Octavia Blake (
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To the Cape Rouge, Sunday
Jennifer had taken off for Baltimore. If anyone had asked Octavia about the why and how, maybe even the when of it, she wouldn't have been able to say. Something in her had shut down at the sight of the island, the knowledge that they were no longer in Haven, and she only had one single shred of focus left, and one single goal to go with it:
Just herding Duke across the island, to the port, to the Rouge, to deliver him to Lucifer.
She hadn't said a word the entire way over.
But when they finally stepped onto the dock, with the ship just up ahead, she was almost running.
[ooc: For the two! Follows this.]
Just herding Duke across the island, to the port, to the Rouge, to deliver him to Lucifer.
She hadn't said a word the entire way over.
But when they finally stepped onto the dock, with the ship just up ahead, she was almost running.
[ooc: For the two! Follows this.]
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And now it was Sunday, and they still weren't here, and he was - perhaps - starting to panic.
He was standing on deck with his phone in one hand and the other buried firmly in his hair, his back to them. "What do you mean, I'm calling the wrong office--"
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About Jennifer settling in okay in Baltimore. (About her looking dead on the beach.) About Nathan and Audrey. (About Mara and if Audrey was really just gone.)
About what William had said. About feeling like his insides were doing their best to become his outsides. About how he might have fully sucked the life out of several fish and patch of grass and given it to Jennifer. . . .
He wasn't saying anything either. He was just making a beeline for Lucifer, fully intending to just -- wrap himself around him and ask him to help shut his brain off for awhile.
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"Lucifer!"
It sounded hoarse. And like -- a demand, somehow, more steel than it should have been.
(She felt a dread.)
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They were alive.
They were alive.
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He bypassed the gangplank entirely, choosing instead to vault over the gunwale to get to him that much faster.
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Which meant there was a roiling in the pit of her stomach that was getting worse.
And her chest was beginning to feel like it might implode if she got too close to anyone.
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He'd been terrified. He needed them close.
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Duke wasn't ordinarily the sort to initiate a hug. And receiving them from others usually took him by surprise.
He'd never be able to fully express how grateful he was that he'd found two people who made him feel like he could do this. Fling himself into someone's arms like this when his lungs felt like they'd never work properly again.
He wrapped himself around Lucifer, buried his face in the other man's neck, and tried to remember how to breath.
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Her ears were ringing.
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Duke's chest shuddered, and he clung. He couldn't quite let go yet, couldn't let the sob that pressed against his throat. Not yet.
He reached back a hand for Octavia.
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(When had she last sat down before this?
When had she last eaten?)
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But he didn't let go. Certainly not with Duke like this.
He just-- tightened his grip.
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"Tavi," he said, voice soft and spare.
If she wasn't okay -- physically unharmed at least -- he wasn't sure what he'd do.
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She stared ahead, at nothing. Empty.
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"Tavi."
Still soft. Thin and dry as paper.
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He was supposed to be in Lucifer's arms, where he was safe.
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"Darling?" he said. "Are you all right?"
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"You need to take care of him."
That was the only thing that mattered.
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"We need to take care of you, too."
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"I have space for both of you," Lucifer said, searching her face. "Octavia, please. What's going on?"
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Yeah, still his chin. His lips.
"Didn't you hear me?"
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