The Light in the Darkness
Spoilers: All of Haven Seasons, especially 4x13 The Lighthouse
Disclaimer: I own the backstory, not the main characters
It was a day later that Jennifer stood in Mara/Audrey's room, Duke and Nathan stood nearby with Dwight ready to Taser the woman. Dr. Benson, the doctor monitoring the woman, stood nearby with a sedative. He was Guard loyal and seen enough that he didn't really blink an eye about someone asking to bring a consciousness forward while a patient was in a coma.
Jennifer placed a hand over Mara/Audrey and looked at Nathan, who nodded along with Duke. Closing her eyes she began to speak in the strange language again. "Bretal kima, decorp lunis. Jusi marus troco lunis."
The body in the bed gasped and struggled against the restraints before looking around frantically. She began to breathe heavily, "Jennifer…what's going on, where's Nathan?"
Nathan walked over and looked at the woman, her eyes definitely said it was Audrey. "Audrey calm down, Jennifer said this wouldn't last long. Mara is sedated for now we but we don't know what this will do, we don't know how long before she realizes you're still alive."
She nodded and laid her head back down, shaking her head. "She's everything I never want to be, I can sense her but she can't sense me. She's trapped, we both are but we're separated by something that makes it impossible for us to reach each other."
He looked at Jennifer and she nodded, "it has to be difference between them, light and dark. Mara creates Troubles for pain and fun while Audrey helps save out of love and service. It's what makes Audrey the light and Mara the dark, if what's she saying is true it maybe possible to separate Mara's conscious from her body and leave Audrey behind." Duke moved over and she shook her head, "but that's way above what I know how to do. I've only been doing this only two days, I'm surprised I know what I know."
Audrey gasped and reached out her hand for Nathan, which he grabbed. "What is it?"
"I'm slipping Nathan, it's like something is pulling me back."
"I thought you said five minutes."
Jennifer nodded and pointed to her watch, "technically it's been five so…any longer and we may risk Mara waking up."
Nathan leaned down and kissed Audrey, "I love you, I'm going to keep fighting for you Audrey."
"I love you too, I don't want to go…I want to stay." She looked at Jennifer, "let me stay, please whatever you did Jennifer please make it longer."
Jennifer shook her head, "I can't do anymore, I'm not as powerful as Mara."
"Mara?" Audrey whispered as she tried to hang on, "you're related?"
Nathan put a hand on Jennifer's shoulder, "she's Mara's daughter with William but she's different from them both. If anything Jennifer is like you, so much like you."
"I have a daughter?" Audrey smiled before reaching out to Jennifer but her hand dropped and Audrey's eyes closed.
Benson quickly moved over and administered another sedative to keep Mara from waking. Jennifer moved to Duke and he placed an arm around her. "We should leave." Benson motioned to the door and they all moved into the hall after Nathan placed Audrey's hand on her stomach and kissed her head. He closed the door behind him and saw Jennifer leaning against Duke with some tears in her eyes.
"She looked at me like a mom does, she looked at me with love." Duke kissed her head before looking at Nathan.
He placed a hand on Jennifer's shoulder, "because Audrey loves with a full heart and once she finds out you're family it's impossible to not be loved." Nathan found her eyes and smiled, "why don't we figure out how to help your mother, huh?"
"Mara or Audrey?"
Duke chuckled, "like Mara would be a mom to you, Audrey is probably the only mom you have left so I say we find a way to save her huh?"
Jennifer nodded and sat down in a nearby chair, "okay so we maybe able to separate one from the other but it's beyond even my comprehension. I mean, I've only been a witch for two days and there's only so much stuff I'm able to comprehend." She pointed to her head, "it comes to me as ideas do. I mean part of me thinks, as crazy as this sounds, is that the only way to save Audrey is to go back where I came from. Not the void we sent William to but the realm Mara was from but the barn was the doorway and that's destroyed."
Duke smirked, "maybe not, if Stuart Mosely's still alive we maybe able to use that to our advantage."
"Stuart has to be there in that time physically, he wasn't there when I shot Howard." Nathan looked at Jennifer, "unless we could somehow alter his Trouble."
She shook her head, "you want me to do what Audrey did and create a Trouble don't you?"
"No, man it's insane." Duke looked over at Nathan, "you're going to throw Audrey's daughter to the same fate she did…darkness and evil?"
Jennifer looked between them, "no wait Nathan's right, that's the difference. If I create a Trouble as me, as Jennifer out of love and service instead of out of pain and fun it wouldn't turn me evil like Mara. I was never evil and William turned her evil, while me being the catalyst made it worse but I can do this differently." She put a hand on Duke's arm, "you took on the Crocker Curse and now I'm taking on the Parker one, to serve the Troubled with endless compassion and love."
"That wasn't what I was thinking but that could work." Nathan looked at them, "I was actually hoping she'd be able to say a spell or something. The only question is where to find a Trouble-less person to help us."
Jennifer looked at Duke, "I took away your curse but I can reverse it, make your own different. What if you could absorb Troubles, one at a time? When you absorb one, the other person loses as well as their family but you inherit. The next person the same thing and the last one is lost?"
"So I'd take Mr. Mosely's Trouble and since I was there at the barn's destruction…I could change it."
"Slip us in, we cross and then we beg someone to send us home since the doorway will be destroyed. I think Darcadia is where we'll find out answers for separating Audrey and Mara."
Duke put up a hand, "crazy question but travelling to another realm where we have no idea about anything and hoping to save this town. Isn't that a bit…I don't know, something out of a science fiction novel?"
"Duke, we live in a supernatural town." Nathan stated bluntly, "my girlfriend's original identity is that of a witch and both she and her daughter are from a different realm. "
The man nodded before pointing at his friend, "you have a point but it's still a little insane. I mean, it's another realm and none of us have been there before…for all we know there might be magical dragons and unicorns."
"Mara was a princess, so that makes me one…maybe that'll help. All I know is that everything in me is saying go to the Tower of Light and there's someone called Phoebe we're supposed to see."
Duke stood up and pulled Jennifer up while holding onto his IV pole with the other hand. "Okay Princess Jennifer, we're off to see the Wizard."
"Nathan…" she inclined her head towards Duke and the cop shook his head.
"He's your boyfriend." Nathan just shrugged and started walking in the direction of Duke's room, where they started walking.
"Some dad you are."
Duke chuckled, "that's only because he approves of your choice."
"There isn't much worse she could have done. The only other guy I have actually hated beside Brody was her own biological father." Nathan looked at Jennifer as they reached the room, "you get some rest, you may be able to fool pirate here but you're exhausted."
"I take offense to that." Duke pointed at looked at Nathan, "I knows she's exhausted, hell I'm exhausted. We're going to go rest and you have Vince get us out of here so we can go save two realms."
Jennifer nodded, "see you tomorrow Nathan, try to go home and get some rest instead of sleeping in that room on that couch."
"I'll be fine but that you for the concern."
"Fine, if you don't go home then I'm telling my mom what you did. Do you really want to deal with Audrey's wrath when she finds out you haven't been taking care of yourself?"
Duke covered his mouth to stop from laughing at the face Nathan made, it was priceless when the cop realized that having two Parker women on his case was a nightmare come true. Nathan glared at him and pointed, "not a word Duke, not a word."
"Didn't say anything." He pulled Jennifer into the room, "come on Hermione, time for some rest."
A/N: Okay so we have some family banter going on, next we see what happens when Jennifer dreams. What do you think is going to happen?
Darcadian Translation: Bretal kima, decorp lunis. Jusi marus troco lunis means Restore the good, show the light. Keep the darkness from the light.