Duke's first instinct was to grab for Lucifer, try to staunch the bleeding. Duke's first instinct was trash because one drop of that blood on him and his trouble would kick in and get overwhelmed and he'd be out like a light, and this thing that might or might not be Octavia would be able to rip through them both like they were tissue paper and --
All that went through his head in the amount of time it took him to jerk his hand to the left and fire three shots into the deck of his own boat, hoping the noise and explosion would drive the beast -- and its now blood-soaked claws -- back far enough to buy him the distance he needed to figure out an alternate game plan that wouldn't get all three of them killed.
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Duke's first instinct was to grab for Lucifer, try to staunch the bleeding. Duke's first instinct was trash because one drop of that blood on him and his trouble would kick in and get overwhelmed and he'd be out like a light, and this thing that might or might not be Octavia would be able to rip through them both like they were tissue paper and --
All that went through his head in the amount of time it took him to jerk his hand to the left and fire three shots into the deck of his own boat, hoping the noise and explosion would drive the beast -- and its now blood-soaked claws -- back far enough to buy him the distance he needed to figure out an alternate game plan that wouldn't get all three of them killed.