Follow Your Fate

Summary: Audrey Parker had found out she'd had been many different people and lived many different lives. She had found answers to her questions and more questions than answers. But one question remained. Can you fight your fate?

Countdown: Sixteen Days Left

She walked down the empty hallway as if she was in a daze; it was early so she didn't even know if she'd be there. She couldn't sleep so she gave up and got dressed. She was thinking about Nathan, about the case and what she learned in the past few days. Her mind was spinning. She didn't even know how she had ended up here. But here she was.

Audrey slowed down when she got near her office; the light was on so she was at work. She was a hard worker and she cared, so she supposed that meant something. She poked her head in and knocked on the door frame "Dr. Callahan" she said. "I'm sorry...I don't have an appointment"

"That's okay, Detective Parker, come in" Claire replied surprised to see her here. She got up from her desk and offered a seat to her and sat down in one of the chairs.

Audrey took a deep breath and walked into her office and sat down on the chair across from her.

Audrey sat there quietly breathing. "Is everything alright?" Claire asked. Audrey opened her mouth but didn't say anything. When she applied for this job they told her that many people couldn't handle it, that it was too strange and too dangerous. She had other reasons for taking the job but she also became a Psychiatrist to help people. And the people here need someone to talk too, to help them control their abilities. She wanted to help them. They told her about Audrey and Lucy and Sarah and what she was to this town. So when she was told to talk to her she didn't think of her as anyone other than another person that needed her help. She lived all these lives just to help the people of this town. If anyone needed someone to talk to it was her. "Did you find the answers you were looking for in Colorado?" She asked.

"No" Audrey replied. "I found new ones" she told her and leaned back in the chair. "Every time I think I know, I'm wrong"

"About the Colorado Kid?" she asked trying to calm down and not get too excited.

"Yeah" Audrey answered and took a deep breath. "June Cogan is in a nursing home she has Alzheimer's. When I went to visit her…she thought I was Sarah."

"Sarah?" Claire repeated tilting her head slightly. "Not Lucy?"

"No, I don't think she knew Lucy" Audrey replied. "So I dressed up as Sarah to see if I can get some answers from her and she told me that I had brought James to her to take care of. " She paused to collect herself. "Turns out that the Colorado Kid…is my kid" she told her with a nervous grin.

"What?" Claire asked louder then she intended.

"Well he's Sarah's kid…but I was Sarah…so…" she left the sentence hanging. She then noticed that Claire hadn't said anything more so she looked at her. Claire's mouth was open slightly, her brows were furrowed, her eyes were wide and she was staring at the ground not really seeing it. She looked as freaked out as she felt. "I know who saw that twist coming" she said trying to lighten the mood.

Claire looked at her and stood up. She walked around her desk and opened a drawer. She came back with a photo album in her hand and she held it out to Audrey.

Audrey slowly reached up, took the album from her and opened it the first page. There she saw a picture of James Cogan in his wedding tuxedo looking down at his bride. "Where did you get this?" she asked unsure about what this meant.

Claire was still standing and had to use the arm of her chair to keep from falling as she answered "It's my parents wedding album"

Audrey's breath caught in her throat. "Your parents" she said unable to take her eyes from the picture. "This is James Cogan" she told her.

"I know" Claire replied.

They both looked at each other in wide eyed silence. Trying to wrap their minds around what they had just discovered. Audrey sucked in her breath then exhaled. "Why didn't you say anything?"

"I wanted to..I just had to be sure it was him" Claire said her own breathing becoming labored. "And I wasn't until you found out his name" she sank back into the chair. "I was two when my mother…" she stopped to catch her breath. "When my mother killed herself. I grew up in Connecticut with my grandparents; they told me my father died too and my mother had already changed our names to her maiden name so I didn't know who he was. They would never talk about my father. It wasn't until after my grandparents died when I found a box of my mother's belongings. A picture of my father, his name, and a newspaper article that said James Cogan was last seen in Nederland, Colorado with a brown haired woman"

"Lucy Ripley" Audrey interjected rubbing her hand along her face.

"There was also an envelope marked from Haven, Maine. I couldn't find the letter that was probably inside it. I think my mother thought he left her for another woman and she couldn't handle that" Claire told Audrey. She didn't know if that was true, but that's what made sense to her. "I became obsessed with finding out what happened to my father. Why he would just leave. Then I heard about this town, so I found a way to get this job."

Audrey listened to Claire tell her story, running her hands along her face trying to wrap her head around what she had just learned. "The Colorado Kid is your father" she said trying to finish her train of thought. "And he's my son...that makes me…"

"My grandmother" Claire finished for her.

Audrey brought hands to her face and looked at Claire. Her granddaughter. Her granddaughter who's life she ruined. Sarah gave her son to June Cogan, Lucy found him and took him away from his wife and daughter and then he was killed, but he wasn't dead. So was he killed and brought back like Nathan? And where is he now?

Nathan" Claire said suddenly startling Audrey.

"What about Nathan?"

She didn't think much of it at the time. But now after what they found out. "The other day, he grabbed my arm and ripped it away like I burned him."

"He felt you." She said more than asked. "Your patients when they talked to you, they never…?"

"I never thought about it" She replied but now she was thinking about it. "They've gotten angry with me, one of them set my curtains on fire, but they never hurt me with their abilities." She said coming to that sudden realization. "I thought I was just doing a good job" she said with a small laugh. "But it was because I'm like you"

"You were probably doing a good job too." Audrey reassured her. "You got me to talk to you" She said with a smile. She was talking to her granddaughter right now; she was still trying to process that when she could feel her phone vibrate in her pocket. She closed her eye and breathed out to collect herself. "Nathan" she said when she answered the phone.

"Another suicide" she repeated and looked at Claire. After she hung up with Nathan she told Claire what he told her. "Newlyweds shot themselves. The husband is still alive"

Claire nodded. Finding out who was doing this was more important than anything else. They'd have time to talk later. She grabbed her coat and followed Audrey out of her office. They were going to meet Nathan at the hospital to talk to the husband.

Tbc..