seaoftroubles | Sins of the Fathers preplay

Danny arrives, maybe just in time for Audrey to realize that Duke is gone. She fills him in on the strange marks, the probable missing persons, and the ghost trouble. Nathan arrives to give them a ride to the gravedigger's house to interrogate him, perhaps Danny notices the paint on the gravedigger's wife's hand instead of Audrey, and he and Audrey play confused tourists together while Nathan waits in the car? They tail her into the woods, where the Rev's people have gathered with the kidnapped troubled people.

The Rev's people are heavily armed, with rifles and pistols. A group of people make molotov cocktails by a collection of gas cans. Two men with rifles guard the doors to a shed, while another set pull an unconscious young man out of the back of a van, keeping him quiet with chloroform. They put him into the shed with several other bound, unconscious people. They're troubled. The Xs marked the homes of the kidnapping victims. They're clearly planning to burn the shed down.

Before the cops can decide to take action, the Rev walks out of the woods, with Duke on his tail. Audrey can't see the Rev, but Danny and Nathan can. All Audrey sees is Duke arguing with empty air.

The Rev's men manage to get the drop on the cops, disarming them, and forcing them into the open.

Duke sees the troubled people in the shed and accuses the Rev of being insane, declares that he's going to stop them. The Rev says that he's here to "save" them. One of his men forces a knife into Duke's hands, which he brandishes at anyone who comes near him, including Audrey when she's led right up behind him. Audrey's shocked. Nathan accuses him of working with the Rev. Duke denies it and drops the knife.

The troubled gravedigger is the one holding the gun to Audrey. Nathan tries to tell him not to listen to the Rev, and Audrey tells him that he's troubled. Kyle tries to deny it, and Duke's dad appears, telling Duke that this is the way it always goes when people realize they're cursed. The gravedigger's pregnant wife is clearly horrified. The Rev points to Duke as the person who can save the gravedigger and his family.

Duke tries to refuse. Someone shoves a knife into his hands again. Duke clearly struggles with the decision as both the Rev and his father urge him to use his trouble to "save" the gravedigger's unborn child, and the gravedigger begs him to help. Audrey tells him not to do it, and the Rev calls her a liar.

That's the last straw. Duke shakes his head. She's his friend!

Duke's father tells him that Audrey's previous incarnations killed his grandfather, killed him. That Audrey will kill Duke. Duke turns away, still in denial, and the gravedigger takes the chance to run up and grab Duke's hand, forcing him to stab him in the stomach.

Duke can't do anything but stare as the gravedigger collapses to the ground. And THANKS HIM.

With the kill complete, the Crocker trouble doesn't come with the same side-effects. His eyes go silver, but he doesn't need super strength. There's not adrenaline rush or high. He's just shocked. He meets Nathan's eyes as Nathan stares back at him, clearly distrustful.

The ghosts get in some last enigmatic lines as they fade out with the dying gravedigger's trouble. Lots of comments about how Nathan and Duke are on opposite sides and will have to kill each other, all while Nathan and Duke stare at each other trying not to have feelings. It's super deep, yo. And extremely weird.

The gravedigger dies. The ghosts vanish. Audrey grabs her gun and shouts that EVERYONE THERE IS UNDER ARREST DAMMIT!

Nathan and Audrey have a bunch of paperwork to process, but also a date to prepare for! Yay! Duke goes back to his boat, Danny following along yelling, probably, and gets out a big ass bottle of booze to try and drink his feelings. He and Danny maybe have a heart to heart about killing in the line of duty? The ways it fucks with your head. How to avoid it as best as possible. Duke starts to calm down, says that he just wants to get back to Fandom, but Haven behind him again. Danny gets up to use the bathroom? I feel like he should be out of the way a little when Nathan barges in. Nathan barges in, demanding to know what Duke's done with Audrey. Duke's all "WTF WHAT DO YOU MEAN AUDREY'S GONE??" and they fight. Danny hears the ruckus, comes rushing back out to find Duke prone on the floor with Nathan standing above him, pointing his gun in Duke's face. Duke's reaching for the gun he keeps taped under the galley table, but is too busy staring at the fresh new tattoo on the inside of Nathan's arm to actually grab it.

And the season ends with an exterior shot of the boat along with a gun shot, because this show is the woooooooorst!

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seaoftroubles

Audrey's thoughts were moving along the same lines, at least with regards to Duke.

Who seemed to have wandered off while she was investigating a crime scene.

She came out of the house, careful not to disturb the dropped keys and wallet and other signs of struggle on the front porch, and looked around.

"Duke!" she shouted. "Where the hell did he go?"

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hatesparadise

Well, at least there was someone he knew!

"It's gonna be one of those days, isn't it?" Danny asked, carefully coming up to where she was.

From:

seaoftroubles

"It definitely has been so far," Audrey agreed. She flicked him a tired smile. "Detective Williams. Welcome back. Since I can see you, I'm going to go ahead and assume you're not one of our new ghosts."

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hatesparadise

"Certainly hope not," he said, touching his own chest for confirmation. "What's happening this time?"

