my_own_advocate | Los Angeles, Tuesday

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Los Angeles, Tuesday

It was a nice, bright morning in Los Angeles, just a few days before Lucifer's self-imposed ultimatum about leaving ended. He remained on a quest to apologize for his therapist-inflicted overthinking and subsequent attempts to break up with Duke and Octavia, and so, today...

...Today it was time to spoil Octavia with a visit to the Aquarium of the Pacific.

He hummed brightly to himself as he paid for their tickets, then slid past the nice cashier and into the aquarium properly.

[[ for two, and some ocd. everything taken and adapted from Lucifer episode 5x14, 'Nothing Lasts Forever'. ]]

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Octavia seemed, for lack of a better word, devoted to watching the sharks swim about. (The rays, too, but... Yeah, she played favorites.)

It was just that she'd never been this close to one before.

Lucifer's attention eventually wandered (of course it did) to the water.

And the rays, which kept doing this funny thing where they'd stick their noses up out of the water for a minute.

... He reached out and touched one. Couldn't resist.

"Slimy."

He shook his hand to get rid of the feeling.

Octavia's snort was faint, her sideways glance at him quick.

"Well, maybe he didn't enjoy touching you, either."

"Please," Lucifer said. "I'm great to touch. You of all people should know that."

"Yeah, and I'm not a ray," Octavia pointed out.

"I'm just saying," Lucifer said, "I'm universally touchable."

He leaned back over to eye the sharks.

The sharks continued doing their thing.

And so did Octavia. Occasionally murmuring in soft, affectionate Trig.

After a minute or three, Lucifer found himself poking the water again, just to see if any of the creatures would react.

It did seem like he wasn't going to get Octavia back any time soon, after all.

He'd known that was a risk when he'd brought her here.

It took another long moment before Octavia looked over again. It was another short glance, though, but still. "I hope they're happy here."

"Well, they get free meals twice a day and nothing's hunting them," Lucifer said. "Could be worse, right?"

"Well sure," Octavia replied, watching a shark glide underneath her hand. "It's better than just surviving, I guess."

"But you have doubts?" Lucifer prompted.

Octavia shrugged as she turned her gaze on the pool again. "This isn't where they belong."

She'd been caged too many times in her life not to get there concerns every once in a while, about zoos and aquariums.

"Suppose we could try to go swimming with sharks next time," Lucifer mused. They must do tours like that, right?

Not quite the point, Lucifer.

But, still... "That's a thing?"

Look, she knew how his brain worked.

"I believe so," Lucifer said, already pulling out his phone. After a minute, he held it out for her.

Octavia took his phone, and pored over the page.

"And you don't even have to have diving experience," she murmured. And then frowned. "Wait, this is in San Diego?"

The fact that they hadn't both known and gone during the trip to San Diego they'd already taken was now offensive in restrospect.

"Yes," Lucifer said, tilting his head. "... I should have thought to look into that earlier."

It was possible he remembered this was a possibility because he'd seen a billboard at one point or another.

Octavia handed him his phone back.

"Maybe we'll have to make up for that."

"We still have a few days to kill," Lucifer said brightly. "Why not make San Diego part of it?"

Octavia's expression brightened some. "I could do that."

It was getting out of Los Angeles, even if not as far away as she might've liked.

"Then I'll see what I can arrange later this week," Lucifer said, and leaned in to press a kiss to her cheek.

"Mochof," Octavia hummed, letting him.

"Shall we move on to the bigger ones?"

Octavia cast one last glance at the little sharks, gave one of them one last little touch before drawing her hand from the water.

"Sure."

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