HAVEN
Wishes for Pain
Chapter 1
I do not own Haven or the characters
Rated T for violence.
Nathan's POV
It was a normal day for Haven.
Something weird had happened - surprise surprise - that they were going to investigate.
A man came home from work to find his son dead on he floor, covered in burns. There had been no sign of foul play or any sign than someone had entered the house uninvited - no windows broken, no doors unlatched.
A case weird enough for them.
Nathan pulled up on his blue truck with Audrey riding passenger, taking a look at the average looking house that was now surrounded by police officers, cruisers, and crime scene tape. A normal family torn apart by something beyond their control.
An officer met them at the door. His pale face told them that this was no party.
"The father's over there," he nodded towards a heavy set, red eyed man talking to other officers to give his account of what happened. "Kid's still inside. I've never seen anything like it - some animal for sure," he added and led them through the door.
Nathan entered the pristine house into a kitchen, and saw a body - or something like that - lying on the floor.
"What the hell happened?" Audrey breathed as she knelt down beside it. The features were obviously human, but the body was so badly scarred that it was hard to see what killed him specifically.
The body was covered in burns that stretched across every bit of skin that was exposed, and the clothing was torn, practically to pieces, all around. There were claw marks or knife marks of some kind of scratches that he couldn't quite place, and what looked like bruises discoloured most of what was left of it.
"An animal definitely didn't do this..."
"That depends on your definition of an animal," Nathans responded, with a grossed out frown on his face.
There was a sudden rustling at the door and they turned to see a breathless cop rushing up behind them. He was trying to look at anything but the body, so he looked over the tops of their heads.
"Mr. Reagan (the father) says his son was recently involved in a shootout in which he identified the two men responsible for killing several citizens. They just posted bail this morning."
Nathan and Audrey shared a glance.
"Let's get going."
They lined up outside the doors of the last place the suspects had been spotted. It was a small, closed diner just at the edge of town. Guns drawn, they stood just outside and waited for the signal.
A hand flicked.
The door slammed open from a strong kick.
They entered.
Naturally, Nathan went in first, in case a gun went off. He would be the first to go down, and he wasn't going to let Audrey get hit no matter what.
They were disappointed.
The suspects had obviously been here, but they were long gone by now.
"Nathan," Audrey jerked her head to the left, and he looked. There was a small trail leading in to the woods. The other cops didn't notice them as they slipped off in that direction, following the small trail. It suddenly ended once they were out of side from the trailer.
Nothing,he thought in disappointment.
"Well, what now?" He asked in irritation - another empty lead when they could have ended this case early. Before anyone else got hurt.
"We-" She broke off and her eyes widened in alarm at something over his shoulder. She reached for her gun, but before he could do anything, everything went dark. He faintly remembered seeing the ground come rushing up to meet him.
Audrey's POV
Her head pounded.
It felt like a nail had been driven through her skull, and she could barely think. No, she couldn't think at all - no barely about it.
She groaned and tried to touch her head. Her muscles were aching but it wasn't as bad as her headache, so after some difficulty she managed to reach up to touch the aching wound.
"Audrey?" Nathan's voice startled her.
She tried very hard to open her eyes, but it was a little difficult. Her vision was blurred, and she was barely able to see his fuzzy outline. It was very dark wherever they were. The last thing she remember was a figure coming up behind Nathan, knocking him out, and then with blinding speed moved on to her and that's when she could no longer remember anything.
"Nathan." Her voice was slurred.
"Are you okay?" His voice heightened with concern. She suddenly wished that she couldn't feel anything. She would never say so to him out loud, but at the moment, if there was no pain then she could actually think.
"Uhuh..."
Light suddenly erupted from the corner and she flinched and squinted away from it, covering her eyes with one hand. She could hear the heavy footsteps of someone approaching.
She managed to open her eyes again, letting them slowly adjust to the light. A man was standing there, covered in tattoos and wearing a vicious scowl. Behind him was another figure, not as muscular or broad as the first, but with the same hostile look.
Nathan suddenly hurled himself from the ground.
He lunged for the first man, but the man's fist knocked him back. He responded by trying to kick him, but the other man - their attacker, she presumed - was much faster. She watched with alarm as her partner was thrown to the ground.
"Nathan!" She struggled to her feet, hardly able to balance as she practically swayed from the probable concussion. The contemptuous and amused grin on the faces of their kidnappers filled her with fury. Arrogant piece of-he moved towards her and she swung towards his face. He stood still. Her vision was blurred and she had swung towards the wrong figure. The thought that she had missed made her even angrier.
She swung again.
He simply grabbed her wrist and twisted. She clenched her jaw quickly, but not fast enough to keep back a whimper of pain. She swung her leg in to his crotch and felt the satisfaction of him howl.
All of the sudden she was on the ground and her chest ached.
Ughhh..She thought, wincing in pain.
Nathan suddenly appeared in front of her. "They're troubled," he said, before she was hauled to her feet and pushed her from the room.
Nathan's POV
Sonuvabitch!He thought as he was stumbling through the doorway without control.
He hit the ground beside Audrey, who was cradling a quickly swelling wrist, and he spun to lunge.
He was flat on his back yet neither of the men moved.
They're troubled. He knew that. They were either super human fast or had some kind of space control and could shove someone pack through some kind of force - either way, they didn't necessarily haveto do anything to keep them in down.
"Who are you?" He snarled, crouching on the ground in front of Audrey in an attempt to protect her from ... Whatever it was... He knew his attempts were in vain, but he tried regardless.
Suddenly he was floating in the air, and then realized he was pinned against the wall with that man in front of him, grinning in his face and holding him up by the collar. It had been so fast that he hadn't even felt it happen. What the hell?
"Who are we?" He hissed in Nathan's ear. "We've been watching you two. You've spoiled our plans again and again. Unfortunately we can't kill either of you because you're two important to the town, and people will ask questions. But we can give you a warning." There was a silence as though they were deliberating something, and then the man spoke again. "You can't feel pain. You should feel lucky," the voice was very quiet, and he realized it was meant for only him to hear.
"What do you mean?"
There was a growl of anger and suddenly he saw Audrey scrambling backwards, away from the other kidnapper. He suddenly saw why.
There was something flaming red growing from the man's arm, and he realized it was fire - what the hell was this!
"No!" He screamed, knowing what was going to happen. The burn marks on the kid's body. It all made sense.
The pyro-man stopped her retreat by stepping on her stomach and his flaming arm struck her side. He fought furiously to break free but he could do nothing but watch as she bit back a scream of pain as the flames bit in to the thin flesh covering her ribs. He could see that the flames had already eaten their way through the fabric of her shirt and were burning away at her side, and he knew he could not even imagine the pain. He fought still, tears springing to his eyes and he wished desperately that he could feel pain and that hewas the one being burned.
Another wave of horror washed over him as he saw her struggles beginning to cease.
"Audrey!"
- Gonna be a Chapter 2 if I can keep my butt up around to typing. Please review and tell me what sucks and what doesn't! thanks!
