***So..when I orginially thought up this prompt...I couldn't decide between just doing a complete one-shot of that one ending between Audrey and Nathan in "Lay Me Down"...or just doing a one-shot where it is after they did it and Audrey is questioning him again about how he got that bruise on his hand...which leads to him telling about what really occurred in his "school" dream. However...since I couldn't get both of those two scenes out of my mind...I decided to incorporate them both into this story.***
**I figure that the way I might spin this story in a way that will be easier for me to lay out the love scene between Audrey and Nathan...is that for the start of the story...I will be more or less going by the dialogue from the scene...along with both of their running thoughts...then after I get to the part about Nathan professing his undying love for her and then immediately doesn't waste anytime drawing her into a passionate heart stopping kiss...after that point I will begin to get creative as possible to describe what he is doing to her. I will do my best to make this the smokiest one-shot ever.**
*Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I wish to profit off of the two characters below or the show that this story is based upon, all rights to Haven and it's characters belong to the producers and Stephen King himself. So please don't sue me. Thank you and enjoy the story!*
Love Me (Blow Me)
"You don't know hard it has been for me!" Nathan practically yells in frustration, as he fights to keep his temper from blowing through the roof, as he was trying to figure out what place that they were at in their relationship.
They had just got home from the hospital where they had taken a young troubled woman, whose trouble had skyrocketed into attacking other people like him in their sleep, to get checked out by a docter after they were able to get her to conquer her fear in her dream.
The dream trouble had gotten him as well as both Dwight and Duke...but he supposed that the injuries that he had recieved in the dream were minor compared to the major one Dwight suffered. To be completely honest, he wasn't the least surprised to find out he was dreaming about Audrey, since ever since he found out he could feel her he would have some pretty revealing dreams of him and her at night. But they only began to become intense where he was having recurring dreams where he is naked in a school makeshift classroom in the middle of the station...where he had Audrey acting as his teacher. She would always ask him the same question that was written on the chalkboard...which was "Who do you love?".
He knew that answer to the question...but it was almost like his voice was paralyzed from speaking out the answer that he knew in his heart to be true...that he loved and was in love with Audrey Parker. Though...question was...how come he couldn't fucking man up and tell her how he felt about her? She told him that she loved him...so why the fuck couldn't he be a man and say it back.
He had only planned on just dropping her off at her apartment above the Grey Gull...but lately the unbearable tension growing between them was soon brewing too much for him to handle...as he suddenly found himself stepping in after her as she turns around to look at him with genuine confused etched across her face.
Which why he found himself making that unfair statement towards her in frustration and anger laced in his voice, watching as her face switched from genuine confusion to a mixture of anger and hurt, as he watched her take in the meaning behind his words and how she couldn't keep the next words from coming out of her mouth towards him.
"For you..." Audrey began, disbelief and anger laced in her words as she couldn't believe that he would bring that shit up, especially when he knew damn well that she had been trying to figure out her true identity since the moment she came to Haven. She doesn't give him a moment to say anything back towards her as she continues, "...at least you know what you are...at least you know who you are!"
"Well...I want to know what we are!" Nathan exclaims just as Audrey finishes her sentence, all the while taking a bold step forward towards her, before moving back to where he was.
Audrey understood full well what Nathan meant by that statement as she herself had pondered that same question more times than she could be able to count, but she knew that as much as she would have loved to oblige in giving herself fully to him, she knew that taking that plunge into a relationship where things were still so tense between them was NOT an option at the moment. She didn't want to hurt Nathan but she also knew that she HAD to say this in order to make it clear to Nathan that starting a relationship during a time when she needs to protect him the most, it is only then that she realizes that she is beginning to do the same thing that was almost tearing them apart during an opportunity where they could shut out the problems of the world and just be with each other. It was only then that she realized that she was starting to push him away right when they needed to talk to each other most, but somehow like before, she couldn't bring herself to stop.
"Too much has happened...Nathan...we can't be Audrey and Nathan...not anymore. We work together and that's it." Audrey stated, fighting back the hot tears that were now forming in her eyes, as she looked for a response from Nathan in his face.
