betterthanaplan | The Cape Rouge, Port of Fandom, Monday afternoon

"I mean, if you need someone to help flirt your way back in," Lucifer offered. "Or more."

Oh god, Lucifer, don't offer to sleep with baristas just so she can get coffee.

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"I can go in," Octavia replied with a tiny huff. "I just make sure he's not there, first."

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"Which one is it?" Lucifer asked. "Because really, it's no trouble."

Lucy.

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Yeah, Bellamy had been a recluse for awhile but hey, maybe it was time to fix that. Besides, he wasn't used to letting Octavia go off with people that he didn't know so he had to make sure things were okay and that this person she'd left with wasn't some creep.

"It's going fine if my sister's okay," he answers.

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Yeah, Octavia raised her eyebrows some.

"You really don't need to do whatever it is you're offering to do just for my coffee."

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"True," Lucifer said, grinning brightly, "But it might be a fun challenge."

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It's a relief to see her again. She looks happy and healthy and in one piece so some of his trepidation eases and he smiles at her.

"Hey. You looked tanned. Glad to see a shark didn't get you." Or whatever was out there in this weird ocean.

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"I'm not going to tell you which one it is," Octavia drawled, as she went to sit down on a nearby crate.

Technically, she was supposed to be leaving. She had her bag with her and everything. But leaving the Rouge never came easy to her, these days.

"That sounds like risking getting banned for good."

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"Not sure they even have sharks between here and Maine," Octavia retorted as she wrapped her arms around him for a tight hug. (Shh, being away from him for a full week was weird, no matter how much she absolutely adored spending time with Duke.) "I'm fine."

That... really seemed like something she should state clearly, yeah.

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"Octavia, please," Lucifer said, recoiling dramatically. "I was only offering to sleep with the man, not throw a knife at him."

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"Still," Octavia replied, heavy on the raspy drawl.

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"I have never," Lucifer said primly, "Left anyone unsatisfied."

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"I'm sure," Octavia replied, sounding awfully sarcastic for something that actually wasn't. "Just seems like one of those things where just you offering could make him lose his shit again."

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"What, is he some mad Duke-worshipping stalker?" Lucifer asked. "Is that it?"

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"Probably not," Octavia relented with a little eye roll as she leaned back against her hands. "I think he just thinks I'm a psycho --" Getting called Crazy Knife Girl had kind of stung. "-- and Duke sucks because a mistletoe kiss didn't mean anything."

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Duke blinked. Then his eyes went wide. "Oh! You're Bellamy!" His smile got wider, if a bit more tense. "Yeah, man, Octavia's great. Come on aboard, I'll show you around."

Yes, he was a bit nervous. He'd never really done the whole "meet the family" thing before. He'd known Nathan's as long as Nathan had, and Evi never talked to hers. . . .

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"I don't think I've been on a water slide since I was like --" Duke paused, frowning as he thought back. "-- possibly ever." They didn't have a lot of them in Haven, and he hadn't really made them a priority once he got out into the wider world. "But yeah, I've seen plenty of bats. That guano ends up everywhere."

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"It's pretty great on this end, too," Duke admitted. "It takes a weird amount of energy pretending not to feel things."

Look, no one had ever exactly accused him of being stoic.

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Lucifer sighed. "Really?"

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"And they arrange trips to go wade through the guano, apparently," Lucifer said. "I'm still struggling to grasp why."

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"Because tourists are impressed by the stupidest things," Duke said. "Seriously, man, when I was a kid I used to make extra cash by giving tours of the sea caves back home. They're literally just large, smelly holes in rocks, but people went ape over them." He smiled. "Especially when you tell them they were frequented by, like, pirates and bootleggers and shit."

Some of them probably even were. But all Duke knew as a kid was that they were large, smelly holes in rocks.

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"And?" Lucifer asked, grinning. "Are they?"

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Duke shrugged. “Probably at some point. Not in the 80s though.”

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One corner of Bellamy's mouth lifts in a half smile. He's at least glad to know that this guy knows who he is even if they haven't officially met yet.

Bellamy tries to be the bigger man by offering his hand before stepping onboard.

"Yeah, that's me. Bellamy the brother." Who has a gun and would use if it need be.

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