The Light in the Darkness

Spoilers: All of Haven Seasons, especially 4x13 The Lighthouse

Disclaimer: I own the backstory, not the main characters

I held onto Nathan as I watched William fall and I felt relieved that he was gone, that he could no longer destroy our lives. Jennifer closed it and I realized immediately something was wrong because Duke was over her and she wasn't responding. I then saw Duke's eyes, bleeding from their sockets and I practically yell his name but he doesn't respond.

Nathan asked what was going on but I heard my voice, it was cold and full of darkness. "He's as good as dead." That wasn't my voice but it was, I knew then that as I looked on Mara controlled my body and I couldn't do anything about it. She asked about finding William and I yelled as best I could, enough till it hurt that he would never be coming back and to leave…but I'm mute compared to her.

One thing that I have over Mara is that she thinks she's in charge, she doesn't know who Audrey Parker is and she doesn't know that I fight for everything Haven stands for and all that reside there. That will be her undoing!

Nathan looked at Mara as she smirked despite being behind bars, he and Dwight had managed to knock the woman out before placing her in the holding cell. "You won't get away with this, whoever you are."

"You don't know who we are?"

She shrugged and sat back, "I know that you all had a part in William's delivery to the other side. Why don't you tell me your name so I can get to know you, because obviously whoever was in my body you cared about deeply. I don't know, it takes a bit getting used to…different personality in the same body."

Nathan folded his arms, "I'm already used to it, the question I have is where is she?"

"The person who was in my body before I woke up, oh that person is dead." She stood and put her hands on the bars, "listen darling, let me out and maybe I can work my magic on you, maybe a deep unending sleep with her there. What do you say, you'll never know anything but her?"

Moving to the cell he looked her in the eyes, "I'm going to figure out how to send you to William, wherever in Hell he is and keep your body here."

With that he left the room and closed the door behind him, locking it tight. Dwight stood on the phone and sighed as he hung up. Looking up he saw Nathan and put the phone up, "they managed to revive Jennifer and stabilize Duke, he's in a coma. Jennifer's awake and wants to talk with us, nurse said she kept on uttering the same phrase over and over again."

"What was she saying?"

"The light resides in darkness, never to be lost as long as the link remains." Dwight shook his head, "no idea what it means but we can ask Dave and Vince, they're at the hospital too." He looked over at the door, "she locked up tight where no one will touch her or do we have to put a guard on her."

"I don't trust her and I'm not risking our men around her. I think the best place for her in the one place she can't do any harm, her own mind. She doesn't know anyone, she doesn't know our names or where we are. She only remembers that we put William where we did, that'll be to our advantage. We're taking her to the hospital with us and we're going to have Vince order a doctor who is part of The Guard to put her under. She's unfamiliar with this modern world so she wouldn't understand what we're doing."

So that put them and a gagged Mara in Dwight's truck, headed for the hospital. The woman was cuffed to the handlebar of the backseat and unable to even move her arms. Nathan was turned with a gun aimed at her the whole time, ready to shoot her if he needed to despite not wanting to. She shrugged every few minutes and made sounds that could be understood as words but emerged as muffled sounds.

Eventually at the hospital they found Dave and Vince in a room with a doctor, who looked up at the sight of the two cops with a bound and gagged woman. "Excuse me, take your prisoner out of my room."

"Vince, give a doctor who is loyal to The Guard." Nathan jerked Mara's arm, "Mara decided to join us for a while and since she can't be trusted she needs to be put in a coma."

Vince stood and looked at Mara, "ungag her, I want to ask her a question."

Nathan peeled the tape away and she tried to jerk away but Nathan put his gun on her side again. "Don't tempt me."

"When I get William back, I'm going to put you in his place and you're going to feel everything you could never imagine. It's going to be so painful you'll be asking for a quick death." She turned to Vince, "what does this old man want to ask me? I have a question, how about you help me find William and I don't kill you all?"

Dwight rolled his eyes as if they hadn't gotten the threat every day of the week from some Trouble or person. "She doesn't know who we are, doesn't remember anything before waking up and so everyone is a mystery to her."

Vince caught her chin, "the person inside you before you woke up, where are they?"

"Dead, why should I even care…I'm back and I'm going to destroy you all."

"If she's dead…"

Nathan shook his head, "no, I won't believe that. How many personalities have been locked away from her yet still remain? No she's there, just hidden under this…" he saw Mara smirk, "evil."

Vince looked at the doctor finishing with his brother, "once he's stable, put her in a coma. We'll deal with her later."

"A coma, I've endured torture before so some device you plan to put me in isn't anything to me."

Nathan chuckled darkly, "it isn't a device, it's a sleep that you can't escape. It's one that makes you trapped in your own mind, unable to wake up unless someone is the one to do so. It'll be just like before and we say when you wake up again."

"NO!" She yelled and tried to move but Nathan slapped the tape over her mouth again as Dwight restrained her.

