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[Powers Plot] Sept. 16: With all my shields and protection, it's only me I deceive

Magnus's words you could be lovely together are ringing in Kate's ears when she wakes in Declan's hut before him and before the sunrise. In Declan's arms, wrapped as firmly around him as Will's stupid sloth and smiling as stupidly in her sleep.

She doesn't want to "be lovely" with anyone. It's too much responsibility. Too much for her to take on. She has to focus on getting them out of here and on getting better. Being better. Declan needs someone who isn't her. Someone who won't just break his heart a million times. If he even wants her.

There's no reluctance to leave his bed or his arms today. She's not even sure why she came here last night since they're not fucking and she shouldn't have, even though she's grateful he lets her. Kate lifts his arm and squirms out from under it, murmuring, "Be right back," when he rouses.

She grabs her clothes and her boots without stopping to put them on, steals off into the trees to do what he probably thinks she's doing, then quickly dresses and stows her knives. Not three minutes have passed before Kate's racing across the island toward the Compound for coffee and information.

It's not long before she realizes something is very wrong on the island. Something is very very wrong.

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Title and lj-cut lyrics from Melissa Etheridge's Dance Without Sleeping.

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Declan wakes up and there's no sign of Kate, but that's far from unusual. He vaguely recalls her leaving earlier and since that's her usual method, he's happy to leave her to it. But she said she'd be right back and she's not, so Declan pulls on his own clothes and makes his way toward the Compound to find her, though probably not at the same clip.

Helen woke up...cold. Normally, she'd be tucked into bed next to Will begging for five more minutes sleep (she'd gotten lazy since coming to the island, clearly) and she felt...exposed. Helen cracked her eyes open and realized that one, she was very high off the ground and two, she appeared to be in a tree of all things.

She opened her mouth to scream only to disappear again and end up on top of a roof.

Dear. God.

Will was half awake, Magnus snuggling into him, when she just disappeared--and not just disappeared, but with the flash of light and the little zort sound that always happened when Druitt teleported. One minute she was there and the next she was just zipped away.

Which made no fucking sense, because first of all Druitt wasn't even here, and second of all if his teleporting powers shouldn't work anyway, but Will wasn't about to take a single chance if there was any possibility Druitt might be involved. And if Druitt was invovled, Will would need all the help he could get--Declan and Kate. So he threw on some clothes and took off for Declan's as fast as he could.

No sign of Kate but Declan hasn't quite gotten to the point of searching the bathrooms for her and he decides to swing by the kitchens one last time to she if she's showed before heading back toward his own hut. She'll either come back or she won't but he's not going to start playing clingy boyfriend.

It's the hair he notices first, wild as ever, then the stride. Zimmerman.

"Oi, Zimmerman. In a hurry or something?"

"Magnus is missing," Will said, without wasting words. "She just disappeared right out of bed this morning and it looked a whole lot like the way Druitt teleports." He knew good and well that powers like that didn't work on the island, but he'd seen Magnus disappear and that was enough to make him worry.

"Bloody hell," Declan says lowly. Normally, powers don't work on the island but if Druitt's found a way around that and has Magnus, they're all in for a world of trouble.

"Damn, all right...I was looking for Kate but let's peel off and look for Magnus instead. As far as I know, you can't get off the island so they've got to be around here somewhere."

"Has something happened to Kate?" he asked. Kate was damn good at taking care of herself, just like Magnus, but Magnus just disappearing put him on edge all around.

"She left...she stayed over last night and said she'd be right back and then just...didn't come back," Declan explains, only slightly embarrassed about the first part if only because it wasn't what it sounded like.

Will was surprised at that, but didn't want to comment too much considering Declan didn't really seem inclined to talk about it. "We'll probably run into her," he said. "Hopefully." If Druitt was around, they'd need everyone in the loop.

"I don't even know where to start looking for Magnus," he went on.

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After talking with Kate and Declan, Will thought it less likely that Druitt was behind this and more likely it was another stupid island trick, so he decided to go and wait in the last place he'd seen Magnus--their hut. If she suddenly had some new power and was freaked out by it, she'd probably try to get back to the last place she'd seen Will. So he went back there to wait. No sign of her yet, and he wasn't sure how long he could make himslef wait before he wanted to go look for her again.

