The Perk, Tuesday morning

[betterthanaplan]

Leaving his boat yesterday had gone well, and Duke was pretty sure he was supposed to teach a class tomorrow, so he took it a step further today and headed into town. He made his way to the Perk, where he could fortify himself with some caffeine and a muffin and try to set up his new phone, since both his old primary phone and the one he'd used in Haven were now toast.

He was trying to resist the urge to try calling Nathan when he noticed he had a few messages.

"He threw it into the sea?"

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[hatesparadise]

"Caught a case, but that's... just Hawaii for you." Well, his Hawaii. "Some CIA bullshit."

He hated it so much.

[betterthanaplan]

"CIA. Sounds . . ." Absurd. "Fun?"

[hatesparadise]

Ah, ah, ah! People in very, very, very fragile glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

"Oh yeah," Danny agreed. "Big fan of covert ops."

[betterthanaplan]

Look, absurd was a very relative term, okay? The CIA had never shown up in Haven.

"And, uh. What was the CIA up to that required your services?"

[hatesparadise]

Magic barns never showed up in other worlds, Duke.

"Someone was defecting to go to Russia with state secrets," Danny said with the most aggrieved sigh.

[betterthanaplan]

There were probably plenty of universes with magic barns!

Whether or not they were magic mind erasing barns that served as a prison for otherworldly criminals who had wrought unprecedented destruction on less advanced cultures. . . . That was maybe debatable. (Charlotte's problem solving skills were . . . unique.)

Duke tilted his head at Danny for a moment. "The Cold War did end in your universe, right?"

[hatesparadise]

"Did it really end here?" Danny asked, making a bit of a face at the amount of international politics he'd been forced to learn since meeting Steve.

[betterthanaplan]

Duke shrugged. “Fair enough. Did Super SEAL get recruited to fight the Ruskies?”

The last two words were said with a ridiculous Russian accent.

[hatesparadise]

"One, it' a team," Danny replied. "And two, no. They sure as hell didn't even want us to know it was happening."

Which meant they did it anyway.

[betterthanaplan]

“So how’d you even end up involved?” Duke asked.