"Fine...see you at work..." Nathan stated curtly, as he quickly stormed out of her apartment, slamming the door on his way out.
Nathan was halfway towards the steps and was on his way towards his Bronco when he felt himself stop and think for a moment as he viewed his possible options of what he could do right now.
'What the fuck am I doing right now...why of all times am I not trying to fight for us?! If I have learned anything from that dream I had today is that I need to go back and change her mind about us...tell her what she had been waiting to hear from my lips for a while now...that I love her. She needs to know that I love her as much as she loves me.' Nathan thought, as he remained stopped on her deck for a while before making the quick decision to go back inside and make a last ditch effort of fighting for them.
He watches as she glances back up to look at him walking back inside the apartment and he sees her eyes glistening with unshed tears and part of him felt guilty, feeling that he was the main part of the reason that she wanted to cry. Which is why he doesn't wait that long to say what he needed to say and do what he felt he needed to do, so he looks at her directly in the eye and prepares what he is about to say to her.
"I don't care who you are or what you are..." he pauses for a minute to see her glance up from where she had been staring at the floor to look directly at him with an expression that he couldn't even comphrend, but it didn't deter him from saying the three words that he knew that she needed to hear most from him, "...I love you."
Audrey freezes in place as soon as his last three words begins to quickly register to her emotional filled mind as she looks up towards his face where she sees that he is smiling and she sees that he is serious, and despite her best efforts to keep herself from crying, she can feel a lone tear slide down from her eye at his words.
With a sense of love and bravery, Nathan walked quickly in her direction and before she could get a chance to utter a word back to him, he had already closed the gap between his and her mouth. Kissing her and cupping both sides of her face with his hands as he silently marveled in the feeling of her soft smooth skin against his rough hands, and couldn't help but think that he would never grow tired of the feeling of her skin on his hands. It was almost like the feeling of the first time she kissed him on the cheek after Jess had left, it felt like an adrenline rush whenever he felt the touch of Audrey and he was certain that he would never get tired of feeling that way.
The moment she felt the feeling of his lips pressing against her lips and the simultaneous feeling of both of his hands cupping the sides of her face lovingly, she immediately responded with as much passion and love that he was showing her, as she moved her arm to wrap around the bare skin of his neck. She opens her mouth slightly against his and shivers against him as she feels him take that opportuntity to shove his tongue carefully into her mouth, all the while using his body to propel her backwards until they ended up at her cabinet, ignoring the fact that he couldn't feel the surface of it when he put down one hand for balance as he could feel her tongue fighting his tongue for dominance.
Using the strength of his upper arms, he quickly grabs unto her hips and sits her ontop of the cabinets' open surface, and was delighted in the way that she quickly opens her thighs apart for him to rest in between. He happily obliges as he feels the warmth of her heat radiate onto him and it is hard to stifle the pleased groan against her open mouth, feeling as she smiled against his lips and moved the hand that had been resting against the back of his neck to travel to his hair where she digged her fingers into his hair, moving her other hand to travel underneath his cotton shirt. Delighted in the way his muscles twitched against her bare hand and leaned more into her touch as he gasped her name against her lips, Audrey reveled in how toned Nathan felt and was wanting to know if he looked exactly how he felt like.
Feeling the ever present urge to touch her as much as she was touching him, Nathan moved his hands from where they had been at her face to a new place at her breasts before quickly diving his hands underneath the cotton of her dark blue shirt, where he encountered dull feeling of her bra, covering the warmth that his hands were aching to touch and feel.
He releases her lips as soon as the need to breathe seems far too grand for either of them to handle as he hears her softly gasping his name with her eyes closed as he starts pressing kisses along her jawline and down the column of her throat, where he spends his time placing open mouth kisses up and down her neck, moaning softly against her neck by just how delicious it tasted against his mouth.
"Nathan...oh god...Nathan..." Audrey moaned, cradling the back of his head against the side of her neck where it was most sensitive, she felt her eyes flutter a little as she felt him beginning to suck the side of her neck.
