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'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."

Lucifer made a grandiose gesture towards the aquarium building up ahead. "Lead on, miss Shark."

Octavia snorted. Then, purely on a whim, caught his hand in hers.

Then led on, pulling him along.

Lucifer chuckled softly, and let her pull him with her into the building. It was pleasantly cool inside, and the large glass windows that met them on their way in showed a glimpse of the ocean life beyond.

Once they rounded the corner, of course, they'd find themselves face to face with the tell-tale tape of a crime scene.

But that was still several steps away.

And those several steps were made a little longer by Octavia's curiosity about the windows.

But eventually they did round that corner, and, well.

"... This can't be good."

Lucifer frowned. "Right, that's-- miss Lopez?" he said, squinting. He looked at Octavia. "Mind if I go on ahead, ensure you don't walk into some kind of slaughter?"

Because he was absolutely going to go see the sharks with Octavia if he could at all make it happen.

"Sure," Octavia said slowly.

Oh good, there was that wary feeling again.

Lucifer nodded. He squeezed her hand gently. "Be back in a flash," he said, and barged valiantly on ahead.

He returned a few minutes later.

"Shark mauled a human," he said, "But after she died? They're about to get the body bag."

"Right," Octavia said.

What did you... really say to that?

"We can go back to the smaller sharks until they're done?" Lucifer suggested.

"I think I'd prefer that," Octavia replied. Quiet, kind of mild.

"All right," Lucifer said, reaching for her hand. "No more bodies. Just sharks."

Suppose bodies and sharks went together, in certain ways.

But Octavia took his hand.

"We could even take a detour past the otters," Lucifer said, tugging her back out the door, towards the shark pools.

"That sounds... nice."

Despite her slightly hesitant tone, there, what didn't otters make better, honestly?

Lucifer smiled at her a bit. "I feel like you deserve otters right now," he said. "And I doubt there's any... problems... in that direction."

"There better not be," Octavia replied, and managed something closer to a dry drawl.

See, she was getting back into the swing of things.

Lucifer chuckled. "Promise to let you punch anyone who makes trouble for us," he said, tugging her in the direction of the otter exhibit.

Octavia let him pull her along, this time.

"Good."

Not that she needed his permission.

Lucifer tugged her along, smile growing brighter as they approached the exhibit. "So where do you want to go first?" he said. "The above water part, or do you want to watch them swim first?"

Octavia took a beat to think, though it was less thinking and more going with her gut, regardless.

"Swimming."

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