Disclaimer: I own nothing. All the characters belong to the CW/WB, Mark Schwahn and other Producers / Writers
AN: This story is meant as a continuation of the show. I changed a few things, but the main is that Nathan never stopped playing for the Bobcats. Let's just pretend that his back is fine and there are no medical risks to worry about. Anyway he still did the Agent-thing with Clay, but only during his offseason.
That's all I can think of right now. So Enjoy!
Chapter 1
"Jamie?" Haley yelled trough the house as she was looking for him. "Jamie, where are you?"
Finally Haley found him in front of the house shooting some hoobs. Ever since Jamie had told Nathan that he wanted to beat his scoring record in school, he practiced whenever he had time. There is nothing he loves to do more.
"There you are" Haley said as she walked out the front door trying to catch the ball that just fell through the hoob. She almost caught it, but then it fell on the floor.
"Now I get it. Dad's right, when he says that I got all my sports talent from him." Jamie said right when his mouth turned it the typical Scott smirk.
"HA HA. You know, you may have got daddies talent for basketball, but where do you think your piano skills come from, huh?" She asked, making a face like it was obvious that Jamie was THE best pianist ever…
"Piano skills? Are you really gonna go there mom? You know I'm not a good piano player. Guess you'll have to talk Lydia into playing" Jamie laughed as he jumped and made another shot.
"You know I came out here to tell you the good news, but I'm not so sure anymore if you deserve it" Haley smiled and turned around.
"Mom?! Tell me!" Jamie wined, but Haley just started to walk towards the front door. "MOM pleaaaaaase" Jamie said trying to look as cute as he could. Haley stopped walking and turned around, already knowing that he must be making his puppy face…
"You're not playing fair, mister! You know I can't say no to that face." Haley said and began to smile. Jamie walked up to her and Haley put her arm around him, pulled him close and leaded them inside.
As they made it to the kitchen Jamie saw the waffle iron standing on the counter, waiting to be used.
"Please don't tell me the news was to make you waffles." Jamie said a little annoyed.
"No, the news is that you should make Lydia and me waffles…" Haley laughed as she placed Lydia on her baby High chair.
"Waffles!" Lydia said while struggling her feet in excitement. Jamie looked at her and said "You know Lydia, I'll make you waffles. You can't make them yourself and as your big brother I'm gonna do it for you." Then he placed a kiss on her forehead and turned around to Haley:
"But for you mom, you really can make them yourself. In fact you should do them for me and Lydia." Jamie sat down next to Lydia and smiled at his mom.
"Okay fine we'll make them together." Haley responded while rolling her eyes.
Jamie mixed the batter, letting Lydia stir it ones in a while but quickly taking the bowl away from her as she tried to put her fingers in it and snack before the butter was ready. He and Haley finished up baking the waffles and then they sat down at the table, ready to eat. Jamie placed a waffle in front of Lydia, who directly started to mash it, rather than eating it.
"Lydia, baby you're supposed to actually eat it, if you're just gonna play with it Jamie might get an extra waffle." Haley said to Lydia and began to help her eat it.
"Anyways mom, it's pretty sick that we get to eat waffles for dinner, but I still don't believe that that was the good news…" Jamie said while shaking his head in disagreement and hoping Haley would finally spill the news.
"Right" Haley responded looking at Jamie "I was thinking that after everything that happened, you know your dad missing and everything else, it might be fun for us to get away for an extended weekend"
Jamie started to smile "Really?"
"Yes. I talked to Brooke about it and we rented a cabin in the woods. It could be fun to escape this mess and relax a bit." Haley continued.
"Sweet! So if you talked to aunt Brooke about it I assume she's coming too?" Jamie asked.
Now that he knew his mom was planning this trip he got all excited, remembering how fun their family trip to Utah had been. Ever since that trip Jamie had tried to talk Haley and Nathan into going again. But with
Nathans busy basketball schedule and Haley getting all worked up at the café it never was the right time to go.
"Yes she, Julian and the boys are coming along. So are Quinn, Clay and Logan." Haley answered, really hoping that Jamie would get along with Logan since Logan didn't really know any kids his age in Tree Hill. Jamie knew exactly what his mom was thinking. She was technically begging him to become Logans friend anytime his name was mentioned.
"Mom, I'm sure Logan's nice. He's Clays son after all." Jamie answered, but when he realized what he just said, he quickly added:" I take that back! Clay's an odd dog. So maybe Logan's weird too. Oh well, I'll give him a chance" Haley looked relieved and pleased by Jamie's answer, just as she heard the front door open and then close again. Everyone knew what that meant. Jamie was first to run towards the door.