It suddenly occurred to that he was marking her neck and she was about to pull him away from her neck when she felt his hips surge against hers as she could feel the need of him against her stomach, so instead she pressed his head to her neck and began matching him thrust for thrust, while also feeling Nathan's hands make their way behind her back to the clasp of her bra and waited patiently as he attempted to work his numb fingers over the clasp.
Sensing and more likely hearing his growl of frustration of not being able to get the clasp to budge, Audrey had decided to take matters in her own hands before Nathan decided to rip the bra open and push him away from her for a little while, before Nathan could make a sound of disappointment or pout he watched as she swiftly yanked her shirt completely off herself. Before Nathan could reach for her breast however, Audrey yanked Nathan's shirt off and stopped him in his tracks by her stare and touch of his chest.
"Audrey..." Nathan moaned, eyes closing briefly as he felt her hands roam his chest freely as one of his hands went up to take one of her hands and place them directly over his heart, where she could feel it race against her palm.
"This is what you make me feel like when you touch me...and when I touch you. You make me feel so alive when often times I have felt it wasn't possible to feel alive...you Audrey Parker make me feel so alive." Nathan murmured, caressing the hand that was pressing firmly but gently against his skin.
"Oh Nathan..." Audrey whispered, her eyes shimmering with tears, "Touch me and love me."
Nathan's only response was to draw her in for a deep passionate kiss that made her almost go weak at the knees if he hadn't been supporting her back with his hand, with her distracted by the kiss, Nathan moves his other hand to where her bra is and grabs onto her breast while he caresses it and thumbs her nipple causing Audrey moan loudly into his mouth.
He pulls away to look at her hooded eyes and gives her a mischevious smile as he palms the breast in hand while looking at her, and thumbs her once again making moan and him smile more as she started squirming underneath his touch.
Without saying a word to him, she only smiles at him as she reaches behind her back to finally release her breasts from the prison of her bra, watching as his face becomes enamored with the sight of her naked breasts.
"So beautiful...so very very very beautiful..." Nathan murmered, as he lowered his mouth on her nipple, drawing a squeak from Audrey's mouth as he lavished her nipple with his tongue.
"Nathan..." Audrey gasped, clutching his head to her breast as his mouth and tongue did unspeakable acts to her breast and nipple, "...Nathan...we need to get to the bed...like right now."
"But...I am having so much fun right now..." Nathan murmered as he breathed in between her supple breasts as one of his palms pressed against her breast, just as the other hand slid their way down in the direction of her pants, where he thumbs open the button and uses his finger to glide the zipper all the way down.
"Nathan..." Audrey breathes out a moan hitting her as she felt him cup her with a open palm, her hands gliding from his head and down to his back, caresses it firmly as he felt his hand slip it's way into the drenched soaking wet heat of her underwear. Pressing his hand against the heat of her womanhood as he let his pointer finger drag itself up and down her entrance as his thumb begins to routinely play with her swollen clit, she lets out a sharp gasp when she feels him lightly pinch her clit before rubbing it gently with his thumb, and he groans against the breast that has in his mouth at sheer feeling of how wet and soft she feels against his fingers as he pushes one finger into her.
Nathan pulls away from the deliciousness of her breast in order to watch her face as he began to set up a rhythm with his finger inside of her, he takes note in the way her face scrunch up in delight when his finger presses a good spot and feels one of her hands move from his back to grip the arm that is down her pants as she starts thrusting against his finger, he watches as she squeezes her eyes shut as she throws her head back against the cabinet. He hears her moan his name deeply as he adds middle finger into her as he changes the angle of his fingers's thrusts in order to try and reach the deepest part of her, taking advantage of her head being thrown back to pepper her neck with kisses as he felt the hand that wasn't gripping onto his upper arm now at his head. Her fingers tangling themselves into his hair, caressing the smooth texture of his scalp as she held his head to her neck.
"Oh Audrey...Audrey...you feel so soft...so hot...so wet...and so perfectly mine." Nathan moans, nuzzling against the crook of her neck, smiling as the action makes her shudder against him.
