Chapter 1.

Audrey was following Duke for a while now there had to be something she could do to bring the old Duke, the one she had grown to love, back and with that end the power Croatoan had over him.

Suddenly Duke stopped. Audrey could hide behind a small wall standing in front of her. It gave her the ability to keep an eye on what he was doing.

Dark Duke reached for his wallet and took a picture out of it, "You don't need to hold onto this any longer."

Seeing the picture gave the old Duke the power to come to the surface, "No, you will not destroy that photo."

This made the Dark Duke grin, "Do you really believe this is love? You are such an idiot. He played you because that is what he does. You are such a naive idiot."

"No, I don't believe you. He loves me." Duke struggled but the dark one was way too strong and took the control back over Duke's body, leaving the good Duke in the shadows again.

Duke, even though suppressed by his dark side, felt his being ripped out of him every time he heard the dark Duke rip a piece from the photo. The only thing he had of him. His only reminder of what he had in Los Angeles.

He was crying inside but nobody could hear him.

Audrey looked confused when she saw how he took something out of his wallet. She couldn't quite see what he was pulling out of it but whatever it was, it was important. She saw how he hesitated right before he ripped the piece of paper to pieces and threw the pieces into a garbage bin. That's how she knew that her friend was still in there and that she needed to do whatever it would take to bring him back.

She stayed behind that wall until Dark Duke was far enough, "I don't know what on that paper but clearly it was important to the Duke I know. So I have to find all the pieces." She told herself.

Audrey looked around before opening the bin. What she saw wasn't a piece of paper but a photo. She couldn't see what was on it.

"Time to find out what it is you didn't want us to know." Audrey opened an evidence bag she kept in the pocket of her jacket and dropped the pieces in it. This way she couldn't lose a piece of her puzzle.

She took her phone and dialed the number of her boyfriend and partner. "Nate, I think I may have found a clue that could help Duke. I just don't know what it is yet but it seemed important enough to not keep it as a reminder. I am bringing it into the station to figure things out."

The dark Duke grinned, he had sensed that Audrey was following him, made her see her friend suffer. There was no way that she would be able to leave Haven or even reach the person in the picture. She would have to live with the fact that there was nothing she could do to help him.

"Have fun fixing the puzzle I made, Audrey Parker because not even he could help you right now." The dark Duke laughed evilly from behind a house looking at Audrey and the hope in her eyes that soon would disappear. He knew very well how much Duke Crocker meant to her but soon she would realize that his heart belonged to another.

He knew that although she really loved Nathan, she loved Duke equally as much, and the fact that who his heart really belonged to was a well-kept secret.

"I am going to enjoy the hurt in your heart and soul when it hits you how helpless you will feel." dark Duke laughed before leaving, waiting for the next trouble that needed to be killed.

Nathan was waiting in the office with Dwight when Audrey came in.

"What did you find, Parker?" Nate asked as soon as he saw her.

"This." She showed the bag with the tiny pieces of photo in it, "I can't see what's on it though."

"You want to fix that?" Dwight said confused, pointing at the bag, "There are at least a few dozen pieces of that photo. Where do we even start? Does any of you have a clue what's on it?"

Audrey and Nathan looked at each other, "I am afraid not. Duke shoots right from the hip but that doesn't mean we know everything." Nathan said.

"We have to try. Duke always had our backs, we owe it to him." Audrey continued but what she didn't say was that she loved Duke too much to not even try it. Maybe dark Duke had underestimated her.

Nathan placed his hands on Audrey's upper arms and looked at her lovingly. He knew how much seeing Duke like this was hurting her. He also knew that she loves Duke as much as she loves him, "come on Audrey, let's go home and try to piece this picture back together. I will help you."

Both Nathan and Audrey sat around the coffee table. The pieces of the photo in front of them. They had been puzzling for hours and all they had were pieces that didn't make sense. They had Duke's head and a three-letter sign in the background, just not enough to make a word out of it. They couldn't make out what the letters said.

"See the background? I think those letters form the name of a business or something." Audrey took a piece of paper before looking at the letters.

"Audrey, we can't make out a name with only the top half of the letters." Nathan sighed.

"We can at least make the list of letters shorter by writing down the possibilities. The first letter can be an I, a J, or an L?" Audrey wrote the letters down.

Nathan sighed, "alright the next letter should be easy, that's a U and the last letter is either an X or a Y."

Audrey sighs, "We aren't a step closer to finding out what this picture means to Duke. We don't even know where this picture is taken."

Nathan, who was sitting next to her, stood up and took place behind her. He placed his hands on her shoulder and started to knead them.

"Try to relax, baby," Nathan whispered in her ear.

Audrey leaned back against him, her head against his chest. She enjoyed this feeling. She looked up and saw the love in his eyes.

Nathan leaned forward and kissed her, "Let's continue tomorrow, Audrey." he whispered before rising, pulling her up with him.

"We have so much work to do." Audrey sighs but Nathan silences her with a searing kiss.

"We can relax for an hour, Parker," Nathan whispered in her ear while he pulled her towards the bedroom.

Audrey lost the fight and followed her boyfriend. They didn't stop kissing each other and clothes formed a trail of where they had been walking until they were both naked in the bedroom.

Nathan kissed every inch of her body while he enjoyed her hands roaming through his hair. The fact that he could feel her, made their lovemaking nothing less than magical. Feeling the nails that were put in his back made him go crazy.

"I want you so badly, Audrey. You have no idea what you do to me." Nathan whispered softly.

"You have me, Nate. Please, make love to me." Audrey whispered back while placing her nails in the man's nicely formed ass.

This was the last straw for her boyfriend and entered her in one swift move. His pace was fast and rough just the way she liked it when he lost control. He stroked all her sweet spots until her climax relaxed her body just like he had promised it would.

Nathan followed after a few more strokes and filled her body with his seed. He would never get enough of his girlfriend.

"Thank you, Nate. This is just what I needed." Audrey sighed happily. While she laid her head on his chest.

"Work is important, Audrey. I know that but we aren't any help to Duke when you are way too stressed." Nathan said while stroking her hair.

"I hope so, Nathan. I really hope so." Audrey said while making figures with her fingers on his chest.

"If anyone can help Duke it's you, Parker. I have complete faith in you." Nathan said.

They still had no clue how important the photo was. They didn't know that the picture was the way towards Duke's heart.

TBC