Someone as Good as You

Oh, I will definitely tell you all the plot! I can’t write it immediately because I need to finish the final chapter of hitman!AU book 1, but as soon as I’m done with that I’m jumping on this.SO.

To recap. Chloe has been trapped in the fae realm, Lucifer freed her in a Tam Lin sort of scenario, but now she doesn’t know who he is. OH NO AMNESIA, MY LEAST FAVORITE PLOT.

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Lucifer convinces her she's got the amnesia and to stay with his friend maze or someone until he comes back with a doctor. (He definitely convinces her with something close to the speech on the beach, tailored to this setting, and she’s like hmmmm he clearly knows a lot about me guess I’ll trust this weirdo enough to wait for a doctor even though I am still kinda :\ about everything.) So Lucifer like. Barrels back to the faerie queen’s court and is like WHAT THE FUCK. And the faerie queen is like bud you never specified that she had to remember you once she was free. She doesn't remember anything from her time here, and that includes you :) sorry not sorry. And he's like ajskldasdl;kal;sjkl;asj but he is smart by this point and doesn't attack her and is like ok what do I have to do to get her to remember me, SEETHING but polite And the faerie queen is like hmmmmm and is like :) if she can love the beast in you, then her memories will come back :) and it goes into the first half of East of the Sun, West of the Moon (sort of, also sort of Beauty and the Beast? Whatever, they’re both 425’s so they’re basically both the same (yes I know they’re not, just roll with it, god)). So the queen curses him to have his devil face by day and his human face by night. And should Chloe look upon his human face before she loves him as a monster, she’ll never remember him ever again. It’s all very terrible. Getting through LA back to where he left Chloe with Maze is the worst. So, Lucifer whisks Chloe away to a remote estate he JUST HAPPENS TO HAVE and she sees him and screams and he is. So Hurt. And he tries to tell her the rules of the game, but the queen put a geas on him and he can’t make the words come. And he is Ashamed. So he hides by day and comes to her at night. And when he comes to her at night, in the dark, she asks about the monster in the castle. And he is Sad, but tells her he’s harmless and not to worry about him, she won’t be seeing him again anyway. Because, you see, after she screamed at seeing his true face, he knows that she could never learn to love him. So she’s like :\ why can’t there be light :\ and stuff, and he’s like “Please. No lights. Please.” All quiet and strained, and sh acquiesces grudgingly. And so. At night they talk, and by day Lucifer hides away but does little things for her, like making sure all her fave foods are available, and her favorite books, and he leaves her little gifts and such. And as time goes on, she’s like hmmmmmmmm maybe………..the monster is not so bad………….. But, she is in love with her night visitor. BUT! She is also slowly falling in love with this monster she’s never seen because he’s just. Kind. She starts leaving him little notes, and he sometimes writes back. There may or may not be little doodles on the notes he leaves for her in return. Just sayin’. And so, one day she goes to look for the monster, through the estate. She doesn’t find him so she looks the next day. And the next day. And Lucifer has given up all hope at this point because it’s been so long and there’s no possible way she could ever love a beast would ever love him.

Eventually, though, she finds him, and the first thing she sees is his wing scars. And the scar scene happens and he turns around all *_________*And she is like “perhaps…………you are not so bad after all.” And they start hanging out, but her night visitor still comes, and he tries to tell her that they are the same but, again, geas. So she is highkey torn because on the one hand, she loves her night visitor. On the other hand, she’s pretty sure she also loves this monster. Who isn’t really a monster at all.

And finally, she comes to a decision. She asks one more time, can she please see her night visitor in the light, will she ever be able to, etc. And he’s like :( I’m sorry, darling :( and she can hear the sad frown in his voice, so she’s like ok and doesn’t press.

In the morning, she tells Lucifer she loves him.

And he gets his human face back.

And he’s all shocked but he knows he was second choice. And is Sad.

And Chloe touches his face and is like hey are you my night visitor??????? And he’s like yes, the faeries qu- and then all her memories hit and she has a seizure or whatever because minds aren’t meant to work like that. Dang faerie magic!

