#Eric Havens

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Eric Balfour as Duke Crocker Haven 1.11 "The Trial of Audrey Parker"

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HAVEN (2010 - 2015) ↳3x01 ― 301

Duke Crocker and Nathan Wuornos [ 1 / ??? ]

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5000 Follower Celebration: Death In A Tarot Card - Duke Crocker x Reader

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Companion piece to:

The Finder - Haven has away of giving you what you need even when you don't know what you're looking for.

The List - Duke makes a list of the reasons you should stay with him.

Baggage - You coax Duke to tell you about his baggage.

Everything (NSFW) - You are everything to Duke.

Love Bite - Duke loves wearing the marks of your love.

Another (NSFW) - Duke wants to make sure you forget any other man.

Come Home - Duke travels to Nova Scotia to bring you home.

Layby - Duke and you take a moment in the aftermath of everything that's happened.

Stars (NSFW) - You and Duke spend a night under the stars.

Duke hasn’t told you about the tarot card, the one that he keeps tucked in the visor of his Jeep because he doesn’t want you find it on the Cape Rouge.  

When Elspeth had handed it to him, he had laughed because the Death card, it never really means what it says but then he’d seen the look in her eyes and he realised her Trouble, it’s a lot more literal than most.

“How long?” He had asked her.

“Months at most.” She’d said as her fingers traced over the illustration of his death sentence. “The cards, they don’t tend to draw these things out.”

When he makes it back to the Rouge that night, he doesn’t say anything when he steps through the door, he simply kisses you and that kiss…

It’s everything to him in that moment and Duke, he knows exactly what he has to do.

When you wake up the next morning, it’s to a cup of Earl Grey on the nightstand and an engagement ring on his pillow case. It’s an antique piece, silver with onyx stones set into the clasps. You smile as he takes your hand and places it on your finger.

“Will you?” He asks, his voice a little rough as he looks into your eyes.

“Of course.” You grin, your hands threading through his hair as you draw him back down into bed with you. He spends the morning inside you, making you sure you know exactly how much he loves you before he falls asleep tangled up in the sheets.

It’s a couple of hours later you slip away. You hop into his Jeep with the intention of heading to that bakery he likes when you pull down the visor to block out the sun and you find that tarot card and in that moment everything just falls into place.

You take your own out of your bag and study it alongside his.

Two years ago when you rolled into Haven, you’d found yourself in Elspeth’s shop and she’d given you your own tarot card. The Lovers.

“You’re going to meet man.” She’d told you as she pushed the card towards you. “A rogue and you’re going to fall in love with him, he’s going to give you a home right here on the water and for a time you’ll be happy, the happiest you’ve ever been.”

You’d met Duke Crocker the very next day, ended up living with him on the Cape Rouge.

It’s only now as you recall those words that you realise how temporary they sound.

You wonder if Elspeth had known Duke’s fate when she’d given your own card, if she’d known it would end in tragedy. You sigh as you tuck your card in alongside Duke’s underneath the elastic in the visor.

Whatever comes, the two of you, you’ll handle it together, just like a husband and wife should.

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For the record...

If I had to choose between Nathan Wuornos and Duke Crocker, the better man would have won.

Not the one who didn't want me until he realized he could feel me....

The one who only ever wanted me for me. The one who had nothing to gain from me except returned love. The one who constantly gave, even when he knew the love wasn't reciprocated. The one who was always told he was selfish, but was actually the most selfless person.

The one who deserved so much better.

[stalltherain]

I'm half way through season 3 of Haven, and here's my personal summary.

So there's this woman named Audrey who is an FBI agent, except she's not actually an FBI agent at all. She has some other woman's memories. That woman shows up and then has her memories wiped and just goes away. Turns out Audrey doesn't age or something and is actually at least 3 different people I guess.

Then there's basically her 2 love interests.

First is a saltine wafer of a man named Nathan. He's boring. He's also a cop, so in 2010 that probably made him more attractive to a general audience than it does in 2024.

He's white-boy hot, so Audrey has feelings for him for some reason I don't see.

His "thing" is that he can't feel anything -- except Audrey's touch. Since he's a pretty white man cop in 2010's, it's apparently supposed to be romatic that the main reason he likes her is for what she does for him. He brings the bare minimum to the table and is unattractively jealous of Duke (to be described later).

