I could really go for some coffee.

Characters: [deep breath] Dakota, Silvain, Prue, Darcy, Connie, Holland, and Sigourney (NPC)

Content warnings: Darcy gets hit by a bus

Summary: Dakota wakes up in his own body and makes the mistake of surprising Darcy, who assumes first that he’s an impostor, and then realizes very quickly that Dakota made a deal with Albatross. Darcy mentally checks out and tries to go for a walk, which ends badly. The rest of the crew tries to deal both with Darcy’s broken arm and his dissociative state, which requires a little outside help. Dakota lies about what he had to trade away to Albatross.

Characters: Darcy, Dakota, Silvain

Summary: Darcy unexpectedly finds himself missing Silvain’s old partner Teddy, after reading a transcript of a lecture Teddy gave at the FBI Academy very shortly before he was murdered (by Dakota). He talks to his datemates about it. Also, Dakota tells a white lie about the recent murder in the woods.

Characters: Darcy and Albatross

Content warnings: Discussion of death/mourning and mention of possibly eating human organs?

Summary: Darcy is still upset after being reminded of Teddy’s death. During their weekly dinner, Albatross makes a proposal: Teddy’s resurrection in exchange for two of Darcy’s organs. Darcy agrees, in a moment of weakness, and they shake on it.

Characters (in order of appearance): Darcy, Albatross, Teddy, Silvain, Connie, Dakota

Content warnings: Blood, sickness/organ failure, hospitals, mention of surgery/IVs, lots of discussion of death, mentions of torture

Summary: In the worst instance of payment on delivery ever, the organs that Darcy promised to Albatross fail while he’s picking Teddy up from the airport. Teddy drives Darcy to the hospital, and several hours later, a tearful reunion with Silvain ensues. The gang sorts out a lot of issues surrounding what Teddy being brought back to life actually means, and Teddy fesses up to making an additional deal with Albatross, to everyone’s general dismay. Dakota shows up to lecture Darcy for putting himself in danger, and Teddy decides to make himself scarce.

Characters: Silvain, Connie, Darcy, Soren (NPC)

Content warnings: Nnnnnone? Vague mentions of a sustained gunshot wound

Summary: Soren, Silvain and Darcy’s point of contact within the Tartarus crime family, calls the agents over to check out the curious effects of someone else’s powers that were used on them, and to find out if Silvain has ever seen anything like it before. The agents conclude that it is an utter mystery to them. Soren notes Darcy’s exhaustion from constantly visiting Vantage to try and push them into shutting down Lab 04, and suggests that the agents use Tartarus’s resources to make a power move against Vantage so that Vantage actually respects them. Silvain, Darcy, and Connie agree to consider this, and to meet with one of Soren’s siblings to try and formulate a plan.

Characters: Silvain, Darcy, Musetta (NPC)

Content warnings: Eye scars/mention of eye trauma

Summary: A little while after their meeting with Soren, Silvain and Darcy meet with Musetta, another member of the Tartarus family who is also the director of Vantage’s assassination department. Silvain and Darcy pitch Musetta their plan to make a power move on Vantage - staging a kidnapping of Musetta’s biological sister, Lissa, who is in containment at Vantage. Lissa’s powers drive anyone within a certain radius of her into an unstoppable, violent frenzy, but Connie’s own powers make him immune to them (as previously discovered by Soren), allowing him to be around her and retrieve her from Vantage’s labs. Musetta agrees to the plan so long as Silvain agrees to having dinner regularly with them at the Tartarus mansion. They also suggests their father, Nyx’s ex-husband, as a co-conspirator.

Characters: Silvain, Darcy, Adair (NPC)

Content warnings: Cannibalism if you squint really hard

Summary: Silvain and Darcy meet with Adair, Nyx’s ex-husband and father of Musetta and Lissa, to secure his involvement in their staged kidnapping of Lissa. The agents find Adair surprisingly hospitable and personable - and, luckily, willing to help them with whatever they need.

Characters: Darcy and Minh (NPC)

Content warnings: Vague threats of surveillance/violence, home invasion

Summary: The vice president of Vantage pays Darcy a late night visit.

Characters: HARLIE and Nebraska

Content warnings: Murder (mentioned), sad robots (Nebraska has self-esteem issues)

Summary: HARLIE, digital assistant to the CIA, stumbles upon Nebraska Von Ingalls in an online VR chat. They have a talk. 

(Takes place before Nebraska made his blog)

Characters: Prue and Darcy

Content warnings: Brief discussion of bad/neglectful parenting, vague mentions of death (specifically Prue’s murder)

Summary: Prue gets an unprecedented afternoon to herself, which is soon interrupted by Darcy mistaking her for Dakota and flirting with her. She corrects him and, embarrassed by his mistake, Darcy agrees to take her out to lunch. The two go to a nearby park, where Darcy buys Prue food and they get to know each other a little better. Darcy proposes that they go out together again sometime, as friends, and Prue is taken aback by the offer, but agrees.

Characters: Dakota, Prue, Darcy, and Connie

Content warnings: The full blood/gore/injury trifecta, stitches are given, Prue and Dakota’s deaths are mentioned, Darcy has a panic attack, all three boys cry it out, PDA

Summary: Dakota is badly injured by a villain while out by himself in costume, and Prue takes over, dragging herself home with two crossbow bolts in her body. She texts Darcy, who comes over to treat the wounds, and has a panic attack shortly after, once he’s out of the room. Dakota takes control of the body from Prue again to try and console Darcy - with the help of Connie, who turns up in the apartment midway through the fiasco. The three calm each other down, Dakota gets cleaned up, and they pretty much cry themselves to sleep together after a very intense and stressful evening.