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Challenge: H/C - Ein Virus geht um/Ansteckungsgefahr - für mich
Titel: Immense pain
Fandom: Haven
Charaktere: Duke Crocker, Nathan Wuornos, Jordan McKee, Audrey Parker
Wörter: ~ 1900 Wörter
Anmerkung: spielt in der 4. Staffel und istein klein wenig sehr viel AU
Sprache: Englisch
Duke restlessly tapped with his fingers on his bar while he waited for Audrey to pick up the phone. But she didn’t answer. So he tried Nathan next. He hadn’t really thought that he would answer so Duke was a little startled when an annoyed “What?” came from the other side of the line.
“What’s going on, man? We have to stay where we are? My customers are going crazy. They need to know what’s going on and maybe I would like to know, too.”
“A Trouble,” Nathan answered brusquely.
“No way, really?” Duke couldn’t fight the little roll of his eyes. “Maybe some details would be nice?”
Nathan sighed. “There’s a troubled person that is spreading some kind of disease. It’s bad. And we don’t know where he’s right now. We don’t know who it is. So we’re trying to filter that out by ordering everyone to stay inside.”
“So where the first people get sick he has to be close, right?”
“Yeah, and we surely know he has to be there and hasn’t moved again.”
“Ok, that makes sense but I can’t tell my guests that. They will freak out and panic. So what should I tell them?”
“Gas leak?”
Duke scoffed. “Yeah, right, thanks for that imaginative suggestion.”
“Sorry that I can’t help you with the few people at the Gull, Duke. I have to take care of a whole town. So maybe you can solve this problem on your own?”
“Ok, ok, I got it. Do your duty. Talk to you later?”
“Yeah, call if you notice any of your guests showing symptoms of being sick.”
“I will do that. Take care.” Duke ended the phone call and raised his voice when he addressed the people in the room. “No worries, guys, I just talked to the police. It’s only a little emergency drill. With all the gas leaks lately they want to be prepared if something big happens. Let’s just be happy that we’re stuck here and not at the dentist’s office, ok? Next round’s on me!”
---
Duke opened the back door to get Nathan inside. “Still no luck with finding them?”
Nathan shook his head. “No, we could really use your help on this.”
“Maybe he’s alone somewhere so no one else is getting sick,” Duke suggested. That was probably the only explanation. “So what now? Search the whole town?”
Nathan shrugged. “Or we just lift the quarantine and risk of more people getting hurt.”
Duke could see how much this thought was bothering Nathan and it broke his heart. “How bad is it when they get sick?”
“Three people still in hospital. Two already dead. This sickness is acting fast.”
“There are no people sick in here. Not even a cough. What are the symptoms?”
“You can’t really miss it. The infected are in pain all over. They can’t function properly. They pass out pretty quickly from it.”
“What else? Pale? Sweating?”
“This is enough, isn’t it? No way to miss it. They scream their lungs out. It’s horrible.”
“And for someone who can’t feel pain?”
Nathan shook his head. “I’m fine, Duke. I was barely in contact with anyone in the last hour.”
“Then tell me who and we might find our troubled person because you look like shit, man. And you should definitely go to the hospital to get checked out.”
“I’m fine,” Nathan blocked and turned around. “You coming to help us or not?”
“Because you are so good in assessing that,” Duke murmured but followed Nathan outside. “Listen, let’s check out the few people you’ve been in contact with at least. If you’re healthy it’s just a little detour but if you’re really sick that could be a lead. You want to stop this, right?”
Nathan grumbled something incoherent and Duke took that as a grumpy agreement. “And let me drive,” he shouted. “Don’t want to land in a ditch because your body decides to pass out somewhere on the way.”
“I’m fine,” Nathan grumbled again.
“Yeah, because you can’t feel it,” Duke spat back, worry clear in his voice. “What is this sickness doing anyway?”
“Complete organ failure.”
“And you’re walking around with that?”
Nathan spun around again. “I’m not sick, Duke!” He swayed dangerously and stumbled a few steps to the side, bumping against his truck.
