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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Octavia's gaze flicked from one of them to the other.

"Why?" she asked - surprising even herself with how much that already sounded like a no.

Duke opened his mouth to try to explain, then gestured to Audrey, who was already digging in her pocket, yanking out a copy of an old newspaper photo.

"You just carry that thing around?" he said, a little helplessly. Audrey glared at him and thrust it at Octavia.

It was blurred, a copy of a copy, but the details were still there to be made out. The dead man in the foreground, lying against an old wooden post. The woman standing tall in the center, with Audrey's face. The boy next to her, who Octavia had a bit higher a chance of recognizing as eight year old Duke Crocker.

"I don't know anything about that photo. About that woman. Except that her name was Lucy Ripley, she helped people, and she bought flowers once. Oh, and now apparently that she gave Duke here a locket!"

"I wasn't keeping it a secret on purpose," Duke tried. "I just -- don't like to talk about it."

It had been a long, long time, but yeah - Octavia still recognized young Duke in the picture. She looked up at both of them, her eyebrows raised.

"And what is he supposed to do now?" she asked Audrey, before turning to Duke. "Isn't it enough if you just tell her whatever you know?"

"I don't know anything," Duke protested. He picked up the photo and gave it a look over. "Look, that's --" He flicked the teenage girl in the background. "That's Vanessa Stanley. She used to babysit for me sometimes. That's all I've got."

Audrey snatched it back. "That's more than I've had in months," she said again. "You're going to help me find her. You owe me this, Duke."

He opened his mouth to protest, and she pointed at him.

"Who kept you out of jail for murder?" she asked. "Tased Nathan when he went crazy? Saved you from Beatty? Got Bill to give you your restaurant?"

He shut his mouth and his eyes and hung his head with a tiny nod. "I owe you."

There was a question Octavia didn't get to ask before -- all of that happened, and her eyebrows went way up, unimpressed and all challenge.

"Oh, wow, you really don't know how to ask for things, do you?"

"It's okay, Tavi," Duke said, flicking her a sad smile. "I'll help her find some of the others in the photo, and then I'll come home."

"I'm not leaving you," Octavia said, immediately.

Duke looked from her to Audrey. Audrey's expression didn't shift. He looked back at Octavia.

"Yeah. Alright. Guess we'll . . . reschedule that portal for tomorrow, then."

In a little while, Octavia was going to wonder about both their reasons for staying here right after such a shitty day.

But right now, she just nodded.

"Great," Audrey said. "I'll see you at the Gull then. First thing tomorrow morning."

She got into her car to drive off. Duke watched her go, his shoulders sort of slumping into themselves.

"Well. Guess I have time to show you the Sanguine Moon, at least."

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