Helen had tried her best to think about the hut and not get overly emotional and after bouncing around the island for a while, she landed, well, more or less on top of Will.

"Dear God, I'm so sorry. I can't control it!"

"Hey, it's okay," he said, trying to be calm. She was obviously scared about whatever was going on and he wanted to help her calm down a little if he could. "You're back here, you're good." Will decided not to tell her how he'd freaked out a little thinking it could have been Druitt behind this, becauze it obviously wasn't.

Helen nodded and tried to calm down, slow and steady breaths for a moment while she focused on Will's face and his voice. Stupid bloody island.

"I was so afraid I would just keep bouncing around and not get back here."

"And now you're back," he said, lightly rubbing her arm. "All in one piece. Apparently half the island has some kind of powers right now. I'm guessing it's some wacky island thing and it'll be over in a couple days."

"Of course it has to give me the one power I have some issue with," Helen said, curling around Will even though she was a grown woman and hardly needed to become a barnacle because she'd started randomly teleporting. "The one person I'm afraid of and the damned island gives me his power."

Why not invisibility or electricity or vast intellect?

"It'll be temporary," Will assured her. "It has to be, this kind of stuff always is. Hey, at least you're still you?" That was the bright side, at least to him. He'd hated being turned into a girl.

"I am still me. I haven't shown any signs of mental defect either," Helen pointed out. "So I don't think I have to fear turning into John completely. I simply hate the idea of being out of control, you know that."

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Not having phones is a fucking nightmare for retrievals. Memos to self: one, set up 'safehouses' for finding each other in emergencies; get Tesla to build radio comms for them if she has to beat him bloody to do it. They probably won't work in the damned caves, but he won't be able to stop trying and it'll keep him busy.

For now, Kate's searching the cave network for any sign of Magnus, Druitt, or anyone who has seen either of them.

After finally managing to make it back to Will, the idea of losing him made Helen panic again and she disappeared, landing somewhere dark and crashing into someone.

"I'm so sorry," she insisted quickly, voice roughened by tears. "I can't bloody control myself right now and I don't...I'm sorry."

It all happens in a flash - the teleportation snap-hiss, the impact, the apology - and Kate's reaching for a knife and snark. None of that stops her. It's the scent, strongest memory trigger. The body that just collided with her is Magnus.

"Hey." Kate drops the knife back into her pocket and grabs for the boss instead. "It's okay. It's me." Relief sweeps her. She was right. Not Druitt. It fades just as fast. Magnus is crying. The only other time... Ashley... oh god. Kate puts her arms around her and holds on. Maybe if she disappears again, Kate will at least go with her. "Hey," she says and this time it's softer. "You're safe." And that's a promise.

"Sorry, I got upset when I was with Will and I just disappeared again," Helen admitted, starting to calm down when she realized it was Kate. "I hate this stupid power and wish it would just go away."

"Nothing to apologize for," Kate assures her breezily and leads her over to a niche in the cavern wall that people use for a bench. "Catching the boss out of the sky's in my job description, right?"

She has no idea what she's doing, trying to comfort Magnus. Will should be doing that. But she does know there's not a damned thing she wouldn't do for this woman. Scares the fuck out of her, but there you have it.

"Ah yes, right up with trash collection and Abnormal wrangling," Helen said, laughing lightly. It soothed her nerves, at least, to have a laugh and she hoped she could calm down enough to get back to Will.

"I'm just incredibly frustrated with teleporting every time I have an emotion."

Kate smiles, even though Magnus's laugh sounds kind of forced to her. It's not something she'd normally do, but she reaches over and smooths the doc's hair. There's a twig in it, and she plucks that out. It's weird, seeing her a little a mess. Magnus never lets that happen and Kate feels like if she can help her look more herself she'll feel more herself.

Or maybe she just really cares about her and can't stand seeing it. Who knows?

"Maybe you can just sit and talk with me for a bit. It could help."

"Perhaps it will," Helen agreed. "At the very least, maybe it won't make things worse than they already are. It's just, this particular power reminds me of John, first and foremost, and then of losing Ashley. I never wanted to go through that pain again and now that I have it, it's all I can think about."