Chapter 4 Pancakes

Nathan

She looked so peaceful when she slept, with the morning sun shining down on her. Last night had been the best night of his life and he wished he could just relive those moments over and over, but he was also ready to make many more new memories with her. He felt like the luckiest guy in the world to be able to love someone like Audrey and have her love him back.

He wanted to do something special for her so he slowly got out of bed kissed her forehead and headed to the kitchen. He knew exactly what he was going to do.

Audrey

As the morning light shined down on Audrey she slowly began to wake up. Last night had been amazing but also exhausting and she was feeling that this morning. She turned over to lay her head on Nathan when she realized he wasn't there.

Then she started to smell bacon and she quickly got dressed to head over to the kitchen. She wanted to sneak up on him so she came around the corner as quietly as possible and saw him standing in the kitchen with only his boxers on. She almost laughed to herself because she realized he was making pancakes, she assumed that was going to be their thing now.

He looked so hot standing there with only his boxers on and that made her think of the night they spent together and how happy she was that they were finally able to be together.

She slowly crept over to him and while he was mixing the pancake batter she skimmed her fingers around his abdomen and wrapped her hands together.

Nathan

He jumped at the feeling of her touch; he hadn't even known she was behind him. But he could get used to being surprised by her touch. Her hands felt so warm and soft on his stomach and he put his hand on top of hers so she couldn't move them.

He heard her chuckle behind him and that made him smile because he loved the sound of her laugh and lately he hadn't heard it with all the shit going on. She leaned into him and put her head on his shoulder as he leaned back and said, "I can't feel the bowl and I can't feel the wisp but I can feel that."

He pried her hands apart and turned around to face her as she kissed his shoulder.

"Can you feel that?"

He loved when she was playful and flirty it made her ten times sexier. He wrapped his arms around her waist as she put hers around his neck and then they were kissing again. This time it wasn't rushed it was just two people in love kissing before breakfast. He leaned into her even more and mumbled "no" as she laughed into his kiss.

"Ok yeah I can feel it."

Her lips felt so soft against his lips and he could get used to doing this every morning. He tried to pull her closer to him as she said, "Why did we wait so long?"

He looked at her seriously because he had thought of this a bunch of times and his only answer was, "Haven. It's not an easy place."

"At least Haven has both of us again," she said as she rubbed small circles on his back while giving him the best smile he had ever seen. "And if helping the troubled people is what I'm supposed to do karmically… that was a little bit of a Lexi word. Sorry those creep in every once and a while."

He made her look up at him as he said, "that's ok I've grown more fond of her."

"Have you?"

He nodded as he pulled her in for another kiss as he caressed her face. He was about to say screw the breakfast when he heard a knock on the door. They both turned and saw someone at the door so they Nathan ran to the bedroom as Audrey followed soon after.

"Audrey go answer the door."

"I need to get some clothes on."

They both got dressed as fast as they could and right before Nathan left Audrey said, "I love you Nathan."

"I love you too Audrey."

She turned and left the room and all he could think of was how he knew he had made the right decision. If he had to do it over a thousand times he would always choose Audrey. They would make it through anything as long as they had each other. They would find a way to stop the Troubles and then start their lives together. A life where they didn't have to worry about people causing storms or stuffed animals turning into real animals or reverends trying to turn the whole town against you while you are always putting yourself second to everyone else's needs. A life Dwight didn't have to be a human shield and Duke could be happy with Jennifer and where Nathan and Audrey could have a pancake breakfast in peace with hopefully little kids running around. Now that was a life and Nathan was going to get that life no matter what it took.