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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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."

From:

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."

From:

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?"

From:

hatesparadise

Big difference!

"Wow, no." Then he had to pause and really consider it. "No, it's usually the people around me who run head first into danger."

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seaoftroubles

Audrey laughed and eyed Nathan knowingly. At the same time as Nathan muttered "Know that feeling."

"Excuse me," Audrey said. "Which one of us thinks because he can't feel anything he can't get injured?"

Nathan just tilted his head at her. "You ran into a fire the other day. To save someone whose sweat mummifies people."

"I'm immune to troubles!"

"Not immune to fire."

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hatesparadise

Oh god, he needed to apologize to Steve for disappearing on him now. Stupid other people making him realize stuff.

"Both valid points of running into danger," Danny granted them. "But let's focus on the most pressing one right now."

If he was here too long, the odds of his own personal trouble magnet showing up rose.

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seaoftroubles

"Getting rid of ghosts," Audrey said, nodding. "And finding Duke."

"Why do we think he didn't just ditch you?"

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hatesparadise

"Because Haven," Danny suggested. "I mean. This'll only be the second time I've been here, but..."

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seaoftroubles

"It's Haven," Nathan agreed. "It's also Duke."

Audrey shook her head, climbing into the passenger seat. "Give him a break, Nathan. He's been through a lot."

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hatesparadise

"Yes, that is who we're looking for. Very good," Danny said, taking the backseat here.

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seaoftroubles

Nathan's scowl deepened another two degrees.

"Looking for Kyle Hopkins, actually. He's the one making the ghosts."

Audrey eyed him. The revelation from Duke that they used to be lovers had cast a whole new light on Nathan's animosity. And his story about how his trouble was activated. Now she found herself wondering if maybe some of his coldness towards Danny wasn't a little bit of jealousy.

"We can do both," she said lightly. "And maybe even figure out those orange Xs while we're at it. You know, with detective work."

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hatesparadise

"Catch me up on the rest of the case as we go," Danny suggested, having very little time for weird jealousy issues.

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seaoftroubles

Nathan nodded and put the car into gear. Then stayed quiet and let Audrey do the actual catching up.

"Started out as just a shooting. A woman was shot by her neighbor, who claimed he was in her house with a gun because the ghost of her dead husband told him she was in danger. Which sounds like it could be standard perp babble --"

"Until you factor in the neighbors seeing the husband, too," Nathan added.

"Turns out, the woman and the neighbor were having an affair when the husband died. Little while later, we had a kid taking revenge on his sister's rapist, saying his sister's ghost told him to. Both the husband and the sister were buried at the same cemetery by the same man."

"Kyle Hopkins," Nathan said.

"Who it turns out moved Duke's father's grave when the cemetery he was originally buried in started eroding."

"Still not sure how my dad fits into it," Nathan said. "Buried him myself."

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hatesparadise

"And the graffiti?" Danny asked.

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seaoftroubles

Nathan shrugged. "First I've heard of it."

"I've seen it a few times around town today," Audrey said. "Always at the end of people's driveways. And at that last house, there was a clear sign of struggle. People don't just leave their front door open, their wallet and keys on the ground. Even in Haven."

"You think there's a ghost behind it?" Nathan asked.

Audrey nodded. "Someone who felt wronged by a lot of people, maybe."

"Duke's father was a serial killer."

Audrey hummed, frowning harder. "There's Kyle's house," she said, pointing off to the right.

Nathan pulled up to the curb a little ways down the road. Audrey stayed his hand when he reached for the ignition.

"Keep the engine running, Nathan, in case something happens." She opened her door. "Dan, you're with me."

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hatesparadise

"Danny," he replied dryly, falling into step with her once he was out of the car.

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seaoftroubles

"Danny," Audrey muttered with a nod. "Sorry."

She was terrible at names, unless you were troubled. He was lucky she hadn't called him Don. Or Roger.

A woman stepped out the front door of the house as they were walking up. Marissa Hopkins, Kyle's visibly pregnant wife, looking like she was in a rush.

There was orange paint on her hand, the same color as the suspicious graffiti popping up around town.