I think I'm supposed to be rooting for him and Audrey to get together. I'm not.

Here he is. Bland & pretty (attractive you're into that).

Then there's this god-damned smoke show named Duke who serves cunt every time he's on screen . We're supposed to think he's a bad guy because at the start of the show he smuggles alcohol and cigars. He owns a bar. He also bullied Nathan in grade school. (So I guess that makes him evil forever? Idk. Nathan can't seem to let it go even after Duke apologizes. We're constantly reminded Duke is "a criminal".)

Duke spends the whole show so far doing whatever Audrey needs even when there's no benefit to himself and trying to help other people (again with no benefit for himself). Unlike Nathan and Audrey, he's not even getting paid for it.

He's snarky and claims he's only out himself -- even though that's consistently not true.

He's got "bad boy" vibes without actually doing much bad at all. Oh, and as if they didn't already make this dude hot enough, he has an ability that's basically this show's flavor of a demon hunter (except the demons are people with powers who do damage unintentionally), but he refuses to use his powers because he doesn't want to be a killer (always making exceptions when someone else needs him to - especially Audrey).

Anyway, this face

I'm conflicted about whether I want to keep watching. Everything seems to be telegraphing that I'm going to hate where this goes.

But damn would it be so satisfying if a snarky, morally gray character like Duke "got the girl" and came out ahead. (Or rather, from my perspective as "a girl", I'd prefer more stories where "the girl" chooses the more complex, devoted guy who's most looking out for her over selfish bland, blonde white guy number five billion and three.)

[bodybebangin]

[wlovat]

he’s literally,, my favorite blorbo

[havenfanrewatch]

HAVEN REWATCH!

Calling all Haven fans!

This will be a really easy/simple scheduled rewatch; not a group watch as such but more like a book club - watch one episode a week (in your own time) to discuss throughout the week.

Details TBC ...

In the meantime, click Follow and maybe reblog too - spread the word! 😁

Details now here!

[cookiedoughmeagain]

HAVEN cast reunion!!

Look at them, I love it already ❤️

Instagram post

June 15th @ 7pm PST (2024!)

Haven Streamily link

I'm not familiar with Streamily but it looks like the livestream will be up on the actors Instagrams :D

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Many residents of the small town of Haven possess a curse or “trouble”. Nathan’s trouble makes him unable to feel anything, including pain, meaning he tends to just drop confused like a sack of potatoes sometimes when an injury finally registers. Good thing in Haven 3x13, Duke is there to catch him!

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HAVEN (2010 - 2015) ↳ 1x11 ― The Trial of Audrey Parker

Duke Crocker [ 1 / ??? ]

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Can I have Duke Crocker x Fem reader with the prompt “I’m taking you home, we’re going home”?

Tagging: @kmc1989 @of-mice-and-mirth @bunnybarnes1917 @princessmermaid1289 @jeysbae

Companion piece to upcoming fic 'Hand Drawn Heart'

When Duke finds you it’s in a cabin in Cape North, Nova Scotia. He know you well enough to understand that if you were feeling threatened you’d take a trip over the border. There are certain regions that your husband doesn’t have reach into and here is one of them.

When he pulls up outside the cabin in his jeep, there’s smoke pluming from the chimney and the windows are aglow. It looks warm and welcoming despite the fact it’s in the middle of nowhere. He takes a second to check his reflection in the mirror. His black eye is fading, along with the bruising on his jaw. There’s more underneath his shirt but he’s been popping pain killers since he left Haven so he can barely feel it.

It was two days after you’d left that you ex-husband had turned up and tried to beat your location out of him. It had ended with Duke stabbing him in the gut with his dive knife because that man, he wasn’t going to stop until Duke was dead and he had you back under his thumb.

When you open the door you’re wearing his shirt from that day, the one you stepped off his boat in. There’s a shotgun in your hand and a fear in your eyes that breaks his heart. He holds up his hands in surrender and that’s when the recognition crosses your features.

“Duke?” You say and he gives you that smile, the one that lights up your entire world.

“Yea sweetheart it’s me.” He says softly as his palm comes to rest on the barrel of the gun guiding it down towards the floor. “I’ve come to take you home.”

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Eric Balfour

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I’m rewatching Haven.

Where are my Duke girls?