“Nate!” Duke rushed the few steps forward and grabbed Nathan by the arm to steady him. “Of course you’re not. But before you pass out on me, I need those names. I’ll send them to Audrey and she can check them, ok?”
Nathan nodded absentmindedly.
Duke grabbed his jaw and forced his face towards him. “Look at me, Nate. Focus. I need those names.” Duke steadied him with one arm over his chest, pinning him to the truck and pulled out his phone with the other, opening a text for Audrey. “Tell me.”
“George Howard, firemen. Lindsey Steward, Doctor, and Andrew Gallagher, a nurse. But there were no more outbreaks in hospital. So can only be George.”
“That was it? No one else?”
“I’ve been driving around, making sure the streets were empty and waiting for any kind of report.”
“But if it was the firemen wouldn’t the other firemen be sick, too? There was no one else?”
“Maybe I’m not sick and it’s none of them.”
“Nathan, please, be reasonable. You’re sick and you’re about to pass out. So there was really no one else?”
“There was just-” Nathan started but suddenly his eyes rolled to the back of his head and he went completely limp.
“Shit, shit, shit,” Duke swore and gently guided Nathan to the ground. “Come on, Nate, tell me who it was. We need to know.” But Nathan wasn’t responding. He was completely passed out. Duke’s heart started racing. What had Nathan said? Complete organ failure?
So ambulance first! His phone still in hand it took only a few seconds until he ordered an ambulance for Nathan.
Then he tried again to reach Audrey. No much success again. Only the mailbox answered, so Duke left a message this time: “Nathan got infected. Just called an ambulance. When I know more I’ll call again. I’ve send you a message with a few names, people that Nathan had run into in the last hour but he said they all make no sense at all because no one else got sick around them. He just wanted to tell me another name when he passed out. So we still don’t know who is causing this. And we need to find out. Fast!” Duke was starting to panic so he took a few deep breaths. “Please, Audrey, I hope you’re close to this person. Call me if you get this.”
Then Duke sat down next to Nathan, he couldn’t really do anything else. He felt his forehead and got only more worried. Nathan was burning up. That wasn’t a good sign. If he only knew whose name Nathan wanted to tell him right in the end. They could talk this troubled person down and everything would be good again. It always was, right?
When he heard an approaching car he jumped up but let his shoulders sank when he saw that it wasn’t the ambulance. He stepped closer, a confusing frown on his face when he noticed who it was. “Jordan?” He called over to her. “What are you doing here?”
“I’m searching for Nathan. Laverne told me he’s here.”
“He’s - he’s here but-” Duke had suddenly a lump in his throat.
“What are you stuttering, Crocker? Just tell me where he is.”
Duke pointed over to the Bronco where Nathan still lay on the ground, completely motionless.
Jordan rounded the car and when she saw Nathan she didn’t even flinch. “What happened?”
“What do you think? I mean, I presume you know what’s going on with you driving around although the whole town is on quarantine.”
“Yeah, the Guard was helping the police to make sure that everyone stayed inside. Nathan was fine when I bumped into him half an hour ago.”
Duke looked at her suspiciously. “You bumped into him?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Because we still need to find out who the troubled person is if we want to have the tiniest little chance that Nathan and all the other people survive so I asked Nathan who he had contact with in the last hour. He didn’t mention you.” Or he didn’t have enough time. Maybe Jordan was the person Nathan wanted to tell him about.
“Yeah, why would he? I’m already troubled. We know it’s not me.”
“Just stay here,” Duke ordered and took a few steps back - just a precaution. He tried to reach Audrey again and this time he finally had some luck. “Audrey!”
“Duke, I just listened to your message and was about to call you. How’s Nathan?”
“No idea. Ambulance hasn’t arrived yet. He’s passed out, so I can’t really ask him.”
“I’m gonna fix this, Duke!” Audrey sounded determined. “He’s not gonna die!”
“Yeah, about that. I have a theory,” Duke said quietly and glanced over to Jordan. “Jordan just showed up here and she said she bumped into Nathan only half an hour ago.”
“So?”
“So? What if it’s her? Nathan said the other people made no sense. More people would be sick. And Jordan? She drove around for Dwight as well, right? She has barely seen a soul in the last hour. It could be her. Her Trouble could have been altered.”
