All That Matters

Spoilers: All Episodes, 3x13 Thanks for the Memories, 4x09 William, 4x10 The Trouble with the Troubles, 4x11 Shot in the Dark preview

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Nathan woke the next morning to find the bed beside him empty and his phone ringing. Grabbing the offending object he flipped it open as he dug for his shirt in the pile of clothes beside the bed. He stopped pulling on the article of clothing as it was Dwight telling him that Audrey had signed out William out of custody around five in the morning.

"She what? Did she give an indication of where she was going and why she signed him out?" Nathan groaned as he began to quickly dress to go after his girlfriend. "No I'll be there immediately, call Duke and the Teague Brothers to start a hunt. We need to find them because if knowledge of who Audrey once was has triggered her…then we need to prepare for Troubles worse than what they are." Hanging up Nathan quickly finished dressing and grabbed his weapon, which was thankfully still in the same place he kept it when at Audrey's place. A quick check for bullets resulted in a full magazine so on some level Audrey or Virginia, if it was Virginia, hadn't thought to disarm him.


He cataloged everything Audrey had told him during the drive to the station. However midway into town he saw an explosion happen, a cloud of smoke and fire just blocks from where he was. Nathan diverted his truck and made it to what had been the Boat Lodge Motel. Outside people were gathering and getting out of the truck he spotted two people edging into the woods, one a blond familiar to him. Drawing his gun he made his way over and followed them through the tree and forest. It wasn't dense but it was forest so he had to work to keep up with the two. Noticing a clearing he raised his gun and decided to address the two.

"Audrey, William stop where you are." Both turned to look at him and he saw William grinning at him. What threw him was the menacing look Audrey held on her face, clearly the narrow eyes and smirk was that of Virginia Dare not Audrey Parker.

"Ginny, may I introduce your alter ego's pathetic puppy dog of a lover, Nathan Wuornos." William moved over to Nathan and held out his hands. "Told you that discovering who she was would trigger Haven's end, not even Audrey Parker could stop what was ahead. I told you that she had the blackest of hearts you'd ever seen. There is nothing left of Audrey Parker, just my darling Ginny." He turned back to look at the woman behind him and she gave a darker smirk than she'd had moments before.

Nathan looked at Audrey, Virginia, whoever she was and took a step closer to her but William blocked his path. "I want to talk to her."

"I don't think so, see it's for your own good because when I told you she had a black heart…she kills if you have an ounce of goodness in you. I really don't like you but I really can't risk killing you because I really don't need to have all of Haven looking for us as killers. We want to destroy Haven slowly and if they start hunting us, well Ginny gets excited and it'd be over way too quickly."

"Is it because of that or because you know that hurting me would trigger Audrey, the part of her still there." He watched William's face closely and saw a small spark of fear in his eyes before it was quickly masked. "You know Audrey still exists inside and you don't want that part of her, that pure heart and soul to be exposed before you encase it with evil." Nathan shoved past William and was met by William's arm but also Audrey, no Virginia's arm in the air with her hand in a position of grabbing something.


William looked at her, "Ginny despite what is a really bad idea I think it's time we put this man out of his misery. Conjure up a dream world with his beloved Audrey Parker in it, let him live in that for eternity as his world is destroyed. We'll call it a mercy, since killing him would outrage the town and cause our plans to go crazy."

She smirked at Nathan, "dormiat somnia somniabunt in dilectum tuum et non consurgant." However her smirk faded as she repeated the phrase. "dormiat somnia somniabunt in dilectum tuum et non consurgant." Virginia shook her head and moved forward, grabbing Nathan by the throat. "Why doesn't the spell work? What witchcraft has been placed upon you to prevent such works as mine to fail?"

"Not witchcraft, something stronger." He watched her move in towards him, "stronger than anything you could conjure. We're connected in a way that stronger than his hold on you." Nathan dropped his gun and put his hand over hers as it laid on his throat. "You know this, you are Audrey Parker not Virginia Dare no matter what he says."

Pulling her hand away as if on fire she shook her head. "Lies, you are not my husband and there is no connection between you and me. Whoever you are, you will pay unpleasantly if you don't tell me who has saved you from my spells."

