seaoftroubles | Season one catchup preplay

There'll be more detail in the OCD, but the basic shape is this:

As You Were: Duke and Octavia head back to Haven for Audrey's surprise birthday party (braced for troubles). They head out to a remote island off the coast where everyone's gathered at an old, closed down hotel. The proprietor turns out to be a shapeshifter that kills the people it turns into. Everyone wonders who the baddie really is. The ME dies, Lucifer sends up a demon to possess her body and yell at Duke for dragging Octavia back into his world's bullshit. Audrey is revealed to be the shapeshifter, but didn't die because She's Different. They all go back to the mainland, where Duke reveals that he's the kid in the Colorado Kid murder picture, and Audrey emotionally blackmails him into sticking around longer to answer some questions.

The Hand You're Dealt: Duke and Audrey hunt down and question a couple of the other people in the Colorado Kid photo. Meanwhile, Nathan and Audrey try to track down someone with a fire trouble. Duke's old babysitter turns out to have death visions when she touches people, and after getting blown up by the fire trouble, tells Duke how he's going to die right before she dies herself.

The Trial of Audrey Parker: ~~Audrey talks Duke into hosting a poker game before leaving. Two of the other guests hijack the boat to try and get something Duke's smuggling for a client.~~ Honestly there are a lot of holes in this thanks to the way things are shaping up with Fandom in the mix. Why would Octavia let Duke stick around when now they KNOW someone in Haven is going to kill him? Octavia isn't a good replacement for Julia, Julia's a ninny. Octavia would just beat the shit out of the baddies for being mean to Duke. And getting the boat cracked delays them too much in going back to Fandom. Maybe we should skip this one. It doesn't really add much to Duke's character development that hasn't kinda been covered by Fandom anyway.

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Duke glanced up long enough to flick her a smile. "I'll owe you," he said softly. It nearly got lost under the other awkward conversation happening in the foyer.

"So do you want me to, uh, you want me to go with you?" the Chief asked Nathan. "I'll help you pick out a room."

"Actually thought I'd walk the grounds before the rains hit," Nathan said.

"Well, you want me to, uh. Just place your bag in one of the rooms up there?" The Chief idly blew on his party horn with a little fwee!

"Uh," Nathan said, looking nonplussed. "Okay. Sure, yeah. Thanks."

Thunder rumbled again as the Chief grabbed Nathan's bags and headed upstairs, and Nathan ducked out the front door.

"That was interesting," Duke said.

"Yeah, that was a big bucketful of awkward," said Audrey.

Octavia had already turned her back on them. She grabbed what little she and Duke had brought with them, and she headed up the stairs in search of a room.

If people were smart, they'd stay out of her way as she did.

"Speaking of which," Duke said, making sure Octavia had made her way upstairs and they were otherwise alone in the foyer. "Um, I don't really do public displays of gift giving. But . . . I got you a gift."

"Actually," Audrey said, talking over the end of his sentence, her own eyes on the stairs. "I was going to go look for Mr. Carpenter. You know, he said that he knew Lucy, so I wanted to ask him some questions."

Dammit, Audrey. "We just got here." He flicked her a smile, patting her on the shoulder. "Don't worry. You will have all weekend to catch up with the -- old guy you just met."

Audrey snorted. "I'm sorry, did you say that you got me a gift?" She put on a wide-eyed, innocent little girl look, and an aggressively teasing tone. "What is it, is it a pony?!"

Duke didn't match it. He shook his head, stepping away. "Forget it."

He wondered if he was going to manage to do something right with any of the women in his life this weekend. One took things much, much too seriously, and the other couldn't seem to take him seriously at all.

He really could pick them, couldn't he.

He jogged up the stairs, hoping it wouldn't be too hard to work out which of the many, many rooms in this place Octavia'd picked to stay in.

Edited 2020-09-14 21:29 (UTC)

Octavia had let everyone else choose theirs first. Then she'd picked one that was as close to the stairs as possible, while still being several doors down from the closest occupied room. The door was halfway open, so that might've helped him.

Their things were on the bed, and Octavia was standing by the window, staring out at the clouds, her phone grasped in on hand.

She'd had half a thought about texting Lucifer, before she'd remembered again.

That did help, yeah. So did knowing she'd want to be close to an exit, but far from people.

"Hey," he said, slipping into the room. He nodded to her phone. "You got a signal out here? I haven't had one since we landed."

Octavia looked down at her phone without turning. There was no signal, no.

"Apparently not."

She hadn't even checked, before. Didn't really matter, did it?

"Better hope no one from Fandom decides they need to contact us," Duke said, trying for a joke. "We don't have the best history with going incommunicado."

It was a very, very poor attempt at a joke.

Oh, Duke.

Octavia let the hand holding the phone drop back to her side, and kept looking out the window.

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