Season one catchup preplay

[seaoftroubles]

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.

Comments

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[my_own_advocate]

He probably hadn't expected the body to abruptly sit up, had he?

"Oh wow," Ted the demon said, blinking rapidly.

It had been a very long time since he'd felt, you know. Human flesh and bones!

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[okteiviakom]

Distracted, her attention trained on the chatter in the other room, Octavia was about to hand Duke the bottle.

Instead, she only narrowly kept herself from dropping it on the floor when that happened.

"... Eleanor?"

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[my_own_advocate]

'Eleanor' reached back and touched her neck gingerly. "Oh, that's nasty," he muttered.

Then he looked at Octavia. "Oh, no, sorry! Hi, I'm Ted! The boss sent me to yell at you." He laughed nervously. "Please don't club the messenger?"

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[betterthanaplan]

Duke probably would be clubbing the messenger, if he were currently holding anything that would function as a club.

"Who the fuck is your boss?!"

Was this some new side of the chameleon? Part of the transformation process??

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[okteiviakom]

Octavia was quicker to move on from the idea that this was trouble-related. Or, at the very least she had a theory.

Her voice went considerably more hushed.

"I thought possession wasn't allowed anymore."

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[my_own_advocate]

"Yes, well, when Lord Morningstar tells you to do something, you don't say no just because he said something else another time, right?"

Ted shrugged helplessly. Mind you, the broken neck did make it a bit awkward and... floppy, but he was trying.

"Besides, I get the day off after this."

... Don't get distracted, Ted.

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[okteiviakom]

Octavia couldn't help the little upward curving of her lips. Even if it only lasted for a second.

Because: "Wait, why are you supposed to yell at us?"

Not that it wasn't perfectly Lucifer to just pop up at the most inconvenient moment possible to draw attention to himself.

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[betterthanaplan]

Duke got past his gaping long enough to facepalm.

"Because we're in Haven," he said. "He's here to yell at me."

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[my_own_advocate]

"Yeah, basically," Ted said apologetically. He fixed Eleanor's eyes on Duke. "The boss said to tell you you're an idiot," he said, "And she shouldn't be here, and neither should you, and if he sees you wandering through the gates anytime in the next few decades because you were an idiot who 'can't leave well enough alone, the bloody masochist', he is personally going to show up to make your Hell like, ten times worse."

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[okteiviakom]

"Well," Octavia murmured, "sounds like Lucifer."

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[my_own_advocate]

"Honestly, it was kinda nice seeing him angry again," Ted admitted, as he laid down again. "He's been pretty sad the last couple of years, since he got back."

Beat.

"Anyway, this body is about to go rigor, so I'm outies. Bye!"

And the light in Eleanor's eyes went out.

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[betterthanaplan]

"Wait. Years?" Duke said.

Just as a gunshot echoed from the next room.

Re: As You Were - MOAR DEATH

[okteiviakom]

Yeah, Octavia had caught that part, too.

But then there was that sound, and she was already moving.