"Dad!" Jamie yelled excited as he jumped into Nathans arm, making him drop his bags immediately. To Nathan it felt so good to be home again. He just couldn't imagine what would have been if Dan never saved him. He would have never been able to come home to this again - this warm and welcoming situation; His son jumping into his arm like he had been gone for years and never wanting him to leave again. Right when Jamie tightened his grip around him, he could feel how much he loved him and started to smile right away.
Finally letting Jamie back down again he saw Haley walking up to him, holding her arms wide open and hugging him. Haley rested her head against his chest, never letting go of him and Nathan rested his head on top of hers.
"God, I've missed you, my beautiful wife!" Nathan said smiling as Haley pulled back, looking him straight into the eyes.
"I've missed you too. It's nice to have you home again." Haley responded.
"DADDY! DADDY! DADDY!" Nathan heard Lydia yell as loud as she possibly could. She finally had realized who had come home, since she couldn't actually see him, because she was stuck in her high chair. Lydia was crazy for her daddy. Sometimes she would just randomly start crying just to get attention and wouldn't stop until Nathan had picked her up on his arms. She was definitely daddy's little girl. Nathan put his arm around Haley and they walked over to Lydia, where Nathan lifted her out of her chair, held her in his arms and sat down at the table with Lydia on his lap.
"How's my little girl been, huh?" He asked Lydia as he turned her around on his lap, so she was facing him now.
"Waffles!" Lydia answered, leaving Nathan wondering, if that was her answer or her way of letting him know she was hungry. Confused as he was, he looked at Haley and repeated "Waffles?" and then asked "Is that a new co word of her?"
Haley just laughed and couldn't stop. Then she looked at Jamie and shook her head making it clear to him not to say a word. By that Jamie started laughing too and Nathan began to understand.
"NO way you ate waffles for dinner again. Hales – They were invented as a breakfast dish. This is dinner… For dinner you're supposed to eat prime rib or something." Nathan said in disbelief. He couldn't believe it. Every time he went on a trip, was away for practice or left for camp Haley would make waffles for dinner at least once.
"Well Mister, you weren't here. Mommy was starving for waffles, Jamie enjoyed them and as you can tell by Lydias face, she even wants more waffles to mash them." Haley answered defeating herself.
"Fine, but no way your so called mister is eating waffles for dinner. Good thing I stopped by the café."
"Why is it good that you stopped by the café?" Jamie asked confused.
"Well, I thought your mom had the evening shift. Turned out Brooke was there" Nathan began. "And you know your aunt Brooke… She talked me into eating a burger and staying for a bit to entertain here, cuz there wasn't much to do at the cafe today."
"Well daddy, I would have loved to make you waffles. But I guess you've missed your chance now that I know you've already eaten," Jamie smirked. Of course he was just saying it to tease his dad.
"So Brooke made you do all the talking or? … ehm…" Haley began to stutter, just when Nathan interrupted her with a smirk.
"Oh you're asking if she's told me about a trip into the woods that we apparently are going on tomorrow?"
"Maybe… Look I'm sorry I didn't say anything sooner, but we just had that idea the day before yesterday and then yesterday we were so busy finding a cabin to stay in that is big enough for all of us and –"Haley said really fast, trying to excuse why she didn't say anything sooner.
"I think it's a great idea Hales - just getting back at you for not telling me sooner." Nathan answered, smirking even more now. Haley smiled, leaned over to where Nathan and Lydia were sitting and just when her face was only inches apart from Nathans she said
"Well I'm glad you like the idea". Then she gave him a kiss on the mouth.
"Kiss" Lydia said smiling and begging for a kiss, when at the same time Haley kissed her cheek and Nathan leaned down to her and placed a kiss on top of her head.
"Muah" Lydia giggled. "You're too cute for this world, my baby" Haley laughed at her.
"Alright it's time to get you to bed baby Lydia." Nathan said as he stood up, carrying Lydia and walked over to Haley "Say goodnight to mommy" Nathan continued. Lydia turned around to face Haley as she spread out her arms, grapping Haley head and placed a kiss on her nose. Haley laughed, said" Goodnight my darling" and then kissed Lydia on her forehead. "Good Night Mommy!"
Haley turned around to Jamie and said: "So, do you wanna go start packing?"
"Hmm no, I have a question first." Jamie replied. "Can I bring Chuck on the trip?" He knew his mom wouldn't be too happy about Chuck being on the trip, but he decided to ask anyways.
