Surgery [Hurt/Comfort - Notfall - für mich]

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Team: Drache

Challenge: Hurt/Comfort - Notfall - für mich

Titel: Surgery

Fandom: Haven

Charaktere: Duke Crocker, Nathan Wuornos, Audrey Parker

Pairing: Duke x Nathan

Anmerkung: spielt early season 1

Wörter: 687 Wörter

Sprache: Englisch

Although Duke hated to walk into the police station, he looked forward to doing that today. After all he was seeing a lovely person. So he was quick to walk through the bullpen and into Nathan and Audrey’s office. He walked in with a big smile.

“Lunch,” he announced and pulled out a lunch pack. He was glad to see that Nathan wasn’t around. That would make this little visit even better. He could go without his snarky comments.

Audrey looked up, phone at his ear. She raised her hand to signal Duke that she’d be with him in a moment.

“Yes, thank you for the update,” Audrey said and then hung up. “Sorry, Duke, I completely forgot that we had a lunch date.”

“Well, I try not to be hurt by that. Audrey Parker always gets distracted by work. That’s not anything new.”

Audrey shook her head. “We had an emergency.”

Duke sighed. “What kind of Trouble?”

“No Trouble this time.”

Duke raised an eyebrow. “Then I’m sure it’s not that bad. What could be worse than a Trouble?”

“Nathan’s in hospital. I send him over there. He really wasn’t looking too great and you know he can’t really feel if anything’s wrong with him or not. So I insisted.”

Duke tensed up. “How is he now?”

“He’s in surgery.”

“What?” Duke called out. “Why didn’t anyone call me?”

Audrey raised an eyebrow. “I wasn’t aware you were friends. I thought you hated each other.”

“Hate’s a strong word,” Duke murmured. “What happened? Why is he in surgery?”

“His appendix. It was close to a rupture.”

Duke couldn’t help the little disbelieving scoff. “In a town like Haven with a new Trouble every other day. And Nate gets knocked out by his appendix.”

“Eleanor said he’d be fine. He will probably be out of surgery in an hour.”

Duke nodded. “I’m gonna go over there. You coming?”

“You want to go over there?”

“Well, he can’t arrest me out of a hospital bed. And he surely will be hungry when he wakes up. The food there is horrendous. And it so happens that I have a few lunch boxes prepared.”

“You took one for Nathan, too? I thought this was our date?” Audrey asked with a little smirk.

Duke just shrugged. “I know he forgets to eat because he can’t feel that he’s hungry.”

“You two are ridiculous,” Audrey murmured as she stood up and took her jacket.

*

Instead of the police station Audrey and Duke had their little lunch date a little later in Nathan’s room, waiting for him to wake up.

“Am I smelling tuna?” Nathan asked, his voice weak and small.

“Tuna sandwiches,” Audrey said with a big grin. She put her hand on Nathan’s. “Duke brought us lunch.”

“I hate tuna,” Nathan grumbled.

“That’s why I packed turkey for you,” Duke said softly.

Nathan turned to the voice, clearly surprised to hear it. “Duke? What are you doing here?”

“Just checking how you are doing. I mean who else is gonna arrest me for things I haven’t done?”

Nathan stayed quiet, clearly lost for words. Duke thought that had to be a first. “How are you feeling?”

“Feel nothing really. Just sleepy.”

“Yeah, that’s the meds. And your Trouble. Comes in handy in a time like this. When I had to get rid of my appendix it hurt like hell.”

“You got your appendix removed?” Nathan asked, surprised.

Duke shrugged. “Years ago when I was away. It’s no fun. So you really should feel lucky that you can’t feel it.”

“Yeah, it’s handy sometimes,” Nathan said quietly.

“How about you sleep some more? I will make sure no one eats your turkey sandwich.”

“Good. Otherwise I have to arrest you,” Nathan said but with a soft voice.

“Will guard it with my life,” Duke promised and took Nathan’s hand. He saw how Nathan looked at it and maybe he thought the same thing as Duke just did. Sometimes Nathan’s Trouble was handy and sometimes it was just shit. “Just sleep. I’ll stay here with you.”

“You’ll stay? Promise?”

Duke nodded. “I’ll stay.”