A young brunette woman tip toed her way into her older sister's room. A playful grin moved across her face as she took a stance. After a moment she jumped on the bed as she cried out, "Surprise!" upon impact with her sister.
Her sister, Audrey, jolted from her deep sleep and hit her younger sister with a pillow. "Jeeze, Haven. Haven't you grown out of that yet? You're nineteen for Pete's sake." Audrey grumbled then put her other pillow over her head with every intention on going back to sleep and then it struck her. Her sister was there...in her room...not at college where she was supposed to be.
This realization caused Audrey to pull her pillow of her her head and sit up straight. Haven looked like she was ready for her sister's probable lecture, which made Audre narrow her eyes a bit at her. "What are you doing here, Haven?"
"Can't a girl get a little homesick for her big sister?" Haven asked in reply with her signature smile and lied, "I'm on break."
"Liar." Audrey replied. She always knew when her sister was lying. "You dropped out. Didn't you." This was more of a statement than a question.
"Well..." Haven replied in a drawn out way like she did whenever she didn't want to answer something right off.
"Dammit, Haven. What are you going to do with your life?" Audrey asked as she stood up and slid on her slippers.
"Oh I don't know Audrey, maybe become a big copper like you." Haven replied with a lot of sarcasm and a bit of an eye roll.
"I'm not a cop, I'm an FBI agent." Audrey replied, slightly defensive.
"Whatever." Haven replied and Audrey was about to say something more when she heard a knock at the door. "We're not done with this conversation." Audrey made clear to her sister.
Haven rolled her eyes, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
Audrey narrowed her eyes at her sister before going over and kissing the top of her head. "Love you" Audrey said with such sincerity before going to answer the door.
"You too." Haven replied then plopped herself back on Audrey's bed with a sigh.
Haven leaned up a bit and propped herself on her arms as she looked around the place. It was bare to the bone and there were still some boxes that hadn't even been unpacked yet. Haven and Audrey were the same in this aspect; neither of them unpacking much after moving to a new place. Bright side, at least for Haven, it made her move a hell of a lot quicker after dropping out.
With a swift swing of her legs she was off the bed and heading into the hall. She stopped at the stairs when she heard 'Haven'. Thinking someone was talking about her, she tip toed down the stairs to eavesdrop a bit.
Haven didn't hear everything, just something about Audrey being assigned to go after a guy named Lester that killed a guy as he escaped federal lock up. It was one thing knowing your sister was an agent and all that jazz, it was something completely different hearing the details first hand. Well...not exactly first hand since she was eavesdropping and all, but still. She didn't like the idea of her sister going after some murderer.
When Haven heard Audrey approaching, she tried to scramble to her feet to get back up the stairs but her sister caught her. "Hey..." Haven said in a drawn out way once again.
"Haven." Audrey said in a reprimanding tone.
"That's my name, don't wear it out." Haven replied then chuckled in a 'heh heh' sort of way.
"If you actually behaved properly then I wouldn't have to use your name so much." Audrey replied and as she walked up the stairs past her sister, Haven said, "Hey pot? Yeah, this is kettle." as she followed. Haven knew that Audrey would know exactly what she was talking about.
Audrey was completely silent in reply because she didn't want to admit that Haven had a point, but she did smirk at the memory.
Her sister's silence caused Haven to ask, "So, where are we going?"
"We're not going anywhere. It's a case which means, only I am going." Audrey replied as she started to grab some clothes to change into.
Haven looked like she didn't believe her as she handed Audrey a blazer. "I heard my name, Audrey."
"No, what you heard was the name of the town I'm going to." Audrey replied as she accepted the blazer from her.
"You're going somewhere called Haven?" Haven asked with a raised brow, "That's a new one. You going somewhere called Audrey next?"
"Funny." Audrey replied and gathered up the rest of her clothes before leaving her room to head to the bathroom.
Haven wasn't about to give this up and she followed Audrey. Talking through the closed door she said, "We can do this one of two ways. One, you willingly take me with you or two, I go downstairs and take a peek at whatever file that agent guy gave you and I follow you there. Take your pick." Haven leaned against the wall and examined her nails as she waited for Audrey to answer.
Finally the bathroom door opened and Audrey said, "Fine. You can come but you better listen to me. I mean it." Audrey pointed her finger firmly at Haven.
Haven saluted her sister and said, "Aye, aye captain." Audrey rolled her eyes as she closed the door and Haven smiled triumphantly.
After driving for awhile, the sisters finally crossed over the town line of Haven, Maine. The radio station was an odd one at that and some comment made by the speaker made the pair look at each other and laugh. "Wow." Haven said with a shake of her head.
"Now that we're here, do we need to go over the rules again?" Audrey asked her sister who replied with, "No, I got it. Stay away from all the stuff you're doing but close enough for you to keep tabs on me."
