Biting winds [Sinneseindrücke - Reizüberflutung - fürs Team]

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Team: Drache

Challenge: Sinneseindrücke - Reizüberflutung

Titel: Biting winds

Fandom: Haven

Charaktere: Nathan Wuornos, Duke Crocker

Wörter: 385 Wörter

Anmerkung: AU wo Audrey in die Scheune geht

Sprache: Englisch

There was pain. Everywhere. Pain and agony. His whole body felt like it was on fire. His shoulders were stiff. His legs were heavy. His knees screamed at him as he hit the ground. It felt like hitting pure concrete but he was sure he had been standing on grass. It shouldn’t hurt like this. And yet, it did.

The grass beneath his hands felt wet and dirty. He pulled his hands back, out of shock.

It didn’t help. Even the wind around him was almost unbearable. It let the hair on his hands stand up. They bend in the wrong direction and even that hurt.

Everything hurt.

Nathan had hoped for so long. He had hoped and wished. For so long. And now it just hurt.

Just when he thought he was getting used to the wind on his skin, there was a strong grip on his arm. A painful grip. Nathan pulled away from the pain. And it was gone again. Maybe he had just  imagined it. And then:

“Nate?”

Nathan knew that voice.

“Are you ok, Nate?”

Nathan forced his eyes open. Duke was kneeling in front of him. He looked worried.

“It worked, huh?” He asked now. “You can feel again?”

Nathan swallowed hard and then nodded briefly. There was a whole new pain now that had nothing to do with the return of his physical feelings.

“She saved us. She saved the town,” Duke said quietly and touched Nathan again. He was careful now, almost hesitant as if he was afraid that Nathan would pull back from his touch again.

Nathan didn’t.

It wasn’t so overwhelming anymore. The pain was not so strong anymore.

All his focus lay on the hand on his arm. The strong but gentle grip. It distracted from his screaming muscles and from the biting wind.

It was the first thing that felt warm and safe. The first thing that made him happy to be able to feel again.

Slowly he moved his hand and rested it on Duke’s. A small smile crossed his lips as he closed his eyes again, fully concentrating on the feeling of skin on skin.

His heart was still breaking from the loss but he was sure he’d be ok. As long as he could keep touching Duke like this again.