The suburban lifestyle, picturesque, of every day living in an area amongst the people, who are more likely to ignore you than to make the effort of being interested in your life, is a good choice for me. Considering I prefer to keep to myself, and love the quiet community which is another good point in my books.

" Okay, so, I'll ask. What is your opinion on this area, Ellie?."

I craned my head to the right side of my body. " What do you mean, Lucifer?" I mean the one thing I do like about the street is how open and desolate it felt compared to the city. Quiet. " It is alright, I suppose. The houses are nice."

He, pleased with my answer, brought his phone up to show me a house listing on a real estate site.

" Your realtor would agree with you, on that accord, darling. They did say this area is quite a good place to own your first property."

I have my own realtor? I don't recall having one or an agent to help me.

" it was going to be a surprise but I took the liberty of calling several, on your behalf, actually. After you told me you were in the market, for a place to call yours. Gave me a good hour of distraction, if we are being honest and open here." Woah. He did what? I stopped Lucifer, we are couple of metres from the door of our latest suspect. The victim's boyfriend.

" You.. were searching for houses? For me? Lu, I appreciate the help. but I have an apartment I am interested in." I tell him, my hand still on his arm. Him thinking about where I would go, and I will live in, made my heart flutter quickly as the door of the house opened. " Besides I..."

my train of thought is derailed, seeing there is a smeared blood stained knife in the hands of the boyfriend. 'Animal blood' there is a distinct odour I could tell part from human to animal. I could see he is pissed off. " Get the hell of my property."

He spat, butchers knife aimed right at us.

He wore an old kitchen apron, which is splattered in blood. " Well, you are in luck, El. If this home is the site of a recent massacre, it's safe to say you may well be in an excellent place to negotiate with him." Lucifer stated, taking a side step and standing in the way.

" I am all for theatrics but the Sweeney Todd thing is a bit outdated and histrionic. Don't you think?" He had both hands stuffed in his pockets.

" animal blood." I mumble to Lucifer, he must be a butcher. He relaxes his defensive stance at my whisper.

" Oh. You are cops? My bad. These militant vegans, next door, have been up in my grill all day long. I assumed it was them, again. Come on outback, I hope you're hungry." I followed, though still a little cautious, behind and there I thought I had seen everything. He had his own outdoor butcher shop in his backyard.

' Rather good smelling for homemade sausages.'

He did a wave of his knife, showing off the made-up shop. Lucifer 'Ohs' in mild surprise.

' Oh wow.'

" See? We're making artisanal sausage. All organic meat. All our products are farm to table, Ma'am, sir. This is for my restaurant, Ellipsis." I've heard of the place on the street. I was smelling each produce being thawed out, a different combination of vegetables and meats.

" Oh, yes! I've heard the grilled polenta is quite divine." States Lucifer. " I will have to take you there for supper, darling. One day."

" We also brew our own Kombucha, keep bees. There is no hormones in this meat." I nodded. I did find it fascinating how the process works, to maintain the freshly cut meat and not allow it to rot, but we are here on business. " Davis."

I say. Clearing my throat I stepped forward.

" I, and my partner are here, want to ask you a few things in relation to your girlfriend. Daria. She was found murdered last night."

The beautiful blonde girl chopping onions scoffed, when the word 'Girlfriend' is mentioned. " Is there any waitress that YOU haven't slept with? I'm out."

She threw the bloodied cleaning towel on Davis, out of spite, marching off. ' Well if that's not awkward.' Lucifer found it amusingly fun. I feel for her, infidelity is wrong on all accounts.

" Oh. Gosh. Is hipster infidelity more egregious than homicide?"

I flicked my hand on Lucifer's chest.

" Come on, you have to agree. It's funny, darling."

' I cannot take him anywhere. I am, seriously, reconsidering if I need him anymore to help.'

~•~

Davis informed Lucifer and I of Daria's room mate, Naomi, might have an idea of her time line. One conversation with Davis, it was clear he is innocent. Well— excluding the part where he cheated on his wife, Gisele, multiple times in a short amount of time.

Lucifer is acting odd, more than he already does. Pushing me to have a girls night out in town. Even if I did go, and have fun, I would say approximately I got two girlfriends. Ella and Maze. Maze has not once stopped messaging me, suggesting places we could go.

" I haven't seen Daria, or Naomi, all week. Did something happen to them?" The neighbour, who is kind enough to grant Lucifer and I access to the apartment, said. Leading both of us straight to Daria's place key in hand.

" We feed each other's cats."

Lucifer scowls, at the mere mention of the felines.

