Kate - timed to after debut

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Tesla's told him it's a tropical island and they're trapped and that's enough for Declan; it's not Carentan, but something like, and he's going to keep poking at it until he's cracked it. Magnus and Will haven't done it yet after a year and while that should be discouraging, Declan's not willing to give up. Not yet. Not now. He's going to get them home.

He knows Kate's on the island and it's close to sundown before he finds her, tucked in at one of the bars and he whistles lightly to get her attention.

"Tesla told me you might be here. Miss me?"

Maybe Kate knows more than Tesla did about what was going on back home.

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Kate's had that thought, once or twice, and she shoves it away every time it comes up. "Don't say that. They're coming with us, like it or not. Tesla too, the asshole." That's a little too bitter on top of the rising edge in her voice that's a little panicky.

"Will says we're copies. If we're copies, what if there's nowhere for us to go? What if this is like...the xerox pile for failed copier test sheets?"

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"I know none of you were missing for me, except possibly Tesla," Declan says, working that out. "Doesn't matter, we have to have a universe we're from and where we're missing. Otherwise..."

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"Otherwise, we're stuck here and some other versions of us are doing our jobs," Kate finishes for him.

She's pissed again and no alcohol or sex in sight. There's tons of open water, though, and Declan to make sure she doesn't get hurt. So she pours it all into a swim, as hard and all out as she can. She's not a swimmer, but tonight no one would really know it.

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"Exactly," Declan says softly, but it fades when he sees her swimming and pushing against the waves. He's a strong swimmer, SAS training was well rounded, but he doesn't have the drive she seems to have right now.

"Kate? Trying to leave me?"

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At first, she doesn't hear him over her own blood pounding in her ears and the chop of the surf. But she swims back past him. Contrary to 'popular' opinion, she's not suicidal. There's a difference between drowning your demons and drowning yourself and Kate's been surviving way too long to choose the latter.

She drops her feet to the seabed and comes up close to him, almost too close, with what they're not wearing. "No," she says, voice softer than usual for her. "Not leaving you. Pinkie swear it, we're leaving here together or not at all."

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Declan extends his hand to her, offering the previously-requested pinky, and nods. There's nobody else he'd rather have watching his back than Kate Freelander and if Magnus and Zimmerman have given up on home, so be it. He and Kate would get them back.

"Swear it, then. We'll get out of here, one way or another."