Take a leap, Liz. Get outta your own comfort zone for once and just go for it, Cow girl.

Those are the exact words said to me by Maze. She caught me in a rather compromising way, last night, of dreaming about Lucifer in a way I hadn't before. The dream of sleeping with him. I never been so embarrassed in my life until it happened. She told me some unsolicited, and rather vulgar, advice on how I should respond to those temptations.

With a show and tell too of what to exactly do. I was quick to push her out of my room after that. I couldn't fall back asleep, after, getting read for another day on the job.

Dad drove me to the Malibu state campus, I insisted I could drive myself as I've been doing frequent visits to his new place in Venice beach and conveniently he lived a few streets down, I had yet to drive my grandpa Johns car gifted to me.

It didn't feel right to take her on the road. Dad, understanding where my heart laid making the choice I made, agreed he would pick me up at a chosen time each morning.

That is where I'm waiting, for Lucifer to arrive, bouncing on my heels. I sense him before I did see him, turning around in time for Lucifer to come from the parking lot. I perked up, a smile finding its way onto my face, basically having a pep in my step following next to him. " So, Luc. How was the rest of your night? Did you have a good sleep? You have any good dreams? Cause I had a good dream last night but maze ruined it." I say to Lucifer, interlacing my fingers as I swing them behind my back. " I mean it was a real good dream and it felt real."

" I would ask about this dream, darling, but I have a feeling it's either A, an unpleasant one I will regret asking about or B, it was one of the boring ones. So I'll stick with saying that I had a fine evening." He replied, cautiously he let a chuckle out, as I glide back to his side keeping up the pace he was walking in. A devious glint creeping in my eye as I contemplated the next move I did. " But there is something important we need to discuss, and I need to ask you. It's.. well about us.." his words caught me off guard, I snatched my hand back behind my body and I innocently looked at Lucifer grinning.

" Okay."

He got in real close, his eyes staring with a real startling intensity I tried so hard to suppress a blush that I could feel creeping up my neck, to study my face. " What is it you truely desire?" I tightly put my lips in a line. Is he for real? Eyes rolling I pushed his shoulder, at his ridiculous failed attempt to try and use his gift on me. It's funny to me after all this time he doesn't get it.

" Are you serious? Come on Luc, we both know it doesn't work on me."

" Right." He chuckled it off, though seemingly a bit bothered it didn't work, and the grin I had returned back as he started to turn away from me. " I, uh, was just kidding. Darling. Let's get show on the road before.." I take my chance to strike. Winding up my hand I let it down on a part of Lucifers buttocks and the sound echoed as he snapped back around. I laughed out loud feeling accomplished I did it. He's bewildered. " Did you just..."

" Oh, Come on. You can make all the sex jokes but once I reclaim it, and I do one simple slap on the ass, suddenly that is surprising." I say, hand on one side of my hip, shifting my weight on my legs to make them stand out in the jeans I am in. " Maze said I should you know.. throw caution to the wind, do something like.. never mind. Let's just get going to the scene."

I state clearing my throat and I walk past him, though I do a slight seductive wriggle of my behind to him, throwing a wink at him. His jaws on the ground as he did fall behind me in the same speed.

Arriving to the scene of the crime, I case out the dorm room which looked as if a hurricane ripped through it. Items were thrown, wrecked, and the body of our victim is laid on his bed. His eyed were crying blood. He appeared to have died in pain, which i confirm as I apply the purple crime scene gloves and my gift is triggered touching his hand. Luckily Ella hadn't noticed preoccupied with snapping photos.

" Meet rick Cormier. A nineteen year old Malibu state freshman. Same age as you, Liz. Man, it doesn't get easier with this job I tell you now. All of these kids dying, barely out of school and never getting to live their lives." Ella sighed, as a portable DVD player caught a bit of my attention. I began inspecting it, for a finger print, placing it back when I had seen it is scrubbed clean. " Friends thought he was just hungover, After the big win against the Pasadena gray hawks. Turns out, he be dead of poisoning."

" Like alcohol poisoning?"

" No. like, Poison poisoning. Check it out." Ella shone a flashlight, she had her in her pocket, I leaned in to take a closer look. My eyebrows, furrowing, attentively raise when I could smell the stream of poison tainting Rick's blood cells and I muttered under my breath how strong it is. Ella wasn't listening to me. " he's got a real bad case of Petechial haemorrhaging. Ribbon skin, ocular discharge." Lucifer snorted when she had 'ocular discharge'. He waved his hand.

" Sorry, she said discharge and it gets me every time."

