CHAPTER 3

A/N: Lucifer doesn't know yet that Linda is pregnant

Chloe arrived off the elevator at Lucifer's penthouse a half hour later. She would admit that she spent a good ten minutes in her car outside Lux trying to gain the courage to do that. There was so much she had to tell Lucifer and she knew he wasn't going to respond well, at least to the parts that involved Kinley. He might react badly to the baby too. It didn't matter though. She had to do this. She couldn't hide any of it, and she realized now that she shouldn't. She didn't whatever might develop between her and Lucifer to be tainted by a secret.

When Chloe got off the elevator, she was shocked to see Kinley there. She arrived just in time to listen to him try to convince Lucifer that she was obsessed with sending him back to Hell. "You lying little bastard!"

Lucifer looked over at her in surprise. He'd heard the elevator, but he hadn't looked over until he heard her voice. "Detective."

Chloe glared at Kinley. "What the hell do you think you're doing? I wouldn't help you so you thought you could turn us against each other?"

Father Kinley looked like a deer caught in the headlights for a quick second, but then covered up his features. "Detective Decker, I'm sorry, but I can't allow you to harm this man."

"You've spoken to this man?" Lucifer asked Chloe with a distraught look on his face.

"Yes, I met him in Rome and the he showed up at my house today, but he is lying about what happened. I will explain what happened, but now with him here," Chloe said.

"Mr. Morningstar, please listen…"

"Get out," Lucifer interrupted, his eyes never leaving the detective's.

Father Kinley knew his plan had failed, but he could still hope that the truth was enough to separate the two. "Very well, but be careful."

"I'm listening," Lucifer said in a tight voice once Kinley was gone.

"I was in Rome doing research. I wanted to know all I could about you," Chloe said.

"You mean the stories humans tell themselves about me?" Lucifer asked bitterly.

"Yes. I didn't know how else to find what I needed," Chloe said.

"You could've asked me," Lucifer said before going to the bar and making a drink.

"No, I couldn't back then. It was just too much. I'm sorry," Chloe said. She genuinely was. She'd forgotten the years of friendship and partnership she had with this man. She'd forgotten what it felt like when she finally let him make love to her. All she could see was her face.

Lucifer reluctantly nodded as he turned back to face her. He knew she had a point. Of course, she didn't feel she could come to him. She'd just seen his devil face. "So, you researched. Then decided I just had to be sent back to Hell?"

"No. I was doing research when I met Father Kinley. He showed me a bunch of 'evidence' that you were some monster. I was more than skeptical, Lucifer. I pointed out the flaws in his thinking, but he kept trying to convince me, and he was very convincing," Chloe admitted.

"So, you do want to send me back to Hell?" Lucifer asked with hurt laced in his voice.

"No, Lucifer, I don't. You have no idea how bad I feel for even considering going along with Kinley's plan. I was scared. I let him manipulate me into believing you were a danger," Chloe said.

"You told me I wasn't the Devil to you. You told me nothing you learned about me would change how you saw me. You told me that as I took you to bed!" Lucifer said anger and pain.

"I did, and I meant it, but it was different when I finally did know, at least for a few weeks it was. But I realized that I was wrong. I realized that what I said to you that night was the truth. You are who you have always been. Yes, I can't deny that a part of me is still scared about what you can do, but I am not afraid of you. I walked away from Kinley and hoped to never see him again. I didn't think he was going to follow me back to LA," Chloe said.

"But you were going to do it?" Lucifer asked.

"Yes, I was ready to agree, but I know I never would've been able to," Chloe said. Even if she hadn't found out she was pregnant, she had to believe that she wouldn't have gone through with it. She believed she would've returned and seen Lucifer for who he was. She knew she would've. The baby made her realize that Kinley was a threat and helped her be less judgmental, but she saw the truth about Lucifer on her own.

Lucifer swallowed the contents of his drink and went back to the bar to pour another. "I would like you to leave." He couldn't do this tonight. He was too hurt and angry. No, things weren't the way Kinley said, but the detective had still planned to send him back to Hell, even if she had changed her mind. He needed to be alone to deal with that.

"I can't. I'm sorry. I wish I could give you time to deal with it before springing anything else on you, but I can't because Kinley is a threat," Chloe said.

"Kinley isn't your problem. He's mine, and not even a big one," Lucifer said. Kinley wouldn't be the first priest he encountered who believed he was the greatest evil in the world. They were mere nuisances.

"It is my problem, Lucifer, and one I know I helped cause by even speaking to him, but he's just as much a threat to me as he is you. Lucifer, please look at me," Chloe said. She didn't want to do this with his back turned. Hell, she didn't want to do it this way at all, but she had no choice. With Kinley in the picture, she couldn't afford to wait.

Lucifer didn't turn. He couldn't look at her right now. It hurt too much.

Chloe sighed. She couldn't blame him for not wanting to look at her. She'd hurt him really badly. She was going to have tell him like this. "Lucifer, I'm pregnant."

Lucifer's head whipped around quickly and there was astonishment in his eyes. "What?"

"I found out right before I came home. I know I should've told you before, but I wasn't sure how and I was worried about how you'd react. This wasn't how I wanted to tell you though," Chloe said.

Lucifer slowly came out of his shock and began processing. The detective was pregnant, and she obviously thought the child was his, but he knew it couldn't be. He couldn't get a human pregnant. "Pierce must be…"

Chloe shook her head. "I'm six weeks along. That was when you and I had sex. Pierce and I hadn't been together for close to three weeks. Besides, Pierce and I always used protection. You and I…"

"Didn't," Lucifer finished for her. He walked over to the couch with a drink in hand and practically fell onto it. His mind was racing. He'd just been told he was going to be a father. He didn't understand how it was possible. He didn't even think he could have children, and he'd been grateful for that. He was not good with children. How was he going to handle being a father?

Chloe walked over and sat down next to him. "I know it's shocking."

"I didn't think it was possible," Lucifer said.

"But aren't there stories about angels having children with humans?" Chloe asked.

"Like the ones you researched, those are myths. It's never happened," Lucifer said. He couldn't help but add just the slightest bit of bitterness in his voice as he spoke the first part.

"Well, now it has. We're having a baby, Lucifer," Chloe said.

Lucifer looked at her stomach and reached his hand over. He stopped at the last second, not wanting to intrude.

"It's okay," Chloe said before taking his hand and guiding it to her belly. "It's too early for it to kick, but, yeah, it's in there."

"It'll kick? That doesn't seem very safe," Lucifer said.

Chloe smiled. "No, it's fine. It doesn't do any damage."

"I don't know what to do. I don't know anything about being a father," Lucifer said with fear.

"I felt the same way with Trixie. It's scary to know that you're responsible for someone else's life, but I learned. You will too. It'll be okay," Chloe promised.

Lucifer didn't' say anything else. He just sat there and tried to absorb the reality that he was going to be a father in less than a year.