Nathan

Seeing her standing there in the white spaghetti strap shirt and tight black pants was almost too much for him to handle. She looked so beautiful with her hair up but small pieces falling down the sides of her face. She was the picture of an angel and it took his breath away. He couldn't even talk for a good 15 seconds.

"Nathan are you ok?"

Audrey had a look of confusion on her face but also appeared to almost be laughing at him.

"Yeah I'm fine, you just look amazing."

"Thank you, you don't look too bad yourself."

He continued to stand there like an idiot and they just stood there looking at each other neither making a move. But finally Audrey had had enough and she opened the door to allow Nathan in.

"Come in."

"Thanks."

He slowly crossed the threshold into Audrey's place and immediately got butterflies in his stomach because they were finally on their first date.

He looked around the room and saw that Audrey had put a lot of work into setting the mood. She had candles lit, music playing, he could smell pancakes and she had wine set up on the table. He smiled to himself knowing that she set this all up for both of them to have a nice dinner.

"I love what you've done with the place, it really feels homey."

"It just needed some TLC and maybe some furniture because when I bought it there was just some fishing equipment up here so not very homey."

He couldn't help but laugh, Audrey had an amazing effect of always being able to make him laugh.

"I'm going to go check on the pancakes you can sit on the couch until its ready."

"Yeah sorry I didn't want to be late so I kind of got here a little early."

"Don't apologize it's better to be late than early and they should be done in a couple of minutes. So sit and make yourself comfortable."

Audrey

She headed into the kitchen to check on the pancakes but she couldn't help but glance back at Nathan. He looked so handsome in his white button up and jeans. He had shaved but still had some of his scruff which she thought was very sexy. She was just glad that he appeared to be just as nervous as she was.

If this date didn't work out it could make things very awkward between them and things would get very difficult at work and she didn't want that to happen. She loved it in Haven, she loved the people and she loved working with Nathan and she didn't want one stupid date getting in the way of that.

Her brain was now thinking of every possible thing that could go wrong on this date and it was making her crazy. She had to stop herself before she completely derailed and purposely ruined this date.

It was just a date and Nathan and her were mature adults and they could handle it. Besides she knew Nathan wouldn't do anything to hurt her and she obviously would never do anything to hurt Nathan. Everything would be fine.

She had never been this nervous and she was actually shaking, could she actually like someone this much this fast. She wasn't sure but something about Nathan just got under her skin, in a good way.

Before her brain could come up with more bad things to think about she realized the pancakes were done. She quickly flipped them on a plate got the syrup and headed for the table.

"Hey Nathan the pancakes are ready."

He quickly got up off the couch and headed towards the table. He looked really excited to be eating one of his favorite foods. She didn't know if it would be weird to actually make pancakes but seeing his face made her know she made the right decision.

She put three pancakes on each of their plates and filled their wine glasses half way. He sat at the head of the table and she sat in the seat next to him.

As they started to eat they didn't have much to say to each other. They talked about the case and about the precinct but neither of them really wanted to talk about the Troubles or work so Audrey thought of the most simple and easy question she could think of.

"What's your favorite movie?"

She knew a lot about Nathan but most of the small and less meaningful things she didn't know. She wanted to know more about Nathan's likes and dislikes. These were the kind of questions people talked about on dates so she was just following the rules.

"Hmm, that's a hard one."

He continued to eat while he pondered over his answer.

"I've got to say Footloose."

Audrey had to admit she was quiet shocked at his pick. The real Audrey must have seen this movie because she did remember that movie. But she was surprised that Nathan would like something like that.

"I know what you're going to say, that that's a girl movie or there isn't any action and it's just all about dancing. Some of those things might be true but it's more than just the dancing it is about someone working hard for something they believe in and inspiring a whole town and I think that's really amazing. And the dancing is pretty awesome."

"I can't believe it Nathan Wuornos, a sucker for inspiring movies."

"Haha very funny."

"No but I'm serious I can't picture you liking dancing."

"I mean I might not be very good at it but I like watching and I can keep rhythm."

"Well you will just have to prove it to me one day."

Nathan

He couldn't tell if she was flirting with him or not but if he was going to flirt right back.

"I could prove it to you right now."

She looked up at him with her head cocked to her side.

"What?"

"Well there is music on and there is plenty of room."

He was glad that it was a slower song because he definitely did not want to be dancing around all fast after eating all those pancakes. It was also much harder to dance to fast songs.

"You're joking right?"

He got up and stuck his hand out to show her just how serious he was. She looked at his hand for a while before reaching out her hand to grab his. The minute her hand touched his hand his nerve ends came to life and it was like he was feeling her again for the first time. It was one of the few moments where he felt completely alive.

He pulled her up and led her to the open area in the living room. They both tried to hide the smiles that were forming on both of their faces because they felt like two kids back in high school going on their first date with their high school sweet heart.

It felt nice for it just to be the two of them alone for the first time. There were nerves but they weren't uncomfortable and there wasn't any anxiety. They both felt completely comfortable with each other and they were going to go wherever the night took them and right now the night was taking them dancing.

Audrey slowly lifted her other hand to his shoulder while he moved his other hand to her hip. He kept hold of her one hand and they slowly started moving back and forth to the rhythm of the music. It was an old song but Nathan loved the oldies.

"I like this song; did you pick it just for me?"

"No I picked it for me I like older songs they have this sort of realness about them that not a lot of newer songs have. It is soothing. But I'm glad you like it Nathan."

As the song continued Nathan pulled Audrey a little closer. She gladly stepped closer and even squeezed his hand a little tighter.

In his mind this was perfect, they didn't need to talk it was just the two of them enjoying each other's company and slowly dancing to the rhythm of life. She rested her head on his chest and now there was no space between them. You couldn't tell where one of them began and the other ended. They were one. Nathan had never felt so close to someone in his life and he was so happy that it was Audrey that made him feel that way.

Audrey

It was a dream that she didn't want to wake up from. She could fall asleep in his arms listening to his heart beat and slowly rocking back and forth. Being in his arms was the closest she felt as being home. She didn't know where her home was but Nathan made her feel safe, warm and home.

She pulled back just a little to look at Nathan and when he looked back at her she saw such adoration and passion in his eyes that it almost made her heart ache. In that moment she knew she loved Nathan and that he was the one for her. They both stopped moving and just looked at each other, neither knowing what to do next. So Audrey slowly moved closer to him and sensing what she was doing Nathan moved closer to her. Their lips were just about to connect when there was a knock at the door.

"Who could that be?"

She could sense Nathan's frustration and she was feeling the same way.

"Hold on one second I'll get it."

She headed towards the door hoping to get rid of whoever was at the door as fast as she could. She opened the door and immediately felt a shock of electricity go through her body. She fell to the floor and just as she was losing consciousness she saw Nathan running over to her and before she could say anything she blacked out.