FEEL
Chapters: intro + 3 chapters
Type: angst
Rating: PG
Main characters: Nathan Wuornos (Duke Crooker, Garland Wuornos, Audrey Parker)
Timeline: Explorative piece set throughout season 1 and the beginning of season 2, not many spoilers
Summary: People wrongly think Nathan cannot feel. But there are some things he can feel as accurately as anyone else, like remorse, guilt or regret. 3 little pieces which explore each feeling.
Beta Reader: none
Disclaimer: Don't own the show; don't own the characters (sadly).
Written: September, 2011
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'Nathan Wuornos cannot feel.'
In the little town of Haven, Maine, it was a fact nearly everybody was aware of.
Yes it was true: the Chief of Police's son couldn't feel the biting cold of a stormy winter day, or the soft touch of a freshly-washed cotton shirt. He couldn't feel the pain of a bullet's graze on his arm, or the splitting headache induced by a hard blow to the back of the head (something, even himself, had to admit sometimes came in handy, in his line of work).
Most people turned a blind eye on his difference, as they did with the rest of Haven's eccentricities. To some very few residents, his trouble made him a curiosity, a wonder; but others were a lot less kind in their approach. There were talks of curses and evil, and the brown-haired boy was labelled a freak of nature, a monster.
Little did the good people of Haven know how wrong they were, for there were things Nathan Wuornos felt as accurately as anyone else. Yes, even for him, there was no escaping the wrongness of remorse, the shamefulness of guilt and the bitterness of regret…
TBC