" What? Aren't you a fan of cats, Lucifer?"

I teased and nudge him in his arm.

" I detest any kind of cats or fury creatures. Hard enough for me to give you Luka. Want an animal, to stare at you with contempt? Get a cat. Open a box of excrements in your house? Cat."

He attested to his own words, sauntering in to the apartment. ' Okay. That is a strong aroma.'

I paused, then do I try to not feel nausea, smelling faecal and decomposition. " Smell that. Foul creatures." Following the smell, in question, I sighed sadly upon noticing another deceased blonde girl, in her twenties, laid on the floor. Sheet white.

" I take this is Naomi."

I comment, quietly. Then I hear the familiar sound of a gasp coming out of the neighbours mouth. ' That triangle stamp.'

I graze my finger on her wrist, which I retract to my body once it started to make those blacked out veins appear. " She's got the same stamp as did Daria. Same tell signs of another poisoning."

" Well, well. Looks like a girls night gone bad."

~•~

After calling in Naomi's death, Lucifer had the nerve to leave the scene and I had scoffed. I'm aware he has his free will but it was a routinely used pattern he did. How did I end up, back in Lux, is telling to me and how I feel about him. No matter how he acts I always end up leading myself back to him. " Ellie. Darling!"

And he is not alone. On his arms were two, impressively good looking, women whose eyes were solely on Lucifer.

' Not jealous. I'm not jealous.'

He is free to be with any ladies or gentlemen he desires. I'm not his warden.

" I.. I came here to tell you the tox screen results, of our case, is ready. I thought you might want to read it with me. But if.. you are busy. I can come back."

He detangles his arms out of the girls holds.

" Can these wait? Those deaths were fiendishly tragic but in certain, that come tomorrow, during our office hours our dead girls will still be Dead."

I stuttered an 'Oh.' Startled by how harsh he is. " Oh. I just thought I.."

Am I irritating him? It wasn't my intention.

Mazikeen suddenly rocked up, coming to my side, announcing herself and I feel her shrug an arm on my shoulders. " You saved me a trip. Come on, Sweetie. You and I, we are going out in town. Just like we discuss."

I sense maze take my arm, tugging me towards the exit.

" We don't need to drink. Let's just do what human girls do, shop. No nail salons, tho. Nails fuck up the job of torture. We're leaving."

" I'm in! Oh and I brought along the newbie, as well. He insisted on coming for a ride along on this girls trip." Ella, joined by Nathan who is a casual dressed man now, came bounding over.

" Lucifer said I should drop by. Nate, here, also overheard me cause I was so pumped about it. This is like my first night out in so long."

Ella, driven from how excited she is to party, said. I go to deter the idea of partying, I had enough of it in the last few weeks. " Who the hell is she? And why in the Hell are you here? I thought you were supposed to be in your hell loop. How did you get out?" Maze, her stare is intensely focused on Nathan, shifts to Ella.

" I thought I did recognise you. Yes, you are Ellie's father. Charles. Your time was limited, in hell. But I see you manage to overcome that grief of yours, you know the guilt you had. If I remember correctly."

Guilt? Hell? My dad, he was in Hell?

But he said amenadiel had gotten his soul before it could go to heaven. He's lying to me. Nathan closed his eyes, muttering along the lines of 'Crap.'

I ignored it and open up the report I have.

" I was about to give him a run.. down on your report, Ella. Do you want to..?"

" No, you go ahead. I gotta go dehydrate." Ella runs off to use the restroom. ' Okie Dokie.' My hand flips around and point to the toxicology results.

" You see this? It means there was an underlying tissue damage in his her stomach. I read it was liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold and can make cocktails really Smokey. It's probably the cause and how she ingested the.."

with the little thorough knowledge, and info, I was given I figured this was also how the killer manage to kill Daria and Naomi without being detected. I'm interrupted by Lucifer. I sighed.

" Not to shoot you down, I'm proud of you and how you got the excellent indeed lead you got, but you just ruined my ménage a trois."

Nathan narrows his eyes.

" You might be the devil, Lucifer, and think you can talk anyway you want. But be mindful of how you speak to Ellie there."

He got in Lucifers face, not once in the time he stared the literal devil did he flinch or cower. Corners of his lips upturning, Lucifer hummed.

" Dad. It's fine. It's fine."

I creeped up, managing to push dad's chest making him step back from trying his luck at going back to hell. " Second. There is a club, on Gower, and I found there's an abandoned building on that street corner. It looked like it was recently used for a party or something. I'm thinking it was a rave of some sort. Could you.. like I don't know, pull some strings? Help me out? Yeah?".