I followed suit with the laughter finding him a whole lot of funny. Ella, puzzled with my laugh at the least funniest thing ever, tried to fight a smile of amusement at me. Lucifers confusion ran deeper as he looked me up and down. My throat cleared.

" Do you have any idea, of how long it took for the poison to activate? Ella?" I asked taking out my note-pad, writing down a note or two about the scene. I'm actually doing a little cartoon, a bad one, of Lucifer and I with our hands holding.

" Well, it's hard to say for sure, but best guess, is maybe twenty four hours?"

" I hope poor Ricky made count of enjoying what little life had with sex, or friends." Lucifer pointed out, clawing his fingers in a blue party solo cup on the window bench. I smirked when he mentioned 'sex', he tilted his head after he'd seen my immediate response to the word 'Sex'. " Ellie, Darling, what are you smiling at? Hm."

" Or sex with friends?" I replied, a grin crept on my cheeks as they stretch up to both of my ears, suggestively. I'm a virgin, for crying out-loud, but I'd obviously end up losing it one of these days. It'll be him for sure. " I just figured that's where you were going that." I whispered, inching my upper body to him, slyly smiling. I don't understand him, sometimes, he makes an innuendo for almost everything related to sex, once I start to do it it's bewildering to him.

" You guys, I've seen a lot of messed up stuff in my time but this toxin tore through his body, it was like burning him from the inside out, i am gonna have to reach out to my forensic contacts. To see if anyone knows anything."

" Who found ricks body?"

' I feel so sorry for his family. Their little boy died, and in college of all places. Somewhere he is suppose to feel safe and not even then he was protected.'

Lucifer and I found one of the fraternity boys in the main hang-out lobbies, in the wing of an orientation room, a gurney rolling out Ricks cold dead body out of the dormitory. He had a typical frat-boy attire.

Backwards cap, repping his frat house name and colours, matching it to a royal blue varsity jacket. My college days are futile, considering I applied for the academy in stead of attending college, but I had eternity to decide if I wanted to pursue the option. Aunt Chloe and uncle Dan respected my choice.

" I didn't realise he was freaking dead." Said our frat boy, he is genuinely upset Ricky's dead and even started crying at first. " it's so not fair man. He didn't hurt no one and he's dead, bro. So not fair."

" Was there anyone, in your house or like any guy or girl who was upset with him that could have potentially killed Rick?" I questioned, as I folded my hands in front of my jeans. " Any bit of detail could help us clue-in who did this. So if you have anything please be honest with my partner and I. It's important you are." I stated, a commercial on the dormitory mess hall TV caught my eye.

Three girls wore bikini's and a beach ball is in one of their hands, I liked the blueness of the girls swimmers. 'I like those. Might get a pair.' I am by all means not a bikini girl but I had an extra bound of confidence I could wear it well.

" Did you notice anything strange in the last few days? Any unusual behaviour?"

" Like what?"

" Like someone carrying a small apothecary bottle marked with a skull and crossbones perhaps?"

Lucifer spoke up, I rolled my eyes at his obscene question. He's been spending way too long watching movies, in his time alive, to make that connection.

" What? I am just ruling out every probability scenario, Darling."

" No.. nothing like that. But Johnny Kane came by the dorm yesterday. My mom went pretty, I mean pretty, nuts when I told her. Look, he even signed one of my DVDs. I will show you!"

The actor? Johnny Kane? Uncle Dan likes a few of Johnnys movies. I was more into Disney and coming of age films, sleepless in Seattle is one of them. Fifty shades of grey's more a good modern day movie I loved to watch, Lucifer in fact knew that too.

Lucifer became excited and I faintly smile when he excitedly got to hold on to the signed laminated film cover. " Oh my! I like this one, very much. To love is to die. That is real impressive work. I mean, to be a man playing a woman playing a man. It's absolutely dizzying. You should really watch these, Ellie!" He gushed, showing me the dvd contents. " A real good classic too, I'll say that much."

" Apparently, he was here researching a role."

My senses told me to turn around, I am glad I had listened to those instincts of mine before it happened to be an error.

Johnny Kane came in wielding a large, sharp, butcher knife in hand. Johnny is sweating profusely, skin sweltering with a cold chill and it looked like he was going through a drug induced withdrawal. I take my stance, acting as a shield for Lucifer and the boy, drawing out my gun. I could just as easily beat Johnny in a fight, figured that I can take him out in one punch, that'd compromise mine and Lucifer secret. More mine than his. " Am I too late? Is he dead? It's my fault. He's dead because of me."

