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 |
On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-26 07:11 pm (UTC)World's most awkward first date
Date: 2022-03-26 07:11 pm (UTC)Hospital, part one
Date: 2022-03-26 07:13 pm (UTC)Possible Gull interlude
Date: 2022-03-26 07:14 pm (UTC)Hospital part 2
Date: 2022-03-26 07:15 pm (UTC)Or he locks all four of them in? IDK, what do you all think?
At the Gull part 2
Date: 2022-03-26 07:16 pm (UTC)Hospital part 3
Date: 2022-03-26 07:18 pm (UTC)Gull part 3
Date: 2022-03-26 07:19 pm (UTC)Lucifer: "Yep, fuck this shit, we're out." *throws Duke over his shoulder and flies off*
OOC
Date: 2022-03-26 07:19 pm (UTC)Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-26 07:28 pm (UTC)"Your name is Lexie?" Nathan demanded.
"I guess you were expecting someone else?" Lexie asked.
Jordan yanked a shotgun out of the hands of one of her Guardsmen. "Shoot him!"
"I'm not shooting anyone!" Lexie said. "Who are you people?!"
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-26 07:31 pm (UTC)He hadn't actually vacated the premises. He'd just moved off to the side, where he was currently making his way through the contents of his flask like a champ.
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-26 08:33 pm (UTC)All of this felt very likely to go sideways very fast.
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-26 08:47 pm (UTC)Duke, thinking fast, headed towards Jordan, only to stop when one of the other Guardsmen turned their gun on him. "Jordan, if she's not Audrey anymore, then her killing Nathan isn't gonna end the troubles. It only works if she loves him."
Jordan didn't look back at him, still staring down Nathan as though she could bore holes in his skull with her eyes alone. "Then I might as well shoot him myself!"
"Vince!" Dave shouted. "Get your people under control!"
"Jordan!" Vince tried. Jordan wasn't listening. She cocked her gun.
Duke threw a desperate punch at the nearest Guardsman, bloodying the guy's nose and setting off his own trouble. His order for Nathan and Lexie to "Run!" came out as a growl.
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-27 07:57 pm (UTC)(Especially after the way she'd seen it in her nightmares all night long.)
She forced herself not to yell out for him. But, her knives were out again, now.
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-27 08:06 pm (UTC)Lucifer barely took five seconds to shove his flask back into his pocket before he threw himself back into the mess he'd just distanced himself from, shoving himself between Duke and the Guardsman.
He was absolutely not allowing Duke to get himself killed.
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-27 08:24 pm (UTC)Nathan had followed Duke's orders and bolted down the hill, back towards the road. The Guardsmen poured after him, shouting the whole way. Duke started after them, determined to put himself between the guns and ex.
"Where am I?" Lexie asked.
"Maine," Jennifer said, flicking her a little smile. "Don't worry, after awhile you kind of get used to it!"
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-27 08:42 pm (UTC)Octavia left dealing with Duke to Lucifer because she didn't really have any other choice while his trouble was active. So instead, she went with her second instinct of shielding Jennifer, although none of the Guardsmen seemed interested in her at all.
Or Audrey-who-wasn't-Audrey, which Octavia supposed showed just how single-minded they were being.
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-27 09:00 pm (UTC)If by 'handling' you meant his heart leaped up into his bloody throat, and he rushed forward with unnatural speed to grab Duke by his shirt. "Don't be a bloody idiot," he hissed.
It took less than the fwump of his unfurling wings to drag Duke upwards, into the sky.
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-27 09:04 pm (UTC)"You get used to that too," Jennifer assured her.
"Luce -- dammit, put me down!" Duke yelled. His trouble had worn off already, but he could see Nathan down below, tripping over his own numb damned feet. "They're going to kill him!"
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-27 09:07 pm (UTC)Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-27 09:13 pm (UTC)Nathan was determined to get himself killed. If he couldn't do it by talking the woman he loved into sacrificing him. . . .
"Shit," he muttered. "Okay, I have another plan."
If it was saner or not was debatable.
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-27 09:17 pm (UTC)Well. Primarily Octavia, if he was honest.
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-27 09:28 pm (UTC)... Right up until she realized there was movement behind her, and she turned, only to see Lexie heading for the trees, with Jennifer in tow.
She took off after them. "You don't want to go there!"
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-27 09:36 pm (UTC)"Jesus fuck!" Duke said, pulling his legs up to his chest, though thankfully the bullet didn't come anywhere near them. "Not while we're flying up here!"
"Okay, listen up, you lunatics!" she was shouting. "Move a muscle, lose your head. I know it doesn't seem like I know how to use this thing, but I do!"
Duke looked up at Lucifer. "No time. Trust me?"
Re: On the bluff, continued
Date: 2022-03-27 09:43 pm (UTC)Lucifer pulled a face. "If I see you bolting towards them again I'm taking you back up," he snapped. But he did trust Duke. Mostly.
Maybe.
When Audrey wasn't involved.
He set Duke down on the ground gently regardless.