"Nathan...oh god Nathan...faster Nathan faster...oh fuck Nathan...fuck this feels so good...yes Nathan...don't stop...don't stop...don't you dare fucking stop Nathan..." Audrey moans, gripping onto his hair in order to keep from going out of control from the feeling of Nathan's fingers speeding their thrusts up until she suddenly feels him slide down from his neck to where he was now at eye level with her torso where he presses kisses along her waistline, while he attempts to take both of her pants and underwear off with just only one arm, eventually she ends up having to help him out by sliding them both down to her ankles. The moment that she kicks them off into a random area of the room he immediately latches his lips onto her swollen clit, alternating between sucking and licking at her clit, his ears loving the sweet sounds of her moans that are becoming increasingly louder by minute as he quickly adds a third finger into her.
Nathan is completely aware of the chances of some of the townsfolk from downstairs hearing the sounds of Audrey moaning loudly as he pleasured her with his mouth, and he is pretty sure he couldn't less about the volume of Audrey's moans as he planned on having her screaming his name over and over again as filled her over and over again until there was nothing in the world but them.
"Nathan...Nathan...keep going...keep going...Nathan I am so close...so close...oh my god Nathan..." Audrey moaned, her hips thrusting upwards against his mouth as he practically worshipped her clit with his tongue, flicking it before pulling it in for a deep suck.
"Cum for me...Audrey...cum for me..." Nathan moaned, relishing the feeling of her pressing the back of his head into her thrusting hips as his free hand went back to palming her breast, thumbing her nipple with his thumb while looking up to watch the look on her face the moment that she exploded.
"Yes Nathan...yes yes yes...oh yes Nathan...yes...I am going to cum...Nathan...Nathan...oh god yes Nathan...Nathan Nathan Nathan...YES NATHAN!" Audrey moaned loudly as a powerful orgasm rips through her as begins to shudder and quake around his fingers and mouth.
He continues to thrust his fingers into, slowing down in order to help her ride out the orgasm smoothly before moving his head away from between her legs to latch onto her lips while she is still breathless, removing his fingers from her in the process.
"Nathan..." Audrey sighs breathlessly against his lips, feeling as he quickly pulls away to look at her, "...please take me to bed."
Pulling her lips into a deep passionate kiss that soon turned hot in no time, he brings both of his hands to grab onto her hips, feeling as her legs immediately wrap themselves around his hips the second he picks her up off from where she had been seated against the cabinet as he carries her over to her bed. Never letting go of her lips once they both land on her bed with his hips beginning to thrust against hers as he felt her impatient fingers dance their way down his chest and all the way down to the belt on his pants, preventing them from being together for the first time ever.
Nathan let go of her lips and smiled at her before letting her make work of pulling his belt off and unbuttoning his jeans, her breathing becoming hard as slid the zipper down, excitement growing within her as she pulled both of his jeans and boxers down to reveal his raging erection springing out to meet her. She couldn't help but be shocked by how big he was a little bit bigger than any of the men she has been with in the past, and right now she was itching touch him, but the growing need of desire trumped that thought of hers.
Sensing her longing gaze upon his erection and seeing the look of pure desire in her eyes was enough to make him completely shed his jeans and underwear, while also taking his shoes and socks off in the process, leaving them both completely naked and him ready for her as he wasted no time in grabbing her hips to thrust into her body. They both moaned at the feeling of finally being one and Nathan took some time to relax before he decided to start moving.
"Oh god...you don't know how long it has been since I have been able to feel like how I am feeling right now." Nathan moaned, looking deep into Audrey's eyes as he tries to keep his control in check.
"Well...I sure am glad that I am the only one you can be able to feel...because I can't wait to make you feel everything that you deserve to feel...and even more." Audrey purred, as she let her legs crawl up him to wrap herself even more around him, as she locked her ankles against him.
"Oh Audrey..." Nathan trailed off as he felt her inner muscles clench around his erection, practically begging him to start moving in her.
"Okay Nathan...now I know that it has been a while since you have been able to feel the touch of woman...but isn't this the point where a man should be beginning to move in a woman?" Audrey stated with a chuckle the told him that she was joking with him as she tried and squeezing him with her inner muscles, trying to urge him to move with thrust upwards with her hips.
