seaoftroubles | Lost and Found

We're skipping the trouble here (I am SO EXCITED to skip this trouble!), so this one should be a bit quicker. Basically:

1. Octavia wakes up the boys with a nightmare and they are cuddly and supportive and maybe also awkward because Haven sucks for EVERYONE

2. Jennifer heard Audrey hear that she needs to go through a door or she'll die. Duke agrees to help her try to hear more from the Barn while Nathan helps Dwight deal with a missing kids trouble (so, basically, we set up the structure of the ep here)

3. Duke, Octavia, and Lucifer all try their own methods to help Jennifer relax so she can hear what's going on in the Barn properly. Duke tries yoga/meditation. The other two are welcome to try their own methods. Canonically, it's playing quarters for beer that works, which I figure Lucifer will roll his eyes at the low-brow nature of but otherwise approve?

4. Jennifer hears that they need to find a door in Haven that they'll have to open at the same time as Audrey opens her door in the Barn, or she's screwed. She also hears fog horns. Nathan tries to butt in via phone and Duke is all "YOU ARE THE OPPOSITE OF CHILL GO AWAY". They work out that the fog horn that Jennifer is hearing must be coming into the Barn through the door in Haven, so they can triangulate the door's location from that.

5. SHOW DOWN ON THE BIG EMPTY HILL! Jennifer found the door, but no one else can see it (unless maybe Lucifer can?) until Audrey opens here door. And Jennifer can't open it. Jordan and the Guard show, and then Vince and Dave, and there's lots of yelling as Dave claims that they can't open the door without letting out a great evil (I'm SURE Luce and Octavia will have Opinions on this!). Nathan opens the door anyway, and they can see Audrey in her door past the Void fog and Audrey jumps -- AND BOOM. Splosions.

6. 'Splosion knows them all over (except maybe Lucifer? Though he would then probably see William coming through too? Unless he's blinded and/or distracted trying to rouse Duke and Octavia. . . .), and when they come to, the door is gone, but there is an Audrey shaped person in their midst! Yay! Nathan immediately hands her a gun and tells her to kill him, because Nathan's gonna Nathan, and Audrey goes "wtf, I'm not going to kill a complete stranger, who tf are you people?" DUN DUN DUN.

Ep out.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

okteiviakom

"What's that?"

Did she even want to know?

(If she'd gone to some more of the parties on the island, she already would have, yes.)

From:

seaoftroubles

"Yes!" Jennifer said, raising her cocktail. "Never have I ever . . . had a boyfriend and a girlfriend at the same time."

Duke snorted and grabbed himself a beer so he could take a swig.

From:

my_own_advocate

"Too bad, I can recommend it," Lucifer said brightly, taking his flask from his pocket for a happy sip.

From:

okteiviakom

"Right," Octavia drawled, dryly.

She would probably be sitting this whole thing out, yes.

From:

seaoftroubles

"Who's next?" Jennifer asked brightly, looking between the three of them. "I mean, I'm pretty sure all of you are way more experienced than I am in . . . most things. But you can get me with 'I've never written an article about a community dog show' or something."

From:

my_own_advocate

"I've never... had a primary school education?" Lucifer offered.

What? He hadn't been born in a time with primary schools.

From:

seaoftroubles

"Oooo," Jennifer said appreciatively. "Good one!"

She raised her glass and drank. Duke took a decent sized sip of his own.

From:

my_own_advocate

"And now it's your turn," Lucifer informed Duke. "Get her to drink more."

From:

betterthanaplan

"Aye-aye," Duke said, giving Lucifer a jaunty salute, and did his best to obey.

It didn't take many more rounds before they figured out that they were all from much too different backgrounds to make Never Have I Ever work for long. Eventually they moved on to quarters, which Jennifer was weirdly good at.

"See?" she said proudly, as she sunk another quarter, making Duke drink. "This I can do!" She grinned at the three of them, sipping her latest drink just because she enjoyed it, then froze, eyes wide, as she heard something. "Okay." She squeezed her eyes shut. "Ah, here we go. . . ."

Your friends need you, a voice said, remarkably clearly. Not one she recognized, but whatever, it was a voice! Success!

"Guys, I can hear it!"

From:

okteiviakom

Octavia had been slumping a little further in her seat the longer the drinking games she barely understood (but hadn't cared enough to ask a second time about) had gone on.

She straightened up just about immediately now, alert again, her eyes on Jennifer. "And?"

From:

seaoftroubles

Jennifer hissed and flapped her hand, shushing her. She squeezed her eyes shut even harder, listening frantically.

". . . We need to find a door."

"A door?" Duke asked. And got his own round of hand flapping and shushing.

From:

my_own_advocate

"A door," Lucifer echoed dubiously. "Well, we've got a few million of those, be more specific."

From:

betterthanaplan

Jennifer scowled, shaking her head. "Stupid -- fog horns --"

Duke reached for her hand to steady her. "Ignore them. Focus on the door thing. What kind of door?"

Jennifer shrugged with her entire body. "I'm not sure. Um. Adjoining motel rooms?"

From:

okteiviakom

Octavia frowned faintly at the repeat of the unfamiliar slang. But that wasn't worth focusing on, right now.

(Even though it kind of niggled at the back of her mind, anyway.)

"Not like the door into the barn?"

From:

my_own_advocate

"Not by the sounds of it. Barn doors are very distinctive."

From:

betterthanaplan

"Not a barn," Jennifer said. "And -- and not a motel room. A . . . a bar?" She gritted her teeth, frustrated. "Those fog horns are really not helping!"

Duke frowned. "Jen, I don't hear any fog horns."

From:

okteiviakom

"... That's not a saying?"

From:

my_own_advocate

Lucifer blinked. "No, they're noisemakers used by boats," he said. "They're very loud."

And very much not here.

From:

betterthanaplan

"How can you guys not hear it?" Jennifer asked. "Ughhhhhh." She blew a raspberry and leaned forward to rest her chin on her hands.

Then her eyes went wide and she sat up again. "Oh my god, if we don't find our door Audrey's going to die!"

Duke pressed his fingers to his nose. "Hang on, what?"

From:

okteiviakom

Octavia was still looking at Lucifer.

Couldn't quite let go of the fog horns that quickly.

From:

my_own_advocate

"What?"

Lucifer's question was aimed at multiple people at once.

From:

betterthanaplan

“Audrey has to open her door,” Jennifer said. “And we have to open our door. Like the motel doors. And if we don’t she’s dead.”

Duke yanked his phone out of his pocket. “Hold that thought. Nathan’s calling again.” He strode out towards the lot as he answered.

“Oh! We have things to tell him now!” Jennifer said, and hurried after him.

From:

okteiviakom

Leaving Octavia to turn back to Lucifer, after staring after them for a second or two.

"Am I the only one who thinks she's not just randomly hearing fog horns?"

From:

my_own_advocate

Lucifer blinked and looked at her, trying to parse that. "You think it might be related to all the-- barn-snooping she's been doing?"

From:

okteiviakom

Octavia glanced towards Jennifer again.

"We're taking the rest of what she's hearing as being related to the barn," she pointed out. "Why not that, too?"