I entwined my fingers, boring my eyes up at Lucifer. ' I have no clue why I'm nervous for.'

I feel maze interlock our arms. " You seem to have your finger on the pulse, when it comes to it. You know? Partying." He, exasperatedly, did a sigh. " Not the appendage I'd hope to be pulsing by now." He says, looking everywhere but at me.

' Okay. Did I do something? Is he mad at me?'

I disguised my feelings, of hurt, casting my stare down at the ground finding it interesting all of a sudden.

" I know that hood. There's a great tiki bar across the street, from that building. I know the bartender personally and physiologically. Your dad can still be there to watch us girls, but I do prefer if he did stay."

' Okay. Fine by me. If Lucifer wants me to have Fun. I can have all the fun in the world. I can do that.'

~•~

Aunt Chloe had decided, last minute, to join in on the Girls night. So did Doctor Linda which is a surprise considering her profession. Maze unscrewed the cap off her beer bottle. I order the heaviest and fullest alcoholic drink. ' Surely this time I can handle my liquor.' Nathan had a Heineken beer in his hand. " Technically I can say you are legal, in certain countries. But I am also certain you are underage, still, El's. To be drinking." He professed, leaning in next to me.

" Screw the rules, dad. I'm an Angel after all. I don't go by those standards, now."

I said and I surprised myself with how harsh I sound. Aunt Chloe is showing pictures of Naomi, and Daria, to random strangers in the bar. Nathan sighed.

" It's Lucifer. Isn't it? C'mon, I'm your dad. It's obvious honey. I saw your face fall at Lux when he dismissed you." He moved the drink I had. I overhear a Very unfocused, intoxicated, drunk Ella bubbling on about her television show.

" You'd think I'd be use to him by now, Dad. I.. just don't understand him. One minute he is a devil of his word, gallivanting around saying all flirty stuff and like the devil he is, and then I see him with these Gorgeous girls. Who're so good looking compared to plain old me."

I've never been vexed over petty things, such as my best friend being with other ladies when I don't own him.

I just don't understand how he could be careless, flirt with me, then go back to his promiscuity sleeping around.

" it frustrates the hell out of me. Mind the use of my pun."

My dad, his oblivious mind to attention of how much he attracted the opposite gender and the girls that try to get him to look at each of them, tore his eyes off aunt Chloe.

" Wow. Lily-pad. I haven't seen this side of you, before. All amped up about a Man. I guess I forgot you aren't the once scared little girl who ran into my, and your mothers, room after a nightmare. But, all i can say to you. Don't let one guy, if he be the devil, get you all worked up alright. Okay, El."

' Oh he's right. I don't know why it agitates me when I see those girls with Lucifer.' Maze was arguing with aunt Chloe, on how he is basically married to her work, and my aunt had shot out a retort that maze is his personal concierge. It didn't take long for Linda to come drifting into Nathan and I conversation.

" Ellie, Honey. Hey there. This is a New, fun, side you've yet to let me see. I'm not here to be your therapist, tho. We are here to have fun! But responsibility is a key thing here. Oh! Who are you? You're little too old to be chatting to Ellie here."

Dr. Linda, even with her short height, stood her ground suspiciously staring.

" I'm Nathan. Ellie's Uncle." Dad said, curtly. I scratched the back of my neck.

" I've heard you are my nieces therapist. I just want to say a big thank you, for looking out for her." Linda, still stand-offish, gradually let her guard down. She faintly smiles.

" Oh. Well, this is a first I have heard of you exisiting. I know all people Ellie's friends with and her family. But anywho." She fixates on handing me a glass of water. " Drink this. I'm not sure how much you have drunk in the time we've been here. You stay hydrated."

" I will, Linda. Don't worry." I muttered, I take the glass and drink the water.

She smiled, at me, pleased.

" Now. Let's get this Girls night under way! And boy too. Come on, let's loosen up. Dance the night away. We still have heaps of time to kill! Your aunt is with Miss Lopez, and Maze."

' Oh gosh. Let's see how this ends.'

| ONE HOUR LATER |

I staggered my way around the made-shift, and questionably sturdy, Tiki bar karaoke stage too far gone into the fun I was having. I handled a mic given to me, by Maze, and we both sung in the microphone laughing. I waved excitingly at my dad as he saluted me with his third beer.

" You are a heartbreaker. Dream maker. Love taker. Heart Breaker! Yes. Yes. Thank you, Los Angeles."