Audrey sighed and said, "Close enough." Her eyes went off the road for a moment and Haven screamed out, "Audrey!" when the road in front of them seemed to break apart and sink.
Audrey looked up and reacted quickly. She swerved away from the sinking road and crashed through the guard rail. Haven held onto anything she could get a grip on and the car finally came to a stop. "Don't...move." Audrey said to her sister since the car was halfway over the ledge.
"You have scared voice on Audrey, I don't like your scared voice." Haven said as she was starting to freak out but her freak out was internal since Audrey made it clear to not move so she wasn't going to move a muscle. In fact, Haven was even barely breathing.
There was some cheesy oldies song playing on the radio and Audrey said, "Not happening. We are not dying to this." She was trying to make light of the situation since she could see the fear in Haven. In fact, she could swear she could feel the fear coming from her sister. Audrey leaned forward and turned off the radio which made the car lean forward and the sisters cried out and leaned backwards to make the car level again.
"You said don't move!" Haven exclaimed in an 'what the hell was that' kind of way.
"Did you really want that playing when they find our bodies?" Audrey replied and Haven shouted, "I'm supposed to be the one with the morbid sense of humor!"
"Yeah, well where did you think you got it from?" Audrey shouted back.
"I don't know! Mars!" Was Haven's retort. Even though they were shouting at each other, it wasn't in anger. It was more of a distraction than anything else. Both Haven and Audrey were surprised when there was a knock at the passenger window.
"Need some help?" The man asked and Audrey replied, "Oh, no. We've got it."
Haven looked at her sister with wide eyes, "Take your pride and shove it!" she said to her sister then looked at the man, "Please help us. Or at least help me if she continues to refuse." There was Haven's morbid sense of humor.
"Alright then." The man replied and waved someone over. The one who was talking to them went over to Audrey's side and the one who was waved over went to Haven's. They gestured for them to unlock the doors and they did. With one swift motion both Audrey and Haven were pulled from the car onto the ground and watched as the car fell.
"Thanks, man." The man who had done all the talking so far said to the other, who replied with. "No problem." before he went over to his motorcycle and drove off for town.
Haven was so freaked out that she didn't even get a chance to thank the person. "Shame about the car." The man said as it made its final impact to the rocks below. "Eh, it's just a rental." Audrey replied.
Haven rubbed her forehead with a sigh then suddenly the guy had pulled a gun and Audrey pulled out hers and Haven just stood there, instantly putting up her hands. She honestly had no other clue on what to do.
"FBI! Who are you?" Audrey said to the man.
"Haven PD. Who are you?" The man replied.
"FBI. What are you, deaf?" Audrey shot back and Haven snicked a bit at that. If these weren't real guns then Haven would be finding this a hell of a lot more amusing. Even though odds were she'd be laughing about it later.
Haven was so lost in her own thoughts that she completely missed the whole exchange between the man and Audrey, at least until she heard her sister say, "What am I going to do? Pull out another gun?" That pulled Haven from her thoughts and yet she kept her hands raised.
Audrey and the guy both showed their credentials to one another then he gestured towards Haven and asked, "Well who's that?"
"My sister." Audrey replied then looked at Haven and said, "You can put your hands down." Haven honestly didn't even realize she still had them up and put them down, feeling like an idiot for still having them up like that.
Audrey turned her attention back to the guy and said, "So are all your roads this bad?"
"Sandstone." He replied, "It likes to shift."
"I'd call shift an understatement." Haven added in with a mutter.
The man didn't say anything to what Haven said. "Can I give you two a ride somewhere?"
"I guess that would be friendlier than me commandeering your vehicle." Audrey replied.
"Yeah, and probably less paperwork too." He replied with a smile.
Haven looked at the two of them and shuddered a little. Not because she was grossed out by their...odd flirting or whatever was going on between them even though she was, but because she felt like she was having a sense of dejavu.
Audrey looked at her sister with silent worry and Haven looked at her with a way that told her she was fine. They always had a silent way of conversing with one another like this.
"Let's go then." The man said, as he broke the silence and led the girls to his car.
Haven climbed into his vehicle first and Audrey got in afterwards. When Audrey closed the door, she caught the guy's hand in it. "I'm so sorry!" Audrey exclaimed, "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine." He replied like it was nothing, "Didn't even feel it."
Both Audrey and Haven had raised brow reactions to that, but Audrey said "Tough guy, huh."
He didn't say anything in reply to that and Audrey leaned forward a little as she asked, "You haven't seen a guy named Jonas Lester around, have you?"
He looked at Audrey and replied with, "Just left him."
Haven laughed a little to herself and Audrey asked, "What?"
She looked at Audrey and replied with, "Oh nothing. It's just funny how I'm not supposed to be anywhere near your case and yet here I am...literally going along for the ride."
Audrey narrowed her eyes as her sister and Haven just grinned in reply. Haven already had a feeling that Haven, Maine was going to be a very interesting place.
End Part 1