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Dan slitted his eyes open and glared at his phone. It was nearly through with Chloe's ringtone, and before he could rouse his arm, it rang out. He closed his eyes again, but he didn't have time to fall back asleep - the phone started ringing again immediately. He reached for it and swiped blindly at the call button, bringing his phone to his ear.
"Chloe, it's three in the morning.
"3:17, Daniel, yes."
"Lucifer? What are you doing with Chloe's phone?"
"We agreed you would've ignored a call from my phone, and she's busy with the spawn."
"Trixie? Is she okay?" Dan asked urgently.
"She is now, but something happened. We're at my flat. I'll tell you why once you've arrived."
“Why can’t you tell me now?”
“It’s not something I’ll have any degree of success explaining over the phone. Just - come to my flat.” And then he hung up. Dan sat there, fuming, wondering if this was a trick, but eventually decided that if it was a trick, he could punch Lucifer, and if it wasn’t, he didn’t want to let Trixie down, so he got up and threw on some jeans and a t-shirt, and then set out for Lux.
The bouncer waved him through. Dan was glad there weren’t a lot of people mingling on the balcony, because it let him make a beeline for the elevator. He tapped his foot as the elevator smoothly climbed to the penthouse. When the doors rolled open, he saw Lucifer peeking in at him through the balcony.
“He's here,” Lucifer said over his shoulder. “What do we do first?”
He heard Chloe’s voice but couldn't quite distinguish what she was saying.
“Right. Daniel - out here.”
Dan frowned, his brow furrowing, and he crossed the penthouse to the balcony as quick as he could. Lucifer waved him along until he could see the hot tub. And there was Chloe in her swimsuit and Trixie in swim shorts. Trixie was halfheartedly splashing her Mom, but what really caught Dan’s attention...
The way they glowed. He didn't even notice his knees about to give way until he was falling into a chair - had that always been there?
“What happened?” He croaked. Chloe looked up over his shoulder and then spoke.
“You - I guess. Trixie had a dream. I'm still not quite sure I believe it all.”
“Is she - is she an angel?”
“I don't know,” Chloe said as patiently as she could. “They just appeared tonight. We're working on it.”
“We?” He asked faintly.
“Me, and Maze, and - Lucifer.” Dan felt the world spin again and he looked over his shoulder. Lucifer was standing strangely quietly, out-of-reach of his chair.
“Oh, wow, you're not method acting. ...Your Dad is God.” His brain stalled. “How the hell does that make Charlotte your step-Mom?”
“It's a bit more complicated than that.”
“But I thought you said -”
“No, that's what Mum told Chloe.”
“Do I want to know?” Chloe asked dubiously from the hot tub,holding Trixie when she whimpered a little.
“Tomorrow. Or later. When you're not still dealing with me not being insane.” Lucifer gave Dan a wide berth, crouching beside the hot-tub and staring at Trixie’s new wings. He cocked his head. “Stretch your arms out, would you, Beatrice?” The way she stretched her arms made her wings spread as well. Dan stared. Her wings looked like a desert skyscape, complete with Milky Way. Lucifer held out a hand for a moment, tracing something in the air between them.
“Hm. What's her zodiac sign? Yes, I promise, I'm going somewhere with this.”
“Uh, Cancer, I think.”
“Hm. So that's more to do with her parentage than her.”
“What do you mean?”
“The stars on her wings are wrong. There's nowhere you can see all these constellations at the same time, and some are duplicated. Libra is on both of her wings. Scales. Justice. Both of you are police officers. It makes sense.” Lucifer straightened, but kept looking down at his human friends. “How are you feeling, spawn?”
“Still hurts a little,” Trixie admitted.
“But not like before.”
“Way better than before.” Lucifer nodded and moved back to Dan.
“They glow like an angel’s, and she has the extra muscles angels have, but - she started human. Which isn't how angels work, contrary to what some of your media tells you. We'll do more digging, but for now I'm going with ‘winged human’.” Dan nodded, a distant look in his eyes.
“But she’s okay?”
“So far as we can tell.”
“...Thanks for calling me,” Dan managed. Lucifer nodded.