"I don't know honey. I understand that you wanna bring a friend your age, but I really think you should get to know Logan and I don't know if that's going to happen when you have Chuck around." Haley started.
"But that way Logan will get to know two kids instead of only one." Jamie answered, hoping to convince his mom.
"Okay fine you can bring him along, but make sure that he behaves okay? If he doesn't we might have to make him walk home." Haley said laughing.
"Thanks mom!" Jamie smiled happily and then walked upstairs to start packing.
After cleaning up the kitchen Haley walked upstairs into their bedroom to pack her stuff as well. Walking in, she saw that Nathan had already started to pack his cloth. She walked up to him, put her hands around his waist and asked:
"I completely forgot to ask you, how your meeting with the coaches and doctors went. How'd it go?"
"It went fine. The doctors didn't find any health threat and then the coaches said I can still play if the kidnapping didn't make me hate basketball, which it didn't! So I'll leave for camp end of September." Nathan said happily. He couldn't have dealt with the fact if the doctors of the bobcats found any health threat which would keep him from playing professional basketball. At least not if the reason why he had to stop playing was anything that hurt his family as bad as him being kidnapped did.
"That's perfect Nathan! I'm really really happy for you. You deserve to play the game you love after everything you've been going through" Haley answered and gave him a kiss on the mouth.
"Did you and Brooke already make plans for the trip?" Nathan asked to change the topic. He didn't want to think about the kidnapping anymore. He just wanted to move on with his life and go back to normal. That's what he was really looking forward to this weekend – just spending time with his friends and family and relax.
"No not really. We thought we'd just hang out, let the kids have fun and kinda enjoy the weekend together - nothing special." Haley answered as she walked into their walk-in closet and started to pick out outfits she would want to wear on the trip. Now that no special occasion was planed Nathan figured that he wouldn't need the suit he packed earlier and took it out of his suitcase and hung it back into the closet.
"Well, I wouldn't mind you bringing the suit and taking me out on a date we're there." Haley said with a smirk on her face. Nathan walked over to her and putting his arms around her and pulling her in close.
"On a date, huh?" he asked with is sexy voice while smirking. Haley answered this question with a kiss on his mouth. She pressed her lips as hard as she could against his and swung her arms around his neck. Nathan deepened the kiss and licked her lips lightly asking permission for his tongue to enter her mouth. Haley directly opened her mouth as their tongues started to fight for dominance. His hands begun to wander down her back, grapping her butt and lifted her up and walked them to the wall, leaning them against it. Haley's hands wandered under his shirt, feeling his muscles. She pulled up his red tshirt, which brake their kiss as Nathan pulled it over his head. Healy was just about to place kisses on his neck as she heart Jamie walking into their bedroom.
"Mom? Dad?" He asked.
"In here honey." Haley said, quickly pushing Nathan away, who moaned disappointed then put his shirt back on as soon as he could. Right when he had it on again Jamie walked into the closet.
"Have you seen my blue bathing suit?" He asked, not looking any surprised, which let Haley calm down, because Jamie not looking surprised or anything like that told her that he hadn't seen them making out.
"No, but I can help you looking for them. I'm almost done with packing my stuff." Nathan said and he leaded Jamie and himself back to Jamie's room.
Haley finished up packing her cloth and then packed a toilet bag for both of them. Luckily she had already packed cloth and diapers and everything for Lydia yesterday.
Meanwhile Nathan checked Jamie's suitcase to make sure he had everything he needed.
"I'm so excided to leave tomorrow. I can't wait to spend a cool weekend in the woods. Maybe Chuck, Logan and I can spend one night in a tent outside the house?" Jamie said with a ton of excitement in his voice.
"Yeah we'll see about that Jimmie Jam. Remind me to pack the camping equipment in the car tomorrow morning though." Nathan answered smiling, letting him know, that for him it was totally fine if the boys wanted to sleep outside for a night.
"I for sure will, daddy" Jamie smiled.
After Nathan was done checking Jamie's bag and putting in the things he forgot to pack like a pajama and socks he helped him looking for his swimming suit. When they had finally found it he said goodnight to Jamie and walked back to their bedroom.
He opened the bedroom door and saw Haley laying on their bed on her right side, her head resting on her hand. She was wearing her hair open so that her blond curs framed her face perfectly; wearing a violet floral embroidered bustier with a satin bow at the waist attached to it, along with matching cheekini pants.
"Are you ready to pick up where we stopped earlier? I think we need to celebrate the fact that you're still a Bobcat" Haley asked smiling at Nathan, who directly walked towards her and pulled her in for a kiss.
