, everything in that locker... Oh my god, I’m not ready for this
- Marianne! AHHH (he remembered her in some way, gosh damn this is bittersweet)
- WHAT.. what.... what the.... Adrien and Mari getting ice cream together, smiling.... AND TALKING normally, I...
- The way that the camera followed them... the fact that they said goodbye to each other to go sit apart from each other...
- NO .... NO I CAN’T HANDLE THIS. 
- Luka’s tune was so similar to the theme song and I’m... yeah I’m getting chills OKAY, I’LL ADMIT IT
This... holy shit this finale was good. Like... damn I loved how it ended. There were some good moments that I appreciated, and all together it was really nice.
I need to know how season 4 is going to pick up after this one, so much has changed. I want this show to be better, I really do, and I’m hoping the next season really takes the wind out of us.  
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@chowderweek | day one: full moon
Lunar Photography |  [ao3]
Chris is in the kitchen waiting for the water to boil. He has the throw blanket from the couch around his shoulders, ready to bring upstairs with him, and is considering grabbing the “outside” blanket from the hall closet to sit on, knowing from experience how quickly the shingles on the roof sap body warmth from your ass. It may only be October, but the air is cold as soon as the sun goes down, and Chris plans on being outside while the sun goes down. It’s kinda essential.
The kettle whistles so Chris takes it off the heat. He looks at the mug with the tea bag he’d been planning on using, looks at the time, and knows he made a miscalculation. By the time he gets back upstairs and comfortable, the tea will probably be cold and drinking hot tea is mostly how Chris deals with the cold. He puts the kettle back on the burner, ignores the soft whistle that comes from it, and goes to look for a go-cup of some sort. He knows that his is still in his school bag, half full of the mocha he’d made this morning, and doesn’t think anyone else leaves theirs in the kitchen but is proved wrong when he catches sight of a blue and white go-cup drying upside down. Beggars can’t be choosers and at least it doesn’t have a Ducks’ logo.
“Wicks, can I borrow your go-cup?” Chris shouts in the general direction of the door, already pulling it from the drying rack. He’s like, 95% sure the answer will be yes so he puts the tea bag from the mug into the cup. He pauses before pouring the water over, until he hears a muffled, “go for it, bro!” from the attic and he tips the kettle. He’s a little overzealous in his pouring as he loses the string that makes the tea bag easy to get out in the process, but that’s a problem for later.
Chris lets the tea steep while he goes to dig out the blanket. The hall closet is a mess, there’s a slip’n’slide hanging between someone’s winter clothes, but Chris’s able to kick around the loose pucks to find the blanket. He tosses it towards the stairs goes back into the kitchen. 
The tea isn’t quite the colour he wants, so he grabs paper towel and a clean spoon from the drawer. He’ll let the tea finish steeping upstairs. He twists the matching Toronto blue lid on, and makes sure the throw is tied securely around his shoulders. The last thing he wants is a repeat of last week’s incident when Nursey tripped up the stairs while carrying a fresh cup of coffee.
At the bottom of the stairs, Chris puts the spoon in his mouth and tucks the paper towel under his chin to grab the outside blanket. He drags it up the stairs, concentrating more on the paper towel roll that’s trying to escape, no matter how tightly he tucks his chin to his chest. He manages to make it into his room with minimal casualties (the towel roll has been bent completely out of shape, there’s no saving it) and sets the go-cup on his desk. He opens his laptop, shaking the mouse to wake it up, and pulls up Skype. While Chris waits for the application to sign him on, he untwists the lid and, finally seeing a colour with actual flavour, takes the spoon from his mouth so he can fish out the teabag and set it on some paper towel so he doesn’t make a mess.