"Has anyone ever told that you are just as bossy in bed then you are when you are out in the field?" Nathan stated, beginning to thrust slowly up against her moving hips, setting up a slow and steady pace that could help them build up the pleasure level between them.
"I thought you liked it when I was bossy?" Audrey replied with a sharp gasp as she felt one of his thrust got closer to her pleasure point, smiling at him as she latched onto his lips as she pulled him into a passionate kiss.
"I do but...I think I like it even more now that I know you are also bossy in bed...trust me it is a turn on..." Nathan stated as he breathed against her lips as he accentuated the word "turn on" with a sharp thrust against her hips, causing her to moan loudly against his mouth.
"Well...I think the fact that you can be able to feel and me...and only me is a turn on as well..." Audrey moaned, as she met him thrust for thrust as she felt his lips let go of hers to migrate his way down to her neck, sighing as she felt him place soft open mouth kisses up and down her neck.
"You feel so soft and so wet...I feel like I can never have enough of you...you're the most beautiful woman that I have ever come to know...so brilliantly smart and special...how did I come to deserve a woman such as you?" Nathan moaned, hearing her breath start to hitch with his compliments and the steady thrusting of his hips into hers.
"Nathan...I know you can go a little faster that...I am not made of glass and wouldn't mind it if you lost control at some point...and just pounded me." Audrey replied, through gasps of pure pleasure.
Nathan growled and she smiled as he returned his lips to her as he went deeper inside the depths of her as she gasped loudly in surprize at the sudden feeling of the tip of him making contact with her sensitive bundle of nerves, shoving her tongue into his mouth as she cradled the back of his head to her as they kissed passionately angling her head so that he shoves his tongue deeper into her mouth, moaning loudly into his mouth as he smiles against her mouth while thrusting harder and deeper before.
"Nathan..." Audrey moaned against his mouth as her hands go to claw at his back with her nails, mentally chuckling as she feels him growl against her mouth, picking up the speed of his thrusts even as she matched him thrust for thrust.
"Audrey..." Nathan growled, as pulled away from her mouth to look at her with hooded eyes as he used his upper and lower body strength to roll her until she was on top of him. He watches with amazement as she immediately pushed herself up from him and began to gyrate her hips against him as she alternates between moving her hips from side to side before riding his cock in frenzied motion, watching as Nathan suddenly grabbed a hold of her hips in order to keep them in place as he met her thrust for thrust from below her.
"Nathan...oh Nathan...you feel so good inside of me...as I knew you would...have you ever imagined...oh...me like this?" Audrey moaned, placing her hands upon his chest for support as she continued to ride him in a frenzied motion, moaning as his hands found her breasts.
Nathan palmed her breasts as he lifted himself to latch his lips onto hers as he kissed her passionately as she continued to thrust wildly against him, she moans as his thumbs finds her nipple as he flicks at her nipple, delighted in the way she moans against his mouth. His mouth lets go of hers to kiss a trail from her jaw to her breast where he immediately reattaches his mouth to her nipple, hearing her gasp as he puts pressure on her nipple with his tongue.
"Nathan...yes...Nathan..." Audrey groaned, running her hands through his hair, relishing in the feel of everything that is Nathan.
Audrey squeaks in surprise when Nathan suddenly turns them over until he is on top of her with his mouth still on her breast, hearing the volume of her moans increase as he begins to slams into her as deep as they both could go, watching her face as he moves in her. Their breathing go ragged as they felt themselves growing closer and closer to the edge as Nathan grabs a hold of her hips to thrust into her over and over again as she desperately claws at his back, attempting to contain some type of control as he drove her body crazy over and over again.
"Nathan...Nathan...Nathan...Nathan...Nathan...Nathan...Don't fucking stop...don't fucking ever stop...I am so fucking close...oh Nathan...sweet huge Nathan...yes...right there Nathan." Audrey moans, her nails digging into his back so hard that he is sure is going have red scratches that I won't feel on his back by the time he wakes up tomorrow morning, though he won't care much about the scratches as long as he gets to wake up with Audrey in his arms every morning for the rest of his life.
