Pairing: Nathan Stark/Jack Carter
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: Approx. 380
Prompt: When they weren't the sheriff and the scientist.
A/N- Part of a series
I.
Jack is in Canada following the trail of the man who murdered his uncle. He's been tailing Goodshaw for weeks now; he'd lost him back in California, but had picked up the trail again a few days later. So he'd gotten Zoe to stay at her mother's house, explaining that he had 'official' work to do and had taken off.
Jack is a bounty hunter with a grudge.
He's making his way through the woods in the middle of Quebec when the ground gives out from underneath him. All he remembers is falling, hitting the ice and then a freezing cold.
He wakes up later, unsure of where he is or how much time has passed, but warm. He's naked he realizes, wrapped up in layer, upon layer of blankets in an unfamiliar room.
Jack may be warm and way too comfortable but he doesn't know where he is and he doesn't like that, so he gingerly sits up, hissing as the cold air hits his skin and makes to get out of the bed and look around when a voice stops him.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." He freezes. There's a man sitting in the corner of the room, hidden by the shadows cast as the sun either sets or rises; he can't tell. He can't believe he didn't notice him before. "I'm not going to pick you up if you collapse again."
"Who the hell are you?" His voice is rough, and his instincts are screaming at him to get the hell out of there, but he remains. The man smirks and stands and Jack can finally make out what he looks like.
He's tall, with dark, curly brown hair and twinkling green eyes. Jack can feel his breath stick in his throat.
"Nathan and I saved your life." He sounds smug. Jack feels horrible. "Now who are you and what were you doing lurking around my property?"
Jack opens and closes his mouth but doesn't say anything. He used to have a picture of this man, it was worn and torn from the amount of times he would take it out and look at it. The man doesn't look any older than Jack himself.
He's the man that killed his uncle.