He gets the teabag out and twists the lid on tightly, before taking off the screen of the window. It’s chilly so he’s glad he brought up two extra blankets. Still, he puts a hoodie on over the Samwell long sleeve he’s been wearing since getting home from classes. He shoves the outside blanket out the window first, follows it out to lay it out on the flat part of the roof. His laptop, tea, and the mooncakes his parents sent earlier in the week go next, placed far enough out that he won’t step on them when he follows them out. Before he does though, he wraps his Sharks blanket around his shoulder, like how Caitlin wears her giant plaid scarf that could probably fit two people, and then the throw from downstairs goes around his chest like a strapless dress. He shuts the big light off so he can see better once he's outside.
Chris wiggles out the window, and carefully sits with his back against the Haus. He opens Skype once his computer wakes up and clicks over to the first name on his contact list. His dad answers quickly, like he always does, but before they can say more than hi, the tablet gets taken by someone.
“Is it clear there, Chris?” Chloe says, holding the screen so Chris isn’t looking up her nose like he was his dad's.
“Oh hi Chloe, I’m good thanks for asking, how’s high school treating you?” Chris says to his younger sister. She huffs and rolls her eyes, which tells Chris a lot about how she’s probably treating high school.
“It’s fine Chris, c’mon lemme see.”
“Don’t you have a full moon over there?”
Chloe huffs again. “I told you, it’s been cloudy all day, Christopher, I’m not sure I’ll see anything here.”
Chris sticks his tongue out at her, but does as she asks and places the laptop so the camera is facing away from the Haus and out over the street.
The harvest moon sits high in the sky, almost directly over the LAX house, so Chris tilts the camera so he’s not an accessory to his little sister looking in their windows or something, and thinks that he’s gotten a pretty good shot of the moon.
“Can you zoom on this thing?” Chloe asks. "Like, make it look better?"
Apparently not.
“Hey, you’re getting double the full moon here, no complaining,” Chris grumbles, but runs his fingers over the trackpad to see if he can zoom. He doesn’t think it does anything, but Chloe stops complaining, so he sits back and watches the clouds roll over the moon like he does with Chloe every year.
She starts making noise about where exactly it is in the sky so she can compare it to what she might see in three hours when the sun’s gone down on the west coast and Chris responds by loudly slurping his tea where he knows the mic will best pick it up because his little sister is a nerd and he’s a big brother.
“You’re so gross Chris,” Chloe says, but she’s in the process of sticking the camera in her mouth to gross him out so she really doesn’t have a leg to stand on, Chris thinks.
The tablet gets taken back by their dad before Chris can guess what Chloe had for dinner and then passed around to all the relatives that have gathered together. Some of them shout into the mic to apparently make up for the distance between Chris and his family, other’s position the camera just so all Chris can see is their chins or noses. He answers the same questions over and over again, but it’s comforting rather than annoying to answer, knowing that they care enough to ask about his classes and Caitlin and his teammates, even when he’s on the opposite coast.
Once Chris has spoken to what feels like the entirety of both sides of his extended family that lives in California, he’s passed to his mother for the standard long goodbye. He successfully convinces her, three aunts and an uncle that he’s eating enough, and promises to call her tomorrow.
It’s quiet when Chris finally hangs up and closes his laptop. It’s bright still though, from the moon, but now that Chris isn’t talking to anyone, he feels the chill of the night so he rolls to his knees to go in. He moves slowly to shake out the stiffness from the wind and sitting in one position for so long.
He dumps the blankets from downstairs near his door and steps over them on his downstairs to wash the borrowed go-cup. He’s halfway down the stairs when he realizes what he did, but really doesn’t care enough to go back to get them, so just goes into the kitchen to do the dishes. It’s quiet in the Haus too, early enough in the semester and season that everyone has regular sleep schedules. Chris leaves the go-cup drying where he found it, and then goes to get ready for bed. He sends his nightly kiss emoji to Caitlin, glad that she doesn’t reply because she has morning practice, and gets comfortable in his bed.
Just as Chris is double checking his alarm is set, a snap from Chloe pops up. He switches apps and taps on the red square to load the picture. 
