Lucifer x Reader - Request

Who's that I see walkin' in these woods
Why, it's Little Red Riding Hood
Hey there Little Red Riding Hood
You sure are looking good
You're everything a big bad wolf could want
Listen to me

Lucifer hated going to Purgatory. It was the worst possible destination, but he needed a particular monster to do something for him, and in order to get him, he had to trudge through that disgusting forest himself. He smelled that soft, mottled, utterly human scent on the wind and slowed down. People didn't last long in Purgatory. Their souls lasted a bit longer but they too were destroyed eventually. 

Eventually he came upon a younger looking girl. Suddenly, in a flash of fabric, he felt something sharp press against his neck. She was pretty in her looks, but the way she was holding the knife to his throat indicated she was deeper than that. 

"What are you doing?" she growled. 

"Hey now." Lucifer held his hands up. "I'm nothing but an angel, lost around here."

He felt the pressure of the blade lighten slightly. 

"Name?" she asked. 

"Lucifer," he replied. 

She arched an eyebrow and sheathed her blade. "Nothing you can do to me here."

She started walking away, shaking her head. He noticed the bandages around her shoulder.

Little Red Riding Hood
I don't think little big girls should
Go walking in these spooky old woods alone

"I don't think you should go alone, if I could possibly accompany you. After all, mere humans don't survive here very long. I'm sure you've figured that out by now." Lucifer let out a breathy chuckle. "It's a bit frightening here."

She laughed harshly. "Why should I trust you, Lucifer?" 

She spat his name with a level of disgust Lucifer hadn't encountered in a while.

She obviously knew who he was; any human with common sense did.

"Why would I lie? I have no reason to." He said it with a smile, though his tongue caught on some words. 

What big eyes you have
The kind of eyes that drive wolves mad
So just to see that you don't get chased
I think I ought to walk with you for a ways

He stared into those big ____ eyes of hers. "What's your name?"

"____________," she responded. He noticed her fingers lingering on the hilt of her dagger. 

She turned and walked away again, but Lucifer kept up the pace. "Why are you stuck in this wonderful place?" he asked, smirking. 

"Not good, not too bad," she answered. "I'm in between. And you are here on business, I'm assuming."

He chuckled. "You're correct."

He couldn't help but notice the way her hips swayed as she walked, and how her pretty her hair was in the grey sunlight filtering through the branches. She was a splash of color spattered against this drab landscape. He was already chiding himself for expressing some interest in her wellbeing. 

What full lips you have
They're sure to lure someone bad
So until you get to grandma's place
I think you ought to walk with me and be safe

They talked for hours, as they walked along the overgrown earth.

"When's your sentence up?" he asked, looking down at her. 

"It's-"

Suddenly, a wendigo appeared, much to Lucifer's disdain. He reached out and snapped it's neck before it could even brush _______. He looked over at her, only to find that he'd snaked an arm around her in an effort to shield her. She ducked out of his grasp. She seemed more afraid of him than she was of the wendigo.

"I-I'll be a few more hundreds," she shuddered. 

"You really ought to stick with me," he said, with a soft sarcastic lilt in his voice. "Until you get out of here."

"Hundreds of years-"

"A millisecond to someone like me," he interrupted. "No worries."

I'm gonna keep my sheep suit on
Until I'm sure that you've been shown
That I can be trusted walking with you alone

He was obviously interested in her life; he listened intently. She watched as his facial features changed with minuscule twitches and nods. The muscles in his face moved just the right way to express the right words. "There is night and day in Purgatory," he said after a while. "I don't think you should be alone here."

"I appreciate your concern," she said softly. "But I've lived here for almost a quarter of a century now."

"Haven't aged a day, I see," he noted. 

"Side effects of living in a world between the living and the dead," she said, rolling her eyes.

He smiled. "Are you going to walk through the night?"

"Yes."

"I'll walk with you."

"Okay."

They walked together. Lucifer killed a few vampires, thirsting for __________'s perfectly human blood. He could see the wariness in her face easing slightly as the night pressed on. 

Little Red Riding Hood
I'd like to hold you if I could
But you might think I'm a big bad wolf so I won't

"I've told you about me." She cleared her throat before continuing. "Now it's your turn."

He paused and they stopped altogether. He stared into her eyes, and she saw the coldness there ebb away into sadness.

"I was my Father's son. I thought I could do great things as he had. I was wrong."

"Oh."

He nodded and he felt the need to reach out to her hand and entwine his fingers with hers. 

He restrained himself; he was the Devil for God's sake.

He laughed.

"What?"

"I thought of something pretty funny," he answered, with another small laugh.