"Hold on Audrey..." Nathan groans, shifting the angle of his thrusts to hit directly at her sweet spot over and over again as she screams out in response to the way his hips slammed into hers.
"Nathan...make me come..." Audrey moans, grabbing his mouth from her breast and swallowing up the whine of protest from his mouth to quickly pull him in for a soul searing kiss, smiling against his mouth as she heard him groan at the feeling of her inner muscles squeezing him a vice like grip.
"Audrey...Audrey..." Nathan moans into her mouth as he lets his hand crawl it's way down to where their bodies are joined, determined to make her come first he waits until she is so submersed in their kiss to not notice two of his fingers make contact with her clit where he rubs and flicks it until he feels her spasming around his cock.
"NATHAN!" Audrey screams out, quaking as another powerful orgasm hits her and her orgasm triggers his own orgasm as he releases into the hot depth of her.
"AUDREY!" Nathan yells out, as he begins to twitch uncontrollablely with his own orgasm crashes in on him releasing himself into her, he is almost twitches so much that Audrey has hold him to her soothingly rubbing her hand down his back as he begins to calm down from his high.
Audrey continues to hold him to her as they both try to regain their breathing for a while as her hand travels to play with his hair in another way to calm him down and show love towards him, as they stay like that until Nathan finds the strength to pull out of her and lay down beside her.
"Hey...you okay?" Audrey asked, turning on her side to face him.
"Yeah...it's just been a while since I have been able to feel stuff like that..." Nathan states breathlessly before turning to look at Audrey, "...I haven't came like that since the troubles returned..."
"Wow...so is that how you know a way around a woman's body?" Audrey asked, with a satisfied smile on her face as she laid to rest her head on his chest, delighted in the way that Nathan's hand immediately went to caress her hair.
"Are you trying to say that I left you satisfied?" Nathan asked, with his eyebrows raised.
"Yes..." Audrey sighed, nuzzling her face into his chest as he twitched at the feeling on his chest.
"Thank you...that means a lot to me...Audrey." Nathan replied, with a smile on his face as he moved to secure his arms around her.
"You're welcome, Nathan." Audrey replies as she lets her eyes travel all over his sweat soaked body until her eyes land on the purplish bruise staining his hand and she suddenly remembers asking him how he had gotten it and not believing the answer that he had given her, "...exactly how did you get that bruise on your hand...what dream were you having to cause that bruise?"
She suddenly feels him tense up after she asks that question and senses that he is going to move away, she lifts her head up from where she is laying down to look him directly in the eyes, where she finds a look filled with awkwardness as he tries to look away from her face.
"Nathan...what dream were you having that caused that bruise...more importantly who gave you that bruise?" Audrey asked, concern for him becoming evident in her voice.
"It was you," Nathan started, seeing her immediate confused expression across her face before continuing, "...in the dream...you were acting as a blonde school teacher asking me the question of who did I love...and well you kind of got impatient waiting on my answer and hit me with a ruler."
"What were the answer choices?" Audrey asked, suddenly having an odd feeling about what his answer may be.
"A.) Audrey Parker,B.) Sarah Vernon, C.) Lucy Ripley, D.) All of the above and E.) None of the above." He answers as if reciting it from memory.
"Why would I hurt you like that in your dream...that doesn't make any sense." Audrey stated, a little puzzled by what he described to her.
"That wasn't the only thing you did..." Nathan trails off, immediately getting her attention back to him.
"What else did I do to you?" Audrey asked, curious.
"You did what teachers and principals used to do towards kids whenever they stepped out of line back then in school." Nathan replied, pretty sure that his face is beet red with embarrassment.
"Wait...are you trying to tell me that I took the paddle to your behind?" Audrey asked, now sitting up to fully look him in the face as she grabbed the injured hand to lightly rub it better and smiled a little when he didn't turn away from her slight grip.
"Did I happen to mention that I was completely naked in the dream?" Nathan replied, covering her hand with his as he stroked the palm of her hand, "...But that wasn't necessarily how the dream began..."
Now Audrey was beyond curious as to what Nathan was going to say towards her next so she remained quiet as she nodded for him to continue, which was what he did after taking a deep breath.
