Author's Note: After watching "let the Reigns Go Loose" I had to write this, it just exploded out of me. I will take part of my annoyance of Felix back since he bought back the dollhouse for Brooke!!! Plz Read and give me feedback.

Mouth gently helped Brooke into her bed, her green polyester dress scratching against his skin, but to him it was the sweetest feeling. Being anywhere near Brooke was heaven to him.

He pulled the cover over her slender body up to her neck and looked tenderly down upon her.

Even drunk she was still beautiful, to him Brooke Davis was perfection, she was his ideal woman.

But he would never have her, because guys like him didn't get girls like her.

Sadly he looked at his reflection in her mirror, then he looked back at her.

Sleeping so soundly, the sleep of the drunk or of the emotionally exhausted.

"I love you." The words flew out of his heart, he could say them to a sleeping Brooke, but never to a conscious Brooke, because she would laugh in his face and thank for being the little brother she never had.

He couldn't take that hurt, so he loved her from afar.

The door squeaked open and Felix strode through the door.

"What are you doing here?" Mouth stood protectively in front of Brooke's bed.

"I came to check on her," Felix stepped forward to try and get around Mouth.

"Where's Theresa? In your bed, waiting?" Mouth sarcastically asked.

"No, I sent her home," Felix whispered back angrily.

"It's not fair of you to treat Brooke this way," Mouth looked down at her, tenderness in his eyes.

Felix smiled, a hint of cruelty in his eyes. "Shall I tell you the truth about Miss Muffett here?"

Knowing he had Mouth's attention, "Brooke is the one who wants us to be friends with benefits, basically sex with no strings and when I start to care, she freezes up and retreats in her frozen shell."

Mouth looked at Brooke, tasting the bitterness of jealousy, knowing he would never know what it was like to laugh with her, make jokes and touch her, have her smile at him.

"Just treat her right," Mouth pushed past Felix and shut the door behind him.

Brooke opened her eyes a few minutes later. Seeing Felix there, she had a vauge memory of the party, "Have you been here the entire time?"

"Of course, where else would I be?" Felix smiled down at her, kissed her cheek and watched her close her eyes and fall back asleep.

He looked at his reflection in the mirror and didn't like what he saw.

A picture of Lucas and Brooke laughing togther. Fury glinted in his dark eyes as he looked at the picture and then back at Brooke.

Could be a one-part fic. Or there could be more added on. Let me know if you want more.