And Lucifer is panicked and sits by her bedside and is like saying “I know I was your second choice, but-“ when she wakes up.

And she like, muzzily says, “you’re always my first choice” and then sits up, eyes wide, and is like “MY FRIENDS OH NO THEY MUST BE SO WORRIED”

And he’s like ?????????

And she’s like AT THE COFFEESHOP

And he’s like ?????????? I just freed you from there

And she’s like brush I hated being trapped, not being there. And then she’s like also you weren’t my second choice dummy, and explains how he wasn’t. And then is like OK NOW WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO LA BECAUSE MY FRIENDS.

And they go back to LA and they wind up living in the fae realm forever (where, by happenstance, none of Lucifer’s relatives can get to him, JUST SAYIN’) because ugh who would want the boring normal world when you could have that??? I’ve never fucking understood that in fiction.

And they were happy forever and ever. The End.

CAN’T WAIT TO WRITE THIS IT’S GONNA BE GREAT.

(This is for this ancient writing meme. My askbox is here if anyone wants to shoot me a different combo!)

Oh shit this is going to get long because I had the MOST EXCELLENT idea and as soon as I finish this chapter of the hitman!AU I’m legit going to start working on this one.

SO. Coffee shop + Magical Accident AU:

This is not an all human!AU. I don’t know if Trixie will be in it. Probably not? It would just be too complicated and my brain can’t think of a way to make it work, as you will see.

Chloe is a human trapped in the fae realm. A long time ago, she accidentally wandered into a coffee shop she was not meant to be in, and bought a drink, and has been trapped ever since. She ended up working in the coffee shop, and she doesn’t hate it, but she wishes she weren’t trapped there.

Lucifer is the Devil, and he accidentally wanders into this fae coffee shop that he shouldn’t’ve been able to find, never mind cross the threshold. Because he’s the Devil, and already not human, he can’t be trapped there. Which is a good thing, because he doesn’t realize that Something Isn’t Right in this coffee shop for a while.

When he does, it’s because he has been flirting with Chloe for a while and is falling in love with her and is like “Chloe. I have to tell you something. I’m the Devil.”

And she’s like “lol I don’t believe sin Christian deities I’ve been working in this shop too long.”

And he’s like “??????? What does that have to do with anything?”

And she’s like “?????? I’m mortal?????”

And he’s like “yes, obviously?????????”

And she’s like “AND THIS IS A FAE COFFEE SHOP???????”

And he’s like “What the fuck faeries aren’t real.”

And she gestures around in exasperation and he’s like “…oh”

But she still doesn't believe he's the devil and he doesn't want to like devil face her because it would scare her and their friendship would be over because he’s a big dumb.

And he’s like “why are you here?”

And she’s like “I accidentally wandered in and had a drink.”

And he’s like “……..” And looking at his drink.

And she knows he isn’t mortal but she assumes he’s some kind of fae she never met before, so she’s like “lol what are you worried about?”

And he’s like “I’m the Devil, darling, it would hardly be fitting if I were trapped in the fae realm.”

And she’s like “oh, you.”

And eventually he finds out she’s Trapped and he loves her and This Can Not Stand.

So he drags her on an Adventure to the heart of the realm and is like HELLO GIVE THIS HUMAN BACK HER LIFE. PLEASE.

And the faerie queen is like “hmmm ok but only if you can hold onto her” and he’s like ??????????? And the faerie queen is like “go on, shoo, you’ll see”.

And he’s still like ??????? All the way back as he’s holding hands with Chloe (at some point she finds out he really is the Devil during this journey just F Y I). Chloe is all :( because she knows what that means, and she tells him, “when we leave, don’t let go” but her eyes are dim because she knows it’s impossible.

And so they leave through the coffee shop and Chloe turns into a bunch of beasts a la Tam Lin and Lucifer manages to hold on to her and she eventually stops and is human and he’s like “Darling! You’re free!!!!!!!!!!”

And she turns to him

And says

“Who are you?”

THE END

:) :) :) Let me know if you want to hear about the sequel :) :) :)

ETA: Sequel talked about here.