A/N: Vengeance There is no way I'm going to be able to make it through the next few months without some sort of Haven outlet, so I figured maybe a little fanifction could help. Hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Haven.
"The Dutchman must have a captain." – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
"Is this right?" questioned Audrey looking frantically to her son. None of this whole experience felt right, all it felt was wrong. Even though he had only been in there a short time, James was healing quickly. When she had re-entered the barn her had been there waiting for her, a slight blood stain on his shirt and moving a little slower, but moving all the same.
Audrey's frantic feeling wasn't helped when she saw that James was just as nervous as she was and he was shifting back and forth shaking his head. "This isn't how it was last time," he said as pieces of the barn started to tear away around them. "Last time it had stayed looking the same with all the doors and halls," he said as he followed his mother to look out the window of the barn. It was like nothing was changing on the outside. They could see the field they had been in and the trees surrounding them.
It was no time at all before there was nothing left on the inside except for the window that showed them the outside world. And after a split second there was a loud thump and a groan and the window too was gone.
When Audrey could no longer see the place she had recently called home she turned to examine her surroundings. Though, there wasn't much to examine. It was white all around her and James, save for the two lumps that lay just a few feet away. She cautiously walked towards them, instinct causing her hand to reach for the gun that should have been at her hip. She almost groaned and wanted to let the unshed tears that hung in her eyes to flow when she realize it wasn't there. She may never have a gun at her hip again. For all she knew she would be totally against guns the next time she made it to Haven. If she ever made it back.
Thankfully as she got closer to the lumps, she realized that she wasn't going to need her gun. "Duke?!" she gasped as she ran the rest of the way towards her friend. He was laying there on the ground, or whatever was underneath them, his arms and legs spread out around him, Agent Howard laying half on top of him in much the same way. As she looked on, she realized there was another colour on the floor in all the white.
The colour red.
"Oh, my God! Duke!?" she fell to her knees moving Agent Howard and heard Duke groan. He was shifting, like he was starting to wake up as she patted her hands along his body, shifting his shirt to check for any wounds, and found none. She then turned her head to see Agent Howard, the bullet holes very prominent in his chest; she had been so worried about Duke that she had completely missed them.
She moved from her kneeled position to sit there on the floor, and waited for Duke to wake up. She could hear the oncoming footsteps of James as he made his way to the pile of bodies on the floor. "Who is he?" he questioned as he looked down at Duke who had finally started to make an effort in getting himself off the floor.
"I'm a friend, here to save the day like always," Duke said as he moved to sit there. He wasn't sitting long before Audrey had launched herself into his arms giving him a hug. Even though it had only been maybe minute ago she had last left him, she had missed him already. It seems that you miss people quicker when you don't think you are ever going to see them again. After a quick second Duke wrapped his arms around Audrey and held her a moment until James cleared his throat and they pulled apart.
"That's great and all, but what do you mean save the day?" James questioned eyeing the man who was hugging his mother. He wasn't sure he liked the way he held his mother close when she hugged him, but since he wanted answers right now, he was willing to let it slide for the moment. "Duke, where's Nathan?" Audrey finally asked, overriding her son's question. She would have thought that if there was a problem Nathan would have been first to jump in after her, not Duke, though she was happy that Nathan was able to stay in his life ad not be stuck in a barn with her.
"We had a problem on the outside. Jordan showed up and messed everything up. There was a... well a shoot out. This guy is dead," Duke said indicating Howard with a pointed thumb, "and Jordan is dead too. After Nathan shot him the barn and him started to blow apart so I had to jump in here and get you for him." He finished and looked at Audrey who had a very disturbed look on her face. Her biggest issue was the fact that he was leaving something out. Ok, Nathan shot Howard, but where was Nathan was the question.
"Duke," Audrey started staring at him. He knew exactly what she was asking and he took a moment to look James over before turning to look her in the eye, his gaze unwavering as he dealt the final blow. "Nathan's been shot."