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seaoftroubles

"Dead people coming back to take their revenge on the living," Audrey said, like she was talking about the local boat parade. (Which, admittedly, had turned out to be a very exciting and stressful day, but still.) "Pretty much all of them buried by the same gravedigger, so Duke was supposed to be taking me to go talk to the guy."

She frowned, looking around, as though Duke might come bouncing out of the woods that surrounded the house with some bullshit excuse. "I had him stop here to check out some suspicious graffiti I've been noticing around town. Houseowners seem to be missing, and now so is he."

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hatesparadise

"Oh, that's pretty alarming actually," he said. "Alright, need another set of eyes on this?"

Since he was gonna do it anyway. Because Duke.

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seaoftroubles

"That'd be great, thanks," Audrey said, and looked up and down the road. "Don't suppose you came with a car?"

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hatesparadise

"Just me and my coffee." Thank god for that. "I guess I should be glad I was already headed to work."

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seaoftroubles

“That island of yours is so weird,” Audrey said, shaking her head. “And that’s coming from a place where ‘ghosts are taking revenge on the living’ is basically just Tuesday.”

She pulled out her phone to send Nathan a message to come pick them up.

“The graffiti is over here,” she said, pointing out a freshly painted orange mark on the ground, a circle with an X drawn through it. “There’s signs of struggle at the house, but I’m not seeing anything that wasn’t already here before Duke wandered off. He was acting a little squirrelly though. And, uh, apparently has had conversations with the ghost of his father today.”

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hatesparadise

She really had no idea.

"Oh, that's great," Danny said, crouching down to examine the graffiti. "I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess he didn't share what those conversations were about."

Shocking, really.

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seaoftroubles

“He did, actually,” Audrey said, giving Danny an assessing look. “His father tried to talk him into using his trouble.”

Duke had only told Audrey about his trouble after it had been set off in front of her. She wondered if he’d said anything about it to his Fandom friends.

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hatesparadise

"Sonovabitch," Danny muttered, pushing himself back up onto his feet. "Okay, let's make sure that doesn't happen then."

Duke's dad was sounding like a real Doris, to be honest.

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seaoftroubles

Simon Crocker was nowhere near as clever, but otherwise, that was an apt description.

“Glad we’re on the same page there,” Audrey said. “Since his dad also left him a note before he died, telling him to kill me.”

It’d been quite the few weeks, up here in Haven.

“Nathan should be here soon to pick us up. I guess . . . we’ll keep heading to the gravedigger’s house. Put this trouble to bed before anyone talks Duke into something stupid.”

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hatesparadise

Danny sighed loudly, very much looking like he was gonna go punch a ghost for pulling dumb shit like this on way too many people he knew.

"We'll find him and put his head back on straight too," he promised.

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seaoftroubles

“You really care about him, huh,” Audrey observed. She bit her lip on the question of just how he did. She’d only just learned that Duke was interested in men as well as women, and he seemed pretty liberal with that affection. And this was the second time Danny had shown up out of the blue when Duke was in trouble.

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hatesparadise

Would it help if she knew that Danny had half adopted a series of dark haired idiots, rife with familial issues? It was turning into A Thing.

"Course I do," Danny said like it was just that simple. "He's my friend."

And Danny was stupid loyal to friends. Like, travel to North Korea loyal.

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seaoftroubles

"I've never had friends like that," Audrey said. "Not until I got here." Then she sighed. "Well, that I know of. Lucy probably did. Or Sarah." She shook her head. "Alright. We'll find Kyle, bust the ghosts. Then . . . tie Duke to a chair and beat some sense back into him with a stick."

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hatesparadise

"Lucy or Sarah?" Danny had to ask, sort of wondering if this was gonna be some road he didn't need to know about for his own sanity. "Let's try to refrain from the stick beating for now, but I've got handcuffs ready if he gets tetchy about it."

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seaoftroubles

Audrey smirked. "I'm sure he'd just love that."

Duke always looked so offended when someone cuffed him.

"I, uh. Used to be different people. Apparently the memories of the original Audrey Parker, FBI, got copied into my brain at some point. It's a Haven thing."

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hatesparadise

Yeah, he probably would.

"Ah." Yeah, he didn't really want to know the details on that. But had to ask, "And you think my stuff is weird?"

Though his town was sort of teasing.

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seaoftroubles

"I've heard about your squirrels," Audrey said. She perked up and nodded as Nathan's big blue Bronco pulled up. "Here's Nathan. At least he hasn't wandered off yet."

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hatesparadise

"Fair," he had to grant her, offering a friendly wave to Nathan. Because the guy was a dick and all, but there were more important things to worry about.

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seaoftroubles

Nathan leaned out his window and frowned (not that it was easy to tell). "Williams. When'd you get here?"

"Maybe five minutes ago," Audrey said. "Apparently his island kicked him out again."

From:

hatesparadise

Wasn't that just his resting expression?

"Seems Duke's missing, so..." He gestured to himself in a sort of 'voila'. "Here I am."

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seaoftroubles

It was two degrees past his resting expression.

"How'd you know?" he asked.

"Maybe disastrous timing is his trouble," Audrey said. "What do you think, Dan? Are you a magnet for danger?"