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for @cherchersketch💕, for TDN’s Halloween “Like a Bat Out of Hell” Exchange 🦇🎃

Sign-ups for TDN’s Like a Bat Out of Hell Exchange are open until Sept, 29th!

Give two prompts - one Halloween related, one quote - and then create one (or more ;-) fanwork from at least one of those prompts! You can work from both or only one prompt, as you’d like.

The exchange is also @luciferbingo compatible ^_^

You will get your prompt on Sept, 30th (give or take a day depending on your time zone). Posting day is on Oct, 31st!

Detailed Posting Guidelines (tagging, what to do in case of issues, etc) here, AO3 collection where you can post whenever you’re done here.

Participants who do not create a gift at all and do not warn in case they’re late will not be accepted in later exchanges.

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Title: Flare-Ups

Fandom: Lucifer TV

Characters: Lucifer, Chloe, Trixie, Dan, Ella, and Azrael

Summary:  After being gone three years in Hell, coming back home is more complicated than Lucifer anticipated, and requires more adjustments even with the Detective than he'd hoped for.

For The Deckerstar Network prompts of

1) a dribbling candle

AND

2) “It’s not hemorrhoids, Detective.” (Lucifer 4.10)

Exchange Recipient: @arlome​

Beginning Excerpt:

“He’d been easing himself back into the regular rhythm of life back on earth for over a month. It was odd. All of it odd. He’d left earth before, of course. More often than not within a few days---maybe a month if he were lucky---his brother would find him, subdue him, and drag him back to Hell. He’d missed everything from 1978 to 2011; decades and to have missed a lot of glam rock in the early ‘80s felt like a crime anyway. There had been whole centuries he’d never bothered to go topside to witness. Honestly, the Dark Ages hadn’t interested him much, had felt as much like Hell on Earth as one could get, and he’d no interest in watching humans suffer and die from plague. So, in the grand scheme of things, the fact he’d been gone three years shouldn’t mean as much as it did.

Not really.

Yes, it meant that the infant nephew he’d left behind was three and toddling about. Alright, it also meant that Trixie was almost through eighth grade and an actual teenager. It did mean that in his absence Eve had “found herself” (whatever that entailed) and settled down with Maze, well, as much as a demon and the original party girl could settle down whilst maintaining a bustling bounty hunting business out of Los Angeles, which included being on the road half the time. It meant the Detective had a few more lines near the corners of her eyes and a streak of grey she’d refused to color---one he’d probably put there himself with how much she had to have worried about him down in Hell. And, alright, maybe it even meant that after what had felt like to him centuries in Hell, he was a bit rusty with everything on earth again.

Like eliciting desire.”