"At the start of the dream...I was walking around naked and confused in the main area of the HPD station I came across you walking up to me...and you had a case file up in front of your face as you were currently reading it and so you look up at me with a confused expression on your face where you ask 'Nathan...what are you doing?' and I don't really remember what I said towards you after that...but I remember you moving your eyes away from the file you were reading to glance downwards towards my naked torso and that was when you realized that I was completely naked...to which you said 'You should really put some clothes on, Nathan.' and then I start spouting off something along the lines of missing some exam for a class I didn't even know I signed up for...to which you looked at me strangely like I had gone crazy." Nathan explained, staring as her eyes go wide and notices that she is trying to stifle her laughter, "...are you laughing at me?"
"No and yes...I am not laughing at you...I am mainly laughing with you...as I am deeply flattered to hear that the son of the late chief has erotic dreams about me...I wonder are you able to feel me in your dreams as much as you can feel me in real life?" Audrey stated, placing her head back down to his chest where she links her hand to his, hearing his sharp intake of breath.
"Not exactly...though believe me I wish that were possible...though given the fact that I can be able to feel your touch...I am blessed with being able to know two things...for one thing...I am able to know whether or not you are you and are not some other thing that knocked you out or killed you." Nathan replied, hand returning to play with her hair.
"What does that mean?" Audrey asked, her eyes closing at the soft and warm touches of his fingers in her hair.
"It means that was how I knew that you had been taken over by the chameleon on the day of your birthday party that time at Carpenters Knot...I had discovered not that long before that I was able to feel your touch after you had kissed me on the cheek after Jess had left me...and when I tried to touch the chameleon who was acting as you...I couldn't feel anything from her...not even when I kissed her. So that was when I knew instantly that you were the chameleon and I shot the thing and when it asked me how I knew...I leaned down so only it could hear me and said 'Audrey...I can feel her touch. I can't feel yours.'" Nathan stated, looking down to see her glancing up at him with a interested expression, smiling as she warmly places her hand over his heart.
"So that was why I woke up to you crying and being touchy feely and kissy with my hands...if I had known then that was why you were being emotional...then I would have found it endearing." Audrey stated, realization dawning on her before adding, "...and probably why I had to touch your hand in order to make you realize that I hadn't been killed and bodysnatched by my demented daughter in law."
Nathan feels more than watches as Audrey physically shudders slightly at the memory of Arla Cogan before tensing up as the memory of Arla Cogan brings back memories of their son, James Cogan, a topic that neither one of them brought up in the short time that Nathan was told that Lexie DeWitt was an act by Audrey. Though he wasn't sure if Audrey was ready to talk about James as much as he was ready to talk about the son that he had barely known but knew that he had loved his son immediately after finding out that it was definitely his son and he knew that Audrey had adored James as well. But he knew that as much as the topic of James wasn't an easy topic to think or talk about, he also knew that it wouldn't be healthy for them to avoid the subject of James, considering the fact that he pretty much blamed himself for them losing James.
"James's death wasn't your fault Nathan, so quit trying to blame yourself over it because I don't blame you for it, James's death was an accident." Audrey replied soothingly, as she could tell this had been eating away at him for a while.
"Yeah...but I did shoot the being that operated the facility that was supposed to make our son better...that was supposed to bring him back to life in another twenty-seven years." Nathan replied, guilt lacing itself into his voice before continuing, "...and because of my screw up...the town hates me and the guard wants me dead...all because I fell in love with you and couldn't let you go...which was why I made Duke jump into the barn after you when the barn was starting to implode on itself."
"Duke told me all about that..." Audrey stated as she look up at him with a look that made him afriad to speak, "...and he also told me what you were doing when he found you...what the actual fuck were you thinking letting those fucking bikers beat you for money!?"
"I didn't know what to do...you and Duke were gone and the guard wanted to kill me as they practically ran me out of town...and I had to find some way of sustaining myself until Duke came along." Nathan stated calmly, while putting his hands up in defense as she gave a sharp worried glare.
"So...you thought that using your affliction to finance yourself would be the okay thing to do?" Audrey stated, as she waited for his answer.
