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

[girlsolo]

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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[duerespectguv]

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.

[inabmovie]

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.

After Will and Magnus

[girlsolo.livejournal.com]

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.