Coda to Episode 4.4 "Lost and Found"
Her boys, her rebel and her cop.
She couldn't believe it. She was back. Here. With them, even if they didn't know it. She knew it, could feel it, feel them. God she would kiss William if he were within reach for returning what she never thought she'd get (remember) again.
Hands touched her then, disrupting the hurtling sensation of her thoughts and she knew that touch, even if it wasn't as intimately as she always hungered for (and having sex as Sarah didn't count). Eagerly she opened her eyes, Audrey's eyes instead of a newborn personality, and saw deeply wounded happiness on a beautiful craggy face.
Nathan.
She was barely aware of others around them - except for Duke who stirred senses not bound up by Nathan's commanding presence - as her cop gathered her into his arms, smiling as gently and lovingly as any woman could dare to dream.
He was close and warm and feeling; their connection hadn't broken, his love hadn't died.
For a brief, eternal, endless moment, the universe shrunk until it was just the two of them, encasing them in a golden bubble where she could just be. Even if Audrey Parker was an assumed identity like all the others before her, he knew her to her bones, to her Parker soul, and she was. It didn't matter what came before, only what came after.
And then the reality of Haven reasserted itself with the cold press of metal in her hands, a barrier Nathan had put between them, and she panicked. The Barn was gone and everything about this was unprecedented.
The rules had changed.
She remembered and twenty-seven years hadn't passed in the ether.
So she did the only thing that could save them all.
She lied.
A/N: Just a random drabble that wouldn't leave my brain while watching the episode (I felt vindicated when it turned out she wasn't actually Lexie).