" Put down the knife, Mister Kane. Put it down and step forward with your hands behind your head. Now."

" Yes, listen to her, Johnny. Officer decker has quite the good aim and I don't think you will want to upset her."

Johnny got agitated, his hand rose up to point the butchers blade to me, frustration is clear in his next words. " You don't understand! I.. I couldn't do what the man said. The man said he would kill that kid if I didn't cut my face." I had an uneasy tension building in my stomach, majorly disliking Johnny's mood changing, his breathing picked up.

'Something tells me this day is gonna get a lot worse before it gets better.'

~•~

Dad, uncle Dan and aunt Chloe were all on an ongoing investigation about a different murder a couple of streets from Malibu state leaving me to be in the investigation room with a now detoxified Johnny Kane. Lucifer sat, bored out of his mind, across from Johnny as the eerie of a latex mask wearing Scientist stared directly in the lens of a camera recording. I crossed my ankles as I leaned my weight on the stainless steel table. A modulated voice came out of the tv.

" Mr. Johnny Kane. You are an amazing actor with an impressive library of films under your belt. Beloved by critics and the public alike. Many would say you're at the top of your profession right now."

I paid close mind to the objects in the moving frame, any key pieces of material to assist with knowing what and where we should look, my lips pulled in a thin line. Surgical lights were in every shot. Like in an hospital. Interesting.

" Which is why it'll be so interesting to see what decision you make for this experiment. You can either carve up your own face, or Rick Cormier, an innocent freshman at Malibu state, will die of poisoning. You have twenty-four hours to decide. Do what's asked, and an antidote will be delivered. The choice is yours to make. Alone."

'Goodness gracious.'

I thought, switching off the television of the footage Johnny provided for the station on a usb hard drive, moving to the steel interrogation chair. " When did you receive this video, Mister Kane? It's very... well it's very entertaining to watch." I sarcastically quipped, sitting beside Lucifer. Lucifer agreed.

" Yesterday. At first, I thought it was some sick joke. Fans send bizarre letters to my manager all the time, but this was sent directly to my personal email, and it was so disturbing. I couldn't get it out of my head. I had to check it out." Johnny, hands twitching on the table in a nervous bundle of sweat and the tape replaying in his thoughts, stated. " I went to the school, I realised this kid was a real student at Malibu, I started thinking that this experiment might be real, too. I went home and I stared at that knife for hours, but I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it."

" Well, of course you couldn't. That is an awful and rather impossible choice, Johnny boy. It's the killer clearly playing god!" Lucifer exclaims unanimously and motioned to the footage. The way he said made me crane my head to stare at him, resting a hand on the table. " I mean, No one would do something like that unless they.. were being manipulated. Not unlike someone showing affection, when it made no logical... sense. When they haven't done it before, until recently and now." He grasped the handle of the chair I sat it. Analysing each micro facial expression I make and I leaned in towards him too. Confused on what he's talking about.

" what kind of sick bastard will do that?"

" That's exactly what I'd like to know. Excuse me."

Lucifer bolted up, out of the seat beside me, I frowned. Ever since we've gotten closer Lucifer has changed. I didn't want to think about it too often, considering who he is, but it didn't hurt less to see acting so offhandedly with me. I've been meaning to talk to him about the bond. I wanted to know if we were on the same wave length. It genuinely stumped me he hasn't yet come to terms with it and he's not aware or he's plainly ignoring the whole connection from the start which I had hope is the first one.

" Okay, look, we are doing everything... we can, to you know apply a trace to that email, but we can't guarantee that in the meantime there'll be something else that'll pop up suddenly, Mr. Kane. I have to ask though, did you and Rick.. have a connection? Family? Or you have any idea of why he was target specifically?" I ask, I tore my eyes off the heavy silver steel doors of the investigation room Lucifer retreated out of a minute ago, my knee began fidgeting. I want to run after Lucifer to ask what is up with him however I am needed in here for questioning.

" No, until yesterday, I'd never met him before in my life. Hey, is everything 'right? He sorta just up and at em. Is he your boyfriend? Or is.. he.."

I banged my head on the metal of the table in exasperation.

JASMINE SPEAKS;

Seems Lucifer is in a bit of a predicament with his feelings for Betty.

The fact he is aware of it being part of a bond he feels but doesn't know exactly why he feels that way for her. I wonder how it will go when he realises that Ellie was a gift from god to her parents.

She knows about it, we already know Nathan told her the truth.

What did you think of this chapter?

Lucifer and Ellie having their little moments?

I had fun writing Lucifer baffled with Ellie and her antics in this chapter.