The next morning everyone met up at the Scotts house to figure out who's gonna ride with whom. Haley hat rented a big black Cadillac Escalade, so that they won't need to ride with three cars. Next to the car was a huge pile of suitcases the camping equipment and lots of bags filled up with snacks Haley had prepared for them.
While Nathan, Clay and Julian tried to fit all the bags into the cars Jamie waited anxious for Chuck to arrive, when his cell phone rang.
"Hey Chuck, where are you? We're waiting for you." Jamie said to chuck, who was calling. Then he nodded a couple times and said: "What? Why?" … "I can't believe you're not coming. You're missing out on a fantastic weekend, but you have fun too." Jamie ended the call and walked over to Nathan and said sadly:
"Chuck's not coming. Apparently Chris Keller convinced him to spend the weekend with him and dump his friends."
"I'm sorry Jamie, but Chuck's really gonna regret this." Nathan tried to comfort Jamie.
"I just don't get why he would chose Chris over spending a whole weekend with me" Jamie thought out loud.
"Well that's Chris Keller for you. Somehow he can convince people to come with him and leave their friends and family behind. Your mom and I had to experience that once too." Nathan answered and directly regretting what he just said. Hopefully Jamie wouldn't ask further questions about the meaning of his last sentence.
Luckily Brooke interrupted them. "So while you just stood here chatting, Haley and I actually worked out the driving plans. Meaning you guys are going on the Cadillac with Haley, Quinn, Clay, Logan and Chuck, while me and my boys get to take Lydia with us in our car, since the Cadillac is full."
"Well Chuck's not coming" Jamie said.
"Whatever it's too late! You can't have Lydia back! She's mine now!" Brooke said cheerfully.
"Fine, she can ride with you, but after that I want my little girl back!" Nathan replied in a serious tone. There was no way Lydia got to spend too much alone time with Brooke. She'd make a little fashion catwalk baby of her within 5 minutes. Then Brooke walked towards her car, where Haley was buckling up Lydia on the backseat between Jude and Davis.
As Nathan and Jamie started to walk over to the Cadillac Nathans face turned into a huge smile. He leaned down to Jamie and whispered: "Now Brooke's still smiling and all happy. Wait until she figures out she's the only one having to chance three kid's diapers during the ride." Jamie busted out laughing.
"I bet she'll notice it before we make it to Charlotte." Jamie said while still laughing.
"Nah I bet she'll figure it later, unless Jude and Davis are little pooping monsters." Nathan answered and asked "So what are we betting on?"
"Hmm let's see." Jamie started "Uh I know. Mom made a sandwich per person, so if I win I get your sandwich too. If you win, I guess you'll get mine."
"Deal!" Nathan said and then they bumped their fists together to make it official.
Finally everyone got in the cars and they began driving towards their Cabin at Lake Toxaway. Nathan drove with Clay sitting on the passenger seat. Quinn and Haley sat in the back and Logan and Jamie behind them. At first Brooke and Julian were right behind them, but then they lost each other in traffic. They drove for about 3 hours already. Logan and Jamie really seemed to get along. They were laughing and chatting the whole time. Nathan was discussing last seasons stats with Clay and Haley and Quinn were reading magazines. When Haley was done reading she got bored.
"I'm bored; Let's play a road game!" She said excited. "Yes road games a re so much fun!" Logan cheered from the backseat. "Grandma, Grandpa and I always played the Grocery Game when we were on a long car ride."
"Grocery Game, huh?" Clay began "I don't really like grocery shopping, any other ideas?"
"We could be spelling bees and spell words." Haley suggested, but everyone else in the car yelled
"NO!" right away. This caused Haley to pout a little bit.
"How about the game were you ask a question and then turn the radio to a random channel and the song playing is your answer?" Quinn suggested.
"Yeah that sounds fun!" Jamie yelled. "No no no no! No way I'm playing this game again. Last time I played it was during our senior year and Nathans and my future got predicted 'Highway to hell' " Haley said while shaking her head.
"Nice!" Clay said and applauded while laughing.
"Not funny!" Nathan said in a serious tone while looking at Clay, causing him to stop laughing.
"Logan how does this so called 'Grocery Game' work?
"Well let's say that I start. Then I have to name a grocery stating with an A. Jamie's next so he has to repeat my grocery and add another with starting with a B" Logan explained.
"Sounds fun!" Quinn said and Haley added smiling: "Plus we all get some brain jogging on top."
"Fine, Logan you start." Nathan said.
"Apples" Logan yelled and pointed over to Jamie telling him he was next.
