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

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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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"Not yet, no." Kate bites her lip and then just walks over to Will and hugs him around the waist. He probably needs it as much as she does. "Declan's right. We'll find her and she'll be okay, you'll see. Druitt doesn't have anything to do with this. I'm sure of it."

She steps back, but keeps an arm around Will for a minute when she glances over at Declan. With Will upset and Magnus missing, Kate won't say it, but her eyes go hard and she knows Declan knows what she's thinking. Which is that if it is Druitt and he's hurt her, they're going to kill him. Whether Magnus wants them to or not. And if he doesn't agree, well, then he's going to have to stop her.

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It was kind of a surprise, that physical kind of "we're here for you" from both of them, but Will really appreciated it. A lot. And that look in Kate's eyes--he recognized it because he felt it. If it was Druitt...well. They'd deal with that when they got to it.

"Okay," he said. "Let's go find her."

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Kate glances at Declan again, then looks up at Will. She's not sure this is right, but it feels right to her. "Listen, I'm like 95% sure Druitt has nothing to do with this, and Magnus just got some powers she can't control. The learning curve on them seems pretty steep, but if I was her and I was freaking out, the first thing I'd do when I got things under control would be to look for you, Will."

She frowns a little, because he's not used to trusting her for tactical stuff and she really thinks it's important. "You should go wherever she's most likely to look for you. The hut, the psych office, if you've got some sort of safety check-in--" Which reminds her that she really wants to establish that for her and Declan at least and probably all of them. "Go there."

Again, she looks to Declan for confirmation. "If I'm wrong and Druitt's here, we're all screwed unless we can lure him into Rapture probably, so we're safer split up. I know the caves." Now's not the time to discuss how. "Declan, you take the beach? And, um, let's agree to meet back at the Winchester at sunset. Magnus might head there if we haven't found her by then. Yeah?"

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Declan watches her, not surprised she's taken some action in the situation. She'd been brilliant in Carentan and while this is an earlier Kate, she's not that much earlier.

"We'll find her, mate," he says to Will, giving him a quick flash of a smile. "Bet she's waiting at home for you."