She continued to fight even as nurses and the doctors strapped her down, they had to remove the tape to allow breathing as an oxygen cannula was put in her nose. Nathan handcuffed her to the bed and looked at her. "We will find a way."

"You won't get away with this."

The doctor looked at them as he started pushing medication into the IV, "she's going to be incoherent for a few moments before she succumbs to the coma."

She fought before giving up as the medicine took effect, "you won't get away with this, I will kill you all when I wake up."

Dwight looked at her as he made her feet were secure, "we hear that all the time."

Nathan watched her eyes open and close repeatedly before a soft voice escaped. "I'll fight too." Her face turned to where Nathan was and she gave a soft smile. "I love you Nathan, for us…I'll fight for us." Her eyes closed and the doctor nodded.

"She's in a steady coma."

Dwight moved to Nathan, "did you tell her your name? I thought you said she didn't know anything."

"That wasn't Mara, that was Audrey…I once asked her if she was willing to fight for us and she just gave me her answer. Audrey's still in there somewhere and she knows what's going on even if she can't voice it." He looked over at the doctor, "just forget how insane this sounds but if there is two personalities in a person, why would the less dominant show up right before succumbing to a coma?"

The doctor shrugged, "only reason I can think of is that the main personality is so sedated that the subconscious, otherwise known as the less dominant personality is what remains before being effected. The same thing happens when coming out from anesthesia, the subconscious is present before we're coherent."

Vince looked at the doctor, "no one is to remove her from sedation. The personality that took over Officer Parker is far more dangerous than The Troubles. She is to remain here and I will sent two men to guard that door, only a Guard loyal nurse and you may enter at any time." He motioned to Nathan and Dwight, "them too."

"But Officer Wuornos…"

"Is loyal to The Guard, I trust him with my life and he's doing all can to save Haven." Vince pointed at the body in the bed. "That woman who took over Officer Parker, she stole the woman he loves and he wouldn't dare wake that woman or he risks losing the one he wants. So I don't want to hear from anyone ever again that Officer Wuornos is a danger to us, is that understood?"

The man nodded, "understood."

"Now where is Mr. Crocker and Miss Mason?"

"ICU, I'll take you once I find a nurse."

It took ten minutes to find a nurse but then they were in the room Duke and Jennifer shared, Vince thought it best they reside in the same room for some apparent reason. Jennifer looked at them with a small smile.

"You came, where's Audrey?"

"William managed to revive Mara in his last moments." Dwight looked at her and saw her face fall. "She's under heavy sedation in a medicated coma, we couldn't risk her awake."

Nathan sat beside the bed, "but Audrey is still in there somewhere."

Jennifer nodded, "I saw things in flashes when I opened the doorway and when I closed it. What we need to fear is Mara, we never should have opened that doorway a second time. William may have been helping her remember but the door, it was like a pill to make you remember everything. When he touched her with it opened, it made her remember it all." She looked over at Duke before looking back at Nathan. "Audrey's still there but you won't ever see her again. You can't let Mara wake up, you can never wake her up because she's powerful…"

"We'll figure it out…"

"No Nathan," she grabbed his arm, "you don't understand. The black goo was something William and Audrey had to use because they weren't Mara…she's the epitome of the word witch. She doesn't need black balls of goo because all she needs is her words or thoughts. It's where we're from that makes her, us that way. I saw my past, why I was brought here by Howard and it wasn't to do what we did…it was to stop Mara, to put her where we put William. I'm sorry but neither of them can never wake up or both our realm and that of Darcadia are lost in eternal darkness."

Dwight moved closer to the bed, "what do you mean she's powerful, she hasn't been that powerful and we've had her in custody for hours."

Jennifer sighed, "I can't describe it but the best way I can put it is William was like a speed bump. He made it impossible for her to realize how powerful he is when he blinded her by love yet he craved her power. When she realizes how powerful she is, nothing can stop her…not even me."

"Jennifer…"

Jennifer looked at Nathan, "Duke is dying so don't tell me I wouldn't understand what it's like. Don't tell me can't leave Audrey stuck in there, you didn't see what I saw and I know how bad it hurts to lose her because I'm losing Duke but for everyone's sake it must be done. Neither our world nor Darcadia can deal with her, why do you think they sent her away…sent her here to suffer through endless lifetimes? To prevent her from destroying both realms. She was a princess there Nathan who loved her people and every life but a boy became her friend and he taught her how to harm instead of heal and she became who she was because she thought darkness was a part of love. They banished her because they couldn't kill her so they sent the one person who could…me, the child of ruin. I ruined everything so the problem became the solution."

Dwight shrugged, "how could you ruin everything, you were days old when Howard brought you here."

Nathan leaned back with understanding, "because she's Mara's daughter with William."

Jennifer met Nathan's eyes and nodded, "but they think I died at birth, my death became their darkness. I became the child of ruin."

A/N: AND that is how my first chapter response to the Haven Season 4 Finale! Find out more with the next chapter, will they be able to save Audrey or will Jennifer be right that they can never wake Audrey or Mara up again?