"I'll buy Apples and Bananas. Aunt Quinn it's your turn to go shopping" Jamie added.
"Okay I'll buy apples and bananas and some… ehm… Man C is a hard letter for grocery shopping" She stuttered. Then a smile came on her face. "I'll buy apples, bananas and a coconut cream pie. Haley –"
"I'll buy apples, bananas, a coconut cream pie and a deli sandwich!" Haley said so fast that it must have been a new record in speed talking.
"Wow that was a quick answer mom" Jamie said.
"Well tutor mom always has an answer" Haley defeated herself.
"Speaking of deli sandwiches, I'm starving." Quinn moaned. "Good thing little sis here is taking such good care of us and brought sandwiches. I want mine now."
Haley pulled a big brown paper bag put of her snack cooler and handed Quinn, Clay and Logan their sandwiches. "What about you Nathan? Are you hungry too?" She asked him leaning forwards and placing her left hand on his shoulder which directly started to massage it. Every time Nathan and Haley had been on a road trip together and Nathan drove for a long time she felt the need to make Nathan as comfortable as she could - most of the times it meant massaging his shoulders.
"Nope we're not in Charlotte yet." Nathan said while looking into the driving mirror, catching Jamies face and letting him know by the look on his face that he can't eat his sandwich yet either, since he might need to give it to him. Jamie nodded his head.
"That doesn't answer my question baby" Haley said to Nathan, being confused about his answer.
"Well I figured once we'll be in Charlotte I'll be so hungry I could eat two sandwiches." Nathan answered trying not to laugh too loud.
Haley still didn't quite understand the sense in that answer but she decided not to ask any further. Instead she took out her own sandwich and started to eat.
It got quiet in the car until Clay shouted out:
"I buy apples, bananas, a coconut cream pie, even though I don't quit get why I would buy that if I could just get a normal coconut, but anyways, I also buy a deli sandwich and an egg."
"I buy apples, bananas, a coconut cream pie, a deli sandwich, an egg and some fruity snacks" Nathan said and finished the first round of the grocery game with Logan being up again thinking of groceries starting with a g.
They continued to play this game until the letter q was up. No one knew a grocery starting with q. They all thought about it and decided the first one to come up with one would win the game. They were all quiet, thinking. After a while of thinking Nathan gave up and started a new conversation with Clay when Jamie out of the blue yelled "Quesadillas!" into the car.
"Right, Quesadillas." Haley cheered and congratulated Jamie. "I knew you deserve the nickname tutor son"
"Nope no way anyone is calling me that." Jamie said quickly, before anyone could start teasing him with that name.
They continued driving when Nathan saw a highway sign saying Charlotte was only 1 mile away. He pointed out to the sign to Jamie started laughing and said to Haley:
"How about I get my sandwich now? Would you hand it to Hales?"
"Sure" Haley answered as she pulled another sandwich out of the cooler and gave it to Nathan. "Here you go"
"Hey Jamie, doesn't this sandwich look good? It's the only one with grilled beef on it. You guys all had pork. I bet you're jealous, huh?" Nathan started to tease Jamie. But right when he was about to bite into the sandwich his cell phone rang and the caller ID said Brooke. He let out a moan pushed his phone against his ear with his shoulder so that he now had one hand on the wheel the other one holding the sandwich and answered his phone. He heard Brooke voice yelling:
"NATHAN SCOTT WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Just because I'm in love with your baby Lydia it doesn't mean that it makes it ok that I now have to change diapers of three kids! Pull over and get your hot daddy ass out of the car, wait for me and change your daughters diaper yourself!"
Just in that moment when Brooke was done yelling he saw another highway sign saying Welcome to the city of Charlotte. Nathan moaned frustrated answered "Sure" to Brooke hung up, pulled over and handed his sandwich to Jamie. Jamie laughed and then bit into the sandwich while looking at his dad and moaned in order for him to show Nathan how delicious his sandwich was.
Everyone was confused by that scene.
Nathan, who saw the confused look on his wife's face said: "Don't ask. Let's just say I wish I drove faster and we would have passed that stupid Charlotte sign about 10 seconds sooner"
Of course Haley still didn't understand what was going on and insisted on filling her in. Once Jamie explained it to her she laughed at Nathan, opened up the cooler and took out a plastic bag with something green in it. "Good thing I brought some broccoli". She laughed and handed the plastic bag to Nathan "It's your favorite, baby"
AN: I hope you enjoyed reading the first chapter. I know it's mainly family scenes but I feel like there were too few of these in the last season. So here they are. Don't worry though I'll also put a whole lot of only Naley scenes in this story too.