Los Angeles, Friday
9 July 2021 09:39![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Between Duke insisting on sleeping on the couch with him every night, and Octavia's plea several days ago, Lucifer's resolve had finally snapped yesterday night. He'd returned to the bed with them - albeit in his nice silk pajamas.
It still didn't seem right, having sex with them, with him-- as broken as he was.
And so he woke up in the middle of the night, mind still restless, and slipped out of the bed to make himself a drink. Yet as soon as he touched the bar, the impulse vanished, replaced wholesale with another. The piano. It called to him in this strange, overpowering way, and...
He lurched towards it. He sank down on the bench and opened it up. He knew Octavia and Duke were still asleep in the bedroom, that he shouldn't wake them. And yet he couldn't resist.
His fingers found a melody.
"The world was on fire, and no one could save me but you," he sang softly. "It's strange what desires can make foolish people do..."
[[ for those who know who they are. everything in this post taken and adapted from Lucifer episode 5x10, 'Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam' ]]
It still didn't seem right, having sex with them, with him-- as broken as he was.
And so he woke up in the middle of the night, mind still restless, and slipped out of the bed to make himself a drink. Yet as soon as he touched the bar, the impulse vanished, replaced wholesale with another. The piano. It called to him in this strange, overpowering way, and...
He lurched towards it. He sank down on the bench and opened it up. He knew Octavia and Duke were still asleep in the bedroom, that he shouldn't wake them. And yet he couldn't resist.
His fingers found a melody.
"The world was on fire, and no one could save me but you," he sang softly. "It's strange what desires can make foolish people do..."
[[ for those who know who they are. everything in this post taken and adapted from Lucifer episode 5x10, 'Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam' ]]