seaoftroubles | Haven end run preplay part 2: the bloodening

Duke gets his trouble triggered by Octavia in a kitchen accident and our crew discover that post-trouble bomb, it is EVEN MORE DIRE as he goes black-eyed and can't stop himself from trying to stalk whoever set him off
Lucifer and Octavia stop Duke from doing anything bad (has Octavia make him bleed maybe so he can use his massive power supply to knock Duke tf out?). Duke recovers and says "fuck this, we need to end it" and suggests they go back to Haven one final time to figure out how to end the troubles forever.
They arrive in Haven and Duke IMMEDIATELY goes into convulsions and vanishes in a burst of green smoke. OOPS.
Lucifer and Octavia find Gloria (and Dwight maybe? And/or Nathan?), find out about the "no marks killer" who has been going around killing troubled folks -- and all the troubles that are going off like crazy without Audrey around to talk them down. I imagine there's some "okay, that sucks but WHERE THE FUCK IS OUR BOYFRIEND????"
Duke is spotted around town murking folks, but they can't quite catch him
I may or may not write a scene of Duke and Croatoan while Duke is under his control
Trap set for Duke? Not at the police station. Gloria's house or the hospital/morgue, maybe, since she's coronering. Duke takes the bait, Lucifer pounces again to keep him from, getting away. After a false start or two during which Croat!Duke is DEEPLY UPSETTINGLY CREEPY AT THEM, Lucifer and Octavia manage to talk him around. (Possibly using Duke's new joy at being the subbiest sub who ever subbed!)
Duke starts leaking troubles when Croatoan realizes he's broken his hold. He panics, and Octavia or Lucifer cover his eyes to keep the troubles in. Gloria goes "I'll get some drugs!" and scoots to find something to drug Duke with if need be (and gets out of harms way ;D). Duke takes over the eye-covering -- and goes into muscle contractions as Croat tries pull aether out by another route. This doesn't last long before Croatoan APPEARS DRAMATICALLY IN THE DOOR looking like a gremlin cosplaying as a noir detective. Duke can't even see him -- he's covering his eyes -- but goes "FUCK THIS SHIT" and starts launching the troubles he still has control over at the guy. I really like the idea that at least one of them is radioactive. Maybe Croat!Duke killed the lady from the nonsense trouble episode and got her "shooting microwaves" power. Lucifer and Octavia also fight. Eventually Croat EXPLODES (or . . . dissolves . . . or otherwise dies grotesquely) and our three spend a moment just panting for breath and looking at each other, all "omg, is that it? did we win?"
Duke collapses dead. Weeping and gnashing of teeth. Lucifer gods the fuck out, wiping out the troubles in a giant aether-nado, and resurrects Duke, who's spent maybe 30 seconds dead -- but that's [mumble mumble] amount of time in Hell so he's still a littttttle bit fucked.
They go home and have more angsty h/c times yay!
(Also probably Octavia checks on Gloria first and maybe convinces her to retire to Baltimore XP)

“Maybe you should now,” Duke said. “I can crash in here while you two stay in the master bedroom or something Just in case.”

"I don't want you to be left alone," Octavia said, shaking her head.

It was a little less vehement now than it had been while he'd still been out cold, however.

Edited 2024-11-20 19:15 (UTC)

"There's a sofa in the master bedroom," Lucifer said. Feeling a touch stuck between the both of them, again. "He could sleep there?"

"You can't lock me in on a sofa," Duke pointed out. "I'll be fine by myself," he told Octavia. "I'm more worried about you."

"Well, I'm not," Octavia retorted, raising her eyebrows. "And if somehow you do end up... reactivating again at random, a lock is not going to hold you."

"Honestly, if I just sleep on the end between the sofa and Octavia, it'd be nigh impossible for you to try anything without waking me up," Lucifer sighed. Loudly.

Duke threw his hand in the air. "Fine. Sofa. Though I'd still argue a locked door would slow me down plenty, if not actually stop me."

Did he want Octavia to point out she'd seen him pulverize a rock, before, back when his original trouble had at least been something he'd had a shred of control over? Because Octavia didn't want to go there.

Her jaw tightened, with her inhale.

But:

"Sofa's fine. Whatever."

They weren't going to find better solutions tonight, for anything.

Edited 2024-11-22 12:46 (UTC)

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