It’s a picture of the full moon, taken on Chloe’s camera and then transferred to her phone so she can show off on snapchat. It’s definitely not clear in California, though the moon is bright and stands out against the wisps of cloud it hadn’t cleared. Chris screenshots immediately and then switches apps again to keep looking at it. It brings back more memories of sitting under the moon every year with his family, and he’ll only admit it if pressed like, really hard, but that’s probably because Chloe’s really good at astrophotography. He saves the photo in his album called, home.
A snapchat messages pops up from Chloe: lol, nerd
Chris snorts and types back: double full moon ftw
Chloe replies with a selfie except her face has been blocked by the full moon emoji with the caption triple moon [peace sign emoji].
Chris screenshots that one too.
(For blackmail purposes.)
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Fic prompt: Lucifer + Trixie & her classmates
I had so much fun writing this fic! Reminds me of my elementary school days…..It’s a long one so you can either read below or on AO3 here.
Trixie was sitting on a stool at the kitchen counter eating a bowl of cereal that Chloe had poured for her earlier. Maze had insisted on buying the child a very sugar heavy box of cereal, Chloe had told Maze many times that sugar is not a substantial breakfast but between Maze’s look of death and Trixie’s puppy eyes she gave in and placed the box in the cart. One time a week a classmate was allowed to bring either a parent, guardian or some family member to class with them and have them spend the day. The family member of choice would spend the entire day with the child, including sitting next to them in class, eating lunch with them, and playing with them on the playground. However, the child could not bring their person of choice on a test day because the teacher did not want the child to have help during exams. This week was Trixie’s turn to bring someone in, and Trixie had no clue who she wanted to bring. Last year she brought her mother in and all her friends asked all sorts of questions about what her mom’s job. How many people have you arrested? Do you turn on your lights and drive as fast as you can just for fun sometimes? How often do you use your gun? Have you ever shot someone and killed them? Trixie heard all those questions and Chloe answered them without freaking the kids out too much.
This year, however, Trixie made three new friends who she considered part of her family, they were an angel, a devil, and his demon. Not the typical new friends a mother of an eight-year-old would want her daughter to make, but over the past months, they have acted like family more than some of their real blood relatives. Trixie knew her father was going to busy at work, as well as her mother. Amenadiel, or her Guardian Angel as she referred to him as didn’t really know Trixie that well. Besides, he always seems to be running around and talking about his heavenly duties, whatever that meant. All Trixie knew was that Amenadiel wasn’t in LA that much, mostly whenever Lucifer seemed to get in trouble would he show up and scold his younger brother. That meant Trixie could either bring Maze or Lucifer. She loved them both dearly, but there was a small dilemma. Both Maze and Lucifer didn’t seem to like other children, Lucifer would always squirm whenever she would run up and hug him and he would always shy away from other kids that happened to pass him on the street. Maze, although she didn’t really like children either would at least take her to the mall to go watch movies as well as letting her buy ice cream even when she wasn’t supposed to have it.
“Trixie! It’s time for school babe, grab your backpack and lunch so we can go!” Immediately Trixie snapped out of her trance and did as her mother said. Running upstairs she grabbed her backpack and put on her sparkly tennis shoes. Running back down the stairs she grabbed her lunch that was currently resting on top of side table of the living room before heading out the door, having Chloe close it behind her.
Chloe opened the car door for her daughter and made sure she was buckled in, closing the passenger door she made her way around to the driver’s seat. She put the keys into the ignition, buckled up, and then pulled out of the drive way to drop her daughter off at school. About 5 minutes into the drive Chloe spoke up, breaking the silence.
“Have you thought about who you are going to bring into school to spend the day with you tomorrow honey?”
 Trixie continued to stare out of the window, watching the rows of houses and trees zoom by her gaze as if they only appeared for a second.
“I don’t know yet Mommy, I’m stuck between bringing either Maze or Lucifer. I know Amenadiel isn’t around very much and I know how busy Daddy and you are. Besides, seeing as Lucifer and Maze have just recently joined this family none of my classmates will know too much about them. I think it would be fun to bring them, don’t you Mommy?”

