Chapter 3: Samael and flying is the best thing

While Samael has a nap Trixie was allowed to watch one of her movies, Chloe and Dan set on the table. They are having the first free minute since they found out that everything Lucifer was always telling them was true.

"So I'm working with the devil." Chloe comments dryly. "I think I should react a bit more freaked out but it is oddly better then working with a complete delusions guy who thing of himself he is the devil."

Dan followed her words, and one question doesn't want to disappear. Why was the devil in earth and why was he so close to his family. "Why is he a child.* Was the more pressing question, everything else they could ask him when he was an adult again.

"Don't know, they try to find out." It was afternoon already what were they doing?

"Has this thing audio?" Amenadiel ask as they watched his brothers transformation for the hundreds time. They couldn't see if the light was someone specific or of it came from Lucifer himself.

Maze was typing in the keys and suddenly the beautiful sound from his brothers play appears. The one ability Amenadiel really envies on Lucifer, he had no talent for music. Amenadiel tried once but it wasn't his. He had asked his teacher what he was lacking off. The answer was passion and pain. Luci had both enough.

The music stops and Lucifer stands up, soon the light will appear and swallow him whole.

"... Sometimes ... I wish to be a little feathering again ... Home with them." It sounds heart breaking and Lucifer's face told the same. His brother sighs and they could see when he throws away this thought, then the light appears.

"Can angel just wish to be a child again and then it happens?" Maze asks, they both had understood that the change came from Lucifer himself.

"No that shouldn't have happen."

"So what are we doing now? There is no one we can hunt down, it was all his doing."

Amenadiel was out of ideas too. "Let's get back, he will miss me already and that is not pretty. I would also prefer when he is not calling our siblings." Maze nods she doesn't want them here ether.

"What do you think how he can turns back?"

"My best guess is that he has to wish again." Great, thought the demon, now they have to talk to the baby angel and make him wish to grow up again.

The first thing they hear from Samael again was the wailing from Trixie's room. The little angel came out of the room with his wings out and crying his little soul out for his brother. No comforting or coddling from Chloe was helping. Trixie offered to play and colour and watching movies. Dan tried with the cake again but nothing was helping.

"We can call your brother." Dan offered his phone already in his hand.

Between sobs. "He is not answering my prayers." More tears appear. So Samael had already called out for him.

"We have another way to reach him." Chloe takes the phone out of Dan's hand and calls, luckily Amenadiel answered quickly.

"Hey here is someone who wants to talk to you." Without waiting for an answer she gives the phone to the small angel who was looking at it. He copies Chloe's behaviour and holds the phone to his ears.

"Hey little brother, are you good for Chloe?" It sounded a bit strange but this was his brothers voice.

"Where are you, why didn't you answer my prayer?" The praying thing must be the preferred way of communication.

"Sorry Sam, I'm on my way back, don't worry. Can you wait a little bit longer for me?" Samael nods.

"Samael you have to say it he can't see you're nodding." Chloe tells him.

"Okay, I will wait." Chloe gets the phone back.

"Samael do you want to watch a movie with me. It's about a blue bird who never learned to fly." That got his attention.

"Does he learn it?" He questions.

"Can't tell you have to watch it." Happy that she had distracted her friend they walk over to the TV. Normally Chloe wouldn't allow a second movie but today was everything different.

For the first part of the movie Samael was quietly watching, after that he begun to cover his ears. Trixie stops the DVD and calls her. "Something is wrong with him."

"Sweetheart can you tell me what's wrong? Is the movie to loud or scary?" She had seen it before of course, but she gets only a head shake. "Are you hungry, thirsty or in pain?" He shakes his head again. "Can you tell me what's wrong."

"Make the voices stop, please." He hadn't stopped to cover his ears so it was not the TV. What voices?" But all her guessing was stopped as the door opened and Amenadiel came rushing in. He cuddles his brother in his arms. He whispers into his ears in a language none of the humans understand.

It takes a few minutes until Samael stops. He lifts his hand carefully from his ears and looks around. With a huge growing smile he hugs Amenadiel.

"Now you can finish your movie with Beatrice." Trixie who had worried about her friend silently welcomed him in her arms. They cuddle in the sofa to finish the movie.

The adults set on the table. "What happened?" Was Chloe's first question. They all want to know, Maze could imagine a few thinks but couldn't be sure.

