My Deckerstar Network Bat Out of Hell Exchange Fic
Characters: Lucifer, Chloe, Trixie, Dan, Ella, and Azrael
Summary:Ā After being gone three years in Hell, coming back home is more complicated than Lucifer anticipated, and requires more adjustments even with the Detective than he'd hoped for.
For The Deckerstar Network prompts of
2) āItās not hemorrhoids, Detective.ā (Lucifer 4.10)
Exchange Recipient: @arlomeā
āHeād been easing himself back into the regular rhythm of life back on earth for over a month. It was odd. All of it odd. Heād left earth before, of course. More often than not within a few days---maybe a month if he were lucky---his brother would find him, subdue him, and drag him back to Hell. Heād missed everything from 1978 to 2011; decades and to have missed a lot of glam rock in the early ā80s felt like a crime anyway. There had been whole centuries heād never bothered to go topside to witness. Honestly, the Dark Ages hadnāt interested him much, had felt as much like Hell on Earth as one could get, and heād no interest in watching humans suffer and die from plague. So, in the grand scheme of things, the fact heād been gone three years shouldnāt mean as much as it did.
Yes, it meant that the infant nephew heād left behind was three and toddling about. Alright, it also meant that Trixie was almost through eighth grade and an actual teenager. It did mean that in his absence Eve had āfound herselfā (whatever that entailed) and settled down with Maze, well, as much as a demon and the original party girl could settle down whilst maintaining a bustling bounty hunting business out of Los Angeles, which included being on the road half the time. It meant the Detective had a few more lines near the corners of her eyes and a streak of grey sheād refused to color---one heād probably put there himself with how much she had to have worried about him down in Hell. And, alright, maybe it even meant that after what had felt like to him centuries in Hell, he was a bit rusty with everything on earth again.
Like eliciting desire.ā
Link at AO3:Ā https://archiveofourown.org/works/21258881/chapters/50616839