"Like I said...I didn't know what to do and besides Duke stopped it before things got brutal and practically had to talk me into coming back to Haven with him...I refused at first until he told me about Jennifer and her trouble...that she was able to hear you from inside the barn and had the possiblity of getting you out of there and back to me...so having no other plan to get you out of the barn I agreed quickly...and you basically know the rest of the story." Nathan explained, in an effort to get her to soften the glare on her face, which he eventually does as she calms down a bit.
"Yeah...waking up in a field with you as we were surrounded by Jordan and the guard armed with guns aimed at us before being told by you that I had to kill you to end the trouble because that was what Jennifer heard Agent Howard tell me from inside the barn. Can you kind of understand why I had decided to hide behind the new identity that the barn had given me? It was to get the guard to back the hell off so that I could protect you and figure out what to do next and as you could tell I wasn't able to keep it a secret from Duke because he pretty much figured it out on his own and tried to get me to tell you that I was really Audrey, because I think he cares about your mental and physical health and wanted you to quit moping but I refused because I knew if the guard found out about it that they would force me to shoot you..." Audrey spat out before quickly adding, "...and since when have you and Duke been getting along?"
"Since he came back from the being in the barn...you did kind of make us promise to take care of each other. I thought you wanted us to start getting along with each other..." Nathan replied, with a chuckle.
"I do and I am glad that you both are finally not trying to kill each other...but weirdly I kind of missed seeing you two bicker." Audrey replied, with a smile on her face.
"I think Duke and I are getting along because we know that with the way the troubles are going...it is better to get along than waste precious time trying to kill each other." Nathan pointed out, tightening his hold on her as she laid her head back down on his chest.
"Good point." Audrey stated.
Audrey and Nathan lay still and quiet as they held each other for a while just relishing in the feel of one another in each others arms, when Audrey is bothered by another thought that has come across her mind.
"What is the other thing about you being able to feel me?" Audrey asked, her face pressed into his chest, giggling as she heard him take a sharp intake of breath at the feeling.
"That I can tell who is near me just by your touch...I can tell if you are near me." Nathan replied, snuggling her close to him and she pondered that thought for a moment.
"Awww Nathan...sweet sweet Nathan...what did I do to deserve you?" Audrey replied with a smile on her face.
"Oh I don't know...I guess I am just a hunk who caught your eye..." Nathan stated, slyly even as he felt her punch his arm lightly at that comment as he felt her smirk after he utters, "Ow...what was that for?"
"I am just reminding you that not only can you feel touches of pleasures from my body...but you can also feel pain inflicted on you by me." She stated with a smirk as a yawn crept up on her.
"Okay...remind me not to ever piss you off again..." Nathan trailed off, as he felt her relax into him with her eyes closed.
"That is a good reminder to follow...Nathan...but I have a feeling you will make me mad without meaning to...so don't put pressure on yourself." Audrey stated, with her eyes still closed.
Nathan thought about that for a moment as he felt and heard Audrey's breathing slightly change and realized that she had fallen asleep and wanting to follow suit, Nathan pressed a kiss to Audrey and smiling as he heard murmur something and snuggle even closer into his side as he too closed his eyes.
"Goodnight Audrey..." Nathan breathed out, as he relaxed for the first time since getting her back from the barn and finally in his arms where she belonged in bed.
"Goodnight Nathan..." Audrey murmered, her face moving to hide into his chest.
Things between them between them were fine for now as they knew they would need to talk more about the other problems between them, but those would have to wait until later because now that he finally had her back and that they were finally together in the way that they both wanted, he sure as hell wasn't willingly to let her go away from him this time.
***So...I do have a particular follow-up chapter in mind to follow this one-shot but I have decided that I won't be posting it until after I see how the reviews for this one-shot is. Please read and review as reviews are like words of encouragement towards a writer like myself...and a writer like myself is wondering what you guys thought of this one-shot...So please review.***
**Also...I had originally intended on titling this story "Blow Me" but I had decided against it because of the fact that I was nervous about Fanfiction not accepting it and I don't wish to have my account taken away from me so I had decided against it.**