"Prayer. He had listened to all the prayers mankind send to our father. Small angel like him shouldn't be on earth, it is overwhelming for them. They can listen and bled out the most but after a while it's too much. As an angel you learn to control it later. Ignore most of it and mark the important once with a red flag. He can't do this now; he hadn't had to at this age."

Maze understood a bit what he means; in Lucifer's first day in hell he had problems with voices too. He never explained it but he must have taught himself to ignore it.

"What happened to him and how can we turn him back to normal." Dan asks, he hopes it is an easy way. The suffering face from the little angel was nothing he wanted to see again. All he could do was holding Trixie's hand.

"He ... Lucifer wished to be a child, unintentional this wish was fulfilled. Our best guess is that he has to wish to grow up again." Two humans and one demon were looking at him. Amenadiel hadn't told Maze the solution.

"That's your plan; a child has to wish to grow up again?" Maze asks.

Chloe sees the logic behind it. "Samael would you come to me for a second?"

The child looked to her, Trixie pauses the movie again and Samael was running to them, with happy flapping wings.

"Yes Chloe." He reaches out to her so she can lift him up and place him on her lap.

"Would you like to be a grown up?" Simple as this, just asking. Samael looked at her, then Dan and Amenadiel, He didn't meet Mazes eyes still a bit afraid of her. He shakes his head.

"No I want to play with Trixie." Chloe smiled at him and let him down so the children can watch their movie.

"So much for the plan that he has to wish for it." Maze comments.

The movie ended with Blue the bird learns to fly. "Trixie I want to fly too. Blue had learned it too. How do I learn to fly?"

"What is flying like?" Trixie can't really imagine how it is and it sounds a bit scary if angels learn flying like birds by being pushed out of their nest.

"Flying is the best thing in the world. You feel like you are free. There is nothing that stops you. My brother took me once and it is beautiful. I want to fly too." Trixie remembers Amenadiel´s words. "You have to grow up. You are too small for flying."

The simple truth of his friend's word hit him. He has to grow up so his wings would grow and can carry his weight.

Suddenly a white light appears around Samael, he was completely covered but as soon as it appears he was back without a light and as a grown up again. A bit confused he stands next to the sofa, Trixie jumps into his arms and he holds her instinctive. "Lucifer, you are back." Only a little bit sad that Samael disappear, she had her favourite devil again.

"What happened and why are you all looking at me like that, did I miss some kind of party?" Before anyone could answer his question Chloe shows him a picture of Samael, with wings and chocolate all around his mouth.

"Is that me?" Lucifer looked closer at the picture, he looked happy, with Trixie eating cake and Dan behind him. Chloe must have taken the picture. He suddenly notice that his wings where still out in the open and hides them but it was too late anyway.

"I don't know as toddler he was much cuter, we should have kept him." Dan clearly aiming at lightening the mood was the first one who spoke. Understanding and respecting his try Lucifer collected himself.

"I don't think your salary will allow you to lose constantly against me and your daughter." That get him a sparkling look from Chloe.

"That´s right Daddy, you still own me a lot of cakes, be careful, little Samael would have got to you too, with all the tips I got from Lucifer you have no chance." Trixie was still in his arm. As she whispers something in his ears. Lucifer looked at Chloe and wasn't sure she will allow it.

"Ask your mother, then we can talk about it." Chloe was curious.

"Mommy can Lucifer take me for a flight, please." First instinct told her to say no. But slowly understanding her partner better, his fight against his father, the cut off wings and the wish of a little child wanting to fly. She would allow it because the fallen angel was detailing himself his wish.

"Yes baby, you can but Lucifer has to be careful so no one sees you." Not only Dan was looking at Chloe as if she just changed into an alien. "What." She questioned. "He will mind her, don't worry."

Lucifer, still a bit shocked for several reasons secures his grip around the little spawn, walks through the door and heads to the sky. He was glad to escape the room full of people who wanted answers and his passenger was happy with being carried over Los Angeles. "You were right, flying is awesome." She tells him over the wind from flying.

"Yes it is." He could tell her she wouldn't tell it anyone. He just enjoyed it for the first time in millennia to fly. Hell isn't the right place with the bloody ash, then he had cut his wings off and his new ones was just offending him. This one thought he had at Lux, to be a child again, at home with his siblings when they all learned how to fly, it was a happy time. But a time he won't get back. As he looked down at the child in his arms he feels himself smiling a bit. Maybe he can get new happy times with the people around him, that won't judge him when he wants to stretch his wings and go for a flight.