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ONE YEAR LATER
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Pushing my legs in an effortless, fluid, motion chasing after the suspect I am pursuing, at this point in time, I leapt on to the wall opposite of a rolling street garbage dumpster and kicked it out of my path.

Making it screech, the wheels creaked from the sudden movement. I jumped, and caught him, keeping him from escaping. I grunted, using an ounce of my strength and It didn't take me long to detain him.

" Damn, I'll say I'm shocked you were able to get me, girl." He admittedly said, struggling in my grip that I had on him. " You were Fast. It was like I was being chased by the freaking terminator, straight outta the film. dios mio!".

I crack my handcuffs on his wrist, catching my breath. I might've died, and resurrected from the dead coming back as an Angel, but I still manage to keep one human benefit. My weak stamina.

" You could say I've got a great, some might say too inhuman, deal of energy. When it comes to chasing after petty thieves, who steal a teenagers bike, to evade the cops. And skip their court hearing."

I say, drops of my sarcasm showing in my words, heaving him off the trash-littered alley floor. He groaned, head thrown back. " C'mon. I said sorry to the kid. I am seriously going to the clink for stealing that bike..?"

He rolled his eyes, grumbling a slew of Spanish insults.

" No. you are going in for skipping out on your third court appearance. For violating your bail."

My words made him mock a laugh. 'He thinks I'm kidding. He'll be the last one laughing soon.' I say " Finally." Seeing those flashing blue and red lights of a cruiser. 'Protect and Serve' were the words written on the sides, as Uncle Dan is now here to help.

" Officer Decker. Sorry I am late to the party. Had a hold up at the station. I take this is our runaway jail bird."

He unlatch's the back seat door, for me. My detainee is less enthusiastic, to comply, knowing he can't run again this time.

" Another successful arrest. I'll tell ya, Bets. At this rate you're going to have a promotion, soon, and you haven't even been in the game for more than a year."

Uncle Dan and his expression of praise made my ego explode with joy. 'Damn straight. I'm good at my job. That's for certain.' Dispatch is active, codes for out of town officers wanted to look in to casual and domestic disturbances in the area, over the radio are listed as I slid into my car.

" it's rather more enjoyable, in my experience, that I had you of all people catch me. Say when I get out, in a couple of years, on good behaviour. I can take you to one of my homies places for a good feed. How's that, Chica?"

Is he seriously flirting with me? While I just arrested him? My head turns to face him, his gang-related Latin king tattooed face inches too close to the partition barrier. " First of all. I would usually wouldn't say no to free food. But in this case, I don't want to go on a date with a guy who Steals kids bikes. Kind of a turn off."

I shrug, casually flashing my eyes at him and he backed off real quick sporadically praying for a minute. Uncle Dan bangs on the all-steel cage. ' That shut him up for good.' I chuckled.

" Let's bring our escapee in. He has a Judge waiting on him, for his trial."

~•~

After bringing in the escaped biker stealer, in return of him trying to head butt me in front of the precinct I knocked him out and threw him in a holding cell, I met Lucifer in a sound stage on the lot of a movie studio set for Warner bro.

Directors called for scenes to finish, and alarm bells had started ringing. Today's case is about a stand-in actress's life being mysteriously and brutally taken. She was found by an actress. " I must say, Darling. It's riveting to see how your life has turned out to be. Look at you, you have graduated from the top of your class splendidly and you did all on your own, no help needed."

Lucifer digresses, directing his elbow in mine, scooping out the impromptu behind the scene action around us. One girl wore a cheerleader costume seated on an old sixties mustang.

" Of course there was the odd and occasional talk I had with that old sod, I must say is quite a bit of a wanker mind my use of language, who was in charge of your evaluation. But it was all you, darling, in the end."

' Don't I know it.' I thought. Lucifer had used his 'influence' to make it I was favoured in the academy I trained at. Much as I had learned to not question him, his mood fluctuations over the year I've know him, it still bothered me how I couldn't understand Lucifer.

' He trusted me to know of him being the devil. Why can't I seem to get him to open up more?' I huffed. ' It can wait.'

I scoured the tents and camera crews on set, this being one of those times where I'm trying to not show excitement for being on the same plot of land as movie stars.

" I heard your heart spike. Ooh. From that gleam, in your eye, take this is your first time being on a sound set? For a movie? How about after this case, I'll see if i can pursued one of the employees here to give us a tour? Hmm." Lucifer tilted his head, both his eyes and face widening ever big in a mischievous smile.

" You know you want to, Ellie. Darling. Hmm."

" Much as that sounds good, Lucifer. This case needs to be resolved first and I don't know.. I'll consider your suggestion afterwards." I stated, leaning in, a grin creeping on my lips. Lucifer hums and mirrored my gaze. " Whatever your sweet little heart desires, my darling." He says not subtle with his flirtatious mannerisms.

" I can't possibly turn down a good afternoon like this, with you. Solving crimes? Movie sets? I'm going on a limb and saying this is a rather great idea for a date. Minus the whole death, I know where half of these humans are going."

