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Christmas was right around the corner. Chloe was up to her eyeballs in paperwork. There was so much documents concerned with their last cases, that she had to bring them home to sort them all out. And surprisingly, Lucifer, her unpredictable and mostly unhelpful partner when it came to paperwork, was sitting next to her in her house, lending her a hand with this hideous job. Even more unexpected was the fact that he had agreed to help her without any complaint, which was weird to say the least.
They were sitting next to each other in companionable silence in Chloe’s living room, filling in the documents, exchanging glances and comments once in a while. The atmosphere was comforting, domestic even... The fact that they were slowly getting over their issues and were trying to forget about the unpleasant moments in their partnership was reassuring.
Now, that Chloe saw and accepted his other face, things were much easier. They were well on the way to rebuilding their partnership and friendship. Nonetheless, they were still walking on eggshells around each other.
So... here they were, focused on work, on the clock almost 8 pm and finish was nowhere to be seen. From time to time, Trixie was jumping out of her room in search of some snacks and other allegedly important things, but she was doing it oddly frequently. A few times Lucifer saw from the corner of his eye her hiding something behind her back and sprinting back to her room, but decided not to comment on it.
After 15 minutes or so, a loud scream came from Trixie’s room. Without hesitation they both jumped to their feet and ran to check what happened.
Lucifer burst into the room first and frantically searched for the cause of the child’s screams.
Chloe almost collided with his back in her rush to get to Trixie as quickly possible.
“Monkey, what happened??” Chloe instantly asked, with concern written all over her face.
“Child, what is going on?” Lucifer added.
What they didn’t expect was Trixie currently sitting in the middle of her bed with a slight smile which was slowly morphing into the biggest grin.
They looked at each other confused.
“What...” Lucifer started
“Um...” Chloe waited for her daughter to explain what’s going on.
Trixie just sat there looking back and forth between them and then simply shrugged.
“Nothing happened” she replied still grinning.
“Okay, that was weird...” Lucifer narrowed his eyes at the child, puzzled.
“Monkey, you can’t just shout whenever you want... you scared us” Chloe sighed “why are you even still up? You should get ready for bed, young lady” she added pretending to be annoyed.
“Yeah, I’m gonna do that in a while” Trixie replied dismissively, still grinning from ear to ear.
Chloe turned to Lucifer, who still has this baffled expression on his face, as though trying to solve a very complicated mystery or just wondering why people willingly want to procreate. Knowing him it was the latter.
She sighed and gestured for him to follow her out of the room, because she just wanted to finish the paperwork and finally have some time to herself.
Just as she was about to walk through the door, she was stopped by Trixie’s soft:
“Mommy...?”
She turned on her heel with questioning look on her face.
“Look up” Trixie whispered giggling.
Both adults slowly raised their heads towards the ceiling and their eyes widened.
There, in the middle, was hanging a mistletoe.
Just above their heads
“Oh” Chloe whispered and very, very slowly looked at Lucifer only to find him staring at her like a deer in the headlights.
She couldn’t decipher his reaction. Was he scared... or rather pleased? Did he even know what standing under the mistletoe means? Judging by the wide eyes and the movement of his Adam’s apple, he certainly was accustomed with this tradition.
She unconsciously bit her bottom lip and Lucifer couldn’t help but take a look at these pink lips for a split second before directing his eyes back to hers.
After a few seconds and no movement from each part, Trixie voiced quietly, keeping her fingers crossed:
“You know... it means that you have to kiss”
“I know what it means, urchin, thank you very much” Lucifer sighed with pretended exasperation.
“So..., kiss my mum” Trixie prompted, still beaming.
“Well, if you insist” Lucifer turned to the detective only to find her staring at him with those round beautiful ocean eyes and slightly parted lips.
Did she really want to be kissed by the devil? I don’t want her to feel uncomfortable. Would it be appropriate to kiss her in front of her offspring? Lucifer thought, but at the same time got closer to her and lifted both of his hands to cup her cheeks.
Oh dad
He was really, really slowly closing the gap between their faces, and Chloe held back her breath in anticipation.
Lucifer, however, instead of placing his lips on hers, turned his head slightly right and put a lingering kiss on her cheek.
“Oh, come ooon... You should kiss her on the lips” Trixie whined next to them.
Lucifer looked at Chloe with pleading and searching eyes.
“Can I?” he whispered.
“Rules are rules” she just whispered and smiled slightly.
With that Lucifer reciprocated the smile and closed the gap again, this time placing his lips on her plump and inviting ones. Chloe gasped lightly and put her hands on the lapels of suit. She was melting under his unabated and soft touch. The kiss lasted only about 5 seconds, and Chloe couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed that it ended so quickly.
Meanwhile Trixie was jumping on her bed with excitement.
“Urchin, are you happy now?” Lucifer teased, turning to her.
“Duh... you guys should do it more often”
“Trixie” Chloe scolded her lightly.
“Just saying” her enthusiasm was contagious.
Chloe couldn’t stop the grin from appearing on her face. She glanced at Lucifer who looked at her with amused expression and similar grin on his face.
She sighed, shook her head, marched out of the room and said loudly:
“Come on, the paperwork is waiting”
“I’m coming, detective” he responded, winked at Trixie and was out of the room in seconds.
After making sure that the doors are closed, Trixie fished her phone out of her pocket, opened the group chat called ‘ Deckerstar shippers’ and quickly send a message:
Mission completed. Now, your turn😁