“I’m sure it would be fun, but honey, Lucifer and Maze don’t really like children that much.” Thought that isn’t entirely true, she added in her head. Maze had agreed to take Trixie Trick ‘or’ Treating that night Lucifer and she was stuck working a murder when she had gotten home both Trixie and Maze were asleep on the couch with candy wrappers spread out around them. When Trixie woke up the next morning she told Chloe how it was the best Halloween ever, she even got $50 is cash. Chloe had to keep the candy under her close watch though, she didn’t want her daughter to get stuck in a sugar comma.
“Well sweetie, Maze texted me this morning saying she had a new bounty she needed to start tracking, so I’m afraid your only option is Lucifer, or I could try and see if I can get Daddy to go?”
“No that’s ok, can you tell Lucifer he needs to come to school with me tomorrow?”
“Sweetie I cannot force him to go if he doesn’t want too, but I will ask him if he would like too. Just don’t get your hopes up, ok sweetie? I know he isn’t too found of children.”
“Ok, Mommy.” They arrived the drop-off-line of school, Chloe stopped the car and waited for Trixie to get out of the car, double checking she had her lunch.
“Have a great day sweetheart, I promise I will ask Lucifer about tomorrow, ok?”
“Alright, love you, Mommy, bye!” Trixie waved as her mother said goodbye and moved further away from the school. She only hoped that her mother would be able to convince Lucifer to come and spend a day at school with her. Trixie spent the whole day at school letting her friends know that she hoped she could have someone special come to school with her tomorrow but she just had to wait for her mother to ask them. Her classmates tried to guess who she was bringing, some guessed her Dad, other a cousin or uncle. She kept her lips shut and said they would hopefully see who she brought into school with her. With the ring of the bell, all the children settled down in their seats and began with the class actives for the day.
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Chloe walked into Trixie’s room to wake up her daughter and have her ready for school. She pulled out a fresh pair of shorts, a ruffled top, and turned on her lamp.
“Trixie babe, time to wake up.” She placed a kiss on her daughter’s forehead, having her stir in her sleep. She walked out of the room but before she left she turned and said “Oh, and you better be quick there is someone waiting for you downstairs. I wouldn’t want to keep him waiting.” She turned and headed out of Trixie’s room to head down stairs to prepare breakfast for herself, her daughter, and their devilish guest. By the pure grace of God Lucifer had happily agreed to accompany Trixie in school tomorrow.
Lucifer had approached her yesterday afternoon at the precinct stating he wouldn’t be able to come into work because he already had something else in mind to attend to. When she questioned he could possibly be doing all day tomorrow he stated that he had to go to school. Of course, Chloe just stared blankly at him, waiting for more of an explanation.
“At your home last week, I saw the flyer Beatrice had in her bag stating it was her turn to bring in a family member to school with her. I knew Maze would be called for a bounty mission soon because she has one almost every other week, and seeing that detective douche take on that extra case last week meant he wasn’t going to have time to take a day off. Besides, since we wrapped up our case yesterday that meant you and I would just be doing boring paperwork all day tomorrow, so I might as well have some fun with your spawn.” He gave Chloe his signature Lucifer smirk after he finished what he needed to stay. Chloe was at a loss for words, she didn’t know how to respond except for “wow.” Finally snapping out of her haze she shook her head and stated: “But you hate children.”
“Mmm, true I despise children, but young Beatrice has grown on me a little. I believe I can handle a day at school with her, as long as she promises not to stick on my like honey.” He held up a finger to emphasize his request.
After hearing her mothers statement Trixie practically jumped out of bed and got ready for school as soon as possible. She brushed her hair, changed her clothes and got her backpack all sorted. She ran out of her room, through the hall, and down the steps all while screaming his name at the top of his lungs.
Their guest downstairs braced for the impending arrival and impact of the almost 50-pound girl that was now barreling towards him.
“LUUUUUCCCCIIIIIIFEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!!!”
“Yes, hello child.” Trixie immediately attached herself to Lucifer’s hip with a death grip. She smiled up at him with big puppy eyes and a face that was very similar to Chloe’s whenever they had one of their more, intimate, moments. Chloe, to Lucifer’s dismay, made no attempt to detach her daughter from him. She simply stood idly by and laughed at Lucifer’s interaction with her daughter. Yep, this should be a fun day at school indeed.
“Come on Monkey, grab your backpack and a bite to eat before you get into the car, I just need to tell Lucifer a couple things ok?”

“Ok Mommy,” she answered as she continued to keep her death grip around Lucifer’s waist. Lucifer gave a pleading look in Chloe’s direction for assistance.
“Baby, that means you need to let go of Lucifer. Don’t worry, I’ll make sure he doesn’t go anywhere.” Chloe glared at Lucifer and motioned him to come with her into the living room. Trixie, after what seemed like an eternity, had finally let go of her hold of him and went into the kitchen to eat breakfast. Lucifer quickly followed Chloe into the living room before the child decided to skip breakfast and reattach herself to him.
Once in the living room, Chloe turned to face him, her arms folded against her chest.
“Lucifer you need to understand that you are going to be responsible for watching over my daughter for the entire time she is at school.”
“I understand Detect-“
“That means no-” she brought her voice down a little, “-no innuendo’s, no bad language, no propositioning the teacher and school staff for a quickie in the janitors closet. You have to act like a…a mature adult who can take care of a kid.”
“Are you done hassling me now Detective.” She glared at Lucifer. Here it comes, his smart ass response, she thought to herself.
“Now, before you so rudely interrupted me I was going to say that I understand, Detective. I know how important this day is for you daughter and I wouldn’t want to ruin it. You can count on me to watch over your child, I promise.” This time instead of giving her his signature Lucifer smirk, he gave her a soft gaze and a warm smile. One she didn’t see him use as often. She placed a hand on his arm and gave it a slight squeeze.
“I know.” She returned the soft gaze, a lingering moment rested between them before Trixie came running into the room, once more attaching herself to Lucifer.
“I’m ready Mommy! Come on Lucifer we have to go now!” She jumped up and down knowing she was going to have the coolest person come to spend the day at her school.
Lucifer and Trixie headed to his Corvette while Chloe took her car to the precinct. She gave her daughter one last kiss on her temple before buckling her up in Lucifer’s car.
“What, no kiss for me Detective?” He wiggled his eyebrows seductively as Chloe just rolled her eyes, turned, and got into her own car. Lucifer pulled out of the driveway first, Chloe following shortly after, and then both went their separate ways.
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Trixie held onto Lucifer’s hand as they walked into the main office of the school. He stood waiting by the door as Trixie explained to the desk lady that he was her to visit. The older women asked for his name before handing her a name tag to give to him to wear.
“You need to put this name tag on that way Mr. Bower knows you are here to visit.” She peeled off the back of the tag and gave Lucifer the sticky part. He pouted slightly knowing some of the sticky stuff would get on his black Parada suit jacket but placed the tag on the left side of his chest. Trixie grabbed hold of his hand and led him down the hallway towards Mr. Bower’s classroom. All her other classmates were already sitting at their desks, including her teacher Mr. Bower. Trixie opened the classroom door and led Lucifer in. Lucifer took a quick glance at the 20 other kids in the room, a healthy mix of both boys and girls before turning his attention to the teacher. Mr. Bower looked to be about a 38-year-old man, and from the short summary, Trixie gave him on the way over he is from Africa. His family immigrated from Botswana to California when he was 17 years old. He spoke English well, he had taken classes when he moved to learn the English language. He studied hard and went to California State University where he got a master’s in teaching. He concentrated on African studies and hopes that in a couple years he will be able to return back to Africa to teach the many children the English language and simple reading and writing skills.
“Hello Trixie, I see you have brought someone with you to class today.”
