[For Declan] There might've been a time when I would give myself away

[girlsolo]

Even hiked up in her gloved hands, Kate's dark skirts swish under her full buttoned and belted leather coat. Her boots clack on wet pavement. The curls in her hair are falling from being wet and dry and wet again. She wishes for the fiftieth time today, she'd taken the time yesterday to finish lining the breeches she'd pulled from the box.

It's after midnight when she clomps up the steps to Declan's house. She could just come in, maybe, but it's late and it's not his hut and...and and and. And she wants him to come down and get her and be glad to see her and kiss her hello and let her in because he wants her there. She shouldn't be in this mood. It hasn't been a bad day. She just...

Fuck if she knows. Maybe it's the Children's Office and her other-world son. Maybe she's just been away from her boyfriend too long and she wants him.

Whatever.

She raps on the door with the brass door-knocker and wishes the sting of her gloved knuckles against the door weren't the most honest thing she's felt all day.

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Title lyric from Adam Lambert's What Do You Want From Me?

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[duerespectguv]

Declan's actually upstairs when he hears the knock and he wonders who it might be. With Druitt on the island now, the chance it's Magnus in need of help or Will is pretty high and he thinks they'd knock. Kate, though, is a surprise because he wouldn't have expected her to knock at all.

"You didn't have to knock," he says with a grin, tugging the door inward so he can welcome her inside. "Door's always open for you."