Ella shouted her announcement. It's a good thing my tolerance is better than it was, I noticed when I'm not at Lux it's feasibly more prominent. I take out my hair, letting it loose.

" Did you know Lucifer was all like Ellie. Oh, Ellie, darling. Name some friends you can have fun, and go out in the town, with. He's so smug. So infuriating." I mimic his accent and I swung my hands around then slam them both on the countertop. Coming up to the bar. Aunt Chloe, five vodka shots in deep, points wobbly.

" I've seen how he is with you. And let me just say, I don't like it one bit, baby girl. The way he plays you, as if you're a piece in a chess game, I hate it. YOU deserve to have a good man respect you. You are a DECKER. And us decker women are not to be messed with!"

Aunt Chloe exclaimed. She, her steps shaking from being drunk, place a hand on my cheeks smushing my face tightly.

" I love you, my Miracle girl. Never forgot it. Cause it's true. Take control."

Aunt Chloe is diverted from her Speech, when she spots a patron wearing a purplish blue striped shirt and tight jeans. " Wait one sec.." I watched as she strutted her way towards him. I hide my eyes behind my hands, embarrassed. I listened to dad laughing at his sister. " Oh. It looks like someone's made a fourth friend. Go decker! Whoo." But instead she pushes the guy aside, not interested in him. instead goes to for a guy on the heavier weight side, not that there is nothing negative about being overweight.

" Oh no. No! Abort! Chloe! No! Don't do that."

' And she is bringing him over.' I think. ' Oh no this cannot be good.' Aunt Chloe lifted up the guys wrist. The same club stamp on his skin. I joined aunt Chloe, taking his wrist.

" Look. The same hand stamp. the one Daria, and Naomi, had on their wrists, Ella. Where is this from?."

" I saw some hot women going into a party... you know, across the street last night." Replied the guy stumbling. He drunkenly pointed at me.

" I must be Hammered cause I see an Angel in front of me. Are you here to take me to heaven? Cause I'm ready, if you are, babe." 

A red headed woman, who I had a feeling is his girlfriend, shoved him away from me and got in my face. " What's your deal? Huh? Are you trying to take my man?" Take her man? What? I stared at her, confused. ' I just wanted him to answer me about the club stamp.' Ella and my aunt got in her face.

" Hey. Back off, she's just asking a question."

She glared, trying to be all intimidating, and jabbed a finger in my chest. " I'm not going allow some blonde headed Bimbo near my man. Beat it, before I beat you."

Mazikeen did not like those words, getting in front of me and growled her threat. Darkly.

" No one calls Ellie a bimbo. Especially not some red head who is clearly insecure in her relationship." Turning, maze pointed at me.

" I'm hurting her. Watch out."

Maze, going to leap and probably kill her, is held back me. I grabbed her elbows. " Maze."

" Okay. Maze. No, no. No. Maze, remember? I told you. Aggression is not the answer."

Linda reminded her, and aunt Chloe glared at the red headed woman in the bedazzled dress. Doing a 'I'm watching you' finger gesture. My dad, still on the sidelines watching, stayed in his spot. I still had my hands on maze.

" Clearly, this is a woman who is having some serious trust issues with her relationship. Or she is just raging BITCH."

Chaos erupted. I watched the red head woman throw a punch at my aunt, and I react. I leapt onto her body, thrusting my fist in her face and she blocked my oncoming blows. " You. Think. You. Can. Touch. My. Mom!" I grunt with each hit. I wasn't caring at all about the fact I was an Angel fighting a human. In fact I enjoyed that I could get the best advantage. ' I sound like an actual lunatic. Maze is rubbing off of me, shit.'

Nathan got involved, dragging me off. He shoves a fist out and knocked out an oncoming random bar attendant wanting to fight. " That was reckless of you to do, El's. You could have killed her."

I see Ella had started to fight one of the girls friends. Both were hair pulling. Aunt Chloe was knocked down from another, after a chorus of shouts how she is LAPD. Maze made nunchucks, out of a pool table cue, and was kicking ass.

" Maze, maze, maze! Go maze!" Dr. Linda, who hid in a spot under the bar, shouted in an apparent cheering for my demon best friend.

" Well this is going to be a night to remember."

JASMINE SPEAKS;

Ellie feeling hurt because of Lucifer, and him being dismissive, was hard to write because it definitely is something I didn't want to do but that is part of the story. At least she was having fun out at the Tiki club, with her dad as well.

I've never been good with fight scenes. I had to improvise with this one. Did you like it?

Nathan being a dad will be fun, with further development, as I have plans for him and her.

What did you think of the chapter? I'd like to know.