Stark Industries- Sunday

[thatwaslucky]

Since she'd been up since the fire drill in the morning, Rey had gone to bed early last night. Which meant she was also up too early this morning, because now her own sleep cycle was apparently betraying her.

Because that was fair.

She was getting work done, just a little slower than normal, while the gremlin seemed to be outpacing her.


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[okteiviakom]

Octavia hadn't actually seen Rey since she'd come back. It wasn't... really by design? Or at least not any more by design than the way she'd been actively avoiding everyone but a handful of her friends.

And then there was the whole thing where Rey was probably Duke's best friend, and maybe that had factored into it, wanting to give them the space to do their own thing. (Give him space away from her.) But now Duke hadn't even been reading her texts since his own weird ones yesterday, and, yeah. That seemed like something Rey should know about.

It was honestly mostly by luck that Octavia even found Rey today, but find her she did, stomping into the store, looking tense - and considerably older than when Rey had last seen her a handful of months ago, yes.

[thatwaslucky]

And since Rey and Octavia didn't exactly occupy the same spaces these days, Rey actually hadn't been sure when she'd see her again. She'd also kind of figured Octavia wouldn't remember her by now aside from anything Duke said about her.

So this was a bit of a surprise, and one Rey wasn't quite sure how to handle, given that tenseness.

"Hey. Been a while."

[okteiviakom]

Well, Octavia was about to give them both something to focus on aside from the weirdness of this reunion.

"I'm worried about Duke," she said. Greetings were for people who weren't freaking out a little bit. (On the inside. The outside just looked tense.)

[thatwaslucky]

The fun part of that statement was that it could be about a lot of things, depending on a few situations.

"Why?"

[okteiviakom]

That was very fair.

"He told you he was going to Haven again, right?" Octavia checked, but didn't really wait for an answer. "Apparently he has to stay for a few more days than he was going to, because his friend died. Only now, none of my texts have been going through since yesterday afternoon."

[thatwaslucky]

And because Rey was Rey, and the answer to this might explain a lot for all she knew, her first question was, "Wait. Which friend?"

[okteiviakom]

"Geoff."

Who Octavia had met all of a week ago. She had no idea whether Rey would've known about the McShaws or not.

"I don't know how, because when I tried to ask what happened, the messages stopped going through."

[thatwaslucky]

"Is it possible his phone is just off? Or there's a normal service disruption?"

She had a feeling she knew the worry here.

[okteiviakom]

If she thought it might have something to do with some all too recent trauma with disappearances, she was absolutely right.

"Well, I don't know how those work," Octavia rasped with a little scowl, "but I know he promised to stay in touch."

She wished she could've believed it was just multiversal phone lines on the temporary fritz, but the aforementioned trauma wouldn't let her.

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm just saying, there could be normal reasons for it," Rey said. "Have you checked Portalocity at all?"

[okteiviakom]

Octavia shook her head.

"Not yet."

Probably for the best, actually.

[thatwaslucky]

So that was going to be what Rey ended up doing later. And until then, she wasn't worrying until she knew she had a reason to, because fifteen years of repressing this sort of thing didn't go away overnight.

"Okay. So... why did you come here?"

[okteiviakom]

"... Because you're his friend and I thought you'd want to know something might be up?" Octavia offered after a beat for raising her eyebrows a little.

Also, she'd seemed less likely to outright call her paranoid to her face than Lucifer would have been.

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't know what to do with this," Rey admitted.

She never did. The weirdness of this particular situation just added a new level to it.

[okteiviakom]

"Well, join the club," Octavia replied with a frustrated huff that wasn't really aimed at Rey. "I know there's still a chance I'm overreacting, but I can't not."

She hadn't come back only to lose him again.

[thatwaslucky]

"Did he say how long a few more days was?" Rey asked after a moment.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia got her phone out of her pocket. Flicked the messaging app open, and tried not to look at her own messages hanging at the bottom of the conversation.

"'Looks like I'll be here a couple more days'," she read out loud. "That's all he said. So, I don't know. If he's not back by Tuesday...?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Then it's time to check Portalocity."

And then... do nothing, because there was nothing to do but wait.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia nodded.

You know, as if she'd actually be able to hold off that long.

"Text me if you hear from him."

[thatwaslucky]

Rey nodded, though they had to both know she'd probably be second on the list if he got in touch with anyone.

"Same if you do," she said.