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IT WAS JUST ABOUT LUNCHTIME when Lucifer came up to my room, asking if I wanted to go with him to pick up Griffin from the hospital. Of course, I said yes. I wasn’t particularly fond of the idea of being alone today, but that was mostly because of everything that had happened over the course of the past few days.
The nightmares that I had the night before - even after Lucifer woke up to check on me - were messing me up more than I cared to admit. It was a lot of memories... mostly memories from Heaven.
I guess I was even more worried about the potential of having to go to Heaven than I consciously knew.
After agreeing to go with Lucifer to the hospital, we both teleported up to the surface and now we were just waiting on the doctor to finally discharge Griffin. I sat on the chair next to Lucifer, humming softly as we waited. Griffin looked over at me, a warm grin on his face. I was glad to see him smile - that meant he was starting to feel a little better.
“That’s a new song you’re humming, isn’t it?” He asked.
I smiled and nodded. It was, indeed, a new song that I was writing.
Well, technically I had been writing it for over a month now, but it was finally starting to get somewhere. It was nowhere close to shareable yet, so I didn’t offer and Griffin and Lucifer didn’t bother to ask. I was sure that they knew the answer was going to be no - if I didn’t offer to share something, it was always a no.
“What are we doing after this?” Griffin asked, this time directing his question to Lucifer.
Lucifer shrugged, “You two are going home and I’m going to the Palace of Darkness to find that tracking map that Victor has.”
“The one that he uses to track the Hunters?” I questioned.
Lucifer nodded slightly, shifting in his chair.
“Doesn’t he keep that in the office?”
Lucifer sighed, “See, that’s what I thought, too - I remember being in his office to look over the map with him several times before - but it’s not in there anymore. I don’t know if he moved it or what.”
I leaned back against the back of my chair in thought as Griffin spoke up.
“Why don’t you take us with you? We can help you look,” he offered.
Lucifer shook his head, “No, Griffin. You still have an injury that you need to be nursing.”
“There’s still Elton,” Griffin huffed, looking up as a nurse walked in to take his IV out.
He didn’t seem thrilled about the whole thing, but he definitely tolerated it better than Sylas would have. Honestly, I think all of us would have been glad to take the hit from that Lux if it meant keeping Sylas out of the hospital. Sylas would not have tolerated any of this as well as Griffin did or the rest of us would have. Lucifer never would have gotten to leave the hospital and Pierce probably wouldn’t have either considering Pierce and Gus were the ones that Sylas was closest to. Of course, that also meant that Sylas avoided the hospital at all costs and only went when Lucifer and Pierce forced him to.
“No,” Lucifer insisted, “I already decided you’re both going home after this - that’s the end of that discussion.”
Griffin and I looked at each other, but dropped the conversation for fear of agitating Lucifer more than he already was.
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AFTER BEING DISCHARGED, Griffin and I went back to the Palace of Sins and we waited with our other brothers, hoping that Lucifer would be back with news (preferably, good news) about the Hunters soon enough.
When he finally walked through the door and into the living room and we saw the look on his face, we all knew that what we were most afraid of had come true. Lucifer did not have good news for us and he probably wouldn’t for a very, very long time.