“Mr. Bower, this is Lucifer Morningstar and he is going to spend the day with me.” Mr. Bower rose from his desk and walked over to Lucifer. He extended his hand as Lucifer did the same.
“Mr. Morningstar I am Mr. Bower, Trixie’s third-grade teacher, a pleasure to meet you. Trixie would like to introduce your family member to the rest of the class?”
“Sure!” She pulled Lucifer to stand in the front of the room with her, he stood and smiled as Trixie introduced him.
“This is Lucifer Morningstar, he works with my mom at the Police Station. He helps her solve crimes and protects her at all times. He also owns a club called LUX, but I’m not old enough to go there yet.” Trixie looked up at Lucifer and squinted her eyes, running through her mental list to see if she was forgetting anything.
“Oh and I almost forgot, Lucifer’s thinks he’s the Devil but he is an actual angel.” She gave the class and her teacher a big smile, receiving empty stares from both her teacher and her classmates. Her smile soon faded when none of the kids started clapping, she really thought that bringing Lucifer would impress her class. Then one of the boys, Tommy, raised his hand.
“Yes, Tommy?” Mr. Bower asked.
“Soooooo…if you are the devil, shouldn’t you have horns and a tail?” He asked, resting his chin on his hand.
“Ah, that’s what most people think the Devil looks like, but alas they are wrong. I do not have a horn or a tail, but I can do this.” A blink of an eye, literally, he flashed his eye’s at the classmates hoping that it would give the kids enough proof that he was the Devil, but not scare them. Chloe would have a fit if the teacher had to send both Trixie and Lucifer home because he terrified the children. There was about a minute of silence before the classroom erupted with “whoooaaaah’s” and “that is so cool!” as well as “best family member ever!” Trixie face beamed up again with the approval of her classmates, hopefully, this would keep anyone from thinking of picking on her again in the near future. Mr. Bower, however, had not seen Lucifer’s eyes change and stood up to regain order in the classroom. He instructed Trixie to sit down at her desk while he went to retrieve an extra chair for Lucifer. He played the small plastic chair beside Trixie and told Lucifer to take a seat since the class was about to start. Lucifer took a seat, his knees almost at his chest due to the chairs small size, and looked to the front of the room. Mr. Bower turned on his laptop and the projector, officially starting the school day.
Throughout the day Trixie, her classmates, and Lucifer learned about the different planets of the solar system, names of moons, and some well-known constellations. After that, they switched over to learned how to read maps as well as finding different countries in different continents on a globe. By noon time it, the classmates, as well as Trixie and Lucifer, were getting hungry and losing their concentration. Mr. Bower dismissed the class and led them to the cafeteria where they children would eat lunch. Once Lucifer walked into the cafeteria his eyes grew in size at the view of over a hundred children sitting in the small area. A small warm hand gripped his larger hand and led him into the child infested area. You can sit next to me Lucifer, that way you don’t get lost. Of course, Trixie wasn’t the only person who wanted to sit next to Lucifer, her entire class wanted to sit with him too. “Great,” he thought, “more children to try to touch my Parada.”
Lucifer took a seat next to Trixie at a large round table and the rest of her class joined her except for the few popular girls of the class who would have nothing to do with Trixie nor her guest. Trixie opened her lunch box and pulled out two egg and cilantro sandwiches that Chloe had made her and Lucifer earlier. Trixie handed Lucifer the sandwich and his face lit up with a wide smile. He hadn’t planned on eating anything, but after the Detective had made him that sandwich a couple of months ago he just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to taste her refined cooking. Trixie also handed Lucifer an apple juice box her mother also had graciously packed for the two of them in the morning. Throughout lunch, the kids would ask different questions about Lucifer’s and Trixie’s relationship. For example, Adam, a boy with brown hair and glasses asked how the two had met, in which Lucifer replied that the Detective had to make a stop at the school one day to pick up Beatrice and he met her outside of a teachers office. Kelly, one of the most talkative girls in the class, asked if he was Trixie’s new Dad since her real father never had time for her anymore. Trixie looked down in shame, knowing that all the kids knew her parents were divorced and she didn’t spend much time with her father.
