Tastes like Pudding

It was flu season and, as usual, Trixie caught it first from school and brought it home to her mother. The woman wanted to go to work regardless, she didn't want to let some small bug stop her from doing her job. But after a few days of struggling to focus and various coughing fits, her boss told her it'd be best if she took some time off until she got better and to try and take care of her daughter, Daniel even agreed. Lucifer agreed as well, in his own way. As soon as the detective left to go home, after some minor arguing before finally giving in, the LAPD received a call.

Apparently a butcher shop owner found a dead human body in the freezer when he opened up today, no one knew how it got there but given the victim was tied up, it looked like it was probably murder. Since Detective Decker was away, that meant Lucifer and Daniel was now working together, much to both men's discomfort. Both of them focused on what the young forensic scientist, Ella was telling them as she studied the body. "I don't see any obvious signs of death besides hypothermia. " She said as she checked the victim's body for gunshots, stab wounds or strangulation, none of which she could see. But all the signs of hypothermia instead. "From the looks of his wrists, it looks like the ropes were put on before he entered the freezer and was awake the majority of the time. "

It wasn't a pleasant death, that's for sure. There were worse ways to go of course, but still made Daniel find it a bit unnerving. "Any fingerprints in the area that could lead us to the killer? " He asked Ella, his answer being quite quick. "Not that I found, no. We have the victim's wallet though, still has money in it so it wasn't a robbery. " Lucifer gave a light scoff to that. "Well clearly, if it was a robbery a quick pop to the head would suffice. " The devil made a finger gun gesture afterwards towards the victim. The two looked at Lucifer with slight concern, before shaking their heads and focusing back on the task at hand. "Alright, let's head back and check this guy's background, see why someone would want him dead. " Dan announced and turned to walk back to the car.

As everyone turned to gather their gear and head to their respectful car, Dan's phone rang again. making him scramble a little to find it in his pocket and see who it was. Oddly enough he saw it was the police department. Lucifer stopped and curiously watched as Dan answered it, saying a few brief words before ending with a 'we'll be right there.' After that everyone moved a little quicker, apparently they had yet another body found this soon. But at another butcher shop, in another freezer.

Sure enough when they all got there, it was pretty much the same, but the victim was a woman this time. Daniel knew they had to find out what the two had in common, as they usually start with first to try and find the motive for the killer. Though the male detective started to wonder how Chloe could handle Lucifer, he was kind of helpful but sometimes complained too much of certain parts of the job being boring and slow. Dan did his best to ignore the Devil to focus on the job, knowing if he let Lucifer get to him he'd not likely find the killer.

In the end though, they found out the woman and the man were engaged, which of course got Lucifer interested again, somehow. "Ohh~ Jealous boyfriend perhaps? Angry mother in-law who decided one was not good enough for her precious offspring? " He asked, seeming a bit too excited to know the killer's motives. Lucifer's words were not too off the chart of possibility though, but one thing that had Daniel and Ella concerned is, the couple had a child. Lucifer was oblivious to the problem at first, until Dan began to explain. "If the killer had personal motive, their child could be in just as much danger, but she just might still be alive. Time of death of the first victim was two days ago, second victim was last night, by this timeframe we got until the end of the day to find her. "

Lucifer hummed... he was not a fan of children, but he supposed they didn't deserve to die at the hands of some jealous, angry killer. "Very well, how do you plan on finding the now orphan child? " The Devil asked, not sounding quite as interested as before but not entirely out of it yet. Ella piped up then, tapping something on her tablet to bring a map up on the big screen. "Given where the first two was, I'd say it's a safe bet that the killer will pick this one, it's the closest to the last two and sorta makes a triangle, if that matters. I know if I was a killer I'd want my spots to be uniform and make sense, instead of being all spread out and... " Ella kept rambling about the subject but Dan had thanked her already and nodded for Lucifer to follow, both men leaving the girl to continue rambling alone about what she'd do. it was kinda mean but time was wasting away and they couldn't just stand by.