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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As long as he couldn't suddenly will her into invisibility, that wasn't going to work for very long.

But Octavia kept her mouth shut for now. They didn't know her, sure, but she didn't know them, either. And she was flicking her eyes from one person to the next, trying to work out the probabilities of which of them - if any - might have been the chameleon.

Audrey, on the other hand, was unzipping her clutch. She pulled out her police issue pistol, took the clip out, and set it on the table. "One."

She leaned down, hiking up the hem of her dress, and revealed a smaller pistol strapped to the inside of her thigh. "Two." She popped the clip out of that one and set it on the table as well. Duke would be turned on if he weren't also terrified for his life.

(. . . Yeah, Duke was definitely turned on anyway.)

"There," Audrey said, looking around. "That's one more than you knew that I had. And one I could have kept if I was a bad guy."

Octavia's appreciation of a good spot to hide weapons in a dress like that was a little less sexual, and a lot more muted.

She stepped out from behind Duke's shoulder.

And bent down to pull a knife out of the side of her boot.

This caused a bit of a stir, even as Julia looked from the knife up to Octavia and gave her a little -- and extremely cautious -- nod of approval.

Nathan snorted, and let out a muttered "Figures."

"Well now, how about. . . ." Eleanor picked up the weapon bits one at a time. "Little gun for you," she handed it to Vince. "Little gun clip for you," to Julia. "Big ol' gun for you," Dave. "Big clip for. . . ." She looked around, then tucked it into her shirt with a laugh. "Not really enough to go around, is there?"

"And the knife?" Nathan asked.

"We can't exactly split the knife up and share it, can we, Nathan?" Duke shot back. "We'll just have to . . . leave it there."

Audrey gave him a pointed look.

"What?" Duke asked.

The pointed look became even more pointed. Duke sighed and made a show of rolling his eyes, then pulled out his pocket knife and set it down next to Octavia's. "Fine." He lifted his hands. "Happy?"

"You want us to believe that's the only one you've got?" Vince asked, giving Duke a searching look that didn't suit his usual baffled-old-man demeanor.

"Yes," Duke told him. "You are."

"It was supposed to be a birthday party," Octavia pointed out, not rolling her eyes but sounding like maybe she ought to have been. "Why would he have more than one knife?"

Well, since they all seemed content to think she didn't have another knife tucked in its sheath under her belt...

"Anybody else?" Audrey asked.

"Well, I'd certainly feel better if the other two badges weren't packing" Duke said, giving both Nathan and the Chief the hairy eyeball.

Nathan opened his overshirt and turned, revealing a close fitting tshirt and no suspicious bulges. "I got nothin'. Service weapon is up in my bag. Feel free to take it."

"What about you, Chief?" Julia asked.

"Like the girl said, I was coming to a birthday party!" The Chief threw his arms up in the air, then lifted his pants to show his ankles. "Look, there's nothing."

"Alright." Audrey nodded. "Anyone else? Going once? Going twice? Okay." She pointed to Nathan. "Boathouse. ASAP."

"Right," Duke said. "The rest of us will just. Stay here. And hope neither of you decides to kill the other." He dropped his head and let them walk past, and tried -- once again -- not to freak out too hard.

There were too many people in here he could no longer trust.

"Tavi, you wanna come look for a radio or something with me?"

Maybe this was easier for Octavia: she hadn't really trusted anyone here in the first place.

But that didn't make this a pleasant experience in the slightest. "Yeah," she said with a small nod. "Let's go."

Season one catchup preplay

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