Title: Other Lives
Author: MissForsythe
Rating: I don't know yet, I might add some rated stuff in later chapters. There's smoking, does that count?
Summary: In a freak accident, Nathan is sent back to the early sixties and then to the early 80's. He meets Sarah and Lucy, and eventually, these meetings will lead him back to Audrey and how he's supposed to bring her home.
Disclaimer: Not mine, duh.
Pairing: Vince/Sarah, for now, might be Nathan/Audrey later.
Author's Notes:
So, Sarah. I really do think she and Vince were close, perhaps engaged or about to be engaged, but she left before anything came of it. I also think she and Dave probably did not get along and it created a lot of friction between them. Kind of opposite of what Audrey does with Nathan and Duke in the present. The story is set about a year post finale, where Nathan mainly spends his time searching for clues about what happened to Audrey.
Part 1: Sarah
One day, while chasing a suspect, Nathan gets hit on the head and passes out.
When he wakes up, he's in Haven, but everything is different. The cars, the people and the clothes they wear. He's laying on the side of the road, and his mouth tastes like dirt and filth. There's a man standing over him, and there's something familiar about that look in his eyes. The world won't stop spinning long enough for the memory to come back, but then he's being picked up and carried away.
The first thing he sees when he wakes the second time is the grey walls and the sound of a typewriter in the distance. There's noise and then a figure in a blue uniform appears. The cop is young and looks kind of frightened. He checks his reflection as the cop leads him towards an interrogation room, and when he sees his hair sticking out in every direction paired with the hungover look he's sporting, he understands why. He's forcefully sat down on a plastic chair and the young cop slams the door with a little too much vigour.
He knows that he isn't drunk, an hour ago he'd been chasing down a lead on Audrey and then he'd woken up here. Wherever here was.
Another cop comes in, looking at him with a mix of disgust and curiosity on his face.
"Looks like you've been bailed, son", the cop tells him sternly. He pulls him up to stand and drags him down to the front desk, where the man from earlier was waiting. Still confused, Nathan looks at him, trying to find a reference point as to where he's seen this man before. The man doesn't say anything, but motions for him to follow.
The drive is silent, and it's only when they approach the mans house, Nathan realises that he's sitting next to a younger version of Vince Teagues. There's a figure sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigarette and reading a book. Then, the emotions start washing over him as he realises that it's Audrey sitting there, but not really Audrey. His head hurts too much to figure out the logic of it all.
She gives him a somewhat icy stare, mixed with curiosity and something else that he remembers so well.
"Mr, eh..."
Vince seems kind of flustered that it took him so long to ask for his name, it makes Nathan laugh.
"Wournos"
The woman who is not Audrey laughs and asks him if he's related to Calvin Wournos. It feels like someone just made him taste a lemon, even though he only met his supposed grandfather once. He vaguely remembers an eerily quiet house and a parrot that frightened him, but most of all, he remembers his father wincing for the first and last time ever.
He tells her that he's a distant cousin, just passing through. She doesn't believe him, he can tell, but she schrugs and stands up. Vince puts his arms around her, in that tender manner that he and Audrey never got to do.
"This is my fiancee, Sarah Ivers."
The world stops moving for a minute or while he processes the information. Before Lucy, there was a Sarah, she told him. The latest, the last piece to the infinite puzzle that represented the Troubles. He's only seen a vague picture, but this woman standing before him is everything but vague. She's reading him, and he gets the feeling that within these past few minutes, she knows him better then he knows himself. Vince kisses her temple and asks her to go inside and tell Dave that they have a guest. Clearly not pleased with this request, she huffs and walks into the house.
"She's feisty", Vince announces, almost apologetically as he leads him into the house. He's surprised that the Teagues house looks exactly the same in whatever year this is then it does in 2011. There's the grandfather clock in the hallway and the ruddy carpets and black and white tiles in the kitchen. Sara is walking around in there, talking to someone he can't see, but he assumes it's Dave. He can overhear that they're discussing something and not agreeing, but Vince is already whisking him away.
The guest room is ugly, but it would do, according to Vince. All Nathan knows is that he's feeling tired and he's asleep before his head hits the pillow. Sleep only seems to last a few minutes, because when he wakes, she's leaning in the doorway, staring at him. He still can't get over that look in her eyes, as though she really doesn't appear to trust him. She informs him that dinner is ready and then disappears again. Downstairs, he can hear voices, one being Vince and the other he doesn't recognise. He spies on them from the landing, until Sara intervenes and tells the stranger that he should leave. Something about the tone makes his stomach clench, and he doesn't know why.