“The infected are in immense pain,” Audrey mumbled, seemingly deep in thoughts. “Keep her there, Duke. I’m coming over.”
“Me? You want me to keep her here? If she’s actually the one who’s causing this I’ll be lying on the ground, screaming my lungs out in a short time. She touched me once. I can really forgo going through that again.”
“Please, Duke? For Nathan? Just tell her to stay put!”
“Ok, ok,” he mumbled. “But remember my Crocker charm doesn’t work on her. So no promises.”
“Thanks, Duke. I’ll be quick.”
When Duke ended the call the ambulance came driving onto the parking lot. He let out a relieved sigh. “Hey, Jordan,” he shouted over to her. “Can you do me a favour and wait for me on the deck?” He pointed in the right direction, hoping he could get her as far away from the medics as possible. He didn’t want them to get sick as well.
“Why should I do that?” Jordan didn’t seem very eager to follow any of his orders.
“Please, just, just do this. I’ll explain later.”
Surprisingly Jordan actually followed his request and walked over to the deck, sitting down on one of the chairs. He had no idea how close someone had to be to her to get infected and maybe this wasn’t enough. Maybe they were all doomed but he could only hope. Hope that he wasn’t infected either. But for now he pushed Jordan to his back of his mind and concentrated on Nathan. He took his hand after the medics had put him on a gurney.
“Everything’s gonna be ok, Nate. We know who’s causing this and Audrey will find a solution. You’re gonna be fine. You hear me? You’re gonna be fine.”
With a little hope for himself he watched the ambulance drive away and turned around to get back to Jordan.
They would fix this problem!
Challenge: H/C - Ein Virus geht um/Ansteckungsgefahr - für mich
Titel: Immense pain
Fandom: Haven
Charaktere: Duke Crocker, Nathan Wuornos, Jordan McKee, Audrey Parker
Wörter: ~ 1900 Wörter
Anmerkung: spielt in der 4. Staffel und ist
Sprache: Englisch
Duke restlessly tapped with his fingers on his bar while he waited for Audrey to pick up the phone. But she didn’t answer. So he tried Nathan next. He hadn’t really thought that he would answer so Duke was a little startled when an annoyed “What?” came from the other side of the line.
“What’s going on, man? We have to stay where we are? My customers are going crazy. They need to know what’s going on and maybe I would like to know, too.”
“A Trouble,” Nathan answered brusquely.
“No way, really?” Duke couldn’t fight the little roll of his eyes. “Maybe some details would be nice?”
Nathan sighed. “There’s a troubled person that is spreading some kind of disease. It’s bad. And we don’t know where he’s right now. We don’t know who it is. So we’re trying to filter that out by ordering everyone to stay inside.”
“So where the first people get sick he has to be close, right?”
“Yeah, and we surely know he has to be there and hasn’t moved again.”
“Ok, that makes sense but I can’t tell my guests that. They will freak out and panic. So what should I tell them?”
“Gas leak?”
Duke scoffed. “Yeah, right, thanks for that imaginative suggestion.”
“Sorry that I can’t help you with the few people at the Gull, Duke. I have to take care of a whole town. So maybe you can solve this problem on your own?”
“Ok, ok, I got it. Do your duty. Talk to you later?”
“Yeah, call if you notice any of your guests showing symptoms of being sick.”
“I will do that. Take care.” Duke ended the phone call and raised his voice when he addressed the people in the room. “No worries, guys, I just talked to the police. It’s only a little emergency drill. With all the gas leaks lately they want to be prepared if something big happens. Let’s just be happy that we’re stuck here and not at the dentist’s office, ok? Next round’s on me!”
---
Duke opened the back door to get Nathan inside. “Still no luck with finding them?”
Nathan shook his head. “No, we could really use your help on this.”
“Maybe he’s alone somewhere so no one else is getting sick,” Duke suggested. That was probably the only explanation. “So what now? Search the whole town?”
Nathan shrugged. “Or we just lift the quarantine and risk of more people getting hurt.”
