The Perk, Saturday morning

[betterthanaplan]

"Right," Duke said, staring at the rat nibbling on a slice of coffee cake across the table from him. "So. You're a rat."

"Clearly," said the rat.

"Named 'Fallacy'."

The rat nodded.

"And you're a demon."

"Daemon."

"Did Lucifer send you?"

The rat facepalmed. Duke didn't know they could do that.

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[hatesparadise]

Danny shot him A Look for that. Because what did he just say?

Jo made a disgruntled noise and pulled Fallacy closer to cuddle out of annoyance.

[betterthanaplan]

Even the cat was in denial.

"So. How've you been otherwise?"

[hatesparadise]

Hey now, denial implied he wasn't aware of the things that prevented something from happening.

"Distracted," he grumbled. "Which, I guess, is preferable to thinkin' about Grace going back home without me."

[betterthanaplan]

"Ouch. Yeah." Duke sighed. "Well. If it makes you feel better, apparently Evi went home without me, too."

As in, to Haven. And Duke was still really really not sure what to do with that.

[hatesparadise]

"Yeah, she seemed..." He was politely trying not to say something bad here, Duke.

[betterthanaplan]

"Like a manipulative psycho?" Duke offered.

"She's the worst," Fallacy said.

[hatesparadise]

Danny sighed and had to nod in agreement at that as Jo curled around Fallacy like she could protect the rat there. "People like her use just enough truth in what they say to make things believable," he said. "Which tends to be a talent I run into a lot."

[betterthanaplan]

"I lived with her for years, man. I'm well aware."

The trouble was, knowing it was happening and actually stopping it were two totally different skills.

[hatesparadise]

"Love kinda blinds you," Danny replied with a sigh.

[betterthanaplan]

"Maybe," Duke allowed. "But getting chased out of Brazil because your wife left you on the hook for --" Fallacy nipped him "-- alleged, unspecified activities of varying legality -- that kind of rips those blinders back off real quick."

[hatesparadise]

"I," Danny said with a loud sigh because this was terrible to admit to. "Almost reconciled with my ex after a pretty messy divorce and custody battle."

Jo grumbled, stretching out toward him.

[betterthanaplan]

Fallacy broke off another chunk of her coffee cake and nudged it towards Danny with her nose.

"How close is 'almost'?" Duke asked.

[hatesparadise]

"Almost went back to Jersey with her." But Steve. Always 'But Steve'.

[betterthanaplan]

Yeah, Duke was very much guessing there was a "but Steve" in that story.

"But instead you convinced her to stay in Hawaii?"

[hatesparadise]

"But instead, she decided to make things work with her husband," Danny said with a bitter smile.

[betterthanaplan]

Yeah, Fallacy was just nudging the whole plate of cake at him now.

"That's terrible, man," Duke said. "But -- to be fair -- Rachel's not literally a professional grifter, right?"

[hatesparadise]

Which, you know what? Danny was gonna take this time. "No, she's an accountant, actually."

[betterthanaplan]

You just made that rat very happy, Danny. She scurried back over to curl up against Jo.

"Yeah, well. There you go. My intelligence might be 'debatable', but I at least know enough not to get back in bed with a conwoman after she left me high and dry."

Well. He probably would in this timeline, anyway.

[hatesparadise]

We hope!

"Well, good," Danny said firmly, idly eating the comfort cake. And he meant it, because he didn't want that pain for anyone.