Six Years Later

Despite Azrael's warnings on the twins' first birthday about other members of Lucifer's family, no one had visited the Morningstars aside from Cecilia and Azrael herself. Lux was as successful as ever and still a famous den of debauchery filled with sex and drugs. The twins had started school two years before and were now in the second grade. Both were bright students and Leo had developed a rather strong obsession with sports and Trixie with chocolate cake. Despite their friends thinking that the opposite sex was icky, Trixie and Leo were thick as thieves. They often worked together to prank their parents. Lucifer thought it was hilarious. Chloe did too despite her best efforts to hide her amusement.

Not everything had gone great for the Morningstars though. Chloe had faced a major stall in her career from her investigation into a corrupt officer named Malcolm Graham. Dan had been her partner at the time and she had trusted him to back up her claims.

Than Palmetto happened.

Now her department hated her and Dan had made it clear he doubted her sanity. She felt alone and isolated at work. She rejected Lucifer's attempts to help, citing their previous deal when they were married that he not interfere in her career. She was determined to solve her case on her own even if the rest of the department thought she was out of her mind. It did hurt though that one of her best friends didn't put his faith into her. Lucifer and her kids remained the only stable things in her life.

Despite the relatively good friendship that Lucifer and Dan had developed over the years, they recently had a falling out. He had returned to referring to Dan as the douche. Lucifer wouldn't speak about it to her but Chloe had a feeling that it was directly related to her and Dan's treatment of her. They all attempted to stay civil for the kids who loved their Uncle Dan. Lucifer hated to see her upset and he was being overprotective. With Dan's help or not she was determined to get to the truth.

Having said good-bye to their mother when she left for work, the twins crowded into the front passenger seat of their father's convertible. Of course, Lucifer would never admit to his wife that he let the twins sit in the front seat together.

He didn't want her to shoot him.

But they were smart kids and knew when to keep a secret from their mother. Besides they were immortal and had already developed an almost complete resistance to injury and illness. They had already exhibited a bit of super strength. These were the only powers they had displayed so far. Lucifer expected that more would emerge during puberty like they had with Cecilia. This included their wings, which Lucifer looked forward to with both excitement and trepidation. Lucifer pulled up to the front of the twins' school and parked the car. He was met with a disapproving stare from an elderly female crossing-guard. Lucifer gave her his patented charming smile but her look of disapproval remained.

"Daddy unlock the door!" Trixie demanded impatiently as she unsuccessfully attempted to unlock the convertible's door.

"Right, of course." Lucifer said as he hit the unlock button on his side door. Trixie eagerly opened the door and she and Leo stumbled out of the car quickly. Lucifer likewise opened his door and joined his children on the sidewalk.

Trixie jumped up and down excitingly; eager to run into the building. Leo looked bored.

"Daddy! Come one let's go! I want to get to class." Trixie and Leo's class were having a magician visit today which she had been excited about the whole week. Leo had a distinctly different reaction. Their father was the devil, he said, and his sister was excited about some two-bit magician? He had clearly inherited his mother's skepticism. Lucifer couldn't be prouder.

"Hold on offspring. You need your backpacks." Lucifer opened the trunk of his car and pulled out two backpacks, handing each child their respective ones. "And your lunch." Two lunchboxes were removed from the trunk.

Leo looked adoringly at Lucifer. "What did you make us today daddy?" Lucifer had always taken pride in the art of cooking. Good food was really another sin all on its own. He made sure his children had a great appreciation for proper cuisine unlike their mother. He had to admit this was one trait he was glad they had inherited from him.

Lucifer winked at his son. "You'll just have to wait and see."

Trixie smiled at him. "Did you make me your chocolate cake?"

Lucifer smiled at her indulgently. "Of course I did my love. What kind of father would I be if I left you cakeless?"

Trixie attached herself to his leg like an octopus and squeezed tightly. Lucifer was grateful his son did not share his sister's tendency for such public displays of affection.

Leo rolled his eyes at his sister. "C'mon Trixie. You wanted to see the stupid magician so bad. Bye daddy. Will you pick us up today or will mommy?"

"Mommy is going to be busy at work tonight. Maze or I will be fetching you."

Trixie had let go of Lucifer's leg at the question. Disappointed expressions appeared on both of the children's faces. They missed their mother, she had been so consumed with work lately they didn't see her as much as they were accustomed too.

Lucifer sighed. He couldn't blame them for missing their mother, he did too. "Wipe those sad looks off your faces. You'll be getting ice cream after school."

Smiles broke out over both their faces. These children sure did love sweets.

Time suddenly slowed down and stopped. The children looked around curiously as people walking around them froze and cars came to a sudden stop in the middle of the road.

"Bullocks." Lucifer cursed under his breath.

A large black man appeared near them with large black wings. The children's eyes widened. This man shared wings similar to their Aunt Azrael.

"Hello brother." The man spoke confidently. "Long time no see."

"Amenadiel." Lucifer said with a monotone voice. "To what do I owe the pleasure of your company?"

"I've been sent here by father to ask for your return to hell. You've been absent for almost ten years."

Lucifer raised an eyebrow at him. "Yes, I'm well aware of that. Got married you see, reproduced and all that and you see can't really leave. Must not be a dead beat dad like our old man. The wife would kill me. Not to mention the child support."

"Yes, I had heard you had married a human. The great Lucifer entering the bonds of holy matrimony with a mortal?" Amenadiel's eyes turned towards the children. He smiled kindly at them. "So these are the nephilim. I had heard rumors but I wanted to see them myself. Hello children."

Leo and Trixie had gone to stand behind their father, unsure of the strange angel before them. Lucifer turned to them. "No need to worry spawn. This is only your Uncle Amenadiel. Brother, this is Leo and Beatrice."

Trixie looked disapprovingly at Lucifer. "Everyone calls me Trixie daddy."

Lucifer ignored her, his gaze set on Amenadiel. "Amenadiel, these are my children. Now might I request we don't have a discussion here and now. For obvious reasons I like to keep them away from our family drama as much as possible."

"Very well Luci. I'll return to you later today to have an…enlightened discussion. When I had heard you were a father I didn't expect you to be…nurturing or caring."

"Well we all have surprises hidden up our sleeves don't we?"

"I suppose. It was nice meeting you children." Amenadiel flew away and time slowly returned to normal.

Leo looked curiously at his father. "What was that about daddy?"

"Nothing you need to worry about. Come here you two." Lucifer gathered both of them up in a tight embrace. "Now go along to class. I'll see you this afternoon."

"Yes daddy." They answered in unison and started walking into their school.

Lucifer stared after them wistfully, hoping that Amenadiel's sudden appearance wouldn't cause disruption to his relatively domestic bliss and happiness that he had experienced during his years on earth.