Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Haven - they belong to Jim Dunn and Sam Ernst. I do however own Jade and Hayley.

Somebody Needs You

Chapter 01: Home

2010
Jade Crocker and her daughter drove into Haven, Maine pulling up outside the Haven Herald, she had already told Vince and Dave Teagues that she was coming back and that she wasn't entirely sure how long she would be back for. As they got out of the car Jade noticed her brothers standing in the middle of the main street with a young woman.

"Hey big brother," Jade laughed, she wanted to see what reaction Duke Crocker and Nathan Wuornos would give her. When neither of them turned around she laughed some more before taking a deep breath. "Nathan, Duke!"

Audrey Parker was standing talking to Nathan and Duke and could see the young woman standing beside one of the post boxes holding a bag in one hand and a small child in the other. Audrey watched as both Nathan and Duke slowly turned around.

"Jade you shouldn't be here," were the first words out of Nathan's mouth before he noticed the child.

"The troubles..." Jade spoke quietly before she let go of the child's hand. "This is Hayley,"

"What about them?" Duke questioned, smiling at her and then looking at Hayley who was curiously peering up at him. "She's much bigger than the last time,"

"Long story, Hayley sweetie this is your Uncle Duke and your Uncle Nathan," Jade smiled at her and then looked at Duke who raised an eyebrow at her.

"Your big brothers?" Hayley asked, Jade nodded before Hayley ran over to Nathan and took his hand in hers. "Mommy said that you can't feel a persons touch," she looked up wondering if he could feel her hand.

"Jade, when?" Duke looked at his baby sister as they watched her daughter take hold of Nathan's hand. "Jade?"

"A few years ago, Duke...Hayley's only five years old but she inherited my troubles," Jade answered, it wasn't exactly what she had planned on telling her older brother. "Watch her with Nathan,"

Hayley continued to look up at her uncle as she held his hand . Her trouble doing what she thought it would do just like her mother told her it would. Nathan looked at his hand and then at Hayley crouching down so that he was at her level.

"Are you doing that?" Nathan asked, looking at Hayley who nodded her head. "I can feel your hand, just like your mother's,"

"Mommy said that we're all special," Hayley said innocently as she wrapped her arms around Nathan and gave him a hug. "Mommy he felt my hand," Hayley grinned as Duke and Jade walked over to them.

"Audrey, meet Jade Crocker and her daughter Hayley," Nathan said, almost hating that Jade had the last name of Crocker.

"Crocker? Another wife?" Audrey questioned, Jade cracked up laughing she couldn't help it.

"God no, Duke's my older brother...and so is Nathan, it's a story for another time," Jade said as she slowly stopped laughing. "You look like Lucy, but you can't be her," Jade took a deep breath as she looked at Audrey and then at Nathan and Duke.

"You couldn't have been old enough to remember Lucy Ripley," Audrey said watching as Nathan stood up taking Hayley with him.

"I wasn't. In nineteen eighty-three I was four years old. All I remember is Duke telling me that Lucy Ripley helped people when we were children," Jade replied, there was something about Audrey that was making her want to tell her the truth.

"When did Hayley's trouble start?" Duke questioned wrapping his arms around his baby sister in a hug.

"Just after her third birthday broke her arm at daycare and continued playing like it was nothing," Jade explained, looking as her daughter made Nathan smile.

"You wouldn't stop crying when yours started," Duke remembered clearly the day that Jade had simply touched touched his hand and cried.

"I didn't know what was going on, you told me when I was older that I was troubled and I didn't understand it until Nathan explained it," Jade added, of course it was Nathan that had gotten her to understand it. Duke wasn't troubled, at least he hadn't told her that he was.

Audrey stood taking everything in as Duke and Nathan talked with Jade and Hayley. Audrey still wasn't entirely sure of how the four of them were connected. Hayley grinned at Audrey and took her hand, Nathan looked at the two of them wondering if Hayley's touch would affect Audrey at all.

"What is Hayley's trouble and yours?" Audrey questioned, as Jade picked up Hayley and Nathan wrapped his arms around his baby sister. "She's holding my hand but I can't feel it...That's new the troubles don't usually affect me,"

"Our trouble is that we can control what is felt by ourselves and others...at first there is no control. Starts like Nathan's idiopathic neuropathy until you get told that something has happened and then uncontrollable pain...especially at Hayley's age," Jade explained before she touched Nathan on the shoulder without him seeing her do it.

"Jade, what are you doing?" Nathan took Jade's hand from his shoulder and held it for a second. "It's still weird that I can feel your touch you know," he told her and then looked at Audrey for a second. "I can feel Audrey's touch too, I don't know why,"

"Don't look at me, I don't even know how mine works," Jade told Audrey before Nathan reminded them that Dave and Vince would want to see her and her daughter. "I can control it but not all that well,"

Jade looked at Duke and then at Nathan, Audrey and Hayley, taking Hayley's hand in hers she headed back towards the Haven Herald. But before she got too far she was joined by Duke, Nathan and Audrey. Duke picked up Hayley and put her on his shoulders and continued to walk. Jade was a little confused as to why they were all joining her.

"Hold on...last time you came home wasn't that Hayley's birthday?" Nathan questioned, vaguely remembering them coming home for a short visit.

"Yeah, but her trouble hadn't activated then," Jade answered as they walked into the Haven Herald, Dave and Vince looking up as they heard the bell chime. Duke ducked under the door frame to avoid Hayley hitting her head.

"Young Miss Crocker, you've returned then," Dave stood up and took Jade's hand shaking it before he realised that Duke still had Hayley on his shoulders. "And who is the child?"

"This is Hayley, my daughter," Jade answered taking Hayley down from Duke's shoulders and putting her on the ground. "Hayley sweetheart this is Dave and Vince,

A few days later and Jade had pulled Audrey aside to talk to her while Nathan and Duke took Hayley to play, even thought there was cases that they should have been handling they thought it was better that Jade and Audrey got to know each other while they got to know their niece. The two women sat drinking coffee in the room that Duke had so kindly given Audrey when she decided that she would stay in Haven.

"How are you related to both Duke and Nathan?" Audrey asked, taking a long sip of the freshly made coffee.

"Well, Duke's mother is my mother and Nathan's birth father is my father...Neither of them will ever tell you this themselves but my father wasn't exactly a good man," Jade paused as she looked at Audrey who was taking everything in.

"So you're saying that he did unmentionable things to her and you were the result?" Audrey thought out loud, Jade nodded taking a sip of her drink and looking away from her. "Did either of them ever hate you for being born?"

"Duke did at first, and Nathan he didn't know until I was three," Jade told her, but quickly added that Duke hating her didn't last long. "Duke hating me didn't last long according to him,"

"So Duke hated you, but Nathan didn't? What makes you so special to them?" Audrey was curious as to why both Duke and Nathan felt the need to protect her, when she could clearly look out for herself.

"Nathan didn't really know what to do. He more hated that Duke was my brother as well as him. I'm their baby sister, to an extent I'm just like Nathan," Jade told her, she didn't know why but she like everyone else in Haven seemed to drawn to tell Audrey what they wouldn't normally tell a soul.