Chapter 1:

Lucifer was back out of Hell for about a week now. He had a very long time to think about his own feelings while keeping the demons in line. It was there that he noticed that he hadn't forgiven Chloe for her betrayal as much as he thought.

She had declared her love for him in the end and what he had said was the truth, she was his first love and she would always be his first love but down in Hell, he started missing another person more than he missed the detective.

He and Chloe had talked for hours about everything, he had even confessed to her that he was falling for someone else. They had decided that they would stay friends and working partners. She even told him that she would do everything in his power to help him to get to know the person who he was falling for.

It was morning when Chloe had called him, this would be his first case since his return back to earth. He stopped his 1962 black corvette at the address Chloe had given him.

"Welcome back, Lucifer." a police officer said while holding the yellow tape up as a motion for Lucifer that he was allowed on the crime scene, "I would prepare yourself because this scene is gruesome." The officer said before Lucifer walked through the open door.

Lucifer walked inside, the walls of the hallway were covered in blood, it appeared to be handprints followed by a stroke of blood. He walked towards the living room where he saw the detective standing next to the body of a woman with a shocked look on her face.

Ella was already taking pictures of the woman. A bit further in the living room at the table, they found two girls, probably her daughters. They were sitting far too straight to do their homework properly. They had the same shocked look on their faces as their mother had.

He looked closer to the mother and noticed a wound all around her neck. He had a strange feeling about this case. Something was off.

"Goodmorning detective, Miss Lopez, Who are the unlucky humans this time?" Lucifer asked trying to shake off this strange feeling.

"Goodmorning to you too Lucifer. Well, I don't know yet but let's find out shall we." Chloe smiled before she turned herself back to the always cheerful forensics Ella Lopez.

"Hey Lucifer, this is quite a welcome back present isn't it?" Ella said before Chloe could ask something, but not as cheerful as other times. This case was heavy for all of them.

"What do you have for us, Ella?" Chloe asked with a sigh.

"Meet Barbara M. Lozona, 36 years old. She is a nurse in the Los Angeles Comunity Hospital. At the table are her 12-year-old daughter Alexa and her sister, 10-year-old Jessica. At first sight, it would seem that the heads were ripped off their bodies, but unless your Superman that impossible. What's even stranger is that all victims are completely dry on blood." Ella responded while she took pictures of all the victims.

"Fingerprints?" Chloe asked curiously

"I didn't find any fingerprints at this moment, I will know more after the autopsy of the bodies," Ella said.

"Miss Lopez, it's like the head is standing loose on the body? Any idea why?" Lucifer asked while he lifted the head of the body.

"Lucifer lookout, you aren't wearing gloves again. You are lucky I already handled that. I know I placed the head on there again myself. The children are the same." Ella said smacking Lucifer on his arm.

"Who discovered the body?" Chloe asked while rolling her eyes, this killer had to be found, and the sooner, the better.

"A friend of the family, Pansy J. Jones. She is right over there." Ella pointed to a woman, with red hair and green eyes. She would seem around the same age as the victim.

"Thank you, Ella," Chloe said before she turned around with the devil on her heels.

"Detective, can I talk to you in private?" Lucifer asked suddenly. Chloe knew that it would have something to do with him as Devil or his Demons, maybe something else celestial.

Lucifer led her towards the kitchen out of earshot from all the rest.

"You know something about the case, Lucifer? Did demons do this?" Chloe asked in a whisper.

"I am not sure what it was that did this, detective but this isn't human, that's for sure. It must be something supernatural." Lucifer sighed, "This is not the work of my demons. They could do it, yes. If they were able to go through the gate which I made sure they don't without my personal permission. Only my right hand down there, Gazoch, is allowed to come up and he knows the consequences when I find out that he would have done something like this. No this is something else." Lucifer sighed.

"Keep your eyes open, Lucifer, just to be sure," Chloe whispered. She trusted Lucifer and when he said that they couldn't come to earth without him, she trusted him about that.

"I will go to Hell to investigate the moment we are done here, detective. I will only be gone for a few earth hours when everything goes well." Lucifer said with a friendly smile, a smile only the people he cared about would ever see. He wanted to be really sure about it.

"Okay, just help me question the witness, and then you can leave," Chloe said again in a whisper.

Lucifer nodded, "Of course, detective." before he walked behind her to the witness who was in such a shock that the medics needed to calm her down.

"Mrs. Jones?" Chloe asked in her detective's voice.

Mrs. Jones looked up without saying a word.

"I am from the LAPD, my name is detective Chloe Decker and this is my partner Lucifer Morningstar. Can I ask you a few questions?"

Pansy nodded her head. Her red puffed eyes were evidence that she had cried hard.

"You found Mrs. Lozona and her children right?" Chloe asked.

"Yes, I always come for coffee on Sunday morning when she isn't working, and if she is working and her husband isn't in the country I would look after the children. We grew up together." the woman sobbed between fresh tears.

"Did you have any contact with her in the last few days?" Chloe asked with sympathy in her voice.

"She called me yesterday to confirm our appointment today." The woman sobbed.

"Did she sound any different than usual?" Chloe asked next.

The woman shook her head, "No, she sounded happy to see me like she always did."

"Do you know anyone who would want to harm her?" Chloe responded curiously.

Again the woman shook her head but without words this time.

"One last question where is her husband at the moment?" Chloe asked, noticing that Lucifer was looking around all the time. It was like he sensed something. Now that she knew he had never lied to her she could read him like an open book.

"He is on a business trip to New York. I gave his cell phone number to that officer. pointing at where Dan was standing.

"Okay thank you, leave your information with the police officer that way we can reach you if we have more questions," Chloe said. She looked at Lucifer who was looking at a couple standing behind the yellow tape, a dark-haired young man with blue eyes and a young slim woman with long brown hair.

"What's wrong?" She whispered.

Lucifer shook his head, "I am not sure, detective but like I told you before something is definitely off about this case." He said while not taking his eyes off them. There was a supernatural feeling about them before following his partner.

"If you don't need me anymore, detective, I am going to see if I can see what I can find out," Lucifer said walking towards his Corvette.

"Let me know if you find something, okay?" Chloe asked.

Lucifer nodded before he walked towards his car and drove off full speed.

Chloe sighed, she trusted Lucifer's instinct and her own intuition was telling her that this was stranger than everything they had been through and if your partner was the devil himself strangeness was the new normal in your life.

"What do you think?" Elena asked her husband when they watched the LAPD.

"I don't know, Elena. We are too late to see how the place was left behind. I need to try and find out what the scene was but the things I heard it seems that this smells like Stefan. I think we are on the right path." Damon said he didn't trust the tall dark-haired man who had been watching them like he knew something.

"It's too much of a coincidence. We followed the trail here, I only hope that we find him before they do." Elena sighed before both of them left the scene. They would come up with a new plan to keep the police out of this one.