Lucifer, holding police tape over my head for me to walk and duck under. To think, in the modern day world, they say chivalry is dead.

I expressed a sigh of sympathy, for the girl I see positioned on an empty Tea-cup carousel ride. Rusted screws twisted to imitate devil horns in her head, protruding out of her skull.

' Well. If this isn't ironic... I don't know what the hell is. Pun intended.'

Lucifer, not the devil to miss out on saying an awfully bad pun of the cases we take, is uncharacteristically quiet.

My pen is pointed at him.

" So.. you got nothing to say? No mentions of how an.. Attractive lady's life was unjustly and wastefully taken? None? I am shocked. Lucifer, shocked." I stated, with a raised eye brow.

' Nothing? Not at all? Wow.' I am genuinely concerned about him. 'He looks.. disturbed. It's like I can feel it myself.' Lucifer, snapping out of his trance-state, returned back to his signature charismatic and charmed grin.

" I've decided today I'm gonna be mature. Take this case, serious. besides I can save all of the innuendos for you, Darling."

I didn't believe it for a second.

Strange as it sounds I've gotten a little use to his knack for inappropriately using a crime scene, as a means of his entertainment and distracting me. " Alright. From what I am told, our Vic's name is Jillian Taylor. She is.. well she was a stand in actor for the lead actress on 'Leave it to Leslie'."

I flip a blank page of my note pad, so I could dot down points for the case.

" Stand-in?" Lucifer asks.

" basically they are people who light a scene, used as props. I learnt that from aunt Chloe. After her time on hot tub High school." I explained, scribbling out a mistake I made on my note-book, murmuring. ' I'm close to one year in and i still cannot write properly.'

My new-developed hearing made it impossible to focus, on the job. Amenadiel had taught me how I should find a central point, an anchor, to maintain my overactive brain function. " She's dead because of me." Lucifer counters, taking blame for this crime. 'What? How could.. how could he be..' i tilted my head.

" Why is that? It surely can't be related to you. Come on." Is my first train of thought.

" You can't take the blame for this, Lucifer."

My ears perked, flickering at hearing my name being used.

" That's strange. Lizzie! Liz! Hey! I need you over here, Girl. Tell me I'm not going crazy with this." Ella Lopez, the departments newest forensic scientist transferred from Detroit and my a friend of mine I met one month after my offical first day on the job, beaconed me to her.

" You'd think the cause of death would've been the giant chunks of metal out of her head, but no." Ella motions to Jillian's neck, potent signs of strangulation bruising on her neck.

" She was as strangled, look. You can see the contusions on her neck." Those 'horns' were an add-on prior to her murder. After her assailant killed and put on show for all people on-set to see. 'Sick freak.' I accept a pair of gloves, Ella gave, helping her inspect the deceased woman.

" Yeah. Soft tissue at the point of impact, from what I see, is yellow-pink. That means there was no blood pressure when our killer went all Stabby-stab, on our vic." I tenderly lifted Jill's discoloured fingers, the corner of my lip turns down in an instant frown.

" And the thing is.... She wasn't even killed here. She was moved."

I momentarily create distance, between Jillian's lifeless body and mine, out of uncertainty. My blood in my veins are opaquely coloured black, disappearing once I take my hands off her arm. ' What was.... I've never experienced that, while examining a body. It's like I could feel.. it is as if I felt her pain. Her fear. As she died. Oh gosh.'

Ella is preoccupied on Jillian to have see me move back, taking a break, while walking to a garbage can. Lucifer scurried and follows my direction.

" Is everything okay? Ellie. You seem frazzled. Like you seen the Devil. I jest of course." He questioned, trying his hardest at making me laugh. " No seriously talk to me. I'd rather see you smile than whatever it is you're feeling, now. Are those.. tears?"

' Crap. Crying? I'm crying?' I disregarded the blue gloves I wore, throwing them away. " I felt her pain. Fear. Lucifer. It was as if I've in some sort of form siphoned her emotions. With one single touch."

Nausea crept into my stomach. I was thankful Ella, or other humans, didn't see. I didn't feel like explaining how that worked. I don't know, myself, either. Lucifer stared, for what I felt to be five minutes but instead it was ten seconds, before he opens his mouth.

" You have an affliction to absorb pain. That's only a gift higher-ranked angels have. Amenadiel, dear old dad's most loyal son, doesn't even have it. That's Remarkable. You're a gift, which keeps on giving, Darling!"

Oh that is great.

' of all abilities I could've be blessed with. I take the pain of humanity, and humans, in general. Literally.' Now I'm left to wonder if I have other secret, not-yet triggered powers hidden deep inside of my body.

" You don't worry 'bout me longer than you have to, Lucifer. I'm fine. I am a big girl. See?" Placidly I attempted to smile, showing Lucifer I am more than capable of dealing with the fact I am not only an Angel, now, but have an even greater ability bestowed on me.

My wrist is caught, and I looked to see it was him that did it. " Don't be indifferent to your pain, Ellie." He softly said.