“No, I am not Beatrice’s new dad, I am her mother’s partner at work and that is all. Her father is a very busy man because he has to make sure all of you, you family and your friends are safe. His job is important but whenever he does have free time he makes sure he can see Beatrice. We are all friends and we all work together, and I don’t mind looking after Trixie when her parents are working a case.” He smiled at his statement and rested a hand on her head, slightly ruffling her hair a little. The kid’s questions and stories about their lives took up the whole 30 minutes allotted time for lunch. Mr. Bower returned to the cafeteria to retrieve the kids. The children took their turn throwing away any trash they might have before going outside to the playground for another 20 minutes to get some exercise.
Lucifer followed the children and Trixie outside to the playground where they children insisted on playing metal tag. Lucifer, have never played childish games in hell had no clue how to play this “metal tag.” Andrew, a rather tall blonde boy explained the rules of the game. The game was simple, two people would be ‘it’ meaning they would try to catch the other players who were running around the playground. You were safe, meaning you cannot be tagged if you were touching a piece of metal. This included the monkey bars, sliding poles, and metal slides, etc. Touching anything other than the metal parts of the playground meant you were fair game for the taggers. Trixie and Kyle were chosen to be ‘it’ while the rest of the class had to run around the playground.
Chloe had chosen playground time to drive by the school and check to see how both Lucifer and Trixie were getting along. She walked up the grass field to get a good view of the playground, her eyes widened at what she saw. She quickly pulled out her phone to capture a video as well as take a couple of pictures. She smiled as she filmed Lucifer being chased by the entire class as he tried to get to a metal pole on the opposite side of the playground. The kids chose metal tag just so they could have an excuse to chase him. She laughed as she watched them children and Lucifer finish their playground game before the swarm grabbed onto his Parada suit jacket, almost knocking him to the ground. The children were laughing, Trixie was smiling wider than Chloe has ever seen and Lucifer even managed to let out a good laugh. A whistle blew in the distance signaling that recess was over and the kids needed to come back inside to finish their day. Chloe turned around on her heels and made her way back to her car to head back to work.
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On their way home Trixie told Lucifer how much she and her classmates enjoyed having him come to school. She couldn’t wait to get home to tell her mother all about her day. Finally pulling up the drive way Trixie nearly bounded out of the Corvette and ran to the front door. Her mother’s car was parked in the driveway, so the door was open. Bounding in the door she met Chloe walked towards her.
“Mommy!!” She ran and hugged her mother, backpack, and lunchbox in tow.
“Hey Monkey, how was school today?” She took Trixie’s lunch box from her hand and planted a kiss on her forehead.
“BEST DAY EVER!!! My classmates all loved Lucifer and I think he actually enjoyed spending the entire day with me. Can he come to school tomorrow with me too!?! Pleeeeaaassseee?!??!?!?” She gave her mother the biggest puppies eyes she could muster.
“I’m glad you had fun sweetie, but I’m going to need to take Lucifer back, he needs to help me on a new case I was assigned today.”
“Awwwww, alright.” She gave a little pout before bounding up the stairs to put her backpack away and start on her homework.
“What a day, who would have thought a bunch of children to tire the Devil out this much.” Chloe looked up to see a rather exhausted but still charming Lucifer stand in her doorway. He had removed his jacket, having only his white collared shirt exposed, and his hair wasn’t as tamed as he normally had it; curl escaping here and there.
“Well, you and Trixie can tell me all about it over dinner, if you want to stay that is.”
“I would like nothing more Detective.” The exchanged smiles and soft glances before Chloe led him into the kitchen for a pre-dinner glass of wine. After both, the day’s they had it was a well-deserved drink.
Thanks so much for the prompt and I hope you enjoyed reading this story!
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