Chapter 20

A/N: Final chapter guys! This chapter will eb a little shorter than normal just to wrap this installment off. Be sure to catch the next installment "The Heir: Pregnancy Days" which I'll be getting out ASAP but no later then Saturday (7/20/2019).

Lucifer was pouring over books he never thought he would touch in his eternity. He had a stack of parenting books on one side and one in his hand. His brow was furrowed as he was reading the expert about diaper changing for newborns.

"How can a small human have that many bowel movements?"

Just then the timer on his phone went off signaling that an hour had passed. Lucifer closed the book and rubbed his eyes before putting it down. He pulled out his cell phone and turned off the alarm on it before sliding it back in his pocket and heading back into the bedroom. When he walked in Aku had a stethoscope to Chloe's abdomen. Lucifer walked over to the bed and sat down watching them the entire time.

"Did you figure out what the runes meant?"

"Yes, I did, quite interesting actually. I figured it out about fifteen minutes ago. While I was working me and Ms. Chloe where having a very nice conversation."

"I can assume that's the reason you have a stethoscope to her stomach."

"Yes, it is. I had no idea that it was even possible for an archangel to impregnate a human. It's very interesting."

"Interesting?"

"Well I am an academic."

Chloe giggled at the bantering between and kissed Lucifer gently which snapped him back to his real reason for addressing Aku first.

"Anyway. The runes please? I just want to make sure the Detective is safe."

"I can understand that. So, in regard to the runes Ms. Chloe if you would be so kind as to turn around."

Chloe turned so her back was exposed. The runes were in the shape of two inward facing crescent moons with what looked like a crown on top of them and lines of runes inside of them. Aku touched the edge of the leftmost crest with the very tip of her finger.

"This set of runes here is the left half of the circle, it represents the start of a journey. The runes that make it up tell of a man who fell from the heavens and was the creator of the stars."

She gracefully moved her hand to the other side of the circle. A shimmer of celestial energy could be seen as her fingers moved across Chloe's skin.

"Here it tells of how a human woman meets a celestial being that walks on the Earth. Since the two sides are joined it means that the celestial is the man who fell from the heavens."

Aku moved her fingers to the center of the circle, tracing over the runes as she spoke.

"These runes here speak of two children born from the union of the Celestial man who fell from Heaven, and the human woman who met him as he walked on earth. One child will be born in the darkness of Gehenna, the other the light of the heavens."

Her fingers finally danced to the crown resting on the semi-circles.

"Here we are told that the children created from that sacred union of human and celestial would ascend to power. The rune for immortality is right above the runes for female and human, which leads me to believe that when all of this happens something will happen that will cause the stated female to become immortal."

Aku removed her fingertips from Chloe's skin and the runes stopped shining.

"If we take this from an academic and historic point of view, Lucifer you are the Celestial and Ms. Chloe is the Woman on the two crescents. An angel, especially an archangel like yourself, having a child with a human is almost unheard of so there would have to be some very specific things that would have to line up. It just so seems it has, and Ms. Chloe is pregnant. The next thing to determine is the child of Gehenna and the child of Heavens. There are many factors to this. This may refer to twins, one born at night one in the morning. Or it could refer to a male child and a female child. Or it could refer to a child whom is physically born in Hell, while the other is physically born in Heaven. There are too many variables to tell until it does occur. Either way both children will come into some sort of massive power. More than likely that power being political since it has to do with ascension. When that happens somehow, some way Ms. Chloe becomes immortal."

Lucifer clasped his hands together and rested his head on his hands and looked at the ground. Everything was hitting him a once. He would have this child and another, and on top of that they would end up ruling. Yet that wasn't the best part. No, the best part was that Chloe would be immortal, he wouldn't lose her to age or health. Chloe came over to him and wrapped her arms around him holding him close. His words were calm yet precise as he spoke.

"This is, a lot to take in. I haven't even been able to request a midwife from the Silver City yet. Or talk to a wedding planner in L.A. Now I'm being told that I'm going to basically be raising Armageddon?"

"Well the good news is that I'm a midwife, from the Silver City, and I sit on the citadel's council. Therefore, you know that my medical ranking is high. If you would allow me to stay as provider for any pregnancies that may occur for your family, I would be happy to provide care. I see it as a great learning experience."

Lucifer raised his head and looked at Chloe, his face serene for the first time in hours.

"That is up to you Detective. It is your body so you should decide who prods in it."

"I appreciate that Lucifer, I actually really like Aku. She was nice while she was deciphering the runes. We had a really nice conversation." Chloe looked at Aku and smiled " I would love to have you as my provider for this pregnancy, and any future ones too but I doubt that will happen."

Aku smiled and nodded before going to her bag and pulling out a small machine with a little wand.

"First order of business then. Let's see how far alone you are. Lucifer would you like to hold the extra monitor to see the child?"

Lucifer was silent for a moment before he held out his hand and nodded. Aku handed him the monitor with a smile and started the exam. She squeezed a little bit of gel onto the wand and placed it on Chloe's lower stomach. Lucifer and Chloe watched intensively on the little screen while Aku found exactly what she was looking for. Suddenly, she stopped moving the little wand and looked up at Lucifer and Chloe.

"This is astounding. Ms. Chloe your almost exactly 35 days on the dot. I'm not even quite sure why your hCG was high even to show pregnant, but you are. You can see the little void where the baby is starting to grow."

Lucifer spoke up his voice a little higher pitched than normal.

"So that little black spot is where the child is growing? Where is the child then?"

"Yes, that's where the baby is growing. The baby itself is too small to see on the ultrasound. They are only about as big as a poppy seed right now."

"When would we be able to tell there are twins, and the gender of the child?"

"We can see enough development by the end of the first trimester, or twelve weeks, to see if there are twins. However multiple pregnancies are very rare and mostly genetic. Since you are an angel with no genetic line of your own, unless Ms. Chloe has a history of twins in her family it is very unlikely this is a twin pregnancy. As for the gender we will have to wait until sixteen weeks to determine that."

"Why so long?"

"Because that's when there is enough developed for us to see the gender through the ultrasound."

Lucifer began to pout, wanting all the information he could get. Right now though he would settle for seeing the pocket the baby was growing in. After just a few short hours he had gone from supportive, to protective, and he was now at excited. This child was changing the Devil, and the Devil didn't know if he liked that.