Duke could see how much this thought was bothering Nathan and it broke his heart. “How bad is it when they get sick?”
“Three people still in hospital. Two already dead. This sickness is acting fast.”
“There are no people sick in here. Not even a cough. What are the symptoms?”
“You can’t really miss it. The infected are in pain all over. They can’t function properly. They pass out pretty quickly from it.”
“What else? Pale? Sweating?”
“This is enough, isn’t it? No way to miss it. They scream their lungs out. It’s horrible.”
“And for someone who can’t feel pain?”
Nathan shook his head. “I’m fine, Duke. I was barely in contact with anyone in the last hour.”
“Then tell me who and we might find our troubled person because you look like shit, man. And you should definitely go to the hospital to get checked out.”
“I’m fine,” Nathan blocked and turned around. “You coming to help us or not?”
“Because you are so good in assessing that,” Duke murmured but followed Nathan outside. “Listen, let’s check out the few people you’ve been in contact with at least. If you’re healthy it’s just a little detour but if you’re really sick that could be a lead. You want to stop this, right?”
Nathan grumbled something incoherent and Duke took that as a grumpy agreement. “And let me drive,” he shouted. “Don’t want to land in a ditch because your body decides to pass out somewhere on the way.”
“I’m fine,” Nathan grumbled again.
“Yeah, because you can’t feel it,” Duke spat back, worry clear in his voice. “What is this sickness doing anyway?”
“Complete organ failure.”
“And you’re walking around with that?”
Nathan spun around again. “I’m not sick, Duke!” He swayed dangerously and stumbled a few steps to the side, bumping against his truck.
“Nate!” Duke rushed the few steps forward and grabbed Nathan by the arm to steady him. “Of course you’re not. But before you pass out on me, I need those names. I’ll send them to Audrey and she can check them, ok?”
Nathan nodded absentmindedly.
Duke grabbed his jaw and forced his face towards him. “Look at me, Nate. Focus. I need those names.” Duke steadied him with one arm over his chest, pinning him to the truck and pulled out his phone with the other, opening a text for Audrey. “Tell me.”
“George Howard, firemen. Lindsey Steward, Doctor, and Andrew Gallagher, a nurse. But there were no more outbreaks in hospital. So can only be George.”
“That was it? No one else?”
“I’ve been driving around, making sure the streets were empty and waiting for any kind of report.”
“But if it was the firemen wouldn’t the other firemen be sick, too? There was no one else?”
“Maybe I’m not sick and it’s none of them.”
“Nathan, please, be reasonable. You’re sick and you’re about to pass out. So there was really no one else?”
“There was just-” Nathan started but suddenly his eyes rolled to the back of his head and he went completely limp.
“Shit, shit, shit,” Duke swore and gently guided Nathan to the ground. “Come on, Nate, tell me who it was. We need to know.” But Nathan wasn’t responding. He was completely passed out. Duke’s heart started racing. What had Nathan said? Complete organ failure?
So ambulance first! His phone still in hand it took only a few seconds until he ordered an ambulance for Nathan.
Then he tried again to reach Audrey. No much success again. Only the mailbox answered, so Duke left a message this time: “Nathan got infected. Just called an ambulance. When I know more I’ll call again. I’ve send you a message with a few names, people that Nathan had run into in the last hour but he said they all make no sense at all because no one else got sick around them. He just wanted to tell me another name when he passed out. So we still don’t know who is causing this. And we need to find out. Fast!” Duke was starting to panic so he took a few deep breaths. “Please, Audrey, I hope you’re close to this person. Call me if you get this.”
Then Duke sat down next to Nathan, he couldn’t really do anything else. He felt his forehead and got only more worried. Nathan was burning up. That wasn’t a good sign. If he only knew whose name Nathan wanted to tell him right in the end. They could talk this troubled person down and everything would be good again. It always was, right?
When he heard an approaching car he jumped up but let his shoulders sank when he saw that it wasn’t the ambulance. He stepped closer, a confusing frown on his face when he noticed who it was. “Jordan?” He called over to her. “What are you doing here?”
“I’m searching for Nathan. Laverne told me he’s here.”
