Duke didn’t know it, but all the clothing on the Rouge that wasn’t currently on his body vanished the moment he crossed into Fandom waters.
What he did know was that going from April 2010 to July 2020 was a much more obvious transition than it had been the other way around. It was like sailing into a vat of hot jello. He squinted into the sun, then stripped off his overshirt, letting it fall to the floor of the wheelhouse.
The overshirt vanished, too. That he noticed.
". . . Yeah, I'm definitely back in Fandom."
He sailed into port without managing to lose any more clothes, but the ones he was wearing (an undershirt and a pair of fairly threadbare cotton shorts) were rapidly going damp in the face of the sweltering, cloying air. He was hard-pressed as he dropped anchor and tied the Rouge down at her usual slip not to strip off the rest of his clothes and just dive straight into the water. He sent out a few texts, then flopped onto the deck to splay out like a starfish.
"Swear to god, if this place got invaded by a clothing-eating heat demon while I was away I will turn this boat around and go right back to Maine."
Well, no. He wouldn't. But he'd really want to.
[open! work is going to do its best to break me today, so some SP will be in effect BUT I NEED DISTRACTIONS]
What he did know was that going from April 2010 to July 2020 was a much more obvious transition than it had been the other way around. It was like sailing into a vat of hot jello. He squinted into the sun, then stripped off his overshirt, letting it fall to the floor of the wheelhouse.
The overshirt vanished, too. That he noticed.
". . . Yeah, I'm definitely back in Fandom."
He sailed into port without managing to lose any more clothes, but the ones he was wearing (an undershirt and a pair of fairly threadbare cotton shorts) were rapidly going damp in the face of the sweltering, cloying air. He was hard-pressed as he dropped anchor and tied the Rouge down at her usual slip not to strip off the rest of his clothes and just dive straight into the water. He sent out a few texts, then flopped onto the deck to splay out like a starfish.
"Swear to god, if this place got invaded by a clothing-eating heat demon while I was away I will turn this boat around and go right back to Maine."
Well, no. He wouldn't. But he'd really want to.
[open! work is going to do its best to break me today, so some SP will be in effect BUT I NEED DISTRACTIONS]
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Date: 2020-07-10 02:36 pm (UTC)No, CIs get yelled at for being anywhere near a MURDER investigation.
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Date: 2020-07-10 02:37 pm (UTC)THAT WAS NOT MY FAULT
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Date: 2020-07-10 02:39 pm (UTC)You know what? That tracked.
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Date: 2020-07-10 02:47 pm (UTC)Haven just had it out for him, let's be real.
my ex being the police chief's son doesn't help
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Date: 2020-07-10 02:49 pm (UTC)Want to explain how you got wrapped up in that?
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Date: 2020-07-10 02:59 pm (UTC)Certainly not over text.
want to explain why fandom ate my shirt?
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Date: 2020-07-10 03:01 pm (UTC)Another text followed that with a gracious:
You can explain later.
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Date: 2020-07-10 03:04 pm (UTC)He gave the ship a professional once-over as it docked and gave the captain a casual wave.
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Date: 2020-07-10 03:11 pm (UTC)Duke waved back. After sprawling on the deck for long enough to establish that, no, no matter how much he tried just lying around not moving, his clothing would not be drying out again, he got up and wandered over.
"Hey, how's it going?"
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Date: 2020-07-10 04:38 pm (UTC)Duke was wondering if this guy was the clothing-eating heat demon, yes.
"Name's Duke Crocker. You're new around here, right?"
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Date: 2020-07-10 04:49 pm (UTC)Haven had like 20,000 people. It was perfectly reasonably sized.
"Spend a lot of time in Hawaii, do you?"
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Date: 2020-07-10 03:50 pm (UTC)That kinda week.
"I didn't do a great job of keeping the island together," she said, tilting her head at him.
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Date: 2020-07-10 04:02 pm (UTC)She was handling it pretty okay.
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Date: 2020-07-10 04:05 pm (UTC)Yeeeeeep.
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Date: 2020-07-10 05:23 pm (UTC)Okay, so, the day was well into the afternoon as she walked down the dock, wearing something homemade, hand-sewn from a very expensive sheet. And she stopped for a breath before crossing the gangplank.
She desperately wanted to see Duke again.
She also wanted to turn and run.
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Date: 2020-07-10 05:31 pm (UTC)He flashed her a faint curve of his lips. It wasn't quite a smile.
"Hey."
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Date: 2020-07-10 05:35 pm (UTC)"Hey."
She could feel her eyes already watering, and she hadn't even made it on board yet.
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Date: 2020-07-10 05:36 pm (UTC)And he wasn't entirely certain he was ready for her to be on his boat again, yet.
"How, uh. How've you been?"
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Date: 2020-07-10 05:43 pm (UTC)She made an involuntary noise at the back of her throat at the question, because what kind of question was that, even? She figured they both knew the answer.
"Terrible."
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Date: 2020-07-10 05:46 pm (UTC)She was so beautiful, even when they were both falling apart. How was that fair?
"Yeah. Uh. If it helps, I have too."
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