The New Girl preplay
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seaoftroubles| Directly off the end of last episode! Jordan decides to murder Nathan since Audrey isn't Audrey. There's a fight and lots of running and shouting. Eventually Lexi fires into the air to get everyone to stop. Duke says he can maybe clear things up if he talks to Vince, and gets Vince to agree to not kill Nathan right away so they can make Lexi fall in love with him and kill him instead. So basically, DUKE STALLS LIKE WOAH |
| Vince decides the best way to get Lexi in love with Nathan is to have her tag along on a trouble investigation like Audrey did. They head out to a case where a kid flipped his lid and tried to kill his girlfriend on a date, only to end up locked in a freezer. Nathan, Lexi, and Duke go to face him down, and see him end up slitting his own throat. |
| Duke ends up leading the questioning of the kid's girlfriend, because Nathan is being all strong silent type. Signs point to a hospitalized kid named Tyler being involved, he's in the hospital because he was paralyzed in a big car accident both the victim and his girlfriend were also in. Lexi just wants food. Duke is all "Nathan, come on, I know you have no game BUT THIS IS THE WOMAN YOU LOVE. SORT OF." |
| Duke and Nathan question Tyler while Lexi goes to get a CT scan. Tyler says that he felt like he was out of control when Katie looked at him, like she's troubled. Nathan gives the kid his card, and then Duke gives him a little "prescription" for free drinks at the Gull. Meanwhile, Katie throws herself in front of a car. Fun! |
| Duke gets Jennifer to go home for awhile. If anyone goes with her, they may get to see Jordan hit on Wade. If not . . . that'll just happen off screen. I'm guessing Luce and Tavi will be stuck to Duke for most of this? |
| Lexi says maybe it's Tyler because Josh and Katie were clearly getting it on behind his back. They all go back to the hospital, but find a dead orderly instead of Tyler. Duke goes to find a nurse -- this is where he gets possessed, and possibly where we start to go our own way because he has actual loved ones around who worry about him in our version. |
| Tyler-in-Duke sidetracks Lexi and Nathan and locks them in a walk in cooler. He tries to dodge Luce and Tavi too. I'm guessing it doesn't work well. |
| Perhaps they take him back to the Gull? He manages to get a minute alone with Wade to get the idea to kill his own body so he can stay in Duke's. He manages to get away from Luce and Tavi somehow and heads for the hospital, possibly with a very confused Jennifer in tow. |
| Lexi (and probably immune Lucifer?) heads in to deal with Tyler and keep him from murdering anyone, only to at the last minute "chicken out" and let Tyler try to kill his own body. This sets off Duke's trouble, which override's Tyler's trouble, saving Duke from the possession. Hurray! |
| Duke manages to pull Lexi aside at the Gull to point out that Audrey totally would have known what would have happened, and she admits to only pretending to be Lexi. Show ends here. Pretty sure Duke will want to stick around to try to clear things up/get rid of Wade, and this is where Lucifer and Octavia DRAG HIM BODILY HOME IF NECESSARY. And then it's all over but the moody moody aftermath, mmmmmm |
Re: Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-31 09:42 pm (UTC)Re: Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-31 09:47 pm (UTC)"Oh god," Lexie said, moving back to give the two of them space.
Re: Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-31 09:50 pm (UTC)Re: Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-31 09:55 pm (UTC)Well, there was still a pen in his leg, and he hadn't even come close to even realizing all the things he was going to need to process after all this. But other than that.
"Was it true?" Lexie asked. "Were you really -- were you there, the whole time?"
Duke looked up at her, swallowing, and nodded. "It was like I was a fly on my own wall."
Re: Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-31 09:58 pm (UTC)He lifted Duke up off the floor, just because he could.
Re: Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-31 10:05 pm (UTC)Lexie politely looked away, pretending to examine the dead kid with the fucked up ax wound in his chest instead.
Re: Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-31 10:12 pm (UTC)Lexie really didn't matter in the slightest. She might as well have been a mop, or another stray gurney.
Re: Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-31 10:16 pm (UTC)Especially if what he was thinking about her turned out to be true.
Though . . . not at this precise moment, not remembering when he'd last seen his natshana. "Tavi. Is she -- fuck, Tyler shot her."
"Your boyfriend got her to a doctor," Lexie said, smirking faintly. It was her default mask. "If you're gonna get shot, might as well do it in a hospital."
Re: Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-31 10:21 pm (UTC)Re: Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-31 10:33 pm (UTC)"Okay, but -- What actually just happened?" Lexie asked. "And what was going on with your eyes?"
Duke sighed. "My family's trouble. When I kill a Troubled person, I kill their trouble too. When he died, Tyler couldn't control me anymore. He accidentally ended his own curse."
Re: Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-31 10:38 pm (UTC)He rubbed absent-mindedly at the bullet hole Tyler had left with the other hand. "Now if you're done playing twenty questions, please excuse us."
Re: Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-31 10:53 pm (UTC)"Thanks, Lexie," Duke called back, glancing over his shoulder to flash her a tiny smile. "See you around."
He leaned heavier against Lucifer, taking more weight off his stabbed leg, and let his boyfriend take him away to go find their Tavi.