“He’s - he’s here but-” Duke had suddenly a lump in his throat.
“What are you stuttering, Crocker? Just tell me where he is.”
Duke pointed over to the Bronco where Nathan still lay on the ground, completely motionless.
Jordan rounded the car and when she saw Nathan she didn’t even flinch. “What happened?”
“What do you think? I mean, I presume you know what’s going on with you driving around although the whole town is on quarantine.”
“Yeah, the Guard was helping the police to make sure that everyone stayed inside. Nathan was fine when I bumped into him half an hour ago.”
Duke looked at her suspiciously. “You bumped into him?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Because we still need to find out who the troubled person is if we want to have the tiniest little chance that Nathan and all the other people survive so I asked Nathan who he had contact with in the last hour. He didn’t mention you.” Or he didn’t have enough time. Maybe Jordan was the person Nathan wanted to tell him about.
“Yeah, why would he? I’m already troubled. We know it’s not me.”
“Just stay here,” Duke ordered and took a few steps back - just a precaution. He tried to reach Audrey again and this time he finally had some luck. “Audrey!”
“Duke, I just listened to your message and was about to call you. How’s Nathan?”
“No idea. Ambulance hasn’t arrived yet. He’s passed out, so I can’t really ask him.”
“I’m gonna fix this, Duke!” Audrey sounded determined. “He’s not gonna die!”
“Yeah, about that. I have a theory,” Duke said quietly and glanced over to Jordan. “Jordan just showed up here and she said she bumped into Nathan only half an hour ago.”
“So?”
“So? What if it’s her? Nathan said the other people made no sense. More people would be sick. And Jordan? She drove around for Dwight as well, right? She has barely seen a soul in the last hour. It could be her. Her Trouble could have been altered.”
“The infected are in immense pain,” Audrey mumbled, seemingly deep in thoughts. “Keep her there, Duke. I’m coming over.”
“Me? You want me to keep her here? If she’s actually the one who’s causing this I’ll be lying on the ground, screaming my lungs out in a short time. She touched me once. I can really forgo going through that again.”
“Please, Duke? For Nathan? Just tell her to stay put!”
“Ok, ok,” he mumbled. “But remember my Crocker charm doesn’t work on her. So no promises.”
“Thanks, Duke. I’ll be quick.”
When Duke ended the call the ambulance came driving onto the parking lot. He let out a relieved sigh. “Hey, Jordan,” he shouted over to her. “Can you do me a favour and wait for me on the deck?” He pointed in the right direction, hoping he could get her as far away from the medics as possible. He didn’t want them to get sick as well.
“Why should I do that?” Jordan didn’t seem very eager to follow any of his orders.
“Please, just, just do this. I’ll explain later.”
Surprisingly Jordan actually followed his request and walked over to the deck, sitting down on one of the chairs. He had no idea how close someone had to be to her to get infected and maybe this wasn’t enough. Maybe they were all doomed but he could only hope. Hope that he wasn’t infected either. But for now he pushed Jordan to his back of his mind and concentrated on Nathan. He took his hand after the medics had put him on a gurney.
“Everything’s gonna be ok, Nate. We know who’s causing this and Audrey will find a solution. You’re gonna be fine. You hear me? You’re gonna be fine.”
With a little hope for himself he watched the ambulance drive away and turned around to get back to Jordan.
They would fix this problem!
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Date: 2019-07-24 05:42 pm (UTC)Eine mysteriöse Krankheit bei der sich alle vor Schmerzen winden! Das klingt
großartig, ich meine schrecklich!Armer Nathan ....
Außerdem, Nate, du Depp! Ist dir nicht gedämmert, dass du der letzte bist, der merken würde, wenn er infiziert wurde??? Gah!
Duke war sooo süß, als er so besorgt um ihn war. ♥ *wimmer* Du weißt ja, was für einen Kink ich dafür habe, wenn sich jemand Sorgen um den anderen macht ... *__*
Wo ist der zweite Teil???? Werden sie Nathan retten?? Ist Duke auch infiziert??
(Nein warte, ich sollte dich nicht zum Schreiben motivieren.... x_x)