Title: Night of the Hunter-27 years too much
Author:Little_firestar84
Rating: K
Word Count: 547
Characters: Nathan/Audrey
Genre: Romance, Hurt/Comfort.
Summary: he wasn't going to wait for her for 27 years, just to have her back with a new name, a new life and no memory of what they had been for each other.
Disclaimer: Uhm, no, no way. I'd like for them to be mine, but they aren't. Ergo, Nathan and Audrey don't get enough love in real show.
Notes: spoiler until episode "Sarah"!
He hated to admit it, but Jordan and the guard had been right. His heart shattered as he realized so. He was mad, crazy, enraged, with the world, Audrey, the damn town, his father because he should have insisted for him to not love her, and even, mostly, with himself, because he was supposed to fight with and for her, and instead, he was resigned to lose her: lose her to what was right before their eyes.
The barn looked like a place from a movie, like a game of mirrors, almost translucent. One moment it was there, the next one it vanished, just to reappear once again. Audrey stood at his side, holding his hand with such a strength he never thought she could possibly have-in her body, at least, he knew how thought she was deep inside.
They turned once more towards the coast, and they saw it... they almost fell it, the city dying, getting destroyed from within. It was like everything she had ever done had suddenly vanished in the blink of an eye, as soon as the Hunter had started. All the troubles within the city, they manifested at the same time, even the ones she had put to rest. They could hear the screams of fear from where they stood.
She looked at him once more, and with tears in her eyes she grabbed the back of his neck, lowering Nathan to her level. He didn't wait for her to start kissing him, but they met halfway, just like he had always knew it would have been like... just like it had been like with Sarah.
They parted, and when she rested her forehead against his own, he knew: she understood what the Guard had told them, and she agreed. Because, if that was the price to pay, she couldn't have that weight on her shoulders.
As the sky kept crying ricks and the walls of Haven burnt down, she parted from him- from all of them- without saying a sole word. Saying goodbye would have been too painful, and they would have tried to change her mind. And she couldn't have any of it.
Still crying, she run inside the barn, and while it was vanishing for good, he took a decision: he wasn't going to wait for her for 27 years, just to have her back with a new name, a new life and no memory of what they had been for each other.
So, he did the only reasonable thing in his opinion: he run after her.
He closed the door at his back, without listening to Duke calling him back, hitting the door with his bare fists. Instead, he joined Audrey in the middle of the empty space, and they cried and kissed in each other's arms. A rock hit the ceiling, and flames soon engulfed them, and while the barn was falling apart all around them, it ceased to exist, like it had never been there to begin with.
And as the sun was rising, Haven was in silence once more: for other 27 years, it was going to be a real Haven. Then, she would be back, and maybe, he would be with her too. After all, they were soul mates in their own way.