Title: Lucky Man
Author: Karolyn Gray
Fandom: Haven
Summary: There are all types of luck, after all, good and bad.
Main characters: Nathan Wuornos
Rating: K
Warnings: None
Spoilers: None
Beta: N/A
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Word Count: 250+
Lucky Man
By Karolyn Gray
Some people say Nathan Wuornos is a lucky man. He lives in a beautiful town with friendly people, he's reasonably handsome (or so he's been told), he's healthy (even with his affliction), he has a nice home, he has an old but well maintained and reliable truck, and he has a job he loves most days.
Other people say Nathan is cursed. He can't feel sensation, he has no prospects for a relationship despite the more flirtatious members of the community, he has an ongoing hate-hate relationship with his father, he has only acquaintances rather than friends, and he is as communicative as a stone.
Nathan remembers a college philosophy professor telling him that the universe needs balance in all things. So he figures these faceless, nameless people saying these things about him might be right. Unfortunately these people who may be right aren't so nameless or faceless as he wished. They and that philosophy professor just don't understand the nature of luck like he does. There are all types of luck, after all, good and bad. It's just the nature of things.
Mainly, he just doesn't like the idea that his bad luck means someone else is profiting from his suffering anymore than he likes the idea that someone else may suffer for his own good fortune. So he takes the good (pancakes, being a cop, his new found partner and friend Audrey Parker) with the bad (his affliction, the Troubles) and everything in between (The Chief, Jess, Duke) with a measured approach hoping someday he'll be less lucky and more ordinary.