Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Lucifer. I'm just borrowing characters to hopefully amuse myself as well as other people.

Characters: Chloe, Lucifer

Inspired by: Doctor Who, actually: "One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel." (The Girl In The Fireplace). Also, all the Nightmare-talk in that episode.

Spoilers: None.

Glimpses

Everyone has nightmares. That's just how it is.

But since Chloe's met Lucifer, she's started to dream about things she doesn't even believe in, and that is, of course, Lucifer's fault because of all this metaphorical language he's obsessed with.

It's fairly obvious he isn't really the Devil, and all the more obvious for her, because she knows him so well by now.

He's as human as they come.

Still, there have been... glimpses she thinks she caught, and they are confusingand disturbing at the same time – like Lucifer is two very different persons at once.

Sometimes Chloe feels like the real Lucifer (her Lucifer) begins to slip away from her and each time it's harder to get him back. It pierces her heart to see his face turn dark after his smile has vanished into thin air, but the thing she really becomes afraid of is when he stops talking to her. That only happens when he's really far gone.

He is her friend – one of the few she has left, being a mother and a Cop working overtime, and she can't bear to slowly loose him.

When she wakes once more from one of those nightmares in which Lucifer is cold, merciless and uncaring, going back to sleep is no option and going to work is more than just difficult.

But she gets up as usual, showers, eats, and goes to the Precinct.

Lucifer greets her with this big smile of his that she has learnt to know as the one he reserves just for her (a real smile, that is, not the one behind which he hides what he's really feeling).

He immediately adds some kind of cutting remark before falling back into metaphorical language, dragging her along with ease.

The strange thing is: While she has nightmares about Lucifer in the nights, the only time she really feels safe and protected (and she is a Cop, for Christ's sake) is when she's with him.

He is worth the nightmares...

Not that she would ever tell him that.

A companion to this one will be uplaoded later. It'll be called "Pretend."