" you're allowed to express your feelings, Darling. I know this's all still too new for you."

His mood-swings are so complicated and hard to keep track of. He's an expert at making my heart race than the next I am rolling my eyes at his blatant flirtation with the ladies.

It's not like I'm jealous, I've got no claim and power over him. I just want Lucifer to focus on being my partner. ' He isn't my boyfriend. He can be with whomever he wants.'

" Let's just get back to work."

~•~

Jillian's death prompted a search at the house, which was sublet by an older woman in her late forties, Roberta, she rented and stayed the time she was seeking out auditions before becoming the stand in for Leave it to Leslie. It was disclosed she had over dosed, on cocaine.

Her heart barely restarting once doctors, and hospital staff, did everything in their power to keep her alive.

Lucifer adamantly believed that his mother is responsible, it's her ' Sending the clearest of messages she's coming for me.'

" oh! Look at you all broody. Suits you. By the way, bro. I come baring a little surprise, with darling betty here."

Lucifer announces his and I arrival at Lux, I grinned seeing my guardian Angel. This was a sight I wasn't expecting from him of all angels. Drinking.

" Have a seat, Ellie. We made a breakthrough in this case. That is a cause for an immediate reward, here."

I situate my body to sit adjoined with Amenadiel just as Lucifer poured a scotch on ice. Amen rested an arm over my shoulder, while I leaned my head on his. Finding comfort with his presence.

" You are one of us. Your tolerance for alcohol will help burn it off. And don't look so down in the dumps, bro. Maze always turns up eventually. She's like a bad penny. With tight leather pants."

I frowned, recollecting how I've not seen maze in a few months. Maze had been behaving irrationally, erratic, since thereafter I was kidnapped by Malcolm in the last past year. After I was freed, and saved, she wouldn't talk to me which subsequently ended with her apologising saying 'she couldn't be around me.'

Which I admit had hurt. I was left nonplussed by her words, not expecting her of all people to tell me off like she did.

" .. everything was fine until you went all lovey-dovey on her."

Lucifer, glancing at me each second as I remain quiet, retorts mentioning amenadiel's and Mazikeen previous rendezvous.

" really? Because I seem to remember her telling both of us, excluding you here Ellie, where to shove it." Amen shot back, swirling his half-drunk whiskey.

A scoff left Lucifers lips and I bring mine up to my lips, the alcoholic aftertaste burning my tongue. Im grateful for my mouthes newest heightened palate, and tolerance, to make it evaporate much quicker. " Lucy, you don't think she helped mom escape, do you?"

Amen, his prioritised thoughts a linger for his Mom I was still out of the loop about, queries. Lucifer rounded the bar handing over peanuts to me. I cracked open the shells with ease and crushed them in my palm.

" Well, that doesn't sound like the kind of duplicitous evil a demon would do, now, does it?" I learnt of Mazikeen, torturer of hell and a Demon, true nature the evening I awoke from transforming into Who and what I am. It was right in my face, so obvious. I thought she had kept talking in metaphoric terms, referring to Hell as her home. Much like Lucifer. " But, no, I don't. Because I found Mom. Found her on a case with Darling betty here. Which to whom, by the way, discovered a neat little trick today."

Lucifer strides to where I am sat. Careless, he shattered his scotch glass, which made pieces off it combust and Pierce his skin. Blood pools out, of the centre, I grind my teeth, feeling the exact pain in my hand of glass shards, making me drop my own.

" Lucy, what in father's Na.."

amenadiel is silenced when Lucifer brought his hand, gently gripping my wrist triggering those opaque and faint dark lines in my veins to show. I half-expected to feel pain, however there were no words to describe how it is I'm feeling.

" Oh. Oh, my. That's impossible."

The lightest of soft golden hues shimmered in contrast to the dark crimson blood on Lucifers hand, which startles both him and I.

' Well this is certainly not what happened at the scene of the crime. It.. healed his hand.' Amazed, Lucifer searched for any of the remains of his broken glass. ' Woah. What.'

" You have physical manifestations of healing properties, Elisabetta. Father must have bless you with these wonderful gifts. Though, it does lead me to question How. I've never seen such a miraculous sight. Our siblings, luci. They've all lacked these abilities from my knowledge."

'I'm a mystery.' he basically is calling me. ' I am the first of my kind. Human turned Angel. No history book, the bible, has encountered or studied an anomaly like me.' Lucifer, bemused, softly let go of my arm. ' That was amazing. I'm basically a walking and living Angelical healer.'

" Yes, our dear Ellie is truely a magical girl."

JASMINE SPEAKS;

I am sorry for the set backed update. It wasn't as if I lost interest, I just had burn out and It's the worst feeling to ever happen. It started to set in half-way through the chapter.

Eventually I did get it back, as you can all see, which I am glad about.

What did you think of this chapter?

Did you catch the hidden teen wolf reference?? With how Ellie can take pain and heal people?

I wanted to add it in as I found it to be really cool and a nice detail to her as a person.

I can't wait for you guys to see her explore her angelic powers.

This is just the start of her journey as an Angel.