A/N: Alrighty, here is chapter number two. I hope you enjoy it and it helps to deal with the painful loss we have suffered with the season finale of Haven. Reviews are always helpful, I'd love to know what you guys think.

Disclaimer: I do not own Haven.

"Excuse me?" Audrey blinked, her voice rising ever so slightly. She could feel James shifting from where he stood behind her. Audrey didn't speak for a long moment, she looked between the wall and Duke and back again. "Is he..." the question hung in the air. Audrey didn't have it in her to ask the last part, she couldn't make her tongue form the words. She had already seen him die twice in the short time she had been with him; she didn't think she could handle it if it happened again.

Audrey couldn't help but allow her shoulders to sag a little and a sigh found its way from her lips when Duke shook his head. "I don't know. He was still alive when I left," it wasn't the answer Audrey was looking for, but at least it was better than finding out he was dead.

"Right, well I guess we need to figure out what's going on then. We need to get out of here and back to Haven," Audrey said standing and brushing her pants though there was nothing on them. She had managed to steer clear from the blood that had been flowing out of the former Agent Howard's body. She now spoke with determination; it was a familiar feeling like when she was ready to take the next step in a case after find compelling evidence. It was the way she spoke when she finally had a feel for what was going on and she was preparing to fill Nathan in.

As she stood she turned, and only then did she notice the look on her son's face. "James?" she asked trying to catch his eye. He was looking down all of a sudden, like there was something interesting on the floor, though Audrey knew this wasn't the case. The floor was just as white and empty as everything else. "I punched him," was his only reply. Audrey's face screwed up a little at this answer, what was he? Oh. "James, sweetheart, don't worry about it. He doesn't mind. Duke hits him all the time," she said lightly looking to Duke and giving him a look. The sort of look that says "Agree already," and he does. Duke doesn't even hesitate as he finally stands up fully and walks towards the boy and mother. He gives James a solid pat on the back and nods. "Nathan's fine. I've put him through worse. Now you said something about getting out of here? Because I don't think I'm cut out for this whole 27 years of no Duke thing." He said with a smirk, doing what he always did best. Brought some sort of humour to a bleak situation.

There he was, at it again, being good to her.

"So, how do we stop this thing?" asked Duke as he turned in a few circles to get his bearings, though all he saw was white nothingness. It made the sailor in him uneasy; he was always used to having something to navigate by, but now? Now they were literally in the middle of nowhere.

"It's not supposed to be like this," James finally chipped in. Audrey and Due both turned their full attention to him when he spoke, but after those few words, he offered up nothing more. Audrey paced a few times trying to clear everything in her head. Her mind felt fuzzy and slow and she had to shake it a few times before being able to focus. During her last round of pacing she studied Agent Howard, and she remembered.

"Howard said he was like the ride. He picked me up and dropped me off. What if everything is falling apart because he's dead?" she asked, her voice again rising ever so slightly to that frantic pitch. As soon as she heard the sound of her own voice she clamped her mouth shut and tried to keep calm. She continued to pace, a hundred different questions racing through her mind at the same time. Would they be stuck there forever? Frozen in time in the white void? Would everything suddenly fall into place and they would find themselves back safe and sound in Haven? Would Nathan e alright while she was gone? Would he be there to greet her when she got back? All the questions and she didn't have an answer for any of them.

She wasn't really sure how long she was pacing, but it must have been too long because next thing she knew, Duke's hands were at her shoulders and he was talking to her, though his words fell on deaf ears. "What?" she questioned hoping he would repeat everything she had missed. She gave a small grin when she caught the exasperated look in Duke's eyes and he started over. "Didn't you decide it was time to leave? So if you decide when to leave, can't you decide when to go back? Can't you just want us to be back there?" he looked rather pleased with himself and that idea, though it didn't seem to take much to deflate him as Audrey shook her head.

"If that were true, do you really think Sarah and Lucy would have waited 27 years? It had to be his doing," she said motioning to the dead body. "Someone has to be controlling it," came the voice. Both Duke and Audrey turned, having forgotten that James was there. She felt awful, she had missed so much time with her son, and she had spent so much time looking for him, and now here she was neglecting him. She finally turned out of Duke's grip when she walked towards James, though she pulled Duke along by his hand to keep them all together. The last thing she needed was for them to get separated and then all end up in different places. Who knew how time and space worked in their void of white.

Once they were all together Audrey thought more on what James had said. He was right, there had to be some sort of control to this thing. There had to be someone who could decide when she arrived and left, with Howard gone there had to be someone else. It was just like the Santa Clause, you kill Santa and bam, you are Santa.

At this thought Audrey's mouth dropped and her eyes went wide. "Nathan. Duke! Nathan must be in control," she said turning to the man, this time placing her hands on his shoulders and giving a slight shove for emphasis. It all made sense now.

"That's great and all, but how the hell are we supposed to let Nathan know that he's driving and we want off?" asked Duke sarcastically. Audrey made to open her mouth, but she could think of nothing. She scrunched her face and then shook her head, shrugging her shoulders in defeat. "I have no idea." She admitted blatantly.

"I do," said James evenly. Audrey was shocked and she whipped right around to stare at him. How in the world would he have any idea how to get a hold of Nathan? "How?" she asked in unison with Duke as they both seemed to get over the initial surprise at the same time. James actually gave a little smirk, one that reminded Audrey so much of his father, her Nathan. "Simple," he began and pulled a phone from his pocket waving it a little. "We call him,".