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Hey you got a few minutes?

[ Or like. A few hours. ]

[She's been expecting her. Lucifer warned her that things weren't going well, so she's ready to respond as soon as she sees the message.]

I'm in my room.

[So that would be yes.]

Do you have plans today? I could use a pep talk and I don't want to impose.

[ She might also be stalling just a little because who would want to admit what just went down between her and Lucifer? ]

I just got off work, so my evening is completely free. Impose away.

Great, I'll be there in 5.

[ Chloe is there a little sooner, knocking on the door. When Freya answers she'll find Chloe with her arms crossed protectively around her, her eyes red because she's been crying. ]

Sorry to barge in on you.

Edited 2018-03-25 23:29 (UTC)

Not at all.

[Freya already has two glasses and a bottle sitting on one of the tables that's been cleared off of her witch shenanigans for a moment. She gestures for Chloe to have a seat and goes to pour them a few fingers of her brother's whiskey.]

What happened?

[ Chloe sits down, letting out a breath as if this is the first time she's let herself relax in years. She's still wound up from everything that happened, and she waits for Freya to hand her one of the glasses before she clears her mind enough to respond. ]

We got into a fight. And not one of our normal ones... This one was pretty serious. [ She takes a sip of the drink. She's probably going to need more alcohol to get through this conversation. ] Lucifer... found out why I make him vulnerable.

[Well, thanks to the closets, Freya has plenty. She can keep her nice and lubricated for a good long while.]

Did he? I take it it wasn't a good reason?

It was his dad. [ She gives Freya a look, one that clearly says You know how Lucifer feels about his dad. ] His brother, really, but under his dad's, uh, command. Whatever. My mom couldn't get pregnant. Amenadiel made sure that should could, with me. This has all been a set up from the start.

[Her head tips to the side, brow furrowing in confusion.]

How is it a set up? So creating you took a little angelic elbow grease - what does that have to do with Lucifer?

So it just so happens that the baby Amenadiel created coincidentally meets the devil 35 years later and coincidentally is the only one that can make him vulnerable? This was planned. [ She makes a frustrated noise. ] He called me a miracle, Freya. His dad put me here to get in his way and he... He won't admit it but I know part of him hates me for it.

Okay.

[She holds up her hands because this has the self-obsessed hallmarks of Lucifer all over it and they need to breathe for a moment.]

I'm not one to put much credence in coincidences either, but has Lucifer ever met another proverbial miracle?

I'm pretty sure if he had, he would have mentioned it.

[ Chloe doesn't want to be a proverbial miracle. She just wants to go back home to being a normal mom in a normal job doing normal things and avoiding Lucifer's nonsensical drama. She never wanted any of this. ]

You know how he is. Even if they weren't related, the only thing that matters to Lucifer is his perception of what's going on around him, and he's convinced that his father put me directly in his path.

Well, that's idiotic.

[She's just saying, only because Lucifer isn't here to be offended.]

Without having met another miracle, he can't be sure that this vulnerability isn't just a byproduct of your divinity interacting with his own. Do you have the same effect on Amenadiel?

Well, that's Lucifer.

[ He is idiotic, even if Chloe is more likely to side with him on this specific issue. ]

I... I don't think so. I don't think we've ever been in a situation where we would have been able to test it. He shot himself once in front of me but he was wearing a vest, it didn't even phase him, though. [ She tilts her head thoughtfully. ] You really think Lucifer might be wrong about this?

I think we don't have enough information, and that Lucifer is prone to hysterics at times, as much as I adore him.

[He and Klaus were very similar in that things were very often all about them. In some instances, their paranoia is well founded, but in others, it seems like they're paranoid simply for the sake of being paranoid.]

Now, I don't know much about the divine, but it's possible that there's a reasonable explanation for this.

That's one way of putting it.

[ She does manage to crack a smile, though. ]

I don't know, Freya... Normally I'd be the one looking for something reasonable but... He's the Devil. I'm not sure we're in the same orbit as reasonable anymore.

The supernatural may be more than you're used to, but it still has rules. Things have to work a certain way to keep a very tentative balance.

[She pours them both another glass before she lifts hers, studying Chloe with a bit more scrutiny than she has in the past, more like a puzzle she needs to solve.]

We just have to figure out what the rules are for you. Then we can determine if this is divine manipulation or simply one form of divinity interacting with another.

[ Chloe shifts under Freya's gaze, feeling a little put on the spot. ]

If you have any ideas, I'm all for it. I wouldn't even know where to start making sense of all of this. I mean, I didn't even know about any of this back home.

[She nods once, before she relaxes and resumes her normal posture.]

Let me do some research and see. It may be a hard theory to prove without another angel from you universe here to test it on, but ... anything is possible.

Maybe we'll get lucky and Amenadiel will show up.

[ Preferably him and not Uriel... ]

Speaking of which, there is something else. Lucifer seemed convinced that his father sent another one of his brothers to kill me.

[Her eyebrows raise.]

That doesn't sound very God-like.

That's the problem I'm having with it. [ She shakes her head. This whole thing is giving her a headache. ] Why would his father want a hand in making me, send me to be in Lucifer's life, and then want to have me killed when Lucifer started to have feelings for me? He said it has to do with a deal he made to protect me, that he let down his end and his father decided to take me out to get even but... It just doesn't add up. Why go through all that trouble to bring me into the world so He could wipe me out the minute Lucifer is... [ She waves her hand in the air. ] You know, Lucifer.

[She gives a small shrug.]

I am curious how many conversations Lucifer has had with his father. Have you ever met him, perhaps in another form?

No, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure Lucifer would have made it pretty obvious if I had.

[ He didn't exactly keep most things quiet, even if Chloe had learned to ignore his stranger statements. Now, she wishes she'd payed better attention. ]

There was... This one woman, though. A lawyer. She showed up a few weeks before I got here, and he would act really strange around her. I mean, she was pretty scary, and at first I thought they had slept together but he kept denying it, which was pretty weird for him, too.

[ Chloe had almost forgotten about Charlotte Richards and how obnoxiously she had inserted herself in their lives. It didn't occur to her to ask more about it now that Lucifer would know who she was. ]

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