Archangelic Wooing - Lucifer
You know how there are things that sound great in theory but are really not in reality?
Like Duck McScrooge's pool of money or communism or friends with benefits.
And for Detective Chloe Decker, right on top of that list was being courted by two rivaling archangels. What sounds like a lonely housewife's naughty fantasy was, in reality, at best a hassle and at worst a hazard.
Lucifer and his eccentricities she had long since had time to get used to. It was familiar. Comforting, almost.
Michael on the other hand was an unknown. He was a rogue element. And, quite frankly, he was freaking her out.
That Lucifer and Michael kept trying to out-do each other didn't help matters.
Lucifer sent her flowers? Michael sent her an even bigger bouquet.
Michael sent her a bracelet of diamonds (God only knew why he thought that was a good idea)? Lucifer gave her a necklace forged in the fires of hell ("Much more durable than petty little diamonds, Detective. And much more your style")
Lucifer took her to lunch at an out-of-the-way restaurant that served food she might be tempted to call divine? Michael invited her to dinner at a five star restaurant that didn't believe in putting prices on the menu. Or reasonable serving sizes.
All it did was show her how far Lucifer and she had come. Michael was all grand displays and even grander words (something about her being almost divine and Lucifer not deserving her and she stopped listening at some point). Lucifer on the other hand had learned to adapt his grand gestures to her style. And his grand speeches were nothing she wasn't used to. And then there was of course the fact that Lucifer, unlike his brother, didn't lie.
And, of course, there was the latest and grandest incident of one-upmanship so far.
Michael had given her a life-sized rose made out of a single piece of purest diamond. And Lucifer?
Lucifer had given her a hell-forged pendant, small enough to fit into her hand comfortably, filled with a brilliant, pearlescent light.
A star.
Lucifer had given her a miniature star.
The two almost came to blows over that. Right in the middle of the precinct and during an ongoing case. Safe to say the Lieutenant wasn't happy with her.
Oh for Heaven's sake! No, being wooed by two rivaling archangels was not a good thing at all.