"See I told you." William smirked, "all Ginny, nothing of you precious Audrey left. Get out of town Wuornos, take Crocker and Jennifer with you and escape Haven's destruction. Live a nice quiet life, find a wife who can deal with an unfeeling husband and have a few kids. Forget all about this town, about Audrey…actually you know what we can take care of all that. Ginny dearest why don't you try another spell…maybe you need some practice because it's been a long time."

Her hand was placed on his head and she started to speak," amor in te, memores tui…" she shook her head and pressed on, "obliviscar oppidum…no!" Her hand flew away as if on fire all over again and she backed up, shaking her head. "No, no I am Virginia Dare Wythers, I am from the destroyed…"


As she began to speak Virginia found herself in her mind on a beach standing before a young girl in a green sundress. Her brown hair waved in the wind as blue eyes stared back at her, what she noticed about the girl was that the veins in her hands were black and it was spreading to her arms.

"It hurts." That was what the innocent life said and in a moment of strangeness she bent down in front of the girl. Despite the blackness in her veins the girl was nothing but peace and purity, something Virginia had rarely ever seen…even in children. She radiated love and kindness, a light that nothing could touch or harm or even turn.

"What hurts, who are you?"

She looked down at her arms and tears fell down soft cheeks. "It hurts." She held her arms out as if for Virginia to see the blackness.

"Who are you?" She didn't understand how a child could be in her mind.

The girl only shrugged, "I don't know, Mommy knows but she's lost. I want her back, please give her back to me." She looked back down at her arms, "she'd never hurt me."

"You're Troubled, you need to leave my mind and go home. I'm sure your mother can help you there."

The child sat down on the wet sand and looked up at her, "please give her back, please make the hurt go away."

"I don't know what your Trouble is, even if I did want to help. Whoever activated you…find them and ask them to help." She stood and started to walk away as if to leave the child alone to go back to her own mind.

"You are doing this!" She turned to see the girl standing with fury in her eyes. "You're hurting me, you took away my Mommy and now you're hurting me. Are you going to let me die too?"

Virginia was pissed at the girl, she assumed the girl was talking about Audrey Parker being the cause of it all. "Audrey Parker is gone, I'm not her…"

"I know!" Despite the look of four or five the girl had the fury of ages in her blue eyes. "I know because she's my Mommy and you took her away from me. She can make it better, please give her back before I die." She looked down at her arms and the blackness seemed to be above her elbows. Tears filled the girl's eyes as she looked up at Virginia. "Please give her back, please make it stop hurting."

Just to shut the child up she let a small piece of Audrey Parker go from the locked vault in her mind and instantly the woman was standing behind the girl starring at her. "There's your mother, now go away."

The girl turned and saw Audrey standing feet away. "Mommy!"

Audrey bent and caught the girl as she ran, holding her tight. "Sweetheart I'm here." She pulled back and looked at the girl's arms. "What happened?"

"She did it!" The girl pointed at her and Virginia allowed her eyes to narrow as a woman who looked identical in features stared at her with anger and narrowed eyes as well. "She took you away, she's making it all hurt…it's all dark, see!"

Virginia turned to where the girl pointed and a dark, black cloud seemed to spread towards the beach from all directions. She turned back to see Audrey Parker walking over to her, starring her down.

"Who are you and what are you doing in my mind?"

"Virginia Dare and this is my mind, my body and you're just a life that I lived without knowing. Soon you'll be nothing and I'll find that brat of yours and destroy her too!"

Audrey shook her head, "you don't have my memories, you can't access them can you?"

"Why would it matter, soon enough you'll be but a memory in that pathetic man's head."

The girl ran over and pulled on Audrey's arm, who picked her up and held her. "Mommy I'm scared, we're going to die when the darkness comes. I don't want to die." Tears ran down her face and brown strands of hair stuck to high cheek bones.

Audrey looked at Virginia as she kissed the girl's head. "We're not going to die, I promise."

"Such a sweet promise but you're going to break it, I suggest you hold her tight because it's coming!" She threw her hands up as the dark cloud got closer to the shores of the beach, smirking as she did.


A/N: This chapter had to be broken into 2 parts because it was originally 6 pages long on a word document. I will post part 2 soon, it's already written. Sorry I was gone for a while, finals and a snow storm...

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