From Lucifer's Penthouse to Los Angeles, Monday Evening

[my_own_advocate]

Right. Lucifer considered himself again in the walk-in mirror. Was his bow-tie properly tied? The rest of the white tux was immaculate, but the tie...

Look, he'd managed to finally come out of hiding on the Rouge a few days ago. He'd spoken to miss Lopez, and discovered almost no time had passed. Which had come in handy for when Linda had come over to yell at him about how hard it was to find an elementary school for a child that was only a year old on paper. And then... time had gone on.

Amenadiel had yelled at him again, but he'd ignored that.

No, if they were going to be in Los Angeles, he was... going to try and take his mind off of the whole God mess. No one needed him self-actualizing anything else in a panic, right? So he'd arranged something special for tonight. A visit to the only magician's club in all the world...

"Now if only I could get this bloody bowtie right," he muttered, as he gave up, and finally stepped out of the walk-in, back into the apartment.

[[ for them, and based on Lucifer season 6 episode 1, 'Nothing Ever Changes Around Here'. ]]

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[okteiviakom]

Octavia wished she could have claimed she felt surprised, but somehow, something in her didn't let her.

But she was sitting up a little straighter. "Duke, put your drink down."

(It made sense if you were her.)

[betterthanaplan]

Duke did so, with a visible flinch. He was staring at Lucifer again, for a whole new reason. (What? He didn't like looking at dead people!)

"Does Chloe know you're back in town? Because, uh. I think maybe she's about to."

[my_own_advocate]

"I have not yet had the time to alert the Detective, no," Lucifer said, blanching.

Not that he'd been avoiding her, or anything.

[okteiviakom]

"They'll want us to stay here," Octavia muttered. She was still looking at the body.

It was nothing new.

"Witnesses."

[betterthanaplan]

Duke scanned the rest of the room.

“We should stay here?” he said (asked). “And, you know, not get trampled in a panic?”

He would rather not be talking to the LAPD, even as a witness, but he wasn’t about to run off and leave the other two behind if they were staying.

[my_own_advocate]

"The police will be here in a minute!" the woman who had greeted them earlier called from the wings. "Please remain seated!"

Lucifer gave it a helpless shrug. "If the detective is coming, we shouldn't hinder her investigation by leaving," he agreed. (Answered?)

[okteiviakom]

Octavia said nothing to that.

Lucifer's detective was almost the furthest thing from her mind.

[betterthanaplan]

Duke sat back in his seat, resigned, and finished his cocktail in a long gulp.

Right. Well. It'd been a nice forced vacation while it lasted. . . .