The beach, Wednesday morning

[betterthanaplan]

Duke was out here as usual we'll just handwave he was here last week, yeah?, doing his warm up stretches and trying not to think too hard about the fact that Lucifer was really not likely to show up and ogle him this time.

Which, naturally, meant he got a text from Lucifer mid-sphinx pose.

Right, so now his usual warm up came with a side of going over all his various relationships in the past and how they ended.

It was not a very zen headspace to be in, no.

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[thatwaslucky]

Rey, conversely, was in a pretty good mood when she arrived, though it was possible she caught something that made her not advertise that when she showed up today.

"Good morning," she said, dropping her stuff off to the side.

[betterthanaplan]

"Hey," Duke greeted, slightly distracted as he watched Lucifer's response pop up. "How's it going?"

[sorry, it has been a Morning!]

[thatwaslucky]

"Good," she said. Any day she got a reason to go home was a good one. "How are you doing?"

[betterthanaplan]

Duke shrugged. "Alright. Was a little easier being zen before Lucifer tried texting me for relationship advice."

You knew the situation was dire when Duke was your go-to for that kind of thing.

[thatwaslucky]

"Do I even want to know?" Rey asked.

She wouldn't have figured the devil had relationship ships that required advice, but then he didn't exist where she came from.

[betterthanaplan]

"He asked, and I quote: 'HOW DO I BREAK UP WITH SOMEONE?' Complete with seven exclamation points."

And Duke was currently giving him very bad advice on that front.

[thatwaslucky]

"There are answers I'm not giving right now solely because he's your friend," Rey admitted.

[betterthanaplan]

"Do they involve him being an ass?" Duke asked. "Or maybe a drama queen? Because I'm well aware."

[thatwaslucky]

"I figured he could just be himself and that'd do it," Rey shrugged.

[betterthanaplan]

"Lucifer's never anything but himself," Duke pointed out. "And whoever this is, they started dating him anyway."

[thatwaslucky]

"Good luck there, then," she said.

[betterthanaplan]

Duke laughed and set the phone aside. "Thanks. So . . . what's up with you?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Heading home for a few days next week," she said. "I should be back in time for yoga."

[betterthanaplan]

Duke nodded. "Good to know. Got a mission? Or just wanting to see people?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Oh, I always want to see people," Rey smiled. "We just need to pick up some weapons we ran across a while back. I have to see if I can borrow Summer and her ship for it."

[betterthanaplan]

"Bringing backup," Duke said approvingly. "I like it. Tell Finn and them I said 'hi', yeah? And see if you can get your mentor lady to swing by for Parents' Weekend."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'll be sure to use the words ''mentor lady,'" Rey grinned. "I don't know if I'll actually see her. I know I'll have Rose, I'm not sure about anyone else yet."

[betterthanaplan]

"Did I meet Rose?" Duke asked. "Not sure I did."

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't think so," Rey said, thinking back. "You'd probably recognize her if you saw her, though. She's one of our engineers. Nicest person in the galaxy."